Like Bartimaeus, your need is your qualification for His miracle. And when it comes to your need, it is NEVER too insignificant to Jesus!

Gospel Corner

13/09/25

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word

You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessings.
Psalm 23:5, NLT

After the Dark Valley
It’s interesting that David says that after you walk through the darkest valley with God, then He will prepare a feast for you in the presence of your enemies. You have to go through the loneliness, through the sickness, through the betrayal before you get that fresh anointing, that new beginning. You have to go through the job where you’re not being treated right, through the struggle, the lack, the debt, before you make it to where your cup runs over.

Too often we want the overflow but not the valley. In the dark valley is where we prove to God what we’re really made of. Can God trust you with more of His favor, with greater influence and more resources? You have to be faithful in the darkness, when things aren’t going your way. It may not be easy, but faith is trusting in God when life doesn’t make sense. He is working something in your life that can only be worked in the difficulties. Dare to believe that He’s blessing you even in the dark places.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that when I go through the dark valleys, seasons of struggle and pressure, that I have Your promise of a coming feast. Thank You that my cup will overflow with blessings. I believe that Your grace will bring me through to victory. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Bartimaeus was a blind beggar at the gate of Jericho. Talk about being insignificant. Not only was he just another beggar in a place probably swarming with them, he didn’t even have a real name—”Bartimaeus” merely means “son of Timaeus”!

Like Bartimaeus, your need is your qualification for His miracle. And when it comes to your need, it is NEVER too insignificant to Jesus!

And yet Jesus, the King of heaven and the incarnate Son of God, stopped in His tracks when this blind, nameless, and often-ignored beggar called out to Him. Jesus heard him and had compassion on him, and responded to his need. He treated Bartimaeus with respect, empathized with the desire of his heart, and set him free to see again.