Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 26th April 2025 Message. Today’s Word With Joel & Victoria Osteen.
Joel Osteen Daily Devotional 26 April 2025 Saturday TOPIC: Negative Chatter
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Proverbs 11:12, ESV
TODAY’S WORD
Everyone gets negative chatter. Not everyone is going to accept or approve of you. They’ll make remarks trying to humiliate and bait you into conflict. The enemy would love to get you off course, offended, trying to straighten people out and prove to them that you’re okay.
Don’t get involved in battles that are not between you and your destiny. Don’t make the mistake of trying to please everyone. Don’t get sidetracked trying to win people over who are never going to be for you. All that does is waste your time. Your job is to not try to make people like you or to try to change people’s minds about you. Your job is to run your race, to be who God has called you to be, and not worry about the critics and the naysayers.
God will cause the right people to be for you. Sometimes small-minded people will try to belittle you, discredit you, push you down. Don’t pay any attention. They don’t carry any weight. What they say cannot keep you from your destiny. They are simply a distraction.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that I don’t have to waste my time and energies trying to prove who I am or change what others think of me. Thank You that I have Your approval and calling on my life. I declare that I want to stay true to pleasing You and You alone as I run the race You’ve set before me. 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 April 26, 2025)