Joel Osteen - Fast Forward

I want to talk to you today about Fast Forward. When I'm watching a movie at home or I've recorded a ball game, if it gets boring or I'm in a hurry it's no big deal: I pick up the remote control and hit fast forward. The good news is: God has a fast forward button for your life. Should take you 30 years to accomplish the dream, all God has to do is hit fast forward, and it'll happen in a fraction of the time.

God knows how to accelerate your dreams, accelerate your healing, accelerate what you're believing for. That's why you can't judge your future based on the progress you've seen in the past. God has the remote control. He has some fast forward moments coming your way, things that will catapult you ahead. You can't explain it, you didn't see it coming, but suddenly you get well, suddenly you're in management, suddenly you break the addiction. Should have taken you a lifetime, but God hit fast forward, he did a quick work.

Don't look at your dreams, your problems, the medical report just in the natural, on your timeline. God has another timeline. He has some fast forward moments that are going to defy the odds, acceleration you didn't see coming, good breaks that will catapult you ahead.

You were going along fine, making steady progress, being faithful, then God hits fast forward: out of nowhere you're thrust into levels you didn't see coming, favor, influence, opportunity that you never imagined.

Be grateful for where you are, stay faithful, but don't let the fact that it's routine convince you that it's always going to be that way. God has some of these fast forward moments already on your schedule. You're going to come into some quick words: you can't explain it, it doesn't make sense, it's God shooting you out, launching you into the fullness of your destiny.