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Joel Osteen - The God Who Closes Doors
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Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.
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But thank you so much for tuning in and thank you again for coming out today.
I like to start with something funny.
One day up in heaven, God said to the men, I want you to form two lines.
One line is for the men who were the head of the house.
And the other line is for the men who let the woman be the head of the house.
The line where the woman ran the house was a hundred miles long.
There was only one man in the other line.
God said, man, I'm ashamed of you.
I created you to be the head, but only one man stood up to make me proud.
He looked at him and said, son, tell them, how did you manage to be the only one in this
line?
The man looked confused and said, I don't know.
My wife told me to stand here.
Victoria says, I'm the head, but she's the neck that turns the head.
So, hold up your Bible, say it like you mean it.
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 in Jesus' name.
God bless you.
I want to talk to you today about the God who closes doors.
We all know that God opens doors.
We've seen him give us favor, good breaks, promotion.
That's the hand of God opening the door.
But the same God that opens doors will close doors.
You prayed, but you didn't get the promotion.
The loan didn't go through.
The relationship didn't work out.
And so often we get discouraged.
We kind of feel like God has let us down.
But God can see the big picture for your life.
God knows where every road is leading.
He knows the dead ends.
He can see around the corner.
To us it looks great.
What we can't see is there's danger.
There's heartache trouble up ahead.
God knows the roads that are a big circle.
We'd go for years and end up right back where we started.
Never making any progress.
The big part of faith is trusting God when you don't understand it.
On the surface it looks perfect.
You can't see any reason why it shouldn't work out.
But God can see a thousand things that we cannot see.
God may close the door because you're believing too small.
If he opened it it would limit what he wants to do in your life.
The door may close because it's not the right time.
There are other people involved and they're not ready yet.
If God opened it now it wouldn't work out.
Bottom line is God has your best interest at heart.
When a door closes you don't know what God's saving you from.
If your prayers don't get answered the way you want, instead of being discouraged, feeling
like God let you down, why don't you have a bigger perspective?
The reason the door closed is because God has something better in store.
If God wanted you to have that promotion you would have gotten it.
Shake it off and move forward there's something better coming.
If God wanted that person to stay that left you they would have stayed.
Shake it off the right people or in your future.
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Your skin will thank you.
I'm just past you by, but one day you will look back and thank God for the closed doors.
Because if God hadn't closed the door, you wouldn't have met the right person.
Or if God hadn't closed the door, you would have gotten stuck at one level and not seen
the amazing favor that God has in your future.
Now, I used to get excited about my open doors and really down about my closed doors.
Now, I thank God for my closed doors just as much as I do my open doors.
Now I want you to come to this place where you have such a trust in God.
You are so confident that He's directing your steps.
You say like, David, God, my life is in your hands.
If a door closes, you don't get your way, you don't get upset.
Your attitude is, I know this door didn't close by accident.
God closed it on purpose.
And what God closes, I don't want open.
I don't want my way.
I want His way.
He knows what's best.
He can see what I can't see.
God, not my will, but let yours be done.
It's a very freeing way to live.
When you really believe God's in complete control, takes all the pressure off.
Few years ago, this man flew to Houston for a big job interview.
He was so excited about it.
It was a top position at one of the largest companies in the world.
Look like a golden opportunity, a huge boost to his career.
He was ready to give up his position of nearly 30 years and move his family here to town.
He came to the service and asked us to pray over this big interview.
We prayed that God would give him favor and cause him to stand out.
In a few days, he called and he was on cloud nine.
Everything went great.
Looked very promising.
Several weeks went by and they invited him back for a second interview.
He did the same thing.
Came by the church.
We prayed, favor, promotion on and on.
After talking with him for several hours, that company called him back in.
He said, we really like you.
You're incredibly talented.
We just don't feel like you're the right fit for our organization.
It was like they let the air out of his balloon.
He came to the service like he had lost his last friend.
He looked 20 years older.
He was so discouraged.
He said, Joel, I don't understand it.
I prayed, I believe, how could God let this happen?
I told him what I'm telling you.
The same God that opens doors will close doors.
You have to trust him.
You may not understand it now, but one day you will understand it.
One day you'll thank God that you didn't get that position.
A couple of years later, he showed up smiling from ear to ear.
He said, Joel, God knew what he was doing.
He told how that company was in bankruptcy.
Thousands of people were being laid off.
It was a big mess all over the news.
The whole company ended up shutting down.
Here's how good God is.
He was less than two years away from retirement
at that other company.
If he would have gotten that position,
he would not only be out of a job right now,
but he would have lost nearly 30 years
of his retirement benefits.
God knows what he's doing.
Don't be discouraged by your closed doors.
If God wants a door to open, you can be certain it will open.
All the forces of darkness cannot stop it.
What I want you to see is when you pray,
you believe, you stand in faith,
and the door doesn't open,
take it as a sign from God.
It's not his best.
Sometimes like this man, we're so disappointed,
but the truth is, God loves you too much to open that door.
God is not letting you down.
He's doing you a favor.
He's keeping you from all kinds of heartache and pain.
If we're really going to trust God,
we have to be content with the answer God gives us.
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Things, but we're only going to be happy
if God does it our way on our time table.
Now, you have to put the dream on the altar
and say, God, if this is what you want from me.
God, if this is your best for my life,
I know you're in complete control.
There's no power greater than yours.
God, I trust you.
If it happens, I'm going to be happy and thank you for it.
If it doesn't work out, I'm not going to get discouraged.
I'm not going to quit believing.
I know that means you have something better in store.
This takes all the pressure off.
You're not frustrated if it doesn't work out.
You don't live in self-pity if it doesn't happen your way.
You know the steps and the stops of a good person
are ordered by the Lord.
And this was difficult for me because,
you know, how some opportunities look so great.
In my mind, I thought, God, it's perfect.
There will never be anything better.
The problem is, our thinking is limited.
God's plan for your life is so much bigger than your own plan
that if God didn't close certain doors,
it would keep you from the fullness of your destiny.
Couple of years after my dad went to be with the Lord
and I took over, the church really started growing.
We needed property to build a new sanctuary on.
My father said that he would never move the church.
So we looked for property as close to the other location
as we could possibly find.
We found this 100 acre tract of land right off the freeway
about two miles from the other location.
It was perfect.
We talked to the owner and he told how it had been
on the market for over 20 years
and he had never had one offer, not one person interested.
We said, thank you, Lord, you've saved this property for us.
For about six months of doing our research and our soul test,
we went to close on the property.
We had an eight o'clock meeting.
We walked in at 7.45, I'll never forget it.
The secretary came out and said, I'm so sorry,
but the owner sold the property last night to another party.
I was so disappointed.
I just knew that was the devil stealing our property.
I went home very discouraged
I told Victoria what happened.
She said, listen Joel, God closed that door for a reason.
We're not going to get discouraged.
We're going to keep a good attitude.
God has something better in store.
In my mind, I couldn't believe it,
but in my heart, down in here,
I knew what she was saying was exactly true.
I thought God is still on the throne.
His plan cannot be stopped by a bad break,
a disappointment by a person.
God has the final say.
I made a decision that day.
Instead of sitting around in self pity,
saying, God, why didn't it work out?
I chose to believe that God was still in control.
It was a few months later, I got a call from a friend.
He said, hey Joel, the Houston Rockets basketball team
is moving out of the compact center.
That would be a great facility for Lakewood.
When he said that, something came alive on the inside.
I knew right then and there,
that was the reason God closed the other door.
It was too small.
It would have limited what God wanted to do.
Things begin to fall into place.
Here we are today enjoying the fullness
of what God had in store.
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But back then, I couldn't fathom this.
Wasn't even on my radar.
This was exceedingly abundantly above and beyond.
I would have been happy with the other property.
I would have celebrated God's goodness
if he had done it that way.
But God's dream for your life is so much bigger
than your own dream.
There will be times that a door closes
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It doesn't make sense.
They were the perfect man, the perfect woman,
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The house was just what you wanted.
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It doesn't make sense, but one day it will make sense.
One day you'll have your compact center.
You'll look back and say, God, thank you
that the property was sold out from under me.
God, thank you that the loan didn't go through.
God, thank you that that old goat walked out on me.
I mean, that person walked out on me.
Here's the question, will you stay in faith
while you wait to see what God is up to?
Will you not get discouraged and start complaining?
Nothing good ever happens to me.
Can't believe I didn't get the promotion.
I've been at the company longer than anybody else.
Or I treated this girl like a queen.
And she just wants to be friends.
She says, I'm just like her brother.
God, I don't want to be a brother.
I won't be a husband.
All of us have been brothers before, but trust God
with your life.
He knows what he's doing.
I pray every day, God opened the right doors
and closed the wrong doors.
God, bring the right people across my path.
Weed out those that shouldn't be there.
I've learned the closed doors are just as important
as the open doors.
You know what brought us to this facility?
A closed door.
Don't be discouraged by your closed doors.
That's God protecting you from heartache.
That's God keeping you from the wrong people.
That's God not letting you live a limited life.
You may be like me.
You want the empty piece of property,
but God has a building already built for you.
He has more than you can ask for things
and exceedingly abundantly above and beyond future.
God loves you so much that he hasn't answered
certain prayers.
He hasn't allowed certain people into your life
that you really wanted because they would have limited
your growth.
Learn to trust him.
Thank him for your open doors, celebrate his goodness,
but thank him just as much for your closed doors,
knowing that he's still directing your steps.
Some of you today are discouraged
because your plan didn't work out.
The man, the woman, they didn't marry you.
You didn't get the position you were hoping for.
Shake it off, move forward.
God has something better in front of you.
God is not hindering you, he's helping you.
He's getting you in position for the amazing future
he has in store.
There was a young lady that came down for prayer
few years back right here at the altar.
She was so discouraged because her boyfriend
had broken up with her.
She didn't think she could live without him.
She knew he was the man of her dreams.
Every Sunday, we would pray that that relationship
would be restored.
This went on month after month.
She was as faithful as can be.
And I could tell though, she was only going to be happy
if God did it her way.
I tried to encourage her, hey, stay open.
God knows what's best.
He can see the big picture.
She didn't want to hear any of that.
She only wanted this young man back.
Well, unfortunately, it didn't work out.
He married someone else.
She was so disappointed.
She felt like God had let her down.
She said, Joel, all those prayers we prayed.
I quoted the scripture.
I was good to others.
I did everything I was supposed to do.
She ended up dropping out of church.
The scripture says, God's ways are not our ways.
They are better than our ways.
Maybe like her, your prayer didn't get answered
the way you wanted.
Didn't turn out the way you had hoped.
Let these words sink down into your spirit.
God's way is better than your way.
His plan is bigger than your plan.
His dream for your life is more rewarding, more fulfilling,
better than you've ever dreamed of.
Now, stay open and let God do it His way.
Put the request on the altar.
It's okay to be honest and say, God, this is what I want.
God, do you know how badly I want it?
You know how much it means to me,
but God, if it's not your best, I don't want it.
God, I trust you.
I didn't see this young lady for the longest time.
She ended up moving to another city
in about five or six years after all of this.
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She came to church with this handsome man by her side.
Come to find out they were married.
They had a beautiful daughter.
She was as happy as can be.
At one point, her husband stepped away
and she whispered in my ear,
Joel, you remember the young man we used to always pray about?
He's already been married in divorce two times.
He's constantly in and out of trouble.
He can't hold down a good job.
She made the statement,
I thank God every day that he didn't answer my prayer.
When you want something so badly,
you don't think you can live without it.
You try to force it to happen.
God is so merciful.
If it's not his best,
he's not going to answer that prayer.
He loves you too much to open that door.
Why don't you trust him?
He wants you to fulfill your destiny more than you do.
He is in complete control.
When you come to a closed door,
that is a test of your faith.
Are you going to get bitter,
live in self-pity,
give up on your dreams?
Or are you going to move forward
knowing that God is still in control?
If you will pass the test,
God will release what he has in your future.
In many times,
it will be exactly what you're praying for.
God will bring that person back.
Or he'll bring an opportunity or that dream to pass.
God just wants to see,
do you trust him enough to be happy
even if it doesn't happen your way?
That's what happened with Abraham.
God instructed him to put his own son on the altar,
the thing that meant the most to him.
Just when Abraham was going to harm him,
God said, no, Abraham, don't do it.
I just wanted to see if you trusted me enough
to give me your own son.
Abraham passed the test
and what happened?
God gave him back what he really wanted,
the thing that meant the most to him.
When you face a disappointment, a closed door,
your plans don't work out
and you keep a good attitude, you stay in faith,
you are passing the test.
That's what allows God to give you back
what you really want the most.
In Proverbs 20 verse 24 says,
since the Lord is directing our steps,
why do we try to figure out
everything that happens along the way?
Some of you today could get free
if you just quit trying to figure everything out.
God, why did I go through that breakup?
I'm a good person.
God, why did they sell that property out from under us?
Oh, if you're trying to figure everything out,
all that's going to do is make you confused.
Let it go and move forward.
God can see things that you can't see.
It may not make sense right now,
but one day when God's whole plan unfolds,
you will see what God is up to.
Now, part of trusting is saying,
God, I don't understand it.
It doesn't seem fair, but God, I believe
that my steps and my stops are ordered by you.
I know just as you can open doors, you will close doors.
So I'm going to keep a good attitude.
I'm going to move forward in faith,
knowing that you have my best interest at heart.
I read about this lady that was complaining
about everything that went wrong that day.
She said, God, why did you let so many bad things happen to me?
My alarm didn't go off and I was late to work.
At lunch, they made my sandwich wrong
I had to send it back.
Driving home, my cell phone dropped a call
right in the middle of a conversation.
To top it off, God, when I got home,
I wanted to put my feet in the foot massager
just to relax, but it wouldn't turn on.
God, nothing went right today.
God said, all right, let me go down the list.
Your alarm didn't go off because there was a driver
on the freeway, I delayed you on purpose.
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So you wouldn't be harmed.
And you're saying what you had to send that back
because the first person that made it wasn't feeling well.
And I didn't want you to catch what they had.
So I had somebody else remake it.
The phone call driving home, I caused it to drop on purpose
because that person was going to spread rumors
and fill you with all kinds of trash.
I didn't want you to be contaminated.
And oh yeah, that foot massager, it had a short in it.
If it would have turned on,
it would have blown out power to the whole house.
And I didn't think you'd want to sit around
in the dark all evening.
So I caused it to not turn on.
What's my point?
God knows exactly what he's doing.
Everything about your life is calculated.
Take this in the right way.
You may not understand it, but it's because you're not God.
God has a reason.
Every door that's closed, God had a purpose for it closing.
Since the Lord is directing our steps,
let's don't try to figure out everything
that happens along the way.
Let's just trust Him.
I have a good friend that's a minister.
He and his team had this big outdoor event planned
in another country.
They had spent over two years working on it.
They had government officials, business leaders, pastors,
all kinds of organizations involved.
It was a huge undertaking, costing thousands and thousands
of dollars.
Finally, came down to the week of the big event.
They had the staging out.
The sound system was up.
All the advertising was going through the airways.
It was just about to happen when they got word from the government
that because of the swine flu outbreak,
all public meetings had been indefinitely canceled.
My friend was so disappointed.
Two years of hard work.
It seemed like the biggest waste of time, energy, money.
He and his team, God on the plane, came back home.
That's all they could do.
But that weekend, right when their event was supposed
to take place, the military overthrew the government.
A coup.
It was total chaos.
People panicked, no law, no order, shooting
industry, all kinds of mayhem.
If his event had not been canceled,
he would have been right in the middle of it,
no telling what would have happened.
He said, I know this sounds odd,
but I thank God for the swine flu.
We may have lost some time, energy, money,
but we could have lost our lives.
See, there may be things that you cannot figure out
why it happened right now.
It seems like a big disappointment.
But like him, one day, you'll thank God the door closed.
You'll be grateful that it didn't work out.
Scripture says in Corinthians,
now we see in part, like looking through a glass dimly.
But one day, we will see clearly face to face.
Right now, notice, you can't see it all clearly.
You're only looking at it in part.
But one day, it will come into focus.
And you'll look back and say, wow, God, you are amazing.
You had it all figured out, all lined up.
You closed the door on purpose,
so your perfect will would be done.
That's what happened to this one young man.
He's a straight A student in high school.
He loves to study.
Academically, he's in the top 5% of the nation.
His dream was to become an engineer.
It's always what he wanted to do.
He applied to about a dozen or so
of the best engineering schools in the nation.
But he got turned down again and again.
Didn't make sense.
Some of his friends were being accepted,
that didn't have as good a grace as he did.
He didn't understand it.
And while he was waiting to hear back from other schools,
he went on a missions trip with a group of doctors
from his churned.
He was there to just run errands and to help out.
They were in a very poor nation.
When he saw the doctors taking care of the people,
treating their diseases, helping them get better,
something new was birthed on the inside.
He thought, I don't want to be an engineer.
This is what I want to do with my life.
I want to become a doctor and help to take care of people.
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And he was immediately accepted.
In fact, he had several schools to choose from.
What's interesting is the first engineering school
he applied to then sent him a letter of acceptance.
If he would have received that letter months earlier,
he would have never gone on the mission strip.
Never been open to that call to go into medicine.
God closed the doors on purpose
to the engineering school to push him
into his divine destiny.
What am I saying?
Don't fight your closed doors.
God knows what he's doing.
He can see the big picture for your life.
Some of your are discouraged because your plans
have not worked out.
Those closed doors were not an accident.
That was God directing your steps.
The reason God closed them
is because he has something better in store.
Will you trust him?
It may not make sense now,
but one day it will make sense.
Remember, you're not really trusting
if you're only going to be happy
if it happens your way.
Put it on the altar.
God, this is what I want, but not my will.
Let your will be done.
If you'll have this perspective
and not only thank God for your open doors,
but thank Him just as much for your closed doors,
then like Abraham, you'll pass the test.
Now, I believe in declare you will see
the exceedingly abundantly above and beyond future
that God has in store.
In Jesus' name, do you receive it today?
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