Connecting with the right people

Connecting with the right people by Pastor Joel Osteen

- got to connect to the people that appreciate your uniqueness, not one that is always pushing you down, no matter how good you do.
- get the wrong people out of your life, to get new people into your life.
- many people around you are with you, but not always for you.
- love some people from a distance.
- people wont be jealous of your dreams if they are your pearls.
- stay with people that values your gifts, casting your pearls among swines.
- stay with people that is always happy with whatever you are, believe in you.
- you time is too valueable to be spending with the people that is not for you.
- stay with people that will realease their faith in you, not release their doubt in you.
- know the importance of the need to get people who understands your assignment.
- who you have in your innder circle is extremely important.
- are inspiring you to do further, or the opposite.
- dont spend your time with people that do not make you better.
- Prov 27, are your friends making you stronger or vice versa.
- you cannot soar like an eagle if you havng around turkeys.

God wants to amaze you

Sermon on 23 April 2010 by Pastor Joel Osteen (Lakewood Church)
God wants to amaze you

- No good thing will God with-hold if you walk upright.
- Ephesians 3:20 - God did exceedingly, abundantly and above beyond.

Victoria Osteen
- Proverbs 4:23 - You dont go into life, but you bring life into you. Guard you heart. out of it, directs the course of your life. The pure in heart will see God.
- Dont let offences linger, get rid of them immediately. Offence is like the barrier that blocks your heart.
- When you forgive, its like setting the captive free. And that captive is you.
- Forgiveness does not mean that the person is right, it means that you are trusting God, then He will move you pass into your greater destiny.
- Use our faith, and trust God, and allow Him to work in you. He has given you what it takes to overcome.
- The enemy wants us to focus on the distractions, but God will keep you in position, to strengthen you in a way that you can manage. He is a faithful God.

Joel Osteen
- God has favor in you future, then you will super-see in your past.
- What God did previously for your previous generation, but God has a greater things in store for you as He is a God of increase.
- Ephesians 2:7 - Inmesurable, limitless, surpassing greatness
- What God has in your future, where is He is going to take you?
- Our job is to believe, that what in you future, is greater than what is in your past.
- Habakkuk 1:5 - God told unbelievers all the increadible things that He is going to do in great detail, they will not believe.
- God has planned our your days for good in the future.
- Dont let unbelievers got you into unbelieving.
- Ephs 1:18 - Have a greater understading of the amazing things that God has installed for you in your future.
- Psa 27:13 - Believe that God has amazing things in your future. Incredible power is release when we believe.
- The only promises that will come alive in your life, and to get an agreement with God and let God move in your heart. Expect that you will receive it. Rise up and believe!
- Activating your faith by believing. Let the seed that root. He is about to release a new favour in your life.
- Allow the promise to take root. Take the limits off from God and let God do amazing things in your life.
- Pro 13:21 - Blessings, favour and divine connections are chasing you.
- He will restore impossible situations. He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Who would have ever thought that..... ?

Understanding your value

15 Jan 2010

Understanding your value by Paster Joel Osteen

- Greatest need is to feel a sense of self-worth, we are important and we have more to offer.

- Enemies would want us to live our lives in insecurities.

- Dont internalise complaints by others about you.

- Phychologist: your self-worth is measured by how the people closest to you rate you.

- Base your sense of value of what your Heavenly Father sees you.

- Eph 2:10 You are God's masterpiece... Not mass-produced, but custom-made, one of a kind.

- You are God's most priced possession.

- Understand your sense of value.

- The greatest enemy is rejection.

- 1 Peter 2:9 You have been chosen by God himself.

- God will give you beauty for your ashes.

- Josh 5:9 Today, God is rolling away the reoproach from you.

- Got to let go the blame, the shame, the disgrace.

- Put on a new attitude, shake the negative attitude off.

- People dont determine your destiny, but God does.

Have good opinion of yourself

8 January 2009

Have good opinion of yourself by Pastor Joel Osteen

-Our minds are constantly recording what we think of ourselves.
-Love yourself in a healthy way, so that you can love others in the way it should be.
-God created us to be what we should be and not to be against ourselves.
-You may look ordinary, but think extraordinary.
-See yourself as child of the most High God. Have the right opinion of yourself.
-People see you the way you see yourself.
-Change the opinion of youself. Quit comparing and start loving and valuing yourself. Seeing you as the masterpiece God created you to be, to bring yourself to the new level.
-Numbers 13:34 People see you the way you see yourself.
-God praised himself when He did something good, as in Genesis.
-Remember the victory but not the defeat.
-Philemon 1:6 Our faith is made affecting when we acknowledge the good.
-Start seeing the best in yourself. A quite confident.
-Psalm 139:14 God makde you in the amazing way, wonderful.

Activating Faith Instead of Fear

6 November 2009 at Lakewood Church by Pastor Joel Osteen

- We have the choice to either believe that God is in control, or we can choose to be in failure... choosing faith instead of fear.
- Fear says believe in negative, but Faith believes in God.
- What we meditate on, what will become a reality.
- Instead of constantly worrying, have faith in God.
- Matt 9:29
- Quit expecting the worst, and start expecting God's favor.
- Know that God is on the throne, He is Jehovah Jirah.
- Dont give up on your dreams just because other people told you that you cant do it.
- Dont give in to thoughts of fear.
- Fear looks much bigger and more intimidating than it actually it.
- When we make mistakes into dwelling on it, our imagination will get into us. The fear will multiply and be intimidating to you.
- Cast down those wrong imagination.
- Know that you are the owner and dont let your imagination run wild in the wrong direction.
- See restoration...choose the right channel.. go into the new level.
- Cast down those wrong imagination.
- Talk into having a great year, no obstacles too big for you.
- Dont use your energy to worry, use your energy to worry.
- God has walked you through in the past, He will walk you through in the future.
- Choose faith and you will overcome every obstacles and achieve the dreams God has installed for you.

God's Hand Is Outstretched Toward You

Sermon on 23-10-2009 at Lakewood Church by Pastor Joel Osteen

- The outstretched hand of God will make all things possible.
- Imagine God's hand is outstretched towards you, a hand of giving and restoration.
- A force for you is greater than the force against you.
- Isaiah 14:27 God has a purpose in your life. He has got a solution for every problem.
- God has preordained you to be victorious.
- Need to get a new vision. Expect God's favour.
- God knew every mistake we make. And none of that can stop God's purpose in your life.
- Get your vision in line with God.
- Isa 14:27 No one can stop God's outstretched hand.
- When God gets ready to bless you, nothing can stop it from happen.
- When you believe, anything can happen.
- When we release our faith, its like we connecting our hands to God's hand. Supernatural things going to happen.
- Psa 118:15 The strong arms of the Lord do amazing things. God is going to turn around things then you thought impossible.
- Stay in peace when someone is doing you wrong. His hand is outstretched towards you, but his fist is clenched on our enemies. Exo 6:6.
- God will free you from the poverty of life, from every addiction, every bad habits.
- Isa 59:1 Dont have a doubt that no addiction God cannot do. With God, all things are possible.

Programming you mind to victory

Sermon on 25-09-2009 at Lakewood Church by Pastor Joel Osteen

- Our mind is like the computer, we are what we think we are. What we put in, we are going to get out.
- Reprogram your thinking, program your mind to victory.
- You are what you believe. You will become what you believe.
- Our mind is helping us becoming who we are.
- Your thought sets limit for your life.
- Got to get your command centre get the right direction.
- Think thoughts of victory.
- You got to believe it before you ever see it= Faith.
- You walk by faith and not by sight.
- Romans 4:17 Abraham choose to believe what God told him, becoming father of all nation, even though he is not yet even a father. God speak of non-existance things, that they have existed.
- Ephesians
- Collosions
- Psalms
- All past tense, God has done great things for you.
- When God says that you are blessed, you are blessed.
- God has the ultimate say.
- Get an agreement with God, allows promises to be released.
- Psalms: God has crowned you with God's favour. Declaring the favour.
- God always put things in our spirits, before they come into natural.
- God's favour lasts for a lifetime.
- Romans 4:18

Have a different kind of spirit

Sermon on 18-09-2009 at Lakewood Church

Have a Different Kind of Spirit by Pastor Joel Osteen

- Too many people go around discouraged.
- We tend to go with the flow, but we are God's children, we are not suppose to go with the majority.
- Anybody can complaint, but God wants us to make a different spirit.
- Look for the good, be thankful.
- Don't be a thermometer that measures the temperature, be a thermostate that controls the temperature.
- When you talk in defeat, you draw in defeat.
- You have the spirit of the living God, reject negativity.
- Be positive, hopeful and stay still.
- Dont let negativity affect you.
- Focus on whats right, not on whats wrong. Dont be influence by others.
- God determines your destiny.
- God has a way of getting people's attention. Be your best each day, dont complaint.
- Overcome evil with good.
- Numbers 14:24 Caleb has a different spirit. He was moving forward in faith, without complaining.
- Understand who you are, and know what you have inside.
- Shake off the negative thoughts.

You have inside information

Sermon on 21-08-2009 at Lakewood Church

You have inside information by Joel Osteen

- We do not have to go through life guessing.
- The Holy Spirit is there to guide you, through your spirit person, the still small voice.
- Jesus said, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
- Make sure you keep your spiritual ears tuned to God's frequency, an intuition, an impression.
- God is constantly transmitting, and we have to be constantly there to listen.
- Be sensitive, so you wont miss what God is saying.
- God will give you inside information to protect you from danger, He will warn you before hand.
- God gives you ideas ahead of your time.
- The Heavenly Fathers knows about everything and anything.
- Follow the impression deep down your heart even you dont know what is it but you know that it is the right thing to do.
- The spirit of the Most High God is in every believer. He gives your wisdom to do the right thing, the discernment to do what is right or wrong.
- God can see through a surface to a person's heart.
- You will feel an unrest towards a warning.
- God wants to lead us, but will not drag us.
- God will tell you what your enemies going to do next.
- Col 3:15 , peace should be the deciding factor when decision is to be made. You should be at peace when you make a decision, knowing God's warning.
- Nothing can stand against from God, at the right time, He will let you know what to do. Stay in faith and listen to the still small voice. God has something better coming your way.
- Dont over-ride the knowing down in your heart. You have wisdoms to make decision, the discernment to know right or wrong, the ability to hear the still small voice.

The Calvary's cross

By Benny Hinn

When we consider what happened at Calvary's Cross, these three things stand out:

1. The sin of mankind nailed Jesus to the cross. All mankind was responsible for the crucifixion of our Savior. The Roman soldiers, the people watching, as well as you and I are guilty, for it was our sins---collectively and individually---that caused Him to come to the earth to give Himself willingly as the ultimate sacrifice.

2. God's love is overwhelming. It was at the Cross where both God the Father and Jesus His Son gave history's greatest gift.

The Savior willingly gave Himself to become mankind's only door to the Father. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).

3. Christ was sinless, yet He became our Sin-Bearer. Instead of symbolically cleansing us from defilement and death, the Lord cleansed us from actual sin.

It was through His sacrifice at Calvary that the Lord Jesus removed the ultimate obstacle, sin, that had caused centuries of estrangement between God and mankind, thereby allowing the restoration of intimate fellowship with the Father:

"For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time." (1 Timothy 2:3-6)