What's on Your Thrown?

Pastor Joel Osteen @ Lakewood Church

We all have setbacks and if we're not careful we'll let that setback consume us constantly taking God off the thrown and putting our problems on the thrown.

The more you dwell on your problem, the more it will discourage you.

When David faced Goliath he never talked about how big he was. 

Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.  This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

1 Samuel 17:45‭-‬46 KJV

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.  My help cometh from the Lord , which made heaven and earth.

Psalms 121:1‭-‬2 KJV

We can't just wish something away. If you allow something to become big in your mind you're giving it permission to happen.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

Job 3:25 KJV

It's easy to focus on what didn't work out. 

The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

Haggai 2:9 KJV

SOVEREIGN 

People can't stop God's plan for your life. 

Joaeph, sold into slavery by his jealous brothers, rose to become vizier, the second most powerful man in Egyptnext to Pharaoh, where his presence and office caused Israel to leave Canaan and settle in Egypt. Joseph went through 13 years of injustice before he received vindication.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:   And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

Revelation 2:26‭-‬27 KJV

Don't let worry take God off of the thrown.

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.  Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength:

Isaiah 26:3‭-‬4 KJV

When you go through disappointment you'll be tempted to put those disappointments on the thrown.

You don't have to make everything happen in your own strength...and you can't. Don't think that you have to do a lot of things perfectly to be successful.

We love people so much that sometimes we climb on the thrown but we can't control people.

O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

2 Chronicles 20:12 KJV

Worry is like buffering...our mind is going around in circles because we've lost connection

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Psalms 46:10 KJV

But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

Psalms 22:3 KJV