Stand Firm In Your “Yes” To God | Victoria Osteen

What do you need to say yes to today? When you get in agreement with God, there’s no limit to what He can do in your life!

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Thank you, lord.
We are excited to be in your presence and in the house of the lord. Amen?
Have you ever had an opportunity presented to you? And you said, no. No.
I don’t wanna do that. No. I can’t do that.
Maybe you didn’t think you were qualified, or maybe you thought there was someone else better for the job.
Or maybe you just didn’t have the resources.
You know, there’s numbers of reasons that we say no when certain opportunities present themselves.
But then have you ever done that? And then later got to thinking, uh, what else I know for?
I wish I had done that. Maybe I could have done that.
Have you ever wrestled with the no before? Thinking, maybe I could.
Uh, maybe I should.
You see, I’ll never forget one time when Joel’s father was the pastor of the church.
Back in the old building. And we were worshiping god.
It was in the middle of our worship, just like we were doing today. My hands were up.
I was praising god. When I opened my eyes, Joel’s father had turned around in his seat and looked at me and said, Victoria, Why don’t you go up and do the prayer time?
Well, he wasn’t talking about next week or the next week.
He was talking about the end of the song that was just about over.
I’m sure I looked at him because I had never even remotely given him the thought that I wanted to get on the platform and do the prayer time.
I don’t even know where he got that, but I’ll never forget Chuckling with a nervous laugh, and I said, uh Daddy O?
I don’t think so. You know, in his sweet gentle way, he just smiled at me.
He turned around, and he never said, anymore to me during that service.
You know, I remember standing there thinking, I just need to get out of here.
But when I got home, I was wrestling with that no.
I was so disappointed in myself, and really, quite frankly, I was mad at myself.
Because I thought to myself, if if he thought I could do it, why do I think that I can’t do it?
If someone has faith in me, why don’t I have faith in myself?
And I went back and I went forth, and I went back and I went forth.
And as I was wrestling with that, I realized that that no just wasn’t satisfactory to me.
So I began to dig deep because on the inside of me, I realized there was a yes, but it was buried under fear It was buried under the pretense that I could not do it.
It was buried under the thought, why does anybody need to hear from me?
You see, that no was not satisfactory to me.
So I began to dig up my yes, and I began to say, I wanna do it.
God help me do it. God, I wanna give you my yes.
And through that struggle, I had to make a decision.
Was I just gonna have one foot in and one foot out, or was I gonna make a firm decision and say the next time he asked me, if he ever does, I’m on prepare, and I’m gonna be ready.
So every time I’d go to church, I’d be praising with when I open Say maybe not today, lord, but not today, lord.
You know, he did ask me again. He did ask me again.
And you know what I did? I mustered up that great big yes. And I got up.
And I did the prayer time.
You see, what that yes did for me, it kicked in god’s grace.
It caused me to begin to rely on god.
I prepared, but then I allowed the grace of god to work in me and work through me.
There’s a scripture that says that God is working in us to will and to do his good pleasure.
When you realize that you don’t have to do everything on your own, and if it gets done, it’s only because of your ability when you realize that is not always the case, but that it’s god who’s working in you.
It’s god who’s preparing you. If you will get into agreement with god, god can do amazing things in our lives.
But god needs our yes. He needs to hear our yes.
When I think about how that yes kicked in, and gave me the power to be able to do that.
It was it was a very much of a learning experience for me.
Because, see, I didn’t realize at the time that god was up to something.
But when I looked back, I realized that that yes was one step closer to my destiny.
That, yes, was one step closer to the next step.
Now, the truth is I don’t know how many times I ever got back up on the platform when daddy was there, but I’ll tell you what, that experience gave me the courage and the boldness when god asked me yes again.
Listen, if you’re struggling with a yes today, If you’re struggling between yes and no when god talks to you, maybe you don’t think you’re equipped, maybe you don’t have the right resources, maybe there’s a plethora of reasons that you can make excuses.
Can I tell you make a decision? Just settle it in your mind.
If god wants me to do it, I’m gonna give you my yes, and I’m gonna prepare and move forward.
Because let me tell you something just like my father-in-law asked me, and I said, no.
He didn’t hold that no against me. And your heavenly father is not gonna hold that no against you.
You may have said no, time and time again, but I can tell you, just like my father-in-law, God’s gonna ask you again.
He’s gonna ask you again. So I encourage you to make a decision To give god your yes.
Hold on to the promises of god. Listen to what it says in 2nd Corinthians 120.
It says for no matter how many promises god has made, they are yes in Christ.
And so through him, we speak the amen. Through him, who speaks the amen?
Who speaks the yes? We speak the yes. God’s promises are gonna stand forever.
They will remain, but he is looking for us to say yes.
He is looking for us to take that step of faith.
To say god, I’m all in no matter what it looks like, Hey.
What in the world does yes look like to you today?
What does it look like to you today? What does your yes look like when you think about god?
Yes, god? I’m gonna forgive the people that hurt me. Yes, god.
I am on a trust you in this very difficult time, god.
I am all in with you God knowing that you can bring about favor in my situation.
Yes, god. I’m gonna begin to reach out to people, even if I don’t feel like I have time, but I know that you can make up that time for me.
Maybe you just need to surrender some things in your life.
And say, yes, god, it is time for you to work through me.
I’m gonna quit trying to doing it on my own, and god, I’m just gonna say, yes to you, I’m gonna take that step of faith, god, and let you open those supernatural doors for me.
What does your yes look like today? Because god is waiting on you to get into agreement with him.
And as soon as you say yes to god, guess what? The grace of god kicks in.
You say you’re not on your own. God doesn’t want you to do it on your own.
God wants you to do it with him in partnership and agreement with him. And you know what?
You can say yes. I think about the saints of old. They wavered in there. Yes.
They wavered in their no. One day, they were believers. The next day, they were denied Jesus.
Listen, god is not gonna hold your no against you, but make some firm decisions to say I am gonna trust god in this no matter what it looks like, no matter how scared I am, no matter how buried that yes is in my in my spirit.
I’m gonna dig it up. I’m gonna work it out. Because the Bible talks about this.
It says, you have to hold fast your profession of faith. You have to hold fast that yes.
See, that indicates that something is gonna try to take that yes from you.
And we’re very well aware that time tries to steal our yes, people try to steal our yes, All these nos and shut doors try to steal our yes.
But you know what? We’re gonna have to step over a lot of nos and hold fast to that yes.
Hold it tight. See, it’s not just in your ability. It’s in god’s ability through you.
It’s in him opening supernatural doors. Can I tell you, is it gonna be easy? Absolutely not.
Is it worth it? Absolutely. It is.
God is a god of miracles, and he wants to take you step by step.
But he needs your amen. He needs your agreement. Think about Noah.
When god came to Noah and spoke to Noah and said Noah, I want you to build an arc.
No one had no idea, first off, what a boat was, what an arc was, because no one had seen rain, It had literally never rain that theologian said.
But you know what, Noah did? He said, yes, god.
So he was fighting the odds because no one had ever seen rain, and no one wanted to get into agreement with his yes, But he said, I’m gonna stay in agreement with god.
Yes. And he kept building that art. It took years years people made fun of him.
They even said, Noah is crazy. He and his family are crazy people.
But what did Noah keep doing? He kept pounding the nails.
He kept saying yes in his obedience to god. And let me tell you something.
No as art stands as a monument today. A sign of god’s goodness, a sign of god’s agreement.
You see, we are in covenant with this great god. And he wants your. Yes.
I have a friend of mine who who has a a large family, many siblings, And she made a decision to say yes to god in a new way.
And what I mean by that is she was gonna let go of some of her past habits And she was gonna start serving god in a fresh new way, because he had given her an impression to do it differently.
Well, let me tell you something. Her family didn’t think that was so keen.
In fact, they made ugly remarks to her, they literally quit inviting her to certain gatherings because she had a new commitment to god.
But can I tell you she stayed faithful to her commitment?
She held on tight to that yes, even when she wasn’t invited to things.
She continued to be kind to her family, show love, and when they did invite her, she showed up with all of her blessings to them.
Can I tell you today? After years years of holding on to that yet, staying committed, making that decision, even when it was tough, even when it would have been easier to go back.
Her yes stands as an anchor of hope to her family, and many of them have come back to Jesus Christ because of that yes.
Is our yes always easy? No. But our yes is always worth it.
When we serve a mighty god. Get up every day. Reconfirm your yes. Yes, god. I am yours. Yes, god.
What do you want me to do today? Yes, god. I will trust you. I will forgive.
I will take that step of faith.
God, I believe, that when I get into agreement with you, you’re gonna do what I can’t do.
You’re gonna do the impossible amen. Amen. Thank you, lord.
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