God's Gracious Hand of Favor | Victoria Osteen
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How does Victoria Osteen describe God’s gracious hand of favor at the start of the message?
It's another great day to be alive, and we are so blessed to be here with you today. Victoria, my beautiful wife, and we're just praying for you guys to have a blessed summer.
I sure hope you enjoy the podcast. I know I always enjoy these messages. They're so uplifting and encouraging and inspiring. So we hope you enjoy the message today.
We love you guys so much. Thank you for being here. This is our year of acceleration. Let's believe that as we go into this year of acceleration that God is going to do extraordinary things in our life. Let's don't limit God because of our own ability, because of our resources, because we don't feel like we have what it takes to do something extraordinary. See, God has designed you and created you. to be special, to be different. He's placed something on your life that gives you the advantage. Too often we limit God because we only look at ourself. We don't look at God, we look at ourself. I've fallen into this trap before, wanting to pray a big prayer, wanting to believe for something spectacular in my life, but stopping at the moment of faith because I look at myself and wonder, could that really happen to me?
Could I really accomplish something like that? See, our victories are not going to be won by our own strength. Our victories are going to be accomplished by God's favor. His gracious hand of favor on our life is what's going to bring about the extraordinary in our life. I think about Joseph, Moses, Nehemiah, Esther, just to name a few.
How does the speaker explain why we shouldn’t limit God because of our own ability?
They believed that they were anointed and they believed they were called by God to do great things. Now in the natural, on paper, they didn't hold a great position. They didn't have plenty of resources. They didn't necessarily come from the right family. But they believed this one thing, that God had anointed them to do something great. Think about Joseph. He was a young boy, doing great things, having an enjoyable life, when he realized his brothers despised him so much that they threw him in a pit and they sold him into slavery. His brothers despised him so much, they threw him in a pit and sold him into slavery. Let me ask you something. Have you ever heard yourself say, my boss doesn't like me.
That's why I can't get the promotion. Oh, my in-laws, they're pushing me down. My sister, the reason I'm the way I am is because she's always been so ugly to me. Oh, my husband, he never encourages me. Have you ever heard yourself say something like that? Maybe make up an excuse why you couldn't do something? Well, Joseph was sold into slavery. He ended up coming into Potiphar's house. Potiphar's wife accused him falsely of doing something he did not do. He landed himself in prison. See, through Joseph's ups and downs, he still believed he had the anointing of God. And do you know Joseph ended up being second in command of all of Egypt? He was the one that was running the show. How could that have happened?
How could that have happened? His brothers threw him in a pit. He became a slave. How did that happen? Moses, he was not even supposed to be alive. He was supposed to be killed as soon as he was born. You see, some people say this, our generation is never going to do anything because you know what? There's too much evil out there. There's too many things going against them. This internet, these evil people, this generation will never make it. Well, Moses was never intended to make it. The king had planned to kill every child under the age of two, and Moses was that child. Moses tried to do something good turned out bad. And he found himself wandering in the wilderness for 40 years. 40 years wandering in the wilderness.
Some people think they've wasted their life. They think, man, I just haven't done anything. Nothing's happened for me.
What life examples from the Bible (Joseph, Moses, Nehemiah, Esther) illustrate God’s favor?
Well, Moses probably felt the exact same way, but he knew this. He had the anointing of God on his life. He persuaded Pharaoh to let them go. He talked them in to letting them escape from their bondage and slavery. And just about the time he wrapped them up and was headed out, He found himself up against the Red Sea.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Victoria Osteen describe God’s gracious hand of favor at the start of the message?
0:00–1:50
2
How does the speaker explain why we shouldn’t limit God because of our own ability?
1:50–4:30
3
What life examples from the Bible (Joseph, Moses, Nehemiah, Esther) illustrate God’s favor?
4:30–8:46
4
How did Joseph’s hardships demonstrate the power of God’s favor despite setbacks?
8:46–12:23