Joel Osteen
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
If you'll keep being faithful, honoring God, he'll take you from the background to the foreground.
People may try to push you down.
God will lift you up.
They may try to hold you back.
God will thrust you forward.
People don't determine your destiny.
When Samuel heard that Jesse had another son, he asked him to go get him.
Jesse sent a messenger out.
I can imagine David sees this man way off in the distance coming toward him full speed.
David thinks, is something wrong?
Is there an emergency?
The messenger shows up and says, David, your father needs you immediately.
They take off running together back to the house.
When David arrived, the moment Samuel saw him, he said, that's the one.
He's the next king of Israel.
All those years David spent out in the shepherd's fields, he felt ignored, insignificant, looked down on.
His family discounted him, didn't give him any credit.
It looked like that would be his destiny, but in one moment, everything changed.