You can become so manipulated ...

You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under the tyranny of other people\'s expectations. And what I call the shoulds and the oughts. I believe that hundreds of thousands of people miss their God-ordained destiny and they never really feel satisfied, content and fulfilled, because they\'re so busy trying to keep everybody else satisfied with them that they don\'t ever get around to doing what they really want to do.
You can become so manipulated and controlled by what you think other people expect you to do that you literally live under the tyranny of other people's expectations. And what I call the shoulds and the oughts. I believe that hundreds of thousands of people miss their God-ordained destiny and they never really feel satisfied, content and fulfilled, because they're so busy trying to keep everybody else satisfied with them that they don't ever get around to doing what they really want to do.
 Joyce Meyer

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Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
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 Joyce Meyer
I had received Christ as my savior when I was a child, but I didn't know anything. I didn't have any knowledge. I didn't go to church. And I had a lot of problems, and I needed somebody to kind of help me along. And I think sometimes even people who want to serve God, if they have got so many problems that they don't think right and they don't act right and they don't behave right, they almost need somebody to take them by the hand and help lead them through the early years. And that's really what discipleship is. It's helping people.
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Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
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 Joyce Meyer
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
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 Joyce Meyer