John Osteen -When you are discouraged. (Full Service)

visit our welcome to the television audience we clap because we are glad you tuned in and our confession is you're going to be blessed by the Word of God God is going to bless you today so stay tuned and everybody said amen amen let me read you a scripture that's good because you know there's trouble in the world and sometimes we are surrounded by troubles and 138 psalm says though I am surrounded by troubles you God will bring me safely through them you will clench your fists against my angry enemies your power will save me the Lord will work on his plans for my life but you got to cooperate you got to work with him and do what he wants you to for your loving-kindness Lord continues forever don't abandon me because you need me do you think God would ever abandon us no and I'm so glad that we serve a god like that are you oh do you praise God / surrounded with trouble we've been there helping you we have but we did not and many of you out there surrounded with trouble but God's going to help you today and we're glad to have a good church the helps people we're people efforts amen I'll tell you the best thing we can do is to help you know God who is able to deliver you and set you free we're so glad you have tuned in today and we believe God's going to bless you come visit Lakewood Church wouldn't we like to have a yes oh yes I don't know where it is come out here and you'll know where it is amen we have wonderful services God's going to bless you today and everybody said amen I give them a good hand now would you Jesus snake when angels prostrate for brain fog three four I let it dry whoa but 3:10 we tried for mr. ratio just Oh to Steve right we've raised you King of Kings and oh Jesus every time on this Oh ladies Garr who is worthy of all honor Oh glory Oh power money Dominion forever and ever we exalt your holy name hallelujah glory to God or let's just exalt his name together this morning he is an awesome guy worthy of all honored brace hallelujah just lift your hands to the Lord this room Boyd's worship my Jesus my snake I did I want to bring you know my comfort my shelter you turn every way never sister shouts ooh just I bow down I see they come back more berries now I want to pray one desert ah my shelter Wow Santee your skin my toons bow down this I see shouts since now so we come back Jesus we're so glad that God sent you so that you could love us and we in turn could love you and worship you and we give you praise Father for being such a sovereign God such an omnipotent God that you would send somebody your only son to love us Jesus so we can all be your sons and daughters thank you for doing that God Thank You Heavenly Father we praise you Jesus hallelujah would you be seated please we are so glad you came to church today we welcome you to the oasis of love in a troubled world we're here for you and we have services on Sundays and Wednesdays and a lot of other things going on so we invite you back whenever you can come if you live here in the city give us one year of your life it'll change your life and we welcome you who are watching by television we are so glad that you have turned your television on today and we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you're going to get blessed because we do a lot of things here to bless people we worship God we pray for people we hear the word of God we take care of people's needs and then at the end we give people a chance to get saved and that's what we want that's our objective our main objective is to just fill the whole world with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ so if you're watching us please just do what we do in the service when you're there watching us you pray for people as we pray for people and you'll be blessed and then you get your Bible and you read as my husband preaches the Word of God and you will be helped and blessed and all the people said amen and amen let me read you some scriptures in first Peter it's so good it's in the Living Bible and it says obey God because you're his children are you a child of God are you yes if you're not a child of God if you're watching by television or if you're here today I believe that before you leave and before that program goes off you will become a child of God don't slip back into you're always doing evil because you know know better once you taste of God once you read his word once you get in a good church where they preach the Word of God you won't want to go back because there's nothing to go back to but be holy now and everything you do just as the Lord is holy and he invited us to be his child aren't you glad Jesus invited us to be his child in that wonderful I am so thankful that he did he himself has said you must be holy for I am holy God paid a ransom for us did you know that he to save us from the impossible road to heaven which your father's tried to take in the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver as you very well know but he paid for you with the precious lifeblood of Christ the sinless spotless Lamb of God hallelu that's who we serve sinless spotless Lamb of God and then he goes on and on but this you can trust God because he raised Christ from the dead now your faith and hope can rest in him alone you don't have to let your faith and hope rest in anybody else but the Lord Jesus cuz he is his good enough and he is the sinless spotless Lamb of God and now you can have real love for everyone but now this is the one I want to get to verse number 23 says for you have a new life everybody say I have a new life it was not passed on to you from your parents did you know that your grandparents maybe your grandmother was godly your grandfather was godly but they can't make you a Christian I mean just because you're born into their family doesn't make you a Christian you have to make the decision the decision is yours you have to make the choice it was not passed on to you from your parents for the life they gave you will fade away you know we all will die someday and if we just went by our parents then there would be no hope for us but this new life in Jesus Christ will last forever because it comes from Christ God's everliving message to mend hallelujah God's everliving message to men isn't that wonderful so I want to encourage you today if you don't serve Jesus let this be the day that you start I don't want anybody to go away from this service today without Jesus in their hearts and I don't want anybody watching on television to go to let this day go by but that what you don't give your heart to Jesus today hallelujah this is the day this is the day this is the day of salvation tomorrow may be too late so we believe God that a lot of good things are going to happen I got a wonderful letter do you remember the people that came from Florida and I have Helen I know you here someplace show me where you are would you please Helen Magee and she thought about y'all so much and I've called your husband's name I did that name just stuck with me for so many times the last few weeks he came for prayer and I asked you to pray for him he was going to have his esophagus removed and she said he had a large aggressive cancer in his esophagus and she said when y'all prayed you asked the Lord to make him cancer-free and she said he had surgery the next morning at Anderson MD Anderson that entires esophagus and surrounding lymph nodes were removed he did great through the long and difficult surgery and is on his way to full recovery the doctor was obviously elated when he gave us the pathology report his words were exactly what was prayed here that day you are cancer-free yes okay you need prayer please would you come to one of the prayer partners ah as well as long grace that taught my heart to fear while we are praying here for people who have needs in their body and in their life I just want to take some time to encourage you with the Word of God and I want to read a scripture to you today from proverbs chapter 4 verses 20 through 22 and you know it's about the importance of the Bible and I don't know about you but I just thank God for the Bible it is the word of God it's not like any other book on this earth it is God speaking to his people and you know many people they just use their Bible as a decorative item on their coffee table but let me tell you something God never intended the Bible to just be put on the coffee table he intended for it to be put into our hearts amen and then there's many people that admire the Bible it's a beautiful book it's inspired by God but they never really read it and enjoy it and I just want to encourage you today to know that God wants to speak to you through his word the Bible is the Word of God when I say the Word of God I'm talking about the Holy Bible and I just want to encourage you to begin to read your Bible every day you know there there is something different about the Bible than any other book on this earth it is it is God talking to us his people it was written by men but it was inspired by the Holy Ghost and really if you think about it it's a love letter from God to us he loved us so much that he didn't leave us on this earth alone he gave us words of comfort words of encouragement words of instruction and words of wisdom we don't lack in this earth and I think about the scripture in Hebrews 4:12 that says this the Word of God is alive and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword and you know when I read that today thought the Bible is the only book that has power in it there is supernatural power in the Bible you can read the Bible and you can get saved you can read the Bible and you can get healed you can read the Bible and you can get delivered from habits you can read the Bible when you're depressed and you can get joy there's power in the Word of God hallelujah but let me read the scripture I wanted to proverbs 4 it says my son or my daughter pay attention to what I say this is what God is saying to us listen closely to my words do not let them out of your sight that means we ought to read the Bible every day keep them within your heart for they are life to those who find them and health to a man's whole body hallelujah the word is life it's health no other book can give you life like the Word of God can Amen and so I want to encourage you to read the Bible daily meditate on the word everyday on a consistent basis and you'll see your life begin to change you'll see transformation in your body and your mind and your spirit amen now listen what happens when you read the Bible I'm going to read a scripture to you from Proverbs 6 and it says this when you walk god's commands will guide you when you sleep they will watch over you and when you wake they will speak to you I tell you we are covered 24 hours a day hallelujah and it says it goes on to say for these commands are a lamp unto a lamp this teaching is a light and I think of another scripture in Psalm 27 that says this his word is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path I tell you you don't have to lack for direction in this life God's Word will just guide you he will light the path before you amen amen so as I close I just want to Curra Judah to make the Bible a part of your everyday life don't just admire the word devour the word Amen get it and read it with your eyes listen to it with your ears and then meditate on it in your heart because God wants to speak to you and he wants to encourage you on a daily basis and I don't know about you but when I'm fighting the battles of life I need encouragement every day of my life and if you will get into the word you'll find that encouragement I'll close with what David said in Psalms 19 about the word he couldn't have said it any better he said the Word of God revives my soul it brings joy to my heart it makes me wise and then he closes by saying it is more precious to me than gold in that good I tell you the Word of God it is like silver and it is like gold so I just encourage you to get into the Word of God open it up like God is speaking to you and you will be encouraged amen god bless you we are so glad to have angelic Christie with us this morning she is such a blessing to the body of Christ and and God has given her such talent and she really was born in Los Angeles but she got her start in Houston playing the saxophone and she attended at the High School of Performing and visual arts here and then she graduated from houston baptist university and from then on God has just blessed her and used her in a mighty way she doesn't only just play the saxophone she ministers the gospel and she has two albums and she's just a wonderful Christian recording artist I want to tell you a little bit about her she she is the only nationally recorded female Christian saxophonist in the world and that wonderful God has opened the doors for her to be on secular television as well as as playing with people like bebe and CeCe Winans and and Ron cannoli and in 1996 she was voted the best instrumentalist of the Year at the stellar Awards so God amen God has given her favor and this morning she is going to play the Lord's Prayer so we're so glad to have you on Gela praise the Lord this is the day that the Lord has made and I've come to rejoice and be glad in it the Bible says that if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face not my hand but my face then will I hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and heal their land and I like to think that if Jesus was a saxophonist that he would have played the model prayer something like this you you you you're watching the Sunday worship services at Houston's Lakewood Church voices of love and trouble now if you're in the Houston area Pastor John Osteen would like to extend a warm welcome to visit us each Sunday us hold up our Bibles unless I'll make our confession for my heart say this is my Bible I am what it says I am I have what it says a hell 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 I'm about to receive the incorruptible indestructible everliving see of the word of God I will never be the same never never never I'll never be the same in Jesus name Amen you may be seated in television audience you can open your Bibles with us to the Book of Numbers chapter 21 the Bible says and they journeyed from mad by the way of the Red Sea that's a children of Israel to compass the land of Edom and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way our preach again today on overcoming discouragement how many of you have ever been discouraged put up your hand you know we live our life we walked away that God's led us in but that does not mean that we're not going to have trouble we have opportunity to let a clown follow us around and jump on top of a hill and to get down and to get discouraged I heard a preacher tell about this woman that owned this little bird and the little bird in this cage was just as happy that bird just brought joy to all the household singing morning noon and sometimes even at night and so one day this woman was cleaning her house with the vacuum cleaner she took off this end of it and was going to clean out the cage of that little bird so she was cleaning out the cage and she dropped something and bent over and that thing went up like this and that little bourbon I mean he disappeared inside the vacuum creature and that woman got friended she didn't find the bird she turned turned that vacuum cleaner upside down pulled it apart open the bag and dug down and all of that dirt and dust and found that little bird she cleaned out his mouth a little bit and wiped him off and put him back in the cage he said on that perch but he never sang anymore he lost his song have you lost your song today have you lost your song out there in television have you lost your song has the devil sucked you up in his vacuum sweeper and caused you to lose your song oh thank god I'll tell you many of us have been down that vacuum sweeper oh yes the Devils done his best but he's done his best but you see our God is greater than the devil and I'll tell you we've been sucked up sometime in that vacuum sweeper well we have to get out we have to clean out our mouths and clean out our eyes and shake ourselves that little bird just got up there and just stared never did sing anymore shout depressed discouraged never sang anymore but I want you to know you're gonna sing again I said you're going to sing again I said you're going to sing again I said you're going to sing again so what the devil is broke sucked you up in that vacuum sweeper so what trouble has come so what you have a bad doctor's report so what it looks dark and gloomy but our God is alive we're going to clean out our mouth we're going to wipe our eyes we're going to shake our feathers and we're going to rock back and we go to sing we're gonna sing David said he said I've waited patiently for the Lord he inclined his ear unto me and heard my cry and he brought me up also out of a horrible pit and he set my feet on solid rock and he put a new song I said he put a new song I said he put a new song I said he put a new song I said he put a new song the new star you see before we go into trouble before we go down in that vacuum sweeper before we have our iron daylights knocked out of us we had a song we had a song but I'll tell you when we're lifted out of that horrible pit and the miracle-working power of God brings us miracles I'll tell you he puts a new song I said a new song a different tune we're singing now about his great deliverance but you know discouragement is real they became much discouraged because of the way I want you to look at a scripture in the Ninja and Joshua chapter chapter what I'm just quoting to you the Bible says the book of this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth Joshua but you shall be meditate therein day and night be strong and of good courage that's the opulence of discourage this book of the law shall not depart up you out of your mouth all the days of your life be strong and very courageous now notice how courage and the Word of God go together this book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth be strong and very courageous if you have the wrong kind of words in your mouth you will stay much discouraged but I'll tell you in the midst of all of your trouble in all of your fight in all of your your way of life when the dark cloud comes don't say what the symptoms say don't say what the devil says don't say what your body says don't say what the report says say what God says and I say my god is evil my God created the heavens of the earth and the sea and all that in them is my god is able he's a able to do exceeding abundantly above all that I asked to think an amplified version says infinitely beyond my highest dreams and aspirations oh I tell you I have some high dreams I near Dead Yet I said I ain't here dead yet oh I'm not there through yet I've got some high dreams my highest dreams my highest dreams is to walk in health and strength and my family and health and strength and this church to continue to grow and will be able to minister to the world and reach the unreached and tell the untold I have had dreams but my God is able to fulfill those dreams lift your hands and praise Him lift your hands and praise Him you know John the Baptist got discouraged if anybody in the world ought not to be discouraged John the Baptist ought not to be John the Baptist as that was there when he baptized Jesus John the Baptist was there when he saw the Dove come out of heaven and the Holy Ghost came on Jesus he was there he was there to hear the voice of God that said this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased he was there to see Jesus enter into his ministry and to cast out Devils perform miracles and all those wonderful things and yet he got in jail are you in some kind of a prison today as it ever captured you put bars around you and put darkness over you and so in John the Baptist was and oh don't don't get mad at yourself John the Baptist is a good example he saw the he saw the duh he heard the boys he knew Jesus and yet in that prison he said his disciples that Jesus said are you really the one are you really the one can you imagine but that's what discouraged what does to you you can get down in the dark hour and begin to question God are you really the one that should come and they went to Jesus and said that too and Jesus said you go back and tell John the blind see the crippled walk the Deaf hear the dead are raised and blessings issues not offended in me he didn't just say I'm the one he said go back tell him what I'm doing let him decide and then after they left now John sitting under the cloud of gloom and discouragement in prison wondering if Jesus is really the one but when they left Jesus said concerning John the Baptist what went ye out into the wilderness to see a reed Swickard a swayed by the wind no a prophet but more than a prophet I say unto you of all the people born of woman there's not a risen greater one greater than John the Baptist Jesus began to brag on the one sitting in prison in the hour of discouragement he began to talk about how great he was listen if you're discouraged today remember God is bragging on you God has saved have you seen my servant so in so calling your name there's none like him Oh God knows you're going to come through it you may be in the fiery furnace but you're coming out without the smell of smoke you may be in the lion's den but God sent an angel to lock the jaws of the land hallelujah you may be saying I'm just like job well thank God then God reseed gave job twice as much and healed him lift your hands and praise God you're coming out praise God you're coming out praise God you're coming out you know Elijah got discouraged Elijah the Prophet is all those wonderful miracles of God Jezebel gotta imagine the fire fail until you I think if I could see God send fire down from heaven I don't believe I'd ever get discouraged but he saw the fire fall their own mouth caramel and he saw the defeat of the of the opera' of the devil's forces and now he outruns the chariot of ahab twenty miles across the plain of jezreel full of god's power the hand of God upon him but then after that he heard that Jezebel was after him oh god save us from Jezebel's and all the men said Amen and and Elijah begin to run he was running with the hand of the Lord on him first and now he's running in fear and he got under juniper tree he said Oh God let me die he didn't want to die if you don't want to die just slow down that Jezebel catch him Jezebel was going to take his head off but he got discouraged don't condemn yourself you may have seen great things like the fire falling and all of that and then then you have battles a knife listen great it is to dream the dream when you stand in you and I've been there when you send in you by the starry stream and a greater thing a greater thing a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end the dream is true lift your hands and praise God for your dream coming true the chance and praise God for your dream coming true thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus David got discouraged he had his fighting men they went out to fight their Wars and while they were gone the enemy came in and burned all their all the town where they dwelt and took all their wives and all their children and escaped with them and when they came back they were ready to stone David and the Bible says and David was much discouraged let's discourage because the people thought to stone him nobody was there to encourage him nobody was there to say a comforting word to him everybody was against him are you there today well I'll tell you no matter who whether you have anybody to encourage you or not the Bible says David encouraged himself in the Lord here's God not the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob but the Lord is God and if you don't have anybody to George you just encourage yourself sometimes I look in the mirror and I talk to myself I talk about the fact that God's going to fulfill the will of God in my life I talked about the fact that I'm healthy and well and healed and delivered and set free I talked about the fact that God will do exceeding abundantly above all that I ask of faith thank God we already encouraged ourself David encouraged himself almost ready to give up almost ready to give up he had sought the throne God into northern king over Israel and yet Saul sat on that throne and he had spent years waiting and did you know he encouraged himself in the Lord in 72 hours he was sitting on the throne when you're in your darkest hour you may be 72 hours for the fulfillment of all dreamers lift your heads and praise God praise Him in the midst of darkness praise Him in the midst of discouragement thank you Jesus now looking back at this text here in numbers as they journeyed from mount hor the way of the Red Sea and to comes the land of Edom the soul of the people was much discouraged and then notice and the people speak a look of your minute when you are discouraged be careful to keep your mouth shut unless you're going to speak God's Word oh my if you have thought evil lay your hand upon your mouth if you're about to talk about the circumstances and all the bad things lay your hand upon your mouth until you can speak the Word of God stop talking to you God about how big your mountain is start talking to your mountain about how big your God is they they were much discouraged and spoke if you are down and discouraged and our things are about you be careful what you say be sure you speak the Word of God and not the word of man and they spake notice they speak against negative words are easy to proceed out of your mouth when you are discouraged I've been discouraged I've been down I've had a dark cloud over me but you know what I do in my house I just jump and leap it shouted kick my legs up in the air and praise the Lord and laugh and praise God I tell you I will not act like God is dead and I'm helpless I'm not helpless because God is not I'm not hopeless because God's not helpless I just demonstrate to God that I have joy because I believe I'm coming out notice I spike against when you get mad when you get down when you get the skirt it's easier to speak against they speak against Moses the preacher is the first one to talk about this is if you're discouraged don't talk about me I'm on your side I'm holding your side I'm on your side don't write me too bad letters they speak against Moses and also they speak against God you know you don't understand the mind of God somebody says why why has this happened well we may not understand all the whys if you don't understand God trust him why has this come on me why do I have to face this why and you begin to blame God this and God is on your side he's on your side they began to speak against God and against Moses and and condemned them you know what God did God did God sent fiery serpents if God sent serpents to everybody who complained today we may have to look at our feet real quick God got angry with them so in your discouragement don't speak negative things and attack people and blame God God loves us God wants us and God needs us oh I'm so glad I'm needed Jesus said I'm I am the vine of others a husband and you are the branches the the vine cannot produce fruit without the branches we are needed say I am needed I have wanted I am loved now the three voices that you lit can listen to in the hour of discouragement number one you can listen to the voice of the devil if you want to and you you can speak all of those negative things and you put things into your mind to blame God to blame people and blame this and blame that you can listen to that voice or you can to listen to the voice of other people listen if you have anything good to say about people say it out to them don't speak discouraging words many times it's a voice of relatives and friends and and professionals that give us their report that we listen to their voices and they put us under you can listen to the voice of the devil or the voice of other people or you can listen to your own voice speaking the Word of God listen to your own voice saying my God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that I asked to think God lives in me my body is a temple of the Holy Ghost and he he always makes me to try by his Holy Spirit in me thank God we can hear ourselves speaking the Word of God and Israel listen to the Word of God in our mouth will overcome and we're not going to sit on our perch I'm determined I'm not sitting on a perch with my eyes and mouth full of dust losing my soul I'm not gonna do it I'm shaking myself we are shaking yourself we're going to get our song back and we're going to have a new song we're going to bless the name of the Lord and we're going to praise our God and shout the victory and we know that our God will bring what we need into our lives lift your heads and praise it lift your hands and praise him for praise it with all your heart with all your mind with all your soul thank you Lord Jesus thank you Lord Jesus in psalm 42 and i close with this it's talking about jesus it says concerning his ministry he will not fail nor be discouraged until he has finished what God says in him to do Jesus had ample opportunity to be discouraged they called him a demon they said your demon possess his own disciples betrayed him and Peter denied Jesus could have gotten discouraged but the Bible says in Isaiah he will not fail nor be discouraged I'll tell you he just kept old he kept on and finished the will of God for his life and life isn't easy so shake yourself shake your feathers clean out your eyes clean out your mouth and begin to sing and don't let over discouragement overcome you but you overcome discouragement lift your hands and praise God for praise him out loud praise him out loud it's such a giant encourage you I know many of you get discouraged out there many of you today made just about be ready to give up but I'll tell you even though you've gone down in the vacuum sweeper come out and seem like you've lost your song today God's going to give it back to you and the greatest thing you can ever do is to make Jesus the Lord of your life I like to talk to you about Jesus so many of you are religious church members and yet you haven't yet really been born-again you haven't accepted Jesus as the Lord of your life why don't you just pray this prayer so god I know I'm a sinner you know I'm a sinner but Christ died for sinners Lord today I turned my back on the way I've been living and I'm going to give my life and heart to the Lord Jesus Christ Jesus I opened wide the door my heart come into my heart Jesus I accept you right now as my Lord and my Savior thank you Jesus I no longer belong to myself I no longer belong to the devil I belong to you

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Length: 52min 59sec (3179 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 03 2011