This book is an absolute eye opener! Joyce Meyer is an amazing woman with powerful wisedom from God that applys to everday life. She's a perfect example of how God works in your life and with a relationship and faith and trust he'll do amazing things. PLEASE DON'T BOTHER AND READ the 1-2 star reviews, it'll just make you angry. There are some people that are hurt and want to blame god for their problems and are hateful towards Christians and look for ways to try and hurt us. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I do. It'll be one of those books that I'll always reread from time to time. Just see what God can do in your life too! Enjoy!

I enjoy self-help, self-exploring books. However, it is disturbing yet another self help book reads more on being the right type of Christian then being a better you, regardless of your faith!
I am a Christian. A person of faith with an open mind. I believe that the diversity amoung people are to be celebrated rather than feared and I won't tell people what God wants them to believe.
I do belive that it is rare indeed when one person can tell another what God thinks about any controversial issue.
This book would have saved me a lot of "here we go again", er, time, if Ms. Myers could have written it with out all the Christian Right B--- S---!

You can't please all the people all the time, and this Christianity-based book will help you realize that truth.

Joyce Meyer did a great job on writing this bestseller. Approval Addiction is another one of Joyce's masterpieces. I saw a lot of me in this book, and she stepped on all of my toes....(even though I didn't want to hear it). The good thing is that she uses references (via scriptures from the Holy Bible) to explain how approval addiction can be harmful not only to you, but to other relationships. NOW, I understand that I need to change my behavior. Thank you, Lord, for having people like Joyce Meyer for keeping it real.

....For anyone who thinks "people-pleasing" will do anything for your social-life or personal self-esteem except leave you feeling frustrated and feeling unappreciated...this book is for you.... Great practical Christian teaching on following your own destiny, being the authentic you and trusting God to bring the people to you that are suportive and the rest, well....like Joyce Meyer implies, and the old words of wisdom state "You can't please all the people, all the time."

This book is so awesome!!

It can be such a help to anyone...it was for me!! I learned so much and could apply so much of the book to my own life!

I am reading this now and am loving it and seeing some of myself mirrored in this book. I had gifted it to my mom in Spanish and she loves it and she is learning alot about herself and has already begun to put into practice what she is learning. She said to me, "I don't want to just read this, I want to learn and live it." Powerful to experience and I am sure it will do the same for me and you should you decide to read and challenge yourself in this New Year.

I dont know what the author was talking about when he/she said that this particular book had poor-wording in it...I think not!!! Joyce Meyer writes books and gives lectures from the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Many individual's lives are changed and transformed by knowing God more intimately. I think that Joyce Meyer helps many people, in particular women to have confidence in God and most importantly, within themselves. Each time a person is being used by God in a powerful way, Satan comes in to try to destroy that person God is using. Many people, particularly hurting people can be free from intimidation, and low-self-esteem through Joyce's book. This is a must-read! A++++

An excellent - well organized and easily absorbed work about one of the most important subjects - which few of us think much about - the need for devotion in our lives. Most of us spend our thinking hours absorbed in worldly pursuits - fulfillment of immediate or, when it comes to loved ones, longer range concerns. Yet, few of us actually practice absorption in thinking about our relationship with God - actively feeling God's presence in our lives continually. Perhaps, many of us feel that we lack the courage of faith to believe that God is more than an idea, and act on that conviction.
When we think of God - when we attend church - or generally when things fail to go as we wish - when we find ourselves in distress, trouble, or experiencing loss - we think in terms of salvation - our object is to get to 'dry ground' - to be delivered - to find Heaven - but we never really give complete preference to devotion - and when you think about it - as Joyce Meyer has - deeply - devotion really is the way to salvation. As Jesus has informed us - every hair on our head is numbered - and we ought to focus on that - how we present ourselves before the Lord - at every moment - giving deference to God - rather than people who happen to have something that we want.
An observation of particular merit, I feel, is that most of our negative behaviors - dishonesty, violence and the like - arise from our obsession with gaining the approval and esteem of our fellow humans. Is this insight not true - and truth of the highest order? Meyer claims that God makes Himself absolutely accessible to us at every moment we chose to seek Him. Then, what reason is there to prioritize imagined approval from any of His creations when God's approval alone would seem to be the most important criteria for living this life, or any future one?

This is a wonderful book that helps you to connect to the Divine within, your indwelling spirit, Christ consciousness, and to learn how to love yourself as much as you are loved unconditionally by God.

Joyce Meyer did a wonderful job that helps people to seek within, before you seek on the outside for love, especially self love. I found this book to be a wonderful stepping stone to help people reconnect with their own divine nature.

If you are loking for approval from others, this is a great book to read! Also, along with this book is another that has helped me tremendously by Barbara Rose called "Stop Being the String Along" I found both books bring you into your truth, so that you are no longer caught in the trap of looking for outside validation, after reading the books you will find it solely from within, and that is the genuine empowerment we all deserve.

In Approval Addiction Joyce Meyer encourages and implores readers to overcome the need to please. The need to please is something that runs very rampant in our society (minus those who have a need to be selfish). Whether it's at work, at home, at church or relationships with family and friends, the need to be please is a silent killer.

Meyer guides and coaches readers to realize how potentialy damaging APPROVAL ADDICTION is, not just for the individual but for those they are trying so hard to please. In addition, Meyer helps readers find and eliminate their root cause of APPROVAL ADDICTION and how to rely on the Lord completely instead of the approval of others. When readers realize that they are 1) fearfully and wonderfully made and 2) that God loves them unconditionally and 3)they are rooted in righteousness, they will wonder why they spent so much time seeking or needing the approval of others when liberty in Christ was on the other side.

APPROVAL ADDITICTION IS LIFE CHANGING, EMPOWERING AND WORTH EVERY PENNY. Whether you are a seeker, a believer (or not) grab a copy today, read it and watch how much happier and freer you are as a result. Perfect for everyone!

Happy Reading!

Marina Woods The GOOD GIRL Book Club www.goodgirlbookclubonline.com