The Extraordinary In The Routine | Victoria Osteen

0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:02.920 Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks so much for 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:04.160 listening to the podcast. 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:06.880 We appreciate your support and we have a brand new 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.800 resource we'd like to send you this month. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:12.000 It's called Playing with Confidence. I'll tell you more about 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:13.400 it at the end of the podcast. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:17.400 We love you and we sure hope you enjoy the message. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.919 Yes, I'm excited to be alive today. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:24.920 Amen, I just want to remind you that you are extraordinary. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.639 Nobody wants to be ordinary today. We all want to 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.280 be extraordinary. We want to live an extraordinary life. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.320 And I believe that's what Jesus said. He said, I 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:37.639 want to come to. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.760 Give you a life and a life of abundance. See 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.920 he came so that we could live an abundant life, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:50.040 an extraordinary life, an exceptional life. God doesn't want us 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.600 to live average, mediocre. He doesn't want us to be 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.040 ordinary in our thinking. He wants us to be extraordinary 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.680 in our thinking. He wants us to expect more, to 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.080 go for more, to strive for more, to be the very. 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:06.520 Best that we can be. 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.320 Do you know when you're the very best you can 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:13.280 be today, your tomorrow will be better. See when you 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:19.800 prepare for today, Hey, you'll be ready for the opportunities tomorrow. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:25.840 When preparation meets opportunity, it's called success. So I want 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.080 to encourage all of us to not have just this 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:33.880 ordinary mindset, but have an extraordinary mindset. Expect to be 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.600 full of joy, abundance, creativity, blessing. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.560 You know, Joel was just. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.119 Saying to us earlier, and I think it's something that 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.280 we need to hear when we come to the House 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.880 of the Lord, and we need to express to ourself 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.440 that we're a masterpiece. We didn't just come off of 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.240 an assembly line. We're an original. We have callings and 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.520 giftings that are matchless. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.640 See, only you can do what. 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:04.720 God's called you to do. Only you were created to 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.160 be you. You weren't created to be anyone else. You 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:12.360 weren't created to coffee anyone else. You were designed uniquely you. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.720 So get this down in your heart, get this down 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.440 in your spirit today and say, I'm tired of living ordinary. 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.800 I'm tired of living just mundane. I'm going to start 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:28.160 having this extraordinary mindset. You say, but Victoria, my life 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.119 is just routine. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.400 You know what. All of our lives are routine. 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:39.400 Most of life is doing the same thing over and 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.440 over again. We get up in the morning, we go 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:48.440 to work, we do our jobs. We come home, we 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.160 wash the dishes, we take care of the kids, we 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.480 cook the dinner, we mow the lawn, we pay the bills. 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.720 Most of our day is routine. We go to bed, 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:03.840 get up in the morning, and do it all over again. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.440 But it is our job to not get sucked into 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:14.440 that routine, but to cause our life to produce extraordinary. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:14.679 In the routine. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.560 You see, you were designed to produce extraordinary in the 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.120 routines of life. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.720 Think about this just a minute. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.080 Anything that you do well, you have to do often, 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.720 and it is called routine. So we have to know 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:35.640 that when we're in the routine, we're in the difficulties, 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:39.000 we're in the challenges, all the things that we all face, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.440 that there's extraordinary being produced. Because I believe when we 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.840 understand that we're not average, and our challenges weren't here 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.640 to make us suffer. They're here to bring something out 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.880 of us. Our difficulties are here to bring something out 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.200 of us. Our routine is here to bring something out 0:03:57.240 --> 0:04:01.000 of us. I think about all the years that I've 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.040 loved my family, my children were born, I took care 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.840 of them. I changed their diapers, I fed them, I 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.960 gave them a bath, I taught them. I did everything 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.040 I knew to do, day after day after day. I've 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.640 tried to be a good helpmate to my husband. I 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:19.640 make sure he gets what he likes. I cook him dinner, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.240 I tell him what to do, I give in vitamins. 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.960 I do my very best even when they don't appreciate it, 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.120 day in and day out. But can I tell you, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.280 even when they don't appreciate it, and even when it's difficult, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.640 do you know what the routine has done for me? 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:49.240 It's given me extraordinary. It is my extraordinary? What is 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.839 your extraordinary? I can see my life because I was 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:58.960 routine and faithful with what God gave me, I now 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:03.479 have extraordin in my life. I think about challenges and 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.880 difficulties I faced. Many times I think I just want 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.120 to quit. Is this even worth it? Is it even matter? 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:15.120 But I have learned when I've pressed through day after 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:21.919 day those challenges, day after day, it produced extraordinary lessons 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:26.000 in my life. Listen, when you are faithful with what 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:28.880 God has placed in your hand, and you don't allow 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.359 it to become mundane and ordinary, and give it just 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.040 half of what you could give it. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:35.440 You know what you're doing. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:40.360 You're creating extraordinary. You're creating something to talk about tomorrow. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:42.919 You see, sometimes. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.800 It's not always easy to talk about it, but if 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.919 you'll stick with it, you'll have something to talk about. 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.159 You'll have something to be proud of. So even in 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:55.120 the difficult times, I want to encourage. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.159 You to stay faithful. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.320 God is preparing you. 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.000 You are past I've seen the tests. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.400 He wants to give you greater opportunity, greater life, a 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.400 greater a destiny. So we want to just live with 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.400 purpose because I know how it feels. I'm preaching to 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.000 myself today. I have to get up in the morning 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:16.960 and I have to say, today is a good day. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.680 I've got good things in front of me. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.640 You know what you say to yourself, the moment you 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.320 get up is gonna set the tone for your life. 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.680 So you've got to get this down in your heart, 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.960 even when it's difficult, no matter what's going on on 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:36.440 the other side of that difficulty is extraordinary. You can 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.880 all say with me today I have seen the extraordinary. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:44.520 You're right, it was worth putting my effort into. Even 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.560 when I didn't see where the routine was taking me. 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.960 I now see this extraordinary job I have. I now 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.440 see this extraordinary family I have. I now see an 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.880 extraordinary ministry that I have. You see, you may not 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.479 see where it's taking you all the time, but it 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.640 will lead you to extraordinary When Joel's father was pastor 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.600 of Lakewood Church in his latter years, I would come 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.560 and get him and take him to church. I'll remember 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 one time we were in the bag getting ready for church, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.960 and he had a woman who did his hair and 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.960 his makeup for television because we would broadcast the Sunday services. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.720 And when I was back there one morning, this young 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.960 lady that did his hair looked at him and she said, Pastor. 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.920 Ostin, I have to tell you some news. 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.160 She said, my husband is being transferred to another state 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.440 for his job. And she said, this is going to 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.120 be the last time that I'm going to be able 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.440 to do your hair and makeup. She said, I'm so 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:41.200 sorry this came so quickly, but this is one of 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.040 those things where. 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:42.720 I just have to go. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.640 And I remember him just kind of sitting there. He 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.360 was looking at her and I could just see a 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.840 thousand things going on in his head and he didn't 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:50.800 know what to say. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:52.000 So he looked at me. 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.640 And he said, well, Victoria, he said, can you do 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.800 my hair for TV on Sundays. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.160 I thought, I don't have a cosmetology. 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.640 License, I'm not trained in this. Then the next thing 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.720 I know, they're both looking at me. So I quickly 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.640 just said, sure, I'll do it if you trust me. Well, 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.280 little did they know. I had a little experience when 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.360 I was in junior high school. I used to cut 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.520 some of my friend's hair and attempt at highlighting. 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.840 But that day I was given a promotion. 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.120 I was now the hair solace for John Otising Lakefood 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:38.560 TV television productions. My family, a lot of my mother's 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:41.160 side of the family lives in Georgia, and they were 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.600 preparing a family reunion and they had made plans, got 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.480 in hotels, got in locations. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:48.640 They'd put a lot of work into it. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.679 And they called me up and they gave me the 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.559 date and they said, listen, we're gonna have the best 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:53.480 family reunion. 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:55.880 You got to be there. This is the date. So 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.160 I checked the date and it fell. 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.080 On a weekend, and I said, look, guys, I can't 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.840 come on the weekend. I have to do my father 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.640 and lost hair. And they were like so disappointed. They 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.600 were like, what, you can't come and We've done all 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:14.559 this planning, And I said, no, I'm committed. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.319 We tape on Sunday. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.560 And I have to pick him up and I have 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.680 to bring to the church. I have to do his hair. Well, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.680 later on I got word that they were talking about me. 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.560 I found out that they didn't think my job was 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:32.560 very important and they said, I can't believe that's all 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.360 she does in the ministry. I think she should be 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:41.040 doing more. You know, they weren't trying to be mean. 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:46.360 They just thought my job description should be different. Well, 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:48.480 you know what, that hurt my feelings and I got 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.720 to thinking about it and I got a little discouraged 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:51.199 about it. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:52.960 But then I made a decision. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.160 I thought, you know what, I'm gonna let that go 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.120 because deep down on the inside of me, I hear 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.600 be fa in the small, be faithful in the small, 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.480 Just be faithful in the small. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.559 So I let that go and. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.920 I decided to be the best TV production hair person 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:17.000 there has ever been. So for several years, I'd picked 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.280 my father in law up, bring him to the church, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.880 and get him TV ready. I was committed to that job. 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.440 I was faithful and in the routine of all those 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.360 Sunday mornings, all those weekends, I didn't realize that I 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:36.440 was building extraordinary into my life. You see, I believe 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.400 it built commitment in my life. I believe that it 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.800 was doing a work in me. It was causing me 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.600 to be able to understand the ministry life, giving me vision. 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.720 It was showing me what it took to do this job. 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.439 And I believe just through those years of what some 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.720 people may not have thought was important, God did think 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:04.520 it was important. It was building extraordinary in me. And 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.600 I believe that I can do what I'm doing today. 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.760 I can be with my husband and help him push 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.080 this ministry forward because of the commitment and the faithfulness that. 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:15.760 I showed then. 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:21.600 You see, in many ways it prepared me. So I 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.120 want to encourage you today. Don't let the definition of 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:31.360 someone else's success determine your future. See, someone might not 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.680 think what you're doing is very important. They may look 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.960 down on it. They may not realize what God is 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:44.959 doing in your life. He is preparing you for greater opportunity. 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:49.200 You see, because someone doesn't see what you're doing doesn't 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.920 mean that God doesn't see what you're doing. Just because 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:55.280 they don't think it's important doesn't mean God doesn't think 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:59.240 it's important. And I'm telling you, God, bless us faithfulness 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.320 to pass this faithfulness test if we're going to. 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.440 Go on to greater things. 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.720 You know, one thing that I realize that really can 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:12.080 reduce this extraordinary life that God's given us down to 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:17.040 ordinary is when we compare ourself. You know, we all 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.680 know that social media these days can make your life 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.320 feel like it's going nowhere. You look at these vacations, 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:26.320 you look at all this stuff these people are doing. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:27.880 They're highlight reel. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:32.000 And you think, man, my life is just ordinary routine. 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:34.480 I go to work, I come home. I go to work, 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:35.199 I come home. 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.880 When do they have time to do all this stuff? 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.920 Well, little do we realize it took them twenty nine 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.600 tries just to get that picture right, and then after 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:50.320 they filtered it, corrected it, worked through it, then it 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.240 was perfect. We know this, don't we We cannot fall 0:12:55.280 --> 0:13:01.360 into the trap of comparing ourself because we're originals, we're masterpieces. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:02.600 We're one of a kind. 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:07.320 The assignments that your call to do are distinct to 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:08.079 your calling. 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:10.760 You fit your destiny. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.160 No one else can do what you've been called to do. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:19.560 Don't shrink your life down to mundane an ordinary. Stir 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.240 up the gifts of God within you. What do you 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:24.760 have in your hand that is going to be your 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:30.439 extraordinary tomorrow? I encourage you just like I encourage myself. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.000 God is a faithful God. Give it your all. Be 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.440 your best every day. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.720 Listen, when you prepared today, you're going to be better 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:42.240 off tomorrow. Know that when you're faithful, you're going to 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.200 have something to talk about later on. 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:46.960 Amen. Amen, here's an awesome God. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.200 Sometimes life can make you feel like you were just 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.960 living in the dark. Even your prayers don't feel like 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.840 they are making it to heaven. But God is listening 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.640 and his light is about to shine. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.400 We know God is all powerful that he can answer 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.679 any prayer, but sometimes we don't know what to pray. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.240 We don't think we deserve God's goodness. 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.839 Maybe we're inconveniencing him, or he has more important things 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.760 to deal with. But God is concerned about every detail 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:18.720 of your life. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:20.720 He's waiting to hear your prayers. 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.960 I have a new resource called Praying with Confidence, Guided 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:29.200 prayers for life's moments. 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