GOD IS ABOUT TO SURPRISE YOU. HE’S GOING TO DO SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY, SOMETHING THAT YOU DON’T SEE COMING, THAT WILL BOGGLE YOUR MIND.

05/12/24

GOSPEL CORNER

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
TODAY’S WORD

Today’s Scripture
Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, and now God has allowed me to see your children too.”
Genesis 48:11, NIV

Mind-boggling
When Joseph was seventeen, his brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt, then convinced their father, Israel, that Joseph had been killed by a wild animal. Israel was so heartbroken that he could not be comforted and said he would “continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” Shockingly, twenty-two years later, Israel was told that Joseph was not only alive but the prime minister of Egypt. It was beyond his imagining that he would ever see Joseph again, let alone be able to pronounce a blessing over Joseph’s sons.

Do you see how awesome our God is? He’s working in ways that we could never fathom. We may have given up on a goal, a dream, or a desire, feeling that the door is closed. But God is about to surprise you. He’s going to do something out of the ordinary, something that you don’t see coming, that will boggle your mind. As with Jacob, you’re going to stand in awe, not believing your eyes. That’s how amazing our God is. Stay in faith. It’s still going to happen.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You have the awesome power to restore the things that seem dead in my life and bring dreams and desires to pass. Thank You that You are working in ways that I cannot fathom and that will boggle my mind. I believe that You are amazing. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Are you like many today who believe in a “religious” God? Do you believe that God is against you when you fall short, that He is angry with you when you fail, and that fellowship with Him is cut off when you make mistakes?

SECTION TWO

It’s no wonder then that instead of running to the one true solution, many sincere folks run in the opposite direction when they are hurting. So there is a great deception, a powerful, wrong belief about God that has trapped many in the vicious cycle of condemnation, guilt, fear, defeat, and addiction.

My friend, I want you to know today that God is a God of infinite grace. He is repugnant to the “religious,” but gracious and irresistible to those who are hurting.

No matter what you are going through today, whatever addictions may be binding you, right believing can and will set you free. Start with believing this powerful truth:

God is a God of grace and forgiveness. He loves you very much, and He doesn’t hold your mistakes against you.

Don’t let the mistakes you have made in the past hold you back from reaching out to God and receiving His forgiveness for all your failures. Begin to believe right about the Lord, believe right about His heart and love for you, and your entire life will be transformed. Right believing always leads to right living!