Below are notes I took while listening to Joel Osteen on 6-10-12.  To go to the website, click here.

Pray…open the right doors, close the wrong doors bring the right people across my path, remove the wrong people

 God loves you so much that he hasn’t answered certain prayers, he hasn’t let certain people in your life because they may have limited you

Thank him for open doors, but thank him also for closed doors

shake it off, move forward, God is getting you in position for the amazing life he has in store

 God’s ways are not our ways, they are better than our ways

 God’s way is better than your way

His dream for your life is more fulfilling

 Let God do it his way, put the request on the altar, say, “God, this is what I want, but if it is not your best, I trust you.”

 When you want something so badly, that you can’t live without it, God is so merciful He is not going to answer that prayer, he wants you to fulfill your destiny more than you do

 When you come to a closed door, are you going to get bitter or are you going to move forward, knowing God is still in control

 Many times it will be exactly what you are praying for…dream, opportunity

 Abraham trusted God enough to put his own son on the altar, just when he was going to harm him, God said don’t do it, Abraham passed the test and God gave him back what he really wanted

 When things don’t work out and you keep a good attitude…Proverbs…since the Lord is directing our steps, why do we try to figure everything out along the way…God, why did I go through that breakup…why did they sell that property out from under us…God can see things that you can’t see…one day when God’s whole plan unfolds you will see what God is up to…God I don’t understand it…I know my steps and my stops are ordered by you….just as you open doors…you can close doors…I will keep going on in faith

 God knows exactly what he is doing…you may not understand it but it is because you are not God

 Since the Lord is directing our steps, let’s not try to figure out everything along the way, let’s just trust Him

 There may be things you cannot figure out right now, it seems like it is a big disappointment, but one day you will thank God it did not work out

 Right now you cannot see it all clearly; you are only looking at it in part

 God closed the door on the engineering school to push him into his divine destiny, don’t fight the closed doors

 The reason God closed them, was because he had something better in store 

Remember, you are not really trusting if you are only going to be happy if it happens your way

 Not my will, but your will be done

 Don’t thank God just for open doors, but also for the closed doors

 “Suddenly, Your Breakthrough Is Closer Than You Think”