Don't Give Away Your Power | 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. Well, God bless you. It is always a joy to come into your homes. We love you and we're praying that you're gonna have a blessed, prosperous year. If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll stop by and see us. I promise you it will make you feel right at home. But thanks for tuning in. And again, thanks for coming out today. I like to start with something funny each week. And you know, these are just jokes. Please don't be offended by them. I heard about this man.
He was in a dark restaurant. He leaned over to the woman next to him and said, hey, would you like to hear a blonde joke? She said, well, before you tell me, you should know that I am blonde, six feet tall and a professional bodybuilder. And the lady next to me is blonde, six foot two and a professional wrestler. And the lady next to her is blonde, six foot five and the kickboxing champion of the world. Now, do you still want to tell me the blonde joke? He thought about it a moment, said, no, not if I'm going to have to explain it three times. All right, I may need a ride home today. 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 not giving away your power. Every day we have opportunities to get upset, to be frustrated, to go around offended. Maybe our plans didn't work out, or somebody was rude to us at the office, or what should have taken an hour ended up taking three hours. Life is full of inconveniences. There will always be interruptions, people that are hard to get along with. We can't control all of our circumstances, but we can control our reaction. Now I heard somebody say, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond. And we should go out each day positive, hopeful, expecting God's favor.
But at the same time, we should be realistic, knowing that most days are not going to go exactly as we had it planned. And if you get stressed because you got off schedule or upset because your child wouldn't eat his breakfast, frustrated because somebody offended you, what you're doing is giving away your power. We were created to be in peace. And when you have this calmness on the inside, a joy in your spirit, a smile on your face, that's a position of power. That's when you're at your very best. But too many people these days have the wrong approach to life. They think they can't be happy unless they control all their circumstances, make sure everything goes their way. But that's not realistic.
We have to come to the place where we can say, I don't have to have my way in order to have a good day. My plans don't have to work out for me to be happy. Everybody doesn't have to treat me right for me to enjoy my life. I have already made up my mind. No matter what does or doesn't happen, I'm going to stay in peace and enjoy this day. And it helped me when I realized that no person can take my joy. No circumstance can take our peace. No interruption can take our enthusiasm. We have to give it away. The next time you're tempted to get upset, frustrated, ask yourself, is this worth giving my power away? This man that's rude to me on the phone that I don't even know, is it worth giving him my joy? Or this coworker that left me out of a meeting, is it worth giving away my peace?
And some of you today, you don't have the victory that you should, not because you can't, but because you keep giving it away. Life is too short to live upset and offended. If you allow your circumstances to control your joy, then there's always going to be some reason to be discouraged. Well, Joel, it's the economy. It's the stock market.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–7:03
2
What does it mean to not give away your power?
7:03–9:00
3
How can our reactions control our happiness?
9:00–10:53
4
Why do we often let others steal our joy?
10:53–15:27
5
What is the significance of maintaining peace in our lives?
15:27–20:46
6
How can we respond to rude or inconsiderate people?
20:46–31:14