Houston We Have A Promise

John Gray @ Lakewood Church
2012 Was the Launch Pad

2 Corinthians 1:20 NLT
For all of God's promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding "Yes!" And through Christ, our "Amen" (which means "Yes") ascends to God for his glory.

2 Corinthians 1:22 MSG
Whatever God has promised gets stamped with the Yes of Jesus. In him, this is what we preach and pray, the great Amen, God's Yes and our Yes together, gloriously evident. God affirms us, making us a sure thing in Christ, putting his Yes within us. By his Spirit he has stamped us with his eternal pledge—a sure beginning of what he is destined to complete.

Isaiah 43:19 KJV
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

God is so concerned about launch that he is deeply concerned about the preparation.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Launch window is a term used in spaceflight to describe a time period in which a particular launch vehicle (rocket, Space Shuttle, etc.) must be launched. If the rocket does not launch within the "window", it has to wait for the next window.

WEIGHT CHECK
Hebrews 12:1 KJV
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Anything not on board wasn't supposed to be there.

There is a perimeter around the rocket. The devil can talk but he can't touch.

I'm a unique representation of God's creative genius and if there is a problem I can check the training manual.

WAIT CHECK

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Remembering the Good

Negative memories take up more space and that's why we gravitate toward those.  That means that I need to be proactive.  Just because the memory comes up doesn't b mean that I can't change the channel.

Quit dwelling on the negative.

Stay on your victory channel.

****Victoria Osteen at Lakewood****

God's love isn't based on performance. So all we have to do is ask for forgiveness and then receive it.  The goodness of God leads you to repentance. God isn't holding my past against me. 

Not Giving Away Your Joy

Joel Osteen@  Lakewood Church

• There will always be something that interrupts your day.

• Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond.

• You have to decide ahead of time that you will keep your peace because this is the day that the Lord has made and you will rejoice and be glad in it.

• John 16:22 NIV

• So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

• Identify what is making you unhappy and choose to react to it differently.

• Proverbs 14:30 NIV

• A heart at peace gives life to the body,

• but envy rots the bones.

• John 14:27 NLT

• "I am leaving you with a gift—peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give is a gift the world cannot give. So don't be troubled or afraid.

• Psalm 94:13 NIV

• you grant them relief from days of trouble,

• till a pit is dug for the wicked.

• 2 Timothy 4:5 GNT

• But you must keep control of yourself in all circumstances; endure suffering, do the work of a preacher of the Good News, and perform your whole duty as a servant of God.

• When we get upset about someone else's bad attitude we just may take their garbage and dump it on someone else.

• Be aware of the garbage trucks in life.

• Matthew 5:5

********Victoria Osteen*********

Be more of a problem solver than a complainer. Rejoicing in the lord is a good way to guard against complaints.

40 years to take an 11 day journey.

Philippians 4:4 NIV
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!

When you complain you distort the beauty of the moment.

When you complain you remain but when you rejoice you hear his voice.