‘Don’t Lose Your joy’ SERMON. See why JOEL OSTEEN is one of OPRAH’s favorite pastors!

Joel Osteen “1. “You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‘Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.’ See the positive in negative events.”

2. “I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.”

3. “Don’t go into the new year holding a grudge from last year. Leave the hurts and disappointments behind.”

4. You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

5. “Life’s too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can’t please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.”

6. “Nothing in life has happened to you. It’s happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.”

7. “God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.”

8. “If you have your health, if you have people in your life to love, you are blessed. Slow down and enjoy the simple things in life.”

9. “Start believing today that things are going to change for the better. Your best days are still out in front of you.”

10. “See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.”