Start believing that you can become what God says you can become. After all, just like in the case of Gideon, “God sees you as strong and courageous, as a man or woman of great honor and value.” So stop thinking of yourself as a loser with a bad job, a small apartment, and a lemon of a car. And don’t think for a second that he’s kidding.Ģ) Develop a healthy self-image. He has crowned me with favor, therefore, I can expect preferential treatment” (39). My attitude is: I’m a child of the Most High God. “I’ve learned to expect people to want to help me. “I’ve come to expect to be treated differently,” Osteen says. Your favor will cause me to get a good spot” (41).Īlso, expect other people to do good things for you. “Say, ‘Father, I thank you for leading and guiding me. “Perhaps you’re searching for a parking spot in a crowded lot,” Osteen sympathizes. Believe that God will make you successful-not saved, not redeemed, not forgiven. The key to realizing that big dream is to follow Osteen’s seven steps to living up to your full potential:ġ) Enlarge your vision. It was Benjamin Franklin, not Jesus, who said, “God helps those who help themselves.” That is Osteen’s message, too, only it is more like “God helps those who think well of themselves.” Imagine yourself to be a winner, and someday you will be a winner! Visualize yourself in a big house or a Lexus, and one day you will find yourself with both!Īs Osteen puts it, “God wants to give you your own house.
When you wring the book out, what you end up with is nothing more than the soggy old self-help pop-psychology that people have been lapping up for a generation-with the word “God” thrown in every once in a while for good measure. Open the book to any random page, and you will likely find some mention of God or even a reference to Scripture. I suppose we must be branching out now, because Joel Osteen’s Your Best Life Now is decidedly not one of those. After all, the pattern here at 9Marks has been that we review Christian books. Someone might legitimately raise the question why we are reviewing this book.
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