Your Super Bloom Season | Joel Osteen

God bless you, it's great to be with you today and I hope you'll stay connected with us during the week through our daily podcast, our YouTube channel, social media, and you can come visit us in person. We'd love to have you be a part of one of our services. I'd like to start with something funny and I heard about this husband and wife. They'd been arguing for a long time about who should make the coffee in the morning. The husband thought it was the wise job but she just didn't agree. After several heated debates, she finally told him, I can prove to you from the Bible that it's the man's job to make the coffee. He said, what are you talking about? There's nothing in the Bible about the man making the coffee. She said, sure there is. She opened the Bible and turned to the book of Hebrews. (audience laughing) Say it like you mean it, this is my Bible. 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. I boldly confess, my mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I wanna talk to you today about your super bloom season. There was a story on the news about all the rain in parts of California last winter.

Places that normally have a dozen inches a year had that much in just a few days. Month after month, there was this record-breaking rainfall. It's causing all kinds of damage, mudslides, flash flooding, people having to evacuate. They would get through one big storm. Two weeks later, another one even bigger. But when springtime rolled around, something unusual happened. All across the fields and mountainsides, where it was normally grass and weeds, there were flowers blossoming everywhere. Was the most beautiful, colorful sight. Looked like a postcard. They call it a super bloom. Because of the record-breaking rainfall, seeds that had been dormant for years begin to blossom. We were driving and we pulled over to look. The whole mountainside was filled with bright yellow flowers and pinks and purples, like something you've never seen. All the rain caused trouble, hardship. But without that excessive rain, there would have never been a super bloom. It's the same principle in life. We all have rain, difficulties. Sometimes there's a downpour. It's one thing after another. Trouble at work, go through a loss. Child is off course, dealing with a health issue. Thoughts will tell you, this is the way it's always going to be.

You'll always struggle. Always have heartache, always be lonely. You know, all that rain is a sign that a super bloom is coming. You're about to blossom. You're going to see favor, opportunities, relationships that you could have never seen without the rain. We don't like the rain. It's uncomfortable. They walked away. The contract fell through. But the rain is necessary. There are seeds in you that will only open up by going through excessive rain. The rain seems like a setback, but really, it's setting you up for greater levels. On the other side of that difficulty is favor, like you've never seen. It may be raining in your life now. You're doing your best, trying to stay faithful. Nothing's getting better. You're tempted to get discouraged, except that it will never work out. No, get ready. There's a super bloom in your future. You're going to come out of that lack into abundance, into overflow, into supernatural provision. You're going to see the hand of God doing what only he can do. That sickness may look permanent, but things are about to turn in your favor.

You're going to come out into good health, into energy, into vitality. You're going to come out of that loneliness into great relationships, happy, fulfilled, or out of the depression, out of that anxiety, into joy, peace, and victory. Don't let the rain fool you. That's not how your story ends. There may be flooding now. There's heartache, disappointment. It's not letting up. Have the right perspective. Father, thank you that this rain is leading to a super bloom, that I'm going to flourish, that I'm going to blossom, that my best days are still up in front of me. This report talked about how in the super bloom, all these flower seeds had been lying their dormant in the ground for years. They were healthy, full of life, had beautiful flowers in them. They just needed the excessive water to get down deep in the earth, so they could germinate and come to life. believing to come to pass, but it's been so long, things haven't worked out, we went through disappointments, now we don't think it could happen. We may have given up, but that seed is still alive. Researchers have found seeds that are 2,500 years old in an Egyptian tomb. They planted those seeds, and they came to life. They blossomed hundreds of years later. Prayers are seeds that we've sown. We prayed and asked God for our dreams, and asked Him to turn situations around.

When it hasn't happened on our timetable, often we quit believing. We think it's not meant to be, but those seeds are still alive. There are prayers that your parents and grandparents pray. They believed, they were faithful, but they never saw them come to pass. Those seeds are still in your family line. God put the vision in them. They could see it, but it was for the next generation. My father talked about how one day he was going to get the summit for Lakewood. That's what this place was originally called. He had it in his spirit, but he never saw it happen. Twenty-five years later, long after he was gone, we acquired the Compact Center. How did it happen? Through excessive rain, through lawsuits, through opposition, through struggle. But on the other side of that difficulty was a superblend. A seed that had been dormant came to life. You're sitting in a superblend. You're sitting in the favor of God. You're sitting in a building that was birthed out of great opposition. At times, it looked impossible. The opponents were bigger, stronger, but the rain is not how your story ends. The rain is waking up seeds of greatness, seeds of abundance, seeds of opportunity. The enemy sent the rain to harm you, but it's going to backfire. God's going to use it to promote you, to cause you to blossom, to go further than you dream, to open doors bigger than you've imagined, to entrust you with resources, influence, favor that your family has never seen. But the only way to have a superblend is to have excessive rain, things you don't understand, people that do you wrong. The house didn't go through, and you have this medical problem. You'll be tempted to complain, get discouraged, give up on that dream. That rain is not working against you, it's setting you up for a superblend.

It's waking up the seeds that were lying dormant. It's going to bring to life opportunities, breakthroughs, healing, abundance. You're going to step into houses that you didn't build, vineyards that you didn't plant. That's those blessings that your loved ones prayed for, but they never saw. Generational blessings. You're going to bloom in ways you've never imagined. The medical report said you wouldn't get well, but look at you now. You're healthy and whole. Just like you'd always struggle, then one good break, one contract, one opportunity, and you have overflow, abundance. Or maybe you thought it was too late to accomplish your dream, to write the book, to start the business, to build the house, then things started falling into place, new doors opened. The right people showed up, supernatural provision. What happened? You came in to a superblend. The rain stopped and the seeds came to life. You blossomed. You saw levels that you would have never seen without the excessive rain. One expert talked about how in order to have a superbloom, the conditions had to be just right. What's interesting is California had been in one of their top three droughts in their history. People had to conserve water, not run their sprinklers. It was inconvenient, a hardship. But during the drought, something unusual was happening. Most of the weeds and grass that normally filled the mountainsides had died off. That made room for these flower seeds that were buried deeper underground to receive the water and come to life. Had there not been a drought, but just the excessive rain, these flower seeds wouldn't have germinated.

The perfect conditions for a superbloom was a dry season followed by excessive rain. God was showing us a principle. Many times before our superbloom, there's a dry season, a drought. Nothing good has happened. No favor, no promotion. Things are slow. It's tempting to quit believing, "God, where are you? The drought is all a part of his plan. It's making room for the new things he's about to do. Stay faithful in the dry seasons. Without the drought, you couldn't have a super bloom. Without the delays, things that are taken longer than you thought, you won't see the fullness of what God has in store. But you would think the perfect conditions for a super bloom are good weather, sunshine, the right amount of water, the right amount of fertilizer is just the opposite. To have a super bloom, you have to have a drought followed by excessive rain. Now, drought is bad enough. This is slow. I feel stuck in my career. Nothing's changing in my health. My child is still off course. If the drought doesn't discourage us, here comes the excessive rain, trouble at work, pandemic hits, friend turned on you, you lost a loved one, when it rains, it pours. But when you understand how God works,

that the dry season, the excessive rain, that's all leading to a super bloom. That's how those seeds of increase, seeds of abundance, seeds of new levels are going to take root. The drought is not permanent. The excessive rain may feel like it's going to flood you, like you're going to go under, but God has you in the palm of his hand. He said, you'll go through the floods and not be drowned. You'll go through the dry seasons and not be harmed. May seem odd, but that's the perfect condition for a super bloom. The dry season, the excessive rain, it's not setting you back, it's setting you up to flourish, to blossom, to see greater favor, greater joy, greater resources, greater influence. Now, the key is what kind of attitude do we have in the dry seasons when it's slow? We're not seeing any progress. In the excessive rain, you get through one struggle and something else hits. It's easy to complain, get better. God, it's not fair. Now, you have to dig down deep and say, God, I trust you. I know you wouldn't have allowed this if it wasn't working for me. Yes, I'm in a drought. Yes, I have these challenges, but I believe a super bloom is coming,

that I'm going to blossom in my health, blossom in my finances, blossom in my relationships. This is what happened with Joseph. God put a dream in his heart that he was going to be in leadership, do great things. That seed was planted, but it didn't come to pass without opposition. You can't reach the fullness of your potential without delays and setbacks and people that turn on you. The Apostle Paul said, a wide door of opportunity is open and there are many adversaries. Be much easier if God gave us the dream and then just brought it to pass, made everything easy. But we would never grow. We would never develop our spiritual muscles. And we'd never learned to really trust him. In the difficult times is where you show God what you're made of. That's where you prove that you can handle the blessing, handle the favor, that you're not going to let disappointments, bad breaks, people that come against you convince you to live bitter, give up on those dreams. Joseph's brothers were jealous of him and they threw him into a pit. Eventually they sold him as a slave. His whole world was turned upside down. He went from having this exciting dream, being his father's favorite child, to living in a foreign land against his will, didn't speak the language, betrayed by his brothers. Joseph didn't get bitter.

He didn't say, God, this is not fair. You said I was going to do great things. He understood that God was still in control, that the setback wasn't his final destination, that what God promised would still come to pass. He was in charge of Potiphar's house, an Egyptian army officer. Joseph was being his best, excelling when Potiphar's wife lied about him. She falsely accused Joseph and he was put in prison. Another bad break. He was in Egypt for 13 years, a dry season. I'm sure thoughts whisper, Joseph, it's never going to happen now. Come on man, God's forgotten about you. Look how long it's been. Joseph went through the drought. He went through the excessive rain. Trouble, betrayal, lonely nights. But those two things are the perfect conditions for a super bloom. Deep down, he knew that God was up to something. One morning, the Pharaoh had a dream that he didn't understand. The butler told the Pharaoh that Joseph, The Scripture says they sent word for Joseph to come quickly to the palace. Joseph woke up that morning in prison, thinking it was another ordinary day, but suddenly he was headed to the palace.

You may be in a dry season, but God can quickly turn things around. Thoughts will tell you, it'll take years to get out of this mess, years to get healthy, years to get out of debt, years to meet the right person, no one touch of God's favor, one good break, one phone call, one divine connection, suddenly things will change. When Joseph interpreted the Pharaoh's dream, he was so impressed, he made Joseph the Prime Minister of Egypt. Notice how it happened. Joseph had the dream, that seed was in him, then he went through a dry season, a long drought, then the excessive rain came, the trouble, betrayal. It was unfair, but he just kept being his best. He didn't understand it, but he kept doing the right thing, then he came in to a super bloom, favor, he'd never imagined, influence, honor, resources. We all go through these dry seasons where it's taken longer than we thought.

Feels like God has forgotten about us, but that dry season is all a part of his process. What you can't see is he's working behind the scenes, weeding out things that would stop your harvest, moving the wrong people out, clearing away any debris, any weeds, any hindrance. It's getting you prepared for what's coming. The rain, the opposition, the bad breaks, it wasn't fair. It feels like it's setting you back, but really it's setting you up. That rain is going down deep on the seeds that God planted in your heart. It's watering the dreams, the goals, the prayers, those desires. And yes, it's uncomfortable, but the truth is, the conditions are just right for a super bloom, for something uncommon, unusual. It's going to happen quickly. You didn't see it coming. There was no sign of it, then the Pharaoh calls. The medical report improves. Your child gets the scholarship. Your business takes off. You meet the person of your dreams. Now, you may be in a dry season now, things are not changing.

You're dealing with loneliness, problem at work, struggling in your finances. You could easily live sour, give up on your dreams. Think nothing good is in your future. No, God is saying to you today, a super bloom is coming. Seeds that you thought were dead are coming back to life. The prayers that your loved ones prayed are going to be answered through you. You're about to blossom. You're about to flourish, to see new growth, new relationships, greater influence, greater favor. Now, do like Joseph, keep doing the right thing when it's hard. Keep being good to people that are not good to you. Keep praising in the dry seasons. Keep thanking God even when there's excessive rain. He sees your faithfulness. He's not going to just bring you out. We'd be grateful if we just got through it, but he's going to make the enemy pay. He's going to bring you out better, increased, promoted, healthier, happier, at a new level of your destiny. Get this down in your spirit, a super bloom season,

dreams coming to pass, opportunities finding you, good breaks chasing you down. The right people knocking at your door. God's going to cause you to shine, to stand out, to come from the background to the foreground, from not enough to more than enough, from lonely to fulfilled, from let me make it through to who would have ever thought I would be this blessed, this happy, this fulfilled. Here's what I'm saying. Excessive rain is a sign that excessive blessings are coming. A super dry season is a sign that supernatural favor is on the way. Don't let the rain fool you. Don't let the heartache, the loss, the delays, convince you that you've seen your best days. God wouldn't have allowed it if he wasn't going to use it for your good. Not just cause you to bloom, but how about super bloom? That's out of the ordinary. That's abundant, that's overflow. That's something that causes people to stop, to notice. How did you get well

after the medical report said you were done? Just tell them I came into a super bloom. God did what medicine could not do. How did you get out of debt? How can you live in that neighborhood? I saw how you grew up. Yes, the odds were against me, but I had a super bloom above and beyond favor. They used to be off course running with the wrong crowd. Yes, but we saw a superbloom. The goodness of God lifting them out of that pit, setting their feet on the wrong, putting a new song in their heart. I don't believe you would be hearing this if you weren't on a verge of a superbloom. You are close to seeing God do something that you've never seen, catapulting you to a new level. Opportunity bigger than you've imagined. Resources that you never dreamed you would handle. Negative situations that look impossible suddenly turning around. Well, Joel, this sounds good, but I don't see how it could happen for me. I haven't had a good break in 27 years where you're way overdue. That dry season is one of the conditions. Don't count yourself out. God has already counted you in. He's already scheduled your superbloom. Man, I'd like to believe, but man, I'm having all these problems. When it rains, it pours. That's one of the conditions. You're in perfect position for God to show out in your line. The scripture says, "God has ordered our steps." How do you know that God has not ordered you to be there so he can get you in position to do something you've never seen? Not just bring you out, but bring you into a superbloom, catapult you ahead, bring dreams to pass that you've given up on. Why don't you be a believer and not a doubter? Doubters are a dime a dozen. It's easy to say, "This is not for me." God is looking for people who will dare say, "Yes, I'm in a dry season. Yes, I have excessive rain, but I know this is not how my story ends. A superbloom is coming. God show out in my life. Surprise me with your favor." You look at all the bad breaks in Joseph's life and you realize they had to happen. It was all a part of God's plan to get him into leadership in a foreign country. His brothers had to be jealous. They had to throw him into a pit. He had to go through that dry season,

the lonely nights. He had to have all the rain. Potiphar's wife had to falsely accuse him. He had to be put in prison. It was all leading him to his purpose. What am I saying? Don't fight everything you don't like. Don't live bitter over the people that did you wrong, the door that closed, the company that pushed you out. It may not have been fair. Yes, it was painful, but God wouldn't have allowed it if it was going to stop your purpose. There are things that we're not going to understand along the way. You have to trust that God knows what he's doing, that he's working out his plan through your life. His plan is bigger than yours. His plan is greater. There are levels that you cannot reach without going through a dry season, without opposition, things that are not fair. That's all leading you to a super bloom, to greatness, to promotion, to influence, things that you've never imagined. I'm not saying to accept the trouble, accept the sickness, and live in mediocrity. I'm saying, stay in peace. Live from a place of rest. You can't make everyone like you, make everything go your way. That's going to frustrate you. Some of the things we're trying to pray away is the hand of God. Joseph could have prayed. God changed my brother's mind, caused him to not be jealous, caused him to like me. He would have missed his destiny. They had to be jealous. They had to throw him into that pit to get him to eat you. He could have prayed, "God, don't let them believe this lady that lied about me. God vindicate me. She had to lie. She had to falsely accuse him so he would get to the prison to meet the butler, and interpret his dream so the butler could tell the pharaoh about Joseph. The dry season, the trouble was all a part of God's plan. This scripture says, "Nothing can snatch you out of God's hands. The longer I live, the more peaceful I am, the more joyful I am, and the truth is, the longer I live, the more opposition I have, the more rain comes. As God promotes you, there's bigger adversaries. I stay in peace knowing that it's all leading to a super-blun. God's plans for you are for good. The scripture says, "You will live a flourishing life, but on the way to the good, there's going to be some bad, some trouble, some delays, things we don't understand. You'll save yourself a lot of heartache if you'll learn to trust him in the trouble. Stay in peace in the dry seasons, to not be frustrated by the jealous people, to resources that you would have never seen without them happening. After Joseph became the prime minister, his brothers came to the palace looking for food. When they realized it was Joseph, of course, they were shocked. He said to them in Genesis 50, "What you meant for harm got intended for good."

He was saying, "You meant it to stop me, but God was using you like a pawn to get me in position so I could see my dream come to pass." If Joseph were here today, he would tell you, "Stay in peace. Don't fight the trouble. Don't get discouraged in the dry seasons. God knows what he's doing. When it's your time, all the forces of darkness cannot stop what God has ordained for you. The promotion, the vindication, the honor, the breakthroughs, you may be in a dry season, but that's not where you're staying. You may have trouble all around excessive rain, but that's not the end of the story. Those are the perfect conditions for a super bloom. God is setting you up to do something that you've never seen. Instead of complaining about the rain, being discouraged over the dry season, try a different approach. God, I trust you. I know this rain is for a purpose. I know this dry season is leading me to a super bloom. Lord, I thank you that my best days are still out in front of me. If you'll do this, I believe and declare like Joseph, you're going to see some suddenlies. God suddenly open doors, suddenly promote you, suddenly turn things around. You're about to blossom, to go to new levels, to accomplish dreams bigger than you thought, to reach the fullness of your destiny in Jesus' name, and if you receive it, can you say amen? I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say, "Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins, come into my heart. I make you my Lord and Savior." If you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. We'd love to send you some new information on your walk with the Lord. You can text the number under the screen or go to the website. But I hope you'll get into a good Bible-based church and keep God first place.