This is a 10 minute continuation of Pastor Joel Osteen's message titled, "God is in Control". This is such an amazing message. 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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Here is the key - Everyday you live with faith and expectancy! That means you are one day closer to seeing it coming to pass! If it doesn't happen today, your attitude should be no big deal I know it will may tomorrow, if it doesn't happen tomorrow it may happen the next day. But whenever it does or doesn't happen it's NOT going to steal my JOY! I'm not going to live frustrated, I KNOW God is in control and the exact RIGHT TIME it's going to come to pass and in the meantime, I'm going to relax and just enjoy my life. You see you've got to BELIEVE God is in control. BELIEVE God is working behind the scenes in your life.
The scriptures says in I Thessolonians 2:13, God is effectually at work in those who BELIEVE. Notice His POWER is activated ONLY when we BELIEVE! God can work on your behalf your whole lifetime and you'll never really get the full benefit of it because you didn't BELIEVE. Sure you may get a break here or there. But when you really BELIEVE, when you get up every day expecting good things, you're going to see more of God's favor. You're going to see what He's been doing behind the scenes.
Even when we have problems, even when things come against us, we have to BELIEVE that God already has the answer. In other words, that problem is no surprise to God. That child that won't do right, that financial difficulty, being lonely. That doesn't have God baffled. God already has the answer. He knows the end from the beginning. God knows every trial we're ever going to face in the future. He knows every difficulty we're ever going to go through. The good news is God already has the solution. He has already made a way of escape. That tells me we don't have to live life worried. We don't have to go around all stressed out. God has it ALL under control. When we're tempted to get negative and go around complaining, no we need to just turn it around. Our attitude should be I KNOW God is working on this problem. I KNOW He is in the process of changing things, getting the right people lined up, softening the right hearts and I BELIEVE God is not only going to bring me out, but He's is going to bring me out better off than I was before.
When we have this kind of attitude, it takes all the pressure off of us. We can relax and enjoy our lives. We KNOW God is in control. We KNOW as long as we BELIEVE God is all the while working for our good. It's good to look back over your life and see the things that had to be God. I know a young lady that met her husband on the side of the road. She had a flat tire one day out here on the freeway during rush hour and he stop to help change it. They got to talking, they ended up dating and today they're happily married. Think about the chances of all that coming together. That had to be the hand of God. God was saying to that young lady, it's your due season, you've been faithful, you've passed the test. Now let me show you what I've been doing behind the scenes all these years. Had that young man move from another city, gave him the right job, had him coming down the freeway at the exact right time. ONLY God can orchestrate that. Let's learn to trust Him. Let's take the pressure off of ourselves and start BELIEVING that God is in control of our lives.
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