Joel Osteen Today January 17, 2025 Devotional Message
TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE BY JOEL OSTEEN 17TH JANUARY 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 everything God intends you to be.
Joel Osteen Today January 17, 2025 Devotional Message
Today’s Topic: Refusing Negative Seeds
Scripture: More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it. – Proverbs 4:23, CEB
Today’s Word
We all have voices that are trying to keep us from our destiny. Sometimes it’s people telling us what we can’t become. “You aren’t qualified.” It may be experts telling us, “You’re never going to get well.” You hear about the economy, inflation, viruses, division. This can bring fear and worry. “What’s going to happen?” Words are like seeds. If you dwell on them long enough, they’ll take root and become a reality. The good news is that you get to choose what gets planted in your soil.
Don’t let just any seed get in there. If it is discouraging, brings fear, or pushes you down, don’t give it the time of day. Don’t give the doubt from other people or your own negative thoughts permission to become a reality. You have to tune out all the negative, limiting words—“can’t do it,” “not able,” “never going to happen.” You don’t have to receive it. If you don’t dwell on it, those words will die stillborn and have no effect on you. Keep your mind filled with positive, hopeful, faith-filled thoughts.
Prayer For Today
“Father, thank You that I can guard my thought life and stop allowing negative thoughts to enter and take root. Help me to clear out all the weak, negative thoughts and dwell on what You have to say about me. I declare that I will think faith-filled thoughts. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE: In the Scripture, Job went through a season of suffering. There was a lot of pain and heartache. He had done nothing wrong. The Scripture says he was a blameless man. He had integrity; he stayed away from evil. Everything was going great, then the bottom fell out. He lost his business, he lost his children, he lost his health. Sometimes, when it rains, it pours.
Thoughts will try to convince you that the suffering is permanent, that it’s too bad, been too long, there’s no way it could work out now. But God won’t let you get in a problem that He can’t bring you out of. The enemy is not in control of your life; God is. Satan had to ask God for permission to test Job. He didn’t just put all this trouble on him.
There’s a bloodline around your life that the enemy cannot cross without God’s permission. That’s why we can stay in peace even in times of trouble. Sometimes, it’s simply a test. How are we going to respond in the suffering seasons, in the seasons of struggle, when it’s not fair, we’re doing the right thing but the wrong thing has happened?
The book of Genesis talks about how God created the heavens and the earth. On the first day, He said let there be light, and light came. The second day, He separated the waters from the sky. On the third day, He created plants and trees. The fourth day, He made the sun and the moon.
What’s interesting is there was light on the first day, but He didn’t make the sun until the fourth day. How can you have light without the sun? God was showing us that He’s not logical. He’s supernatural. He’s going to do things in your life that are unexplainable, that don’t make sense.
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