GENERATIONAL BLESSINGS - JOEL OSTEEN

"God’s dream is for every generation to increase."

~Pastor Joel Osteen

Lakewood Church Saturday October 25, 2014

Joke:

A cab driver reaches the Pearly Gates and announces himself to St. Peter who gives him a silk robe and a golden staff. A preacher is next in line behind the cabby and St. Peter gives him a cloth robe and wooden staff. The preacher is astonished and asks why the cab driver got better rewards. "This is heaven and up here, we go by results. When you preached, people slept. When the cabbie drove his taxi, people prayed."

Bible confession:

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am, I have what it says I have, I can do what it says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same; never never never, I'll never be the same, in Jesus name.

Key Scripture:

Joel 2:23

Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

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BLESSED IN THE DARK PLACES - JOEL OSTEEN

 "The dark place is a prerequisite for stepping into the fullness of your destiny."

Pastor Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church

Sunday October 19, 2014

Joke:
A minister trained his horse to respond to the commands Hallelujah (whoa/stop) and Praise the Lord (Giddy-up/go). One day, while riding his horse, the minister decided to gallop. He was galloping along when he noticed a cliff at the end of the trail. He panicked and tried to remember how he had trained the horse, he started yelling different commands and finally said “Hallelujah” and the horse stopped just in time at the edge of the cliff. Relieved the minister said “Praise the Lord”.

Bible Confession:
This is my Bible. I am what it says I am, I have what it says I have, I can do what it says I can do. Today I will be taught the Word of God. I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will never be the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, ever-living seed of the Word of God. I'll never be the same; never never never, I'll never be the same, in Jesus name.

Key Verse: 
John 12:24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

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EVEN NOW FAITH - JOEL OSTEEN

"He’s an even now God but you have to have even now faith.
God meets us at the level of our expectations."

Pastor Joel Osteen

Joke: Scientist said God we no longer need you. I challenge you to a Man-making contest. The rule is you make man out of dirt. God said GO GET YOUR OWN DIRT.

Bible confession:

Key Scripture: John 11:21-22
“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.”

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FINISHING GRACE – JOEL OSTEEN

The God who gave you the grace to start will give you the grace to finish.

~ Pastor Joel Osteen at Lakewood Church 9/21/14

Joke:
2 men: a pope and a lawyer died on same day. St. Peter took pope to small wood house, then took lawyer to big mansion. Why? We have dozens of popes, you’re the first lawyer.

Bible Confession

Deuteronomy 33:25 The bolts of your gates will be iron and bronze, and your strength will equal your days.

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THE LAW OF LIFE - FERNANDO RUATA

 "The law of life always triumphs over death."

~ Pastor Fernando Ruata

John 6:
The Law of Life
Because life always triumphs.
Sometimes God puts us in low places to be agents of redemption, but sometimes we let the low place mentality get in us.
The law of life always triumphs over death.
Jesus is speaking to people who've lost a lot.
It was the sick who were following Jesus.
They were seeing the sick getting healed.
Jesus is surrounded by people with needs.
And He's meeting those needs.
Jesus took what He had, gave thanks to God, and God multiplied it.

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IT'S IN YOU - ROBERT MADU

"That’s why I love God, because He can see my gift and my dirt and love me anyway."

~ Robert Madu

Sunday, August 31, 2014
Message delivered at Lakewood Church from visiting pastor Robert Madu from Dallas, Texas.

Nobody starts from the bottom.
We stand on the shoulders of the spiritual giants who’ve gone before us.
Once you get a revelation of what God has put in you it will revolutionize everything around you.
Key Scriptures:
2 Timothy 1:1-7
Genesis 2:7

2 Timothy 1:1-7
I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day,  greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy,  when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.  Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. #DontBeScared

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RESOLUTELY MOVE FORWARD - FERNANDO RUATA

"Let your eyes be focused on the Shepherd and not the wolf."

~ Fernando Ruata

Encourager Church Sun 8/24/14
Pastor Fernando Ruata

Luke 9:51-56

Samaritan Opposition

⁵¹ As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. ⁵² And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; ⁵³ but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. ⁵⁴ When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” ⁵⁵ But Jesus turned and rebuked them. ⁵⁶ Then he and his disciples went to another village.

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