Going Further Faster

Joel Osteen @ Lakewood Church

• Things have shifted and God has given me grace to go further faster. ByJRochelle is going to grow and Gregory is going to get his dream position.
• Part of the shift it's acceleration. God is breathing in my direction causing things to fall into place.
• The Osteens wanted to purchase the Compaq Center. A building like this would cost $500,000,000 but they bought it for $7.5 million when the situation shifted into their favor.
• 1949 Billy Graham would travel the country and one day William Randolph Hearst attended a meeting. Hearst owned newspapers all over the world and posted favorable articles about Graham in many if the papers. Graham gained notoriety over night. God will send the right people to you when you honor Him.
• Jerry and Jana Lackey run the Lorato House Rescue Center in Botswana.
• Chinese Bamboo develop its root system for 5 years. On the surface it looks like the plant isn't growing. But seemingly all of a sudden it can grow up to 80 feet in a few months.
  http://www.therelationalmarketer.com/2011/08/16/lessons-from-a-chinese-bamboo-tree/
• Ruth, in the Bible, was living off of leftovers from a field that she worked in but she ended up owning that field because she honored God with her relationships.
• Nehemiah 2:8 NLT...And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king's forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself." And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.
• There will always be opposition.
• Stay in agreement with God. The first place you lose the battle is in your mind.

*****Victoria Osteen*****
COMMUNION

• Christ died that we might have life and have it more abundantly.
• God asked us to do this in remembrance of him because he knew that we would need to remember our decision to live.
• Deuteronomy 30:19 NLT"Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you and your descendants might live!

OFFERING

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  10% is God's standard.
• Malachi 3:10 NLT...Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do," says the LORD of Heaven's Armies, "I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won't have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!
• The store house indicates the local church.