GOSPEL CORNER: I PRAISE YOU BECAUSE I AM FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE.PSALM 139:14, NIV

08/03/24

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
TODAY’S WORD

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14, NIV

WONDERFULLY MADE
The Scripture says we’ve been fearfully and wonderfully made, but the enemy doesn’t want you to see yourself that way. He puts up distorted mirrors to change your self-image. When you look in the distorted mirror, even though you’ve been forgiven and redeemed, all you see is your mistakes, failures, and times you didn’t measure up. The person looking back at you in the distorted mirror is guilty and unworthy. That’s not who you really are.

If life has treated you unfairly, you’ll see yourself in that distorted mirror as a victim, defeated, with nothing good in your future. But the truth is that God has beauty for those ashes. What was meant for harm, He’s turning to your advantage. What’s the problem? You’re looking in the wrong mirror. As long as you’re letting that distorted image define who you are, it will keep you from rising higher. Get rid of that mirror and go to God’s Word. Let Him define your image. If you will see yourself the way God sees you, it will begin to heal a damaged self-image.

A PRAYER FOR TODAY
“Father, thank You that I am fearfully and wonderfully made in Your image. Thank You that I am not any of the negatives that the enemy tries to use to distort the image of who I really am. I believe that nothing can hold me back from becoming all that You created me to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

SECTION TWO
Jesus wore the crown of thorns on His head so that you can have a sound mind free from fears, guilt, depression, anxieties, and stress.

Jesus’ feet brought Him to places where there was lack, diseases, condemnation, and even death. At the cross, those feet were nail-pierced so that you do not need to be in such places yourself. He has rescued you from having to accept and suffer these things in life.

Jesus didn’t have to. He chose to. Why? Because He loves you. He spared not even Himself so that you may have every blessing of health, wholeness, and abundant life!