If you then, as imperfect parents, “know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him”!

Gospel Corner

23/07/25

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
John 13:34, ESV

Relationships Are Sacred
Our relationships are sacred. God gives us people in life to love, and to love them as Jesus loved us. Don’t treat them as though they’re ordinary, just common. They’re a priceless gift from God. He has entrusted you with His most valuable possessions, people whom He made in His own image, people whom He calls masterpieces. Don’t throw around hurtful words, say things that wound, degrade, and make them feel unvaluable. Use your words to lift, to encourage, to push people forward, not to set them back.

When we recognize that something is sacred, we should treat it with more respect. Every person is one of a kind. We have to be extra careful to make sure we never damage them. But sometimes we mishandle the sacred. We let pressure and stress cause us to let our guard down and not treat people the way we should. You may have broken a relationship, but the mercy of God has you covered. Trust Him to restore what is priceless, something you should have handled more carefully. What you shattered, He’s about to put back together.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You have always been steadfast in Your love for me. Thank You for calling and equipping me to be the same and to treat my relationships as sacred and to stay committed to them. For any relationship that I’ve broken, I trust You to restore what is priceless. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

I have been accused of being one of those health and wealth “prosperity gospel” preachers. Actually, there is no such thing as a “prosperity gospel.” There is only one gospel and that is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Through Jesus’ finished work on the cross, you can depend on Him for His resurrection life to pulsate and flow in your physical body from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet. Sicknesses and diseases are not from God. On the cross, Jesus bore not just our sins, but also our sicknesses, diseases, and infirmities, and “by His stripes we are healed” (Isa. 53:5)!

That’s not all, my friend. On the cross, Jesus bore the curse of poverty! This is what the Word of God declares: “For you know the grace [unmerited favor] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich” (2 Cor. 8:9).

Read 2 Corinthians 8 for yourself. The entire chapter is about money and being a blessing financially to those who are in need. So don’t let anyone tell you that the verse is referring to “spiritual” riches. Let me tell you this: It is the devil who wants you sick and poor, but the God I know has paid a heavy price to redeem you from the curse of sickness and poverty!

Let’s understand how God deals with us from the point of relationship. As parents, we always seek the best things for our children. How much more would our Father in heaven want the best things for us, His precious children?

In the same way that you want your children to be healthy, God wants you to enjoy His divine health. And in the same way that you want your children to always have more than enough, God wants you to enjoy His supernatural provision.

When He provides, get ready for a net-breaking, boat-sinking load (Luke 5:6–7). Get ready for 12 baskets full of leftovers (John 6:13)!

The Bible puts things in perspective most clearly in Matthew 7:11—If you then, as imperfect parents, “know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him”!