Victoria Osteen

They don't understand the call of God.

Or like I said, we may feel ordinary.

We wonder if we're accomplishing what God even wants us to accomplish.

See, so often we determine the power of God within us by what's going on around us.

You see, if I was maybe doing a little better, if God liked me a little more, this wouldn't be happening.

Or maybe if I could just get a little closer to God, I wouldn't be going through this trial.

But can I tell you something?

That's the way man looks at things.

In fact, God told the prophet Samuel, he said, you're going to anoint the next king of Israel.

And I want you to know this one thing about this anointing.

You're going to anoint the man that I call, but I don't want you to begin to look for what you think would be the king.

I don't want you to look for the man that's the right height, the man that's

that's in a certain position, the man that has the talents that you think would make a good king.

He said, because I don't look at things that way.

That's the way you look at things.

He said, you look from the outside.

You respond to life from the outside.

But see, I am a God of the inside.

Man looks on the outside, but God looks on the heart.

See, you're qualified today because God chose you to be qualified.