OPTIC | Aligned Vision | Philip Anthony Mitchell

hi and welcome to the victory charts podcast we're so glad you could join us if this ministry has impacted you in any way we'd love to hear all about it please send us email at share and victory Church ATO org we pray this message will speak to your heart I guess with us this morning we don't apologize for being bound to the scriptures we do welcome you to the gathering of conquerors called victory church [Applause] I just want to go home just want to lay out in this presence I'd even want to do this [Music] [Music] [Music] we welcome you to week three ever a series Coptic [Music] the powerful vision [Music] vision this series in conjunction with the fast that we are on right now for 21 days [Music] leave with my whole heart [Music] for every one of you who takes us seriously it can be a turning point in your life I'm gonna say every week I'm an expository teach I teach through the Scriptures line by line I'm normally a one-point sermon guy there is a lot of heat in the series a lot of points a lot of notes if you were wise you write them down you take a picture of them you go back and you listen at some point time you stopped reading this pulpit like a smorgasbord it's your sermons in and out you realize that at victory you're hearing the voice of God through a yielded vessel and he's speaking to you from heaven the season of life that you are in when you take that seriously and you apply the Word of God you apply the teaching you will see the fruit thereof you will see benefit the word will not fall to the floor [Music] there are moments in our lives in our walks with God where the Lord marks us in such a way that something changes in that moment we can go back and said that was the place he spoke to me that was the time he reveals something to me and now my revelation of him has changed my walk has changed he changed the trajectory of my life at that place it was at camp it was at that altar call it was at that church it was 2003 over a toilet seat in a bathroom and was April 14 2004 in a room alone when he said you will pass their church we go back and we remember those times when God marks us in such a way we know something shifted at that point in our life at this place it was at that time our text this morning comes from man who recorded an account with Jesus had an interaction with a man and in that moment it marked him so he would never forget that moment it changed the entire trajectory of his life the Lord will do the same for you the writer is a doctor and a historian named Luke he records an incident between Jesus and a man that changed his life like I pray today the Holy Spirit will mark you and changed the whole trajectory of your life Luke recorded this incident chapter five of his gospel he wrote these words one day a day that changed everything for this man one day one day one day Jesus was standing by the lake of Gennesaret which is the Sea of Galilee people crowded around him and listening to the Word of God listening to the Word of God they were listening to the Word of God they listening with their ears they listened with their heart they listened with their spirit they listened to the Word of God and he saw him and listening to the Word of God he saw at the water's edge two votes to creates watch this and option to create an option to creates an option I'm just going to bless you in a few moments to creates an option it creates a choice they were left there by fishermen who were washing their nets and he got into the boat the one belonging to Simon whose name is Peter so he chose to sit down in Peters boat [Music] he asked him to put out to shore then he sat down and he taught the people from the boat and when he had finished speaking he said to Simon he said Simon put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch and Simon answered master we've worked hard all night and we haven't caught anything Lord I hear what you're saying I don't feel like doing that I hear what you're saying Jesus but I don't feel like doing that I feel the conviction of the Spirit but I don't feel like doing that I know God you're calling me to do that but I don't feel like doing that I hear you Lord but I don't feel like doing I feel like making that sacrifice I don't feel like making that change I don't feel like putting that down I don't feel like staying still when I want to leave so bad and Simon Says but because you say so Lord I don't feel like doing it but because you say so I will let down the nets and when they had done so they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break so they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them because blessings should leak into the lives of other people and they came and they feel both their boats so full that they began to sink and when Simon Peter saw this he fell at the knees of Jesus he fell down on his knees before Jesus and he did what any person should do when they get a revelation of who Jesus is not respond with arrogance but with humility and with repentance and he said go away from me Lord for I am a sinful man for he and all his companions was astonished at the catch of fish they had taken so was James and John and the sons of Zebedee Simon's his partners then I'm so thankful that Jesus doesn't leave us alone in our nonsense I'm so thankful even when I'm tripping the Lord don't just leave me alone I'm so thankful he works through even my stupidity and my humility I thought I had 50 people that would be thankful for that then he will work through even my stupidity and my humility to say watch I know you don't deserve me but I still want you I've seen all of your past Peter you don't deserve me but I still want you I know the mess you made but the past life you've had but I still want you I know about all your mistakes and your failures and the things you're shedding tears about of your regrets but I still you go away from me Lord no no no no I will not go away Jesus said it don't be afraid from now on you will catch men and Matthews recording of this incident said from now on I will make you a Fisher of men and here's the tough part for us American Christians and so they pulled their boats to shore they left everything they left everything you can't have two gods on your heart they left everything [Music] and they follow him week one I preached a message without vision and talk to you about the dangers of a visionless life week two I taught you what vision was I preached a message called cloudy vision a second touch talked to you about the power of clarity which is the underpinning of true vision this message the most difficult one in the series yet it is necessary I want to talk to you about the one that will cause us the most heartache but the most blessing at the same time when the titleist talk what we need in this hour aligned fish reckless abandon aligned fish reckless abandon spirit of the Living God speak to your people save some of us today again from pathways that are leading to destruction and futility rescue us where we cannot see help us you mighty name I pray amen aligned vision reckless abandon I want to start this message with an ancient Roman proverb that says this a coward dies a thousand deaths but a brave man dies only once a coward dies a thousand deaths but a brave man dies only once the Roman Empire used this proverb to train their soldiers to operate without fear or to not allow fear to stop them from fulfilling their vows to the Roman Empire they use this proverb to train men that if you took a vow to the Roman Empire you would finish your course you will finish a race you would serve the Roman Empire even if it meant giving your life for the Empire of Rome it was meant to keep men from going left and right and to and fro it was meant to say that if I keep stopping and starting stopping and starting I'm faithful not faithful and faithful not faithful then every time they did that that was like dying over and over and over and over again but they wanted to train their soldiers to only die one time that is they make a commitment and that my death will be for the glory of Rome I would have not looked back from whence I came it is with this type of proverb men that vision speaks the godly vision that has least anchored my life and God's trying to anchor the life of many people to say once we've made a commitment to Jesus we will not keep dying over and over and over again but that we will get to the point where we will have only one more death and that will be the death before I open my eyes and see his face because one of the greatest problems we have in the American Christian today is that so many believers are just schizophrenic man we faithful one season we're not faithful we faithful we not faithful we with Jesus we not with Jesus I'm on fire I'm not fire God's lady not God's lady proverbs 31 ratchet woman Oh back and forth back and forth but my prayer for you is that after today in this season you will be the kind of person that you will only die one more death and there'll be a death that comes from your faithfulness when you say listen I'm following the Lord and I'm not looking back and I will have no more deaths than the one I die before I see his face the type of vision that keeps you moving forward not left not right not backwards but forward until you see a master's face the scripture says in Proverbs 29:18 without vision people perish their loss they die without vision people cast off restraint without that revelation God calls you and I to live a life with vision in which we see life through his lens vision is a key to perseverance it gives you strength to keep going it is a catalyst to growth and personal development it is a catalyst to change and transformation when I have vision to move forward it is the secret source of those who have a habitual habit of finishing the things that they started or at least coming close to them become finishers our people with vision not like us who keep starting things and can never finish in the last couple of weeks I define for you what vision was and I want to add to that but I explain to you how vision operates so I told you this is what vision is these four things and now I want to give you the four workings of vision they work for anyone who works them when you have a vision first a vision is conceived you are impregnated with a vision it is either born or it is caught so a vision is conceived it is written down it has goals the goals help to segment division into pieces and as we accomplish one go after the next and moves us closer to vision secondly vision is carried it is believe it is pursued it assumes that we have to do work to accomplish that vision thirdly vision is a commitment we commit to vision when you have a vision it requires perseverance it requires obligation it pushes us through obstacles it keeps me connected to what is in my heart and in my mind and lastly for every parent every spouse every leader every employer every business owner our vision must be conveyed it leaks it must be given to the people that we're in partnership with when it involves others we share vision we cast vision only to those who need to know it for everyone should not be privy to your vision because some people will kill your vision even before it is born and that's why the most important time to guard a vision is when it's in seed form on the inside of you that's why you gotta cook you got to protect your ears from doubters and people who say you can't you will never be able to they try to stomp out your vision before it starts so you got to be careful with vision this four steps that I gave you will bring any vision to pass whether it's small or it's big you can have a small vision like I want to lose ten pounds I want to lose ten pounds that's a vision conceived I'm gonna work really hard to change my diet now it's being carried I don't feel like going to the gym but I will go to the gym that's commitment I'm gonna tell my accountability partner to meet me in a gym that's conveying so those four steps will bring any vision from the unseen world to the seen world it brings it from conception to fruition that works for small visions I want to lose ten pounds it works for large visions ministry business books whatever it works for large visions and it works for small visions but because personal vision it's so powerful there is one great danger we must be aware of where we have vision because in this room there's no shortage of vision or mana people are trying to do stuff so because vision is so powerful there was one great danger that we must be aware of and it is this in his self-deception that leads to misguided ambitions and wrong decisions because oftentimes we can have a vision that leads us down the wrong road and we can have a vision that cause us to start giving birth to things that God didn't tell us to give birth to we could have visions and ambitions for all these things that are outside of God's will and it's very important that we remember this watch because what is the origin of all vision the origin of all vision it begins in the heart we see with the eyes of the Spirit vision begins in the heart vision begins in the heart vision begins in the heart but the scripture says there's a problem with your heart and minds I'm gonna help somebody vision begins in the heart but the scripture teaches us there is a defect in your heart and mind let's see the defect in context so God in His love for us spoke to a prophet named Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 1 says this this is what the Lord says next verse cursed is the one who trusts watch and he in man who depends on the flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the Lord so watch this curse is the person who think they could do this in their own effort without God what happens to people that think they could do stuff without God Christians now he says he will be like a bush in the wastelands he will not see prosperity when it comes he will dwell in the parched places of the desert that is you will be a wanderer believer trying to do things without God in the salt where there is no lives watch the transition in the text but blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord that is God and my faith is in you my confidence in you I know anything I'm gonna do is because of your strength and not my own his confidence is in the Lord what about that person he will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots in the streams it does not fear when he comes that is he will come but they will be confident in the Lord my vision may be shaken but I'll be confident in the Lord I love this its leaves always are green that is man they're bearing fruit he has no worries in the year of drought may go through a tough season but the vision I have in the Lord keeps me and it never fails to bear fruit listen and why does the Lord compel us to lean on him and not on ourselves because of verse 9 for the heart is deceitful above all things watch this and beyond cure who can know it so the same place where vision is born it's the same place the scripture says you have a sickness let me talk to this side the same place where vision is born it's the same place you have a sickness let me let me go over here the same place where vision is born it's the same place the scripture says you have a sickness that means vision flows from a place of a deficit in our heart all vision flows out of a place that starts with brokenness what is the deficit where vision flows from I will sin nature now we all have been marred by sin that every vision born no matter what it is it flows from a place we have a deficit all of our emotions flow from a place we have a deficit everything we feel flows from a place where we have a deficit this is why you cannot be led by your emotions this is why you cannot always be led by your feelings not just because you feel something that doesn't mean it's right and that's just because you have an emotion that doesn't mean it's right that's why wise person will always subject their emotions to God or to counsel because not just because I feel something listen feelings does not authenticate truth and so our visions all of it it flows out of a place where we have an issue and personal vision is so strong I want to do I feel called to God said it's so strong listen it could lead us down past our causes to waste years of our life going down past that God did not choose for us for example my son Malik I turned 15 a couple of months ago last month he turned 15 and he'd been bugging us for his permit and he went to drive so bad he wants his permit he wants to drive he'd been bugging us for months when I turned 15 I want my permit I want to drive when I turned 15 I want my permit we've been hearing that for like six months last week when I left our gathering I went home I went for I don't know where I went for a drive to pray and I came back I pulled up in the driveway my wife hopped in the car I love when you do that she hopped in the car to spend some time with me we listen to worship music I seen Malachi bringing in the trash can I said Malachi hop in the car I Drive around the corner to an empty parking lot I'll hop out my driver seat and said Malka happened to see he said what are we doing I said you want to drive right you want to drive right okay Drive he jumps in his seat I said you know where the brake is you know where the gas is is how you hold the wheel check your mirrors he takes off and he jerking all over the place he driving jerk he driving jerk he stop hard he goes too fast he stops in front of a fence he goes this way he stops he's all over the place for like a half an hour and then at the end of the night he says to us he said daddy I don't know a car was so powerful they mister he said Alice I don't know vehicle was so powerful and watch I said yes Malachi your vision your desire to drive so bad Plus this vehicle this thing you started and so powerful it can kill you it's so powerful yes son that this vehicle can take your life and he said oh I did not know he was just drunk on his vision [Applause] Malachi was an example of so many of us in the church we have watch a myriad of unbridled vision with just want to jump in cars and drive and we don't know their power unbridled vision that is vision is not checked vision that has no constraint it's dangerous unbridled vision can lead us astray I'm Bridal vision can cost those years of wasted time and effort I'm Bridal vision will cause us to give birth to things and do things that guide and tell us to do yeah I don't believe that God had a vision for a man the first Jew named Abraham Abraham I will make your father of many nations I'm gonna give you a son 25 years have gone by his wife got desperate Sarah she had her own vision God taken too long you have sex with my maid and let's have our own son so now how vision gives birth to something outside of God's will and now Ishmael is born the progenitor of the average race who becomes a permanent thorn in the side of Jewish people because of her unbridled vision she gave birth to something that God did not tell her - that says this day became a permanent thorn in the side of the Jewish race that is the danger of unbridled vision that sometimes we will give birth to Ishmael's I have to deal with them our entire life so thirsty so desperate so quickly move that we keep giving birth to Ishmael as God called me to do I'm supposed to do I have a vision to do but but where did you get that from and because she was so thirsty she gave birth to her Ishmael still causing problems to the Jews to this day so how do we guard our vision from causing damage to our lives I'm trying to sister you align vision with God's truth and its sovereign preferences for your life you align your vision with God's truths and its sovereign preference for life there is no vision for you outside of the truth of the word of God so we align our vision with God's truth and his sovereign preferences for your life it's like alignment in a car the purpose of an alignment for car watch I said that car would drive straight and when an alignment is right you don't even have to hold on to the wheel that tight you could just guide the car softly when the alignment is right what but when alignment is off the car pulls real hard to the right always doing that it pulls real hard to the left always doing that it cannot stay straight and so you gotta probably watch more pressure to the wheel to keep the car straight and if you only let go the wheel the car would crash we are just the same when we are aligned with God he can drive us very softly with his hand he even trusts us so much he can even take his hand off us and not talk because he don't have fear because he knows that we will keep going straight there's some people in this room you have a good relationship with God and you'll be confused as some seasons when he's not talking to you the reason is not talking to you is because he trusts you and he knows he could take your hands off because he knows I don't have to talk to you every week because I know my son and my daughter's gonna keep going straight they are aligned with my heart and we're in God knows people align his heart he don't gotta talk to them all the time cuz he knows I could just lead them like this with my finger but when we're out of line with God he has to grip us really tight he has to keep pulling us from going left I didn't tell you to do that keep pulling you from going right I didn't tell you to do that he gotta keep pulling you pulling you pulling you pulling you and some of us better be thankful he don't take his hand off that wheel I think we should pause to embrace break right here and get thanks to Jesus but even in my rebellion and my left hand my right he kept his hand on me somebody give him brace but when he kept his hand on you [Music] you know it this was me always going this always doing that always doing this and Jesus would keep his hand on me and then bring me back to the middle let's see take his hand off the wheel and I crash and what he's looking for is aligned vessels these he can talk to these he can bless these he can trust these he can give them great assignments he said man let this alive vessel right here I know they're gonna go straight let me go and deal with this son and daughter who's constantly out of alignment so for some of you when you feel like you can't hear God sometimes it's not that you're doing something wrong it's because you're doing something right and he knows that I don't have to keep communicating to you every week because I know that you are just aligned I know your little I know you're in my word I know you're listening to your pastor I know you're following the Holy Spirit I don't got to talk to you every week I'll come back to you when you really need me because I know you're gonna keep going straight [Music] and so we need alignment life can erode alignment unbridled ambition arose alignment a lack of clarity will erode alignment so how do you line your life with the vision of God because alignment is for safety and it's for blessing it's for finishing your purpose and the fulfillment of your destiny in the earth that is the purpose with alignment it's not just a control it's for your safety and it's for your blessing it is me saying God here is my life here is everything I have on my vision board whatever is alignment with the Lord God so how do we do that Luke chapter 5 Jesus is walking by the shore or to see the galilee he sees two boats and he chose which one he would sit down in and he made a choice to sit down and Simon's boat because he knew he was about to change his life that's why they're people this woman you saved you should always be thankful unto God because he chose to sit down in your boat do I have any grateful people in this room who are thankful that Jesus chose to sit down in your boat now you don't believe that the scripture says no man comes to the Father except the Lord draws him and so if we are saved we were drawn by Jesus watch he chose to sit down in your boat alaya I want her Olivia I want her Tiana I want her Larry I want him I chose to sit down in your boat so he chooses between two boats that one would never listen to me this one I know they had a wretched pass but this one would follow me so I'm gonna sit down in their boat and then he tells Peter you'll push off a little bit and he starts teaching from off the shore and then he tells Peter he says Peter I want you to go out into deep water and drop your net and now in this moment in this text we see three powerful principles for alignment that changed Peters life I know you're not going to like them but I'm gonna give it to you anyway if your life would be aligned with the plans of God for your life number one at this point you have to trust the expertise of Jesus for you you gotta trust the expertise of Jesus for you Pastor I don't understand who was Jesus talking to a fisherman what was Jesus by trained a carpenter to different industries it's been easy for Peters hey man look I'm the fisherman I work this see I've been doing this vias you a carpet to the preacher you don't know nothing about fishing you want me to go on to the deep and catch fish we don't catch fish in the deep in the Sea of Galilee we catch them close to the shores at night but it's daytime and you want me to violate what I know as a fisherman to go out in the deep in the daytime and catch fish Jesus you in a fisherman you a carpenter so there was a temptation for Peter watch to push back Lord we've been out there all night and we catching nothing I don't feel like doing this because I think I know better than you don't we do that to Jesus all the time don't we think we know better than him all the time no we think this is the one niner this is the man that I want so you're just gonna bless it this is the woman that I want you're just gonna bless it this is the business I want to start you're just gonna bless it this is the thing that I want to do you're just gonna bless it because I know better than you this is what I want to do I just need you to bless it we do that same all the time we do it in our prayers we really bring on show me your will for me we just pray god bless this thing I want you to do this for me because if we will be honest a lot of us think we know better than Jesus I know this is the one for me I know this is the job for me I know I'm supposed to be in that city I'm Norma supposed to move I know I'm supposed to do this I know I'm supposed to do that because we think that we know better than him but Peter said to Jesus I don't feel like doing this but because you said so I'll go you know what Peter did in that moment he aligned his life or what Jesus said because watch alignment is not always agreement alignment is submission you don't have to agree to align you just align whether we servants we employees we're under some passes some leaders someone watching alignment is not always agreement you don't always have to agree with a leader you just align when they're in authority Peter did not agree with Jesus he did not want to go out there he just aligned himself in that moment to go out there and what was the result of his action so much harvest he had to share the blessing with other people and so if we're gonna be on line with God we have to trust the expertise of Jesus for you that is when you the Lord giving you a red flag speak into your heart even if you don't understand even if you don't agree even if he doesn't give you an explanation which he don't always OS an explanation we're just yield to what he's saying why because he is the author and the finisher the beginning and the end he knows your tomorrow and your next year and sometime his alignment is to set you up for something you can't see now you know why alignment is purpose is important because purpose is not picked it is discovered I could just end the whole gathering right there oh so many of us trying to manufacture purpose purpose is not picked it is discovered that there some of us don't even know what we supposed to be doing because we will not align our lives with the Lord Jesus you don't choose your purpose you discover it I wanted to be an attorney I said that last week God didn't let me do that instead he called me to argue in a different courtroom thank you for the person who gave me that letter I'm still an attorney I just worked for a different boss I'm still arguing I'm just in a different courtroom I had to align my life with the Lord Jesus Christ let me remind you this for me is not glory this is not what I wanted to do with my life I didn't want anything to do with ministry I know my past I know my weaknesses I know my failures I did not think that I can lead people or preach every week this is what God told me to do and I ran away from this for almost a couple years until in Bible College I had to align my life he said you will do this and you would do nothing else at all he told me that and a service on my knees in the back of the room you're either gonna do this or you gonna do nothing on because my vision was to be an evangelist I just want to travel and preach the cross I don't want to deal with the same people every single week I can't prepare different sermons every single week I can't lead the same team every single week I want to blow in preach the cross get people save and blow out he said to me you will do this or you will do nothing at all me pastoring was an alignment because purpose is not picked it is discovered as we walk with Jesus and a line he reveals calling number two if we would align our lives you have to trust the process of Jesus for you what the detects say the text said Jesus said to Peter don't be afraid this is so powerful you will be a Fisher of men and another Texas says you will become a Fisher of men you know what become is you know what you will be is that is process you know what process is it's a cold word for word we don't like in our generation time he says I'm gonna do something with you Peter that's gonna take time but we're always in a rush we always want to start now God gave you a vision on Saturday you're trying to birth the ministry on Monday we try we don't understand process the purposes process is that you won't ruin the president when God gives it to you process changes character it prepares you for the heat of the blessing because the backside of every blessing there is work you don't see and so process prepares you for that there are young men who follow me would love to have victory and they already been saved for two years if I gave them this church it would kill them haven't go through the process and so we gotta learn process we can't just rush ahead we can't just rush gone and said man I'm ready because oftentimes we assess our readiness by all giftedness not just because you are right not just because you're gifted that'll mean you're ready yeah you could preach I don't mean you belong on a stage yes you could sing that Oh meaning you belong on a stage yes you can right I don't mean you put out the book yet and sometimes when we think we gifted or the idea is so strong we step out before it's time and when you step out before it's time that thing is so anemic and can't sustain and so in this microwave generation and in the social media when we see everybody blowing up on Instagram quick we sold thirsty to be a star quick we don't like the backside of the mountain where David was killing lions and bears while God prepared him to be the greatest King Israel has ever seen I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] said to Malachi the other day because he won't place hope I said to Malachi the other day I said son sit down I said son I said you know what happened with David when he faced Goliath right I said yeah what did he use to kill that giant he said a stone I said what did he using a stone a slingshot I said how many throat stones did he throw he said one I said to Malachi D I said David was a Jew right he said yes I say you know what tribe David came from he didn't know I said Benjamin I said you know what Benjamin was known for working slingshots I said mal kinda let me ask you how many times you think David was working that slingshot in private how many times you think he was working that slingshot in the dark how many times you think he was working that slingshot but nobody saw him nobody knew him nobody was following him body knew his name before he was a king before he was a warrior he was in the dark right in Psalms practicing that slingshot what was that process necessary so when he stood on the greatest stage of his life he will be remembered for his make and not for his miss couldn't afford to miss so God had to prepare him in private to make sure that he would always be remembered for his make and not for his miss [Applause] the process will make sure you're prepared for the vision so you'll be remembered for you make and not for you miss that's why I don't pray for God to put me on no stages I don't care of nobody now calling me to preach what God is doing he's working me right now on the backside of my mountain that's all right because when I stand on that platform I'm gonna be remembered for my make and that's what my miss I'm not in no rush Thank You Holy Spirit that's why I'm so thankful that God didn't answer some of the things I was praying for five years ago if he would have gave it to me when I was asking for it I would have ruined it because some of the things I was asking four or five years ago I had not gone through the process to perfect my character to receive it I'm a different man today than I was when I started this church and there were some things I was a believer in God for him when I started this church that if God would have gave it to me I would have ruined it because I wanted blessing with our process so we got to trust the process of Jesus for us and the last one is you gotta trust the paths and the plan of Jesus for you I know that's the route you think you should take what if he has a different route I know you want to take that way because it's easy but what if the route he wants to take you on is gonna require a greater sacrifice I know you want the road of the least resistance but what if the route he wants to take is more difficult what if you want to go up the smooth side of the mountain and he want to take you up the back side of the mountain he said to Peter gosh follow me everybody watch eye contact Peter had a lucrative fishing business that was his route to retirement and success Jesus said I got a different route for you he doesn't even tell him what he's gonna have to face on that route he just gives him a choice hold on to your vision your little thing you got going on over there you keep your vision you keep you keep a face on what you want to do or you open your hand your grip from everything you want and you just follow me into what I want to give you now you choose and in this moment Peter would have to make a decision to even keep his fishing business or align his life but the call of Jesus for him the only reason you know Peter today the only reason you know Peter today this is because the decision he made that day on the seashore Lord this is what I want to do but if it's not your we'll take the desire out of my heart Lord this is my vision for that but if it's not what you have for me take that vision away from me close that door lord I don't want anything that you don't want me to have that's how you protect your vision from killing you or from take you down paths and wasting years of your life but do you know what was the greatest act of alignment by men ever you know what is the greatest act of alignment by men to father God you know what that is it happened here where I stood in Jerusalem just say yeah and some change it going took a picture of this ancient garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives not allowed to go in because the trees the olive trees are thousands of years old they're so delicate they're not allowed to be touched this garden has a name the Garden of Gethsemane it was in that garden a man by the name of Jesus stumbled into that garden week grieved to the point that the capillaries in his brain burst and blood came out of his pores because he knew he's a matter of hours he will have to face something he did not want to face he did not want to be scourge with whips his flesh ripped off his body not want to carry I have across a bloody mess at the top of GOG Gaza he did not want nails to go through his palm and through the bone of his foot no human being wants to endure that measure of pain and for the first time in all of the ages of eternity the son did not want to do what the father wanted him to do their visions was different for just a moment and Jesus in his humanity recoiled Lord I know you have a vision for me to face this but if there's any other way we could do this besides that route please let this cup pass from me three times Lord please if there's any other way I can redeem these people if there's any other way I can do this God please let this cup pass from me please he begged the Lord when he thought about you and when he thought about me and there was no other route to rescue us from the damnation of Hell because of sin he aligned his vision with the vision of the father and dois the cross and now he sat down we think about how he aligned his life with the father for you and for me it is scripture saying what can we render unto God for all he has done for you and I but a heart totally submitted to him [Music] you will have the greatest clarity in your life you will walk into everything God has purpose for you you will do things you didn't even plan for yourself you will go places you would never imagine you will meet people you don't have no business knowing when we learn to yield and align our lives but the vision that Jesus has for our life and every time my vision is in conflict with what he has for me I'm standing on that seashore to make a decision keep my little vision see nevertheless Lord not my will [Music] your will be done everything I'm desiring Lord if is not you take it away show me what you have for me show me your vision of how to love this woman love these children sir faithlyn Lord give me your food help me to see what you I just keep aligning my life with him he did that for us [Music] how much more she would keep seeking him for what he has for us you have to be afraid he might have something different he may have something better he might have something more and what you saw for your own life and probably the greatest thing you were ever to all my brothers and sisters just follow your pastor I say law from this day forward [Music] I live for you I'll align my heart with yours my eyes with yours my life with yours even if I don't understand in that you will have clarity like you've never had before [Music] [Music] Jesus [Music] bright and Morning Star you rescuer men and women from darkness Savior Lord our God now kick give of life love of our souls he who is wives ways higher than our ways and your thoughts hide enough though we your sons and daughters turn our hearts up to you in this moment you see our lives everything we're doing God if we're heading down paths that's not for you if we're trying to do things that's not your will in love would you rob us of those desires you grant unto your children now clarity pray the scriptures over them that the eyes of their understanding would be enlightened to align our heart with your heart but you align our desires with your desire but you align our lives which our purpose is implants we want to be fruitful father gotta pray as we align as we seek you for guidance and everything that we're doing I pray one day we would all be privileged to hear those seven great words well done my good and faithful service gotta pray this over your sons and daughters I pray you would bless them as they follow a mighty name of your son our three amen [Music] [Applause] we truly hope this message resonated with you and encouraged you in Christ if this ministry has been a blessing to you please support the spread of the gospel by visiting us online and choosing the giving option that works best for you and again thanks for tuning in and we look forward to singing that's me

Channel: 2819 Church

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Keywords: vision, seeing, 2020, 20/20, power to see, power of vision, purpose

Id: Vo9AnKg5_Dc

Length: 60min 32sec (3632 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 20 2020