Hope On - Victoria Osteen

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We get struggling with something so long in 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.960 our life, we wonder, God, where are you? Do you 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.240 even see what's going on in my life? Do you 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:07.480 even care? Sometimes we're in a room like this and 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.360 we feel like just one person in the crowd. God, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.480 how do you find me in the midst of all 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.680 these people? But can I tell you today, God's eyes 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.360 are on you. I want to be the one that 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:25.799 reminds you God sees you. The Bible says that He 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.680 knew you before the foundation of the world, that. 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.720 He handpicked you. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.280 See, he knows every single hair on your head. Now 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:36.400 that blows my mind. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.400 But God is God, and if he said it, I 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:41.959 believe it no. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:48.160 Matter what I feel like, even if I feel alone 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.000 in a crowded room, I'm going to stand on the 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.440 word that God says he knew me. He knows my 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.320 down city, and he knows my uprising. The Bible says 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.320 he knows my thoughts from a I don't even have 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:04.520 to speak anything, and God already knows me. 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.520 You see, God knows you today. 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:15.600 But if we're gonna overcome those crushing feelings of feeling alone, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.239 feeling uncared for, we're gonna have to stir up our faith. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:22.760 We're gonna have to remind ourself every day. God does 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.760 know me, He does care for me. And me and 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:30.320 God we're a majority. We can do anything but fail. See, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:38.920 with God, anything is possible. Anything is possible. Whatever you're facing, it's. 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:44.520 Possible if you take hold of God. Luke, Chapter thirteen. One. 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.200 Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on this 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:53.000 Sabbath day. There was people all around. It was crowded, 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.920 and he began to teach them, and in the middle 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.960 of his teaching he stopped. He stopped because he took 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:06.440 notice of a woman that was in the crowd. You see, 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:10.440 the woman that was in this crowd. She wasn't dressed beautifully, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.160 she didn't walk in late, and that's why he noticed her. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.080 The woman that was in this crowd, the Bible says, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:18.480 was crippled. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.880 In fact, she was bent over like a horseshoe. It 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:29.000 said she couldn't even straighten up. Luke describes her as 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.160 a woman that was afflicted with a spirit of infirmity. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:37.159 Now we don't know what that infirmity was, but it 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.680 was something that had bound her up. We don't know 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.359 what had happened in her life, why her body was 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.839 so weak and so frail. But she was in the 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:53.560 synagogue that day bent over. Lo Now, if I asked 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.800 you to stand up right now, and I said, hey, 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:57.920 let's everybody, let's bend over. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:02.200 You would go Victoria being so silly. You probably laugh 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.760 a little bit. You'd be there. But if you were 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:10.760 bent over for eighteen years, it wouldn't be so funny. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.279 You see, the Bible says she was bent over for 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:19.920 eighteen long years. You see, I'm sure there were people standing, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.760 and there were people's city. The most amazing thing to 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:32.000 me that day was that Jesus noticed her see he 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:35.240 fixed his eyes on her that day. I'm sure when 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.360 she came in she didn't feel like anybody knew who 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:38.800 she was. 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.320 She felt very unnoticed. 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.760 But the good news is Jesus saw her and he 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.200 knew all about her. In fact, he immediately called out 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.400 woman forward. He stopped everything that he was doing and 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:56.760 he called her forward. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.040 Can you imagine that, sweet little woman. 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:01.640 I don't know how old she was, but she was 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.560 been over so she just appears to me like she'd 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.560 have felt pretty. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.440 Frill and old. She might not have been, we just 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.880 know she had it for eighteen years. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:16.280 But she began moving slowly towards Jesus and he spoke 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:20.839 this word to her. He said, woman, you are free 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.480 from your infirmity today. 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:28.800 You're free. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.760 I mean she was shuffling and she heard those words, 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.320 I'm free from my infirmity today. 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.200 Then he touched her. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.520 And the Bible said she immediately stood up. She hadn't 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.360 stood up for eighteen years. This woman had been looking 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:48.080 at the ground. All she had seen was the dust 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:53.600 of the ground and people's feet. She didn't even see 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:57.760 their faces. She didn't even see Jesus that day. But 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:01.640 when he said you are from what is binding you? 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.720 And he touched her and she stood up. Can you 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.280 imagine the first phase she had seen in this upright 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:09.440 position was. 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.480 A face of God. It was a face of Jesus. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:23.760 You see, she felt like no one saw her. She 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:30.120 had an identity of being crippled. But Jesus saw her 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.800 as a daughter of Abraham. You see, he didn't see 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.680 a crippled woman when everyone else did. He saw a 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:42.120 daughter of promise. And he set her free that day. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.880 Now I was thinking about this. She'd been crippled for 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.520 eighteen years. She'd been looking down at the ground. I 0:07:51.600 --> 0:07:54.920 wonder how long it took her to realize that she 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.480 was set free. But she wasn't crippled anymore. I mean 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.680 she would stay and up straight. But you know, when 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.160 you've been a certain way for so long, it's hard 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:05.720 to believe you can be another way. 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.360 It's kind of like an attitude when. 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.000 That attitude's had you for so you had this attitude 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:17.400 for so long, somehow that attitude has you. I wonder 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:21.160 how long it took her to realize she just got 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:25.160 set free. And I believe when I'm talking to somebody 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:29.240 today that's bent down under a heavy load, you don't 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.960 even realize that you're a son or a daughter a Promise, 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:34.800 and that. 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:37.440 God has already spoken the word and he's already set 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.600 you free. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:44.520 He's already freed you from what would bind you. But 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.720 you just don't realize it yet. You see, the enemy 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.760 wants you low, real low. He wants you looking down. 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.640 He certainly doesn't want you to see the face of 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.880 your savior. He doesn't want to see you to see 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.960 that you are a son and daughter of Promise. You see, 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:08.520 he called her a daughter of Abraham. There were some 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.520 opponents in the crowd that didn't want her. 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:11.200 Healed that day. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.080 They were looking for all the reasons that women shouldn't 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:14.560 be healed. 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:15.760 But you know what he said. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:19.000 He said, this woman is the daughter of Abraham. She 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:23.240 has every right and every authority to be healed any 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:29.280 day of the week. And sometimes people try to keep 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.640 you bent over with their words, with the situation. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.480 Man, your own mind tries to keep you way down. 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.400 But can I tell you have all power and authority 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:44.120 to stand up straight, because Jesus is already calling you forward. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.000 We got to shake the dust off of us and 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.280 stand up and move forward. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.040 You know, I admire about this woman. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.680 I admire the fact that she was in the synagogue 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:05.040 that day. She didn't let her bent over cripple condition 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.760 keep her from the position of hearing what Jesus had 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:14.520 to say. And too often we allow the conditions in 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.760 our life to keep us from our position of faith. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.240 We say, I can't come to church today. I'm too tired. 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:22.200 Man. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:25.560 My boss has me working six days a week. My 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:29.040 children have me running them to every activity that there are. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.080 I'm tired. I need to rest. 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.640 You see, nobody would have blamed that woman for staying 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:41.000 home on the Sabbath day, but she didn't see. 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.240 She didn't allow her condition to change her position. 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:48.439 She was a daughter of Promise, whether she knew it 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.959 or not, and that's what kept her going. 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.240 I want to encourage you today to stir your faith. 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:02.400 Don't allow anything to binge you over, to bind you up. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:09.120 Because whom the sun sets free is free in deed, 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:17.280 you are free. Indeed, today you've been bought with a 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.440 great Christ. You are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. You 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.320 have a covenant between you and God. You see, that's 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.640 what that woman had, That's what Jesus saw. He didn't 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:33.240 see her crippled body. He saw his covenant with her. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.160 He saw an agreement that couldn't be broken, and used 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.959 in in a position today of covenant. There is an 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.160 agreement between you and God that cannot be broken. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:45.960 There's no devil. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:51.439 On earth that can bind you anymore, because you're free, free, free. Indeed, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.040 you see, it's up to us to get ourself under 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:02.040 the word, to understand that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.319 and forever. He's gonna be the same for you as 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.080 he is for your children. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.960 He is the same Jesus with the same covenant blood, covenant. 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.959 You see, when we stir up our faith and we 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.920 realize the power that Jesus has towards us. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.360 We will say God can. 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.960 When we stir up our faith and realize the love 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:37.320 He has for us, we'll say God will listen. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.040 God can, and God will. 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.320 Reposition you no matter what situation you're in right now, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:49.319 and He'll call you forward and you will become everything 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.680 He's intended you to be. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:52.760 Amen. Do you believe that today? 0:12:53.480 --> 0:13:04.240 Thank you Lord, We receive that today. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.560 As a thank you for your support of our ministry 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.080 this month, Joel and Victoria would like to send you 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:10.280 a copy of Joel's new series, Expect the Unexpected. You'll 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:13.360 learn how to live your life with an attitude of expectancy. 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.880 It's time to expect better. It's time to expect more. 0:13:17.400 --> 0:13:21.280 Get ready to receive God's best. Get ready to expect 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:25.840 the unexpected. Request your copy of Expect the Unexpected today 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:29.360 at Joeloasting dot com or call eight eight eight five 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:30.000 six seven. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:30.520 Joel. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.840 God can surprise you in ways you've never dreamed. 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