Roll Away The Stone | Victoria Osteen

0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:02.440 Victoria, and I am believe in you're going to have 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:05.720 a blessed summer. Praying for you guys every day, and 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.879 thanks for being with us today. Hey, I'm excited. Victoria's 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:10.880 got a new book out. It's called Grace to Go, 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.960 and I know it's going to bless you. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.560 I'm excited because in this book you will see how 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.800 you are strengthened, that you are prepared and you are 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:20.360 ready for. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.880 Anything that's in front of you. You are Grace to Go. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:26.279 Enjoy today's message. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.600 Allia, you guys are awesome today. The other day, I 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.600 was down here at the altar and I was praying 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.040 for a beautiful young woman. She was telling me what 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:40.080 she was concerned about and what she wanted me to 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:42.879 pray for, and then she looked right at me and 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.120 she said, I feel unnoticed by God. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.720 I feel like God doesn't even care about what's going 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:52.320 on with me. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.800 You know, I believe that sometimes we can all feel 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.120 that way. We get struggling with something so long in 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.240 our life, we wonder, God, where are you? Do you 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.520 even see what's going on in my life? Do you 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.760 even care? Sometimes we're in a room like this and 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.640 we feel like just one person in the crowd. God, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.720 how do you find me in the midst of all 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.959 these people? But can I tell you today, God's eyes 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:25.640 are on you. I want to be the one that 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.080 reminds you. God sees you. The Bible says that He 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.959 knew you before the foundation of the world, that. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.120 He handpicked you. See, he knows every single hair on 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.480 your head. Now that blows my mind. But God is God, 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.800 and if he said it, I believe it. 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.960 No matter what I feel like, even if I feel 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.080 alone in a crowded room, I'm going to stand on 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:59.520 the word that God says he knew me. He knows 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.680 my damnit, he knows my uprising. The Bible says he 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.800 knows my thoughts from Afar. I don't even have to 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.800 speak anything, and God already knows me. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.760 You see. God knows you today. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:19.880 But if we're gonna overcome those crushing feelings of feeling alone, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:23.519 feeling uncared for, We're gonna have to stir up our faith. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.040 We're gonna have to remind ourself every day. God does 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.000 know me, He does care for me. And me and 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.760 God we're a majority. We can do anything but fail. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:40.560 See with God, anything is possible, anything is possible. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.320 Whatever your faith thinks, it's possible if you take hold 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:46.240 of God. 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:50.760 Luke, Chapter thirteen one, Jesus was teaching in one of 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:56.400 the synagogues on this Sabbath day. There was people all around. 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.560 It was crowded, and he began to teach them. And 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.440 in the middle of his teaching he stopped. 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.960 He stopped because he took notice. 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.680 Of a woman that was in the crowd. You see, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.720 the woman that was in this crowd. She wasn't dressed beautifully, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.399 she didn't walk in late, and that's why he noticed her. 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:21.360 The woman that was in this crowd, the Bible says, 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:28.000 was crippled. In fact, she was bent over like a horseshoe. 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:33.120 It said, she couldn't even straighten up. Luke describes her 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:37.440 as a woman that was afflicted with a spirit of infirmity. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.440 Now we don't know what that infirmity was, but it 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.960 was something that had bound her up. We don't know 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.640 what had happened in her life, why her body was 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:51.120 so weak and so frail. But she was in the 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:57.840 synagogue that day bent over. Lo Now, if I asked 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.200 you to stand up right now, and I said, he ain't, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:04.360 let's everybody, let's bend over, you would go Victoria, quit 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.960 being so silly, you probably laugh a little bit. 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:10.560 You'd be there. But if you were bent. 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:16.040 Over for eighteen years, it wouldn't be so funny. You see, 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:21.160 the Bible says she was bent over for eighteen long years. 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.440 You see, I'm sure there were people standing, and there 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.600 were people's city. The most amazing thing to me that 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.040 day was that Jesus noticed her. 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:38.240 See he fixed his eyes on her that day. 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.840 I'm sure when she came in she didn't feel like 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:47.560 anybody knew who she was. She felt very unnoticed. But 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.360 the good news is Jesus saw her and he knew 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:56.440 all about her. In fact, he immediately called out, woman forward. 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.880 He stopped everything that he was doing, and old or forward. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.240 Can you imagine that sweet little woman. I don't know 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.560 how old she was, but she was been over. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.160 So she just appears to me like she'd have felt 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.640 pretty frill and old. 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.120 She might not have been. We just know she had 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.159 it for eighteen years. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:20.560 But she began moving slowly towards Jesus, and he spoke 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:25.120 this word to her. He said, woman, you are free 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.039 from your infirmity. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:33.080 Today you're free. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.040 I mean, she was shuffling, and she heard those words, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:41.320 I'm free from my infirmity today. Then he touched her, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:45.800 and the Bible said, she immediately stood up. She hadn't 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.640 stood up for eighteen years. This woman had been looking 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.360 at the ground. All she had seen was the dust 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:57.880 of the ground and people's feet. She didn't even see 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.039 their faces. She didn't even see Jesus that day. But 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.919 when he said, you are loosed from what is binding you, 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:10.000 and he touched her and she stood up. Can you 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.560 imagine the first face she had seen in this upright 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.000 position was a face of God. It was a face 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:27.160 of Jesus. You see, she felt like no one saw her. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:34.200 She had an identity of being crippled. But Jesus saw 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:39.880 her as a daughter of Abraham. You see, he didn't 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.840 see a crippled woman when everyone else did. He saw 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.400 a daughter of promise. And he set her free that day. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.159 Now I was thinking about this. She'd been crippled for 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.080 eighteen years, she'd been looking down at the ground. 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.120 I wonder how long. 0:06:56.960 --> 0:07:01.040 It took her to realize that she was set free, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.480 that she wasn't crippled anymore. I mean, she was standing 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.880 up straight. But you know when You've been a certain 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.240 way for so long, it's hard to believe you can 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:10.000 be another way. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.640 It's kind of like an attitude when. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.240 That attitude's had you for so you had this attitude 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:21.680 for so long. Somehow that attitude has you. I wonder 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.160 how long it. 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.160 Took her to realize she just got set free. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.520 And I believe when I'm talking to somebody today that's 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.760 bent down under a heavy load, you don't even realize 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.080 that you're a son or a daughter a promise, and that. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.720 God has already spoken the word and he's already set 0:07:41.800 --> 0:07:46.640 you free. He's already freed you from what would bind you. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:52.560 But you just don't realize it yet. You see, the 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.840 enemy wants you low, real low. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.880 He wants you looking down. He certainly doesn't want you 0:07:59.880 --> 0:08:02.760 to see the face of your savior. He doesn't want 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.840 to see you to see that you are a son 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:10.320 and daughter of Promise. You see, he called her a 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.920 daughter of Abraham. There were some opponents in the crowd 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.480 that didn't want her healed that day. They were looking 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:18.840 for all the reasons that women shouldn't be healed. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.040 But you know what he said. 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.280 He said, this woman is the daughter of Abraham. She 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.520 has every right and every authority to be healed any 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:33.560 day of the week. And sometimes people try to keep 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.920 you bent over with their words, with the situation. 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.760 Man, your own mind tries to keep you weighed down. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.080 But can I tell you you have all power and 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.640 authority to stand up straight because Jesus is already calling 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:48.400 you forward. 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:51.719 We got to shake the. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.560 Dust off of us and stand up and move forward. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:01.200 You know what I admire about this woman. I admire 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.400 the fact that she was in the synagogue that day. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.800 She didn't let her bent over cripple condition keep her 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:15.240 from the position of hearing what Jesus had to say. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:19.480 And too often we allow the conditions in our life 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.400 to keep us from our position of faith. We say, 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:25.560 I can't come to church today. I'm too tired. 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:26.480 Man. 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.840 My boss has me working six days a week. My 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.319 children have me running them to every activity that there are. 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.360 I'm tired. I need to rest. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.920 You see, nobody would have blamed that woman for staying 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.160 home on the Sabbath day, but she didn't. 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:45.240 See. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:50.200 She didn't allow her condition to change her position. She 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.040 was a daughter of Promise, whether she knew it or not, 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:55.520 and that's what kept her going. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.520 I want to encourage you today to stir you your faith. 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:06.680 Don't allow anything to bend you over, to bind you up, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.840 because whom the sun sets. 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.760 Free is free. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.720 Indeed, you are free. 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:22.839 Indeed, today you've been bought with a great price. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.400 You are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. You have a 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.920 covenant between you and God. You see, that's what that 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.320 woman had. That's what Jesus saw. He didn't see her 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.520 crippled body. He saw his covenant with her. He saw 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.720 an agreement that couldn't be broken. And U stand in 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.360 a position today of covenant. There is an agreement between 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.920 you and God that cannot be broken. There's no devil 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:55.720 on earth that can bind you anymore because you're free, free, free, indeed, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.320 you see. It's up to us to get ourself under 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:06.319 the word, to understand that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:11.160 and forever. He's going to be the same for you 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:15.800 as he is for your children. He is the same Jesus, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:20.719 with the same covenant blood, covenant. You see, when we 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:26.439 stir up our faith and we realize the power that 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:32.080 Jesus has towards us, we will say God can when 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.400 we stir up our faith and realize the love He 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:42.560 has for us. 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