Joel Osteen

For over 30 years has been a model employee with the same company.

She felt badly about having to miss so much work and

Not having the income was difficult on her family.

She's a single parent mom raising two children.

After two years, she was cleared to go back to work.

But when she showed up, her supervisor told her that she didn't have a job anymore.

That position had been filled.

After putting all this time into this company, she was going to lose her benefits, her seniority, have to start all over.

It seemed like those 30 years went down the drain.

Her teenage children said to her, mom, you've always taught us that God is in control, that he's going to take care of us.

These last two years, we haven't missed a payment on the house.

We haven't gone without.

What makes you think that God is going to fail us now?

She had spent years speaking faith and encouragement into her kids.

Now those seeds of encouragement were coming back to her.

Instead of being negative, thinking God's forgotten about me, never dreamed I'd be unemployed at this age, she believed that God had her in the palm of his hand, that he would open the right doors.

Couple of weeks later, her boss's supervisor called the house.

This lady didn't call the company, the company called her.

This boss, this Samuel, so to speak, said, I'm just checking with you, wondering when you'll be able to come back to work.

The lady was puzzled and said, what do you mean?