What Are You Running From? | Joel Osteen
What Are You Running From?
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Before you sleep, PRAY. When you wake up, PRAY. When life gets hard, PRAY. when you’re happy PRAY. If you are unsure, PRAY. God is always with us.
Fusion 6 talks about putting on the armor of god, helmet of salvation, breastplate of righteousness, the belt of truth, the shoes of peace, the shield of faith, all these awesome things to protect us.
What’s interesting is there’s nothing for our backside. There’s no armor to cover our rear.
That’s because god never created us to be running.
He created us to confront our giants, to face our fears, to stand strong in faith.
Don’t be like the Israelites and spend years of your life running from things that all god has already given you victory over.
All he needs is for you to stop running. Deal with it. He’ll be right there to help you.
40 years later, the children of these Israelites were back at the promised land.
What’s significant is the giants weren’t gone? God didn’t clear out the path and just walk into the land.
They still had opposition. What you don’t confront, your children will have to deal with.
But when you stop running, when you face your fears, defeat bad habits, forgive the wrongs, you are breaking generational curses.
You are putting an end to negative cycles that keep getting passed down.
I wanna make it easier on my children.
My grandchildren, I’m not gonna run from things that are hard.
I’m not gonna take the easy way out, live afraid of the giants, intimidated by the size of the dream, letting my mistakes stop my destiny.
No. Let’s go into our promised land.
The children of these Israelites, this new generation, they had a different attitude.
They saw the same giants, same intimidation, same thoughts, Cam, saying you don’t have a chance.
Their response was, no, thanks. We’re not running. We’re not gonna spend our life wandering in the desert.
We know greater is he that’s in us than what’s coming against us.
They faced the opposition and went into the land, their parents could have had 40 years earlier.
Why don’t you confront things that your parents and those that went before you didn’t confront?
Maybe they learned to live with the addiction You can face it and conquer it. No more running.
No more accepting it. Don’t take another lap. Take a stand.
You’re the one to go into the promised land. You have to be honest with yourself.
It’s easy to ignore things, make excuses.
You may need to confront pride, confront a bad attitude, confront compromise, Maybe you need to apologize to someone.
You need to make things right.
The longer you put it off, the longer you’re wandering, to go into the promised land, you have to be willing to deal with things that you know are limiting you.
The installments said, God keep me from lying to myself. That’s a powerful prayer.
Sometimes we don’t wanna pray that. We wanna keep things hidden.
We don’t wanna deal with things that are uncomfortable, but it’s much better to be open and honest.
God show me areas where I need to change. Not my spouse.
I have a list of 30 things they need to do.
Not my cousin, not my child, But where do I need to come up high?
When you live out of a place of humility, you’re willing to deal with things that god brings to light There’s no limit to how high god will take you.
We all have areas we need to grow. It’s tempting to make excuses. Joel, I’ve always been hot tempered.
I’ve always held grudges. Always been critical, negative, arrogant, defensive. This is just who I am. No. You’re running.
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- Thursday BlessingsTháng ba 16, 2023