Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential [Hardcover]

Joel Osteen (Author)

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Publication Date: October 27, 2005

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen offers 90 days of inspiration to help people reach their full potential.

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About the Author

Joel Osteen is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Listed by several sources as America’s largest and fastest-growing congregation, Lakewood Church has approximately 30,000 adult attendees every week. Millions more watch Joel’s messages as they are broadcast on national and international television networks. He resides in Houston with his wife, Victoria, and their children. You can visit his Web site at joelosteen.com.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: FaithWords (October 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 044657810X
• ISBN-13: 978-0446578103
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Joel Osteen is a native Texan and the Pastor of Lakewood Church, which according to Church Growth Today is America's largest and fastest growing church with over 38,000 attendees. On July 16, 2005 after completing $95 million dollars in renovations, Joel moved Lakewood Church into its new 16,000 seat home -- the former Compaq Center which is now the largest regularly-used worship center in the United States. According to Nielsen Media Research, Joel is the most watched inspirational figure in America. His weekly sermon is broadcast into television markets across the U.S. where it is viewed by seven million Americans each week and more than 20 million each month. His weekly broadcast is also seen in almost 100 nations around the world. In 2004 his first book, Your Best Life Now was released by Time Warner debuting at the top of the New York Times Bestsellers List and quickly rising to #1. It remained on the New York Times Bestseller for more than 2 years and has sold more than 4 million copies. Most recently, Joel was named as one of Barbara Walters' "10 Most Fascinating People of 2006" and he was selected as the "Most Influential Christian in 2006" by the readers of Church Report Magazine. The son of John Osteen -- a highly respected minister of the Gospel and the founder of Lakewood Church -- Joel attended Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he studied radio and television communications. In 1982, Joel returned to Houston and founded Lakewood's television ministry where he produced John Osteen's televised sermons for 17 years until January 1999 when his father passed away. For many years John Osteen encouraged Joel to preach, but he always declined preferring to work behind the scenes. In early 1999, Joel felt compelled to accept his father's invitation and he preached his first sermon on January 17th of that year. Little did anyone know that would be the last Sunday of John Osteen's life. Two weeks later Joel began preaching and later that year was installed as the new Senior Pastor of Lakewood Church. Almost immediately, weekly attendance began to grow at an extraordinary rate and, in 2005 Joel moved Lakewood Church into its present location, the former Compaq Center, a 16,000 seat arena that was once home to the Houston Rockets professional basketball team. Now, with his wife Victoria and the leadership staff of Lakewood, this innovative church is poised for the new millennium. Joel's extraordinary success can be found in his core message: That our God is a good God who desires to bless those who are obedient and faithful to Him through Jesus Christ. It is Joel's deepest desire that his own life be an example of that principle and that everyone who hears this message of hope and encouragement would choose to accept God's goodness and mercy and to become all that God wants them to be.

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fresh breath of faith!, September 1, 2006

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This review is from: Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential (Hardcover)

I just finished this book a few days ago. I was sad to reach the end but I'm going to keep it because I know I'll want to read it again a few times a year. Don't skip the recommended Bible reading at the beginning of every devotion. Pastor Osteen's enthusiasm and faith are contagious. If you read this book with a pure and open heart, it will completely change your outlook. I can't imagine a better way to start the day. The author has such a pure heart and deep faith that many scoff and ridicule him, but I don't care. The ways of the Lord are foolishness to those who are perishing!

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Set Yourself Up for a Successful Day, January 26, 2006

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This review is from: Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential (Hardcover)

One daily dose of devotion from this inspiring book will set you up for a day of optimism and peace.

Each reading gives you a portion of scripture to study, a quote from scripture, a moving story, and finally a prayer.

Together, these elements help the reader to focus on "God's favor" in their lives, and in having an "attitude of gratitude" --even when times are tough.

If you're looking for an easy spiritual practice you can use daily, here's your book.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reading!, December 9, 2005

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This review is from: Daily Readings from Your Best Life Now: 90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential (Hardcover)

"90 Devotions for Living at Your Full Potential" is packed with daily devotional scriptures that will lead you to a better life now (or soon). Very similar to his previous book, "7 Steps Program," it gears you to acheive more, look further, climb higher, think wider, be happier and much more. But with this, you get a scripture in the beginning and a "small" prayer at the end. It's like having a pastor speak to you everyday, except packed in a book.

What I like most about Joel Osteen's books/sermons is the fact that he can make "hard to describe" Bible scriptures into simple everyday language. If you seen him talk on t.v., you know what I mean. Osteen can make you feel like life is easy to live, which indeed it does. We just have to change the way we look, feel and act on life. That's what this book is about (but with genuine Bible verses) If you have to get one of the the two, I say get this one, no doubt about it. I gain so much more knowledge on the Bible scriptures as well as insights to what they mean. This book is nothing new from his previous book. Osteen simply backed up with some Bible verses from both Old and New Testament. The earlier you read this, the better. "May this devotional book be instrumental in helping you to live your best life now" pg vii