God's Gracious Hand | Joel Osteen

I want to talk to you today about the gracious hand of God.

We all face obstacles that look too big to overcome and dreams that seem impossible to accomplish.

Sometimes it's situations that are just complicated in a relationship or health, a business.

We've tried our best, but we don't see how it could ever work out.

But when you gave your life to Christ, God put something on you that gives you an advantage, something that'll cause you to stand out, to accomplish dreams that seem over your head, to overcome problems that look permanent.

The scripture calls it the gracious hand of God.

It's his favor that will open doors you couldn't open.

It's a divine empowerment where you have the strength, the courage to overcome what should stop you.

It's supernatural provision where you have the resources, the funding, the right people, where you defy the odds.

You go where you've never dreamed.

You can look back now and see the gracious hand of God.

How did you get promoted when you weren't the next in line? You weren't the most qualified, but for some reason they chose you.

That was his gracious hand causing you to stand out.

The medical report said you wouldn't get well.

Experts said just learn to live with it.

But somehow it turned around and today you're healthy and whole.

That wasn't luck.

Wasn't a coincidence.

It was the gracious hand of God.

Or maybe there was dysfunction in your family growing up.

Addiction, compromise, people taking the easy way out.

That should have been you, but you're the exception.

You broke that generational limitation and now you're blessed, successful, living a victorious life.

You couldn't do that on your own.

It was the gracious hand of God empowering you, favoring you, making ways where you didn't see a way.