Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 23 April 2026 (Thursday) Message. Today’s Word With Joel & Victoria Osteen.
Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 23 April 2026 TOPIC: Always Love Them
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.
Proverbs 17:17, NIV
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TODAY’S WORD
In tough times when a family member or a friend messes up and really needs you, it’s easy to criticize them and stir up more of the negative. But they don’t need your judgment or harsh, critical words, such as, “You should have known better. You deserve what you’re getting. Are you ever going to get it together?” No, they don’t need more guilt, more condemnation. They already know what they did was wrong. They have enough people finding fault and gossiping about them. They need someone who will show mercy, someone who will love them back into wholeness.
God is counting on you to be that person, to cover a mistake, to not hold their faults and shortcomings and what happened in the past against them. If you’re not there for them, if you don’t do it, who’s going to do it? Be a healer, be a restorer, be a lifter. When you quiet the gossip and condemnation, when you show honor, even when honor is not due, you’re going to be blessed, you will be honored, you will see favor and increase.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You for loving me at all times, for pouring out Your grace and forgiveness upon me and never giving up on me when I’ve failed. Thank You for the loved ones and friends You’ve given. Help me to be loyal to them and be at my best when someone else is at their worst. 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 23 April 2026)
