Today’s Word with Joel Osteen 4th January 2025, Saturday Daily Devotional Message by Joel Osteen.
Today’s Word with Joel Osteen 4th January 2025 Topic: It’s Already Planned Out
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
Then the LORD said to [Abraham], “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there…and afterward they will come out with great possessions.”
Genesis 15:13–14, NIV
TODAY’S WORD
God told Abraham that He had a four hundred-year strategy for his family. When the Israelites came out of Egyptian slavery loaded down with treasure, it looked as though God just suddenly decided to bless them.
The truth is that God had planned they would be enslaved and endure suffering for four hundred years, but He would bring them out, turn around the injustice, and thrust them into their purpose in the Promised Land. It’s easy to worry about how problems are going to work out tomorrow. Uncertainty can bring anxiety and cause us to live stressed and uptight.
We look at things in the short term, but God has been working on His plan for your life for generations. Long before you were born, He’s been lining up what you need, arranging things to fall into place so you can fulfill your purpose. God was thinking of you hundreds of years ago, working on your behalf.
Generations back, He was bringing everything into alignment—the right people, good breaks, solutions to problems, mercy for mistakes. It’s already planned out.
PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that You have been working on Your plan for my life for generations. Thank You that I can stay in peace knowing that You are working behind the scenes and directing the outcomes. Help me to be patient and know that You are bringing me into my purpose. 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 4th January 2025)