See It Differently | Jabin Chavez | City Light Church

genesis chapter 13 verse 8. now i want i want to give you the whole chapter i can't for the sake of time so i really want you to read this chapter later because it'll give you the full scope of this moment but genesis chapter 13 verse eight so abram said to lot that's his uncle he said to lot let's not have any quarreling between you and me or between your herders and mine for we are both for we are close relatives is not the whole land before you let's part company if you go left i'll go right if you go right i'll go left so it's these two families that have a bunch of sheep and a bunch of cattle and a bunch of cows and they're taking up the land and they're not fitting on this area of land and so abraham is saying hey take your family and take your your herds wherever you want to go and wherever you go i'll go the opposite way and so abraham is showing this amazing act of faith and honor so lot does that lot goes and he chooses what what looked like in his eyes the best land that he could find which was sodom and gomorrah and that's a different story in the bible that we could read at a different time but he does that lot leaves and so the lord verse 14. so the lord said to abram after lot had parted from him and notice that the moment lot leaves god starts talking and sometimes you have to clear your space to hear from god and sometimes there's a lot to get rid of there's a there's a situation that you need to distance yourself from to allow the holy spirit to speak to you so abraham releases lot gives him the best land and now god talks to him and look what he says look around look around look around from where you are to the north the south the east and the west all the land that you see i will give to you all the land you see so he says look around all the land you see i will give to you i will make your offspring like the dust of the earth so that so that if anyone could count the dust then your offspring could be counted go walk through the length and breadth of the land i am giving you go on a trip go check it out so abram went to live near the trees of mamre at hebron where he pitched this tents then he built an altar to the lord verse 14 look around from where you are the north the south the east and the west all the land that you see i will give to you so last week we talked about see again and this week i want to talk about see it differently see it differently you got to see it differently you got to see it you got to catch this you got to see it differently father i thank you for this moment i thank you for your word and i thank you that you're going to speak to us now holy spirit have your way in this place we yield to you and we yield to your presence we yield to your word now speak to us lord that we may see it differently in jesus name and everyone said amen amen and amen so again the great helen keller last week we talked about her she was both blind and deaf and she said this there is something much worse than living with my condition there's something worse than being blind and that is living without vision proverbs 28 29 excuse me verse 18 says that where there is no vision the people perish or where there is no vision the people are unrestrained or they run around without any purpose so god says without vision you're you're gonna perish your life is never going to fulfill what i called you to fulfill now when we say vision we're not talking about eyesight we say vision this word in the hebrew language that the bible was written in here is talking about prophetic insight seeing it like god sees it seeing your life like god sees your life seeing your future how god sees your future seeing your family like god sees your family seeing your finances like god sees it not just seeing it with these eyes not just seeing it from from your eyesight but seeing it from insight seeing it from heaven's perspective seeing how god sees so paul prays this for the people of god ephesians chapter 1 verse 18. i pray that the eyes of your heart the eyes of your heart the eyes of your heart not this organ this organ doesn't have eyes but from the core of who you are the very center of who you are that you would see from the eyes of your heart that you would see this from a spiritual place and not a natural place paul says i'm praying that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened flooded with light by the holy spirit that you may know and cherish the hope to which he has called you so now he connects vision with hope because without hope you'll never have a vision and without vision you'll never have hope vision is the picture of hope watch this your vision is the is the picture of hope hope is a positive expectation of good but vision is the picture of that expectation you must have a picture in your heart of where god is taking you so that you don't just live by these two eyes but you're able to live by a vision that god has given you you see it differently because you don't see it in the natural you see it by the promise of god the word of god and the holy spirit of god somebody say amen to this preacher and so eyesight shows us what is vision shows us what could be yeah yeah yeah yeah eyesight shows us what is nothing nothing wrong with that not denying that but i'm not moved by that because vision shows me what could be now this is not vision that i just decide to have this is holy spirit inspired vision this is acts chapter 2 when god says i will pour out my spirit on you and you will dream dreams and have visions so david young he chose said it this way that the language of the holy spirit is dreams and visions that the holy spirit wants to give you a dream the holy spirit wants to give you a vision for your life the holy spirit wants to help you see your life not through what you're currently going through but where you are going to preach preacher okay i'm trying a little bit now so you can live from a vision and i and i admitted this last week man through 2020 i didn't really live from a vision i live from survival i live from we got to keep this boat called city light above water and we got to live and we got to just make it and it was a year of survival i'm not mad at that or sad about that it was just a year of survival but i want to leave surviving and i want to go to thriving i want to live from vision not just how do we stay alive i'm ready for us to walk in all that god has for us not only as a church but for your life your family your future come on say amen and so i want to help you see it differently today and for you to see it differently point number one you have to see it by faith you have to see your life by faith you have to see your your life by faith look what abraham says in verse 9. he says lot if you go left i'll go right if you go right i'll go left choose so what did lot do the bible says he looked i love this he looked we don't have time to read it but he looked and he looked down towards the valley towards sodom and gomorrah and and the bible says that he said it looked like the garden of eden well number one he didn't know what the garden of eden looked like he looked around and he found the best land in the natural and he said well i guess i guess i'll pick that brother abraham because he picked with these and he got in a lot of trouble down there by the way i said that's a different story for a different time and abraham said go for it because lot walked by sight abraham walked by faith i'm not saying that good opportunities can't come and that you shouldn't jump on a good opportunity i'm not saying that i'm just saying that lot was absolutely moved by what he saw abraham was moved by faith abraham knew that he had the advantage over lot because lot was limited by what he could see abraham was only limited by the unseen god abraham was only limited by his own faith and by his own vision so lot could only see sodom and gomorrah when god told abraham you look left right you look north south east wherever you look it's yours in other words even the land that lot is about to take is yours because you have a vision advantage you have what he doesn't have he sees it only with these eyes but i'm going to give you the ability to see it from these eyes so you have to see it by faith lot had his eyes on the best land abraham had his eyes on god lot was opportunistic abraham knew that god was bigger than one opportunity lot was thinking about right here right now abraham knew god was bigger than right here right now see you'll never have a vision for the future if you're only looking at what is right now because because this sees beyond this but these will only show you this so you will live your whole life obsessed about a moment lot went oh man this must be the opportunity of a lifetime but i've said this before with god there aren't opportunities of a lifetime there are opportunities because god's bigger than any one moment god is bigger than one moment of success and he's bigger than one moment of failure man i missed it maybe you missed it but you'll have another it because god's better bigger than an it god's bigger than a moment god's bigger than a job god's bigger than a than one season god see so so lot was taking advantage of the right here right now abraham's going yo i'm here for a life dog god god's bigger than a couple of acres you got to see it by faith so there's this cool story in second chronicles 25 there's a king who's going to go out to war and he hires an army to go out to war and when he goes out and he's about to go to war the prophet comes to the king and he says don't go to war god's not in it don't go to war god's not in it here's what the king responds with but what about the hundred talents i paid for these israelite troops well i already spent the money and the man of god replied the lord can give you much more than that the hand of god on your life is worth more than a hundred talents the blessing of god on your life is worth more than a small financial subtraction and a lot of people you have made moves and maybe you thought it was god or maybe you knew it wasn't god doesn't matter you made some moves and you found yourself in subtraction and you you can live so obsessed with a moment of deficit you go but what about the hundred talents what about what i lost what about that business deal that didn't go through what about that land that lost money what about that that business venture that didn't work out the way i thought it was gonna work out what about and you can live and shoulda woulda coulda you can live in but now oh man why didn't i buy bitcoin last year at three thousand dollars a corn man can god not give you much more than a bitcoin again oh man we should have bought a house before it went up so much god can give you much more than a house in a thriving market man we should have done that we should have spent that we shouldn't have done that we shouldn't have signed with them god can give you much more because we see it by faith so god is bigger than one mistake god is bigger than one opportunity god is bigger than one thing that you didn't do that you should have done but i know people that are obsessed with their hundred talents oh man i lost so much with that thing oh man i lost and they lived their whole life obsessed with what they lost i'm not saying that isn't real i'm not saying that doesn't hurt i'm not saying that isn't a part of your journey but you have to decide in that scripture in one little verse what's going to carry more weight what about the hundred god can give me much more i should have bought the house god can give me much more oh man i lost so much money god can give me much more oh man why didn't i say yes to that john god can give me much more man why did i mess something god can give me much more you have to decide which one you're going to live in i'm just going to live in the god can give me much more because if i live my whole life obsessed with opportunities that i miss i'll be absolutely depressed the rest of my life so i have to live with god will give me much more it didn't work out how i thought i was going to god could give me much more they took advantage of me god can give me much more miss that moment god can give me much more because i'm not obsessed with moments my eyes are on jesus and jesus can give me much more so to every person who feels lost right now to every person who had a very challenging year to every person that feels like you are currently in deficit god can give you much more but you got to see it by faith because if you're like lot you're just going to get stuck in one time but if you could ever live like abraham and you could live beyond one thing if you can learn to surrender that thing see a lot of people say if you can see it you can have it but abraham gave lot the best land so i want to submit this to christians if you can surrender it you can have it i'm asking people to surrender 2020 to god i'm asking people to surrender disappointment to god i'm asking people to surrender that that moment that you are obsessed with to god because that moment has passed and there are new opportunities in your horizon if you can trust the god of much more can i get an amen somebody i'm just telling you omg i have seen that play out in my life so many times and i could tell story after story but we don't have time but i'm just telling you this is who god is look what isaiah 61 7 says instead of your shame you will receive a double portion and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance can i tell you that's your inherit your inheritance is much more your inheritance is god's provision your inheritance is seeing it like god sees it lot again was obsessed with one past uh one little pasture of land near sodom and gomorrah but when abraham was able to surrender that god said wherever you see whatever you you can have it wow number two see the possibility am i helping anybody by the way is this all right is this all right see the possibility verse 14 look around look around from where you are right where you are god god will start with you right where you're at oh man i'm in debt god will start with you right where you are made a lot of mistakes god will start with you right where you are not where i thought i'd be by 2021. god will start right where you are look around from where you are acting like you're somewhere that you're not yet because god won't bless the projected image that you're putting up and if you can ever get honest about where you are then god can actually start a work in you look around from where you are don't don't obsess with where you are look around where you are look beyond where you are see what god could do in your life see the possibility look around from where you are look to the north look to the south look to the east look to the west all the land that i that you see i will give to you see the possibility god says abraham can you see it can you see it this is why vision matters because you have to be able to see it you have to be able to get a picture of your future so so let me let me say this mission is what should be vision is what could be you need this for your personal life i'm telling you right now so help you mission is what should be vision is what could be and vision makes the mission enjoyable okay you're gonna shout in a second i promise you i know where i'm not lost you're lost but i'm not lost vision makes the mission enjoyable watch watch mission is what should be man we should work on our marriage we should we should go to counseling man we should we should and we should try that date night thing jabin talks about we should we could have an amazing marriage man we should go try that counseling we could fall in love again do you see it the mission makes excuse me the vision makes the mission enjoyable there there are some there are some things that you just got to do and the mission is the doing but the vision is who you're becoming man i should uh man i should eat better yeah now i should go to the gym yeah i could become healthy yes yes i could get to a place of confidence man i should man i should i should watch my weight i could get a six-pack hey let's go we're talking about vision now i could you got to see what could be because the could be will fuel your should be who you're becoming will fuel your doing man i should pray i really should pray man i should i need a prayer man i should pray i could fall in love with jesus so that ninety percent of what jamin's talking about isn't just so foreign to me may i actually read my bible dude i got one it's really nice all leather and stuff i should read it i could fall in love with the scripture so that i'm not constantly living double minded one foot in the world one foot in the kingdom one foot believing god and one foot doubting if there is a god i could i could fall in love with the truth man i know i should tie i don't know how many times i have coffee with guys in like the it's all guilty right you know start talking and immediately like yeah man so i know i should you know i should hide you know like i checked before you know like i'm like i don't know i don't know man i should tithe i could become a cheerful giver man i should man i should give you know i should help the church i could become a source of blessing to my world i could start walking under the blessing of god instead of under my own just whatever i can do in my own effort i could you know man yeah i know i should no i could are you are you catching this are you catching man i should be a better parent i know i should spend more time with the kids i could lead an amazing family man we should try to have dinner together everyone we could have an amazing family dynamic god could heal our family you don't just look at what should be nothing wrong with what should be but you got to get a could be so the mission is what should be but the vision is what could be and the vision is fueling my mission the vision makes the mission enjoyable so the vision is the road map to my desired destination we could call it destiny if that's a cooler word for you if you want a destiny that's awesome do that but it's the vision that gets me there okay if you get on the 15 today and start going north you're not going to get to l.a i don't care how much you want to go to la you're not going to get to l.a it's the vision see because without vision you lose restraint you lose focus you perish i don't care how well-meaning you are if you go north on the 15 you're not getting to la la land but i want to i know but i heard downtown disney's open and i want to go eat a slice of pizza i know me too but as long as you're going north you're not going to get there and i you could have the most well planned intention you could you could be so sincere but if you're going north you're going wrong the vision keeps you accountable so you so you pop in the little thing on your on your map and it sends you where you need to go and you just have and now you're not moved by every desire that comes your way because you gotta because you got home girl i can't say her name or she'll start talking to me right now while i'm preaching but homegirl will say you gotta go south bruh and if i go north i'm going to hit tropican and it's going to say rerouting u-turn and then i'm going to hit flamingo rerouting then i'm going to hit spring mountain and then i'm going to hit sahara and on and on and on because my my vision is my road map to my destination this is why vision matters because because what god is doing in you on the journey is even more important than ever getting to your destination and i want to tell people in this room that think if i just had more money or if i was a little more talented or if i was a little better looking or if i came from a better family you are not limited by those things you're not you're not you're just not i don't care what this culture tells you you're not you're limited by vision period well if i if i was born on the right side of the tracks well if i if i could just start with with a little bit of money to get me go you are you are limited by vision you're limited by by nothing else but vision not talent not education not skill it's go get educated go for it become better skill go for it get more talent absolutely but it's vision it's the ability to see i'm just telling you it's getting quiet in this pentecostal church but i'm telling you the truth i know i'm preaching real good when it starts getting like [Laughter] you just start seeing arms fold now i'm not saying you can live as a victim to your circumstance if you want to and believe the lie that that's why you are where you are but it's not it's not why you are where you are you are where you are because of vision you're more limited by your lack of vision than any other resource the other resources may be important but they pale in comparison to vision i hope i'm helping here second corinthians chapter six second corinthians chapter six verse eleven i can't tell you how much i long for you to enter the wide open spacious life we didn't fence you in the smallness you feel comes from within you your lives aren't small but you're living them in a small way come on there's opportunity all around don't live in a small way you're not a small person but there are so many big people who have big opportunity but they live their lives in a small way because they like vision so here's what your vision does i i could do a whole talk on this but i'll just give you five minutes i'll give you two minutes five five minutes seven seven minutes ah ten okay your vision chooses your daily routine don't worry i'm going to be nice your vision chooses your priorities you want me to say mine will that help me will that help you my my vision chooses my priorities my vision chooses how i spend my time see because because you got you got the road map now so if it doesn't if it isn't taking me there i got to be brutal about cutting it out of my journey my vision dictates how i spend how i invest my money my vision dictates my attitude in life my vision chooses my diet yeah like eventually i'm gonna have to get to the point at 37 that i'm not gonna have another growth spurt i'm gonna have to get there take that scripture off is that not funny like i'm not gonna be 6'5 i'm waiting see i got a vision for it see y'all got quiets and i gotta make fun of myself to loosen you up it's gonna choose my diet my my vision is gonna choose my hobbies my vision is gonna choose my daily routine my vision is going to choose my friends you don't outgrow people because people are sacred but you do outgrow values so as my values grow and increase i may not be able to hang with you like i hung with you not because i outgrew you because you're a child of god i love you but my vision dictates my relationships oh you just think you're better than me i'm not better than you and people may say that to you you just say no i'm not we're not better i just i know where i'm going and you're going north and i'm going south and i love you but but my vision chooses my friends i don't choose my friends my vision chooses my friends my vision chooses my values okay this is my vision i want to help you because because i don't want you to go through 2021 just surviving okay i really want to help you thrive and you got to get a vision for this year lastly see it as sacred see it as sacred so you got to see it by faith you got to see it whatever point number two was it was good just got to see the possibility you gotta see it that's sacred i was like my mind was racing i was like which one is it okay you gotta you gotta see it as sacred here's what i mean so lot chooses the best land and immediately gets into trouble because he was doing it all in his own strength by his own intellect and because he had opened the door to that seat the problem with opening a door to temptation is that it it doesn't just open a door to the one thing you're tempted with it opens the door to temptation so the moment lot starts living by the natural alone he opens the door to a mess of problems that you can read about in the next chapter but because abraham lived by faith here's what he did when he got to the land verse 18 he built an altar starts worshiping what is an altar in the old testament the altar was the place of sacrifice the altar was the place of offering the altar was the place of worship the altar was the place of prayer the altar was the place where you submitted everything to god abraham the first thing he does is worship you got to get this in your heart because i know people and i've been tempted with this and this has been my temptation that as you get more successful and not just successful in any one thing or financially just you just as life in some ways can get easier you lose your altar and you replace the altar the place of sacrifice with comfort see my temptation today i'm 37 years old i love my wife i love my family i love you i love jesus my temptation is not to steal money my temptation is not to have an affair my temptation is not to leave the ministry none of those things come up in my life they just don't but my temptation is to stop building the altar like church is just going life is just going things are good life is comfortable and i can i can lose my altar and and what we have to fight for in our personal lives is to see even as the vision is coming to pass i don't lose my altar i don't lose the place that i worship god i don't lose the place so then all that god gives me all that god gives me because i've built an altar all that god has given me is on the table because i've built an altar all that god has given me is on the table everything is surrendered to god because i know people they can get successful like when they don't have a car they will take a bus to get to church and all of a sudden they get a job and they get a car and all of a sudden they're they need the weekends to rest but used to serve all day and take a bus or walk or ride a bike or uber and i'm not talking about you you're here so relax the blessing of god starts operating in your life and all of a sudden you stop building the altar never stop and i'm preaching to me because this is my temptation my temptation is not to go do something radically stupid with my life my temptation is to let comfort lead me instead of the altar lead me so even as the vision is coming to pass in my life and i feel like i'm walking in what god has for me i must be like abraham and build an altar pray give serve surrender sacrifice god it's all on god whatever you want to do in my life it's yes so i see everything that i do as sacred as worship as praise unto god and it's the altar that keeps me grounded it's the altar that keeps me humble it's the altar that keeps me prayerful it's the altar that keeps that keeps me staying as a worshiper it's the altar that keeps me not putting all my faith in all of this stuff but putting my faith in the god who gave me whatever he gave me it's the altar y'all with me and this is why you have to have an altar jabel what are you talking do i gotta go build something at home no that's why you gotta read your word that's why you gotta pray that's why you should at least a couple of times a week in your car have some worship music going in your car and you're talking to god and encountering the holy spirit that's why you got to wake up in the morning and not just go through your day but take even if it's 30 seconds you just get in your car and just for 30 seconds surrender the day to the holy spirit say okay god this is your day this is the day the lord is made and and you live from ah the keys come up you live from the altar you live from a place of surrender not a place of opportunity you're chasing the presence of the lord not chasing the next big break the altar and it's from the altar and you'll notice this about abraham because over and over and over when you read the life of abraham and i'm gonna preach on him again next week and maybe the week after that here's the deal with abraham and the lord spoke to abraham and the lord spoke to abraham and the lord spoke to amen and the lord spoke day boy i want to live that way where i am not in a fog of spiritual apathy where i'm trying to make this happen but i'm living from a god set i'm living from a word from the lord i'm living from and and listen and this is for new testament christians because romans 4 says that abraham is the father of our faith in other words he is our faith example and let me tell you what abraham did abraham built an altar abraham knew how to connect with god and from that walk with the lord god would lead him because see that's the whole thing about this vision see i'm not today's talk was not a tony robbins pep talk okay when i say vision i'm not just talking about write it down and and and create a pinterest board though do both of those things i don't know if is that the thing anymore i don't even know where i come up with this stuff i'm such a boomer what what what i what i mean is you go to the altar and you go god what are you saying to me what do you want me to do where do you want me to go what do you want me to say and that is the vision the vision is the leading of the holy spirit [Music] not just a strong will to just make things happen and and it's okay to do that when you're young but if you're living your whole life right now let me let me talk to who's under 30. can i see your hand real quick under 30. everybody okay if you're you can will the life you want when you're young to a certain extent you won't have the physical energy where my season saints come on talk to me you won't have the physical energy to just will another thing so you better get a word from god about your life so that because that because when you're in your 20s you can do this and this this this this this and you can just will it to happen because you're young and you have you know whatever that is that 20 year olds have i forgot it i don't have it anymore because at 37 turning 38 this year celebrating 15 years of marriage this summer hey pray for a financial miracle so i can celebrate this expensive anniversary i feel like feel like 15 i feel like 14 was like happy anniversary i feel like 15 i got to show up you know anyway at 37 i don't have the just the physical energy to will it i have to have a word from god and you you you do it in your 20s as well you just don't know it because you're you're you're pushing with adrenaline [Music] but you don't need to live that way you don't need to live by will jesus said man doesn't live by bread alone man doesn't live by the natural alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god in other words you can get a word from god and live from the word instead of from the bread i'm done i hope that helped you today hope that helped you i want you to get a vision

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Published: Mon Feb 15 2021