When you personalize God’s love for YOU, when you live each day knowing that God loves YOU, you will be blazing with a supernatural ability to overcome every challenge in life!

Gospel Corner

19/09/25

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
“Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.”
Matthew 6:34, MSG

Feed Your Destiny
It’s easy to live focused on past disappointments, setbacks, hurts, and failures. I’ve learned that we’re either feeding our history or feeding our destiny, but we can’t feed both. You may be looking back and beating yourself up for mistakes you’ve made, living in regrets, thinking about all the people who did you wrong, and bitter about having come down with an illness. Or you may be looking ahead, saying, “Father, thank You that Your plans for me are for good. Thank You that what was meant for my harm, You’re turning for my good. Thank You that You hold victory in store for the upright. Thank You that the path of the righteous gets brighter and brighter.”

If you’re always feeding your history, you’re going to be frustrated, discouraged, depressed, and bitter. You can’t go forward if you’re always looking back. You can’t see the new things God has in store if you’re focused on what’s behind. Start feeding your destiny. If you get your thoughts going in the right direction, your life will go in the right direction.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that Your plans for me are for good. I may not understand everything along the way, but I’m not going to keep feeding my history and be focused on the past. I declare that I will feed my destiny and keep my life moving in the right directions

My friend, God wants you to live each day knowing that you are His beloved child, in whom He is well pleased. That is your daily nourishment from Him—to know, believe, and confess that you are His beloved and that you are well-pleasing to Him all the time.

Some years ago, I was taking a cab in New York and I took the opportunity to share the love of Jesus with the driver. Her response was quite typical. She said flippantly, “Yeah man! God loves everybody!”

It is absolutely true that God loves everybody, but to experience His love firsthand in your life, you have to personalize His love for you. Jesus died for you and do you know that even if you were the only person on earth, God would still have sent His Son to die on the cross for you? That is how precious YOU are to Him!

You need to personalize John 3:16 by declaring, “For God so loved ___ (insert your name), He sent His only begotten Son to die on the cross for ___ (insert your name).” Be like the disciple John, who personalized the Lord’s love for him by calling himself “the disciple whom Jesus loved.”

That is what you must do with God’s love. Put a magnifying glass over your life and imagine God’s love being focused and concentrated on YOU!

When you personalize God’s love for YOU, when you live each day knowing that God loves YOU, you will be blazing with a supernatural ability to overcome every challenge in life!

The sun shines on every blade of grass in a field. But if you put a magnifying glass over one particular blade of grass, it will center the heat from the sun over that blade, and that blade of grass will burn.