Joel Osteen Daily Devotion Remember His Goodness Post by Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen Daily Devotion Remember His Goodness
Post by Joel Osteen
We recently celebrated sixty years here at Lakewood. My parents started Lakewood on Mother's Day in 1959 with ninety people in an old rundown feed store. They cleaned out the building, borrowed some old wooden pews. It didn't look like much. But the Scripture says, "Don't despise the day of small beginnings" (Zechariah 4:10). Don't get discouraged because where you are is much smaller than what's in your spirit. As a young man, my father knew he was going to pastor a church of thousands, but you have to be faithful with the small before God will trust you with more. That's a time of testing, a time of proving. Are you going to slack off and think, "When it grows, I'll give it my all. When I get some breaks, I'll be my best"? You have to be your best right where you are. God is watching. He knows when you're in a feed store and others are in nice buildings. Sta…
Post by Joel Osteen
We recently celebrated sixty years here at Lakewood. My parents started Lakewood on Mother's Day in 1959 with ninety people in an old rundown feed store. They cleaned out the building, borrowed some old wooden pews. It didn't look like much. But the Scripture says, "Don't despise the day of small beginnings" (Zechariah 4:10). Don't get discouraged because where you are is much smaller than what's in your spirit. As a young man, my father knew he was going to pastor a church of thousands, but you have to be faithful with the small before God will trust you with more. That's a time of testing, a time of proving. Are you going to slack off and think, "When it grows, I'll give it my all. When I get some breaks, I'll be my best"? You have to be your best right where you are. God is watching. He knows when you're in a feed store and others are in nice buildings. Sta…
