Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen
Joel Scott Osteen is an American preacher and televangelist. He is the Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church, the largest Protestant church in the United States, in Houston, Texas. Osteen's televised sermons are seen by over 7 million viewers weekly and over 20 million monthly in over 100 countries. His sermons also broadcast 24 hours a day on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, Channel 128. Osteen has written seven New York Times Bestselling books. He has been widely nicknamed "The Smiling Preacher"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth5 March 1963
CountryUnited States of America
I think we should enjoy our families and everyone that we love right now, each day.
I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.
This is a day that God has given me. It's a gift. I can never relive this day. And I'm not going to live it angry, in unforgiveness, and mad at somebody. If I don't get my way, I'm going to believe that God's still in control.
I encourage people in a lot of my messages that you've got to make the most of every day.
Let's start affecting our whole city, and maybe we can affect the whole nation, the whole world. I'd like to affect it with the fact that God is a good God and He's on your side and He's got a good plan for you and when you put your hand in His, great things can happen.
I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.
I feel like what's come out of me is the gift God has given me just to encourage people, to help them know that there's a better life.
Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.
My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.
When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith.
I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.
I believe God's keeping the records and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life; somehow, some way God will make it up to you.
In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.
Don't pick on your sister when she's holding a baseball bat.