Parts and Poison | Joel Osteen

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Parts and Poison | Joel Osteen

“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
― Joel Osteen

I was at an electronic store to buy some parts for our television equipment.
This was back when I worked behind the scenes and production here at Lakewood and the parts were in the back.
The staff had to get them for you.
I had done this many times before The man at the counter was on the phone.
He wasn’t in any hurry to get off.
He could see me standing there, but he talked about 15 minutes and I waited patiently.
Eventually, he hung up and I thought he would acknowledge me and see what I needed.
But he never looked up. Finally, I asked if he could help me, you would have thought I had just insulted him.
He said so gruffly very aggravated. What do you need? I asked him for this certain part.
He looked at it and said, we don’t carry that. We never have.
I told him how I had purchased it there many times before his face got real red smoke started coming out of his ears.
He looked like he’s about to explode.
He used several curse words and said, I told you I don’t have it.
Now, don’t ask me for it again.
I wanted to say, I’ll ask you as many times as I feel like asking, I’ll call you in the middle of the night if I want to.
But I noticed he was bigger than me. So I just smiled, said no problem.
Just have a nice day, didn’t mean it, but at least I said it, I had to make this choice.
Was I going to let his poison get in me pollute my day.
Sour my attitude, spend my emotional energy, upset, aggravated or was I going to be a Teflon pan?
Have that no stick anointing. Let all that disrespect the anger, the poison slide right off of me.
I decided to let it go.
You can’t stop people from dumping their garbage, but you can keep your lid on.
You don’t have to let all their trash get in you. Sometimes we have unrealistic expectations.
We think we’ll have a good day. As long as we don’t encounter any rude people.
As long as our family says, nice things.
As long as our co workers perform perfectly, then we’ll stay in peace. That’s not reality difficult.
People are all around. There will be someone that can steal your joy, get you offended.
Leave you out, say something. That’s not true. The key is not trying to avoid it.
It’s to handle it the right way. Don’t take the bait, don’t let the offense stay.
Don’t dwell on the negative comments. Keep yourself oiled up to where you don’t let anything step.
This is how you live happy, not by avoiding difficult people, but by not taking their garbage, by not responding to them the way they treated you.
It’s by being an eagle by rising higher than the offense.
The hurt, the jealousy when God can trust you to do the right thing.
When it’s hard, there’s no limit to how high He will take you.
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