Joel Osteen - Believing Without A Sign

The fact that you can't see anything happening, that's God showing you that he trusts you. You don't have to see everything to keep moving forward, you've matured to the point where you walk by faith and not by sight. Where God is taking you, the amazing future he has planned, is going to require you to believe without a sign, to trust him when there's no evidence. If you have to see everything to stay encouraged, see it to keep believing, it will limit how high you will go. You have to pass this test of staying in faith when nothing is improving, thanking God when all the circumstances say "It's never going to change". And you may be there now, you've been praying and believing, but it doesn't seem like it's doing any good, you don't see any evidence, kind of feels like God's on vacation, he doesn't even hear your prayers.

The silence doesn't mean God has forgotten about you. He sees your faithfulness, he sees you doing the right thing when it's hard. When you could have given up you went the extra mile and kept believing, you felt like complaining, but you kept praising. When every thought said it was never going to happen, you kept thanking God that he was working. Let me encourage you: your time is coming. What God promised is on the way. Don't get talked out of it. Don't let people, delays, doubts, convince you to give up. Your breakthrough is already on the schedule. Your miracle has already been set in motion. Seems like nothing is happening, but suddenly it's going to change, suddenly the dream come to pass, suddenly the right person shows up.