Stay Open For Something New | 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. We know God has great things in store for each one of you. If you're ever in our area, I hope you'll come out and be a part of one of our services. We give you a personal invitation. I promise you it will make you feel right at home. But thanks again for coming out. Thanks for tuning in. I like to start each week with something kind of funny. And I heard about this elderly couple.
They were having a terrible problem with their memory. They went to the doctor and he instructed them to start writing down everything they'd been forgetting. One night they were watching TV and the wife said, I sure would like a bowl of ice cream. The husband said, I'll go get it for you. She said, honey, you know what the doctor said? You better write it down. He said, I'm just going to the kitchen. I'm not going to forget it. He came back in a few minutes and handed her a plate of bacon and eggs. She shook her head and said, I knew this was going to happen. You forgot my toast. 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 staying open for something new. Successful people know how to change with the times. They don't get stuck in a rut, doing the same thing the same way year after year. They're constantly evaluating where they are and what they're doing, and they make adjustments so they can improve. And just because something worked five years ago doesn't mean it's still going to work today. We have to stay open for change. We can't get so set in our ways that we won't try anything new. This is why many people don't have any enthusiasm.
There's no freshness in their life. Every time an opportunity comes for change, for promotion, for increase, because they're not used to it, they shrink back. They don't realize that's what's keeping them from going to the next level. And in the coming days, don't be surprised if God brings new opportunities across your path. Some of you are going to be offered a position that you feel is over your head. Others, you're going to have an opportunity to change careers and get into a different field. Or maybe you single people, God's going to bring somebody new into your life, a divine connection. You'll be tempted at first to play it safe and think about all the reasons why you can't do it. You've been hurt in the past.
You can't get into that new relationship. You're not qualified for that new position. Or Joel, I couldn't try a different field. What if I fail? But if you're going to experience God's best, you got to be willing to take a risk. You can't get stuck thinking that it can only happen one way. God likes to do new things. I read where up until World War II, the Swiss watch company was the largest watchmaker in the world. They controlled 90% of the watch market. They were very good at what they did. They made these beautiful, precise watches. No one could compete with them. But in the late 1960s, researchers presented them with a new concept of watch. It was the electronic watch. Instead of having the traditional hands that tick, it had a battery on the inside known as the quartz watch.
Those managers looked at it and didn't think twice. They said, this watch will never sell. Nobody wants to wear an electronic watch. They didn't give it the time of day. Why? It wasn't the traditional thing that they were used to. They were closed-minded. They didn't realize just because something was great for a time doesn't mean it's going to be great forever. Those researchers took that same invention to the International Watch Fair and two companies that had nothing to do with watches at the time saw the potential of this new quartz watch and they quickly bought the rights to it.
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