by Joel Osteen
source : Lakewood Church weekly video podcast
download available : #386 - Freedom from Wrong Mindsets (158.00 MB)
Many times we don't realize it's our own thinking that keeping us from being our best. God is constantly plant new seed in our heart. Telling us that we can accomplish our dreams, we can break an addiction, we can overcome the past, but too often because of wrong software, those seed cannot take root, instead agreeing with God and thinking can-do thoughts, possibility thoughts, wellable thoughts, we do just the opposite. We think,"I can't do that." "I'm not talented." "I'm too old." "I've been throw too much." "Well.. Joel, I'll never get well. I've this sickness for years." " I never get out from this problem. I'm just learning to live with it."
No, recognize those are wrong mindsets that keeping you from rising higher. Just like a virus can contaminated a computer. One of best thing we can learn to do is hit the delete button. We need to clear out all the "can't do it","not able to","not good enough" thoughts. And let's we program our thinking with what God says about us. God says we are wellable, we can do all things through Christ, we are strong, talented, creative, redeem, forgiven. You have the seed of Allmighty God on the inside. You gonna break free from any mindset and you gonna step in into new season. Some of you might said,"Well, I can't accomplish my dreams, I don't have the connection, I don't have the resources, I don't have the education." No, hit the delete button. You and God are majority. God has already line up the right people, the right breaks, the right opportunities. He has favor on your future.
I think about how little children start off so excited about life. They've got big dreams, they gonna be an astronaut, a scientist, a teacher, a singer, a football player. They believe they can do anything. They not intimidated, they not insecure, they bold, they confident, they got that spring on their step. You know why? They just came from their creator. Their thinking hasn't been contaminated. they can feel those seed of greatness. But too often, over time, as they get older, they start to reprogram. Somebody tells them what they can't do. What their not going to become. The enviroment start to pushing them down. Before long, instead as thinking those same possibility thoughts, they think,"I'll never do anything great. I'm just average. I'm just ordinary like everybody else." They used to believe that they gonna leave their mark on our generation. They could feel their sense of destiny. But now the enthusiasm, the zeal for life has gone. The good news is, it's not too late to change. If you get an agreement with God and start believeing you can raise higher, then you can still accomplish everything that God put in your heart. You are not too old. Moses was 80 years old when God called him. You've made too many mistakes. Jacob was known as deceiver, yet God used him to do great things. You have been through too many unfair situations. Joseph spend 13 years in prison for something he didn't do, and yet God brought him out better off than he was before. What am I saying? There still time for you to fulfill your destiny and leave mark. Quit listening to those lies, that telling you that you've reached your limit and you've gone as far as you can go. You have assignments. Mountain to climb. You are a person of destiny.
You are not suppose go through life with an addictions, little dream, low self-esteem, a defeated mindset, that's not who you really are. That maybe the way you've been trained. But the good news is you can be re-train. You can re-new your mind. You'll break out the mediocrity and you gonna step into excellence. You gonna overcome every obstacle, you gonna defeat every enemy. I believe and declare you gonna see every dream, every desire God put in your heart, it will come to pass. Amen.
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