Time Is On Your Side | 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 great to have you with us today. I hope you'll stay connected with us all through the week. You can download our podcast and listen to the messages anytime or you can go to our YouTube channel. But thanks again for tuning in. I like to start with something funny. One day, Jesus and Satan were having a contest to see who was better with computers. After six hours of making spreadsheets and designing web pages, a thunderstorm knocked the power out.
When they rebooted their computers, Satan started screaming. It's all lost. All my material's gone. While Jesus quietly walked over and printed out his, turned it in. Satan complained, this isn't fair. He must have cheated. How come he didn't lose his material? God smiled and said, Jesus saves. 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 time is on your side. We've all been through seasons in life where it feels like we've lost time. We were in a relationship that didn't work out.
We've lost those years. We weren't raised in a healthy environment. Feels like we've lost our childhood. We came down with an illness or struggled with an addiction. Months pass, maybe years. It's time that we can't get back. It's easy to think that was just a rough season. There's nothing that I can do about it. But God said in the book of Joel, I will restore the years that the locusts have eaten, the years that the canker worm and palmer worm have destroyed. It's said that time is the one thing that we can't get back. That's true in the natural, but we have a supernatural God. He knows how to make up for lost time. He's not going to just restore you. He's going to restore the years that you spent in that relationship that didn't make it.
It feels like it was a waste of time, but God is going to make the rest of your life so fulfilling that you don't think about what you've been through. He's not going to just bring you out of that illness. He's going to restore the years that you spent taking the treatment. Your latter days will be better than your former days. Now here's how good God is. He's even going to restore the years that we've wasted, making poor choices, running with the wrong crowd. Years you should have been studying, but you spent them partying. Years that you should have been raising children, but you were distracted doing other things. Years you should have been pursuing dreams, but you let fear and opposition hold you back.
It should be too late. You missed your chance. God is saying, get ready. I'm about to restore the years. I'm about to make up for the time you missed with your children. He's not going to just restore the relationship. He's going to restore the years. He's going to make it as if you never lost that time. That company you spent years at they didn't treat you fairly God is not going to just turn it around but he's going to pay you back for what should have been yours In this passage from the book of Joel, the Israelites planted their crops, watered them, did their best to keep the weeds out. Everything was going great. The crops took off, but when they were about to harvest them, swarms of locusts came in like a mighty army and ate up all the crops.
I'm sure the Israelites were discouraged. It wasn't fair. They had worked hard, but had nothing to show for it. They made it through the winter, believed that God was still in control. The next year they went out and planted their crops. They thought that setback can't stop us. We didn't have a harvest last year, but God sustained us. We'll have one this year.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:09
2
What is the main message about time in this episode?
5:09–7:22
3
How can God restore lost time according to Joel Osteen?
7:22–11:25
4
What examples illustrate God's ability to restore years lost?
11:25–15:00
5
How does the story of the Israelites relate to personal challenges?
15:00–20:57
6
What does Joel Osteen say about overcoming discouragement?
20:57–28:21
7
How can individuals expect to see restoration in their lives?
28:21–30:41