Division IX Organizations

Conflict Free Living By Joyce Meyer

Relationships seem to attract conflict don't they?

 

Every person in the world should experience the joy of a peaceful life. But we don't! We are full of emotional bruises, grudges, stress, and unresolved issues in our relationships~We are full of emotional bruises- grudges- stress, and unresolved issues in our relationships}. But things do not need to be this way. We can take control of damaging emotional issues and restore peace in our lives, friendships, families, and marriages. Joyce Meyer succinctly points out how the Bible contains wonderful promises for peace and accord.

In this revision of the best-selling Life Without Strife, readers will learn how to:

·Identify the telltale signs of trouble in a relationship
·Heal troubled relationships
·Keep conflict out of their lives

This book is a life changer. It is easily comprehendable and practical. If you want peace and balance in your life read this. I have even already given away a few copies. End your struggles, it's not worth it, this book is the perfect bridge. Thank God for Joyce Meyer! Relationships matter- If you care about your relationships and improving them- get this book! A powerful nugget she leaves is, "Rather than trying to make someone treat you fairly, pray for them, and trust God to take care of you." "Envy and jealousy are open doors for strife," she points out. By taking thoughts into captivity negative thoughts can be replaced with God-given thoughts that produce joy. She points out that the devil doesn't want the possessions of a person, but seeks to steal one's joy because the joy of the Lord is our strength.  Part of obtaining joy is to overlook other people's shortcomings. We all have them. She encourages you to be generous in granting mercy and being long-suffering. Forgiveness is really emphasized. It should be given frequently and even quickly. In one section of the book she talks about the mysterious way God works in one's life, that often we don't understand at the time what He is doing. The implication for relationships is that sometimes people need to have some slack in their lives as they can be struggling with issues that are unresolved.

 

 

Help the relationships in your care and pick this book up!

Conflict Free Living

Eat The Cookie, Buy The Shoes By Joyce Meyer

Eat the cookie, But the shoes? I like this book already.

 

Engrained in our culture is the belief that unbending discipline is the only sure way to success. You must go to the gym five times a week, never order the dessert, and don't even think about buying that dress you keep staring at in the store window. Breaking from such a regimented lifestyle is a huge sign of weakness, righ? Wrong!-and Joyce wants to tell us why...

 

Though setting rules in our lives are important, it's just as important that we break them from time-to-time. Structure is a powerful tool, but when diverging from your own goals is seen as catastrophic, it can have a hugely negative effect on us. Balance is a core value in life and every once in awhile we deserve to indulge in a guilty pleasure or two. So do not feel bad about straying from your goals every once-in-awhile and in fact, embrace it: eat the cookie and buy the shoes! Meyers' colloquial style is enjoyable, and her advice is sound. She provides examples from her own life to explain why both discipline and celebration are important factors in life, and even the need to celebrate having discipline around a problem area. A celebration can be a nice walk in the park and doesn't need to be something costly at all. Joyce Meyers Eat the Cookie ... Buy the Shoes" was just such a great experience for me. Joyce writes about the importance of celebration in life, as well as the importance of discipline. The titular cookie and shoes are metaphors for learning to keep a proper balance in life.

 

Balance is key. I have a pretty OCD personality so this book was REAL refreshing to me and my life !

 

Pick up Eat the cookie , buy the shoes!

In Pursuit Of Peace By Joyce Meyer

Peace. We all want it don't we?

Life can get crazy in so many ways.

 

 

What an awesome and excellent book. Inspirational books can be hard to read because they require an open mind, honesty,and work. I usually do not finish an inspirational book and new ones just gather dust on my bookshelf.  In Pursuit of Peace is one of the best books I have read. I finished it in just a month's time. I took my time to read it and I even highlit and marked throughout the book. It is now amongst my books of great reference. I know I will need to reinfore the lessons. I love Joyce's honesty. She admits what are/were her challenges and what is taking her to over come them. This book along with Managing Your Emotions are the only books of hers I have finished and both are good. I recommend this book for people who are just plain tired of trying to be happy and live a joyous life. In Pursuit of Peace is an excellent book on the road to peace. Life is too short and peace makes the ride easier. Joyce Meyer is authoritative in her writing because she struggled with the very issues discussed in this book before learning how to appropriate the peace of God she says is available to us as Christ followers. In fact, she is honest enough to point out certain areas that are still challenging to her. Knowing the principles is the beginning-applying them is where the peace activation kicks in.

She begins this study with the issue of being able to recognize what you can change and what you can't change and acting on that discernment. Some of the very practical matters she discusses is that you have to take care of yourself if you're going to get along with other people. That includes something as basic as rest. I found her discussion on knowledge not being all its cracked up to be to really hit the spot. She pointed out that in some situations it is just better not to know certain things, for example if someone is saying something negative about you, it's better just to not know.

 

Get this and find ways to keep your PEACE

Be Anxious For Nothing By Joyce Meyer

Anxiety. Worry. Stress.

 

It seems this is our culture , and if you aren't worried, stressed, well then you don't have much going on in your life now do you?

Is this a Biblical way to live life? No. That's hard isn't it. I know it's hard for me to hear when I think I have a right to be anxious or worried or STRESSED. But Jesus says to look at birds- how he takes care of them he even says look at the flowers even how he clothes them- he knows the hair count on our very heads? Wow. Remembering that in faith helps my anxiety fall away. The Art of Casting Your Cares and Resting in our God. Joyce Meyer explains why we should and how we can: -Trade our anxiety and worry for peace and joy. -Develop a childlike attitude of faith. -Rest in the arms of the Lord. And so much more! You will develop a deeper, more meaningful relationship with your heavenly Father as you understand how He cares for you. By following the leading of the Holy Spirit, your life will be filled with unlimited hope and overflow with His peace, so that you will finally Be Anxious for Nothing!

Difficult times, trials and tribulation are part of living in this broken world. However- God has provided a way for us to enjoy peace as a part of daily life. We can choose either to allow ourselves to be burdened with all that worry and anxiety or to live in the peace and joy the Father intended. In Be Anxious for Nothing, bestselling author Joyce Meyer teaches how to draw on the peace of God in the midst of negative circumstances instead of responding as do many people in the world with restlessness, fear and so much apprehension. She reveals the nature of the peace Jesus describes in John 14:27- a peace which is unlike anything the world knows- and how it can fill every area of your daily life. This book was truly an encouragement to me in my life. To attack life without fear and anxiety that can really hold me back to being and going what God wants me to be and do. Get your life back. Live like Jesus wants us to live- depending on Him and not on ourselves and that defeats that anxiety the worry- the stress.

 

I encourage you to get Be Anxious For Nothing and start being anxious... for NOTHING.