Today, we bring you a message from Pastor Joel Osteen titled “Separated for the Better.”
Pastor Joel teaches us in this message about being separated for the better: sometimes in our lives, God allows us to lose things so that we can gain something greater and better. Sometimes you have to lose something to gain something better. If we look back over our lives and recall the times we really grew and came up higher, most often it was during the times of difficulty where your faith grew and you were stretched beyond your limits. We get stronger in life during difficult times; that is where we learn to trust and depend on God alone in everything. To reach our highest potential, God will take us through some processes. We have the potential, but God has some work to do inside of us. We can’t become what God created us to be if he does not do the work inside of us.
God has to separate the dysfunctional part of us—the part that is holding us back—from the valuable part. We might not want to go through the process because it might feel uncomfortable and painful, but God knows that without separation we won’t be useful. Sometimes we might ask why we’re struck in traffic again, why someone won’t give us credit, or why our friend walks away. but we don’t realize that God is working in us. What we think is a bad break, disappointment that is uncomfortable and painful, but it’s God that allows it. Instead of fighting it, we have to be at peace so that we can be refined and become more valuable. We have to know that God is working in us, and this is an opportunity to come up higher and be refined. We have to allow God to fight our battle; even if the situation does not change, we are being changed. We can’t pray away all our problems, but God wants the situation to change us.
Watch and learn from this sermon by Pastor Joel Osteen: Separated For The Better” and remember that we bring the latest messages from Pastors around the globe to you.
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