Don't Be Defined By Your Mistakes | Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen Podcast
Joel Osteen & SiriusXM
4.3 • 24K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. |
| 0:02.2 | 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. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, God bless you. |
| 0:15.4 | It's a joy to come into your homes. |
| 0:17.4 | And if you're ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services |
| 0:22.2 | i'll promise you we'll make you feel right at home i like to start with something funny and i heard |
| 0:28.3 | about this elderly couple that had been married for over 60 years never had an argument never had |
| 0:34.1 | a crossword they weren't a function. Someone asked them the secret of |
| 0:38.3 | their success. The man told how he always treated his wife with respect and how he took her on |
| 0:44.7 | trips around the world. He said, in fact, for our 25th wedding anniversary, I took her to Beijing, China. |
| 0:51.9 | Everyone politely applauded. Someone said, what'd you do for your 50th |
| 0:55.9 | wedding anniversary? He said, I went back and picked her up. Say it like you mean it. This is my Bible. |
| 1:04.6 | I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do today I will be taught the word of God |
| 1:13.3 | I boldly confess my mind is alert my heart is receptive I will never be the same in Jesus name |
| 1:22.0 | God bless you I want to talk to you today about don't be defined by your mistakes. We can all look back and see times |
| 1:32.0 | where we gave into temptation. We let our guard down and compromised. We were sloppy and didn't |
| 1:38.7 | handle the situation the way we should. It's easy to be defined by one moment in life, by divorce, by business that didn't make |
| 1:48.5 | it, by how we raised our children. The enemy is called the accuser. He would love to convince you |
| 1:55.7 | to let that one mistake, that one season to cause you to live down on yourself, not be passionate about |
| 2:03.3 | your dreams. But that mistake didn't stop God's plan. You may have failed, but you are not a failure. |
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