Say "Yes" to All of God's Promises | Victoria Osteen

0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:03.240 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.040 our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.479 If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:10.080 blessing and share it with a friend. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:13.119 We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:14.400 your life. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.720 Love you, Lord, and we've come into agreement with Jeremiah 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:19.799 twenty nine to eleven. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:20.200 Amen. 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.279 Amen, you may be seated. It is good to have 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:25.680 you here. And I want to encourage every one of 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:28.680 us this morning that we have to resound a great, 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.880 big yes to all of God's promises. And that should 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:34.760 be our goal for twenty sixteen is to say yes, 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:37.640 God to every promise you have in my life. Yes, God, 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.760 for everything that you want to do in my life. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:45.239 See Our yes gives God permission to bring forth his 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:50.720 promises in our life. Our yes invites the promises into 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.840 our life. God wants us to respond with a yes. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:59.959 In Christ. In Tewod Corinthians one twenty, it says no, 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.800 no matter how many promises God has made, they are yes. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:09.160 In Christ. God's promises stand firm. They are yes as 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.000 far as He's concerned. But listen to the rest of that. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.080 It says, and so through Him, through Christ, the amen 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:25.200 is spoken by us. God has already said yes. But 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:30.280 God wants our response, which is amen. Now the word 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.160 amen and the Hebrew and the Greek both translate into 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.640 so be it the promises of God. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.080 Our response should be so be it. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:45.959 Now it's twenty sixteen, and usually we say yes. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:51.120 God, Yes God. See that should be our response. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:57.040 Every good thing, Yes God, every promise you have for me, Yes, God, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:02.160 healing his mind, joy is mine, vision is mine. Everything 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.920 I need is in you, in Christ, and I am 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:11.160 going to resound a great, big yes. You've received an 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.240 invitation before to a wedding or some great grand celebration. 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:19.280 And when you get that invitation, you open it up 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:22.839 and it tells you who's inviting you and where it's 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.880 going to be and what time it's going to occur. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:28.480 And then there's RSVP at the bottom of your invitation. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.760 That RSVP, as you know, means please respond. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.160 See. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.640 The host has already prepared a celebration, They've counted you in, 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.240 They've already prepared for you to be there, But they 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.520 want to know are you going to show up? Are 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.120 you going to take part in what they have already planned, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.080 so it's RSVP, please respond. 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:56.600 And in much the same. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:03:02.120 Way, there is a please respond attached to God's promises. 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:03.280 See. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:08.240 God is already prepared some amazing things for you, but 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.960 he needs your response. See the amen is spoken by you. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:19.920 What is your response to God's promises? All God's promises 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.320 are yes. But to receive those promises, we have to 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.040 say amen. We have to say yes God. We have 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.640 to show up. I was talking to a friend of 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.520 mine the other day, and he said, I had this 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.720 desire in my heart to do something, and I just 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.440 felt so excited about it, he said. I prayed about it, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.040 I went to God about it, I. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.920 Told some people about it. I was just so excited, 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:46.960 he said. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:50.720 In years went by and nothing ever happened, he said, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:51.880 but it was still. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.040 There, he said. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.600 But I'd show up to God every day and I'd 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:57.720 do what I knew to do. I'd come to church, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.080 i'd pray, i'd praise, I tell God how amazing he is. 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.040 But the years went by and it didn't happen, he said. 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.880 I saw nothing happen, but I just kept showing up. 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:14.400 You see, he kept coming with his yes, whatever it 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:18.919 is God, whenever God I'm showing up what you're going 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:20.960 to do in my life. I want to be a 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:25.320 part of it. God, I want to join in. See 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.159 when you say yes, you know what you're doing. You're 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:34.240 strengthening yourself. You're showing up to God and you're strengthening yourself. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.160 You're developing yourself, You're growing. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:39.279 He told me. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:42.240 Later, he said, Victoria, he said, what I was praying for, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.719 it did finally come to pass. And he said, when 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.640 it came to pass, he said, I was amazed. 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.240 He said, I was elated. I was so excited. He said, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:52.680 But I realize. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.640 Now, if that would have come to pass several years before, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.080 I wouldn't have been ready, he said. I had some 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.640 things that needed to be worked out of me. I 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:08.240 wouldn't have been able to handle. But now it's so sweet, 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.320 and now I know how to handle it. Listen, don't 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.760 change your yes to a no because it's taken a 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.960 long time, because you don't see how it's going to 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:19.480 work out. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:21.920 God's delay is. 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:25.599 Not his denial. It's preparing you for what's to come. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:27.880 God is working in you and. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.360 Working some things out of you so that you can 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:36.760 take hold of the promises in Genesis it talks about Abraham, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.520 and we all know Abraham. He's the father of our faith. 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.400 God used Abraham in mighty ways. But when Abraham was young, 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.920 he was with his family, his father, his mother, all 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:51.320 his relatives, and God came to him. God sent him 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:56.280 an invitation, and God said, Abraham, there's an invitation, but. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:56.840 You got to go. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.880 You got to leave your family, You've got to leave 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.120 your surroundings, everything. 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.960 That you know. You've got to leave, and I'm gonna 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:06.840 take you somewhere. 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.400 And in the midst of all that, I am going 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:14.000 to make a great nation through you. 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.360 See. He got this invitation, this promise from God. 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.839 But before Abraham could receive the promise, he had to 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:27.400 say yes to God, even when he didn't know what 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:28.560 it was gonna look like. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.400 He had to say yes to God. Have you ever 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:32.919 felt like that? 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.160 Have you ever thought, I don't know how this thing 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:36.039 is gonna work out. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.080 I can either stand here or I can say yes 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.600 to God. I can move forward with my yess. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.440 Well, that's exactly what Abraham had to do, and I 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.720 believe that shows us that's what we have to do. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:49.679 He didn't know where he was going. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.520 God made some big declarations He says, I'm gonna make 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.560 you into a mighty nation through you. You're going to 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:04.120 see an that's mighty. Well listen, as Abraham was wondering 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.440 taking some twists and turns with God. Then God's speaking 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.120 about this mighty nation. He's saying, I'm getting old. My 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.200 wife's womb is like really old. I mean she can't 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:16.040 even have a baby. God, I don't know, but I'm 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.000 gonna show up every day and. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.320 I'm gonna say. Yes. He can come out of his tent. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:21.560 He'd look at the stars. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:25.560 He'd think, Man, I can look at myself, or I 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:29.440 can look at my God. I can consider my circumstances 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.160 and what's capable in my own abilities, what's natural? 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:34.960 What can I do? 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.560 Or I can step outside my tent and I can 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:40.400 look up at the stars and I can say, God, 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.760 if you've flung those stars into existence, then you can 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:44.920 do what you said you can do. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:45.800 God. 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.240 If you've said it, I'm gonna believe it. So I'm 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.080 showing up and I'm gonna get into your plan. And 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:54.880 do you know he was able to receive the promises 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:58.480 of God in his life. Now, Abraham is the father 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.640 of our faith. He showed great faith. He showed a great, 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.160 big yes. And the scripture talks about this, and this 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.960 is what I really want you to catch today. The 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:13.280 Scripture says that when Abraham said yes, that's. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.560 Faith to say yes. See, faith is just a simple 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:21.880 yes yes to God. With that yes, the Bible. 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:26.840 Says it was credited to him as righteousness. That means 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.920 he was in right standing with God. That means when 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.120 he came to God, he could partake of what God 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.679 had for him. He didn't have to come guilty and condemned. 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:42.959 He was the righteousness of God. And through that righteousness, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.760 through that yes, that gave him access. It gained him 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:53.840 access to the grace of God. Now, the grace is 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.040 what kept Abraham on track. The grace is what kept 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:02.800 Abraham's yes strong. See, Abraham couldn't have done it in 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.360 his own will power. Only Abraham could have said yes. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:09.680 Then he showed up and in his account was the 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:13.880 grace to bring God's promises to pass. Abraham couldn't have 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.439 brought God's promises to pass in his own strength. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:17.720 And that's the thing. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.160 In his own body, he was old, he didn't know 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.839 where he was going. But in the grace of God, 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:26.640 the promises came to pass, and the Bible talks about 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.760 because of Abraham's yes, it came down through the bloodline, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:35.640 and Jesus showed up on the scene, which changed everything 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.840 for you and I see it says in Romans four. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.440 Through Jesus Christ, we have gained access by faith, by 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:49.000 our yes, into that grace of God. How are we 0:09:49.120 --> 0:09:53.800 going to keep this yes strong by showing up, by 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.480 simply coming to God even when we don't understand it, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.520 even when we don't know what it looks like. 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.520 But we believe, we believe. 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.240 That there is grace in our account to bring forth 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.680 the promises of God. I have a friend and she 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:11.640 has an amazing young son. He's in college, and she 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.760 adores him, and he's a good guy, and she's so 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.840 funny because she has the financial means to help him. 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:19.319 So she'll go. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.000 Check his account, and when she sees his bank account 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.240 getting a little low, she'll put money in it so 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.720 that he'll have provision to pay his bills, to buy groceries, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:33.600 to buy his books. So she'll check that account often 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:37.280 and she'll see, you know, the level of his finances, 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:40.600 and she'll add that so that he'll have. 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:45.120 What he needs to carry out his life. And do 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.680 you know in much the same way that is what 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:50.200 you have. 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.959 You have a heavenly father who is watching this grace 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.360 account of yours and he is not going to let 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.959 it get low. He's not gonna let it run dry. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.720 Every time when you go to that account, every time 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.600 you show up and say, yes, God, there is grace 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:10.360 in your account to draw from, there is provision. That's 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.920 what we have to understand. It is grace that we 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.600 are saying. It's not of ourselves. It is a simple gift. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:23.000 My friend gives her son a gift. God has given 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.880 you the gift of grace. That's what's going to cause 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.560 you to go through. That's what's going to strengthen your Yes, 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.800 that's why you're gonna become everything God has called you 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.160 to be. Because you are saying, I want to get 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:37.920 in the plan of God. My RSVP God is yes. 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:41.920 Yes. My response is yes. Listen, when you go to 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.880 that party, that host. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.280 Doesn't expect you to find the food, doesn't expect you 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.400 to you know, get your own decorations. 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.480 No, it's already prepared for you. You just have to 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.520 show up and be a part of it. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.640 See God, is saying, show up and be a part 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.600 of what I want to do in you and what 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:02.920 I do want to do through you. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:04.920 But it's only going to take place. 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.960 Those promises are only going to come to pass by 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.359 my grace. Some of you need to just say, Okay, 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.160 I'm going to my grace account. Every single day I'm 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.719 getting up. I'm coming right to that account. Man, I 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.199 wouldn't even think about going out to get without getting 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.880 my grace first. God, thank you, thank you Father that 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.600 I am here. I'm showing up. You've got provision, You've 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:27.720 got everything I need. 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.520 All I have to do is honor you. 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.360 Put you first place, give you the glory God, and 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.800 you'll do what I can't do. 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.679 You'll give me the grace to see us through. Amen. Amen. 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.000 We all carry a mental picture of what our life 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:48.240 can be. Is yours limited? Do you picture yourself stuck? Inadequate, defeated? 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:51.320 Are you willing to change your mindset in order to 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.920 experience a life of blessing and abundance. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.080 We all have a picture in our mind of our self, 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.080 our family, our future, and that the picture is negative. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.680 You see yourself at a disadvantage. Your problem's too big, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.359 it's gonna limit your life. 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