Joel Osteen Devotional 7 January 2024 – Are You Looking in the Wrong Mirror?

Joel Osteen 7 January 2024 Daily Devotional

Joel Osteen Devotional 7 January 2024 – Today’s Word with Joel & Victoria Osteen. Read Sunday Daily Devotional Message by Joel Osteen.

Topic: Are You Looking in the Wrong Mirror?

Today’s Scripture
Genesis 1:27, NLT – So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Today’s Word
It’s so important how we see ourselves. Your self-image will determine whether you reach your full potential. If you see yourself as lacking, at a disadvantage, or unattractive, it will limit you. It’s not that you don’t have great potential; it’s that your self-image is distorted. It’s as though you’ve walked into a room filled with mirrors at a carnival that distort your body all out of proportion, and you believe you actually look like what you are seeing. Of course, we know better than that, but how many of us don’t recognize when we’re looking at a distorted mirror in real life? We see ourselves as not talented, unqualified, and never good enough. That distorted image is holding us back.

You have been made in the image of God. He made you gifted, beautiful, smart, and confident. You are fully equipped for the purpose He’s laid out for you, but when you look in the distorted mirror, you see all your flaws, and everything you don’t like is exaggerated. It’s time to get rid of the wrong mirror.

Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for making me in Your image with gifts, talents, and abilities to enjoy life and accomplish Your will. Help me to love myself, with all my flaws and things I wish were different. I declare that I am getting rid of the wrong mirror and seeing myself as created in Your image. 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.

“There’s no greater feeling than being able to help people rise higher and overcome something and feel better about themselves. I think that we’re all made to help others, to lift people UP.”- JOEL OSTEEN

His father always encouraged him to preach, but Joel would politely decline time and time again until one day in October 1999 when his father was admitted to the hospital with kidney complications. Joel finally agreed to preach the next Sunday, and his father passed the following week. Joel’s first sermon was the last his father ever heard. Joel and his wife, Victoria, were suddenly thrust into full-time leadership of Lakewood Church.

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