Joel Osteen

We ask for healing and protection to meet the right people.

That's all good.

But God has blessings that you've never asked for.

If he showed you all that was in your future, it would boggle your mind.

If you'll do like David and be your best where you are, you won't have to chase promotion.

Promotion will chase you.

You won't have to go after blessings.

Blessings will come after you.

When you keep God first place, the scripture says you won't be able to outrun the good things he has in store.

One of the keys is to stay faithful where you are.

Don't wait till you get out of the shepherd's fields, then you're going to be your best.

When you get a more significant position, then you're going to give it your all.

You have to be excellent on the level you're on right now.

Pass the test in the small areas.

If David would have slacked off, done a half-hearted job, he wouldn't have been called into the house.

And if you're not excellent on your level, then you won't see promotion and increase.

A friend of mine started pastoring a church in the hills of West Virginia in his late teens.

Many Sundays, there were only seven people in the congregation.

He taught a Bible class each week with three people.

Year after year went by and not too much changed.