Joel Osteen Devotional 15 May 2025 Inspirational Message
TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE BY JOEL OSTEEN 15TH MAY 2025
God has created you to be a victor, not a victim. Jump-start your day by celebrating the very best that God has for you! These daily inspirations will help you grow in your relationship with the Lord and equip you to be.
Joel Osteen Devotional 15 May 2025 Inspirational Message
Today’s Topic: Preparation Time
Scripture: May he equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, every good thing that is pleasing to him. – Hebrews 13:21, NLT
Today’s Word
There’s a plant called the Chinese bamboo. For the first four years, it barely grows above ground. But underground, it’s developing a massive root system. In the fifth year, the plant will take off and shoot up to as high as eighty feet in the air. What makes the fifth year possible is the four years of preparation. Perhaps you’re frustrated because you’re being your best, but you don’t see any signs of increase—the business isn’t growing, you’re not getting any good breaks, you’re marriage hasn’t improved.
The problem is that we want fifth-year results without having to go through the four years of preparation that develop our character and prove to God that we’ll be faithful. Don’t be discouraged. What you can’t see is that God is doing a work in you. Your roots are going down deeper. At the right time, when God knows you’re ready, you’re going to come into your fifth year when you suddenly shoot up—suddenly you come out of debt, suddenly you meet the right person, suddenly your health improves, suddenly your career takes off.
Prayer For Today
“Father, thank You for the dreams You put in my heart. Thank You that You are equipping me and empowering me to accomplish all of Your promises. I believe that the preparation process that You are taking me through will take me to where You want me to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
Don’t let the limits people put on you keep you from your greatness. Break the chains. Get out of that graveyard thinking. “Can’t do it, the dream is too big, the challenge too great.” You and God are a majority. The Chain Breaker lives inside of you, the power that raised Christ from the dead. Think about how all the forces of darkness tried to keep Jesus down. The enemy did his best, but his best was not enough. God is fighting for you. His power is stronger than what someone said.
It’s stronger than a chain of addiction, a chain of anger, a chain of lack. The enemy wouldn’t be trying to chain you if he didn’t know you were a threat. He wouldn’t try to hold you back if he didn’t know you have greatness in you, that you’re destined to set new standards, to take your family where they’ve never been.
Here’s the key, no person can keep you bound. They may put a chain on you, but you have the power to break that chain. Greater is He that’s in you than He that’s trying to stop you. You may be dealing with some chains now, people trying to limit you. You’re tempted to live in the cemetery, rehearsing all the negative, but I believe today there’s a chain-breaking anointing coming.
You’re going to feel a power in you that you’ve never felt to break chains of depression, chains of insecurity, chains of addiction, chains of lack and struggle, chains that have held you back. You’re about to see a supernatural release. A release into freedom, a release into abundance, into joy, into great relationships. The power of the Most High is breathing on your life, thrusting you into your destiny.
Bible Verse For Today 14th May 2025 Wednesday Reading
