Be A Bounce Back Person | Joel Osteen
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Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. If you enjoyed today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend? We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life. God bless you. It's always a joy to come into your homes. We love you and we know God has great things in store. If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and be a part of one of our services. I promise you, we'll make you feel right at home. But thanks so much for tuning in. Thank you again for coming out. I like to start with something funny each week. And I heard about this guy. He was late to work for the third day in a row. His boss said sarcastically, okay, what's your excuse this time?
He said, I'm so sorry, but my wife asked to drive me to work. And I told her she didn't need to, but she insisted and said she could be ready in 10 minutes. But then when we left, the drawbridge was up and I had to swim across the river fighting off alligators. Then a helicopter picked me up, put me on top of a building. I ran down 60 flights of stairs and got here as quickly as I could. His boss shook his head and said, you expect me to believe that? No woman can get dressed in just 10 minutes. All right, hold up your Bible. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do. Today, I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert.
My heart is receptive. I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want to talk to you today about being a bounce-back person. Life is full of things that try to push us down. We all face disappointments and setbacks. Maybe you got bad news concerning your health, relationship didn't work out, or perhaps the hurricane damaged your house. It was a setback. It's easy to get discouraged, lose our enthusiasm, and too often we just settle where we are. But if we're going to see God's best, we have to have this bounce back mentality. That means when you get knocked down, you don't stay down, you get back up again. It means when disappointments come, things don't go your way, you don't have a pity party and think life's just not fair.
No, you shake it off knowing what was meant for your harm, God's going to use for your good. When you're a bounce back person, you know that every adversity, every setback is not permanent. It's not going to last forever. It's only temporary. Weeping may endure for a night, but you know joy is coming in the morning. So you don't sit around complaining, thinking about how bad it was and everything you lost. You know, God is a God of restoration and that he's promised to pay you back double for every unfair situation. Instead of being discouraged by the difficulty, you're encouraged by it, knowing that you're going to get double for your trouble. You're going to come out better off than you were before.
And I believe today I'm looking at bounce back people. You have the seed of almighty God. The same power that raised Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you. In your blood right now is the DNA of a winner. The DNA of an overcomer. There is no challenge too difficult for you. There is no obstacle too high to overcome. No sickness, no disappointment, no person, no hurricane, no stock market can keep you from your God-given destiny.
Amen.
The enemy may have done his best, but his best will never be enough. If you stay in faith, what was meant to stop you will not be a stumbling block, but rather a stepping stone so you can go to a higher level. I want you to get your hopes up. You are not average. You are not ordinary. You are a child of the most high God. Life may have dealt you a tough blow. At times, it feels like the wind's been taken out of our sails. But the good news is, Almighty God has put a bounce back in your spirit. That's why when you're tempted to give up on your dreams, when you're tempted to just settle where you are, something down in here says, no way. This is not who I am.
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