Faith And Trust In God

Joyce: We need to always be willing to come up higher in every area of our life. That requires stepping out and trying new things. Victoria, I want to just ask you what about stepping out and trying new things? Is that ever scary? Is that hard to do sometimes? Is that something more people need to do?

Victoria Osteen: Oh, yeah, it’s scary. It’s scary. You have to step out in faith sometimes. We talk to people all the time who have a dream in their heart but they either don’t know how to execute it or what to do.  And we always just say: what’s God telling you to do right now?  Just take one step. You don’t have to look at the huge picture — what am I going to become? Start out with baby steps. Just do something that God’s speaking to you. It’s not always easy but that’s where you have to put that faith and trust in God. I like what you said a few minutes ago — we’re modeling. We’re always modeling. When you’re stepping out in faith, you’ve got to realize that you’re modeling for someone else. We think, “what if I step out and I fail?” well, what if you step out and you don’t fail? You’re going to give someone else some strength who’s watching you, and you’re going to give someone else some faith to do something. So I just think that we can’t look at it as a whole — that we have to arrive the first step that we take. But we just take small steps. And it’s those victories that give you the strength. You don’t want to stay in the victory, but you want to get that strength from the victory. Then you can push forward and take that next step, and God’s always with you. If he’s told you to do it, he always opens doors and gives you a way to do it.