If your mind never rests, if you live wrought up, fighting everything you don’t like, you’re going to be worn out.

Gospel Corner

24/05/25

JOEL OSTEEN MINISTRIES
Today’s Word

Today’s Scripture
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28, NIV

Inner Rest
When things come against you in your health, your finances, or relationships, it’s easy to get upset and let your mind constantly dwell on the what-ifs. If your mind never rests, if you live wrought up, fighting everything you don’t like, you’re going to be worn out. Your physical body can rest, but inner rest is just as important as outer rest. If you start resting, turning it over to God, He’ll go to work. He sees what’s happening. He knows what wasn’t fair. And the good news is, God already has the solution. He has a way to not just bring you out, but He’s going to make the enemy pay for bringing the trouble. He’s going to bring you out better.

Now do your part. Bring it to Jesus and sit down and rest in faith. Quit worrying and trying to figure it out. There are no logical solutions to some situations. The Scripture says, “Lean not to your own understanding.” It’s okay to take your seat and live from a place of rest, a place of peace, a place of trust.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that I can come to You and unload all the weight of heaviness, regrets, and difficulties. I could be worried and upset, but I’m going to give it to You, take my seat, and live from a place of rest. I believe that You are bigger than any problem, and You have this covered. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

SECTION TWO

There is no doubt that all believers want to experience God’s unmerited favor in their lives. All of us want to experience success in our marriages, families, careers, as well as ministries.

We all want to enjoy God’s best and richest blessings. We want His provision, health, and power flowing mightily in our lives, and we know that all these blessings are wrapped up in God’s unmerited favor.

When His unmerited favor is on your side, nothing can stand against you. But if His favor is unmerited, how can we qualify for it? If we cannot earn, deserve, or merit it, how can we be confident that we have His unmerited favor?

One of the key things that I desire to do is to build upon the existing teachings on favor and to give believers a firm foundation on why they have the right to God’s unmerited favor in their lives today. Do you know the answers to the following questions?

Why can you expect good to happen to you?

Why can you enjoy God’s unmerited favor?

Why can you ask God for big things?

Beloved, your answers are all found on the Mount of Golgotha, the place of the skull. It’s the place where the sinless Man became sin, so that you and I can become the righteousness of God in Him. His righteousness is your right to God’s unmerited favor.

You can expect good . . .

You can enjoy God’s unmerited favor . . .

You can ask God for big things . . .

. . . because you have been made the righteousness of God through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross!

Don’t just take my word for it. Look at 2 Corinthians 5:21 again: “For He [God] made Him [Jesus Christ] who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him [Jesus Christ].”

Your righteousness in Christ is the sure foundation on which you can build your expectations to receive God’s unmerited favor. God sees you through the lens of the cross of His Son, and as Jesus is today deserving of blessings, peace, health, and favor, so are you (1 John 4:17)!