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)

Complete by Parachute

Here I am, Oh God

I bring this sacrifice--my open heart.

I offer up my life.

I look to You, Lord

Your love that never ends

Restores me again

So I lift my eyes to you, Lord

In Your strength will I break through, Lord

Touch me now, let your love fall down on me

And I will be complete in You.

Here I am, Oh God

I bring this sacrifice--my open heart.

I offer up my life.

I look to You, Lord.

Your love that never ends

Restores me again

So I lift my eyes to you Lord

And by faith, I will walk on, Lord

Then I'll see beyond my calvary one day,

And I will be complete in..

I look to You, Lord

Your love that never ends

Restores me again
So I lift my eyes to you Lord

In your strength will I break through Lord

Touch me now, let your love fall down on me

I know your love dispels all my fears.

Through the storm I will hold on Lord

And I pray I will hold on, Lord

Then I'll see beyond my calvary one day

And I will be complete in

I will be complete in

I will be complete in You

A Cry for the Lost

By Benny Hinn

The apostle Paul spoke of this burden when he wrote, "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart" (Romans 9:1-2).

And as we walk with the Son of God, we too, will receive the "weight" of souls that Paul experienced. When we follow and commune with Jesus we will know the feelings of His heart. As He proclaimed, "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10).

Jesus's burden will become yours as you follow Him---just as it did for these well-known soul winners:

- Billy Graham. The great evangelist often related how he became overwhelmed with a burden for the lost in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, after he received Jesus Christ into his heart.

- Oral Roberts. Long before he was known around the world as an evangelist and educator, he suddenly and inexplicably felt this same urgency for souls when he turned his life over to Christ in rural Oklahoma.

- Kathryn Kuhlman. After asking Jesus into her life at the age of fourteen, she began preaching the Gospel throughout the western United States within a year.

- Rex Humbard. While still a young man in Arkansas, he received this same calling for souls. He told about walking through the streets of his small town and crying over lost humanity.

A heart-cry for the lost was given to each of these believers by the power of the Holy Spirit. Others, such as Dwight L. Moody and Charles Finney, were used mightily to reach the unsaved. They, too, experienced an unexplainable burden for souls which fell upon them.

Once a believer begins to understand that only the Lord gives this glorious calling and burden, he will ask Him for it in prayer. It is the only way a person can receive an all-consuming passion for lost souls.

Marvelous prayer

By Benny Hinn

There is a marvelous way to pray that is mentioned in the Word. It’s called praying “in the Spirit.” Really, it’s the only way to pray. Jude 20 contains the command, “building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit”.

To the Christians at Ephesus, Paul said they should be “praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” (Eph. 6:18). Now I enjoy praying in a heavenly language, and do so often, but praying “in the Spirit” is much more than this.

It also means to pray in the realm of the Holy Spirit and in the power of the Holy Spirit. This is one of the many reasons why living in fellowship with the Holy Spirit is so important – it allows us to experience His power and His presence when we pray.

But not only does He make His power available to us when we pray, He also prays for us! Listen to the marvelous truth of Romans 8:26: “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered”.

Let’s break this down phrase by phrase. The Spirit also helps: literally, “keeps on helping” – He doesn’t help us just now and then. He continuously helps us. The things that capture our attention and drive us to our knees are heavy – too heavy to bear alone, and often too complex to express with words alone.

Notice that the Holy Spirit helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. Actually, that word should be translated weakness. “He helps our entire weakness, but especially as it manifests itself in relation to our prayer life and particularly in relation to knowing what to pray for at the present moment. While we wait for our full redemption (see Romans 8:18-25) we need guidance in the particulars of prayer.”

The Holy Spirit helps us through making intercession for us. Notice actually that the text says, “the Spirit Himself.” No intermediaries, no agents – the Third Person of the Trinity, very God Himself, intervening in our behalf.

The word “intercession” is also a picturesque word depicting “rescue by one who ‘happens upon’ one who is in trouble” and pleads or intercedes on their behalf.

Don’t let your circumstances, no matter how distressing, keep you from prayer. The Holy Spirit is waiting to plead your case before the Father.

The Holy Spirit intercedes with groaning which cannot be uttered. And what is the result? Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mid of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

The Holy Spirit takes our tangled thoughts and emotions, what we’re praying for and what we should pray for, and with deep emotion brings the right sentiments to the Throne.

Hallelujah for the intercessory work of the Holy Spirit!

A Living Example

By Kenneth C. Ulmer, PH.D.

In 3 John 2, the author writes, "Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers."

God wants you to be a living example of His prosperity---a prosperity that includes both spiritual abundance and financial blessings. He wants you to be prsperous in spite of what's not in your pocket. In spite of what kind of car you drive. In spite of what kind of home you live in. In spite of what kind of clothes you wear. He wants you to have a prosperity anchored in the reality that money is only a tool, a test and a testimony for the true riches that lie beyond the material confines of this decaying world.

A favorite hymn of many Christians is a little song called "Amazing Grace." One of my favorite lines says:

Through many dangers, toils and snares we have already come.

'Twas Grace that brought us safe thus far and Grace will lead us home!

Don't be ashamed to testify that you have come through many "dangers, toils and snares." Don't be ashamed to share that the devil was trying to teop you every step of the way, yet God gave you the power and grace to climb the mountain and stand up like a champion to give Him all the praise. God's grace brought you through the snares so that you could be a living testimony of Him. Tried, tested and true---a honored tool in His hands, ready to serve Him to the utmost.

Do you need a HEALING?

By Benny Hinn

"Come, and let us return unto the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up." Hosea 6:1

God's divine touch upon a broken body or mind is not merely a New Testament phenomenon from the days of the apostles and the Early Church. His ability to perform the miraculous is not and never has been restricted to a certain time frame in church history. God is no respecter of persons, for Hebrews 13:8 declares, "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today, and forever."

God is a healing God, and His very presence births the hope of healing, deliverance, and restoration. Chronicled in every book of the Bible is God's power to heal. The Bible is the believer's handbook for living, and only through its sacred pages can we discover the nature and character of God, along with the benefits and blessings that belong to you and me as His children.

Miracles still happen! And they are available to you and me!