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Living An Overcoming Life Of Victory

Joel Osteen
December 22, 2022 32m 43s

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God never created us to be overcome; He created us to be overcomers. When you keep Him in first place, His favor, mercy and protection will surround you.  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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Thanks for listening to 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.800 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.280 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:40.480 blessing and share it with a. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.880 Friends, reappreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:59.440 your life. Well, God bless you always a joy to 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.000 come into your home, and we love you and we 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.400 believe you're going to have a blessed, prosperous year. God 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.040 honors the people that honor Him. If you're ever in 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.240 our area, I hope you'll stop by and be a 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.600 part of one of our services. I promise you will 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:14.960 make you feel right at home, but thanks for tuning in, 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.400 thanks for coming out today. I like to start with 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.320 something funny. And one day up in heaven, God told 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.440 the men, I want you to form two lines. One 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.200 line for the men who were the head of the house, 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.720 and the other line for the men who let the 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.560 women be the head of the house. The line where 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.079 the woman ran the house was one hundred miles long. 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:38.079 There was only one man in the other line. God said, men, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.400 I'm ashamed of you. I created you to be the head, 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:43.440 but you let your wife dominate you. Only one man 0:02:43.480 --> 0:02:45.800 stood up to make me proud. He turned to him 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.400 and said, son, tell him how you managed to be 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:51.240 the only one in this line. The man looked confused 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.160 and said, I don't know. My wife told me to 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:58.800 stand here. All right, hought up your bible. Say it 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.480 like you mean it this, he says, my Bible. I 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:02.360 am what it says. 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:02.720 I am. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.680 I have what it says I have. I can do 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.320 what it says I can do. Today I will be 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:12.519 taught the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.960 is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.639 the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.919 to talk to you today about living and overcoming life 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:28.760 of victory. Every person has challenges and setbacks. We all 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.200 have things that come against us. But God never created 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.360 us to be overcome. He created us to be the overcomer, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.680 and our attitude toward our problems is what's really important. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.080 What do we do when a situation is not working out? 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.160 It's going on month after month. It's tempting to get sour, 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.680 to start expecting the worst. Or what if we get 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:55.040 a negative medical report or a child gets into trouble 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.080 and our mind starts going ninety to nothing, playing out 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.240 all the terrible scenarios. It's easy to get down and discouraged. 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.480 If we go around thinking it's never going to work out, 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.680 it's never going to get better. That limits what God 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.520 can do. But when we face difficulties and we dig 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.240 our heels in knowing that God is bigger than our 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.400 problems and that he already has a way out, and 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.599 we fight the good fight of faith, that's what allows 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:25.479 God to show up and turn negative situations around. And 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.200 the scripture says here in Isaiah fifty four seventeen, no 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:34.159 weapon formed against you will prosper. This is your heritage 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.160 as children of the Lord. Notice, you have a heritage, 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.160 you have rights and privileges because you belong to Christ. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.520 When you chose him, God put a bloodline around you 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.320 that the enemy cannot cross. As long as you're keeping 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.440 him first place. You have a hedge of protection, a 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:58.080 hedge of favor, a hedge of mercy. It's surrounding you 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:02.440 like a shield. Difficulties come, and at times it looks 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.360 like it's never going to get better. God is saying, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.679 because you're his child, because you honor him, even though 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.160 that problem has formed, in the end, it is not 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.080 going to prosper. When it's all said and done, it's 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.360 not going to harm you. God is going to turn 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:22.800 it around and use it to your advantage. But it 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.440 doesn't say that if we stay in faith and we 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.000 do our best, we'll never have a problem. Now, life 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.480 is full of difficulties. The promise God is making us 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.080 here is when things do come against us. If our 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.560 child gets into trouble, if we get a negative medical report, 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.520 if people are talking behind our back. God says, the 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.640 problem may form. You can't stop it from happening. But 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.680 because your in covenant relationship with him, you can stay 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.280 in peace knowing that it is not going to prosper. 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.920 This is a part of your heritage. The mistake we 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.320 make so often is we don't know who we are. 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.719 We don't know what really belongs to us. So when 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.159 a problem arises, we get down. We go around complaining, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:10.359 expecting the worst. All that does is stop God from working. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.720 You have to be in faith in order to activate 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:18.400 God's promises. When difficulties come and you're tempted to get upset, 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.880 you need to remind yourself this is not going to prosper. 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.080 They may be talking about me. It may look bad, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.560 but I know God is my vindicator. He'll take care 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.520 of them. My child may be on the wrong path, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.960 he's running with the wrong crowd, but let me tell you, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.640 as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.680 Or the medical report about me may look kind of discouraging, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.599 but I'm not worried. I know God has me in 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.240 the palm of his hand. I know God created my 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.719 body and he said with long life he would satisfy me. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:53.440 You have to keep reminding yourself. This problem didn't come 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.760 to stay, it came to pass. It may have formed. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.440 I can't stop it from coming, but I don't have 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:02.160 to get work. I know God is still on the throne, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.800 and he's promised it is not going to prosper. I 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:09.400 love to think about how God is in control of everything. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.400 He's even in control of our enemies. You remember the 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.440 story of Job. He had all kinds of adversity, all 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:20.280 kinds of tough times, but those difficulties were not a 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.880 surprise to God. That didn't catch God off guard. The 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:28.560 scripture says the enemy had to ask permission before he 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.360 could touch Job. He couldn't bring one thing against him 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.680 without God allowing him to. So when we face problems, 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.800 there's a real peace when we understand God is in 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.960 complete control, not just of me and my circumstances, but 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.800 God is even in control of my enemies. That means 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.120 there's no person that can keep you down, no sickness 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.840 too great, no trouble, no calamity that can keep you 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.320 from ultimately living in victory. We are in a fixed fight. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:04.120 The outcome has already been determined. God always causes us 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.840 to triumph. He had the solution before we ever had 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.960 the problem. God had a way out before we even 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:14.880 encountered the difficulty. He has it all arranged. I may 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.040 not understand the theology of it all. Sometimes it may 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.440 not seem fair and we wonder why something has happened, 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.240 But bottom line is this, God is still on the 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.360 throne and he has promised if we will stay in faith, 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.880 no weapon formed against us is ever going to prosper. 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.320 And some of you right now, you're in difficult times 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.320 and you've just about convinced yourself that it's never going 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.160 to get better, it's never going to work out. But 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.680 if you could only see right up ahead, God has 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.280 great things in front of you. Instead of dragging around 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.800 thinking I'll never get out of this mess, you need 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.000 to have the attitude this is my heritage. I'm a 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.439 child of the Most High God. This problem may have formed, 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.240 but it is not going to prosper. If God be 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.640 for me, who dare even be against me? We have 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.160 to have this attitude of faith. We got to know 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:07.800 deep down in here that ultimately it's going to work 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.040 out for our advantage. It may take a month, or 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.960 a year or twenty years, but when it's all said 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.839 and done, God has promised you're gonna come out of 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.120 it better off than you were before. And sometimes we're 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.920 having problems because we're doing something wrong. We're making poor choices, 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.960 But other times we're having difficulties because we're doing something right. 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:33.680 When you're determined to fulfill your God given destiny, you're 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.160 taking steps to improve your life and make a difference 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:40.800 in your family, in your community. Don't be surprised if 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.120 you face opposition. The enemy is not going to just 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.760 roll out the red carpet and let you fulfill your 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.640 God given destiny. When you face difficulties, don't automatically assume 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.719 I must be doing something wrong, get all down and discourage. No, 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.720 it could be very well that you're doing something right. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.920 So Paul said this, a wide door of opportunity is 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:07.760 open for me. And there are many adversaries. I found 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.680 any time we try to go forward in life, anytime 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.760 you try to make progress, there will be opposition. I 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.680 remember when we signed the lease for this place, the 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.320 former Compact Center, after working on it for over three years. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.079 It was a great day of victory. But immediately at 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.000 that same time, a large company filed a lawsuit against 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.400 the city to try to keep us from moving in. 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.960 This company is the largest taxpayer in Texas. They're a 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.160 huge organization and they wanted to build big office towers 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.960 here and in the natural. It didn't look like we 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:45.079 had a chance. We were tempted to think, maybe this 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.840 isn't the right move for us. I mean, everything's coming 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.240 against us. We couldn't celebrate the victory. Twenty four hours 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.080 before we had another major obstacle in our path. We 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.040 had to do just what I'm asking you to do. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:10:59.800 We had to shake that off and say, no, this 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:03.400 is our heritage. God, you promised even though this problem 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:07.240 has formed, it is not going to prosper. We stayed 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.960 in faith month after month when it looked impossible. We 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.440 just kept believing. When we didn't see anything happening. We 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.720 kept reminding ourselves that God was working behind the scenes. 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.760 When it looked like they had the upper hand, we'd say, Father, 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.439 we thank you that you're in control, even of our enemies. 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:26.720 A year and a half later, we got a phone 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.160 call out of the blue from the other side saying 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.720 they wanted to talk. Long story short, God supernaturally turned 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.240 it around, worked it out in our favor. Here we 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.680 are today. But what am I saying, don't get discouraged 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.800 by opposition, don't give up on your dreams because things 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.360 are coming against you, and it's taking a long time. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.679 Stay in faith. It's not over until God says it's over. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.200 And the good news is God is still on the throne, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:56.240 and even when it looks impossible, God can still make 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:00.120 a way. And the fact is the difficult times are 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.680 times of testing. That's when we're showing God what we're 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.200 made of. That's when our character is being developed. Anybody 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:11.800 can get discouraged, anybody can give up and quit believing. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.880 But if you're going to become everything that God's created 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:19.120 you to be, you've got to have a deep resolve. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.400 You can't be moved by every criticism, every disappointment, every 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.960 unfair situation. You got to make up your mind. You 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.559 are in it for the long haul. If it takes 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:33.640 a year, or five years or thirty years, you're going 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.599 to stick with it and see your dreams come to pass. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.000 And even when we make mistakes, even when we bring 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:44.960 trouble on ourselves, God is so merciful He'll still bring 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.440 us out. I think about Jonah. God told him to 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.400 go to a certain city, but he didn't want to go, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.760 and he went in just the opposite direction. He totally disobeyed. 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:57.640 He got on a big ship and they got into 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.880 a storm. They ended up throwing Jonah overboard. He should 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.800 have drowned, he should have been killed. It would have 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.880 been his own fault, his own poor choices. But God 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.240 is so good. He had a well sitting there waiting 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.920 for him. Jonah was swallowed by that well. He spent 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.800 three days in the belly of the fish. The problem 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.640 had definitely formed, but thank God, it still was not 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.040 going to prosper. The scripture says in the New Testament, 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.040 as Jonah was in the belly of the fish for 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.679 three days, so will the Son of God be in 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.840 the heart of the earth for three days. God not 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.120 only turned that around for Jonah and gave him another chance, 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.880 but God used Jonah as an example to show how 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:46.079 prophecy would be fulfilled. In other words, even when Jonah 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.200 went wrong, God turned it around and still made it right. 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.960 You may have made poor choices. You don't feel like 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.000 you deserve God's goodness. You think you're supposed to suffer 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.320 through life, just endure that problem and just kind of 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.680 barely make it through. But friends, this is what mercy 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.400 is all about. We've all made mistakes, we've all made 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:11.120 choices like Jonah, But that doesn't change our heritage. God 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.400 doesn't kick us out of the kingdom because we're not perfect. 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.240 You are still the apple of God's eye. You are 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.080 still his most prized possession. You know how you activate 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:26.000 God's promises by believing. You need to shake off the 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:30.080 guilt and condemnation. Put your shoulders back and say, I 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.800 refuse to live below my privileges. I may not be perfect, 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.240 but I am forgiven. I may have made mistakes, but 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.360 God knows my heart is to please him. Even though 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.840 I may have brought this trouble on myself, I will 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.840 stay in faith and expect God to turn it around. 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.680 You say, Joel, you don't know the mistakes I've made. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.320 You don't know the things that are coming against me. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.880 You don't know how in debt I am. I may 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.840 not know any of that, but I do know our God, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.320 and he's bigger than anything that you're facing. He can 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:04.880 turn any situation around. One angel in the Old Testament 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.080 destroyed one hundred and eighty thousand of the enemies of God, 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.200 and right now there's a whole army of the most 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.560 powerful forces in the universe that are backing you up. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:20.880 When you release your faith by believing, by expecting, by 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.840 calling on the name of the Lord, all the forces 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.360 of heaven come to attention. Not because of how perfect 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.640 we've lived. It's not because of who we are. It's 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:34.040 because of whose we are, children of the Most High God. 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.920 I read a story about a little bear, little baby cub. 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.280 He was out in the woods playing one day, just 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.680 having a great time, and all of a sudden, this 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.440 huge lion approached from a distance and started slowly walking 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:51.640 toward him. The little cub was terrified. He couldn't even move. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.920 He just stood there, staring at the lion. When that 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.960 line got about twenty feet away, just when he was 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:01.720 about to attack, suddenly the line froze in its tracks. 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.880 He started backing up, and eventually he turned around and 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.080 ran away. The little cub thought to himself, I must 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.280 be pretty powerful. I must look pretty impressive to scare 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.400 away a big lion like that. What the cub didn't 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:18.040 realize was Mama Bear had walked up behind the cub. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.920 The line wasn't afraid of the cub, it was afraid 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.680 of who was backing him up. We all know don't 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.560 mess with Mama, but we need to realize who's backing 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.000 us up. The creator of the universe is on our side, 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:37.800 the God who spoke the worlds into existence. He's called 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.160 the Great. I am, He's saying today, I am everything 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.800 you need. I am your strength. I am your wisdom. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:49.200 I am your protection. I am your provider. I am 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.480 your waymaker. I am your problem solver. I am your 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.440 dream giver. I am your victory. David put it this 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.920 way and saw one thirty eight. Though I am surrounded 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:04.159 by troubles, you will bring me safely through. Your fist 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.240 is cleansed against my enemies. Your power will save me. 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.960 Some of you feel like David. You're surrounded by all 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.480 kinds of difficulties. You're tempted to just settle right where 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.160 you are, but you need to get your fireback, get 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:22.400 your enthusiasm back. Even though that problem may have formed, 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.960 even though it looks impossible, you need to start declaring 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.040 all through the day. This problem is not going to 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.200 prosper God is bringing me safely through His fists are 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.200 cleansed against my enemies. You've got to have an attitude 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:40.040 of faith. Now I've learned to not get discouraged by opposition. 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:44.880 Don't get discouraged when you have difficulties when everything comes 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.560 against you very often, that's because God has something great 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:55.280 in store. You think about the three Hebrew teenagers, Chadrack, Mejiak, 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:58.200 and abed Nego. They refuse to bow down to the 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:02.080 king's golden idol. He got so furious he had them 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.040 heat up the furnace seven times hotter than normal. That's 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.959 what happens when you're close to a great victory. The 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:13.120 fire gets turned up, people start talking about you. Unfair 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.600 situations come, You get past one obstacle and something else 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:19.960 pops up. Why is that the enemy knows you're close 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.800 to your victory? And this is when many people give 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:26.879 up and get sour, quit coming to church, go around complaining. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.200 Why is that they don't know who they are? They 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.280 don't know their heritage. The scripture says, when the enemy 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:37.240 comes in like a flood, the spirit of God will 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.119 be there to raise up a barrier. And part of 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.000 our privileges as children of the most time is when 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:48.760 problems come, when life feels overwhelming. God has promised he 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:51.919 will always be right there to show up and to 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.359 safely bring us through. Now, I love the fact about 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:59.280 these three teenage boys. They weren't panicked. They weren't full 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.960 of anxiety. They were in peace. It's because they understood 0:19:03.960 --> 0:19:07.159 this principle. They knew God was still on the throne. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.159 They knew he was still in control, and nothing was 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.320 going to happen to them that was not a part 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:16.080 of God's plan. Those officials tied them up and threw 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.760 them into the furnace seven times hotter than normal. In 0:19:19.800 --> 0:19:22.120 a few minutes. The king came to check on them. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.520 He was confused. He said, didn't we throw three men 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.200 in here bound? I see four men loosed, and one 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:33.400 looks like the son of the Living God. The scripture 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.760 says God brought them through the fire without even having 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.720 the smell of smoke. You may feel like you're in 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:44.359 the fire today. The heat's being turned up. Everything's coming 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:48.040 against you. Let me encourage you. It's because there's something 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.280 great in store. When the heat gets turned up, it 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.800 means you're very close to your breakthrough. If you will 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:57.479 stay in faith, God will do for you what he 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:00.280 did for them. He'll bring you through the fire without 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.560 even having the smell of smoke. This can sound kind 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.679 of odd, but you can get to the point where 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.440 when opposition comes and difficulties arise, instead of being discouraged 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.960 by it, you're encouraged by it. You just turn it 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.560 around and say, God's taken me to new levels. I 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:20.199 know favor, increased promotion must be on their way. I 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:24.680 like the way the Message translation puts this passage in Isaiah. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:29.280 If anyone attacks you, nothing will come of it. I 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:33.760 create the blacksmith that fires up his forge, and nothing 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:38.240 that can harm you has ever been forged. What's God saying. 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:42.360 He's in complete control, and there's nothing that's ever been 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.400 created that He's not bigger than No problem too large, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.520 no sickness too great, no enemy too powerful. So when 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.359 difficulties come your way, don't get discouraged, don't go around complaining, 0:20:54.600 --> 0:20:58.240 expecting the worst. God has you in the palm of 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:01.840 his hand. Some of you right now are so concerned 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.760 about a situation. But if you will come back to 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.439 that place of peace, if you'll get back to that 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.359 place of faith, God is saying nothing is going to 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.040 come of that. He always causes you to triumph. When 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.760 I look back over my own life, I can see 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:22.040 how every obstacle, every adversity, God has always brought me 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.560 safely through. Even with the death of my father probably 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.720 the most difficult thing that I'd ever faced. God gave 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:31.520 me a peace that only he could give. I felt 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.880 a strength and a resolve like I'd never had before. 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:38.520 What is that. It's a part of our heritage. It's 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:42.680 what belongs to us as children of Almighty God. God 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:45.800 goes on to say, I will see to it that 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:49.560 everything will work out for the best. This is what 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:53.199 you can expect as my children. Notice what are we 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:56.680 as supposed to be expecting in times of difficulty? Oh man, 0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:59.320 this is never going to work out. My family's never 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:01.560 going to be restored. Lord, I don't think I'm gonna 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:03.880 have a very good year this year. Joel, No, get 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.760 in agreement with God. Start expecting God to change things 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.160 in your favor. Start expecting him to show up and 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:14.760 fight your battles for you when difficulties come my way. 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.000 I like to quote the Psalms. God, you said, you 0:22:18.119 --> 0:22:21.919 oppose those that oppose me. You said, the trap the 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:25.280 enemy sept for me, they would fall in themselves. You said, 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.320 touch not. You're anointed, And God, I know you've anointed me. 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.199 And even though this problem has formed, I believe it 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:34.240 is not going to prosper even though it looks impossible. 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.040 I know you can do the impossible. So I'm not 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.399 gonna sit around worried in defeat. I'm gonna stay in 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.520 faith and keep believing that my best days are still 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:45.639 out in front of me. We have to have an 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:50.160 attitude of an overcomer, says in Psalm ninety one. If 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.320 we dwell in the secret place of the Most High, 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:57.480 we will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Then 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:00.440 it goes on to list all these promises, all these 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:04.040 benefits we can expect if we stay in the secret place, 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:08.040 no harm will come near your dwelling. God will command 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.120 his angels to watch after you. It says. God will 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:14.679 guard you, he will protect you, he will rescue you, 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:18.239 he will show you his favor, on and on. But 0:23:18.280 --> 0:23:20.840 the whole key is to stay in the secret place. 0:23:21.000 --> 0:23:24.800 What does that mean? Stay close to God, keep him 0:23:24.840 --> 0:23:28.800 first place in your life all through the day. Acknowledge 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.359 Him when you get up in the morning, Think him 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:35.119 that you're alive and healthy. Drive into work, Meditate on 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:38.640 his promises. When you have an important decision to make, 0:23:39.160 --> 0:23:42.440 take time to get quiet and ask God for his help. 0:23:43.200 --> 0:23:47.119 Learn to be still and listen to that still small voice. 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.479 When you live a life of excellence and integrity that 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:54.159 honors God, you're in the secret Place. That's when you 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:59.040 can expect God's favor, his blessing, his protection, his victory 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:03.000 as law. As we're in the secret Place, we're connected 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:06.280 to a supply line that will never run dry. When 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:09.560 we're under the shadow of the Almighty, we have a 0:24:09.720 --> 0:24:14.720 hedge of protection, a hedge of favor that's constantly surrounding us. 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:18.760 It'll give you a tremendous advantage. David understood what it 0:24:18.840 --> 0:24:21.640 meant to stay in the Secret Place when he went 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.959 out to face Goliath. It's interesting he never called Goliath 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:30.960 a giant. Everyone around him did, his brothers, King Saul. 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:33.960 They were all talking about his size and how powerful 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.240 he was. But David didn't acknowledge any of that. He 0:24:37.240 --> 0:24:39.800 didn't want to give him any extra credit. He said, 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:45.280 who is this uncircumcised philistine? He was saying, this man 0:24:45.520 --> 0:24:48.560 is not in covenant relationship with our God. He's not 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:52.040 living in the secret Place. He doesn't have the advantages 0:24:52.040 --> 0:24:56.160 that we have. David's attitude was, I know who I am, 0:24:56.480 --> 0:24:59.000 A child of a most tie. I've got a hedge 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:02.359 of protection of me. I know when I call on 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.359 the name of the Lord, all the forces of heaven 0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:09.399 are backing me up. David knew it wasn't the size 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.240 of the enemy that matters. It's the size of our God, 0:25:12.480 --> 0:25:15.439 and he is all powerful, and in our times of 0:25:15.480 --> 0:25:20.480 difficulty is extremely important. What we're saying when we're in 0:25:20.520 --> 0:25:23.359 the secret place. It goes on to say, I will 0:25:23.440 --> 0:25:27.440 say of the Lord. He is my refuge, my fortress, 0:25:27.480 --> 0:25:31.119 my God in him, will I trust. Notice it doesn't 0:25:31.160 --> 0:25:34.840 say we should say of our problems. Don't go around 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:37.880 saying all my arthritis is really acting up. No, it's 0:25:37.920 --> 0:25:41.520 not your arthritis. Don't take ownership of it all, my child, 0:25:41.600 --> 0:25:44.400 he's really doing bad. No, don't talk about the size 0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:47.119 of your problem. Talk about the size of your God. 0:25:48.040 --> 0:25:51.520 David looked at Goliath and said, this day I will 0:25:51.560 --> 0:25:54.159 defeat you and feed your head to the birds of 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:56.480 the air. He was saying, you may be big, but 0:25:56.560 --> 0:26:00.239 I know my God is bigger. David reached down and 0:26:00.280 --> 0:26:03.879 picked up five smooth stones. Somebody said, if he was 0:26:03.960 --> 0:26:06.520 so confident, he had so much faith, why didn't he 0:26:06.600 --> 0:26:10.040 just get one stone? Now, David was smart. He knew 0:26:10.280 --> 0:26:15.120 Goliath had four brothers. He came prepared. I want us 0:26:15.160 --> 0:26:18.680 to have the right attitude concerning the things that come 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:22.600 against us. It may be difficult, but God never promised 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:25.320 us a problem free life. The key is in the 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:29.800 tough times when difficulties arise. Don't expect it to defeat you. 0:26:30.240 --> 0:26:34.400 Don't expect the worst. Keep reminding yourself this problem may 0:26:34.400 --> 0:26:37.560 have formed, but it is not going to prosper I 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:42.080 read an article about scientists that were researching Alzheimer's disease, 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:45.280 and he took these older people that had died, both 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:47.919 people that had the disease and people that didn't have it, 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:51.679 and they carefully studied their brains, and they found that 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:56.800 many people had lesions on their brains that technically qualified 0:26:56.840 --> 0:27:00.600 them as having Alzheimer's. But the interesting thing is when 0:27:00.600 --> 0:27:03.760 these people were alive, they didn't show any signs of 0:27:03.800 --> 0:27:09.320 the disease. In other words, medically and scientifically, they had Alzheimer's, 0:27:09.480 --> 0:27:12.480 but the symptoms never showed up. Their minds were sharp, 0:27:12.680 --> 0:27:16.240 their memory was clear, their reasoning was excellent. The common 0:27:16.280 --> 0:27:19.919 denominator they found in these people was that they were positive, 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:24.119 They were hopeful, and they stayed productive. Really that's what 0:27:24.160 --> 0:27:27.880 I'm talking about. Just because of problem forms doesn't mean 0:27:27.920 --> 0:27:30.760 it has to prosper. I don't know about you, but 0:27:30.840 --> 0:27:32.800 I won't believe that no matter what happens to my 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:36.280 physical body, God can override it. After all, he's the 0:27:36.320 --> 0:27:41.000 one that created us. We may have things, we may 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:44.199 have things that formed because of our natural genetics, our 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:47.080 natural heritage. But if we'll stay in faith, we can 0:27:47.119 --> 0:27:51.040 tap into our spiritual heritage, and the spiritual always overrides 0:27:51.080 --> 0:27:55.080 the natural. Psalm ninety one goes on to say, if 0:27:55.119 --> 0:27:58.400 you will stay in the Secret Place, God will honor you. 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:01.560 He will set you on high and give you a 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.680 long satisfied life. That's my prayer for each one of you, 0:28:06.080 --> 0:28:09.399 that you will overcome every obstacle, that you will defeat 0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:13.879 every enemy, and that you will live a long satisfied life. Now, 0:28:13.880 --> 0:28:16.000 I know some of you have had more than your 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:19.320 share of difficulties, but you need to get a fresh 0:28:19.520 --> 0:28:22.960 vision for your life. You need to start seeing yourself 0:28:23.040 --> 0:28:26.400 set on high. The forces that are for you are 0:28:26.440 --> 0:28:29.680 greater than the forces that are against you. Because you're 0:28:29.720 --> 0:28:33.440 living in the Secret Place, you have an advantage. Almighty 0:28:33.480 --> 0:28:37.119 God is on your side right now. He's protecting you 0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:40.800 right now. He's going before you, making crooked places straight. 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:45.040 His favor is surrounding you like a shield. That problem 0:28:45.080 --> 0:28:47.840 may have formed, but I declare it by faith, it 0:28:47.880 --> 0:28:50.280 is not going to prosper. In the end. You're going 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.040 to come out better off than you were before. You 0:28:53.120 --> 0:28:56.640 need to start saying of the Lord. He is my provider, 0:28:57.000 --> 0:28:59.520 he is my protector, he is my wisdom, he is 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:03.160 my strength, he is my victory. Let me speak it 0:29:03.200 --> 0:29:05.880 over each one of you. I declare it by faith. 0:29:06.200 --> 0:29:10.040 You will overcome every obstacle. You will defeat every enemy, 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:13.840 every dream, every desire that God's placed in your heart, 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:17.520 It will come to pass. You walk in divine health. 0:29:18.080 --> 0:29:21.440 You have the favor of God. Whatever you touch will 0:29:21.480 --> 0:29:25.000 prosper as for you and your family. You will serve 0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.360 the Lord. I declare in the name of Jesus, you 0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:31.800 will see God honor you. He will set you on high, 0:29:32.080 --> 0:29:35.440 and you will live a long satisfied life. If you 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:39.880 receive it, Can you say amen? We never like to 0:29:39.920 --> 0:29:43.200 close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:46.040 Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 0:29:46.680 --> 0:29:52.120 Just say, Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. 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