How Do You See It? - Pastor Joel Tudman

praise god we thank god for our zoom audience that's back with us today we love god we thank you for tuning in god bless you and uh we look forward to spending the next few minutes with you come on church let's bless god for our zoom family that's here and once again let's bless god for our incredible leaders bishop jakes and lady jakes the first family we honor the lord for our leaders i want to call your attention to ezekiel 37 a very familiar passage of scripture very very familiar passage of scripture verses 1 through 14 i'll be reading through the niv the hand of the lord was on me and he brought me out by the spirit of the lord and set me in the middle of a valley it was full of bones he led me back and forth among them and i saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley bones that were very dry he asked me son of man can these bones live and i said sovereign lord you alone know then he said to me prophesy to these bones and say to them dry bones hear the word of the lord this is what the sovereign lord says to these bones i will make breath into you and you will come to life i will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin i will put breath in you and you will come to life then you will know that i am the lord so i prophesied as i was commanded and as i was prophesied there was a noise a rattling sound and the bones came together bone to bone i looked and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them but there was no breath in them then he said to me prophesy to the breath prophesy son of man say to it this is what the sovereign lord says come breathe from the four winds breathe into these slain that they may live so i prophesied as they commanded me and the breath entered them and they came to life and stood upon their feet as a vast army then he said to me son of man these bones of the people of israel they say our bones are dried up and our hope is gone and we are cut off therefore prophesy and say to them this is what the sovereign lord says my people i am going to open your graves and bring you up from them i will bring you back to the land of israel then you my people will know that i am the lord when i open your graves and bring you up from them in the last verse i will put my spirit in you and you will live and i will settle you in your own land then you will know that i am the lord have spoken and i have done it declares the lord saved man for the reading of the word of god in verse 3 verse 3 is very very simple he asked me son of man can these bones live i said sovereign lord you alone know if you will for just a few minutes i want to talk to you about the subject how do you see it i want to i want to talk to you about how do you see it and i want to talk to ezekiel i don't want to spend my time talking to the bones because i believe that i am talking to a many ezekiels in the land right now that you have been given responsibility you are accountable for people and god has given you an unusual amount of influence and you have been asked the question can we live from this can we survive from this and so my question to you today is how do you see it last week's sermon that bishop taught for me we're all in the same boat was so profound and categorically for me by far one of the absolute best sermonic presentations i've ever heard listening to him emphasize how we struggle and how we go through and that we all have to grab our oars and roll through our storms and our struggles knowing that god may not bring us out of it that message left such a deposit in my spirit while he was preaching and the team was tapping me on my shoulder telling me hey it's time for you to do the post show i couldn't leave because there was such a pull in the holy ghost from what he was teaching his revelation it heightened the fight in my inner man and i left understanding the complexity of tension and friction and pressure and all other things the like and so what i began to sit and think about as i was listening to him i understood that while we're here on this earth we're never going to be absent from those trials those tribulations those tensions those frictions those troubles but what i can actually do is make sure that i bring my absolute best when i'm confronted with tension and trouble and trial and test bring my absolute best what does that mean that doesn't give me a free pass to say it's my best and i don't bring the rest of me if i'm going to truly bring my best then i've got to throw my entire self to that if there's only 70 of me left i've got to throw the entire 70 at it and i've got to understand that if i throw my best that's simply all i can do because of my humanity all you can do is your best and when you learn that your best is a standard then you will always make sure that you never live believe that standard and you will make sure that you do that regularly interestingly i found out about myself that i didn't even know my best i also found out that i didn't even know what was best for me and it wasn't until i understood that you will always need somebody else's hand to help you understand exactly what is best because you don't have the discipline to understand naturally how to give a little bit more and sometimes it takes other people to help you understand what you can harness and what you can bring to the table and so i want you to sit and listen to me as we talk about how we move through time and how we travel through issues that you can bring your best you can bring your best and being exposed to it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be easy because when someone teaches you how to bring your best now you have no excuse as to why you can't live up to it someone now is holding you accountable for the lessons that they've taught you for what's really been deposited inside of you and now you have a responsibility and you cannot use for an excuse that i can't live up to what i've never seen so when we look at doing our best god has an unusual way of pulling the best out of you he'll use trouble he'll use the truth he'll use a test he'll use your enemy he'll do whatever it takes to keep you from be from living beneath what you would consider to be your best and when i use the word best let me clearly say i'm not talking about competitiveness i'm talking about who you are at the center of your being who you are at the core so i want to talk to the ezekiels that are sitting at home that are watching me i don't want to talk to dry bones i want to talk to those of you who have been set in the midst of a dry place and in the midst of dry bones and you're trying to see it but you haven't been trained how to bring the best out of you and i believe you're here because when i look at this ezekiel he's such an interesting character dr antipas ezekiel is one of our four major prophets in scripture his name means god strengthens he is one uh he's the son of a priest he was a judean priest that was exiled with thousands of jews and they were captured by the babylonians now what's interesting to me about him is that he's the first prophet that is called outside of israel this helps me to understand that no matter where you are god can still find you no matter how bad a circumstance is god can still locate you he's the first one to be called and he's called to a rebellious people he prophesied against everything that the people did and so the stories about him was so intriguing that as i began to thumb through the scriptures and read i began to realize i don't want an anointing like ezekiel's i don't want to go through what ezekiel went through after i started reading what ezekiel had to go through to do what he had to do the scripture talks about how god took the desire to cry about his wife away from him he couldn't even mourn about his spouse then the text tells us that when he was uh supposed to spend 390 days on his left side for the sins of israel and then after he spent those 390 days on his left side he would have to lay on his right side 40 days which exemplified 40 years of sin for judah so here this man is 430 years laying on one side and then laying on the other side this is an unusual call and i don't know if i have what it takes to do what he lies or not elijah but ezekiel was called to do the scripture shows him having to take brick and draw what jerusalem looked like and then use an iron skillet an iron pan and turn his face towards it god used him in unusual ways i didn't understand god why would you call this man inside of this this exile you do understand that ezekiel is exiled you do understand that he's with them so i'm trying to figure out how is it that this man of god is called by god in exile would you listen to him would you follow him would you trust him i know we read it but would you really if this was realistically your pastor that has been exiled would you listen to it have you ever had to pay the price for what somebody else did because he was a priest before he got there he became a prophet while he was there and so god calls him to the office of the prophet while he's sitting on the banks and god calls him exiled what am i trying to tell you it doesn't matter how bad it gets for you and it doesn't matter where you are you could be sitting up in jail right now but god has a way of finding who he wants to find and god has a way of calling who he wants to call so you don't always have to defend your call because someone doesn't understand your exile you don't always have to defend who you are because people know that you have been carried away but it's interesting to me that while he's exiled he's sitting down and god shows him an unusual vision god gives him this vision shows him these four beasts shows them these wills and he begins to talk about him and then he extends his hand he extends his hand to him and he has in his hand what they call a scroll and he tells him he unrolls the scroll and then he says eat the whole scroll ezekiel says the rose the scroll tastes like honey so he eats the road but it's at this moment that i realize now he's fixing his language because even though i'm exiled i don't have to talk like even though i'm exiled god can create another language so that i can be a blueprint for the rest of us that are still lost so god gives him a word god places word in his mouth so now when we look through the passages of scripture all the way up to 37 you see in the introduction of almost every page and the hand of the lord is upon ezekiel and the hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel and the hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel the hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel chapter 3 hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel chapter 20 and the hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel 25 and the hand of the lord moved upon ezekiel 30 and the hand of the lord moves upon ezekiel 33 and the hand of the lord moves upon ezekiel what i'm trying to tell you that his hand will work wherever you are i don't care what anybody says his hand will work wherever you i want you to type that on the line right now his hand will work wherever you are what happens what happens what happens what happens 36 is what gets me because in 36 he's prophesying to the mountains of israel 37 he's prophesying to the bones 37 he's prophesying in the valley 36 he's prophesying in the mountains y'all hear me 37 he's prophesying in the valley 36 he's prophesying in the mountains so you'll have those moments in your life where you'll be standing in the and then do you still have enough fortitude to go down and prophesy in the valley it's easy to always climb and prophesy in the mountaintop it's easy to sing on the mountaintop when your money's on the mountaintop and your marriage is on the mountaintop and your children are on the mountaintop but can you prophesy when everything is down interesting to me interesting and interesting interesting interesting he's in the mountains but listen to what he says he tells the mountains he tells the hills he tells the ravines he tells the water he tells the trees he tells everything he tells the grounds he tells the desolate ruins he tells the deserted cities he says you will find favor from the lord this is what he's telling the ground this is what he's telling mountains you will produce from this day forward because i'm going to send a people to you and you're going to have to have what it takes to give them what i need to sustain them this messed me up because maybe we've been prophesying to y'all too long maybe we missed it because we keep prophesying to the people maybe i need to go prophesy to the ground and tell the ground what i need maybe i need to go prophesy to the tree and tell the tree what i need maybe i need to go prophesy to the mountain and tell the mountain what i need maybe i need to go to the neighborhood that i want to live in and prophesy to the lot that i want to build on and tell that lot the favor of god has found you maybe i been prophesying to people too long maybe i need to tell the land what i want maybe i need to tell the kind of car that i want you coming to me maybe i need to tell the kind of job that i desire your mind maybe i need to tell the kind of money that i want to make money coming to me now maybe i need to stop trying to prophesy to you and prophesy to the place so we see him prophesying to a place but in 37 the hand of the lord picks him up and carries him into the valley he's exiled but the hand of the lord picks him up he's guilty but the hand of the lord picks him up he's with all of the rest of the israelites all the rest of the jews they're all captured babylonian captivity but god picks him up i just want to talk right there and prophesy to at least a thousand of y'all and tell you god's getting ready to pick you up he's getting ready to pick you up i don't care where you are i don't care what it looks like i don't care how bad you feel i don't care how your money looks like he's getting ready to pick you up somebody type that on the line pick me up pick me up pick me up pick me up i need you to pick me up he picks them up he carries him what's interesting to me the bible says that he picks him up and he carries him in the midst of the dry bones now what gets me about these bones the bible says that he carried him back and forth he gave him a panoramic view of what he was looking at now the problem that i have with ezekiel is ezekiel you just got through prophesying to land you just got through prophesying to trees and mountains and ravines sometimes you can be in a situation that looks so bad that you'll forget what god has already done and you've got to hold on to your sanity understanding that if he did it there he can do it here so he's here standing and god takes him and he's moving him back and forth sounds like some of our lives what do you do when god is moving you back and forth yeah i'm not talking about you what do you do when it's god's decision to move you back and forth and god is moving him back and forth in the midst of dry bones dry places he's moving him back and forth in dry places and sometimes you can get your mind so caught on the bones that you forget that he's moving you yeah sometimes you'll forget god you're moving me in a dry season sometimes you'll forget that god you're shifting me in the dry season other people are still standing still but you're moving me for a reason and there's some things that you want me to see all back and forth is not bad sometimes god's trying to give you a view of what he wants to do so he's taking them back and forth back is off back and forth and he sets him down in the bones he asked him a simple question can these bones live now i think based off of his response that maybe ezekiel thought ezekiel can you make these bones live and my reason for thinking that is because of how he responded you've been working with god all this time you've been exiled now for 10 years and you can't say yes absolutely that's who i want to talk to because you have forgotten how god has moved impossible out of your life and you act as if god has given you the responsibility to make this thing live and that's not what he asked he just said can we bounce back from this can we live from this and i just want to ask at least 50 of you right now can you bounce back from that marriage can you bounce back from that job can you bounce back from that sickness can you bounce back from that divorce can you bounce back from that issue can you bounce back from losing your job can you bounce back from how you feel can you bounce back from what you're going through somebody said i'm bouncing back [Music] yeah i feel the holy ghost in here my god today i need to know will you bounce back i need to know can you do it when you don't see it i need to know can you stand up when you don't know it i need to know when you're shouting you ain't got no voice will you give god the glory [Applause] knowing yes but he doesn't say that he says lord you know he gives god a safe answer some of the stuff that you and i do because what that reveals to me is that you can have the knowledge of it and the knowledge outweigh the faith that you need to make it happen and so many of us are in that place we've got the knowledge of the word we've got the knowledge of the circumstance we've got the strategy but when it boils down to it do you have the actual faith to move the mountain do you have the actual faith to shake the tree and god isn't asking ezekiel to do it he just asked him can they live now what i love about god is that god doesn't punish him for his answer god begins to dialogue even further with him and as we see the hand of god that is on ezekiel i want you to think about that hand being on you right now and i want you to see god dropping you in your dry place and i want you to see whatever that dry place is and i want you to imagine unclutter your ear and hear god how do you see it do you think we can do it do you think we can come out of this do you think we can go further do you think we have a chance because what i found out is this how you see it will determine how you say it and many of you can't say it because you don't see it and what i want you to know that if you'll just figure out how to say it glory to god if you will figure it out there is something that's getting ready to happen because you have the nerve to say it glory to god so i want you to know my second point is that god cares about what you think if he didn't care about what you thought he wouldn't have a dialogue with you he cares about how you process he cares about how you decide he cares about how you came to your conclusions this is why i don't understand how you can go to people before you go to him he cares about your process and how you develop your thinking how is it that we allow ourselves to go to others before we go to him he cares about how you think he tells us to think on what silver things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are worthy whatsoever things of good report if there be any praise any virtues then he tells you to do what take on these things he cares about how you think or he would have never asked him can these bones live now what's interesting to me is that in all of the stuff that ezekiel was facing he didn't allow two things to contort his belief system that is perspective all right i want you to write that one down it's old school term perspective and perception the two of those can often cause a cataclysmic issue with our belief system see perspective is about a particular attitude it's it's how you feel about something it's a point of view but then perception is your way of understanding it's how you interpret a thing and it's the mental impression that goes in your mind so when you're in an issue that causes you to somewhat double think or maybe perhaps doubt what you're going through if you're not careful your perspective and your perception can cause an issue in your belief system and then you'll find yourself fighting what you always believe because you become a pessimist in your perspective you become a pessimist with your perception i saw a quote that was sent to me uh last night two brothers were raised by an alcoholic father one grew up to be an alcoholic when he was asked what happened he said i watched my father the other brother grew up and never drank one time in his life and they asked him how did you do that he said i watched my father see your perspective will determine your future and the tension between that perception can affect your belief system so you can be one place and see something completely different because of how your perspective is this is how you can be in church and one person is giving god glory and losing their mind and the other person is wishing that you would sit down because we have two completely different perspectives on how good god has been so you have to be careful you have to be careful because you don't want to be dropped off into your dry place and your thinking sabotage your believing keeps you from getting your miracle because you're halted between two opinions i want to talk to the ezekiels i want you to know that god cares about what you think or he would have never asked you can these bones live i want you to know third thing he doesn't tell us what to see he tells us what to say he doesn't tell us what to see part of your hang-up is because you're waiting on him to tell you what to say he's not telling you what to say he's only telling you not he's not telling you what to see he's telling you what to say what he says can these bones live he tells him prophesy to the bones how do i prophesy to something that doesn't have the anatomy to even hear what i'm saying prophesy to the bones that he tells him something on the screen he tells them zoom church he says prophesy to them and tell them hear ye the word of the lord once again he's telling them i ain't telling you to say nothing from you i want you to tell them from me i want you to use what i put in your mouth when i called you tell them what i gave you to eat and and i did what he said he he prophesied to the bones and as he was prophesying the scripture says that there was a sound and i wanted to look it up and see now is this an earthquake but it didn't say it was an earthquake said it was a sound it was a sound and then when i looked at ezekiel's call i think i found the source of that sound when i looked at his call the bible says that when he began to deal with god that the angels began to flood of their wings and when the angels were fluttering their wings the bible says that it created a sound and there was a vibration that began to move things as he went up because he had angelic support can i tell you the angels are slapping their wings over your house over your children over your job over your life over your memory they are flapping their wings and a sound is going off now makes the sound and when he makes the sound the bible says that bones start moving in place yeah he made sound and bones start moving in place the sound came and the bones started moving in place the sound came and the bones started moving in place see i have a problem with those of you who are afraid to make a sound i have a problem with some of you that are afraid to make a joyful noise sometimes your noise will drive the devil away i wish i had a witness here sometimes that sound will let the devil know i may not have all of my energy but i got a sound that would drive the devil out of my house i wish i had a witness in here somebody make a sound right now glory to god [Music] let me hear that drum let me hear that rumbling let me hear that rumbling he's making sound and while he's prophesied things are starting to line up what i want you to do in your house while you hear that drum making that sound i want you to start prophesying to every dry thing in your house if it's your marriage prophesied to it if it's your children prophesy to it if it's your money prophesied to it if it's your health prophesied to it prophesy to it prophesy to it as you prophesy god's getting ready to shake it up right now i feel a shaking in your floor i feel a shakiness in your car prophesy tell that try place he word of the lord say yes glory to god shaken the bible says he stood yes up everything he needed was in the floor everything he needed was right there the same dry stuff what's right there see i'm talking to some business people right now everything you need is right there everything that you need god to do that's shaken moved it into place but there's one thing missing and have no life it was standing but standing dead it was standing but couldn't move on its own it was standing but it couldn't quite like operate the way god designed it so he doesn't tell ezekiel what to see once again he tells him what to say and he says ezekiel prophesied to the wind and he prophesies to the four corners of the wind say i'm talking to the ezekiels because you're going to have to learn that sometimes god will require the ridiculous to get things moving in your life and if you're too afraid to do the ridiculous you can't get what god has for you it ain't always going to be ridiculous but every now and then god's going to cause you to speak to something that can't speak back so he prophesies of the wind and the wind comes and feels the bodies in the valley this ties us to the creation because it looks just like what god did with adam but to me this is a tad bit extra because this is like a sacrifice in reverse normally the sacrifice you cut through the flesh get down to the bone for late but we're already at the bone so god takes the bone and god adds the layers to it so this would look like god creating eve when god goes into the rib of the man pulls out a bone when he pulls out the bone he creates the woman from the same stuff that adam was created the bone the bone the dna the bone it had everything in it that was in demand the bones that are laying down everything that you need the dna for your company the dna for where you're trying to go the bone is there and then god doesn't reverse and starts adding veins and starts and starts starts adding flesh hitting it amazing when you can see god adding to your life when you can see god stacking to your life i'm prophesying to you that god's about to put stuff on top of stuff stuff that's been dry stuff that's been bad god's about to put layers on it in reverse builds him from bone yes sir stands him up like eve but this time it's a nation standing and i want to ask our nation can we come back from this how do you see it are we gonna fight all the way into 2021 all the political parties are going to battle with each other all the way into new year's can we live from this come on now there's a nation that's standing yes sir but what blesses me is that everything that's in that nation that came from the ground is in the hand of the man of god god put a blueprint down in the valley yes sir and you can't get upset when you become god's blueprint for success and god drops you in the midst of dry bones you should feel honored and i know you said no no no no i don't want that you should feel honored that you would be the blueprint for what god wants to do and god would take you and drop you down in the valley and you prophesy and god responds to what you say because you are the blueprint of what he wants to do yes sir how you see it will help you hold it what does that mean this is a vision didn't happen it's a parable how i see it is gonna help me hold it what are you talking about the bones represented the whole house of israel israel said we're dry and i hope it's gone and so god takes ezekiel and drops him in a circumstance that is worse off than the people to see if he would prophesy to it because what i want to do with them is the same thing i want to do with them but i want to know can you say it in a situation that looks bad i'm talking to the ezekiels right now yes sir how you see it we'll help you hold it what do you mean let me go further it's a vision and when he wakes up nothing changes how many of you have had a vision and a dream about what it's going to look like and then when you wake up nothing changes it's the same it's the same people same problem same complaints same issues and you just had a moment with god that caused you to resurrect your joy and made you move into another dimension of happiness and you woke up i said it's just the vision what do you do when you got to go back and what you're going back to looks like nothing that you dreamed about yes sir what does that mean i'm giving you the vision because if you can if you can seize it in your vision it's going to make you better because i've got to get you to internalize what i want to do because this has nothing to do with you this is what i want to do for the people i need you to be the blueprint of what i want to do and as soon as you get caught up in your feelings and thinking that you can't get it done you have just destroyed my opportunity to show them what they can be i'm talking to you ezekiel how do you see it how do you see it if you can see it in your but it doesn't really matter what you see with your eyes because it's your mind that's going to lead you for we walk by faith and not by sight yes sir he prophesies they stand up they wrecked but dr antabus but bless me and i'm done with it play softly that after he comes out of that vision here's another one and he goes and he grabs some sticks he grabs these sticks and he put these sticks in his hand talking to you ezekiel the previous vision we saw god had him in his hands now we see ezekiel doing exactly what god did to him he reaches down and he grabs the sticks sticks represented the separation the northern tribe and the southern tribe and he bound them together he says that when they ask you what this is about you tell them they're going to have one leader and they will never be separated again and they're going to be together like they are in your hand what am i trying to tell you that you have everything you need and how you see it will help you hold it you can hold your marriage together you can hold your family together you can hold your issues together how do you say it yes sir i need you right there right now to lift your hands i want you to bow your head because this is a moment where i'm asking god to unclutter your mind so you can see it's time for you to see better some of you close your eyes and you begin to cry immediately because of the imprint that's been left on your mind from a dry bone situation your issues have been so dry and so so so miserable that you don't want to close your eyes but i'm asking god to go into your mind permeate those nightmares and those issues that you've been dealing with every dry situation where the enemy's been trying to sweep through those dry places and sweep through your memories and sweep through your house i'm asking god to rebuke the devil right now yes lord i pray for your mind right now that you're able to see with the eyes of faith i pray for your mind right now that whatever you're going through it will not destroy you i pray for your mind right now and i bind every headache that has come up against you right now some of you have been tormented by migraine headaches i sense you in the holy ghost right now you can't sleep at night you've got issues because you're staying up the dry places are tormenting you but i come against it right now god go into the mind surgically and do something supernaturally right now uncluttered the mind uncluttered the mind uncluttered the mind uncluttered the man uncluttered the man uncluttered the man uncluttered the man and cluttered the man uncluttered the man uncluttered the man uncluttered the man uncluttered the mind unclutter the mind blood of the mind uncluttered the mind [Music] how do you see it i want to minister to you how do you see it [Music] how do you see it bigger how do you see it i know you've been going through but [Music] how do you see it yeah how do you see it yes [Music] now come on instead how do you see it [Music] yourself coming out i said how do you do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if you're there online and you're not saved i want you to call 1-800 bishop too i want you to give your life to christ right now this is your opportunity to change how you see and it starts internally what a day where you can say today's the day that i gave my life to christ at the potter's house god wants to change how you see it you don't have to answer safe anymore say it yes we can survive this yes we can bounce back from this yes we'll make it from this yes i got the faith to believe it yes if you need prayer you can call that same number 1800 bishop too there are prayer warriors there right now ready to pray for you and lastly my third appeal if you get an opportunity to sow into the kingdom and follow the instructions on the screen and i want you to sow a seed today and be a courageous giver because i believe god wants you to see it better than the way you've been seeing it i love you we'll see you next time [Music] you

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Published: Sun Nov 29 2020