Just Do It

Joel @ Lakewood Church

• Sometimes God Wants us to do things that do not make sense, do not fit into my schedule, or are Outside of our budget.
• With every act of Obedience there is a blessing attached
• You have to have bold obedience. Faith is not in your head, faith is in your heart.
• Before the red sea was parted The Israelites had to get their feet wet.
• Exodus 14:15-16 
• God said to Moses: “Why cry out to me? Speak to the Israelites. Order them to get moving.
• Hold your staff high and stretch your hand out over the sea: Split the sea! The Israelites will walk through the sea on dry ground.
• John Osteen collected $6000 to pour the foundation for and sanctuary. The Lord told Him to donate the money to a nearby church. He did and Then after that donations flooded in.
• Joel is reaping a harvest from a seed that was sown years ago.
• God told Isaac to plant his crops in a Famine which did nor make sense.
• Genesis 26:12 KJV
  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
• Acts 9:1, 11-13 KJV
• And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prayeth, And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight. Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints at Jerusalem:
• God commanded Ananias to heal someone who had been persecuting Christians. This did not make sense. But since Ananias was obedient Paul went on to preach the gospel and write much of the Bible.
• Acts 9:17-18 KJJ
• And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.
• Paul Osteen left his successful medical practice to help his father's church. now he gives medical treatment to assist at Lakewood after his father died. Now Paul uses his medical practice to spread the gospel in countries where people wouldn't usually have access to health care!
• God commanded Abraham to sacrifice Isaac his promised son. Abraham obeyed and just as he was about to do it, this happens...
• Genesis 22:15-18 KJV
• And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord , for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

• Victoria Osteen @ Lakewood Church

• Jeremiah 29:11 KJV
• For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord , thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
• Sometimes When it take long we put down what we believe and pick up what me see became me get good at being human when aid wants us to be supernatural because we serve a supernatural God. So we have to Watch and See
• Watch
• Observe.
• Observing is a long process. You have to take hold of what you see and absorb them.
• Long Processes produce brilliant results
• A diamond IS produced when coal Is put under pressure.
• David spent most of His young life watching His Father's sheep until one day his father sent him to the enemy line. Before he faced Goliath he remembered his past victories. His brothers ridiculed Him but he had to look past those distracting voices because that pressure is making me shiny and brilliant.
• 1 Samuel 17 34-37: But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.”
• See
• 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.. .