The Promise Is Coming | Joel Osteen

About this sermon

What you’re believing for is already on the way. God has an appointed time to bring the promise to pass. If you're going to fulfill your destiny, you have to learn to let the negative things go. God knows how to redeem everything you’ve been through. 🛎 Subscribe to receive weekly messages of hope, encouragement, and inspiration from Joel! https://bit.ly/JoelYTSub Follow #JoelOsteen on social Twitter: https://twitter.com/joelosteen Instagram: https://instagram.com/joelosteen Facebook: https://facebook.com/joelosteen TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joelosteen Thank you for your generosity! To give, visit https://joelosteen.com/give 0:00 - Introduction & The Power of Perspective: Welcome, humor, and a powerful opening about seeing yourself as favored and a mighty child of God. 1:19 - The Promise is Coming: A Message of Hope: The core theme of the sermon is introduced—waiting for a promise and the importance of patient endurance. 2:34 - Passing the Discouragement Test: Discusses the challenge of doubt while waiting for God's promises to manifest and how to overcome it. 3:41 - Don't Water Down Your Dreams: A powerful call to not give up, lower expectations, or settle for less due to delays. 4:57 - Wait with Expectancy, Not with Doubt: Explains the difference between waiting in faith and waiting in frustration, and how to declare thanks instead of worry. 5:51 - The Test of Seeing Others Blessed: How to maintain faith when you see others receiving what you've been waiting for. 6:28 - Trusting God's Timing: Explores why God's timing is perfect and often involves preparing you for a bigger blessing. 7:20 - The Coming One: God's Appointed Time: Introduces the concept of "the coming one" and how God can catapult you ahead at the right moment. 8:41 - Declaring God's Promises: A segment focused on powerful declarations of faith for personal victory, abundance, and future success. 9:22 - The God We Serve is 'The Coming One': A deeper dive into the biblical idea of God as the "coming one" who is not delayed. 11:55 - The Promise is 'En Route': Using an analogy of a package being "en route" to illustrate that God's miracles are already in motion. 15:33 - God Doesn't Provide a Tracking Number: Explains the necessity of faith, as God doesn't give us the details of when or how his promises will be fulfilled. 17:07 - David's Story: Waiting with Expectancy: Uses the story of David to exemplify how to praise God and maintain faith while in a waiting season. 21:16 - My Mother's Swimming Pool & Healing Story: Joel Osteen shares a personal testimony about his mother's patient endurance for a swimming pool and her miraculous healing from cancer. 25:02 - The Promise of Soon: Entering Your Appointed Time: Concludes the sermon with a message of hope, declaring that God's blessings are coming "soon." 26:58 - Final Prayer & Call to Action: An invitation for viewers to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Topics

• God's Promises