Oct 17, 2026 · 18 min · 11 segments
Don’t invest in your past; invest in your future! Where you’re headed is more important than where you’ve been. Write down your vision and declare God’s promises. Our October offer will help you live…
Victoria OsteenGuest
Joel OsteenHost
[audience applauds] Listen, I wanna remind us to spend our time investing in our future.
Investing in the past is when you relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments.
See, it's easy to focus on who hurt you, what didn't work out, what mistake you made, but you know what that is? It's a big waste of time and energy.
It's done, it's over with, it's finished, but we can do something about today.
And when you begin to focus on what you can change and not what you can't change, that is a good investment in the future.
You know, we weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage, and sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache.
But can I tell you that you've gotta get up every day and let that stuff go? Forgive the people who offended you.
You see, when you are weighed down with all of this junk, it's hard to see where you're going.
We really don't ever do this, but this just happened to be an instance that we did this.
We had come home from a, a week out, and we came back in, and we only had, like, two hours to be at home, and then we'd have to turn around, head back to the airport.
Well, on the way home, all I could think about was those dirty clothes in my suitcase.
When I got home, I dumped all those dirty clothes, and I began to refresh my suitcase.
Where I was tired and anxious on my way home just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed.
And you know what? I was prepared to go on my next trip because I had exchanged that dirty clothes with fresh, new clothes.
[audience applauds] And do you know a lot of times we get so weighed down with this emotional baggage of clutter that's full of pain and heartache that we lose our passion and excitement for living? In fact, we're not even prepared where God wants us to go.
Can I tell you that you need to refresh your emotional baggage every single day? [audience applauds] You need to learn to travel light because I can tell you this, where you're going is far more important than where you've been, but you can't be weighed down from the past.
[audience applauds] Listen, I wanna remind us to spend our time investing in our future.
Investing in the past is when you relive your hurts, your pains, your disappointments.
See, it's easy to focus on who hurt you, what didn't work out, what mistake you made, but you know what that is? It's a big waste of time and energy.
It's done, it's over with, it's finished, but we can do something about today.
And when you begin to focus on what you can change and not what you can't change, that is a good investment in the future.
You know, we weren't designed to carry around a lot of unnecessary negative baggage, and sometimes we fill our bags with bitterness, resentment, heartache.
But can I tell you that you've gotta get up every day and let that stuff go? Forgive the people who offended you.
You see, when you are weighed down with all of this junk, it's hard to see where you're going.
We really don't ever do this, but this just happened to be an instance that we did this.
We had come home from a, a week out, and we came back in, and we only had, like, two hours to be at home, and then we'd have to turn around, head back to the airport.
Well, on the way home, all I could think about was those dirty clothes in my suitcase.
When I got home, I dumped all those dirty clothes, and I began to refresh my suitcase.
Where I was tired and anxious on my way home just thinking about all that in my suitcase, I became refreshed.
And you know what? I was prepared to go on my next trip because I had exchanged that dirty clothes with fresh, new clothes.
[audience applauds] And do you know a lot of times we get so weighed down with this emotional baggage of clutter that's full of pain and heartache that we lose our passion and excitement for living? In fact, we're not even prepared where God wants us to go.
Can I tell you that you need to refresh your emotional baggage every single day? [audience applauds] You need to learn to travel light because I can tell you this, where you're going is far more important than where you've been, but you can't be weighed down from the past.
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