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Focus On the Promise, Not the Problem

Joel Osteen
October 23, 2019 31m 18s

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David said in Psalm 34:3, “Magnify the Lord with me.” Instead of worrying, let Joel remind you in this faith-building message to use your energy to believe! Develop an unshakeable faith and magnify God. Your best days are still ahead, and together we can make a difference in this world with the message of God's hope and love. To give visit JoelOsteen.com/GiveHope See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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See terms and conditions at UNEs 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:30.080 dot co. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.800 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for downloading our podcast. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.880 We enjoy spending this time with you. I hope you'll 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.319 leave Inspire. Make sure you subscribe to get new messages 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.360 every week. We appreciate your support. It helps keep the 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:45.240 ministry going. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:02:00.200 Enjoy the message. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:03.120 Well, God bless you. It's always a joy to come 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.600 into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.560 please stop by and be a part of one of 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.400 our services. I promise you we'll make you feel right 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.840 at home. Thanks so much for tuning in, and thank 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.320 you again for coming out today. And I like to 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.120 start with something funny. And I heard about this little girl. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.320 She asked her mother how the human race got started, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.760 and the mother explained how God created Adam and Eve 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.360 and they had children and on and on here we 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.359 are today. A few days later, she asked her father 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.919 the same question. He explained, how many years ago there 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.280 were monkeys. Little by little they became more like people, 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.959 and now here we are confused. She went back to 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.920 her mother, said, Mom, you said God created people. 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:44.880 Dad said, we came from monkeys. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.600 How can that be? Mom said, all that's easy, honey. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.240 I told you about my side of the family. He 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.720 told you about his Hold up your bible, say it 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:55.440 like you mean it. 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.240 This is my Bible. I am what it says. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:58.560 I am. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.280 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.880 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.639 talked the word of God. I'll boldly confess my mind 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.760 is alert, my heart is receptive. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.680 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:14.280 bless you. 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.200 I want to talk to you today about focusing on 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.320 the promise, not the problem. What we focus on, we magnify. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.120 We're not changing its actual size. We're simply making it 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.480 bigger in our own mind. And if you stay focused 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.200 on your problems, on a negative medical report, on what 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:36.920 somebody said about you, on how you'll never get out 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.320 of death, all that's going to do is make it 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:40.800 bigger than it really is. 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.560 It's changing your perception of it. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.720 You can take a small coin, if you hold it 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.840 up close enough to your eye, eventually it will block 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.840 the sun. That coin, even though it's billions and trillions 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.480 of times smaller, because you've got it so close, it's 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:58.960 distorting your perspective. 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.200 It looks bigger than this huge object. 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:05.040 In the same way, if you stay focused on something 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.920 that you don't like about yourself. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.640 I'm too short, I don't like my. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.840 Nose, I wish I had more hair, I wish my 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.320 voice wasn't so high. If you stay focused on those things, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.599 it will block the amazing future God has in store. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.960 You may have some things you don't like, some things 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.400 you consider are wrong with you. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:24.280 We all do. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.040 But can I tell you there's a lot right with you. 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.320 Quit magnifying what's wrong, Quit focusing on what you don't like, 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:35.960 and start focusing on what God said about you. God 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:39.840 said you are a masterpiece. He said you are fearfully 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.240 and wonderfully made. 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:42.960 He said you are one of a kind. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.240 You have the right looks, the right personality, the gifts. 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.160 That you need for the race that's designed for you. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:54.200 Magnify what's right about you and not what's wrong. If 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.920 you were to get a negative medical report, you could 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.599 go home and spend six hours researching it on the internet. 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:03.919 Find forty three side effects to add to your worries, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.000 and twenty seven different ways you. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:06.760 Can die from it. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.480 Then call a friend and have them tell you how 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.200 their cousin had it. He only made it four months, 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.640 their next door neighbor. He got chills in twenty four hours. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.520 All that time is becoming bigger and bigger in your mind. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:22.200 The actual size hasn't changed, but. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.640 Because you keep dwelling on it, giving it your attention, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.120 letting it take all your energy, it's become distorted. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:29.760 Now. 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.320 It's like that little coin that's blocking the sun. My 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.360 message today is very simple. Stop focusing on the problems 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.440 and start focusing on the promises. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:40.039 All through the day. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.000 Instead of complaining, God, you said with long life. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:44.960 You would satisfy me. 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.400 You said the number of my days you would fulfill, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.000 that I would live and not die, that you are 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.960 restoring health back into me. It takes the same amount 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:55.839 of energy. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.520 To believe as it does to worry. 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.040 You can go through the day thinking, man, prices are 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.440 so high, I don't know how I'll ever be able 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.920 to send my kids to college. What if I don't 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.159 get the promotion. What if I don't get the scholarship, 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.360 What if I lose this client. I don't know how 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.200 I'm going to make it. You can use your energy 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.120 to worry like that, or you can spend that same 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.520 energy saying Father, thank you that you're supplying all of 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:23.039 my needs. You said you take pleasure in prospering me. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.200 You said you would open the windows of heaven and 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.400 pour out blessings that I could not contain. When you 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.360 magnified the promises instead of the problems, that your faith 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.919 being released. That's what allows God to go to work. 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:40.280 Maybe you're concerned about your children. You could go around thinking, 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.000 I don't know if they're ever going to get back 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:42.680 on the right path. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:43.080 Joel. 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.400 I raised them in church. I taught them to do 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.880 what's right. I just don't understand it. Or you can say, Father, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.599 thank you that as for me and my house, we 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.080 will serve the Lord. God you promised the seed of 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:58.400 the righteous will be mighty in the land. God you said, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.479 if I'd raise my children in the fear of the Lord, 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.640 they would not depart from it. They may be off 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.200 course temporarily, but Lord, I want to thank you that 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.520 they're coming back, that they will fulfill their destinies. If 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.040 you'll change your focus from the problem to the promise, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:19.160 worry will leave, doubt, fear, negativity will go, faith will 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:19.760 rise up. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.280 You'll know that God is still on the throne. 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.880 He's bigger than anything you're facing. What he promised he 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:26.920 will bring to pass. 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.440 If you're single and you want. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.960 To get married, don't go around thinking I'll never meet 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:35.400 the right person. I'm too old, I miss too many opportunities. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.480 It's never going to happen. No, turn it around. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.320 God, you said, because I delight myself in you, you 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.160 would give me the desires of my heart. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.360 Lord you said, no good thing. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.880 Will you withhold because I'll walk up rightly. Lord, I 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.200 want to thank you that my good thing is coming 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.520 in that man that woman that you've already picked out 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:55.800 for me. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.440 It's just a matter of time before they show up. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:00.960 Whatever you're believing for. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.080 Instead of magnifying the negative, instead of worrying, find a 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.280 promise that you can stand on all through the day. 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.840 Let that play in your mind. God, you said you 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.000 hold victory in store for the upright. You said your 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.480 favor surrounds me like a shield. You said, the path. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.440 Of the righteous gets brighter and brighter. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.360 The reason it's so important to have a promise that 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:28.080 you can focus on is because God is not obligated 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.000 to bring to past what we say, but he is 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.640 obligated to bring to past what he says. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.120 When you can. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.680 Say, God, you said I would prosper and live in 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.520 good health. God you said you always caused me to triumph. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.120 God you said my latter days will be better than 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.000 my former days. 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:48.680 When God hears his. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:52.160 Promises coming out of your mouth, he says, to the angels, 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.800 go to work, get busy, make it happen. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.000 God is faithful to his word. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.319 I know a lady that was at odds with her 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.160 teenage daughter, and she used to come down for prayer 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:08.160 almost every week, and she was always frustrated, aggravated, stressed out, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.960 and really more than wanting prayer, I think she just 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.720 wanted an opportunity to complain and get it off of 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.079 her chest. And one day I told her what I'm 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.840 telling you, quit focusing on the problem, start focusing on 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.000 the promise. I gave her the scripture from Proverbs thirty one. 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:28.320 It says children will rise up and call their mother blessed. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.200 At that time, her daughter was calling her every name 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:36.960 except blessed. But this mother took it to heart all 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.959 through the day, started saying, God, you said, my children 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:42.640 are going to rise up and call me blessed. When 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:46.600 her daughter would act up, be disrespectful, instead of going 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.200 to God and complaining like she used to, no, God, 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.680 you said she's going to call me blessed. She found 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:56.280 other promises that she could stand on, like children are 0:09:56.320 --> 0:10:00.880 a gift from God that are to be enjoyed, reminding 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:04.080 God what he said. It was about two years later 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.040 this daughter had a total change of heart. Today she's 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.400 as kind and respectful as can be. She and her 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.680 mom are best friends. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:14.160 They do everything together. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.199 Now when this mother quotes the passage, my children will 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:19.559 rise up and call me blessed. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:23.400 She's not saying it by faith anymore. It's become a reality. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:27.120 That's what happens when you focus on the promise and 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.640 not the problem. And this is what Abraham did when 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.200 God gave him the promise that he and his wife 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.720 Sarah were going to have a baby. They were both 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.320 way too old in the natural it was impossible. But 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:44.440 Roman's four says Abraham considered not the weakness of his 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:49.240 own body nor the deadness of Sarah's wound. In other words, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:53.160 he didn't focus on the problem. He didn't go around thinking, well, 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.120 God gave me this promise, but I must not have 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.520 heard him right. Because Sarah is nearly eighty years old. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.760 I'm nearly one hundred years old. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.000 It's not going to happen. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.320 He didn't get on the internet in google chances of 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.520 having a baby at one hundred. He didn't call his 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.200 friends and get their input to see what they thought. 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.960 If he would have stayed focused on his circumstances, that 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:20.440 impossibility would have become so magnified Godden so big in 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.319 his mind that doubt, fear, negativity would. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.240 Have kept it from happening. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.640 God works where there's faith. Abraham did this same thing 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.240 that I'm asking you to do. It goes on to 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.839 say he considered not his circumstances, but. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.320 He was fully persuaded that. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.439 God would do what he promised. Abraham made this decision. 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.760 I'm not going to use my energy to worry. I'm 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.720 not going to go around thinking about how it's not 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.600 going to work out. I've got a promise from God. 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.280 Now I can hear him all through the day, saying, God, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.559 you promised I'm going to have a child. God, you 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.200 said I would be the father of many nations. You 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.240 said God that my descendants would be as numerous as 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:07.360 the stars in the sky. God, it looks impossible to me, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.200 but I know you could do the impossible. He kept 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:15.559 focusing on the promise, reminding God what he said. That 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:19.720 promise became bigger and bigger in his mind. He became 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.240 fully persuaded. Where doubt, fear, negativity didn't have a chance. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.000 Faith rose up sure enough against all odds. When they 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:31.000 were nearly one hundred years old, they had that baby. 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.160 If you're going to see your dreams come to pass, 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.840 if you're going to see those promises fulfilled, there will 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:41.560 be times like with Abraham, you have to consider, not 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.680 your negative circumstances. 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.400 You may have to consider not a medical report. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.400 Doctors do the best they can with the knowledge that 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:55.400 they have, but there comes a point sometimes, like with 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:59.240 my mom, doctors run out of options. There's nothing more 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:03.160 they can do medically speaking. The good news is God 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:07.440 can do what medical science cannot do. God never runs 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.560 out of options. He has the final say. He made 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.319 your body. You may have to consider not a financial situation. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.560 On paper, it may look like you're not going to 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:20.720 get out of debt until you're one hundred and forty 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:24.560 seven years old. If you stay focused on that and 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:29.400 just continually run the numbers and analyze it and reanalyze it, 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:30.839 all that's going to do is make. 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:33.360 You frustrated, stressed, out, worried. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.120 Instead of considering your circumstances, why don't you start considering 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.520 your God. He spoke worlds into existence, he flung stars 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.680 into space. He's got you in the palm of his hand. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.360 One touch of his favor can catapult you to a 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:54.160 new level. One good break, one explosive blessing can put 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:58.240 you into overflow, into more than enough. When we acquired 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:02.720 this facility, the former Compact Center, our architects told us 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.960 that it would cost about one hundred million dollars to renovate. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.240 We had to put in a new power plant. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.200 My first thought was, how in the world are we 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.960 going to be able to pay for this. Our team 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.280 ran the numbers. They projected future giving. If we sold 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.080 a piece of property. Everything fell perfectly into place, we 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:27.360 still calculated we would be considerably short. On paper, we 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:31.240 couldn't make it happen. I studied those numbers so much 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.200 that I would wake up in the middle of the 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.600 night dreaming about them. One day, I did what I 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.120 am asking you to do. I said, God, I've considered 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.320 the numbers, I've considered the facts. I've had well qualified 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.480 people give me charts, projections, analysis, and on paper it 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:51.560 doesn't look good. But now God, I'm going to change 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:53.960 my focus and start considering you. 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:54.960 God. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.560 I know you stopped the sun for Joshua, You protected 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.920 Daniel from hungry lying. You took five loaves of bread 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.480 and fed five thousand. You turned water into wine. That 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.080 was back in Bible days. But in my own life, God, 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:12.880 I saw you heal my mom from terminal cancer. I 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.760 saw you bring my father out of poverty and defeat 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.480 into a life of purpose and abundance. God, you caused 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.400 me in Victoria to stumble on a house that doubled 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:27.000 in value overnight. God, you gave us this beautiful facility 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.520 when all the odds were against us. And God, you 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.760 said what you started in my life you would finish. 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.760 You said we'd see the surpassing greatness of your favor. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:40.840 You said you would supply our needs, not according to 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:44.120 what we have, but according to your riches. When I 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.480 changed my focus and instead of considering my circumstances, started 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.280 considering my God, faith rose up, Hope rose up, expectancy 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.600 rose up. I got to the place where I was 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:59.320 fully persuaded. I knew God would make a way even 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.360 though we didn't your way. That's exactly what happened. Here 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.200 we are today not just believing for the promise. We're 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.480 enjoying the promise, not just dreaming the dream, living the dream. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:11.520 The Psalmists put it this way. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:16.280 Let God arise and his enemies be scattered. When you 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.120 make God bigger in your life, When you let him arise, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.280 focusing on his greatness, knowing that He's in control, fighting 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.960 your battles, making your crooked places straight, you go out 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:33.720 with this attitude of faith, expecting breakthroughs, expecting dreams to 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:34.520 come to pass. 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.520 When you let God arise like that, your enemies will 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:39.200 be scattered. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:44.040 Enemies of debt and lack, enemies of depression, enemies of sickness, 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.080 enemies of injustice. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:48.440 Nothing can stand against our God. 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.680 He is the all powerful creator of the universe. Now 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.400 my question today, what are you letting a rise? What 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:57.400 are you lifting up? 0:16:58.240 --> 0:16:58.440 Well? 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.720 Joel, I'm in a slow season work. Somebody hurt me 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.080 in a relationship. My health has gone downhill. That's why 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.600 I'm so discouraged. No, that's letting the wrong things arise. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.919 That's doubt, defeat, self pity. That's not going to do 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.800 anything productive. You've got to turn it around. Change your 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.680 focus from the problem to the promise, from considering your 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.080 circumstances to considering your God. 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:22.880 Here's how. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:26.480 All through the day, God you said, I'm armed with 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:27.719 strength for this battle. 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.240 God you said, no weapon. 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:33.320 Formed against me will ever prosper. God you said, the 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.920 trap the enemy set for me, they will fall in themselves. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:41.240 God you said, I haven't seen, heard, or imagined. 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.760 The amazing things you have in store. 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.560 So God, I believe today things are changing in my favor. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:49.000 You've done it in the past. I know you'll do 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.159 it again in the future. When you let God arise, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:57.080 you can't stay defeated. Healing comes, promotion comes, favor comes, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:58.359 victory comes. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:00.359 Your enemies will be scared. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:04.720 One time in the scripture, a man named King Jehosaphat 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:10.000 was facing great opposition. Three major armies were surrounding him 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:13.760 and the people of Judah. They were quickly closing in. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.520 In the natural they didn't have a chance. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.159 They were out numbered ten to one. 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.360 If anyone had a right to get down and discouraged, 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.720 it would have been Jehasaphat. 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.720 He didn't do it. He understood this principle. 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.760 Instead of complaining, he gathered all the people together and 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.320 he began to pray. He didn't say, God, I'm begging 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.800 you to help us. God is not fair. I don't 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.520 know why this has happened to us. No, he started 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:43.160 talking about the greatness of God. He said, God, we 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.320 know all power is. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:46.160 In your hands. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:50.960 You ruled the nations of the world. Nothing can stand 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.240 against you. Then he started remembering what God had done. God, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:56.960 you drove the inhabitants out. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:57.520 Of this land. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:00.800 You gave us this city that you promised, Abraham, you 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.120 defeated these enemies over here, on and on. 0:19:03.760 --> 0:19:04.520 What was he doing? 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:10.359 Magnifying God, not his trouble in our difficult times, instead 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.360 of complaining, well, I don't know if my child's ever 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.280 gone straighten up. Business is so slow. I don't think 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:17.840 I'll ever overcome this illness. 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.160 Now, if you talk. 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.159 Defeat, you're going to have defeat. You got to do 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.320 like jahasifat God. I know you're an awesome God. Nothing 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.239 is too difficult for you. I know you're bigger than 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.920 this financial difficulty. You make streets out of gold. You're 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:36.159 greater than this sickness. You breathe life into my body. 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.359 You're more powerful than people coming against me in this 0:19:39.480 --> 0:19:40.159 legal trouble. 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.280 No one can stand against you. The bigger you. 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:47.119 Make God, the smaller your problems become, the more faith 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.639 will rise in your heart. But too often we do 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.520 just the opposite. It's easy to magnify the problem instead 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:55.919 of magnifying God. 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.200 This is what the Israelites did. 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:03.879 Moses said twelve men in despite the promised land. After 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.400 forty days, ten of those men came back and said, Moses, 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.000 we don't have a chance the people are huge. There 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:15.080 are giants in the land. We'll never defeat them. The 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.600 two other spies, Joshua and Caleb, came back with a 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.439 different report. They said, yes, Moses, the people are big, 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.200 but we know our God is bigger. We are well 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.840 able to take the land. Let us go in at once. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.520 Both groups saw the same people. They both saw the 0:20:33.560 --> 0:20:39.400 same situation. The difference was their perspective. One group focused 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.520 on the sides of their obstacles, the other group focused 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:45.240 on the side of their God. Now, of the two 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:48.160 million people that were camped next door to the Promised 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:51.880 Land that day, the only two that ever eventually made 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:53.960 it into the Promised Land were. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:55.200 Joshua and Caleb. 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.600 Could it be that our own wrong perspective is keeping 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.719 us out of our promised land. If we think our 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:06.880 obstacles are too big, I'll never accomplish my dreams, I'll 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:10.160 never overcome this illness, I'll never get out of debt. Then, 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.960 just like them, our own perspective will keep us from 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:18.840 God's best. That's why David said, magnify the Lord with me. 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.760 He was saying, if you're going to make anything bigger, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.520 don't make the problems bigger. Don't make the opposition bigger. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.640 Don't make the negative medical report bigger. Learn to make 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:34.840 God bigger. It's interesting when David faced Goliath, he never 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:39.280 called him a giant. Everyone else did. They talked about 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:40.919 his size, his strength. 0:21:40.560 --> 0:21:41.879 His skill. Not David. 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.400 He called him an uncircumcised philistine. 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:48.359 He didn't even give him credit for being big. 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:50.879 He didn't deny it, but he didn't dwell on it. 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:55.200 His attitude was, if I'm going to magnify anything, I'm 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.240 going to magnify the source of my strength. I'm gonna 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:01.040 talk about the greatness of my God God. I'm not 0:22:01.080 --> 0:22:04.080 going to focus on how big my problems are. I'm 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:08.160 going to focus on how big my God is. David's brothers, 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:12.199 the other Israelites, they were afraid, intimidated, didn't know what 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.760 to do. When David told them that he wanted to 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:19.119 fight Goliath. He said, David, you can't fight Golias. 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.159 You're just a kid. You're too small. You don't have 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:24.280 a chance. But David had a different perspective. 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:28.440 He knew if God before him, who dared be against him? 0:22:28.720 --> 0:22:30.639 He knew he was strong in the Lord. 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.600 He knew he wasn't going out there alone that all 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.879 the forces of heaven were backing him up, and they 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:39.920 tried to warn him, David, you better be careful. You're 0:22:39.920 --> 0:22:41.960 gonna get out there and get hurt. Goliath is too 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:45.359 big to hit. David said, no, he's too big to miss. 0:22:45.760 --> 0:22:49.400 And David stood before Goliath and said, Goliath, you come 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.560 against me with a sword and a shield, but I 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:55.560 come against you in the name of the Lord, God 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:59.280 of Israel. Notice what he was doing, magnifying his God 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:01.040 at his greatness. 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:02.679 You know the story. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:06.160 This teenage boy half his size didn't have a chance in. 0:23:06.119 --> 0:23:08.720 The natural defeated this huge giant. 0:23:09.240 --> 0:23:12.560 That's what happens when you magnified the promises and not 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:16.080 the problems. The apostle Paul said it this way, Philippians 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.920 won Do not be intimidated by your enemies. 0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:21.560 Like David. 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.359 You may be up against a big giant right now, 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:27.840 a giant called an addiction, a giant of debt, a 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:31.280 giant of sickness. You could easily be overwhelmed. Think, oh, man, 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.600 I don't have a chance. No, don't be intimidated. The 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:37.800 forces that are for you are greater than the forces 0:23:37.800 --> 0:23:41.359 that are against you. Have the right perspective the most 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:42.440 high God is. 0:23:42.440 --> 0:23:45.520 On your side. I read about this little boy. 0:23:46.000 --> 0:23:48.080 There was a big bully that lived down the street 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.040 that was always bothering him, and he was trying to 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.680 get his nerve up to go stand up to him, 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:56.080 but he's just too afraid, didn't have the confidence. 0:23:56.760 --> 0:24:00.040 One day, his father bought him a new telescope. 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.240 He was in the front yard playing with it, but 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:04.960 he was looking through the wrong end. He was looking 0:24:04.960 --> 0:24:08.040 through the big side. His father came out and said, O, son, 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:10.960 you're doing it backwards. Turn it around and it will 0:24:11.000 --> 0:24:14.880 make everything bigger like it was designed to. He said, Dad, 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:17.880 I know that, but right now I'm looking at this bully, 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.280 and when I look at him this way, it makes 0:24:20.320 --> 0:24:21.720 him so small. 0:24:21.520 --> 0:24:23.080 That I'm not afraid of him anymore. 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:28.639 Maybe you need to turn the telescope around. You've magnified 0:24:28.640 --> 0:24:32.320 that problem long enough. You've talked about how impossible it is, 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:35.040 how it's never going to work out. But if you'll 0:24:35.080 --> 0:24:39.400 turn the telescope around, you'll see it from the right perspective. 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:43.800 You'll realize that it's nothing For our God. All he's 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:47.160 got to do is breathe in your direction. Your dream 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.600 coming to pass may seem impossible to you, But if 0:24:50.600 --> 0:24:53.840 you'll turn it around, you'll realize that it just takes 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:57.240 one touch of God's favor, one good break, meeting one 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:02.880 right person, or that financial difficult that relationship issue, that 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:07.400 addiction may seem insurmountable, but if you'll just turn it around, 0:25:07.760 --> 0:25:10.720 you'll see it from the perspective and realize that for 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:14.280 our God, it's a small thing. He parted the Red 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.919 Sea for the Israelites, He can make a way in 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:18.560 your life. 0:25:18.600 --> 0:25:21.200 Which end of the telescope are you looking through. 0:25:21.880 --> 0:25:24.919 You can't go through life focused on the negative and 0:25:24.960 --> 0:25:26.480 how it's never going to work out. 0:25:26.800 --> 0:25:28.679 That will keep you from God's best. 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:31.840 If you'll learn to focus on the promise and not 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:36.440 the problem, you will overcome obstacles that looked insurmountable. You'll 0:25:36.480 --> 0:25:41.120 accomplish dreams even though you didn't have the qualifications, the resources, 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:41.920 the connections. 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:44.560 God will get you to where you're supposed to be. 0:25:45.560 --> 0:25:47.840 This is what happened in the Scripture to a man 0:25:47.920 --> 0:25:49.280 by the name of Zerubabel. 0:25:49.800 --> 0:25:52.800 God gave him the promise that he would rebuild the temple, 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:54.840 but everything came against him. 0:25:55.480 --> 0:25:57.440 The city leaders tried to stop him. 0:25:57.840 --> 0:26:01.440 They hired lawyers and wouldn't give him the permits. Other 0:26:01.480 --> 0:26:05.280 people started stirring up strife and stirring up trouble. He 0:26:05.280 --> 0:26:08.000 couldn't hire the workers that he needed, he couldn't find 0:26:08.040 --> 0:26:08.840 the materials. 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:11.240 Everywhere he turned there was trouble. 0:26:11.600 --> 0:26:14.800 It looked impossible, and he could have stayed focused on 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.800 the opposition and how much more powerful they were, giving 0:26:18.920 --> 0:26:21.399 up and gone home. God, I wanted to do it. 0:26:21.480 --> 0:26:24.159 I had good intentions. They were just too big. No, 0:26:24.320 --> 0:26:28.480 he said in Zachariah, for who are you, o great 0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:32.480 mountain that stands before me? You shall become a mere 0:26:32.560 --> 0:26:35.679 mole hill, and I will finish the temple. 0:26:36.480 --> 0:26:39.320 Notice his attitude not as too big. I can't do 0:26:39.440 --> 0:26:40.879 this now, he said. 0:26:41.440 --> 0:26:44.240 You may be a mountain right now, but I know 0:26:44.320 --> 0:26:47.960 a secret. I've got my telescope turned around. I can 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:50.679 already see through my eyes of faith. It's just a 0:26:50.720 --> 0:26:53.800 matter of time before you flatten out and become a 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:54.280 mole hill. 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:58.280 I will complete this project. I've learned. 0:26:58.960 --> 0:27:01.680 If you don't talk to your mountains, your mountains will 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:05.359 talk to you. Don't complain about how big the problem is. 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:08.840 Do like he did, Tell that mountain, you're about to 0:27:08.880 --> 0:27:13.040 become a mole hill. Like David, Tell that giant this day, 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:17.400 I will defeat you. You can't talk, defee and expect 0:27:17.400 --> 0:27:21.600 to have victory. And what you're facing today may look big. 0:27:22.240 --> 0:27:25.159 I'm not asking you to deny it. I am asking 0:27:25.200 --> 0:27:28.720 you to turn the telescope around and see it from 0:27:28.720 --> 0:27:32.600 God's point of view. Have the right perspective. It's no 0:27:32.760 --> 0:27:33.959 match for you. 0:27:33.960 --> 0:27:36.959 You are a child of the most high God. You 0:27:37.040 --> 0:27:38.880 have the most powerful. 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:41.879 Force in the universe breathing in your direction right now. 0:27:42.560 --> 0:27:46.320 Don't stay focused on the opposition, how impossible it looks. 0:27:46.840 --> 0:27:48.080 Do what Abraham did. 0:27:48.720 --> 0:27:53.440 Consider not the negative circumstances and start considering your God. 0:27:54.000 --> 0:27:57.960 Remind him what he said all through the day. Let 0:27:58.000 --> 0:28:01.280 his promises keep playing in your mind. And God, you 0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:05.320 said I'm blessed, you said I'm strong, you said I'm healthy, 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:07.120 you said I'm highly favored. 0:28:07.240 --> 0:28:08.720 You said my best days. 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:11.080 Are still out in front of me. Remember it takes 0:28:11.119 --> 0:28:13.560 the same amount of energy to believe. 0:28:13.520 --> 0:28:14.600 As it does to worry. 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:18.119 If you'll learn to focus on the promises and not 0:28:18.240 --> 0:28:21.440 the problems, then I believe and declare. 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.880 Like David, you will defeat your giants. 0:28:24.520 --> 0:28:29.240 Like Zaruba Bell you will accomplish your dreams, and like Abraham. 0:28:28.920 --> 0:28:31.720 What God promised you, he will bring to past. 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:34.520 You will become everything He's created you to be, and 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.360 you will have everything He intended for you to have. 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:41.000 In Jesus' name, if you receive it, can you say 0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:42.280 him in today? 0:28:43.200 --> 0:28:44.560 We never like to close our. 0:28:44.440 --> 0:28:48.000 Broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make Jesus the 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:50.840 lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just 0:28:50.880 --> 0:28:54.680 say Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:59.720 Come into my heart. I make you my lord. 0:28:59.720 --> 0:29:04.760 And friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:08.120 you got born again. Get in a good Bible based church. 0:29:08.600 --> 0:29:09.840 Keep God first place. 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:12.520 He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 0:29:13.800 --> 0:29:17.160 Thank you for listening to the Joels Deine podcast. Help 0:29:17.320 --> 0:29:20.040 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:24.040 all over the world. 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