Beloved, are you willing to have the Lord Jesus protect you and your family today

Gospel Corner

22/05/25

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
Today’s Word

Today’s Scripture
Slowly, steadily, surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, do not despair, for these things will surely come to pass. Just be patient! They will not be overdue a single day!
Habakkuk 2:3, TLB

Get a New Grip.
God has an appointed time to bring His promises to pass in your life, and it will not be one day late. You may have been waiting a long time. Thoughts tell you, “You’ve missed out. It’s not going to happen.” No, when you come into your appointed time, God will make up for what looks like lost time. With one touch of God’s favor, suddenly it happens. Suddenly the business takes off, suddenly you meet the right person, suddenly your child is back on course, suddenly you’re well.

We want everything fast, but God knows the right time. He is saying to get a new grip. Take hold of His promises in a new way. Make up your mind that no matter how long it takes or how impossible it looks, you’re going to be a believer and not a doubter. Keep declaring that it’s on the way, keep waiting with expectancy, and you’re going to see God show out in your life. He’s going to do things that are uncommon, unusual. You didn’t see it coming. It’s the greatness of our God.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that what You have purposed for my life will come to pass and You are never late. I choose to stop stressing out over what I don’t have, knowing it will be here down to the very day of when I really need it. I believe that You will make it happen. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

SECTION TWO

There’s a beautiful picture hidden in verse 4 of Psalm 91. It’s a picture of a mother hen protecting her chicks.

The Scriptures above record how the Lord Jesus looked at Jerusalem and lamented over it. Later, Jesus wept over Jerusalem, saying, “For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation” (Luke 19:43–44). The Greek word for “wept” in verse 41 is klaio, and it means to be so affected emotionally as to sob and wail aloud.

Can you see the Lord’s tender mercies toward Israel as He shed much tears over her? He wished that He could gather Israel under His feathers as a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but the Lord could not force His protection on them because they rejected Him.

I believe that as our Lord wept, He foresaw not only the Roman siege of Jerusalem, when the temple was burned to the ground and many of the Jews killed or sold as slaves, but He also foresaw the horrors of the Holocaust.

Notice that the Lord said, “But you were not willing!” This clearly tells us that the Lord will not force on us His protection if we are not willing to come under His wings.

Beloved, are you willing to have the Lord Jesus protect you and your family today? Then tell Him. Let’s never take our Lord’s protection for granted. Instead, let’s take time daily to let Him know that we are putting our trust in Him for His covering and protection.

Do you want to know what happens when you do that? Look at what Boaz said to Ruth: “The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge” (Ruth 2:12).

Wow! It was already a privilege for this Moabite outcast, who was disqualified by the law, to find refuge under the wings of the God of Israel. But God even rewarded her for doing so.

In the same way, it is a privilege for us to be able to take refuge under His wings. Yet when we tell the Lord that we need Him and want His refuge, He gives us a full reward for trusting Him and for coming under His wings. What a God!