You Are A Child Of Promise | Victoria Osteen

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I feel 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.920 like God doesn't even care about what's going on with me? 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.400 You know, I believe that sometimes we can all feel 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.680 that way. We get struggling with something so long in 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.840 our life, we wonder, God, where are you? Do you 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.120 even see what's going on in my life? Do you 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:29.360 even care? Sometimes we're in a room like this and 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:33.240 we feel like just one person in the crowd. God, 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.360 how do you find me in the midst of all 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.560 these people? But can I tell you today, God's eyes 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:43.280 are on you. I want to be the one that 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:47.680 reminds you. God sees you. The Bible says that he 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:51.680 knew you before the foundation of the world, that he 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:56.240 handpicked you. See, he knows every single hair on your head. 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.760 Now that blows my mind. But God is God, and 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:04.200 if he said it, I believe it. No matter what 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:10.320 I feel like, even if I feel alone in a 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:14.560 crowded room, I'm gonna stand on the word that God 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.160 says he knew me. He knows my down city, he 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.520 knows my uprising, and Bible says he knows my thoughts 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:25.080 from Afar. I don't even have to speak anything and 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:29.760 God already knows me. You see, God knows you today. 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:37.560 But if we're gonna overcome those crushing feelings of feeling alone, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.160 feeling uncared for. We're gonna have to stir up our faith. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.680 We're gonna have to remind ourself every day. God does 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.640 know me, He does care for me. And me and 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.200 God we're a majority. We can do anything but fail. See, 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:59.000 with God, anything is possible. Anything is possible. Whatever you're 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:04.480 faith thing, it's possible if you take hold of God. Luke, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:08.480 chapter thirteen one, Jesus was teaching in one of the 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:14.000 synagogues on this Sabbath day. There was people all around. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.159 It was crowded, and he began to teach them. And 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:22.000 in the middle of his teaching, he stopped. He stopped 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:26.000 because he took notice of a woman that was in 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:30.400 the crowd. You see, the woman that was in this crowd. 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:34.719 She wasn't dressed beautifully, she didn't walk in late, and 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.600 that's why he noticed her. The woman that was in 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.320 this crowd, the Bible says, was crippled. In fact, she 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.760 was bent over like a horseshoe. It said she couldn't 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:51.599 even straighten up. Luke describes her as a woman that 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:56.400 was afflicted with a spirit of infirmity. Now we don't 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.599 know what that infirmity was, but it was something that 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.719 had been We found her up. We don't know what 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.480 had happened in her life, why her body was so 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:09.440 weak and so frail. But she was in the synagogue 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:15.480 that day, bent over low. Now, if I asked you 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.440 to stand up right now, and I said, hey, let's everybody, 0:05:18.480 --> 0:05:22.800 let's bend over, you would go Victoria, quit being so silly, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.120 you probably laugh a little bit. You'd be there. But 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:31.159 if you were bent over for eighteen years, it wouldn't 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.839 be so funny. You see, the Bible said she was 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:40.880 bent over for eighteen long years. You see, I'm sure 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.320 there were people standing, and there were people's city. The 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:48.440 most amazing thing to me that day was said, Jesus 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:55.839 noticed her. See he fixed his eyes on her that day. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.440 I'm sure when she came in she didn't feel like 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:05.320 anybody who she was. She felt very unnoticed. But the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.120 good news is Jesus saw her and he knew all 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:14.080 about her. In fact, he immediately called out woman forward. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.880 He stopped everything that he was doing and he called 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.520 her forward. Can you imagine that sweet little woman. I 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.159 don't know how old she was, but she was been over. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.760 So she just appears to me like she'd have felt 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:31.160 pretty frill and old. She might not have been. We 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.400 just know she had it for eighteen years. But she 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:38.760 began moving slowly towards Jesus, and he spoke this word 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:43.719 to her. He said, woman, you are free from your 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:52.480 infirmity today. You're free. I mean she was shuffling and 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:57.240 she heard those words, I'm free from my infirmity today. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.040 Then he touched her, and the Bible said she immediately 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.440 stood up. She hadn't stood up for eighteen years. This 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.840 woman had been looking at the ground. All she had 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.680 seen was the dust of the ground and people's feet. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.920 She didn't even see their faces. She didn't even see 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:22.040 Jesus that day. But when he said, you are loosed 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.360 from what is binding you, and he touched her, and 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:29.080 she stood up. Can you imagine the first face she 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.400 had seen in this upright position was a face of God. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:42.880 It was a face of Jesus. You see, she felt 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:48.680 like no one saw her. She had an identity of 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:54.560 being crippled. But Jesus saw her as a daughter of Abraham. 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:59.000 You see, he didn't see a crippled woman when everyone 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.440 else did. He saw a daughter of Promise, and he 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.440 set her free. That day now. I was thinking about this. 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.080 She'd been crippled for eighteen years, she'd been looking down 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:15.200 at the ground. I wonder how long it took her 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:19.480 to realize that she was set free, that she wasn't 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.840 crippled anymore. I mean, she was standing up straight. But 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.480 you know, when you've been a certain way for so long, 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.960 it's hard to believe you can be another way. It's 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.200 kind of like an attitude when that attitude's had you 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.240 for so you've had this attitude for so long. Somehow 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:40.960 that attitude has you. I wonder how long it took 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:45.280 her to realize she just got set free. And I believe, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:49.040 But I'm talking to somebody today that's bent down under 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:54.000 a heavy load. You don't even realize that you're a 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.080 son or a daughter of promise, and that God has 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.520 already spoken the word and he's already set you free. 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:06.400 He's already freed you from what would bind you. But 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:10.600 you just don't realize it yet. You see, the enemy 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:15.640 wants you low, real low. He wants you looking down. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.520 He certainly doesn't want you to see the face of 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.920 your savior. He doesn't want to see you to see 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.840 that you are a son and daughter of promise. You see, 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:30.400 he called her a daughter of Abraham. There were some 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.080 opponents in the crowd that didn't want her healed that day. 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.960 They were looking for all the reasons that women shouldn't 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:38.040 be healed. But you know what he said. He said, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.800 this woman is the daughter of Abraham. She has every 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:45.560 right and every authority to be healed any day of 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:51.600 the week. And sometimes people try to keep you bent 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:56.280 over with their words, with the situation. Man, your own 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.920 mind tries to keep you weighed down. But can I 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.760 I'll tell you have all power and authority to stand 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:08.200 up straight, because Jesus is already calling you forward. We 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.439 got to shake the dust off of us and stand 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.960 up and move forward. You know, I admire about this woman. 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.560 I admire the fact that she was in the synagogue 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:26.920 that day. She didn't let her bent over cripple condition 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.640 keep her from the position of hearing what Jesus had 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:36.440 to say. And too often we allow the conditions in 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.680 our life to keep us from our position of faith. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.160 We say I can't come to church today, I'm too tired. 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:46.840 Me and my boss has me working six days a week. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.480 My children have me running them to every activity that 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:55.520 there are. I'm tired. I need to rest. You see, 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.880 nobody would have blamed that woman for staying home on 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:04.520 the Sabbath day, but she didn't see. She didn't allow 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.559 her condition to change her position. She was a daughter 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.880 of Promise, whether she knew it or not, and that's 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:17.080 what kept her going. I want to encourage you today 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:22.360 to stir your faith. Don't allow anything to bend you over, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:27.959 to bind you up. Because whom the sun sets free 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:38.319 is free. Indeed, you are free. Indeed, today you've been 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.800 bought with a great Christ. You are joint heirs with 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.920 Jesus Christ. You have a covenant between you and God. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.640 You see, that's what that woman had. That's what Jesus saw. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.360 He didn't see her crippled body. He saw his covenant 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:58.120 with her. He saw an agreement that couldn't be broken 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.319 and used in in a position and today of covenant, 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.360 there is an agreement between you and God that cannot 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.840 be broken. There's no devil on earth that can bind 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:16.440 you anymore because you're free, free, free. Indeed, you see. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.719 It's up to us to get ourself under the word, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:25.439 to understand that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.640 He's gonna be the same for you as he is 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.760 for your children. He is the same Jesus, with the 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:39.080 same covenant, blood covenant. You see, when we stir up 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:44.960 our faith and we realize the power that Jesus has 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:50.280 towards us, we will say God can. When we stir 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:55.040 up our faith and realize the love He has for us, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:13:01.600 we'll say God will listen. 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