Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 23rd September 2025 (Tuesday) Message. Today’s Word With Joel & Victoria Osteen.
Something More Powerful.
Joel Osteen
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Then the LORD said to me, “Go and love your wife again, even though she commits adultery with another lover. This will illustrate that the LORD still loves Israel, even though the people have turned to other gods and love to worship them.” So I bought her back for fifteen pieces of silver. – Hosea 3:1–2, NLT
After Hosea’s wife had abandoned him and their children, she ended up as a slave to one of her lovers. Despite all the heartbreak and humiliation that her unfaithfulness had caused, God told Hosea to go after her and love her again. Others only saw a prostitute who had made a terrible mess of her life, but inside there was a daughter of the Most High God, a person of destiny who was made in the image of God. She just needed a Hosea to run after her, buy her back, and love her.
Be a Hosea and run after the hurting, go after the broken, the addicted, those who have messed up. Where they are is their own fault, but it doesn’t help to point your finger and tell them what they’re doing wrong. Go after them with something more powerful—with love, with mercy, with the goodness of God—and help them back. They don’t deserve it, but none of us did. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. You’ve been shown incredible mercy, so show that mercy to others.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
“Father, thank You for being rich in mercy and never giving up on me when I’ve gone my own way and failed. I want to love the people You have placed in my life as You do. Help me to be like Hosea, full of grace and mercy to help lift the fallen and restore them to wholeness. 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 23rd September 2025)