Uncommon Favor | 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 so great to be with you today and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us in person. We'd love to have you be a part of one of our services. I like to start with something funny. And I heard about this country grandmother. She'd go out on her porch every morning and thank the Lord for another day. Well, her neighbor didn't believe in God.
He'd shout back. There's no such thing as the Lord. One day he overheard her asking God to give her groceries for the week. He snuck out early the next morning, put some groceries on her front porch. She came out and said, thank you, Lord. You did it again. He laughed and laughed, said, God didn't do that. I put the groceries there. She said, Lord, thank you. You not only sent the groceries, but you made the devil pay for them. 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 uncommon favor.
We all have dreams that seem too big to accomplish and challenges that we can't overcome by ourselves. We look at things in the natural, logically speaking, and reason it out. Sometimes there's no answer. It's easy to get discouraged. But what God is going to do in your life cannot be calculated. You can't plan it. You can't rationalize it. It's going to be uncommon, out of the ordinary, something that you've never seen. And on purpose, God will put you in situations that are over your head. The good news is he's already lined up the uncommon favor where doors open you couldn't open. Uncommon promotion where opportunity tracks you down. Uncommon protection where he shields you from evil and uncommon freedom where he delivers you from generational limitations.
Where God has taken you cannot be reached by just ordinary means. And yes, we have to pray, believe, use our gifts, but you can't fulfill your destiny with just the common. If you're only looking at things in the natural and trying to figure it out, you're going to get discouraged. What you can't see is the uncommon favor that's coming. Paul said this in Corinthians, you haven't seen, heard, or imagined what God has in store for those that love the Lord. That's talking about uncommon favor. You haven't seen it yet. You haven't heard it. You haven't even imagined it. When you look at your situations, there may be no way in the natural that it's going to work out. No way you could get well. No way that child will get back on course.
No way that you could lead your department. That all may be true. There's no logical way. But what you can't see is what God has stored up. You haven't seen, heard, or imagined it. There's uncommon favor coming. Something unusual, out of the ordinary. You couldn't plan it. Wasn't in your logic. We think natural, but God is supernatural. There are things stored up for you right now. When God releases, it's going to boggle your mind. Blessings that have your name on it, healing, divine connections, businesses, books, movies, things you never saw coming, wasn't on your radar, it's going to be unusual, out of the ordinary, something that you've never imagined. See, ordinary favor is when you get the promotion you deserved.
You worked hard, you were faithful, you're next in line. But uncommon favor is when God catapults you ahead. He gives you a position that you didn't see coming. You weren't qualified. You didn't have the experience, but suddenly you're at a level you never dreamed. Ordinary favor is when you pay your house off after 30 years. God sustains you, provides, and we're grateful.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:32
2
What is the significance of uncommon favor in our lives?
5:32–5:53
3
How can we recognize the dreams that seem impossible?
5:53–7:56
4
What does it mean when God opens doors we cannot?
7:56–8:19
5
How does God provide uncommon protection and freedom?
8:19–24:55
6
What examples illustrate the concept of uncommon miracles?
24:55–31:01