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Protect Your God-Sized Promises

Joel Osteen
July 4, 2018 18m 41s

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You may be going through some difficult times right now, but hear this loud and clear. God says you are also blessed and highly favored. He has chosen you and put a seed of promise in you and given you an assignment that you need to protect.You need to get into an environment where it can grow, such as a good church where people know God and speak encouragement to your heart. Get His Word in you so that when you go out to birth what God put in you, you’ll withstand the challenges you’ll face. Protect what He’s given. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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See terms and conditions at UNEs dot co. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.560 Welcome to the Joe Lostein podcast. Help us continue to 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.520 share the message of hope with those all over the world. 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.520 Visit Joelostein dot com slash give Hope to give a 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:47.560 gift today. 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.280 I just want to encourage you today that you have 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.160 the power of the Living God on the inside of you. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:01.000 Do you ever get tired of hearing that? I don't either, 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.040 and I think we constantly need to be reminded that 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:10.400 God's power lives in us. You see you're equipped this morning, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.160 and I want to announce that you're equipped for your 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:18.880 unique assignment. God has left nothing out that you're going 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.720 to need for anything that He's called you to do. 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:26.160 And not only has he thought about you. I liked 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:30.200 what Cindy said that his thoughts for you, his plans 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:34.120 for you, are good. See, he thought about us. He 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:37.799 knew our assignment, and he put everything in us that 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.080 we would need, every gift, every talent, our personalities, our dispositions, 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:48.280 everything is just right. And then he did something one 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.960 step greater. He put his power in us. He put 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.280 his power in us. So you have the Living God 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.160 on the inside of you if you're a believer today. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.640 So I don't want you to feel ordinary, because we 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.800 all do. Sometimes it's just an ordinary life. We go 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:10.240 to work, we come home, we eat dinner, we do 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.200 it again, we get up in the morning, we go 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.560 mow the lawn, We do this, we do it can 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.919 feel ordinary. But I want to tell you something. God 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:21.280 didn't save you. He didn't call you, He didn't choose 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:26.760 you to be ordinary. He called you to be extraordinary. 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:30.919 And you got to understand, because you have the Living God, 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:36.600 you are extraordinary. You are set apart. You're called by 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.280 God and He has assignments for you to do. You see, 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:45.240 it's so interesting because sometimes people don't recognize the call 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.560 of God on our life. They don't understand the call 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.920 of God. Or, like I said, we may feel ordinary. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.600 We wonder if we're accomplishing what God even wants us 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.560 to accomplish. See, so often we determine the power of 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:04.080 God with us by what's going on around us. You see, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.040 if I was maybe doing a little better, if God 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.320 liked me a little more, this wouldn't be happening. Or 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.640 maybe if I could just get a little closer to God, 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.039 I wouldn't be going through this trial. But can I 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.080 tell you something that's the way man looks at things. 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.760 In fact, God told the prophet Samuel, he said, you're 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:26.560 gonna anoint the next king of Israel. And I want 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.240 you to know this one thing about this anointing. You're 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.719 gonna anoint the man that I call. But I don't 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.800 want you to begin to look for what you think 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.760 would be the king. I don't want you to look 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.320 for the man that's the right height, the man that's 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.760 in a certain position, the man that has the talents 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.960 that you think would make a good key, he said, 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.320 because I don't look at things that way. That's the 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.680 way you look at things, he said. You look from 0:04:55.680 --> 0:05:00.440 the outside. You respond to life from the outside. But see, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:04.440 I am a God of the inside. Man looks on 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.360 the outside, but God looks on the heart. See you're 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.920 qualified today because God chose you to be qualified. He 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.160 looked at your heart and he said, that's my child. 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:20.920 You know what I love about that is that God 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:24.840 is the God of second chances. God is always inside 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:31.039 of us, working from the inside out. He's working on 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:35.719 our thoughts, he's working on our actions. He's working all 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:39.320 the time. God never sleeps, he never slumbers. He's always 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.680 at work in the heart of a believer. David said 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.960 it like this, He said, you teach me wisdom in 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:51.920 my inner most parts. That's where you're speaking to me God, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:57.719 in my inner most parts. You see, God communicates with 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:02.039 us in our inner those parts. And I want to 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:08.080 remind you today that you house the greatest power in 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.600 the universe. I don't want you to neglect or not 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.360 protect what's on the inside of you. You're not ordinary, 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:22.680 you're extraordinary. You walk with humility because you know the 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.359 God that you serve, but he hasn't made you like 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:31.000 anybody else. He's separated you. So I just want you 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.360 to get this in your heart today because I think 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:39.080 when we realize what we carry will protect what we carry, 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.280 we'll acknowledge what we carry will allow what we carry 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.200 to teach us wisdom and our innermost parts. We'll understand 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.880 that we don't have to react to the boss when 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.600 he's putting us down, when he's trying to make us 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.320 feel less than. We can understand that the critics don't 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.279 have to define us because God is teaching us all 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.560 the while our inmost parts. I want to just use 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.120 one of the greatest mothers. Since it's Mother's Day, right, 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.600 I want to talk about one of the greatest mothers 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:11.760 in the Bible. In fact, this mother was the first 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:19.080 mother that God lived in, the first mother that God 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:23.320 lived in. Her name is Mary. You know Mary, You 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.480 know the story of Mary. She was the mother of Jesus. 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:31.640 She was a young girl. She was about to get 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:35.560 married to the man of her dreams. Now, somebody might 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.120 not think she was anything special if they looked on 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.720 her from the outside, they couldn't say she's just a girl. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.160 She has a lot to learn. But you see, God 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.560 wasn't looking at Mary's outside. He wasn't even looking at 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:52.360 Mary's plans. He was looking at Mary's heart, and he 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:56.760 had a unique assignment for Mary. See that's so interesting 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:01.240 because God wasn't concerned about Mary's plans. God wasn't concerned 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.840 that she was about to get married. The invitations were 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.600 already out, the caterers were coming, the venue was already 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.120 paid for. You see, he wasn't looking at all that. 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.800 He was looking at her heart, and he had a 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:19.680 special assignment for her. Have you ever been interrupted by God? Well, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:25.320 Mary was interrupted. The angel came to her and announced 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.880 that she was a highly favored woman and that she 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:35.440 would give birth to a son. She said, how can 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.800 this be. I'm a virgin, I've never known a man. 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.120 And he said, the Holy Spirit will come upon you 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:47.199 and God will empower you to bring forth this son. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:51.080 You see, that's what happens when you know who you are. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.480 You know you got God on the inside of you. 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.680 He empowers you so you can bring forth the things 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.640 on this earth that He wants you to do, the 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:02.600 plans that he's already established. 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:03.320 See. 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.200 I don't know how it all works. But I can 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.640 tell you that God is always working. He's always working. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.480 And you know, Mary, instead of giving a lot of excuses, 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:16.640 say can we do this a little bit later. It's 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.760 kind of inconvenient. God. I've been waiting for this man 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:22.240 a long time. You don't know. All my girlfriends got 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.800 the man. I've been waiting for this man a long time. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:30.319 Mary said, being unto me as you said, she literally 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.240 made a decision that she was going to embrace the 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.960 seed that God had just planted the seed to promise, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.160 and that she was going to accept it, no matter 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.280 if it interrupted her plans or not, no matter how 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.240 difficult it was. She said, I'm going all the way 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:50.559 with God. And I love that about Mary. And as 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.360 I was reading the story about Mary, I just want 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:56.280 to get to some practical things that Mary did. And 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.200 I think these things can help us. We've heard them before. 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.040 But you know, I think that Mary just had it easy. 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.679 Oh Mary, you know she was chosen by God to 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.040 have the Son of God, so I'm sure you know 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.880 she had everything she needed. But can I tell you 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:13.920 it was rough. It was rough to birth the promise 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.400 of God. It was rough to do what God had 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.400 called her to do. But God said she was favored 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.200 and highly blessed. So I guarantee you she was favored 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.760 and highly blessed, no matter how difficult it was, no 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.040 matter how many battles she had to fight, no matter 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.400 how many times she had to talk herself into it, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.520 because God said she was blessed and highly favored. And 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:37.360 God says, you are blessed and highly favored. You are 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.600 blessed and highly favored. You may be going through some 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:45.200 difficult times right now, your plans may be interrupted. I 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.320 want you to hear that loud and clear. God chose 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.800 to live in Mary, and God chose to live in you. 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:58.959 God chose to live in you. That's powerful. That's powerful 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:07.080 because Mary fulfilled her assignment and brought fulfillment to the scriptures. 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.400 God chose to live in his people. I believe that 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.000 was a foreshadowing of what God wants to do in 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.679 the earth. He wants to live in his people. But 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:20.160 as soon as Mary accepted that seed of promise, the 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.840 scripture says that she immediately went to her cousin Elizabeth's house. Now, 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.760 her cousin Elizabeth was married to a man named Zachariah, 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.559 and they were promised, even in her very old age, 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:37.120 that she would have a baby. She was pregnant with 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.920 her baby when Elizabeth got there. And when Elizabeth saw Mary, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.439 the scripture shoid that she immediately began to encourage Mary. 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.400 She immediately began to speak faith into Mary. Now where 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:54.240 am I going with this, because that was a long 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.240 time ago. But let me tell you what I believe 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.800 God is showing us. One thing He is showing us 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.480 when he puts a seed of promise in you, you 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.200 need to protect that seed to promise. You need to 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.000 get it into an environment that it can grow. You 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.240 need to get into a good church where the people 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.160 know what God does and they can speak encouragement to 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.920 your heart. Because that's exactly where God had Mary go. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.240 He had her in an environment where that environment knew 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.600 the power of God. You know, it's interesting, And this 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.240 is just a side note, but I don't know if 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:31.880 y'all find this as interesting as I did. But the 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:36.440 Bible says that Mary was at Elizabeth's house for three months. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.600 You know, it's interesting because when a woman gets pregnant, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:46.600 that twelve week period is very crucial. Many times you 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.640 can miscarrie before that twelve weeks. In fact, you know, 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.240 some people don't even like to announce that they're pregnant 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.200 until after the twelve weeks because that kind of is 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.160 a safe zone. And you know, okay, it's it's probably 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.280 gonna be okay. And I get to thinking, isn't that 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.840 interesting that God had her there for twelve weeks? 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:06.640 See? 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.679 He didn't want her to miscarry the seed. See, he 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.800 wanted to keep that seed in an environment that it 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:20.840 could grow in a strong foundation. To think about what 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.679 God said to you, Think about the dreams he's put 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.600 in your heart. Think about him being on the inside 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:32.360 of you. What environment do you put yourself in? Do 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.280 you let people talk down to you? Do you put 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.920 yourself in an environment that God wouldn't want to be in? 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:43.079 Are you careful? Do you protect it? You see, there 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:48.960 were many naysayers when Mary showed up pregnant. See she 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.719 was a virgin and God did an immaculate birth in her, 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:56.720 but the people didn't recognize it. I'm sure they were saying, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.400 did you hear about Mary and Joseph go weddings? All off? 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:07.160 What's Mary been doing? But you see, God took her 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.080 out of that environment and he put her into a 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:15.920 protective environment. And I just wanted suggest to you and 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.480 I today that we begin to put what's in us 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.760 in a protected environment. It's not easy to birth the 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.680 promises of God. Listen, Mary had to go out of 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.520 her way, Mary had to change her plans. Mary had 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.080 to do some things that maybe a lot of people 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:39.600 wouldn't want to do. But Mary was willing to see 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:44.120 this thing to the end. It also says that Mary 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.960 treasured up all of these things and pondered them in 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:54.360 her heart. See that tells me that Mary fought discouragement, 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.520 that Mary fought the critics, that Mary fought the hardships 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:04.200 by pondering all of this in our heart, by just 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:10.000 imagining and talking to God about all that was about 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.880 to happen and all that would happen in the future. 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.560 And see, that's what we need to do. We need 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.800 to not just run around telling everybody our problems now 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.720 just try to get man to fix us. Oh can 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:23.440 you help me? 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:24.440 Now? 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.760 We need to ponder what God has spoken to us, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.080 get his word, build a foundation of truth so that 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.280 when we go out to birth what God is putting 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:39.760 in us, we'll withstand the challenges that are out there. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.480 You know what. This is Mother's Day and I just 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.280 want to honor Mary. I want to just say, Mary, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.520 God saw your heart, you saw it through you, fulfill 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.000 the scriptures. And I just honor the fact that God 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:02.200 chose Mary among all the women. She was qualified. And 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.160 can I tell you that God has chose you among 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:11.480 all the people, and He's qualified you. 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