Victoria Osteen - Appreciating Every Area of Your Life

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He said, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.840 I'm giving you vineyards you didn't plow, but I'm giving 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.240 them to you so that you can work them. I'm 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:02.880 giving you homes with great treasure in them so that 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.520 you can live in them. And he went on and 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.720 on to tell all the wonderful gifts that he was 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:12.400 giving them. But then he warned them. He said, I 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.520 have to warn you. I'm giving you all of these things, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.440 but don't take them for granted. He said, don't take 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.679 them for granted, and don't forget who gave them to you. 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:28.160 Don't take them for granted, and not honor me. See 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:32.480 the same thing is happening today. God has given us things, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.679 a great country to live in. He's given us homes, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.440 He's given us family, friends, jobs, and he is saying, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.640 don't forget who gave it to you, and honor me 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.880 in it. You see, I believe when we appreciate God, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.639 when we appreciate the things that God has given us, 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:56.520 we're honoring him. You see. Appreciation is a language, and 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:01.200 it honors God. How many of us have seen videos, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.799 are visited impoverished countries and realize how blessed we really are. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:15.800 We have running water, we have great grocery stores, restaurants, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:21.720 whatever we need. It's basically at our fingertips. And we 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:26.720 see these impoverished countries and people and our heart goes 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:29.480 out to them and we feel so compassionate and we 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.920 feel so blessed. Right then we get to our jobs, 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.960 we get to our homes. We face life challenges, decisions, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:44.200 things go wrong, and we forget about those things. We 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:52.360 forget how grateful we should be. We get comfortable, uninterested, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.040 We take things for granted. It's easy to do and 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.880 we all do it. But can I tell you that 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.600 we've got to learn the language of appreciation. Have you 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.600 ever heard yourself say I have to go to work. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.560 Oh I have to go pick up my kids. I 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.320 have to make dinner. Oh I have to clean up 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:18.039 after my husband. See the language of appreciation says this. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.719 It says, I get to go to work because I 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:27.359 have a job. I'm so blessed to have my children. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.200 I'm gonna go pick them up. Now I have a house, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:36.160 I get to clean it. See that's the language I 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:43.000 have appreciation. I was talking to a man the other 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.240 day and he was telling me he actually showed me 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.880 a list of jobs that he had had ever since 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:53.239 he was a teenager. And he began at thirteen years old. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.280 He was a paper boy. He went on to fifteen 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:02.280 and he started mowing lawns, seventeen shovel and snow. Then 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.440 he went on to be a plumber. Then he went 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.479 on to be a pipe fitter. Then he went on 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.280 to be a contractor, then he went on to and 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.680 he was going on and on. I thought, dear Lord, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.360 how many jobs has this man had. But the purpose 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:18.719 of showing me this list was this, he said, I 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.320 went back through my life and I looked at every 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.599 job that I've ever had, And he said, I thought 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.000 about it, and he said, what did that job show 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:32.360 me what did that job give me? And he assigned 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:42.240 a word to each one of those jobs, words like commitment, perseverance, integrity, responsibility. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.280 He said, Victoria, you know some of those jobs at 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.279 the time, I couldn't see how they even made sense. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.719 He said. They were difficult, they were hard, he says, 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:55.480 But when I made this list, he said, what it 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:59.480 did is it showed me how grateful I could be 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.039 for each every one of these jobs, and how it 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:06.160 developed my character and my resolve for the next job. 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.760 You know what he was doing, he was adding value 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:15.960 to his life. He was mining the gold. See sometimes 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.560 we get stuck in those places and we make excuses 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.120 why we didn't get to the next place, said, we 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.120 had to do this. Our parents didn't bring us up right. Well, 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:27.359 if I'd have had an opportunity to go to college, 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:31.279 well if I didn't have to work this job. You See, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:35.240 this man told me. I read this list often, he said, 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.599 because it helps me be very aware and conscious of 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.120 where I am right now and the blessings in my life. See, 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.200 this man is a top executive now at a million 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.560 dollar company. He said, I read it often. I never 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.679 want to take this for granted. You see, we should 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.560 all dig the gold out of our life. Yeah, we're 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:04.599 going to face challenges. We're going to face challenges. Things 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.359 aren't always going to be easy. But when we begin 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:10.240 to look for the lessons, when we begin to look 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.960 for what can build in us, you know, that's when 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.960 we're gonna find the value. That's when we're going to 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.280 find the purpose. You see, when you're appreciative and you 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:24.080 look for the value in something, what you're doing is 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:27.760 you're adding to your life. Sometimes we run around thinking 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.880 there's a missing link if I can only find that thing, 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.320 And when you have an attitude like that, you are lacking. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.200 And when you're lacking, it's hard to find purpose. That's why, 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.400 wherever you are today, no matter how difficult it is, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:47.440 ask God to show you where's the value in this? God? 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.400 How can I appreciate this because it's something you've given me. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.200 You see, the happy people are the people that can 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.960 be appreciative of what they have right now on the 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:05.120 way to where they're going. Have you ever heard that 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:07.840 song you don't Know what you Got Till It's Gone. 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:10.880 I think it's a country Western song. It sounds like it. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.000 You know, it's unfortunate that some people have to lose 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:19.720 something before they recognize the value in it. You see, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.440 we shouldn't have to lose something to begin to appreciate it. 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:25.520 I was talking to a man the other day, and 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.160 he was telling me how he had struggled with this 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.440 long battle of cancer, and his recovery had been very difficult. 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:33.600 He said, but let me tell you, Victoria, I see 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.360 the world in a completely different way. How I viewed 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.360 my life before cancer is totally different than how I 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.400 view my life now. He said. The important things to 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.680 me are my friends and my family. He said this 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.800 that I thought it was so good. He said. You know, 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.760 when you've had cancer, he said, you realize that a 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:57.640 bucket list is overrated. He said. Experiencing and appreciating what 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:03.280 you have every day is what's important. You see, we 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.239 don't want to have to almost lose something to appreciate 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.320 what we have. We cannot get so comfortable and so 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:16.400 accustomed to the blessings in our life. Someone gave me 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.240 a sculpture and I liked it. It was really pretty. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.680 I put it up in my home, and that sculpture 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.800 was right where I want to put my Christmas tree. 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.960 So I took the sculpture down and I short it 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.640 in a back closet in my home. I put all 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.400 my Christmas decorations up. Okay, don't judge me, but I 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:35.960 put my Christmas decorations up a week before Thanksgiving. But 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.680 I take them down right after Christmas. I was digging 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.840 in a closet just not long ago, and I noticed 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.880 a sheet in the back of that closet, and I thought, 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.280 what is that? And I pulled off the sheet and 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.120 it was that statue. Now, that statue had been in 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.400 there about two years, and I thought, oh my gosh, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.200 I forgot all about this statue. You know, sometimes you 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:03.079 get so much stuff it's maybe some pretty things, you 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.959 forget about what you have. So I kind of just 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.800 forgot all about the statue. So I tossed the sheet 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.480 back over it because I was in a hurry, and 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.040 I left. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:12.400 Well. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.880 A few days later, I was with some friends of 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.880 mine and we were on a project and we were 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.240 staging a table, and so we had the table looking 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.720 really good, and somebody said, you know, we need something 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.600 special on this table. We need something to set this 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.480 table off. And so we were looking for all these things. 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.680 What can we just top this table off? With and 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.680 in my mind I thought about that statue in my 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.560 closet with a sheet on it. I thought that might 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.440 just look good. So I had someone bring it where 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.120 I was, and so we put the statue on it, 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.400 and all the girls were like, whoa, that is beautiful. 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:54.119 That is the most perfect thing ever. That is so gorgeous. 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:56.840 And I stood back and I thought, that is pretty, 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.040 isn't it. It's amazing. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:00.120 Oh. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:04.280 I valued the beauty in that statue because everyone else 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:08.040 did so. On my way home, I was thinking to myself, 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.200 I got to find something like that because I want 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:16.040 my statue back. So I got home and I got 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.000 on the internet and I started looking looking what can 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:20.920 I get that's like that? What can I get that's 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:25.160 like that? And to my surprise, I realized that that 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:28.800 statue was a limited edition. The artist only made a 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.120 few and you couldn't get it anymore. And then I 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:36.920 found a gallery that was looking for that specific statue. 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.559 They wanted to buy it. I was like, oh my gosh, 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.160 this is something so valuable. I want my statue back. 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.920 I want my statue back. That's all I could think 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.640 about was getting my statue back. You see, sometimes we 0:11:51.720 --> 0:12:03.479 don't appreciate things until someone else sees the value in them. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.800 You see what you're taking for granted today, someone else 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:14.120 may be praying for Some things can't be replaced. They're 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:20.480 one of a kind, your mother, your father, children, spouse. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:26.360 Don't neglect it. Don't get so used to it that 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:31.280 you forget the precious gift that it really is. You see. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:35.359 I believe the happiest people are the people who appreciate 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.840 what they have right now and place value on it. 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.280 Because when you place value on it, it places value 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.439 on you and your life. 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