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Joel Osteen Podcast

Don't Be A Complainer | Victoria Osteen

Joel Osteen Podcast

Joel Osteen & SiriusXM

Religion & Spirituality

4.324K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

If we want to create change in our lives, we have to approach God with thanksgiving. Let's choose to live with hearts full of gratitude!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Joel and Victoria.

0:02.3

Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry.

0:06.0

If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a blessing and share it with a friend.

0:10.3

We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in your life.

0:13.5

I want to remind us all today to not be complainers and fault finders.

0:19.7

Oh, man.

0:28.7

Really? We don't need to be complainers and fault finders.

0:36.2

See, it's easy to see what's wrong in a situation. It's easy to see what could be done better.

0:40.1

You know, naturally we tend to look at the negative.

0:47.9

Just our natural minds tend to always gravitate to the negative. And it causes us to find fault.

0:55.7

But we don't want to be complainers and fault finders because we know that it doesn't please God. You know, we're all guilty of this. I'll be the first one to raise my hand, okay? Because sometimes it feels good to

1:03.3

complain. You get it off your chest. You're just venting. It feels good. Why do we complain? That's one reason. It feels kind of good sometime,

1:15.1

okay? Let's just get real about it. We've all thought, all right, just get it off my chest and then

1:21.4

I'll be okay. Or we think, or I think, sometimes if I complain, I can change the situation.

1:30.7

I'll go to Joel and I'll tell him why this isn't right and why we shouldn't do it this way.

1:37.2

Because I think I'm going to change the situation, right?

1:40.3

But you don't change a situation by complaining, by finding fault.

1:45.8

You usually make the situation worse.

1:49.6

Like I said, we can all think these thoughts of how we could do it better.

1:56.3

But we've got to learn that we don't have to give life to these thoughts.

2:01.3

You see, when we give life to these negative thoughts, we create a more negative environment.

2:07.3

We not only pollute ourselves with this negative environment, but we pollute other people.

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