PUBLIC MARKS from maverickchen with tag "Joel Osteen"

For many people, mediocrity is the norm; they want to do as little as they possibly can and still get by. But God did not create us to be mediocre or average. He doesn’t want us to just barely get by, or to do what everybody else is doing.

How we treat other people can have a great impact on the degree of blessings and favor of God we are experiencing in our lives. Are you good to people? Are you kind and considerate? Do you speak and act with love in your heart and regard other people as valuable and spe­cial? Friend, you can’t treat people poorly and expect to be blessed. You can’t be rude and inconsiderate and expect to live in victory.

No matter how successful we are, we all face challenges, struggles, and times when things don’t go our way. When calamities occur, some people immediately think they have done something wrong, that God must surely be punishing them.