This is a 10 minute podcast of Pastor Joel Osteen's message titled, "God is in Control". I have typed a transcript of ONLY 4 minutes of this message below for those of you who can not listen to this video or have to use Babel Fish to translate. If you have the time I recommend you listen to the remainder of this message. Enjoy!
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I want to talk to you today about believing that God is in control of your life. Too many people go around worried and upset. They are always trying to figure everything out. How am I going to get out of this problem? How can I change my child? When am I ever going to get married? Why won't my dreams come to pass? Their mind is constantly going 90 miles per hour. But that is NOT the way God wants us to live. When we TRUST in Him. When we really believe that He is in control we are at REST. There is a PEACE deep down on the inside we know that everything is going to be alright.
Many times the reason we lose our peace, the reason we worry is because we don't see anything happening. Everything is looking the same month after month, year after year. But we have to understand God IS working behind the scenes in our lives. He has already pre-arranged a bright future for each one of us. If the curtain were pulled back to where you can see in this un-seen realm, you would see God fighting your battles for you. Getting everything arranged in your favor. You would see how God was going to open this door for you and bring this opportunity across your path and solve this other problem.
I'm convinced if we could really see how God is orchestrating everything behind the scenes we wouldn't worry. We wouldn't live stressed out anymore. The fact is we all have difficulties, we all have things in life that can steal our joy and steal our peace. But we have to learn to turn it over to God and say God I'm trusting you I believe that YOU are in control, even though I may not see anything happening, I believe that YOU are working in my life. I believe even right now that you are going before me making my crooked places straight. I believe that you are going to cause me to be at the right place at the right time. Some of you are living so uptight, trying to figure everything out, trying to solve every problem. But this would take off so much pressure off of you.
You would enjoy your life so much more if you could just learn to relinquish control and start really believing that God is really directing your steps. The scriptures says here in Phillipians 2:13 For it is God who is all the while at work in you. Notice God doesn't work sometimes and then go take a 2 or 3 year break and then come back and work a little more. God is constantly at work in your life. That means even right now. You may not be able to see it, but God is arranging things in your favor. He is getting the right people lined up to come to across your path. He is even looking years down the road and getting everything perfectly in order, lining up solutions to problems you haven't even had. He's already got the right spouse for you, the right spouse for your children. He's got the right opportunities, the right doors he is going to open. God is constantly working behind the scenes in our lives.
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