How God Sees

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i will [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what shall i fear [Music] i won't wait on you [Music] i would trust the living god [Music] i will remain [Music] confidence make it a declaration this morning [Music] [Music] confidence [Music] who is this who is god [Music] [Music] is [Music] god [Music] [Music] god [Music] [Applause] are you who is [Music] is and i will remain confident i will see the [Music] good morning new life covenant church and to all our viewers around the world i am bishop tudor bismarck pastor of new life covenant church in harare and it's sunday again and we have such great delight in bringing this message to you we started a series and the series for 2021 is seven dimensions of seeing which is seeing the kingdom and so let's start with our scripture reading and we'll do a bit of review from last week uh please keep your comments coming in thank you for your comments on whatsapp thank you for your uh comments that you've sent to us via youtube on our youtube platform watching on tutor bismarck ministries platform and thank you for patronizing uh god bless you so much let's go to our scripture john chapter number 3 and verse 1. there was a man of the pharisees named nicodemus a ruler of the jews the same came to jesus by night and said to him rabbi we know that you're a teacher come from god for no man can do these miracles that you do except god be with him jesus answered him and said verily i say to you except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of god everyone say see the kingdom of god see the kingdom of god say that again see the kingdom of god so the kingdom of god that can be seen and then verse number four of that chapter nicodemus interrogates the possibility of entering his mother's home a second time and jesus then says no you have to be born of water and of the spirit to enter the kingdom of god which is what we taught for the lion's share of 2020. and so last week we talked about uh the seeing the kingdom of god which is the art of visualization images that shape you what you see make you and so today we are going to be dealing with uh mentioning the various dimensions of seeing and dealing with god as a seer how god sees and what god sees and also god wanting us to see the way he sees and so let's go to the book of jeremiah chapter number one and let's deal with uh verse number 11. in in verse number five he tells jeremiah before your way in your mother's womb i knew you and i shaped you for various things and designated you for significant ministry so in jeremiah chapter number 1 verse 11 moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying jeremiah what do you see and that's the same question he's asking you right now albert what do you see james what do you see jackie what do you see diana what do you see what do you see and i said that's jeremiah i see a rod of an almond tree i see a rod of an almond tree and the lord said to me you see well you have well seen for i will hasten my word to perform it and so jeremiah saw the rod of an elementary but what he actually saw was not what god was seeing jeremiah saw the rod of an elementary which was well seen but god said you are actually looking at my word and so let me deal with the rod of an elementary the rod of the almond tree that jeremiah saw here was basically aaron's rod there there was a a query and there was a questioning of the authenticity of aaron's leadership there was an accusation railed against moses and the first family that this was uh nepotism at its very best in aaron's nomination to be the high priest and we know that aaron had a a significant prophetic gift we see this in exodus chapter number seven and verse one where uh the lord said to moses i have made you a god in the sight of pharaoh and aaron shall be your prophet and so not only was aaron a prophet and seer but he was also a craftsman and he was an influencer because he was the one that built a golden calf uh that the people worshipped while moses had gone up into the mountain to receive the law and so now with aaron being appointed as the high priest people were crying foul this is nepotism moses is favoring his brother and so the lord said okay uh to solve this uh question and this challenge once and for all let every tribe bring uh the tribal head let them bring their stuff and their rod and so each tribal leader from each tribe they brought 12 rods and aaron's rod was there moses took those rods and put them in the tabernacle and of course there were people that were watching to make sure that there was no mischief and so the next morning when they brought all the rods out aaron's rod was green it had leaves it had flowers and had almonds and that was the sign of the authenticity of his leadership as the high priest because the high priest had so much power he had the power to carry the blood of the lamb once a year beyond the veil applied on the ark of the covenant and would then produce total absolution of sins the removal of poverty uh the removal of limitations and the the unlimited supply of god's grace and god's provision and it was a very very powerful position and so when jeremiah said i see the rod of an elementary god was actually showing him that you have the same anointing and the same power and the same rights that aaron had you are in a leadership position that is as high as aaron's that that what you say and what you do i will back and i will follow but the thing is that jeremiah had to see it and when he saw it then god explained to him what he was actually looking at and so for you wherever you are watching this there's something that you see you may not understand what you see now god is going to take the time to explain to you what you are really looking at and and uh if you take time to look at yourself in the mirror every day you know uh for me basically shaving is the only time i really look at myself in the mirror to make sure i get something straight but generally with women if you're making up your face or you combing your hair women spend more time looking at the image in the mirror but you're not looking at yourself you're actually looking at getting something in place and so i want you as an exercise not to look at your your hair being in place but i want you to see you i want you to look at yourself right here in the middle of or between your eyes and begin to see a you that you've never seen before with the potential uh and moving that potential into a kinetic energy of moving from this place this level to another level is in the art of seeing it's in visualizing it's working with spiritual instinct that there's got to be something greater and there's got to be something better that god has for my life and so yeah the various dimensions in the way we see firstly is and this is today's lesson god sees the way god sees what god sees and what he wants you to see and so lesson uh dimension number two is seeing into the sovereign dimension from the earth looking into the sovereign dimension number three seeing with the eye of faith seeing something that is not as though it already is that seeing with the eye of faith number four seeing in visions and in dreams how god can transmit messages to you through visions and dreams we see this in the life of joseph and daniel and so many others god spoke to joseph the foster father of jesus in a dream to get jesus out of bethlehem because of herod's uh uh attack on on baby boys and then four years later god visits joseph again in a dream and says herod is dead the child is now safe and so god will transmit messages in visions and dreams you'll see this when we deal with the subject in visions and dreams and then seeing the glory of god the glory of god is all over the whole earth is full of his glory but we have to learn how to see it and recognize it and and how it works in your life and uh number six seeing blessing seeing blessing a lot of times we translate blessing into material things but they are times when tragedy actually becomes blessing seeing blessing and then number seven seeing adversity and and sometimes the scripture says uh that god allowed the children of israel to experience war because as slaves they had not seen war and so god allowed them to see war from a distance because if they had become engaged in a war they may have want to go back to egypt where there was no war where there was provision under slave conditions and so the first war they fought was in exodus 17 against the amalekites and it was in that battle that god showed them that the battle is not yours it's mine where moses was on top of the rock on the hill sitting on a rock with his brother-in-law her and his brother aaron holding up his hands and joshua in the valley fighting the battle and that small battle that little battle was was getting them ready for the big battles against giants uh in anarch the philistines the parasites the hivites the hittites and so on to possess the land and so seeing adversity and seeing war is a good thing even though it's not pleasant it's a good thing because it's showing you that through this battle they are definitely spoils of war and and uh advantages and benefits that come from it and then the last one number eight is the tragedy of being blind not being able to see and there are several cases we'll deal with in terms of blindness so let's talk about god seeing what god sees i want to use as an anchor scripture genesis chapter 18 verse 17. and what happens in chapter number 18 of the book of genesis uh abraham is sitting the bible says at the dwarvis tent and he sees out of the mirage of the desert three figures coming out and it's god as uh elohim and it's gabriel and michael his two trusted archangels and abraham sister sarah go very quickly and prepare a meal and so they have what they call the fettered cough which is a cough that's prepared for special guests they churn butter bring fresh milk and god doesn't say a word the angels don't say a word god and the angels have a human meal and they are times when gods and angelic beings want human moments that's why we worship that's why we give god what we give it is our reasonable service we offer the sacrifice of praise we we supply god's need which is he wants to be told uh that he is loved by his his uh creation and that we appreciate we offer him thanks the bible says in psalm 92 and 1 it's a good thing to give thanks to the lord enter into his gates with thanksgiving and so god wants to be thanked for small and great things and so god eventually then speaks to abraham and the conversation begins with uh where is sarah and uh the question was not a geographical question it was you know at what level is her faith because without faith it is impossible to please god abraham already had proven to god that he was a man of faith and lived by faith and had communicated to god in faith and you have to remember that this story here where god speaks to abraham this is the first time that god has spoken to abraham in 13 years because when we read the bible we go from chapter to chapter and because we're reading it in literal minutes it's like it's literally just happened but the last time that god had spoken to abraham was 13 years before and so can you imagine this old man is sitting now for 13 years every day longing for god's voice longing for god to appear and suddenly on this day imagine if that was the day he had missed sitting at the tent door who would have missed an opportunity of a lifetime and so you have to keep on looking you have to keep on sitting at your tent door keep on seeking keep on waiting keep on expecting your your prayers and the miracle and the breakthrough that you have been hoping for don't be discouraged stella that it's not coming in your life don't be discouraged mac that it's not manifesting in your life keep like abraham sitting in the tent door for 13 years imagine 13 years 13 years from now i'm probably going to be 78 or 79. do i have the patience the fortitude uh to wait 13 years to get a message from god to hear from god it's stunning but but in that message god says where is sarah and then he says uh sarah is going to have a baby and sarah laughed and god said to sarah why are you laughing and sarah said i did not love and god said but yes you did laugh and god says i will return again at the time of life and you will have a son and so fast forward sarah does have a son god bless sarah and she named her son isaac which means laughter uh because she has an old lady who suddenly in her old age has a child and it's something to uh giggle and laugh about but but in that scenario of conversation after they have the meal uh the god and the angels start moving and and the reason god was come down to earth was not just to bring a personal message to abraham uh usually god would use an angel to send a message but the scripture says that god had come to see for himself in physical being the the the record of sin that was recorded in sodom and gomorrah the bible says that the sins were so horrendous uh in my own words that god couldn't believe that people could actually do such evil things he god had to come and see it for himself and so in a theophany he comes down to see on his way he stops at abraham's house has this meal then in verse 17 and the lord said in self-conversation shall i hide from abraham the thing which i do seeing that abraham shall be surely become a great nation and all nations in the earth shall be blessed in him for i know he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the lord and do justice and judgment that the lord may bring upon abram that which he has spoken unto him now verse 20 and the lord said because of the cry of sodom and gomorrah is so great and because their sin is very grievous i will go down now and see for myself whether this is true or not under private which is come and if not i will know it for myself and so as the angels went ahead god then speaks to abraham and tells him that if the report that sodom and gomorrah is as wicked as i've been hearing from my earthly emissaries reporting in the heavens then sodom and gomorrah will be destroyed and and abraham says to god will you destroy the righteous with the wicked and god says if there's so many i won't and so on and so forth and so uh even though god was sitting in heaven in his omnipotent state in his omniscient state in his omnipresent state there are times when god comes down to see for himself he came to see for himself if the report was true and i'm really believing that in the next number of weeks and months that many of you are going to have a personal visitation from god to see for himself that that the injustice against your life uh has to be reversed that that the uh the attacks on your life the uh horrendous tragedies that you've experienced unreasonable tragedies that god has to reverse that because your your accounts in your life are so in the red you are in deficit there are too many liabilities against your life and god has to balance the books and so he's gonna come and and he's going to come and see for himself and we'll see some of this in job chapter number one when when god asked lucifer as as you've been going to and flowing the earth have you considered job because god had visited job on so many occasions when job was offering his oblations and his sacrifices in the mornings and the evenings they were pleasant in god's in god's sight and god built a hedge around job to protect him and so there are times when god sees and and uh god knows everything he he is constantly uh on track with everything but there are times when god in my own words takes a closer look at your situation he knows the trouble you have are going through he knows the challenge you are experiencing he understands your frustration he he understands the uh the blockade and the lockdown and and the frustrations that come with it but there are times when god comes to see for himself and he'll visit you in your praise and your worship he'll visit you in your prayer he'll visit you in your times of meditation he'll jump into your mind in the night times through visions and dreams and give you messages and give you direction and bring encouragement he'll visit you and show you your future and i really believe that god is going to do that in your life everybody say god sees god sees and we want god to see for himself to change the things in our lives uh to to make things in our lives better and if you are in the season where you have a significant blessing that god will see uh that that your blessing stays intact and your blessing is protected as he did with solomon when when god visited solomon in a dream he came down and had a conversation with solomon and said to him ask me for anything and i will do it for you ask me for anything and i will give it to you and solomon asked for wisdom and an understanding heart and that astounded god he said you didn't ask me for the life of your enemies you didn't ask me uh for wealth and and money and material things he said you've asked for wisdom and for an understanding heart he said that is granted to you but the things you didn't ask for i'm going to give them to you because god does see god sometimes will ask the obvious question not that he doesn't know he wants to see what's in your heart and he wants to see how you respond to what he sees it is important that we see things the way god sees he said to the children of israel through isaiah he said my ways are not your ways my thoughts are not your thoughts god doesn't see things the same way you do we see tragedy the way tragedy happens but god sees tragedy as possibly a way of blessing and a way of opportunity a way to open doors for you and if you read the different stories of people that have had such tragedy in their life uh i doubt and this is highly speculative i doubt that the genius of a stevie wonder would have been experienced by the human family if it had normal eyesight uh and and be able to see uh probably arguably one of the greatest musicians of all time timeless songs uh a lyricist a melodist a man that is a a contemporary prophet to human issues in in his music and in his songs uh speaking life and encouragement and his music is so timeless but the tragedy of not having physical sight became a blessing because in in the introspection of his life he has found a wow and a resource that will continually bless the world i remember in 1967 in embarque when i was just a little boy in school his song came out that was a hit week after week they used to have the top 10 hit on the hit parade and maishiri amor had come out and that song was on every saturday it was on the top 10 for weeks and weeks and months and months way way way back then and so the adversity he had if you look at the adversity of of african-american people uh through horrendous acts of slavery but the the number of gifts and the number of gifted people and the number of contributions that that people group have made to all kinds of expressions of human life that possibly would not have been so had it not been for that adversity if you look at independent africa the the liberation uh wars that were fought and the heads of state that came as a result uh to liberate the people through great adversity through much bloodshed through much tragedy and loss of life and hurts and pains that people still experience now look at the good things that have come as a result of that and the freedoms that are being enjoyed being enjoyed by people who are not directly connected to what happened in our country 40 years ago and in other countries 70 years ago the the price that people like gandhi paid for india to to liberate and set india free from british occupation and and british tyranny all of these things uh god sees but but we have to see the way god sees beyond a tragedy beyond a challenge beyond the problem beyond your handicap beyond the thing that seems to be so limiting paul put it this way he said when i'm weak i'm actually strong because that weakness is forcing me to be strong and i pray that you will see your life the way god sees it and so uh the way god sees in genesis chapter number 32 and verse 27 jacob uh was uh one of two they were twins they were not identical twins they were so different rebecca was told in genesis 29 because the children were fighting inside her and the lord said to rebecca there are two nations that are in you he said the younger one is the one that i have chosen he is the one that will carry the messianic blessing and uh it's jacob that i've loved and eso that i've rejected jacob is a type of spirit eso is a type of natural man and so uh jacob you know the story uh cons his dad and gets the blessing from his dad and esau wants to kill him and he flees and he gets to a place called laz names it bethel because of the dream he has and and in that dream god makes him a number of promises and when he wakes up he says i didn't even know that this was the house of god and he says to god i promise you that if you bless me in the way i go that when i return i will give ten percent of what i earn and he goes the way he meets rachel works seven years for rachel gets leah works another seven years gets rachel works another six years and has children by these two women and in his 20th year when joseph is born suddenly jacob comes to his senses when he sees joseph this glorious being this beautiful child out of the love of his life suddenly the blindness of who he is is lifted his eyes open and jacob begins to see himself the way god sees him and through the art of visualization jacob then takes sticks and puts them in front of the the animals that he's been looking after for 20 years and cuts a deal with his father-in-law and says uh if you agree with me that all the plain coated animals if they give birth to spotted animals that those will be mine and genetically and biologically that is not a possibility and and so uh laban realized that jacob was more of a fool than he thought but again jacob began to see what laban couldn't see uh laban could see the blessing of god on jacob's life which jacob couldn't see but then jacob was taken to a higher level of seeing seeing that god's blessing is beyond certain things and so god blesses him mightily jacob leaves and so in chapter 32 and verse 27 jacob finds himself in the wrestling match with a theophany uh it's god in angelic form and jacob wants to know what is your name and and the angel says to him uh why do you want to know my name and he says i i want to know your name because a name tells me what's coming for me a name tells me what provision is there for me a name tells me whether there's mercy or judgment and and so god says because you are wanting to know my name i'm going to change your name and so god changes his name he says in verse 28 your name shall be no more jacob but israel for as a prince you have power with god and with men and you have prevailed sisters and brothers you need to see yourself not as the way jacob saw himself but you have to see the way god sees you uh your name your act your life your being your future is not cut out the way it is yes you are a zimbabwean yes you were born in harare yes you were born to a family yes you might have been born in poverty you might have been born in areas uh that um there are so many limitations and uh a few weeks ago the sunday mail put out a piece on a young man uh that's a member of our church dr gracian who is a neurosurgeon just 35 years old but has already performed stunning surgeries that are world class a young boy that lost his parents and went to a rural school but somehow has come out of a mud a mud pool as a shining lily and has found what god has seen in him and i pray that you will see the way god sees i pray that your eyes will open to see the way god sees you to see your future the way god sees your future to see your next step the way god sees that step to see your life jacob 20 years from now to see your life joseph after being sold as a slave after prison to see your life samson in the way that god has has purposed you even though they have gouged out your eyes and you can't see physically but suddenly you see your purpose samson in the way god sees you to be the the main destroyer of the nemesis of israel which are the philistines and in one act destroy all those leaders uh to see yourself david as a giant killer and not the way saul sees himself hiding away in in limitation to see yourself jeremiah as a prophet to the world to see yourself jesus as the the lamb that takes away the sins of the world to see yourself poor as god sees you an apostle to all the nations without limitation oh i pray that the heavenly father will open your eyes to see as he sees you god let me see what you see let me see the way you see teach me to see in in manners and in dimensions you see let my eyes be opened to see not as the world sees but as you see and and cause what i see cause actions to follow so i can become what i see every false image every strange image every pseudo image that has attempted to destroy my life i stand against that now and i pray from the bottom of my heart with my mind with my energy that my eyes are opening to see the doctor the lawyer the the apostle uh the astronaut the scientist that i am i see that now i see the songs the books i i see the movies that i see the the myself transcending from this normal plane to a different plane and i thank you father for the years that many have lost being blind being led by blind people that that will be restored like bartemaeus we cast off the blind garment and we demand of heaven to cause us to see as you see and we thank you for it in the name of jesus i'm bishop tudor bismarck the pastor of new life covenant church in irari i so enjoyed presenting this message to you i pray that you will see as god sees in the name of jesus god bless you [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] you

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