All Is Well

• Joel @ Lakewood
• When you have an all IS well attitude It takes the pressure Off and it gives You peace to know Cod has things under control
• Daniel  3
• 16-18 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered King Nebuchadnezzar, “Your threat means nothing to us. If you throw us in the fire, the God we serve can rescue us from your roaring furnace and anything else you might cook up, O king. But even if he doesn’t, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference, O king. We still wouldn’t serve your gods or worship the gold statue you set up.”
• All is well whether it goes my way or not.
• You may not see a way out but God is still on the throne so all is well
• The trap The enemy sett for me can be used for God's glory.
• 1 Peter 4:12 KJV
• Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
• Matthew 13
• The weeds always pop up right before the harvest but when it comes to those weeds l didn't sew them so I dost have to reap them!
• Hebrews 4:3 KJV
• For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
• The battle is The Lord's and I need to rest
• You cant have a harvest without some weeds
• 2 Kings 4:26 KJV
• A Shunammite woman watched her son die in her arms. She decided to go see the prophet Elisha who promised her that son. She races up to Mount Carmel where Elisha. Seeing her in the distance, Elisha's servant met her on the rode and here is what she had to say:
• Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.
• You have to believe that all is well even when It does not look well
• Romans 4:17-18 MSG
• We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"
• Do not use your words to describe the situation me your words to change the situation.
• You are setting yourself up for disappointment IF all things have to go your way
• Paul and Silas praise in the prison.
• Paul and Silas had been beaten and thrown into jail unfairly. The two of them decided to pray and sing praises. In response there was a great earthquake which caused every door to open and to loose all the prisoners.
• Daniel in the lion's den
• IF you dont talk to yourself the right way negative thoughts will invade
• Isaiah 3:10 KJV
• Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
• All things will work to my advantage even when things don't go my way.

• Victoria Osteen @ Lakewood Church
• God can only be glorified through us.
• Psalm 116:12-19 MSG
• What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation—a toast to God ! I'll pray in the name of God ; I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it together with his people. When they arrive at the gates of death, God welcomes those who love him. Oh, God , here I am, your servant, your faithful servant: set me free for your service! I'm ready to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice and pray in the name of God . I'll complete what I promised God I'd do, and I'll do it in company with his people, In the place of worship, in God 's house, in Jerusalem, God 's city. Hallelujah!
• Take what God has given me an use it
• All good relationships are good exchanges
• Take hold of what Is given and produce.
• God wants us to have more
• God doesn't want us to work for Him , he wants us to freely take.

Strategically Ordered Steps

Joel @ Lakewood

• God is not random. He will use everything because hers strategic. He may not have sent it but if He allowed it then He can use it.
• Judges 14:4 MSG
• (His father and mother had no idea that God was behind this, that he was arranging an opportunity against the Philistines. At the time the Philistines lorded it over Israel.)
• God knew that He needed an insider to carryout His plan
• Proverbs 20:24 MSG
• The very steps we take come from God; otherwise how would we know where we're going?
• Gods plan is not straight, there are turns u-turns Shortcuts and etc...
• Genesis 45:4-8 MSG
• "Come closer to me," Joseph said to his brothers. They came closer. "I am Joseph your brother whom you sold into Egypt. But don't feel badly, don't blame yourselves for selling me. God was behind it. God sent me here ahead of you to save lives. There has been a famine in the land now for two years; the famine will continue for five more years—neither plowing nor harvesting. God sent me on ahead to pave the way and make sure there was a remnant in the land, to save your lives in an amazing act of deliverance. So you see, it wasn't you who sent me here but God. He set me in place as a father to Pharaoh, put me in charge of his personal affairs, and made me ruler of all Egypt.
• Joseph had the promise OF God very young and
• He was his Fathers favorite but he got put on a detour. Joseph kept being faithful and through betrayal  in a pit , in slavery , and in jail he ended up 2nd in command positioned to save Gods people.
• Genesis 15:13-16 MSG
• God said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years. Then I'll punish their slave masters; your offspring will march out of there loaded with plunder. But not you; you'll have a long and full life and die a good and peaceful death. Not until the fourth generation will your descendants return here; sin is still a thriving business among the Amorites."
• Don't get overwhelmed by The problem because its part of the process to get you to the promise.
• God is always working for my good.

Victoria Osteen

• IF 1 faint, then I will miss what aod is doing. The enemy Wants me to become unconscious to God's word.
• When we are weary it easy to faint.
• Allow Gods word to stir up in my heart.
• Matthew 4:1-11 KJV
• Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
• Jesus replaced the lies with the truth.
• Proverbs 27:18 KJV
• Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit
  thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
• Proverbs 27:18 MSG
• If you care for your orchard, you'll enjoy its fruit; if you honor your boss, you'll be honored.
• Whatever you tend to Is what will produce fruit. This is why we need to be one put what we meditate on.

Today's Your Day

• True Faith is in The present. we are always putting things off. But there has to be an expectancy in our relationship with God. Something good is going to happen to me today should be my morning declaration. when we have now faith God may do something suddenly.
• 2 Corinthians 6:2 KJV
• (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)
• If God can do something oneday then he can do it suddenly
• Psalms 118:24-25 KJV
• This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord : O Lord , I beseech thee, send now prosperity.
• We have not because we ask not.
• My faith gets Gods attention.
• Assistant healed
• This is a lifestyle.
• Boulder Sledgehammer example
• A man wanted to get rid of a rock on his property. So he'd hit it with a sledgehammer. It never seemed to do anything. One day he hit that boulder and it crumbled into pieces. It wasn't that last hit, it was all the hits combined. It looked like nothing was happening on the surface, but each hit was getting him closer to his goal.
• You can be at the right place in the wrong frame of mind.
• John 5:7 The sick man said, “Sir, when the water is stirred, I don’t have anybody to put me in the pool. By the time I get there, somebody else is already in.”
• Be prisoners of hope
• If God did it for us once then He will do it again
• Isaiah 30:18 KJJ
• And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
• Change what you're expecting
• Hebrews 11:1 KJV Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
• Our God is The great I am, not the great l will be.
• Mark 5:25, 30, 34 KJV
• And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes? And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

The Rain is Coming

Joel Osteen

• Every drought is temporary.
• Psalms 68:9 KJV
• Thou, O God, didst send a plentiful rain, whereby thou didst confirm thine inheritance, when it was weary.
• Psalms 30:5 KJV
• For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
• When the rain comes things that seemed dead show life
• 1 Kings 18:41 KJV
• And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
  you have to believe what you have in your heart not what you see
• 1 Kings 18:42-43 KJV
• So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
• Put action behind your faith
• 2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV
• While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
• Proverbs 3:5 KJV
• Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
• Romans 4:20-25 KJV
• He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification
• Mark 11:24-25 KJV
• Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Victoria Osteen

• Be Sure You Didn't Push The Mute Button
• Victoria was talking to a friend and had accidentally pushed the mute button. Sometimes that's what happens between us and God.
• John 11:41-42 KJV
• Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
• Make it a habit to say this throughout the day.