Joel Osteen Devotional 31st May 2025 (Saturday) Message. Today’s Word With Joel & Victoria Osteen.
Joel Osteen Devotional 31st May 2025 (Saturday) TOPIC: Still Trying to Please People?
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Galatians 1:10, NIV
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TODAY’S WORD
You can’t reach your destiny feeling responsible to keep other people happy. Your time is too valuable to go around trying to figure out how you can please everyone. I know people who spend more time worried about what people think about them than they do focusing on their own dreams, their own goals. It’s great to get free from addictions or depression or sickness, but one of the greatest freedoms is when you get free from trying to please people.
People are quick to tell you how to run your life. It’s good to listen to wise counsel, but other people don’t know what God put in you—the dreams, the desires, the calling. You have to be bold to follow what’s in your heart. You can’t worry about what other people think, because people will try to keep you in their box, in what they think you should be. If someone gets upset because you won’t take their advice, that’s their problem. If you live by the opinion of others, you’ll never become who you were created to be.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that I can come to You for all the approval and love that I need to live securely. Help me to recognize when others are trying to make me feel responsible for keeping them happy and meeting their expectations. I will listen respectfully to others but not be a people pleaser. 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 May 31 2025)
