Your Words Hold a Miracle contains a dedication from John Osteen’s wife of 44 years, four months and six days, Dodie Osteen:

"My husband taught me faith, and how to believe in God, and receive a miracle, which I did in 1981 when diagnosed with metastatic cancer of the liver and given a few weeks to live.  That was thirty years ago, and soon I will be seventy-eight.  I am alive today because of the teachings of great men of God, and one of them was my husband.  He always said, “Store up the Word of God in your heart when you don’t need it, and you will have it when you do need it.”

This is an excerpt from Your Words Hold a Miracle. Copyright © 2012 by John Osteen with Joel Osteen. Reprinted by permission of Faithwords. All rights reserved