You are God’s anointed. Your time is coming. God has heard every negative word spoken against you.

Gospel Corner

15/04/25

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
Today’s Word

Today’s Scripture
“Touch not my anointed ones.”
Psalm 105:15, ESV

Your Defender
You may be in a situation where there’s a lot of negative chatter, people trying to push you down, to discredit you. You don’t think it’s ever going to change. But you are God’s anointed. Your time is coming. God has heard every negative word spoken against you. He’s seen every person who’s tried to make you look bad. Vindication is on the way, promotion is coming, new levels are coming. The Most High God is going to make things happen that you couldn’t make happen. He’s going to settle that case. He’s your defender.

Now quit living upset. Quit fighting those battles, trying to win somebody over who’s never going to be for you. Your goal should not be to try to change their mind or to try to convince them to like you. Just run your race with purpose, with focus, and with joy. Stay on the high road, be your best, and let God defend you. You’re going to live so much freer and enjoy your life so much more if you leave those issues in the hands of God.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for the anointing You have put on my life. Thank You for being my defender, my vindicator, and my promoter in situations where people are coming against me. I declare that I am going to leave these issues in Your hands and live free. In Jesus’ Name, Amen

SECTION TWO

There is a beautiful story of a Moabite woman named Ruth in the Bible. In the natural, Ruth had everything against her.

She was a poor widow, and she was a Moabitess, a Gentile in the Jewish nation of Israel. But even after her husband died, Ruth remained with her mother-in-law Naomi. She left her family to follow Naomi back to Bethlehem, and made Naomi’s God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—her God.

Now, because of their poverty, Naomi and Ruth could not afford to buy grain, and Ruth had to go out to the field to perform the menial task of gleaning whatever the reapers had left behind. I want you to notice that Ruth was depending on the Lord’s favor for she said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field, and glean heads of grain after him in whose sight I may find favor” (Ruth 2:2).

Ruth was confident that God would give her favor even though she was a foreigner and had no connections with anyone in the field. She didn’t even know whose part of the field she would be able to glean in.

Look at the Bible’s account of what happened next: “And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.” Of all the spots in the field that Ruth could have wandered into, her “hap” was to come to the part of the field that belonged to Boaz, who was a man of great wealth, and who also happened to be Naomi’s relative.

“Hap” is an old English word and it means “to happen” to be at the right place. However, in the original Hebrew text, the root of this word is the word qarah!

When Ruth trusted in God’s unmerited favor, she qarah-ed or happened to come to the part of the field that belonged to Boaz. To cut a long story short, Boaz saw Ruth, fell in love with her, and married her.

Ruth was possibly at the lowest point of her life just before she met Boaz. All the natural factors were against her. But because she put her trust in the Lord, who put her at the right place at the right time, her situation was turned around completely.

In fact, she became one of the few woman to be mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:5, which states that “Boaz begot Obed by Ruth.” What an honor to be included in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Talk about being at the right place at the right time!

My friend, no matter what natural circumstances may be against you today, have confidence in the unmerited favor of Jesus and He will give you what I call “qarah success.” He will cause you to be positioned at the right place at the right time to experience His protection and success in your relationships, career, and finances.