Your Destiny Is Calling | 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 a joy to come into your homes. And if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be part of one of our services. I promise you, we will make you feel right at home. I like to start with something funny. And I heard about this professor. He was going to prove to his students that there is no God. He said, God, if you're real, knock me off this platform. I'm giving you 15 minutes to do it. With every minute that went by, he taunted God. God, I'm still waiting. I'm still here. The last minute, 300-pound football player walking down the hallway overheard what he was saying. He took off running toward him full blast, put his shoulder down, sent him flying off the platform. The professor got up in a daze and said, what in the world did you do that for?
Football player replied, God said he was busy, so he sent me. Amen. 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 your destiny is calling. In the scripture, God called Abraham a father of many nations. At that time, he didn't have any children. He and his wife, Sarah, were too old to have kids. It looked like God made a mistake. Abraham could have thought, God, what do you mean? I'm not a father of many nations. I'm childless. My wife is barren. Here's the principle.
God calls you what you are before you become it. People call you what you are after it happens. God calls you what you are before it happens. When God rejected Saul as the king of Israel, he told Samuel, I have found a man after my own heart. David will be the next king. What's interesting is David wasn't a man. He was a teenager. He was out taking care of his father's sheep. He was a boy, yet God called him what he would become. In the same way, God calls you blessed, successful, strong, healthy, talented. That may not all be true right now. You could say like Abraham, God, what do you mean? I'm not blessed. I'm struggling in my finances. I'm not healthy. I'm dealing with this illness. Don't worry, it's on the way.
God calls things that are not as if they already were. There are promises that God has spoken over you, dreams and goals he's placed in your heart. You didn't come up with them on your own. Those aren't just your ideas. God put them there. And the scripture talks about the secret petitions of your heart. That means the things you're dreaming about. You haven't told anyone, seems too big, too far out. That's your destiny calling. That's God telling you what you can become. You may not see how it can happen. Every circumstance may say you don't have the talent. You don't come from the right family. You tried last time. It didn't work out. Don't talk yourself out of it. God has spoken it. He controls the universe.
All he's looking for is someone who will agree with him. Someone who will rise up in faith and say, yes, I can hear my destiny calling. I may not see a way, but God, I know you have a way. If you speak it, I believe I can become it. Human nature says, when I see it, I'll believe it. Faith says, I'll believe it, then I'll see it. God will speak things over you that don't seem logical. When you're sick, the medical report says you won't get well. God says just the opposite. He calls you healthy, whole, strong. When the odds are against you, you don't have the connections, the resources, the experience. God calls you successful, prosperous, the head and not the tail.
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When you're struggling with an addiction, everybody in your family has had it. If you'll listen, you'll hear your destiny saying you are free. This addiction is temporary. The buck stops with you.
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