
Joel Osteen Podcast Still I Rise | Joel Osteen
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Mar 22, 2026 They talk about rising after setbacks and reclaiming promises placed on your heart. Topics include finding inner resilience when life breaks you and adopting a faith-filled mentality. Stories from scripture and personal testimony illustrate grief, recovery, and renewed purpose. The conversation focuses on restoration, standing firm in hard seasons, and seeing current pain as a chapter, not the end.
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You Are Harder Than What Tries To Break You
- You have an internal resilience like granite that life cannot permanently break.
- Joel Osteen compares human spirit to granite, arguing the same power that raised Christ gives you bounce back after sickness, setbacks, or addictions.
Grieve Then Refuse To Live Defeated
- Do process and grieve losses but decide not to stay there and let the loss become your identity.
- Joel explicitly tells listeners to feel emotions, then refuse to live defeated by choosing a 'still I rise' mentality and move forward.
The Broken Glass And Granite Metaphor
- Joel shares a kitchen story where a thick-bottomed glass shattered on a granite countertop without denting it.
- The broken glass illustrated that something hard (glass) cannot damage something harder (granite), used as a metaphor for the spirit's strength.








