Are You Listening?

Joel Osteen @ Lakewood Church 

• There are thousands of radio waves being transmitted right now but we can't hear it because we aren't tuned in.
• We need to be tuned into God's frequency.
• God's spirit is living in the inside of me and I need to listen to that still small voice.
• Proverbs 3:6 NLT
  Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
• God wants to help me in my everyday life so I should feel sensitive to His voice.
• If you're going to hear a whisper, then you have to get quiet and close.
• 1 Corinthians 10:13 NLT
• The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
• Colossians 3:15 NLT
• And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful.
• If you don't have peace before you make the decision then you won't have peace after the decision
• Job 33:14-15, 17-18 NIV
• For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it.   In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds,   to turn them from wrongdoing and keep them from pride,   to preserve them from the pit, their lives from perishing by the sword.

Victoria Osteen @ Lakewood Church

• People will always remember how you make the feel.
• We all carry an invisible bucket and when it's filled we fill great but when it's empty we get discouraged easily. There's a bucket dipper and a bucket filler. We were created to be bucket fillers. Jesus was the ultimate bucket filler.
• We need to call out the best in people.
• Matthew 16:15-18 MSG
• He pressed them, “And how about you? Who do you say I am?” Simon Peter said, “You’re the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Jesus came back, “God bless you, Simon, son of Jonah! You didn’t get that answer out of books or from teachers. My Father in heaven, God himself, let you in on this secret of who I really am. And now I’m going to tell you who you are, really are. You are Peter, a rock. This is the rock on which I will put together my church, a church so expansive with energy that not even the gates of hell will be able to keep it out.
• Deposit into people's buckets even if they are depleting your bucket.