Full text of Joel Osteen’s sermon titled “When God Seems Too Late” which was delivered on March 07, 2021.
Best quote from this message:
“Don’t be impatient for the Lord to act. Keep traveling steadily along his path and in due season he will honor you with every blessing.”
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TRANSCRIPT:
Joel Osteen – Pastor, Lakewood Church
Well, God bless you. It’s great to be with you today. I hope you will stay connected with us throughout the week. We have a daily podcast that you can download. You can go to our YouTube channel and watch the messages anytime, or of course you can follow us on social media, I promise you we’ll keep you encouraged and inspired. But thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for coming out today.
I’d like to start with something funny.
One day, Adam was talking to God. He said, “God, why did you make Eve so beautiful?”
God said, “So you would love her.”
He said, “Well, God, why did you give her such long flowing hair?”
God said it again, “So you would love her.”
“Well, God, why did you give her such a great figure?”
God said the same thing, “So you would love her.”
He said, “Okay. God, you made her so beautiful, so attractive, why did you make her so dumb?”
God said, “That’s easy, Adam. So she would love you.”
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 When God Seems Too Late. We all have things that we’re believing for… dreams to come to pass, problems to turn around. We’ve been praying, standing in faith, but nothing is happening.
Now it seems like we’ve missed our chance. “It’s too late to have a baby. It’s too late to start my business. Too late to break this addiction, I’ve had it so long”, but many times God waits on purpose till the odds are against us, he waits till the obstacle is too big, so when he turns it around there won’t be any doubt it was his favor, his healing, his power, making a way where there was no way.
Don’t be discouraged when it seems too late, you don’t see how it can happen – you’re in prime position for God to show out in your life.
God told Abraham when he was a hundred years old that he was going to have a baby. Abraham’s wife Sarah was barren, she had never had children. Plus she had gone through the change of life. God could have given Abraham this promise when he was 30 years old, when Sarah was in her prime to have a child.
Or when he was 40 years old, a more normal age to have a baby. He is God, he has everything strategically planned out down to the smallest details. It’s not like he forgot, or he miscalculated, “Oh, I meant to give them this promise years earlier, why did I wait so long”?
God on purpose waited for the odds to be against them. On purpose, he waited till they were at that age. On purpose he chose Sarah who was barren, not able to have children.
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