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Trust the Faithfulness of God

Joel Osteen
August 12, 2020 31m 52s

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God is a faithful God. You can trust Him even when there’s disappointment. Continue to believe God is in control and He has something better in store. 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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It helps keep the 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:45.240 ministry going. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:57.320 Enjoy the message. 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.440 Oh God, bless you always a joy to come into 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:02.120 your homes. 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.200 We love you and we know God. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:06.440 Has great things in store for each one of you. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.160 If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.359 buying and be a part of one of our services. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.520 These are the finest people in all of Houston, Texas, 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.960 right here at Lakewood. So come out and see us. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.440 Thanks for tuning in, Thanks for coming out again. I 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.720 like to start with something funny each week. And I 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.560 heard about this lady that surprised a burglar in her 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:27.640 kitchen one night. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.360 She was alone and unarmed, didn't really know. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.720 What to do, so she thought, I'll just quote a 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:37.600 scripture and she shouted out Acts two thirty eight. Suddenly 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.440 the burglar froze in his tracks. The police soon arrived, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.800 and they were amazed at how a woman with no 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.720 weapon could do this. They said to the burglar, what 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.760 was it about that scripture that had such an effect 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:50.120 on you. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.840 The burglar said, scripture? What scripture? I thought? 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.320 She said, she had an axe and two thirty eights. 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.480 All right, hold up your Bible, say it like you 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:03.800 mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.440 says I am. I have what it says I have. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.639 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.680 I will be taught the word of God. I boldly 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:17.000 confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.080 will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:22.200 --> 0:03:24.760 I want to talk to you today about how you 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.840 can trust the faithfulness of God. Every one of us 0:03:28.960 --> 0:03:32.560 has dreams and goals in our heart. There are promises 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.960 that we're standing on. Maybe you're believing for a child 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.200 to turn around, or believing to get healthy again, believing 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.080 to start a business, to get out of debt, to 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.400 be in ministry. Deep down, you know God has spoken. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.080 That to your spirit. He's birthed it on the inside. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.720 But so often, because it's taking a long time and 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.880 we've been through disappointments, we get negative and start thinking 0:03:58.920 --> 0:03:59.960 that it's not going to happen. 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.480 The reason many people. 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.800 Don't see God's promises come to pass is because they 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.240 get discouraged and give up too soon. But just because 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.160 you don't see anything happening doesn't mean. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.160 That God is not working. 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.640 Just because it's taking a long time doesn't mean God 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.000 ran out of options. Just because your mind is saying 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.359 it's over, your emotions are say in no way, the 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.560 circumstances look impossible. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.960 That doesn't mean that God is not going to do 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:31.760 what he said. 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.560 God is faithful to his word, all of his promises 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.159 are yes and amen. That means if you will do 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:44.520 your part and believe even though it looks impossible, and 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.680 not let your mind, your emotions, or other people talk 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.720 you out of it, then God promises, in due season, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.719 at the right time, he will bring it to pass. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.280 It may not happen the way we expect it or 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.359 on our timetable, but God is a faithful god. It 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.440 will happen. He will not let you down. That's what 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.679 he said in Hebrews thirteen. I will not in any 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.720 way fail you or leave you without support. Therefore we 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.240 can say with confidence, the Lord is my helper. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.839 I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.760 You need to let that sink down on the inside. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:30.560 I will not fail you. God is saying, everything is 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.600 going to work out. I'm in complete control. I know 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.440 what the medical report says, I know what the financial. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:39.080 Situation looks like. 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.280 I see the people that are coming against you. I 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.760 know how big your dreams are. And hear me clearly, 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.279 I will not fail you. I will not let you down. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.159 I will not let that problem overtake you. I will 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.320 cause you to be the overcomer. God is saying, if 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.480 we will keep our trust in him. He will always 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.240 make a way, even though it looks like there is 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:05.560 no way. He will give you strength for every battle, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:11.800 wisdom for every decision, peace that passes understanding. God will 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.800 vindicate you for the wrongs that have been done. He 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.360 will pay you back for unfair situations. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:22.000 He promised. He will not only bring your dreams to pass. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:25.120 But he will give you even the secret desires of 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:28.880 your heart. Dare to trust him. Come back to that 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:33.440 place of peace. Quit living worried, stressed out, wondering if 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.360 it's going to happen. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:34.920 No. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.160 God has you in the palm of his hand. He 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.920 has never once failed before, and the good news is 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.159 he's not about to start now. I like the way 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.400 the amplified version puts this passage. 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.599 I will not, I will not. 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:54.119 I will not ever fail you or release my hold 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:57.640 on you. That's the only place in the scripture that 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:01.000 I can find where God repeats some thing three times 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.760 in a row. The reason God says it three times 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.000 is because he knew how easy it would be to 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:11.480 give up on his promises. He knew when it was 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.720 taken a long time and nothing was going our way, 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.040 that many people would think, well, I don't guess I'm 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:21.320 supposed to be blessed. I know God promised that I 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.240 would lend and not borrow, but I can barely pay 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.280 my own bills. Or I know God said he would 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:31.480 do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond, but I don't see. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.040 How I could have. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.880 In Ephesians three twenty decade, I never get any good breaks. 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:41.080 God knew we would have every opportunity to talk ourselves 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.400 out of it and give up on his promises. 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.680 That's why he said it three times. 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.360 I will not, I will not. I will not ever 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.520 fail you or let you down. Now, if God went 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.880 to the trouble of saying it three times, this tells 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.120 me we need to make sure we get it. We 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.720 need to develop an unshakable confidence that says God, I 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.160 know what you say is true, and I'm not going 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:11.120 to be moved by what I see. I'm not going 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:14.040 to be discouraged by what I don't see. I'm not 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.120 going to give up because it's taken a long time. God, 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.360 I trust you. I know you will never fail, you 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.880 will never let me down. So I boldly say, the 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.640 Lord is my helper all through the day. We should 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:31.640 make that declaration the Lord is my helper. When you're 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.920 tempted to feel overwhelmed like you're not going to make it, No, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.000 the Lord is my helper. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.760 He's making my crooked places straight. 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.560 Well, it looks like you'll never get well. No, no, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.800 the Lord is my helper. He's restoring health back. Unto me, Well, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:48.120 it seems like the economy is going to push your 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:53.000 business under. No, the Lord is my helper. He's Jehovah Jirah, 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.840 the Lord my provider. When you learn to magnify the 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:03.000 promises rather than magnifying the problems, then the Lord, your God, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.240 will show up and act as your helper and make 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:10.920 sure that those promises come to pass. And understand, God 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:15.000 is not necessarily obligated to bring to pass what we say, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.280 but he is obligated to bring to pass what he says. 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.400 This is why it's so important to find the promises 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.760 that apply to your situation. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.240 And remind God what he said. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.439 In other words, God, you said you are my helper 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:34.559 and you will never fail me. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:35.640 Or let me down. 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.360 God is obligated to bring that promise to pass. That's 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:43.160 his word that is forever true. Or God, I'm in 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.600 this big problem. People are coming against me. But God, 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.080 you said in Psalms, the strength of the wicked is 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.160 being cut off and the power of the godly. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:53.800 Is being increased. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.640 God, you said, the trap the enemy set for me, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.319 they would fall in themselves. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:00.600 See. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:04.720 Instead of complaining about the situation, or instead of begging God, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.200 God please help me, God get me out of this trouble. 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.000 Know what causes God to act. What God responds to 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:16.679 is his own word. Take those promises and remind God 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.280 what he says. God you said, you're close to the 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:24.359 broken hearted, and I'm hurting. I've been through this disappointment. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:26.480 But God, you promised. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.080 You would give me beauty for ashes. 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.440 You said, weeping endures for a night, but joy is coming. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:37.360 Those are promises that God is obligated to bring to pass. 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.560 And when I say obligated, I'm not saying that we're 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.960 bossing God around telling him what to do. No. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.440 The principle is God is faithful to his word. He 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:48.360 cannot lie. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.400 It goes against his very nature. He could never break 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.240 a promise. And so when we bring his promises back 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:59.880 to him and remind him what he said, that's what 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.360 causes him to respond. I have a good friend named 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.560 Jeff Hackelman. We grew up together and were roommates in college. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.199 Jeff pastors a church in Huntsville, Texas right now, and 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.160 Jeff has always loved to fish. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.079 One day, when we were in high. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.079 School, he went down to Texas City to go fishing 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:21.200 there in the Gulf. He had done this many times before. 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.760 He had a small boat that he had bought used 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.800 this day, he and his friend Brent decided to try 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.679 somewhere different to fish. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:31.199 At the dock there. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.400 Texas City, they asked the man in charge how to 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.880 get back to that place from the Bolivar gas wells 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.680 that's where they decided to fish. The men said, it's 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:44.679 no problem, we're directly north. If you're anywhere around those 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.320 gas wells, just head back due north and you'll get 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.319 right back to this dock. And so Jeff and Brent 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.040 traveled an hour or so in their little boat and 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.880 got there, and they started fishing away, and the fish 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.839 were biting left and right. In the midst of all 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:03.760 the excitement of catching fish, what they didn't realize was 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.200 a thick fog had set in to where you could 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:11.160 barely see twenty feet in front of you. Happened so 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.320 quickly that it caught him off guard. The sun had 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.640 already set, it was about to get dark, and Jeff 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.040 became alarmed, and he said, Brent, pull up the anchor. 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.920 We've got to get out of here. Jeff stood up. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.200 In the boat and looked around to try to get 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.720 his sense of direction. Of course, all he could see 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.360 was fog. He thought about it, he studied it, he 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.600 analyzed it, and everything in his logic said you need 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:36.400 to go this way. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.040 He asked Brent. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:42.359 Brent's father is a big fisherman. Brent looked around, analyzed 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:44.840 it all, and he said, no, Jeff, it's not this way. 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:48.600 I'm positive it's this way, just the opposite of what 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.840 Jeff thought. Now, Jeff was very confused, so he got 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.760 his comfass out and due north, like the man at 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.280 the doc told him, was not this way, not this way, 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:00.600 but this way. 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:02.240 A totally different direction. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.560 Jeff cranked up the motor and in spite of what 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:09.199 he thought or his friend thought, he started heading due 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.360 north that way the man at the doc told him. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.959 Jeff said, everything within me was telling me you'll. 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:16.920 Go in the wrong direction. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:23.000 My thoughts, my reasoning, my logic, my friend, my emotion. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.760 Everything was saying, you're making a mistake. You better turn around. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.600 But Jeff just kept hearing the man at the dock say, 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.720 if you'll go do north, you'll get back to this place. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.559 Because of the fog, they had to travel extremely slow, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:39.920 only ten miles an hour. 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:41.520 You could not see anything. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:46.440 They crept along fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, forty five minutes, 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:51.120 an hour, an hour, and fifteen minutes. The voice started 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.880 coming to Jeff saying, if you were going right, you 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.520 would have already been there by now. How many times 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.960 in life, as we're ending on God's promises do we 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.400 hear that same voice. If you were going to get well, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.760 you'd already feel better by now. If you were going 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.360 to get married, you would have already surely met somebody 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.520 by now. If you were going to get promoted, it 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.040 would have already happened by now. There will always be 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:22.040 voices trying to convince us that it's too late, it's 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.280 been too long, you're too old, you're going the wrong direction. 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.440 Jeff began to get worried. His fuel was getting low, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.680 and on top of that, to make matters worse, Brent 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.520 began to panic. He started hollering and then screaming at Jeff, 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.880 turn around, man, you're taking me out to sea on 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:41.480 six gallons of gas. 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.560 This is dangerous. 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.000 There was an incredible battle taking place in Jeff's mind. 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.480 Do I believe what the man at the doc told 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.760 me is true? Or do I go by what I feel, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:57.520 what I think, what my friend is telling me. In 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:02.720 spite of all those contradict and confusing voices, Jeff just 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:07.600 kept traveling due north fifteen more minutes, thirty minutes, forty 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.320 five minutes an hour. Just as he was about to 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:14.120 give up and go a different direction, he began to 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:17.160 faintly see the Texas City dot come into view. 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.600 He made it back safely, and. 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.240 Sometimes in life the fog sets in. 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:25.880 We don't know which direction to go. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.240 You know, God has put the promise in your heart, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.680 but every voice is saying it's not gonna happen. It's 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:37.480 been too long, it's impossible. The scripture says, let God 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.880 be true in every man a liar. That means what 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.640 God said to you, the promises in his word will 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.040 override what other people say. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.880 It'll override what your own mind is telling you. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:55.360 It will even override what the circumstances look like. God 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.400 always has the final say in the foggy seasons of life. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.359 If you will trust God's. 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.640 Promises, they will bring you back home safely every time. 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.120 May not look like it. Your logic may tell you 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.080 no way, why am I even believing that this will happen. 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.440 You may not feel like it. Your emotions may tell 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:17.400 you get. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.160 Depressed, get discouraged. 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.440 Other voices may say not a chance, impossible. That's when 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:26.160 you have to dig your heels in and say, God, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.840 I'm going to believe what you say, in spite of 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.960 how I feel, in spite of what my logic is 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.360 telling me, in spite of how long it's been. God, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.240 I'm just going to keep acting like what you said 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.760 is true. I'm going to keep believing that you're in control, 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:46.280 knowing that you're a faithful God, and you will never 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:49.880 fail me or let me down. That's what our family 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.480 had to do. In nineteen eighty one, the fog set in. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:58.640 My mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Every voice said 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.720 it's over, she'll never make it, start planning her funeral. 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:07.040 But we found another voice, a promise from God's word. 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.040 It says I will live and not die. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:11.920 And declare the works of the Lord. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:16.280 We had to decide, are we going to believe what 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.360 God says about her and let his promise give us 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.960 direction and hope and faith, or are we going to 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:28.040 go in the direction that we feel discouraged, depressed, despair. 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.160 It was extremely foggy. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:35.440 All these voices were competing telling us that their direction 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:39.800 was the right way. The morning after my mother came 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.000 home from the hospital, she'd been there twenty one days, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.280 and the doctors finally released her with nothing else that 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:50.240 they could do. We gathered early that next morning in 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.400 the den as a family, and we made a decision 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.520 that we were going to stand on God's promises, knowing 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.760 that He is our helper and He will never fail 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:04.520 us or let us down. Day after day, we just 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:08.040 kept moving in that direction, acting like God told us 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.679 the truth in the natural. It didn't look like it 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:15.760 was working. The first several months. My mother never got 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:20.480 any better. There were times, like Jeff, we thought if 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.920 it was going to happen, we would already be there 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.400 by now. We had to ignore those voices and keep 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.919 pressing forward, and God is faithful. 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.240 One day we begin to see the. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:34.400 Shore come into sight, and she didn't get well overnight, 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.560 but little by little, month after month, she got better 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:38.119 and better. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:39.760 And that was twenty nine years ago. 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:44.919 Today she's perfectly healthy and strong as can be. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:49.040 But some of you, right now, the fog has set in. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.720 You know, God has promised that you're going to get well, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:55.600 that you're going to get out of debt, a relationship 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.440 is going to be restored, You're going to accomplish a dream. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:01.600 But every voice is say no. If it was going 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.680 to happen, it would have already happened. You're too old, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:06.639 your situation is too bad. 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:10.760 You don't have the resources, just like Jeff, just like 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.720 we did. You have to make the decision. Am I 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:17.360 going to believe those negative voices and go in that direction? 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.760 Or am I going to believe what God says and 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.199 go in his direction. Let me encourage you to go 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:23.800 with God. 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.320 See our attitude should be God, you. 0:19:26.400 --> 0:19:29.320 Said I would lend and not borrow. I may not 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:31.760 see how, but that's the direction that I'm headed. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:32.680 God. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.320 You said my children will be mighty in the land. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:36.760 That's what I'm believing for. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:37.680 God. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.160 You said what you started in me you would bring 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:43.639 to completion. So I am headed in the direction, God, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.200 of what you have promised. When you learn to magnify 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:51.480 the promises rather than the problems, than in due season, 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.720 you will see you're sure begin to come into sight. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:58.440 God will get you to where he wants you to be. Well, 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.520 you say, Joel, my situation didn't turn out like yours. 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.959 We prayed, we believed, but my loved one didn't make it. 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.760 Or I worked hard but I didn't get the promotion. 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:11.640 I stepped out in faith, but my business didn't make it. 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.840 It looks like God has failed me. Now you have 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:18.080 to have the trust that God knows what's best for you. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:22.600 He has your best interest at heart, and just because 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.800 your plan didn't work out or your loved one went 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.160 on to heaven doesn't mean that God is not in control. 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:30.920 You've got to come back to. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.120 That place of peace and say, God, I know you're 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.400 still on the throne. And even though I don't understand this, 0:20:37.720 --> 0:20:43.360 even though I'm disappointed, I refuse to live my life negative, bitter, discouraged. 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.600 I believe that you know what's best for me. You 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:50.280 know every dream, every promise, and here's the key, And 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.600 I trust you enough to believe at the right time 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.520 in my due season, you will bring every promise that 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.240 you've spoken to me to pass to fulfillment. That's what 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.200 a young lady did by the name of Vanetta Flowers. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.159 From the time she was a little girl, her dream 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:10.880 was to compete in the Olympic Games. She's always been 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.480 an incredibly fast runner. By the age of twenty two, 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:17.760 she was a world class athlete ready to try out 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.880 for the Olympics. She competed in the one hundred meters 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:24.240 dash and in the long jump, but her efforts were 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:27.760 not quite good enough. She missed making the team by 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.399 a fraction of a second. Instead of giving up, she 0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:34.680 decided to put in four more years of grueling training, 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:39.640 getting up early, running, lifting weights, working out, eating properly. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:43.800 In the year two thousand, her big moment came the 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.399 age of twenty six, and in the best shape of 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.280 her life, she tried out. 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:49.159 For the long jump. 0:21:49.800 --> 0:21:52.520 She knew this would be her last chance to make 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:55.320 the Olympic team, but in spite of her training and 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:57.639 all of her talent, she still didn't make it. 0:21:58.080 --> 0:21:59.680 She was so devastated. 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.600 It looked like seventeen years of training had gone down. 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:08.320 The drain was definitely foggy. In her life, every voice 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:11.600 said it's over. You must have heard God wrong, because 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:15.440 it's definitely not going to happen now. One day, her 0:22:15.520 --> 0:22:19.040 husband saw a sign in the gym that said, continue 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:22.800 your Olympic dream by trying out for the bob sled team. 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:26.000 There were two requirements. You had to be a good 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:27.640 sprinter and a good. 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.440 Long jumper, the very two things that she had worked 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.840 on for over seventeen years. She didn't even know what 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.160 the bob sled was, but her husband talked her into 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.639 trying out. Long story short, she not only made the 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:44.560 Olympic team, but in two thousand and two, she became 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:48.480 the first African American woman to ever win a gold 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.840 medal in the Winter Olympics. Friends, God is a faithful God. 0:22:53.280 --> 0:22:58.440 You can trust him. What he promised will come to pass, 0:22:58.840 --> 0:23:02.400 and our attitude should be God, I know you will 0:23:02.440 --> 0:23:05.800 never fail me or let me down. And even though 0:23:05.840 --> 0:23:09.159 this looks like a disappointment, I believe that all things 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:11.800 work together for my good. It may not be good 0:23:11.920 --> 0:23:15.320 right now, but I believe one day I will look 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:18.800 back and see how in the overall plan for my. 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:21.320 Life, you use this to my advantage. 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:25.439 Friend's faith is all about trusting You got to know 0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.560 down deep that God has your best interest at heart. 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:30.679 And just because you go through a. 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:34.760 Disappointment does not mean it's not going to happen. I 0:23:34.800 --> 0:23:38.080 see too many people if their plan doesn't work out, 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.119 if they don't qualify for the new home, if they 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.840 don't get the promotion, instead of believing that God's in 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:48.440 control and he has something better in store, they get 0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.600 all down and discouraged and they never see the promise 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:55.359 come to pass. But again, just because it doesn't happen 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:59.280 our way on our timetable, doesn't mean that it's not 0:23:59.359 --> 0:24:02.679 going to happen. The other day, when we were at 0:24:02.760 --> 0:24:06.199 Dodger Stadium doing our Night of Hope, at the end 0:24:06.240 --> 0:24:09.680 of the service, our eleven year old daughter Alexandra comes 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:14.040 up and sings. The sound at the big stadiums where 0:24:14.040 --> 0:24:17.320 we were standing at second base can be very confusing. 0:24:17.960 --> 0:24:21.119 When you say something, it's so big and there's so 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:25.000 much delay and reverberation, you don't hear what you said 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:28.360 for a second or two. You have to really concentrate 0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:32.560 and ignore the sound coming back. And Alexandra was wearing 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.800 little electronic monitors in her ears, like you see the 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:39.520 singer's wearing to help take care of this problem. It 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:43.280 would be almost impossible to sing without them. The only 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:46.800 problem was when Alexandra got up to sing, there was 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:51.359 a technical issue and her monitors were not working. She 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:56.280 could not only not hear herself or the music electronically, 0:24:56.840 --> 0:24:59.680 but they act just like earplugs, and she couldn't even 0:24:59.720 --> 0:25:03.200 hear her herself naturally. Of course, this was all going 0:25:03.200 --> 0:25:06.439 out live on television. She got up and started singing, 0:25:06.760 --> 0:25:07.639 doing her best. 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.639 She didn't know if the mic was on, if people 0:25:10.680 --> 0:25:13.359 could hear her, if she was in tune. 0:25:13.400 --> 0:25:16.520 All these voices were telling her, you might as well stop. 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:20.160 Nobody's hearing you, You're wasting your time, it's not working. 0:25:20.920 --> 0:25:24.399 In the midst of all this confusion, she just happened 0:25:24.400 --> 0:25:27.320 to look over to her left and see her mother 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:31.280 sitting in the bleachers. Victoria had a big smile on 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:33.120 her face, nodding her head. 0:25:33.240 --> 0:25:35.119 Yes, she was saying, it's working. 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:39.679 Keep going, you're doing good, Alexander saying, for another twenty 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:43.159 or thirty seconds, still not able to hear herself or 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:46.480 the music, and all kinds of sounds are coming and going, 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:48.159 these voices telling her to stop. 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:49.400 She looks back. 0:25:49.200 --> 0:25:53.040 Over, and there's Victoria still smiling bigger than me, ear 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:57.199 to ear, nodding her head saying yes, yes, yes. She 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.720 ended up singing the whole song without it being able 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:05.080 to hear herself or the music, all because she could 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:09.280 see her mother telling her, You're doing good, It's okay. 0:26:09.600 --> 0:26:10.200 Keep going. 0:26:12.560 --> 0:26:16.280 Sometimes in life, when we get up, the mic is 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:20.080 not working. In other words, we're doing our best, but 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:24.920 it doesn't look like anything is happening. We've trained, we've sacrificed, 0:26:24.960 --> 0:26:28.320 we prayed, we believe, but it just doesn't look like 0:26:28.400 --> 0:26:31.600 it's worth it. We wonder is it even worth it 0:26:31.680 --> 0:26:34.879 to keep going? Is it worth it to keep treating 0:26:34.880 --> 0:26:38.399 this person right even though they're treating me wrong? Is 0:26:38.440 --> 0:26:41.119 it worth it to keep pursuing my dreams when I've 0:26:41.160 --> 0:26:44.119 had so many closed doors? Is it worth it to 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:47.600 keep trying to overcome this addiction even though I failed 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:51.280 so many times? Now listen, if you will look up 0:26:51.720 --> 0:26:55.680 through your eyes of faith, just like Alexandra saw her mother, 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:59.400 you will see your heavenly Father with a big smile, 0:27:00.000 --> 0:27:03.800 body his head saying yes, it's worth it. Keep going, 0:27:04.040 --> 0:27:04.879 You're doing good. 0:27:05.200 --> 0:27:08.159 I'm in control. I'm a faithful God. 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:13.119 When those voices come, and they come to all of 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:16.920 us saying stop, give up, You're wasting your time. 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:20.840 Don't dwell on it. Learn to look back up, use 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:21.720 your imagination. 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:26.040 See your heavenly Father smiling down on you, nodding his 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:30.480 head saying yes. When you realize the creator of the 0:27:30.600 --> 0:27:33.119 universe is saying you're doing good. 0:27:33.320 --> 0:27:34.080 You can make it. 0:27:34.440 --> 0:27:37.120 When you realize the God that spoke the worlds into 0:27:37.200 --> 0:27:40.320 existence is saying I'll never fail you. 0:27:40.680 --> 0:27:45.480 Keep going. That's what will give you the strength, the confidence. 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:49.760 The determination to ignore every negative voice, to shake off 0:27:49.800 --> 0:27:54.040 every disappointment, knowing that if God be for you, if 0:27:54.119 --> 0:27:57.800 God is saying yes, it doesn't matter who else is 0:27:57.840 --> 0:27:58.320 saying no. 0:27:58.720 --> 0:28:00.240 God has the final say. 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.920 Friends, we can trust the faithfulness of God. What he 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:08.800 promised he will bring the past. He's saying to you today, 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:12.160 I will not fail you. I will not let you down. 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:15.679 I will not release my hold on you. Now we 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:19.160 can boldly say the Lord is our helper. 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:22.240 I want you to have this confidence that God is 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:24.640 in control. And just because it. 0:28:24.560 --> 0:28:27.719 Hasn't happened yet doesn't mean that it's not going to happen. 0:28:27.880 --> 0:28:31.080 That means the promise is still in your future and 0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:34.359 in those foggy seasons of life. Make up your mind 0:28:34.680 --> 0:28:36.560 that you're going to trust God's promises. 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:38.480 Don't listen to that other voices. 0:28:38.840 --> 0:28:42.640 God's promises will get you home safely every time some 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:45.080 of your living worrying, stress. 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:46.680 Wondering if it's God ever going to happen. 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:47.000 No. 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:49.440 God has you in the palm of his hand. 0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:52.800 He has never failed you in the past, and let 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:55.320 me assure you he will not fail you in the 0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:59.240 future if you will dare trust the faithfulness of God 0:28:59.840 --> 0:29:02.840 is when due season, he promises He's gonna. 0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:04.520 Pour out his favor in new ways. 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:09.560 You're gonna overcome every obstacle, defeat every enemy, accomplish every dream. 0:29:09.880 --> 0:29:13.080 And I believe in declare every promise God put in 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.760 your heart. 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