Joel Osteen

Nov 5, 2017 • 31 min

Did you know that bitterness can keep you from your destiny? The book of Hebrews teaches us that bitterness is a root that we must keep out of our lives. If you have a root of bitterness, it’s going to contaminate your life.Discover in this message how to keep a pure heart and why it’s important. You will learn that you can’t stop life from happening to you but you can choose how you respond. Even in unfair treatment and disappointments, you can trust God to be your vindicator and to work out His plan for your life. As you do, you’ll not only feel heaviness lift off of you, but you’ll begin to dream again. You’ll see the new things He has in store! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 1, 2017 • 17 min

Can you imagine a house fully wired with electricity, but with the main power switch turned off? It wouldn't make sense to live without power when it's available to us.When you make Jesus the Lord of your life, you become fully connected to your source of power. But you have to turn that switch on. Romans 10:19 says to believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord. When you believe and confess the Word of God, you are activating God's power in your life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 29, 2017 • 32 min

Do you like who you are? The strengths and the weaknesses? We all have areas where we need to improve, but many people go through life feeling wrong on the inside, not really liking who they are and dwelling repeatedly on their shortcomings. This type of thinking can limit the great things God wants to do and keep you from moving forward.Joel wants to help you get a new perspective of yourself and how God sees you. He loves you and approves of you just the way you are. Grow in greater confidence in who God made you to be! You are fearfully and wonderfully made on purpose with a specific purpose unlike any other person. God will even use our weaknesses to draw us closer to Him. You can experience God’s best today while you’re being molded and transformed on the Potter’s wheel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 25, 2017 • 21 min

God designed hope to fuel your faith. The Scripture says that “we have this hope as an anchor for the soul” (Hebrews 6:19). It anchors you in disappointing times, in challenging times, in times of failure! If you keep your hopes up, faith will pick you up and move you to the fulfillment of the promise. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 22, 2017 • 32 min

God doesn’t remove every frustration in our lives. In fact, many of the things that frustrate us, God uses to grow us and take us to the next level. Joel will show you how to live in peace no matter your circumstance. You will learn how to deal with difficult people, let go of the approval of others, and run your race strong, focused, and unshakeable! The Scripture says in Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God.” As you learn to let go and let God, you will enjoy your life more and become everything He has created you to be! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 18, 2017 • 16 min

When you’re in emotional pain, it’s easy to shrink back in fear and allow an emotional limp to become a stronghold in your mind—a wrong way of thinking. The last thing you want to do is to step out in boldness or put yourself in a position where you can get hurt again. But you can’t allow a painful experience to trick you into thinking you’re going to have a painful life. If you find yourself shrinking back because you’re afraid you’ll be hurt again, you have to understand that God can heal what hurts! He is the mender of broken hearts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 15, 2017 • 32 min

Are you judging the rest of your life by the season you’re in now? Every person has unfair seasons, slow seasons, and discouraging seasons. But you have to remind yourself during these times, it’s just a season. It’s not the rest of your life. This too shall pass.Learn to stay in faith and keep the right perspective in adversity. Whenever you feel stretched, know you're in position to be propelled. God uses the difficulty to push us into new levels. The more you get pulled back, the more you’re going to shoot forward. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 11, 2017 • 18 min

The Bible says when believers dwell together in unity, “there the LORD commanded the blessing—life forevermore” (Psalm 133:3). It is only the love of God that brings people to the arms and saving power of Jesus Christ. God is saying it’s up to us to keep in unity and the bond of peace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 8, 2017 • 32 min

Just like a pregnant woman’s water breaking indicates that she is about to give birth, when you face difficulties and trials, it's a sign you're about to give birth to something new.Joel will show you in this encouraging message how God uses our trials and difficulties to bring us to a new level. Without the water breaking, we would stay stuck where we are in life. We wouldn’t see the fullness of what God has in store for the future. The process of pain and loss may be uncomfortable, but the purpose is always worth it in the end. What you give birth to will be greater than anything you may lose. Let this message anchor your faith and give you hope during discouragement. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oct 1, 2017 • 32 min

There will always be something trying to get us to pull up our anchor of hope—bad breaks, delays, disappointments. In these tough times, when life doesn’t make sense, when your prayers haven’t been answered as quickly as you’d like, it’s easy to throw in the towel and give up, but you have to make sure to keep your anchor down and hope in the Lord.Let Joel show you how to have hope during all things in this empowering message. When you’re anchored to hope, God will make things happen that you could never make happen on your own. When you have your hope in Him, the scripture says you’ll never be disappointed. You may have some temporary setbacks, but when it’s all said and done, you’ll come out better than you were before if you don’t give up your hope! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 27, 2017 • 17 min

When we hear about a “self-made man,” it usually refers to someone who had very little and became wealthy and influential all on his own. Abraham, the father of our faith, also became wealthy, influential, and left an amazing legacy for the whole world, but his label reads a “God-made man.” Abraham wears the label “God-made man” because he willingly trusted God to take him to a land unknown to him, and he trusted God to make him fully into the person He created him to become. Abraham was not called by God because his faith was perfect. He was called by God because he was willing to follow and believe God, and along his journey he “was strengthened in faith” through God’s promise (Romans 4:20 NKJV). That is how Abraham became a “God-made man,” and that is how we become the same! Just be willing, and He will take and make you! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 24, 2017 • 32 min

As we go through life’s many seasons, it’s easy to grow tired and weary. But when we are weary, we don’t enjoy the greatest blessings in our lives like we should. Galatians 6:9 encourages us, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Find refreshment and motivation to keep on going and stay renewed and inspired no matter what you may be facing today. Discover how to have balance physically, spiritually and emotionally so you’ll have the strength to be a blessing to others and accomplish your life purpose full of peace and joy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 20, 2017 • 16 min

In Genesis 1, the first thing that God says about you and me is that He created us in His image. Having His image and likeness inside of us was meant to be our source of strength and confidence. The question is, have you allowed the enemy and things that have happened to you distort the image of God in your life? You need to get your true image back! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 17, 2017 • 32 min

It’s easy to go through life trying to impress people, to show them that we’re strong, that we have it all together. But if you’ll humble yourself, empty out your pride, your fear, your doubts and get real, God will help you to grow. You’ll come up higher. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 10, 2017 • 32 min

Instead of accepting an addiction as a part of your life and allowing it to stay, you need to announce to that addiction: “It is finished! You don’t control me, and you can’t keep me from my destiny. The price has been paid. I am free. I am whole. I am clean.” When you rise up and tell the past, tell the poverty, tell the guilt, “It is finished! This is not who I am. I am blessed. I am prosperous. I am victorious,” strongholds are broken in the unseen realm, chains are loosed, and favor is released. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 3, 2017 • 32 min

We don’t have to work out our plans, make them happen in our own strength, or become frustrated when they’re not happening the way we thought. We can stay in peace knowing that the God who created the universe has promised He will work out His plans for our lives.Have you felt like giving up on something because it’s too hard or taking too long? Let Joel show you how to have faith for the middle. What God has placed in your heart is already in route. The process has already been started. The right people, healing and breakthrough are on the way. Your part is to have faith for the middle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 30, 2017 • 17 min

Jesus said, “I am the Light of the world. So if you follow me, you won’t be stumbling through the darkness, for living light will flood your path” (John 8:12 TLB). Is He lighting your pathway, or is there something blocking the Light? It’s time to let the Light shine in. Don’t keep stumbling around in the darkness. Get rid of whatever is blocking the Light and let His presence shine on you and light your pathway to a blaze! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 27, 2017 • 31 min

We all have things that come against us and experience things we don’t understand. It’s easy to live uptight wondering how everything is going to work out. It we’re not careful, we’ll get discouraged, live worried, and not believe things are going to change. But there’s a simple phrase you have to get down in your spirit - God’s got this. Joel wants to teach you in this encouraging message that you don’t have to figure it all out. In the natural, you may not see a way, but that’s okay, we serve a supernatural God. He sees what’s happening in our lives and already has a solution. Instead of living frustrated, learn to let go and let God. When you turn it over to Him and say, “God, I know You’ve got this. I know You’re in control,” not only will you feel the heaviness lift off of you, but God will make things happen that you couldn’t make happen on your own. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 23, 2017 • 19 min

Did you know that the word worry comes from the Old English wyrgan, which means “to strangle?” If we let them, worry and stress literally choke the joy out of our lives. Worry pulls us away from God’s power, but worship draws us to Him, and His presence changes us. So how are you handling worry? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 20, 2017 • 32 min

We’ve all been through disappointments and unfair situations. Because of negative things of the past, even mistakes we’ve made, it’s easy to have the wrong image of ourselves. Too many times we’ve developed a slave mentality where we don’t pray bold prayers, we don’t believe for our dreams, and we don’t expect good breaks because we feel unworthy.But 1 John 3:2 tells us we are sons of God. Joel wants to help you gain a new vision and understanding of who you are, not thinking about what you were, what you’ve been through, or the mistakes you’ve made. When you realize who you are—a son and daughter of the Most High God— you’ll think differently and live differently as you expect God’s favor in your life. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.