Joel Osteen

I'm asking you to do what medicine cannot do.

Take his word and pray bold prayers.

Father, you said my children will be mighty in the land.

I'm asking you to free them from this addiction.

Take away these wrong friends, help them to fulfill their destiny.

Oh, Father, you said I would prosper and be in good health, that I would lend and not borrow, that you are Jehovah Jireh, the Lord, my provider.

So Lord, I'm asking you to supply all of my needs, make rivers in the desert, give me overflow so I can be a bigger blessing.

On December 11th, 1981, when my mother and father prayed and asked God to heal her from that cancer, my mother believed that day she received her healing, that she came into her midnight, that she went from PM to AM.

But here's the key, nothing looked any different.

She was still very frail.

Her skin was yellow.

She only weighed 89 pounds.

I never heard her complain.

She never talked defeat.

She would go through the house quoting scriptures.

I will live and not die and declare the works of the Lord.

It was still dark.

The medical report hadn't changed.

Month after month, no sign of improvement.

All of her senses said it's not going to work out.