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
When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.
I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.
I want to be blessed so I can build orphanages. Blessed so I can build hospitals and do other things with our finances.
If you want to know where you'll be five years from now, listen to what you're saying about yourself today.
The main message of it is to not get stagnant and that God wants us to continue to grow and become a better person.
I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.
If you want your life to get better, sometimes the best thing you can do is to help improve somebody else's life.
I want the services to look and sound like the Grammys. It's not showy, but we represent God, and it should be first class.
I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that's not in me. I want to lift people up.
God always wants us to be growing.
Again I think my gift is bringing hope to everybody, and I don't want someone to look at me and say, "I would listen to him, I like what he's saying, but he's this or that politically and that turns me off."
God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.
You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go.
When you stir up the passion, your faith will allow God to do amazing things. If you want to remain passionate, you cannot let what once was a miracle become ordinary.