Today’s Word with Joel Osteen 8th January 2025, Wednesday Daily Devotional Message by Joel Osteen.
Today’s Word with Joel Osteen 8th January 2025 Topic: Grow Through It
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
…that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 1:7, NKJV
TODAY’S WORD
We all go through things that we don’t like—a coworker gets on our nerves, a child is being difficult, a dream is taking longer than we thought. It’s easy to live frustrated, wondering why it’s not changing. But God uses difficulties, delays, and inconveniences to do a work in us. If the situation isn’t changing, maybe God is using it to change you.
Don’t just go through it being upset, bitter, or offended; grow through it. That’s an opportunity to get stronger, to develop your character, to build your spiritual muscles. We don’t grow so much in the good times. We grow in the difficult times, in the times when “the genuineness of our faith is tested by fire.” When someone does you wrong, that’s a test.
God is seeing if you’re going to get bitter and try to pay them back, or if you’re going to take the high road and forgive. That’s why you face challenges. He’s refining you, getting you prepared for something greater. If you keep the right attitude, you’ll grow through it.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
“Father, thank You that You are the Most High God, and You are refining my life with fire to develop my character and help me grow stronger. Thank You that every test of my faith is preparing me to go higher and increase me. I believe that I am coming out better. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
About Joel Osteen
Raised in Houston, Texas, with a loving family of seven and world-renowned parents in full-time ministry, Joel Osteen never imagined that he would follow so closely in his father’s footsteps. As a young man, his training and interests were behind the scenes in television production, though he was close to his father in ministry. (Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 8th January 2025)