Joel Osteen - Activate the Flow

I want to talk to you today about Activate The Flow. We all have times in life where we're at a disadvantage: we don't see how we can accomplish our dream, the medical report is not good, child is off course. It's tempting to get discouraged and settle where we are, but there is a supernatural flow that you can tap into. A flow of healing that will turn the medical report around. A flow of favor that will open doors and bring the right people. A flow of freedom that will break the addiction. This flow is within reach, but here's the key: it has to be activated. How do you activate it? By expecting God's favor, by declaring his promises, by believing he's working when you don't see any sign of it.

When you activate this flow, angels go to work, forces of darkness are broken, favor is released. But sometimes we're waiting on God, but God's waiting on us. He's saying, "Come on, activate my power, activate my favor, activate my healing".

What activates the flow is when we believe that God can do what seems impossible. When we go around not talking about how big the problem is, but about how big our God is. When we declare, "God is going before me making crooked places straight. He's opening doors that no person can shut, bringing the right people across my path". That's not just being positive, you just activated a flow of favor.

You're going to see God do unusual, uncommon things, things that you can't explain. Maybe you're dealing with an illness, it's easy to accept it, "Man, this is my lot in life". No, the right attitude is, "This sickness didn't come to stay, it came to pass. God is restoring health back into me. I will live and not die". You just activated a flow of healing, where God can supernaturally turn things around. When you believe, you activate a flow of healing that can do what medicine cannot do.

That's what activates the flow. Your faith can activate the flow. That's what causes God to stop in his tracks, and ask, "Who touched me"? It was your faith, you activated restoration, you activated new beginnings, new relationships.

If you're going to activate the flow, if you're going to see God's favor, you have to press past the doubt. People don't determine your destiny. They don't know what God put in you. They're looking at it all in the natural, they don't realize: when you activate the flow, there's a supernatural power. God will step in and open doors that no person can shut.

You may be in a situation now where you don't see a way out, odds are against you. Can I encourage you? You are just one flow away from seeing God do more than you've ever dreamed. That's how you activate that flow: you keep expecting, you keep declaring, keep believing. When you activate that flow, God will make things happen that defy the odds.

Now, make sure you're doing your part and activating the flow, expecting, believing, stretching your faith. If you'll do this, you're about to tap into a flow of supernatural power. God's about to surprise you.