GOSPEL CORNER: GOD CHOOSES THE NOBODIES TO CONFOUND THE SOMEBODIES.” HE LOVES TO TAKE THE UNQUALIFIED AND CAUSE THEM TO EXCEL.

04/ 07/ 24

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
TODAY’S WORD

Today’s Scripture
Isn’t it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these “nobodies” to expose the hollow pretensions of the “somebodies”?
1 Corinthians 1:27, MSG

NOBODIES AND SOMEBODIES
You may think you can never accomplish your dream because you feel limited by what you don’t have or by what you didn’t get. But God is not bound by natural laws, by company policies, by people’s prejudices. He controls the universe. The dream He put in your heart is not dependent on you having all the qualifications, the experience, the training, or people being for you. Sometimes God will let the odds be against you on purpose. He’ll let you be over your head, at the back of the line, and the least likely. That’s a setup. That’s a sign that a reversal is coming. “God chooses the nobodies to confound the somebodies.” He loves to take the unqualified and cause them to excel. He loves to take disregarded people and cause them to shine. He can change people’s minds. He can cause them to want to be good to you. They may not even know why. It’s God shining His favor on you, pushing you into your purpose. Get ready for some reversals. Things are about to shift in your favor.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You’re a God who reverses the order, a God who can make the last the first. Thank You for doing what only You can do, for taking me where I can’t go on my own. If others discount me, I know You count me, and You are the only One who really matters. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

SECTION TWO

First the blade, then the head, and then the full grain in the head of wheat. Just as a seed takes time to sprout and grow, it may take some time before your healing manifests fully. And just as a new farmer may see a thirty or sixtyfold yield before he sees a hundredfold yield, it may take some time before you experience 100 percent wholeness (Mark 4:8 NLT).

My friend, don’t say, “Why is my healing taking so long?” and give up. Press on toward the hundredfold. As you get 30 percent better, trust God for the 60 percent, and then the 100 percent.

Don’t lose sleep over when or how the full manifestation of your healing will happen. Be like the farmer—go to sleep! Rest, and leave the how and when to God.

Beloved, the Lord will give you strength to persevere. Your hundredfold is on the way!