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Psalm 124:6-8 ‘Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made heaven and earth”.
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1 Chronicles 15-17, Psalms 67
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John Hillery Osteen was founder of the Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
Interestingly, John almost didn’t live to see his great ministry because of an incident that happened early in his life.
John Osteen was born in Paris, Texas in 1921, to parents who were cotton farmers and they lived on the farm. When John was a little toddler, one night he wandered away while everyone was occupied. Barely able to walk, he soon fell into an open fire. This baby could easily have burned to death but just at that moment someone quickly got to him and pulled him out of the fire. Another 15 seconds and John would have lost his life, but God’s grace and mercy stopped the devil’s attempt to truncate his destiny.
John survived to later become a great minister of the Gospel. He founded Lakewood Church in 1959 in Houston, Texas, and it eventually grew to a congregation of about 15,000 members.
He hosted the weekly John Osteen television program for 16 years, reaching millions in the U.S. and in many other countries with his preaching.
After his death on January 23, 1999, his youngest son Joel Osteen became the pastor, who has expanded the ministry to now a congregation of over 52,000 and reaches millions of people around the world by television and online.
Many of us have been in fiery situations, that could have spelled the end of us, but God has always intervened just in the nick of time to pluck us out. Truly, we are all products of God’s mercy. None of us would be here today, if the Lord has not been on our side.
David said, “By this I know the Lord is on my side, He has not let my enemies triumph over me” (Psalm 41:11).
Indeed, God has not allowed the enemy to triumph over us. Despite all the trials and tribulations, God has preserved us.
Some of us have been through severe seasons of trauma that could have destroyed us. Yet, today we don’t even look at all like what we have been through. God has so delivered us, that just like the Hebrew boys, there is not even the smell of smoke around us.
While it may be easy to worry or complain about current difficulties , let us never forget the grace of God that has brought us thus far. For this we should continually praise and celebrate our faithful God!
Surely, by His grace , we will always escape every fiery trial and keep soaring to greater dimensions of the colorful future God has preordained for us
PRAYER: Father please help me to always maintain a lifestyle of gratitude in appreciation for all Your goodness. Indeed You have been faithful to me and for this, I praise and bless You forever in Jesus Name.
QUOTE :
Thanking God in whatever situation you find yourself in life stirs up the Heavens to move on your behalf- WORDBITE 222
Shalom!
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