Joel Osteen (August-10-2020) Daily Devotion: You Control the Doorway
Joel Osteen (August-10-2020) Daily Devotion: You Control the Doorway.
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises. Psalm 119:148, NIV
TODAY'S WORD: Studies show that we talk to ourselves up to thirty thousand times a day. There is always something playing in our minds. The Scripture tells us to meditate on God’s promises. The word meditate means “to think about over and over.” We need to pay attention to what we’re meditating on.
Meditating is the same principle as worrying. When you worry, you’re just meditating on the wrong thing. You’re using your faith in reverse. If you go through the day worried about your finances, worried about your family, and worried about your future because you’re allowing the wrong thoughts to play, it’s going to cause you to be anxious, fearful, negative, and discouraged. The whole problem is what you’re choosing to meditate on. You control the doorway to your mind. When those negativ…
TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises. Psalm 119:148, NIV
TODAY'S WORD: Studies show that we talk to ourselves up to thirty thousand times a day. There is always something playing in our minds. The Scripture tells us to meditate on God’s promises. The word meditate means “to think about over and over.” We need to pay attention to what we’re meditating on.
Meditating is the same principle as worrying. When you worry, you’re just meditating on the wrong thing. You’re using your faith in reverse. If you go through the day worried about your finances, worried about your family, and worried about your future because you’re allowing the wrong thoughts to play, it’s going to cause you to be anxious, fearful, negative, and discouraged. The whole problem is what you’re choosing to meditate on. You control the doorway to your mind. When those negativ…
