God, as our planner and builder, will allow things that we don’t understand, that look like mistakes, that are uncomfortable. But it’s all on God’s blueprint, and He’s using it for a purpose that we can’t see. Don’t worry. What He started, He’s going to finish.

GOSPEL CORNER

25/11/25

Joel Osteen Ministries

Today’s Word
Today’s Scripture
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.
Hebrews 3:4, NIV

You’re Under Construction. you can’t find anyone in the Scripture who did something significant that didn’t have messy times, unfair times, times that didn’t make sense, times when it seemed as though they were disqualified. Abraham had God’s promise of a son and becoming the father of many nations, but think of the mess and dysfunction that he and Sarah lived through when they tried to bring Hagar into the fulfillment of that promise. God chose Moses to deliver the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, but he ended up fleeing to the wilderness and hiding for forty years after killing a man. God gave Joseph a dream of being a ruler, but he spent thirteen years as a slave and then a prisoner. Here’s the key: All of them were under God’s construction, and He worked out His plans for their lives.

God, as our planner and builder, will allow things that we don’t understand, that look like mistakes, that are uncomfortable. But it’s all on God’s blueprint, and He’s using it for a purpose that we can’t see. Don’t worry. What He started, He’s going to finish.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You have a blueprint for my life and that You’re going to finish what You’ve started. I choose to stop worrying about what doesn’t make sense and leave it in Your hands. I trust that You will go before me with Your plan and get me to where I’m supposed to be. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Psalm 103:20 tells us that angels heed “the voice of His word” (boldface mine). Who gives voice to God’s Word? YOU do.

Every time you quote Scriptures out loud, you are giving voice to His Word, and angels will respond. When you say, “Father, I thank You that no evil shall befall me today, nor shall any plague or disease come near my dwelling,” angels harken to the voice of the Word of God being spoken. Angels cannot read your mind—so speak forth His Word!

I want to encourage you to study the Word of God and memorize a few verses. When you feel swamped by fear, learn to speak out God’s Word. God’s power lies dormant until you speak it forth. When you do, it becomes real and powerful in your situation and comes against whatever you might be facing.

Hebrews 1:14 says that God’s angels are “all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation” (boldface mine). Notice that it doesn’t say “minister to” but “minister for” those who will inherit salvation (that refers to children of God—you and me).

That’s an important distinction—”minister for” means that they are waiting for our instructions. We need to speak to activate them. They are waiting to respond to our words; they will not automatically look into every need that we have.

You activate angels when you declare, “Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence.” Trigger your heavenly army when you proclaim, “A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.”

Our Lord Jesus Himself demonstrated the importance of speaking aloud God’s Word in the wilderness when three times He said, “It is written” and quoted God’s Word. I don’t know about you, but I intend to speak forth God’s Word!