Joel Osteen

You're in a new day.

You pass midnight.

It may be three in the morning.

You have a few more hours, so to speak, before the sun comes up.

I've learned the longer it's taking the better it's going to be.

God is getting you prepared for the blessing he's already prepared for you and when it's taking a long time that's because the blessing is bigger than you can handle right now.

He's getting you stronger, more mature, more confident.

He's getting other people that are involved in place.

He's doing a work in them.

Don't be discouraged because it's been dark a long time.

That's a sign God is about to do something that you've never seen.

It's going to be bigger, more rewarding, more fulfilling than you've ever imagined.

Now keep praising him in the dark.

Keep being good to other people in the dark, giving, serving.

When you do that, like Paul and Silas, suddenly doors are going to open.

Suddenly you're going to come into opportunity, the right people, healing, breakthroughs.

It's going to catapult you ahead.

When my mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 1981, she had been in the hospital for 21 days.

One Monday evening, the doctors called my father in and said there was nothing more they could do for her.

They gave her a few weeks to live.