Joel Osteen, renowned American senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, shared a profound message on social media, urging his followers to allow God to remove the barriers holding them back from reaching their full potential. He highlighted how unforgiveness, insecurity, compromise, and anger can hinder personal growth and encouraged his audience to collaborate with God and embrace transformation to overcome these challenges.
“Let God remove what is keeping you from the true you. Unforgiveness is keeping you from shining. Insecurity, compromise, anger are blocking the best you from coming out. Work with God. Be willing to change”
He further said, personal growth is key, and we should strive to be better versions of ourselves over time, exhibiting greater kindness, respect, confidence, and security, while also forgiving more readily and overlooking offenses more easily.
“We don’t have to be perfect, but we should be growing. We should be better than we were five years ago. We should be kinder, more respectful, have a better attitude. We should be more confident, more secure. We should forgive quicker, overlook offenses easier,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said to truly grow, we must learn to compromise less and resist temptation more often, allowing God to refine us by chipping away the things that hinder our spiritual growth.
