Subject: Thought-17/07/2002
Don't Limit God - Pas.Joel Osteen =============== In the book of Psalms, chapter 37, verse 4 it says, "If you delight yourself in the Lord, God would give you the desires of your heart." The Amplified version says, "the secret petitions of your heart." But just because God says He'd give them to us doesn't mean that we're not going to face obstacles and we're not going to face situations that we have to overcome in life. And what I want to talk to you about a little while today is how we ought not to limit God's power and limit His blessings in our lives. The way we limit God is through doubt and unbelief. There's going to be a time in all of our lives where when we look up it's going to look like by all natural, ordinary, human reasoning that our dreams can't come to pass. Some of you face that right now. It just looks like there's no way in the natural and if you don't watch it, you'll get filled with doubt and unbelief, and you'll stop the flow of God's blessings in your life. See I like to think of it like this: between me and God and between you and God there's this pipeline. I like to think of it maybe an 8-inch pipeline. And on that pipeline there's some valves on it, some different valves that you can either open of close. And when you start looking at only the present-day situation and you're looking at all the obstacles and the challenges that you to face today, if you don't watch it you'll get filled with doubt and unbelief. And you've just got to reach up there like a faucet. You're reaching up there and you're cutting back the faucet. You're cutting back the flow of God's power in your life. You see, I wash my car a lot of times out in my driveway and when I start I open the faucet wide open and that water flows forth freely. But when I get another portion I cut the faucet back and I start to restrict the water and it comes less and less and less. And if we don't watch it--God is a good God. He wants to bless us. He wants to give us the desires of our heart. But if we don't watch it, it's through our own doubt and unbelief that we're reaching up there and we're cutting back the flow of God's blessings and His supernatural power in our lives. And what I want to challenge you with today is don't limit God through your doubt and unbelief and go back and open that valve up completely so we can receive the power and the blessings of God in our lives. God gave us the dreams; He wants to bring them to pass. The Bible is full of promises from God. Somebody said there's over 20,000 promises in this Bible. If we would just get them into our heart and get them into our lives, we would see God begin to work and we wouldn't limit God. And you know what I want us to see today is that God's done something in all of our lives. How many of you believe God has touched your life one time or another? Well you know what? This made God angry when they began to question His mightand His power and His ability. Have a Nice day! **************************************************************** This mail is generated from JOYnet, a Jesus Youth mailing list. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to this mailing list, visit http://www.jesusyouth.org/joynet For automatic help, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In case of any issue related to the mailing list contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************