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Protect Your God-Sized Promises | Victoria Osteen

Joel Osteen
April 2, 2021 18m 29s

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From the moment we were born, God gave us each an assignment. But we have to do our part and develop the gifts He’s given us. When you get into an environment where your gifts can grow, those seeds of promise will come to fruition.  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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What if 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.080 you could unlock insights about your finances in less than 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.600 five minutes with a clear picture of where you stand 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.399 today and where your money can work harder. Now you 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.480 can visit facet dot com to take the free quiz 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:23.280 and get your financial wellness score today. That's face t 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.679 dot com. This add a sponsored by Facet. Facet Wealth 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:27.840 in Corporated is an SEC registered investment advisor. This is 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:29.400 not an offer to buy yourself security s noor is 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.800 it investment, legal or tax advice. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.600 Hi, this is Victoria. 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.839 Thank you so much for downloading this podcast. I believe 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:38.520 God has amazing things in your future. I hope you 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:53.960 enjoy this message. I just want to encourage you today 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.560 that you have the power of the living God on 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:57.600 the inside of you. 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.040 Do you ever get tired of hearing. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.560 I don't either, and I think we constantly need to 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:09.760 be reminded that God's power lives in us. You see, 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.359 you're equipped this morning, and I want to announce that 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.079 you're equipped for your unique assignment. 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:19.560 God has left nothing. 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:22.239 Out that you're going to need for anything that He's 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:23.040 called you to do. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:26.640 And not only has he thought about you. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.280 I liked what Cindy said that his thoughts for you, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:35.000 his plans for you, are good. See, he thought about us. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.799 He knew our assignment, and he put everything in us 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.200 that we would need, every gift, every talent, our personalities, 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:48.280 our dispositions, everything is just right. And then he did 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.360 something one step greater. He put his power in us. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.160 He put his power in us. So you have the 0:02:57.280 --> 0:03:00.520 Living God on the inside of you if you're a 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:01.440 believer today. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.960 So I don't want you to feel ordinary, because we 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:08.160 all do. Sometimes it's just an ordinary life. We go 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:08.919 to work, we. 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.040 Come home, we eat dinner, we do it again. 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.280 We get up in the morning, we go mow the lawn, 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:15.240 we do this, we do. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.880 It can feel ordinary. But I want to tell you something. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.120 God didn't save you. He didn't call you, He didn't 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:28.080 choose you to be ordinary. He called you to be extraordinary. 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.320 And you got to understand, because you have the Living God, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:37.920 you are extraordinary. You are set apart. You're called by 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.640 God and He has assignments for you to do. You See, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.600 it's so interesting because sometimes people don't recognize the call 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.880 of God on our life. They don't understand the call 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.240 of God or like I said, we may feel ordinary, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:56.920 we wonder if we're accomplishing what God even wants us 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.920 to accomplish. See, so often we determine the power of 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.880 God within us by what's going on around us. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:05.920 You See, if I was. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:07.880 Maybe doing a little better, if God liked me a 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.160 little more, this wouldn't be happening. Or maybe if I 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.880 could just get a little closer to God, I wouldn't 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:18.200 be going through this trial. But can I tell you something, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.080 that's the way man looks at things. In fact, God 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.880 told the prophet Samuel, he said, you're gonna anoint the 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.360 next king of Israel. And I want you to know 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.679 this one thing about this anointing. You're gonna anoint the man. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.240 That I call. 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.080 But I don't want you to begin to look for 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.440 what you think would be the king. I don't want 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.000 you to look for the man that's the right height, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.839 the man that's in a certain position, the man that 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.800 has the talents that you think would make a good king, 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.039 he said, because I don't look at things that way. 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.400 That's the way you look at things, he said, you 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:01.000 look from the outside. You respond to life from the outside. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.120 But see, I am a God of the inside. Man 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.280 looks on the outside, but God. 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:09.080 Looks on the heart. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.680 See, you're qualified today because God chose you to be qualified. 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:18.520 He looked at your heart and he said, that's my child. 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.240 You know what I love about that is that God 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.160 is the God of second chances. God is always inside 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:32.400 of us, working from the inside out. He's working on 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.039 our thoughts, he's working on our actions. He's working all 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.680 the time. God never sleeps, he never slumbers. He's always 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.040 at work in the heart of a believer. David said 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.360 it like this, He said, you teach me wisdom in 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:53.239 my inner most parts. That's where you're speaking to me God, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:59.080 in my inner most parts. You see, God communicates with 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.359 us in our inner most parts. And I want to 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:09.400 remind you today that you house the greatest power in 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:13.920 the universe. I don't want you to neglect or not 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.400 protect what's on the inside of you. 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:23.480 You're not ordinary, you're extraordinary. You walk with humility. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.360 Because you know the God that you serve. But He 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:31.560 hasn't made you like anybody else. He's separated you. So 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.440 I just want you to get this in your heart today. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.240 Because I think when we realize what we carry will 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.200 protect what we carry, will acknowledge what we carry, will 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.480 allow what we carry to teach us wisdom and our 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.880 innermost parts. We'll understand that we don't have to react 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:53.080 to the boss when he's putting us down, when he's 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.279 trying to make us feel less than. We can understand 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.440 that the critics don't have to define us because God 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.600 is teaching te us all the while in our inmost parts. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.080 I want to just use one of the greatest mothers. 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.680 Since it's Mother's Day, right, I want to talk about 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:10.920 one of the greatest mothers in the Bible. In fact, 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:16.400 this mother was the first mother that God lived in, 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:21.040 the first mother that God lived in. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.480 Her name is Mary. You know Mary. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.040 You know the story of Mary. She was the mother 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:32.600 of Jesus. She was a young girl. She was about 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:36.040 to get married to the man of her dreams. Now, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.120 somebody might not think she was anything special if they 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.360 looked on her from the outside. They couldn't say she's 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:44.680 just a girl. She has a lot to learn. But 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.280 you see, God wasn't looking at Mary's outside. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.080 He wasn't even looking. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:53.560 At Mary's plans. He was looking at Mary's heart, and 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.520 he had a unique assignment for Mary. See that's so 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:02.240 interesting because God wasn't concerned about mary plans. God wasn't 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.000 concerned that she was about to get married. The invitations 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.520 were already out, the caterers were coming, the venue was 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:09.320 already paid for. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.480 You see, he wasn't looking at all that. 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.160 He was looking at her heart, and he had a 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:17.440 special assignment for her. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.440 Have you ever been interrupted by God? 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:22.480 Well? Mary was interrupted. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.320 The Angel came to her and announced that she was 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:33.000 a highly favored woman and that she would give birth. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.200 To a son. She said, how can this be. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.120 I'm a virgin, I've never known a man. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.480 And he said, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:48.520 and God will empower you to bring forth this son. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.360 You see, that's what happens when you know who you are. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.800 You know you got God on the inside of you. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.880 He empowers you so you can bring forth the things 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.040 on this earth that He wants you to do, the 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.960 plans that he's already established. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:04.640 See. 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.520 I don't know how it all works, but I can 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:09.079 tell you that God is always working. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:10.960 He's always working. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.800 And you know, Mary, instead of giving a lot of excuses, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.000 say can we do this a little bit later. It's 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.880 kind of inconvenient. God, God I've been waiting for this 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.000 man a long time. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:22.520 You don't know. 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.960 All my girlfriends got the man. I've been waiting for 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.880 this man a long time, Mary said, being unto me, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.680 as you said, she literally made a decision that she 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.800 was going to embrace the seed that God had just 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.960 planted the seed to promise, and that she was going 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.000 to accept it, no matter if it interrupted her plans 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.640 or not, no matter how difficult it was. She said, 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:48.360 I'm going. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.280 All the way with God. And I love that about Mary. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.360 And as I was reading the story about Mary, I 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.440 just want to get to some practical things that Mary did, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:09:59.800 and I think these things can help us. We've heard 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:02.760 them before, but you know, we think that Mary just 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:04.880 had it easy. Oh Mary, You know she she was 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.320 chosen by God to have the Son of God. So 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:09.600 I'm sure you know she had everything she needed. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.040 But can I tell you it was rough. It was 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:17.160 rough to birth the promise of God. It was rough 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.400 to do what God had called her to do. But 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.640 God said she was favored and highly blessed. 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.600 So I guarantee you she was favored and highly blessed. 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.720 No matter how difficult it was, no matter how many 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.080 battles she had to fight, no matter how many times 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.640 she had to talk herself into it, because God said 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.880 she was blessed and highly favored. And God says, you 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:40.280 are blessed and highly favored. You are blessed and highly favored. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.480 You may be going through some difficult times right now, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.080 your plans may be interrupted, But I want you to 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.640 hear that loud and clear. God chose to live in Mary, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.160 and God chose to live in you. 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.400 God chose to live in you. 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:58.640 That's powerful. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:00.120 That's power. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:08.400 Because Mary fulfilled her assignment and brought fulfillment to the scriptures. 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:10.680 God chose to live in his people. 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.440 I believe that was a foreshadowing of what God wants 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:14.880 to do in the earth. 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.160 He wants to live in his people. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.880 But as soon as Mary accepted that seed of promise, 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.600 the scripture says that she immediately went to her cousin 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:29.520 Elizabeth's house. Now, her cousin, Elizabeth was married to a 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:33.640 man named Zachariah, and they were promised, even in her 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:37.160 very old age, that she would have a baby. She 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:41.320 was pregnant with her baby when Elizabeth got there. And 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:45.880 when Elizabeth saw Mary, the scripture should that she immediately 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:50.800 began to encourage Mary. She immediately began to speak faith 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.400 into Mary. Now where am I going with this, because 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:56.360 that was a long time ago. 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.240 But let me tell you what I believe God. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:11:59.760 Is showing us. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.840 Thing He is showing us when he puts a seed 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.120 of promise in you, you need to protect that seed 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:06.679 to promise. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.240 You need to get it into an environment that it 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:09.800 can grow. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:12.200 You need to get into a good church where the 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:16.360 people know what God does and they can speak encouragement 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.400 to your heart. Because that's exactly where. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:20.200 God had Mary go. 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.600 He had her in an environment where that environment knew 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:29.040 the power of God. You know, it's interesting, and this 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:30.560 is just a side note, but I don't know if 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.199 y'all find this as interesting as I did. But the 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.600 Bible says that Mary was at Elizabeth's house. 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:37.800 For three months. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.880 You know, it's interesting because when a woman gets pregnant, 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:47.960 that twelve week period is very crucial. Many times you 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:52.000 can miscarrie before that twelve weeks. In fact, you know, 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.600 some people don't even like to announce that they're pregnant 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.520 until after the twelve weeks because that kind of is 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.520 a safe zone. And you know, okay, it's it's probably 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.600 gonna be okay. And I get to thinking, isn't that 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:08.040 interesting that God had her there for twelve weeks? See, 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:13.040 he didn't want her to miscarry the seed. See, he 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.160 wanted to keep that seed in an environment that it 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:22.200 could grow in a strong foundation. To think about what 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.080 God said to you. Think about the dreams He's put 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.920 in your heart. Think about him being on the inside 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:33.720 of you. What environment do you put yourself in? Do 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.600 you let people talk down to you? Do you put 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:39.120 yourself in an environment that God wouldn't want. 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.200 To be in? Are you careful? 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:42.480 Do you protect it? 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:43.480 You? 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:48.760 See, there were many naysayers when Mary showed up pregnant. 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.719 See she was a virgin and God did an immaculate 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:57.120 birth in her, but the people didn't recognize it. I'm 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.640 sure they were saying, did you hear about Mary and 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:01.199 Joe's go weddings? 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:01.560 Off? 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.040 What's Mary been doing? 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.520 But you see, God took her out of that environment 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.480 and he put her into a protective environment. And I 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.480 just wanted to suggest to you and I today that 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:23.479 we've begin to put what's in us in a protected environment. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.320 It's not easy to birth the promises of God. Listen, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.560 Mary had to go out of her way. Mary had 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.680 to change her plans. Mary had to do some things 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.400 that maybe a lot of people wouldn't want to do, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.480 but Mary was willing to see this thing to the end. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:48.200 It also says that Mary treasured up all of. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.800 These things and pondered them in her heart. 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:56.720 See that tells me that Mary fought discouragement, that Mary 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:01.160 fought the critics, that Mary fought the hardships by pondering 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:07.680 all of this in our heart by just imagining and 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:11.960 talking to God about all that was about to happen 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:13.000 and all that. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:16.240 Would happen in the future. And see, that's what we 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:16.960 need to do. 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:20.120 We need to not just run around telling everybody our 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.240 problems now. 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.040 Just try to get man to fix us. Oh can 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:24.760 you help me? 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.120 Now? We need to ponder what God has spoken to us, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.400 get his word, build a foundation of truth so that 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.640 when we go out to birth what God is putting 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:41.120 in us, we'll withstand the challenges that are out there. 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.800 You know what, this is Mother's Day and I just 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.640 want to honor Mary. I want to just say, Mary, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.840 God saw your heart, you saw it through you fulfill 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:56.360 the scriptures, and I just honor the fact that God 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.640 chose Mary among. 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:02.360 All the women. She was qualified. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.320 And can I tell you that God has chose you 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:12.160 among all the people, and He's qualified you. He's chose 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.920 to live in you today just like he lived in Mary. 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:22.800 Protect what He's given you, birth what He's put in you, 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:27.360 and I believe you'll see God do the impossible just 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:28.720 like Mary did. 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:29.280 Amen. 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:34.560 Amen, here's an awesome God. 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