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Don't Be A Complainer - Victoria Osteen

Joel Osteen
August 9, 2017 19m 18s

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A faultfinder is defined as “a person given to harsh judgments and to finding faults.” None of us want to wear that label, and none of us want to be around a faultfinder. But it’s so easy to see what’s wrong in a situation and what could be done better. It’s so easy to see what’s wrong with another person and how they could change for the better. Our natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative, and it causes us to find fault.You can’t stop all the negative thoughts you have about people and situations, but you can stop giving those thoughts life by speaking them out. Don’t give it life! Don’t ruin relationships and situations! You’re never going to see the change you want by finding fault.So what should you do? God says, “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 NIV). Let’s not be faultfinders. Let’s be those who pray and petition God for change with thanksgiving in our heart. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's time 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.200 to get the recognition you deserve and earn a degree 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.840 you'll be proud of, one that employers will trust and 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.119 respect when you take the next step in your life 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.280 and career. Make it count with Purdue Global Produce Online 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.920 University for working adults. Start your comeback at Purdueglobal dot edu. 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.000 I want to remind us all today to not be 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:38.240 complainers and fault finders. Oh man, really, we don't need 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.640 to be complainers and fault finders. See, it's easy to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.920 see what's wrong in a situation. It's easy to see 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.960 what could be done better. You know, naturally we tend 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.120 to look at the negative. Just our natural minds tend 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.720 to always gravitate to the negative, and it causes us 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:02.760 to find fault. But we don't want to be complainers 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.360 and fault finders. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.120 Because we know that it doesn't please God. You know 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:08.440 we're all guilty of this. 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.000 I'll be the first one to raise my hand, okay, 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:17.200 because sometimes it feels good to complain. You get it 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:22.480 off your chest. You're just venting. It feels good. Why 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.200 do we complain? That's one reason it feels kind of 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:30.080 good Sometime okay, let's just get real about it. We've 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.000 all thought, all right, just get it off my chest 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.280 and then I'll be okay. Or we think, or I 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.840 think sometimes if I complain, I can change the situation. 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.799 I'll go to Joel and I'll tell him why this 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:48.400 isn't right and why we shouldn't do it this. 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.560 Way, because I think I'm gonna change the situation right. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:57.520 But you don't change the situation by complaining, by finding fault, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.200 you usually make the situation worse. Like I said, we 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:07.120 can all think these thoughts of how we could do 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.000 it better, but we've got to learn that we don't 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.520 have to give life to these thoughts. You see, when 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.880 we give life to these negative thoughts, we create a 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:21.799 more negative environment. We not only pollute ourselves with this 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:26.720 negative environment, but we pollute other people. We cause them 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.240 to begin to think negative thoughts. It's as if it 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.680 can spread if we're not careful. No one wants to 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.720 be around a complainer. No one wants to be around 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:41.640 a fault finder. We don't either, So let's watch what 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:45.280 we're saying. Even though it may feel good for a time, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.840 have we ever stopped step back and thought? But is 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.280 it doing us any good? Is it really doing us 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.440 any good? You see, I was reading this study and 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:01.280 I thought it was very interesting and these reasons. We're 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.160 talking about the brain and the effects of the on 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.640 the brain when we complain, and it says that when 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.880 we complain, we literally. 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.840 Rewire our brain to complain. 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.440 You see, our brain wants to take the path of 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.760 least resistance, It wants to take the easy way out, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.120 so it wants to repeat a pattern. So when you complain, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.719 you learn to complain more. You're wiring in this negative pattern. 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.080 And so really, what the researchers we're saying is we're 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:41.000 training our own brains to complain. I don't want to 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:41.880 be a complainer. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.800 I want to be a person that has faith and hope. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.120 Yes, we're all gonna have the opportunity to complain because 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:55.080 there's no perfect person, there's no perfect spouse, there's no 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.000 perfect job. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:57.960 Life is imperfect. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.640 So we're not gonna get rid of the fact that 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.440 there is opportunities to complain. But I want to suggest 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:08.960 to us today to be smarter than a complainer and 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.560 to figure out a way to be the solution to 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.760 the problem, to not just complain about the problem. To 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:22.120 find a way to act properly when you feel negative, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.880 and the first way is not to train your brain 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:31.680 to complain. Now, the scripture is full of stories, and 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.120 the scripture says that these stories are placed here so 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.320 that we can learn, so that we can learn valuable 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.120 lessons for our own life. So I want to quickly 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:46.760 take us back to the Israelites. When God brought them 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.360 out of Egypt. He led them out by a man 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.240 named Moses. We know this story. They were led out 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.080 of captivity by a leader named Moses, and he did 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.800 it by God's command. He was able to do it 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.200 because God said, I am taking my people to a 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.239 land that is rich with milk and honey. 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.520 He called it the Promised Land. Now, they had been. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:15.720 Quickly captive under the barbaric hand of Pharoh. They had 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.960 been mistreated, and God says, enough is enough. I'm taking 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.560 my people out now. If you been mistreated, sometimes you 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:28.599 come out very with a victim mentality. But God wanted 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.320 to reverse this victim mentality. So you know what he 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.480 had the Egyptians do. Pharaoh and those people, he had 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:40.680 them pour the wealth on the Israelites. So when they 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:44.800 left Egypt, they didn't leave with nothing. They left with 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.479 gold and silver and cattle. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.560 They left well equipped. 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.400 They left with the mindset of, oh wow, this is God, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.719 because only God could do that. They got to the 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.920 Red Sea, and God parted the Red Sea. They walked 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.599 through on dry land. They were on their way to 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.719 the Promised Land. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:07.440 But as they. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:12.800 Got on their way, guess what, they started some seeing 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.520 some things that could be done better. 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:16.200 They began to look. 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.920 At Moses and think, Moses, really, I can do this better. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:24.040 They began to look at Airor and question their leadership. 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.840 So they began to complain and mumble and grumble. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:29.200 You see. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:32.720 They began to complain about their food and their water, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:37.200 and their enemies. But you know, it's really interesting in 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.120 Deuteronomy one two, this is what it says. It says 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.160 when God was taking them to the Promised Land, he 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.600 had already ordained to get them there. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.840 It was an eleven day journey. You see. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.480 They left with more than enough to get there in 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:59.680 eleven days, but it took them forty years. Forty years. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.720 Was it Moses that stopped them? Was it their enemies 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.080 that stopped them? Was it the fact that they didn't 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:08.920 have the right food, that stopped them. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.760 No, what they. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.520 Thought was their enemies, the things they were complaining about, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.600 the things that they were blaming and pointing the finger out, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.320 wasn't their enemy at all. 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:26.640 Their number one enemy was their own murmuring and complaining. 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.840 Have you ever thought that your own murmuring and complaining 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.600 could limit your thinking, could literally stop you from going 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.600 to the next level? 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.840 Have you ever thought how unhealthy it really is? 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:44.880 See? 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.560 I think if the Israelites could have read the research 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.480 that I read, they would have said, oh my gosh, 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.280 I'm training my own brain to complain, and that complaining 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:57.920 is enemy number one. 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:02.920 Enemy number one. I want to encourage us today. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.640 If we can train our brain to complain, we can 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.800 train our brain to see God and how he can. 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:10.640 Work in a situation. 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:17.240 We can literally train our brain to believe that God 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.679 can do something. You know, God is taking us all somewhere, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.439 And can I tell you right now, you have everything 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.760 you need right now to get to where God's taking you. 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.679 If God is leading you, nothing can stop you. You see, 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.600 that's where the Israelites missed it. They were looking at 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.960 the things, the circumstances around them. 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.679 They forgot to look to their. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:47.640 God, it's easy to blame, it's easy to see out 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.520 of these eyes. But we've got to begin to see 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:55.120 out of our supernatural eyes the things unseen, the hand 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.319 of God behind the scenes, that's fighting our battles for us, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:06.120 and keep our mouth closed until we get there. You see, 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:11.280 they complained about mana. Manna was the bread that came 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.480 down from heaven that God provided for them every single day. 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.840 Now, granted, they had this. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.000 Manna every single day, and they tired of the mana. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:27.120 Have you ever got tired of something? Every day? 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.680 I go to work every day, I clean this house 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.800 every day, I pick up my husband's socks. 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.400 You see, they tired of this manna. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:43.040 So they begin to grumble and complain about this manna. 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.640 And it's so interesting that that just took fire in 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:52.520 the whole camp. So they all started grumbling and complaining. 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.400 And when you grumble and complain, you know what happens. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.960 Attitudes come up out of you that are not pleasing 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.680 to God. In fact, grumbling and complaining can literally change 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:08.480 our perspective. They started thinking about the food they used 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.480 to eat, the onions and the leeks and the garlic. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.680 They begin to take their mind back to what they used. 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:22.520 To eat in captivity so much that that food became 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:27.200 more important than their freedom, instead of going to that 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.439 manna every day and saying, God, I want to eat 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.080 this until you change it. But I am grateful that 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.440 I am free. I am grateful that you are taking 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:43.880 me somewhere. See, sometimes we all want something bigger. We 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.600 want to go to the next level, but we don't 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.959 want to do what it takes to get to that 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:52.960 next level. Yeah, I want a job promotion. I want 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.680 this job promotion now. I don't want to work any 0:11:55.720 --> 0:12:01.200 extra hours. Man, if I could have a husband, my 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:02.480 life would be complete. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.040 I am waiting for my man. I certainly don't want 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:06.640 to cook for him. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:06.959 Though. 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:13.360 We want things, but we don't want what it takes to. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:14.520 Have those things. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:20.040 And this was their dilemma. They wanted out of captivity. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.720 God says, I'm taking you somewhere, but they didn't want 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:29.040 to face the trials until they got there. Listen, if 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.840 you don't like what's going on in your life, change 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.360 is coming. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:37.840 Change is coming. Change is coming. Change is coming. 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.200 But you're not gonna find it by complaining and grumbling. 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:49.960 You're gonna find it by staying the course, by being grateful. See, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.760 complaining finds the worst in the situation, not the best. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.600 If you can train your mind to complain, you can 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.320 train your mind to find the best. Listen to what 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:05.319 it says in Philippians two fourteen. This is kind of 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:10.360 the antidote for seeing the negative and figuring out what. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.000 To do with it. You can see it's gonna get 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.839 in there. But what are you gonna do with it? 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:19.760 Don't give it life, don't spread it, don't ruin relationships, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:23.200 don't stop your destiny. Figure out what to do with 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.719 it before you let it out. And this is what 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:29.040 God is saying. First of all, He's commanding us do 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:34.440 all things without grumbling, finding fault and complaining. All right, 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.439 so there's one thing I can recognize. I'm not supposed 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.920 to let it out. What am I supposed to do 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:40.240 with it? 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:40.640 God? 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.600 I mean, I'm only human, right, he says a little 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.640 later in Philippians four or five, he says, pray, Hey, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.720 if you've got a complaint, if you see something wrong, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.199 pray and ask God about it. Pray and ask God 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.280 about it. That's what you do with it. And it 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:09.719 says with thanksgiving in your heart. Can you imagine if 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.079 they would have said, Lord. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.520 This manna is getting a little old. Do you think 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:16.520 you could send some quell? 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:16.880 God? 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.480 Thank you Father for this manna though, And if you 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.040 don't send some quaell, I know you're getting me where 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:28.800 I'm going. But God, I'm asking, I'm asking you for 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:33.320 some quail. You see, if they would have sandwiched their 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:39.000 request between Thanksgiving, I think we'd be reading a different 0:14:39.040 --> 0:14:42.640 story about them. God would be teaching us a different 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.680 lesson about them. 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.040 Don't weaken your faith by your complaint. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.280 Strengthen it by your prayer, by your petitions to God, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:59.000 making your request known with thanksgiving in your heart. You 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.400 see what they did is they left what they had 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.200 to chase after what they didn't have. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.600 That's what complaining does. It doesn't say, hey, I'm grateful 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.280 for what I have until I get more. It says, 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.760 you know what, I don't care what I have. I 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:15.320 want more. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.880 Really, that's what complaining does. And the scripture says that 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.120 when they thought they were complaining to Moses and Aaron, 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.080 they were really complaining about God. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.360 Listen, I'm guilty. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:35.120 Of complaining, But you know what, I want to watch 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.040 my complaining because. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:39.400 I know it's right up there with worry. It isn't 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:43.160 changing a thing. It's not doing a thing for me 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.040 for my life. 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.400 It's only shrinking it, limiting it and not getting me 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.800 to where I need to be. Let's don't be fault 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:56.560 founders and complainers. 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