This is an amazing message titled, "God's Power" given by Pastor Joel Osteen. There are 3 parts, each segment is approximately 10 minutes. Let it speak to your spirit and receive it. I have typed a transcript of the first 7 minutes of this message for all of my international readers who need to use Babel Fish to translate. Enjoy!
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I want to talk to you about the power that is available to us because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So many people go around feeling weak and defeated, always struggling, always under their circumstances. But God did not create us to become weaklings. He didn't create us to just barely get by and live a mediocre life. NO God created us to live in VICTORY! He created us to rise above every one of our challenges! There is a power that is available to us if we simply learn how to tap into it.
Paul said in Philippians 3:10, my determined purpose is to know Him and the power flowing out of His resurrection. Think about that. The great apostle Paul said, one of the main things I want to understand is the power flowing out of Christ resurrection. We need to realize, that ever since Jesus rose from the dead, there has been a power that is available to us. It's a power to live in victory. It's a power to overcome your challenges. It's a power to accomplish our dreams.
But how do we tap into this power? How do we activate it? Paul explained it a little further in Esphesians 19. He said I pray that you understand the immeasurable, limitless power that is available to those who BELIEVE. Notice that's the KEY. The power is only activated when we believe. In other words, Paul is saying, if we are really going to live in victory, we need to develope a power consciousness. That means, no matter what we go through in life, we know we are VICTORS and NOT victims. We know that we CAN DO all things through Christ.
Friends, the same power that raised Jesus from the dead, is on the inside of everyone of you right now. But that power is not going to do you any good unless you start to tap into it. I want to encourage you today to make a decision that you are going to start living with more BOLDNESS, start expecting good things, start casting down all of those old negative thoughts of fear and worry. You were NOT created to be a weakling! You are a CAN DO person. God has filled you with His CAN DO power. That means that you CAN DO what you need to do. You can overcome your past. You can forgive the people that have hurt you. You can stand strong in difficult times. You are filled with resurrection power.
You say Joel I'm having so many problems and the devil is always after me, my children won't do right, my finances aren't good, I'm just so discouraged. No you've got to get out of that big defeated mentality and start tapping into the power! The first thing you have to do is BELIEVE that you have it. If you'll start having a VICTOR mentality, instead of a victim mentality, then when those negative things come against you, instead of getting all defeated, no you'll RISE UP and say, "greater is He who is in me then he who is in the world." When you do that, you are tapping into that power.
If you start tapping into this power, instead of the devil always having you on the run, you'll have him on the run. Like that old song says, you'll have the devil in the phone booth dialing 911. Friends, you are CAN DO people. You are filled with God's Supernatural power. Well you say, Joel I just don't feel powerful. No it doesn't matter how you feel. It matters what you believe. You say, well Joel, you just don't know who I am. I've made lot's of mistakes. No, it's not because of who you are, it's because of WHOSE you are. You're a child of the most High God. You are made in His image. You've got His blood flowing through your veins.
When you start tapping into this power and living with confidence, speaking words of faith over your life, do you know that ALL THE FORCES OF HEAVEN will come and back you up! The bible says, when you even whisper the name of Jesus ALL the demons tremble. When you walk in authority, you remind them of their eternal defeat. You remind them of what Jesus did a little over 2,000 years ago. Really in the spiritual world the forces of darkness don't see you, they see the blood that covers you. They know who is backing you up!
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