Stay Strong in God Through Joy | Victoria Osteen

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I believe God has amazing things in your future. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:46.840 I hope you enjoy this message. 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.080 It's fun to me in the house of the Lord. 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.320 It's fun to celebrate a God who is for us 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:54.440 and not against us. 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.440 Can you imagine coming to a god who you don't 0:01:58.520 --> 0:01:59.880 know what he thinks about. 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.280 You, You don't know how he feels about you. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:02.840 You don't know. 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.120 But we don't come to a God like that. We 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:09.480 come to a good God who's already told us that 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.040 he loves us with an everlasting love, that he redeemed 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.120 us for his good pleasure. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.359 He is pleased with you today. He loves you. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.040 He gave you his very best, and that is something 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.880 to celebrate. That's something to remind ourself of, to stir 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:33.080 up every single day of our life, because life doesn't 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.680 remind us of that. Life tries to tell us something 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:42.760 totally different. It tries to show us difficulties, heartaches, hardships. 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.600 But Jesus is saying, I've given you my joy. I've 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:50.800 given you what you need to defeat the power of 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.400 the enemy and stay strong in this life. Amen, You've 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.720 got what it takes to stand strong in the Lord, 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:01.600 Jesus Christ. That's what I want to talk a little 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.160 bit about today. I want to talk about stay strong 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:11.120 in God through joy. The Bible says that the joy 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.040 of the Lord is our strength. That's what Neemiah told 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:21.079 the people who had were downcast. He said, go eat, celebrate. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:25.720 The joy of the Lord is your strength. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.920 It is what is going to sustain you. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.760 It's gonna fight off anxiety, it's gonna help balance your life. 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:38.360 And Jesus said, the joy that he had, he gave 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:42.520 it to us. He said, my joy I give to you, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:47.000 and I give it to the full. Now. The joy 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.480 that Jesus gave us is not dependent on what is 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.320 going around around us. 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.400 See, the joy that Jesus gave us is on the 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.960 inside of us. You see, God, God does his work 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.120 on the inside of us. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.960 When you said yes to Jesus Christ, the outside didn't 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.280 immediately change, but the inside did. You See he put 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:17.560 seeds on the inside of you. He gave you a 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:21.800 new heart, a new start, the ability to take what 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.440 He's put on the inside of you and make it 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:29.720 come out of you. See, God's blessings start on the inside, 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.480 but they show up on the outside. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.760 You See. I have a lemon tree, and when I. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.840 Got it and planted it, it had no lemons on it. 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.680 It was a lemon tree, but it had no lemons. 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.000 But I took care of it. I watered it, I 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.560 fed it, I made sure that it was, you know, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.239 was in the right soil. I did everything I could 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:57.120 to cultivate and develop the lemons. And sure enough, that 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:00.440 lemon tree that had no lemons on the out side 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.920 produced them from the inside. So my lemon tree now 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:09.080 has fruit that I can eat from. And do you 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.960 know That's how joy works. Joy is inside. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:16.599 Of us, but we must cultivate it. We must tap. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.000 Into it because there is fruit in there that we 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.560 have to eat from if we are going to overcome 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.479 the trials of life. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.600 You see, you may be in a trial, you may 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:31.080 be in a. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.200 Difficulty, you may have lost a loved one, you may 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:37.360 have a child who is who is wayward or far off, 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.919 and you feel sorrow. But do you know on the 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:45.200 other side of that sorrow, parallel with that is joy. 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:48.360 It's the fruit of joy that you can eat from, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:51.880 and it causes you to be strong, and it causes 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.599 you to stand firm, and it causes you to overcome. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.520 And that's why joy is so important. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:02.120 In fact, the Israel, when God brought them out of 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.400 captivity from the oppression of the Pharaoh, it says in 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:11.000 scripture that he brought them out with joy and led 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:16.560 them forth in peace. You see, I believe what he 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.560 was showing us was, if you're gonna come out of 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.200 these dark places, if you're gonna stand under the trials 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.160 of life, you're gonna have to come out with joy. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.200 You're gonna have to use the. 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.359 Joy to get you out of captivity, to get you 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.039 out of those anxious thoughts, to get you out of 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:35.680 that defeat and discouragement. 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:41.000 Joy is the key of coming out. Joy is your 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.880 key and it's inside of you. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.440 But it's like anything else, you have to tap into it, 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.200 you have to develop it, you have to use it. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.040 The Bible says, in this world, you're gonna have troubles. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.600 Jesus said that he wasn't promising us that we weren't 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:58.480 gonna have troubles. 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.200 But you know what he said about the troubles. He says, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.200 here's the key. Be of good cheer. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.320 Be of good cheer, because I have overcome the world. 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:12.880 Be of good cheer, for I have overcome. You know 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:18.000 what he's saying. He's saying, Brighten up, brighten your face up. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.640 One scripture says, rejoice in the Lord. And again I 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:30.440 say rejoice. Rejoice means to brighten you. See there's a 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.400 light on the endside of you, but you've got to 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:33.880 flip it on. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.720 And the key to joy is this. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.960 I really believe this, because some people just seem to 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:43.320 have a different personality. They can just be more joyous, 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.200 where some people may be a little melancholy and they. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:47.120 Have to work on this. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.280 But the truth is, in a trial, we all need 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:51.640 this joy. 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:55.120 We all need it, so we must develop it. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.360 Listen, I didn't take my lemon tree and put it 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.960 in the grounds. As soon as I needed lemons. I 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.360 put it in the ground. I cultivated it. I did 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.520 what it took so the lemons would come out. Then 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.520 I could take them, then I could use them. And see, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.560 when you need joy, you can't try to cultivate it 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.600 right away. You have to know how to tap into it. 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.760 The fruit has to already be there, Okay. So I 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:27.160 think every day we have to practice joy. We have 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:31.400 to laugh in the face of adversity. We have to 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:36.200 smile when there's nothing to smile about. You know, I 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:37.800 was talking to a friend of mine the other day, 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.920 and she's been very discouraged. 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.440 She's been very down. She's having some. 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.240 Difficulties with her daughter and is going through a divorce. 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:47.280 And she has a young child. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.439 And you know, as a mother in here, when your 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.560 child's not doing good, it's hard for you to do good, right, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.120 I mean, you just worry. And I've watched her just 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.320 get more discouraged and more discouraged, and now I see 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.520 her health is being jeopardized. And because anxiety and stress 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:09.800 will jeopardize our physical be and So I began to 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.480 talk to her the other day because I thought, you 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.560 know what, I've just watched day after day after day. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.280 You know, I just want to encourage her. So she 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.040 we've been friends forever, I worked with her forever. We 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.520 really love each other. So she she knows me pretty well. 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.400 But I walked in and I just started deciding that 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.600 I was just gonna make her laugh, you know, I 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.079 was just gonna bring the joy up in her. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.760 And so I was like, hey, can I see your teeth? 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:37.960 She thought, what. 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:40.760 The next thing, I know, I start seeing a little 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.000 bit of her teeth, and I said, oh man, your 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.480 teeth are beautiful. Look at your smile. I haven't seen 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.560 you smile in a long time. And so I just 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.320 start laughing and cracking up. And I'm being so silly 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:57.960 that she starts laughing, you know. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.000 So I begin to just her. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:06.080 I begin to encourage her joy. See, I was simply 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:11.120 changing the atmosphere in her mind. I was simply changing 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.959 that so that she would be opened up to what 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:22.240 God wants to say to her. So funny, because okay, y'all, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.760 I'm gonna just admit something. Sometimes when I talk to 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.160 you guys, like I got this light that shining in 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.560 my eye. I'm trying to think of what I'm supposed 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:33.000 to say. I'm being all serious, and I see sometimes 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.480 when I watch myself. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.880 I'm on crew Listen, I'm talking y'all, and I think, 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.680 I gotta stop that. How can I stop that? And 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.920 I told Joel, I said, I don't mean to, because. 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.160 I'm such a happy person and I but I just 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.400 all of a sudden start frowning trying to And Joe said, oh, 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.120 it's gonna take you a year to stop that if 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:51.400 you start practicing right now. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.640 And I'm like, hello, mister encouragement. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.960 So I read that if you put a pencil in 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:08.280 your mouth between your teeth, that it makes the sides 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.640 of your mouth go up. You know, there's studies that 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.480 say if you'll change your facial expressions, it does something 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.600 to you emotionally. So what I've started doing was sitting 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.080 in my computer with a pencil in my mouth so 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.280 I can just be smiling all the time. So I 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.840 thought about that, and I had took two pencils with 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.600 me when I was talking to my friend, and I said, 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:31.960 I said, look at this and put a pencil in 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.080 my mouth, and I said, look out, it makes me smile. 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.240 I said, here, you put this pencil in your mouth. 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:43.760 I said, I washed it. We're both standing there looking 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:48.120 at each other with pencils in our mouth. What can 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:49.520 I tell you? 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:58.320 The atmosphere changed, The joy came, the blessing came, the problems. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.920 Seemed to be smaller. You see, the joy was there 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:04.080 to be her strength. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.600 And I begin to tell her about the promises of 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.280 God and the goodness of God. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.720 The things that really produced that joy. 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.360 And I said, you know, you're worried about your child, 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.320 and that's certainly understandable, but I want to explain something 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.680 to you that I truly believe your child, your daughter, 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.640 what she's going through right now, God has given her 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.880 the grace to go through it. God has given her 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:35.040 the grace to go through it. He hasn't given you 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:38.600 the grace that she has. He's given you the grace 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.760 to help her through it. But you can't help her 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:45.280 through it with a long face. You can't help her 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.560 through it with discouragement. God wants you to stir up 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.640 your joy. He wants you to bring a sense of 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:56.079 happiness and joy and elation to her life. You need 0:12:56.120 --> 0:13:00.800 to elevate and push that joy up for her and 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:05.520 for yourself. Do you know when you push joy up, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.920 it signals victory. It's like when a guy runs and 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.920 he wins the race, the first thing he does is 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.960 throws his hand up. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:16.000 It's because he has victory. We need to change our 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:17.680 posture and let. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.120 The joy come out in our life. We need to 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:27.280 put a pencil in our mouth if necessary, because God. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:29.600 Works through our joy. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:33.839 He brought them out with joy because he knew they 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.720 needed the strength to go on. They didn't even know 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.360 all the things they were gonna face. But if they 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.040 could go out with joy, if they could tap into 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.640 that joy, that joy would be there for them, would 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:50.440 be their strength. Soone encourage every one of us today 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:54.120 to practice joy every day. Look at what your face 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.800 is saying. What is it signaling to your body and 0:13:56.840 --> 0:14:00.679 your mind? What are you thinking about? The Kingdom of 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:05.000 God starts within us and it flows out of us, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:05.840 and that's what. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.640 Brings the blessing. So I encourage you. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:13.360 Don't let life's difficulties push your joy down. You push 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.840 your joy up because it signals victory. 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:20.200 Amen. Amen, He's an awesome God. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.040 Thank you for listening to the joel Ostine Podcast. Help 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.840 us continue to share the message of hope with those 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.840 all over the world. 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