We're Wired With God's Power - Victoria Osteen

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Can you imagine living in 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.200 a home like that but not being able to run 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:11.359 any of that stuff. It's all wired with power and electricity, 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.480 but you didn't go out to the breaker box and 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:19.120 flip on the switch. Wouldn't that be crazy? I can't 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:24.200 even imagine how they lived without power. It'd be difficult 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.680 to imagine because we have gotten so used to having 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:33.200 our appliances plugged in. Listen, I bet nobody in here 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.360 pretty much would go out of their house without charging 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.760 their phone, would they? And I don't know if you're 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.320 like me, if my phone runs out of battery. I'm 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.839 looking for someone with a charger. I'm gonna plug into 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.000 that power because I don't want to be disconnected. I 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:54.160 want my phone fully charged. It would be crazy to 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.840 live without power when it's available to you. But do 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.720 you know so many people are living in a house 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.359 and they're never switching on the power. They're never switching 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:11.440 on the breaker box. You see, God has wired you 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:19.679 with power. You are fully wired with power, but you 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.560 got to turn it on. How do we turn on 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:27.840 this power? Listen to what it says in Romans ten nine. 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.480 Now you have to understand this verse is so key 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.960 to the power of God in you. It not only 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.440 tells you how to get wired, but it tells you 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.560 how to flow in the power. It says, if you 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:48.440 will declare with your mouth that Jesus's Lord, and if 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.800 you will believe with your heart that God raised him 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.480 from the dead, then you will be saved. With the heart, 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:04.760 man believes with the mouth, man makes confessions unto righteousness. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:10.280 You see when you make Jesus the lord of your 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.520 life by saying, I believe God sin his son, he 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.919 died on the cross for me. He rose again on 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.919 the third day, so that I can be free from sin, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.080 that I am on my way to heaven. Guess what 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.880 happens you go from a house a temple that has 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:39.400 no wiring to being fully wired. You're fully wired, but 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:45.080 to switch on that power that is in you? It says, 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.960 it's with the heart, man believes, and with the mouth, 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.680 he confesses. You see, that is the switch that turns 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.960 on the power. I talked to a man the other 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.760 day and he told me, Victoria, I've had seven strokes. 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.240 The doctor has found three leisioned areas on my brain. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.880 He said. I found myself walking with a cane. I 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.719 could hardly get around. He said, I'm a pastor of 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.520 a church. He said, I begin to realize my life 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.359 is just powerless. And I began to say, God, what 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.000 is going on? Why do I deserve this? What is wrong? 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.440 And he said, Victoria, I felt in my heart and 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.799 I saw in the spirit. I felt like I saw 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:39.360 this sewage swirling around of thoughts. And I had been 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:45.840 thinking this, these poisonous thoughts and confessing these poisonous thoughts 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:50.040 about myself for so long that it drained the power 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.919 right out of me. He said, it was just like 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.960 a sewage of thoughts. I had been so critical on myself. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:03.479 I'd been confessing how I wasn't good enough, How you 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:06.200 know I didn't have the favor of God, that nothing 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.159 goes right for me. And he said that confession made 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.960 me believe it. And he said I had no power. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.640 He said, I found serious exem one twenty eight, he said, 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.400 and I begin to listen to Joel. I begin to 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.200 listen to the word that he preached. I began to 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.520 transition my thinking little by little, he said. I stopped 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:30.239 those negative words, and I begin to confess and believe 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.200 the right thing over my life. He said, I'm not 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.200 walking with the cane anymore. Victoria. He said, I'm able 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.880 to get around. He said, Now would I confess? And 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:46.159 now would I believe? Are the promises of God? You see, 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:51.000 that man was fully wired. He just wasn't using the 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:57.040 power correctly. He wasn't flipping on the switch. He wasn't 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:01.880 believing in his heart and confessing out of his mouth. Now, 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.480 if I asked you today, do you believe that Jesus 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.160 Christ gave his life so that you could be saved? 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.080 Many of you, most of you would say yeah, I do. 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.040 Let me tell you about it well, it was a 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.600 little girl, and it was when I was in Sunday School, 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:18.560 Or you would tell me when I was a young 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.680 man I met God and he saved me. You could 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.400 tell me a beautiful testimony. I bet I couldn't talk 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:29.119 you out of being saved. In fact, if I tried, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.560 you'd probably say, victor, just leave me alone. You know what, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.280 I am saved. I am saved. We wouldn't let anybody 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.280 talk us out of that, would we? Why do we 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.840 let our circumstances. Why do we let discouragement talk us 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.320 out of believing that God was to bless our life? 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.520 Why do we let what people say about us define 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.320 us and tell us that we don't have favor, We're 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.440 not talented, we don't hold great value. We wouldn't let 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.760 anybody talk us out of being saved, but will certainly 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:08.640 let things talk us out of our destiny, talk us 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.200 out of the good things God has for us. Why 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.520 is that we may be fully wired, because that's what 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.440 happened when you gave your heart to Jesus. But you're 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.320 not turning on your breaker boxes, you're not confessing out 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.520 of your mouth so you can believe in your heart. 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:29.560 You see when a circumstance comes against you, you have 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:33.080 to say no, uh uh. God says this about me. 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.839 He says, I'm fearfully and wonderfully. May when you start 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.600 feeling sick. No, God is my healer, He's my redeemer, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.920 He's my pearl of great price. When people are talking 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:50.600 about you, when they're pressing you down, no no, I 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.920 don't listen to that. And I certainly don't repeat what 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.960 they say. I don't repeat what the enemy says about me. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.640 I repeat what God says about me. That's my confession. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.920 That's what I believe in my heart, and I'm not 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.920 going to let anybody talk me out of it. King 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:14.760 David the Psalmist David, King of Israel. God called him 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.760 a man after his own heart. God called him a 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.160 man after his own heart. But when you read some 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:26.400 of the Psalms, you see that David was susceptible to discouragement. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:31.240 He was also susceptible to cutting off the power instead 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:34.400 of turning on the power. In Psalms forty three and 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.199 forty two, you can read his writings and he begins 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:42.600 to talk about his overwhelming feeling his soul ridged within him. 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:46.480 The armies encamped around him on every side. He begins 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.480 to talk about all the problems that he has. You 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.920 continue to read, and all of a sudden, you see 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:57.040 a transition in his prayer. You see a turning, and 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:02.400 he stops and he challenges that discouraging voice. He challenges 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.760 those negative situations and he says this. He says, why 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:12.800 is my soul so downcast? Why am I so discouraged. 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:16.680 He's like, I'm a wired man. I'm gonna flip on 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.480 the switch. And then he begins to say, I'm gonna 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.040 put my hope in God. I'm gonna trust in the God, 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:30.679 my savior. I'm gonna praise him yet again. You see 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:35.479 he turned on the power. This is a man, that's 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:40.360 a man that served under God, that God loved. I 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.480 believe he is there to show us that we can 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.760 go down the road of discouragement, but we're fully powered 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:53.960 up to charge our batteries, to change our situation, to 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:58.520 supersize our strength, to stand strong against the power of 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.360 the enemy. We have the power in God. Jesus said, 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.320 I'm going to heaven. He says, I'm going to heaven, 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.360 but I'm leaving you my power. And then he said, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.839 because you're gonna do greater works than I did. Now, 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:15.120 I'll tell you I don't understand all the theology in that. 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.559 But if God says I'm gonna do great works, I'm 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:25.600 gonna do great works. I'm gonna do great works. Discouragement, 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.679 negative self talk, it'll hold your prisoner, it'll hold you captive. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.679 The only way you can break that chain, the only 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.480 way that you can break through that is to begin 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.480 to confess with your mouth and believe in your heart 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:46.160 unto salvation, unto your righteousness. Because the enemy doesn't want 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.959 you to know who you are. He doesn't want you 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:51.240 to know what God says about you. He wants you 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.520 to hear what other people are saying. He wants you 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.800 to be dictated by your circumstances. Hey, your bills are 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.280 getting piling up and your finances are getting a little old. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.640 He wants you to I'm poor, I'm poor. God doesn't. 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:03.599 But you know what the Bible says. He says that 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.040 the poor say I'm rich. He says, Let those people 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.760 who are weak you begin to say you're strong. Why 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.480 Because it's a principle that's been established by God. What 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.640 you confess out of your mouth and what you believe 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.080 in your heart will supersize your power. It will plug 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.360 you in to the greatness of God. Ephesian three, p. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.640 Twenty says to him who is able to do more 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:33.760 than I can think or imagine, according to the power 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:38.400 that works within me. It doesn't say according to God's power, 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:42.040 according to if God is happy with me. It says, 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:47.480 according to what I release an increase on the inside 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:54.480 of me. Listen, you're wired today, and you can flow 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.720 in great power. You can overcome every obstacle. You can 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.520 climb every mountain, you can get out of every valley. 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.560 You don't have to be discouraged, you don't have to 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.839 be defeated. You're not a victim. You're a victor because 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:15.160 God lives on the inside of you. Your words are weapons. 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.560 Use them for yourself, not against yourself, and I believe 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.600 you'll see the power in you. Come forth with great strength. 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