Out of every evil and negative thing the devil throws at you today, God will make something sweet for you. Your giants will be as bread to you. God will turn every bitter adversity into sweet honey for you!

Gospel Corner

15/ 07/ 25

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
“Sir, if the prophet had told you to do something very difficult, wouldn’t you have done it? So you should certainly obey him when he says simply, ‘Go and wash and be cured!’” So Naaman went down to the Jordan River and dipped himself seven times, as the man of God had instructed him. And his skin became as healthy as the skin of a young child, and he was healed!
2 Kings 5:13–14, NLT

The Power of Obedience
Naaman was a powerful commander in the Syrian army who took offense when the prophet Elisha told him to wash seven times in the Jordan River and he would be healed of leprosy. It was a small obedience that didn’t make sense to him.

His mind nearly talked him out of his miracle until his officers told him to just obey the simple instructions. What’s interesting is he didn’t have the faith that it would happen. He wasn’t singing praises and thanking God that the answer was coming. He was negative, sour, and complaining, but he was healed when he dipped down the seventh time.

Naaman’s healing wasn’t in the water; it was in the obedience. His obedience overrode the fact that he didn’t have the faith. That’s the power of obedience. Could it be that your healing, your promotion, your breakthrough, or the restoration will come if you just keep doing the right thing? Perhaps it will come when you obey the seventh time. Your obedience may be difficult, but God is the rewarder of those who honor and obey Him.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You are the true and living God and that You reward those who honor and obey You. Thank You that my obedience can never earn Your blessing but it can lead to it. I believe that when I am doing the right thing You will reward me with favor. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Do you know that as a believer in Christ, you have authority over the enemy?

It is true that the devil is the god of this fallen world (2 Cor. 4:4 NASB), who “walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Pet. 5:8). But we, as believers, are not called to cower in fear like the people of the world, for God’s eternal Word proclaims that “He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4).

In Christ, we have authority over the devil and all his cohorts. In Christ, we have authority to tread upon the lion and the cobra. The fowler’s snares shall be foiled and the hunter shall be the hunted.

Our role in this increasingly dangerous world isn’t to be passive and indifferent, waiting to be devoured by the roaring lion. We are endued with power and authority to hunt down the roaring lion!

The Bible records the account of how Samson was in the vineyards of Timnah when suddenly “a young lion came roaring against him” (Judg. 14:5). Now, what would you do if you were suddenly ambushed by a lion?

Psychologists tell us that there are essentially three possible responses that are instinctively triggered when a person is unexpectedly thrust into an extremely dangerous situation—fight, take flight, or freeze. While most of us would probably either take flight or freeze, Samson instinctively rose to fight: “the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one would have torn apart a young goat, though he had nothing in his hand” (Judg. 14:6).

Now, that’s taking authority! The hunter came at Samson but found itself the hunted!

Sometime later, Samson passed by the lion’s carcass and saw a swarm of bees and some honey in it. So he scooped out some of the honey and ate it. It was from this experience that Samson came up with this riddle, “Out of the eater came something to eat, and out of the strong came something sweet” (Judg. 14:14).

There is a beautiful picture here for all of us. Instead of being eaten by the lion, Samson obtained something sweet to eat. What is the spiritual truth for us today?

Out of every evil and negative thing the devil throws at you today, God will make something sweet for you. Your giants will be as bread to you. God will turn every bitter adversity into sweet honey for you!