Look Not & Consider Not - Pastor Omar Morris

[Music] what an honor what a privilege to sit here and stand in this stage and teach the word of god i'm not going to preach but i'm going to teach so pull out your notebooks your pens and begin to take some notes we're going on a journey in the word of god so here's the title of my messages look not and consider not look at your neighbor said look now how can you do that look at your neighbor again say look at that look on the other side say consider not we're going to dig into this word because how many know that it is extremely important for the just we are to just to live by faith we have to do it we live in an age in a generation that if you want to see victory in your life you have to learn how to walk by faith and not by sight everything that you do has to be by faith if you want to have victory right so we live in this generation with all chaos all kinds of crazy stuff going on but we need not to look at that and we don't need to consider that what we need to consider and look at is that the word of god can you say amen so the verse uh verse uh first scripture i'm going to go to is second corinthians 4 18 which is the foundation of this uh tuesday night service message here it is it says while we look not at the things which are seen this is what the bible says we look not at the things that are seen but at the things that are not seen for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal okay i want you to meditate on that now let's read it out of the amplified bible second corinthians 4 18 says for since we consider and look not at the things that are seen but the things that are unseen there are things that are visible or temporal brief or fleeting but the things that are invisible are deathless eternal and everlasting let me read that again since we consider and look not at the things that are seen but the things that are unseen and i put in there are yet not seen for the things that are visible are temporal brief sleeting fleeting or subject to change you know that everything that you see is subject to change put it this way if you can see it with your physical eyes you could change it with your mouth i said if you could see it with your physical eyes you could change it with your mouth so a lot of times we're just tripping anxious in turmoil depressed because we're looking at the things that we see right now and the bible says those things are temporal they're subject to change things are constantly changing people but one thing that never ever changes is the word of god i mean you could trust in the word of god that's not gonna change ever ever ever so i had like a little scary situation about it a little bit over a month ago i had a pain on the bottom of my foot and so i thought it was like a callus or something because i had you know sometimes you develop these calluses it was right in the middle of the foot where i used to have a callus and so i went to my wife my my nurse and then so i went to my wife and she looked at my foot and she looked at it she said man this looks pretty bad you need to go see the foot doctor i'm like okay i'll do it be obedient to your wife and so i made an appointment to go see the foot doctor so in a couple of days i want to see the foot doctor and i they had an appointment open i went to see him and he saw it and he started freaking out the foot doctor i'm like what's going on he says you have an abscess you have developed an abscess on the bottom of your foot and it's infected and he said if that infection went into your bone you might lose a toe or even your foot that's a bad report that's a terrible report and so i'm like at the at the moment that i heard that i'm like i was panicking a little bit you know i was like wow i don't you know this is scary i don't want to lose my foot or or even a toe or anything like that so then the next thing he said he said he he opened it up and it was like half a cup of pus coming out i didn't tell you this was going to be gross right it was like a half a cup of pus that was just all over the room and it was nasty then he said hey you know what you're gonna have to go to the hospital right now you have to be hospitalized today i'm like no man i'm not gonna be hospitalized i got a trip to go see my mom in north carolina in two days it's her birthday i never miss her birthday so i'm gonna go be with her i can't go to the hospital he said no no no you don't understand you have to go to the hospital today and so i went to the hospital made an appointment went that same night called pastor phil told him about it and um they put a a bag of antibiotic in my in my veins so i had to sleep over with that and then of course when on the way to the hospital i was praying you know in the spirit and everything but a scripture came out and the scripture that i just read is the scripture that came out of me and says for we look not at the things that are seen but the things that are unseen for the things that are seen are temporal and subject to change but the things that are not seen are eternal and everlasting so that's what inspired this message tonight so that scripture came out and i started saying no no no i'm not gonna focus on the foot i'm not going to focus what the doctor said i'm not going to focus on this is going to happen i'm not going to lose my foot i'm not going to lose a bone i'm not going to lose my toe or anything like that and guess what guess what i went to the hospital they put the iv with the antibiotic went to sleep the next morning a nurse came in and she was going to change the bag to another a new bag and they were going to take an mri to make sure there was no infection in the bone and all of a sudden you know all night long i knew there was not going to be infection in the bone just speaking faith speaking the word speaking the word not looking at the thing that i could see but the things that i couldn't see which is the result of believing in the word of god can you say amen so check this out at the same time at the same time that the nurse was getting ready to change the bag another doctor walks in at the same time and she's an infectious disease doctor or something like that she looked at my foot she said this foot is fine there's nothing wrong with this foot take that back away take the bag away this is not for my glory i'm telling you this words works if you if you believe it and you work it so stop looking at your circumstances right now what you're going through your problems your situations the money in the bank the situation in your in your marriage or your family don't look at that stuff what does the word say i said what does the word say look at the word what the word says is what you need to look at can you say amen so i put here a question how can you look at the things that are how can you look not at the things that are seen when they're staring you right in the face you're looking at it you're looking at the problem you're looking at the situation it's looking at you at your face now the answer i put here is you just look away say look away look away say again say look away stop focusing it's not that you're like an ostrich and you're gonna open a hole and you're gonna stick your head in the hole and i'm not gonna look at the problem pastor omar you told me not to look at it no you look away from focusing on the problem and you look on to jesus come on the author and the finisher of your faith i said you look away from the problem and you look you look you change you change your focus i said change your focus you got to change your focus change the focus from what you're looking at and begin to look at the on to jesus he is the author he started this thing and he's gonna finish this thing he's the author and the finisher of your faith so question how do you look at jesus okay look at jesus preacher said look at jesus how do you look at you you put a crucifix and you start staring at the crucifix no how do you look at jesus you look at the word jesus is the word the word became flesh the word manifested itself i said the word manifested himself jesus took on flesh and manifested himself the word that you have in your heart that you believe and you speak it out of your mouth if you stay in that focusing on that it'll manifest in your life so looking onto jesus is actually focusing on the word of god when you focus on the word of god and you stop looking at what you can see what you can see eventually is going to change it's subject subject to change it's temporal it's fleeting it's brief but you focus on the word of god it'll start changing can you say amen okay let's go to um the scripture that says look away or look unto jesus that's hebrews 12 2 hebrews 12 2 and it says looking unto jesus the author of the finish of our faith for the joy that was set before him he endures the cross so you got to see something else that produces joy instead of looking at the problem the solution is going to bring you joy so if you're sick okay stop looking at the sickness stop doing all the research online looking at everything that this sickness does and listen to other people that have it no don't focus on that focus on the word of god i said focus on the word of god stop doing research right research is subject to jesus research is subject to the word of god so don't focus on that right focus on the word of god the joy that was set before him he endured the cross so he knew he had to go through some pain he knew that he had to go through suffering he knew that things were rough but what kept him going is that he looked at the joy that was set before him what was the joy that was set before him salvation he saw each one of us save enjoy and eternal life and the benefits of the kingdom of god so he saw the joy he saw the multitude that we're going to get say what what are you looking at what is your joy what is in the future not right now not what you're looking at right now you look away from that but what is what is what is the joy that is set before you what is that thing that you know that the word is going to change and eventually you coming out of that tunnel and you're going to see some light and you'll be able to enjoy it amen that's what we need to look at because now you're going to be able to endure as you believe what the word says until the results come the manifestation of it can you say amen amplified bible says it actually says looking away it says it looking away for all that will distract us how many know we live in an era where it's distraction everywhere the news media all kinds of stuff right we're distracted by many things that's what the that the lord said said to martha but mary chose the best part she sat at the feet of jesus and listened to the word she was focused on the word martha was distracted by many things so we need to make a point that we're not going to be distracted by many things and what am i telling you well it's good to come tuesday night good job give yourself a handclap sunday great job another handclap but how many know that a baby not insulting you a baby somebody needs to feed a baby a baby cannot feed himself you begin to know that you're growing in maturity when you start feeding yourself when you when you wait a second when you're not depending on sunday and tuesday or a tweet or an encouragement from somebody else even those things are important but when you create a habit of getting into the word of god opening your bible on a daily basis begin to see what the word says and focus on what the word says and when you do that then you begin to grow and then when you become when problems come and situation comes into your life you're not going to look at that thing you're not going to focus on that thing but you're going to focus on the word that you have deposit inside of you can you say amen so the title is look not and consider not right so we got to consider not scripture so that's uh second corinthians four uh no that was the same one i wanna see the second parenthesis so we consider now the things that are seeing which others are considered like nuclear already read both of them so that's it on that but check this out i'm going to give you a story that happened in the prison when i was working in prison many years ago and this is a consider not story when i was hired in the prisons as a correctional officer i was i was saved i was a christian some of you guys heard this story before and you had to work the weekend so i could not go to church i was not free to go to church because i had to work and i didn't like that because i wanted to go to church right so i asked specifically to have the weekends off so i could go to church and worship and they told me the leadership captain or whoever told me you can't have the weekends off because you're a rookie rookies don't have the weekends off you got to work three years and after three years you could put in for it and you might get the weekends off so that was what the the answer that that was given to me so i'm like man so i want to have the weakened stuff i want to worship god i want the weekends to go party or do anything i want to worship the lord that's what i want to do and so i remember about six months later i had the boldness to ask again so i went to the captain again i said hey you know i'm putting in this petition again i wanted to have the weekends off and this time i said specifically sundays and mondays so this is my sunday and monday testimony so i ask for sundays and mondays i want to have sundays to worship mondays to do business you know go to the bank and do pay my bills or whatever and this time the captain laughed at me he says laughter said man you don't understand you are a rookie you cannot possibly get some days and mondays off and i said okay and he said matter of fact this is what got my attention he said it is impossible to get sundays and mondays off it's impossible now that's something it's impossible the word of god says all things are possible for those who believe so what i went what i did was this i went home and i talked to the lord i talked to him like you know you heard what he said lord you heard what he said he said he said it is impossible but you said all things are possible so what i did is i wrote a contract i prayed my prayer of faith believing that i received when i prayed i gave him thanks for it i received it by faith i put the date i put two lines i signed my name and i signed jesus name [Applause] and i said this is this is a contract this is this is a legal document and so god is my witness it happened just like this so i left it alone but every day say every day every day i thanked him for sundays and mondays every day it was not a day that went by that i didn't thank him for sundays and mondays thank you lord for sundays and mondays thank you lord for sundays and mondays thank you left it alone but i was thanking him every single day it was about six months later i went to visit my mom for her birthday and then i came back and there was a letter on my desk that said you have sundays and mondays this happened just that way i don't get the glory this thing works if you work it every time it works so that's a consider not i could have considered what he said and got all messed up about it i can't go to church i can't worship i can't do what i want to do but i did not consider the words he said but i considered what the word said and i got the results so that's how god wants us to live by faith and not by sight so look not number one say number one say look not or focus not at your present situation but look at the word which is unchangeable of course you got the perfect example of peter walking on water right it's perfect classic example of the bible so he's walking on water i mean he does jesus walk in the water and jesus said come if it's you lord beat me to come okay it's me come so he walks on water but then the bible says when he looked at the winds how many know you can't see the wind you see the results of the wind so it says the wind was buoyant boisterous and he started panicking looking at those things instead of looking at the jesus as long as he was looking at jesus he was walking on water when he looked away is when he began to sink when he cried out to the lord he looked back to jesus and cried out then the lord saved them as long as he looked at jesus or equal at the word you're going to be saved every time i said you will be saved every time from any situation that you're going through and it says it says but when he saw that the wind was voiceless he was afraid fear will come in when you take your eyes off the word automatically fear will enter in your life panic all kinds of stuff negative things are going to help enter into your life when you stop looking at the word of god i'm putting emphasis on this today because it's so important i'm telling you this is your life i said this is your life especially in the days that we're living in today you got to live by faith and not by sight because you could change it keeping your eyes off the word will make you stand or be afraid um let's see romans 4 19. if you could write that down romans 4 19. here's another consider not scripture this is the one i was looking for earlier romans 4 19 and it says and being not weak in faith he considered not his own body now dead talking about abraham his body was dead was his body really dead what is he talking about his butt what is his body no he wasn't dead he wasn't physically dead but he couldn't perform right couldn't have no babies so he said i'm not gonna look at that i'm not gonna consider my own body when you're sick stop considering your own body i said when you feel symptoms in your body stop considering that and consider what the word says matter of fact the bible says you need to be fully persuaded some of us are persuaded but not fully persuaded when you're fully persuaded and to in order to be fully persuaded you're gonna have to get in that word you're gonna have to study that word you're gonna have to read that word you're gonna have to meditate in the word you're gonna have to do it until you're fully persuaded say that with me say fully persuaded and when you're in that spot where you're fully persuaded then you'll start seeing results can you say amen again he said being not weak in faith he considered not his body his own body now dead when he was about a hundred years old neither the deadness of sarah's womb he staggered not at the promise of god through unbelief but was strong in faith how by giving glory to god that's how he strengthened his faith i said that's how i strengthened my faith to receive sundays and mondays giving glory to god thanking him praising him worshiping him i heard pastor david said in the meantime from the time that you're believing and the time that is going by that you don't see any results that's the mean time the mean time because that's where the enemy comes in to put doubt and unbelief in that mean time that's that period where it's in between between what you ask for what you're believing for and the results is the mean time so in the meantime this is what you do in the meantime you give glory to god you thank god you thank god because that will strengthen your faith because why would you thank him if you haven't received it yet no you're thanking him because you received it amen that's why you're thanking him if you ask me for my phone which i'm not going to give it to you but if you ask me for my phone and i do give it to you and the first thing you're going to say is thank you pastor omar but a lot of times we're asking god for stuff we're not thanking him for because we don't see it yet a lot of times we're asking god lord do this do this or lord save my cousin or i need to pay my this and or whatever and when we don't see the results we said well he probably didn't hear my prayer maybe it's because i sinned maybe he's mad at me no it's because you're not thanking him you're not thanking him because if you believed that you received when you prayed you would thank him and you would give him praise and you would give him glory and you were given worship and you will praise him and then your faith all of a sudden it says abraham was strong in faith how giving glory to god that's how he was strong in faith but he considered not his own body but he looked away and considered a promise and began to thank god until the manifestation came how many know the manifestation came because that's how he got it so you have to give glory to god so this morning when i woke up this morning it was kind of cloudy it was dark right if you guys woke up early in the morning it was kind of cloudy it was dark it looked like it was going to rain but it didn't rain but when i was on the highway i said i thought to myself because a lot of times when i'm on the highway i see the sun i say lord thank you for the sun that you caused to rise over the good and the evil but this morning i didn't see the sun but how many know the sun was up there how many know that he still caused the sun to rise over the good and the evil whether you saw the sun or you did not see the sun the sun he caused it to rise up over the good and the evil but you couldn't see it but it was there so i started thanking him for the sun that i couldn't see how many know that his son not the s-u-n but the s-o-n he caused his son to rise up over the good and the evil as well on the third day he caused his son to rise up over the good and evil so and anybody that receives them right gets the benefit or believes in him but i would just thank you i said lord thank you for this i thank him for hot water i thank him for many things when you come from a third world country or you have visited some you start thinking god be more appreciative of what we have for real you know you don't have to go to the river with a bucket or anything like that you got water coming to your house right so that's something okay so psalms 118 and 1. i'm almost done psalms 118 verse 1 it says give thanks to the lord for he is good say that with me say the lord is good he is good and his love and mercy endureth forever his mercy is forever right all the time forever and ever and ever and ever so i want you to think about what i just said tonight i want you to meditate on the word study more the word read more the word meditate on the word memorize this is certain scriptures you ought to memorize of the word of god and the way i used to do it i think oh the old school people used to do it like this people that were memorizing you had cue cards and you write scriptures on cue cards and you had it in your pocket and all of a sudden you just pull one out and meditate that now i put it on my phone i don't have to put cue cards but you memorize certain scriptures the first one that i memorized when i was born again when i was saying was second corinthians 5 17 if any man be in christ he's a new creation old things that pass away behold all things say all things have become brand new how many know that you don't see all things becoming brand new yet in your life since you were born again but the word says all things that become brand new which one we're going to believe what you're looking at right now or what the word says about you all things have become brand new if you believe it all things have become right now matter of fact we're a new creation so you're a brand new being never existed before right we're citizens of the kingdom of god and it's never existed before so right now what we're going to do if we could get the keyboard i'm going to end saying that we're going to receive offering here in just a little bit but i want you guys to get serious about reading the word studying the word meditating on the word get some scriptures in you so you could have some kind of weaponry you could have the sword of the spirit when you go through something you need to look at something else which is the word of god sometimes it's not time to open your bible then and start trying to sometimes you have you don't have time it has to come out of you that's why that scripture came out of me when i was driving he says look not look not consider not at the things that are seen i remember that when i was driving and i said okay thank you jesus i'm not going to look at my foot i'm not going to look that i'm going to lose my foot i'm not going to lose i'm not going to lose anything because the scripture said not to look at that but looking onto jesus the author and the finisher of our faith was that good for tonight [Music] you

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Published: Wed Sep 01 2021