Joel Osteen

He never dreamed as a little boy raised by missionaries with very little income that one day he would be inside the White House.

During a break in the program, he left the dinner and went out into the hallway.

He found the same windows that he had seen people through some 30 years earlier.

He looked out and saw people standing behind the iron fence

where he had stood as a little boy from the outside looking in.

He started waving and waving.

He said, I wanted to tell them I was where you are.

You never know.

One day, instead of being on the outside looking in, you may be on the inside looking out.

When you get called into the house,

You don't know where God is going to take you.

But sometimes when we see a person on the inside, in other words, they're blessed, prosperous, influential.

We think that will never be me.

I don't have the talent like him, the connections, the good looks.

None of that matters to God.

When you have a heart to know him, when you're your best right where you are, one touch of God's favor can take you from the outside to the inside.

You may not realize it.

You already have royal blood flowing through your veins.

You're wearing a crown of favor.

God breathed his life into you.