The Law of Vision

[Music] rise up in jesus name open eyes and heal the land rise up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] rise up do what he said [Music] it's time to rise we want to get right into today's message now those of you that have been following along with us we have been in a series that we are we're just calling it the laws of spiritual growth and we've already had four we're on number five today and so we wanted to continue along these lines because each one of these is actually six that we will be covering and actually we're going to cover two today and so law five is the law of vision and so we've gone through the other four like i said but we are going to be uh sharing today about the law of vision now each one of these are vital in and of themselves and these last two are probably you know i don't know if you can say the most vital i don't know if that would be a proper way of saying it but uh the law of vision and then the number six which we'll talk about in the next session are both both vitally important so let's get right into it now i will tell you that i will be doing an entire series on vision because there is so much to it but today we're going to lay some on the groundwork for it and i'll give you what you need to know to get started because uh once you understand this it'll start to clarify your vision and when i say clarify your vision what that means are the things you don't need to be actually looking at or seeing and you will start seeing the things you're supposed to see you know the bible talks very clearly about while we look at things that are invisible then these things that go on in our lives will work an eternal reward for us but if we look at only the visible the circumstances then obviously it's not working for us in that sense but it's only when we look at the invisible in other words the circumstances that are going on in our life are the visible and most people only look at that but if we can look beyond that and say okay what does the bible say what does the bible say about this circumstance and when you see the invisible realities and truth of the word of god then you're looking past the visible circumstances and when that takes place then what you're actually doing is you're bringing to pass god's vision god's will for your life now i'm going to have to clarify some of these things as we go along because vision is such a wide term that like i said we'll have to to clarify it now excuse me in proverbs chapter 29 verse 18 proverbs 29 18. now listen as usual i'm not going to surprise you with some hidden scripture somewhere you know these verses and that's probably the most dangerous thing is that people know verses of the bible but they don't do them and they don't apply them and knowing is not enough we must apply we must do what the scriptures tell us so the first one of course dealing with vision and there's a couple that anytime you're going to deal with a vision or deal with vision as a whole you're going to cover these verses because if you don't there'll be religious people out there saying well he didn't use that scripture so that's the way people are so proverbs chapter 29 verse 18 it says where there is no vision the people perish where there is no vision the people perish now a couple of things here the word vision here literally means dream or even revelation and it can mean a word from god and now i know there are some other aspects of this i know there are other translations um you know which honestly the king james where there is no vision that people perish is probably still the most accurate overall now a lot of people get this verse mixed up with another verse and they they say them interchangeably the other verse that goes along with this or is kind of uh part of it you might say is the verse that tells us that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge i see a lot of people say well you know where there's no vision my people are destroyed or for a lack of vision my peers no that's that's mixing the two verses together you have to realize where there is no vision the people perish but people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge now the lack of knowledge allows the enemy to come in and destroy your life but when you have no vision you perish let me put it this way when you have no vision you will eventually run out of gas put it that way and what that means is you will eventually just kind of fizzle out because you don't have a goal you don't have a dream you don't have a vision now again i'm gonna have to clarify the word vision because there's different kinds of vision you know uh there's a vision for your ready for your life okay just for your everyday life put it that way your your goals well i'm gonna get this job i'm gonna get that house i'm gonna do this i'm gonna have this car i'm gonna have a wife and you know 2.4 kids and all that kind of stuff um that's that can be an individual's dream or vision for their life then you have the vision that you absolutely have to have to have spiritual growth and what that means is if you don't know where you're going you're probably not going to end up where you want to be and so there has to be a vision now a lot of people especially in charismatic christian circles i mean a lot of people they just well we're just going to be led by the spirit and honestly the people that say that generally never are what they do is just float around and they never accomplish anything for god or for the kingdom god by his spirit does not want you just floating around he doesn't want you to just you know kind of just go here go there and just kind of wander around wandering around is never a sign of the spirit of god the spirit of god has a purpose he has a goal he has a plan god has a vision god's vision for man is for man to have god's spirit within him and to be conformed to the image of christ and when you grow up spiritually the end result or i could even say uh the product of spiritual maturity the result of spiritual maturity is you looking more like jesus and actually looking like jesus completely in every area of your nature character will all these areas now that's already been accomplished in your spirit when you got born again your spirit was made perfect and was made like christ however it's the outward man you know it's the soul it's the body that doesn't always line up with the spirit and so spiritual growth is simply getting born again and then uh having the spirit take its ascendancy over the soul and over the body so that the body and soul do what the spirit wants now in this i'm going to give you a couple of things uh you know like i said first off we have to remember that god has a plan he has a vision and he had a vision to begin with whenever he put adam and eve on this earth when he created the earth even before adam and eve god had a plan he knew the end from the beginning see he had a plan you can't know the end from the beginning if you don't have a plan so god had a plan and his plan was his vision and his vision was his will so we have to put all these things together and realize that vision and plan and will and goals and all these things they are all uh connected right now and these are these are vitally important because i've known too many christians that have no plan for their life no vision for their life and when i say that what i mean is they don't have god's plan and god's vision it is amazing i'm going to be talking about some things as we go along here because it's amazing how things have gotten just kind of twisted you know and and you know the the american dream has become the gospel and uh it's kind of sad in some areas now listen god wants you to prosper he wants you to be blessed he wants you to be healthy of course he does but that's not the purpose that's not the the vision in the sense that that's the goal that god has for you now he wants you to walk in the blessings of course but he's not there just to bless you and you just live life and just you know live blessed as we would say you're blessed to be a blessing we have a purpose we have a goal again god has a vision he has a plan now as i said proverbs 29 18 says where there is no vision the people perish people have to have a vision they have to have a goal they have to have a destination so they're like i said there's two aspects of spiritual growth one is just um how would you say it um well it's just the vision for your life you know how your life what is your vision for your life many people have two visions for their life they have the vision that they would love to have that's their dream and then they have the vision of what they actually see in their life and too often they go just by what they see and not by the dream or the goal that god has put now there's an another aspect to this and i should added that in the beginning is that there's different pieces of this you might say part of it is just for your life and then part of it is for your spiritual growth you have a vision for your spiritual growth if you don't have a vision a plan and a goal then you're going to wander and you're not going to grow consistently it's kind of like going to a gym and not having a scheduled workout plan you go to the gym well i'm just gonna that machine's open i'll go work on that one for a bit i'm gonna do these exercises and yeah oh look that other machines opened up so yeah i've only done a few exercises here but i'm gonna go over and get on that machine and you just bounce around from machine and you go in with no plan you don't have an idea of what you're actually going to work on if you're going to grow you're going to have to you're going to have to develop a plan and let me put this way you're gonna have to plan the work and work the plan it's just that simple so if you're gonna go to the gym you're gonna have to decide what exercises you're gonna work what parts of the body you're gonna work and you're gonna focus on those parts or at least on that exercise plan if you like i said if you just go in and just do this exercise and that exercise and you don't keep record of how many reps how many sets how much what the weights are you're not going to grow you're going you may have a little bit of toning taking place but you're not going to develop because it's just hit and miss that's how most people's spiritual lives are just hit and miss they just kind of wander through well you know i just get up and go to work i just come home i just want to relax and i sit in front of the television until i fall asleep then i get up and go get in bed and then i just start the next day all over again no just hit and miss your life is not going to progress with that and that is not god's plan god's plan is that you and his vision for you is that you progress in life that you progress in the kingdom that you progress in your spiritual growth that you grow in every area of your life and that when you leave you leave a legacy of growth so that your family and those that know you can look at your life and say this was how he developed and you become an example now uh very quickly also i wanted to mention even oral roberts if you remember he wrote a book i think it might have been his last book or very close to his last book that he wrote and it was called when you can see the invisible you can do the impossible now that is a great title when you can see the invisible you can do the impossible how do we see the invisible how can you see the invisible well first off you see the invisible by taking this book called the bible and you read the pages now see when you read these these are just words and there's no pictures there's words but the words paint a picture so as you read the word of god it should be painting a picture in you of god's will of his vision for your life and so you start to see the invisible because you take these words and you put it into your life now this is an area i hadn't talked a whole lot about but we will be especially when i do the entire series on vision and that is the area of imagination because god gave us an imagination to be used for him unfortunately most people use imagination for their own devices for their own whatever you know self um i don't know gratification if you want to call it that and so they have imagination in imagination many times even in christians will run toward fear and they let their imagination run away with them as they say and that that's many times is because they allow a fear to come in and then they allow their imagination to just embellish that seed of fear and all of a sudden now they're seeing this in their imagination no your imagination was meant so that you can see the invisible of god's word and you can picture it you know when i first started there wasn't a lot of people i could get around and you know there were some people out there doing the works of god but even the ones who were doing it you couldn't get near them because they had you know the bodyguards and had all the stuff and or they were many times just at a distance and so there was no way nobody i could actually get around and so the best i could do was start getting a hold of some old vhs videotapes of a allen jack coe william branham all these people and i just put them in and just watched them over and over and over what was i doing i was watching i was getting a vision and i was looking at this and i was allowing my imagination to put me in that place of a al and whenever he pulled someone out of a wheelchair i was pulling him out of that wheelchair i could see me doing it but see i could see the invisible and because i could see the invisible now i've done the impossible what does that mean i've actually i say pull people out of wheelchairs but hopefully you i mean we've ministered to them and they have come out of wheelchairs and they've dropped their crutches and take off running and all kinds of other things that are quote unquote impossible why because i could see the invisible when i started and i started watching this and watching it and i kept watching it until the invisible became more real than the visible that i was seeing in front of me see when i minister to a person many times i'm not seeing them as they are in in their physical being at that time i'm seeing them as the bible portrays them that the bible says they're healed and so i'm seeing them as healed now obviously i'm not looking at the physical because if i was looking at the physical then i would see what anybody else could see but instead i look at them through the filter of god's word and when i look at them to the filter of god's word i actually see them as god sees them which is healed which is whole which is without whatever the symptoms are or anything else of that situation that they're in and so as i see that then i release my faith for that and that's i'm seeing the end from the beginning see when i start ministering i'm already seeing the end result which is them free and healed and whole and i'm seeing there if they're in a wheelchair i'm seeing them up and walking and healthy see that's what i'm seeing now obviously when i say seeing it's not something you can see physically you're seeing the invisible now so it's important uh that you can see the invisible but the only way you do that is you have to train yourself and see in your spirit this comes natural in the spirit but your soul and your body your physical eyes work against you until you train them to submit themselves to your spirit and so that's the process now again we'll talk about this when we get into the series on vision but i just want to cover this today about how important the law of vision is without this law being put into place remember every law it's either being used for you or against you now uh there's another of course the other verses i want to go through a couple more real quick one is in habakkuk chapter two habakkuk chapter 2. get that back on there there we go and in habakkuk chapter 2 verse 2 it says and the lord answered me write the vision and make it plain upon tables or king james says tables the modern english version says write the vision make it plain on tablets that he who reads it may run now get that write the vision write it out so that the one that is running well and actually the king james says so that he that runs can read it and run and so you need to many times and see the world it's amazing how much you know jesus said that sometimes the children of this world are smarter wiser than the children of light and that is a shame but it is true because the children of the world has actually caught hold of this and they actually apply this they actually there's books out on writing down your goals and getting your goals in front of you and those are absolutely scriptural they are absolutely right i can't speak for every individual book of course i'm just talking about the principle of writing down the goals writing down the vision writing down what you know god wants for your life and so but the world has caught on to this you know the world has even caught on to what we what the church has called the law of confession of speaking god's word agreeing with god's word and speaking it out uh the world calls it affirmations or you know they call it you know different things along these lines but they um but it's amazing because they've caught a hold of it and yet the church is still fighting over it it is sad because if the church would ever just quit fighting each other and actually work toward advancing the kingdom and do what the bible says it is amazing it would be amazing how quickly we could advance the kingdom on this earth so in habakkuk chapter 2 verse 2 write the vision make it plain that means make it simple make it direct short don't write out a book when you write out a book you can't read it all you have to notice what it says that he who reads it may run so you write it on tablets and what that literally says is this should be big enough that as you run by you ought to be able to see it and not have to slow down to read it that means it has to be short it has to be concise and it has to be big enough and direct enough that it puts fire in you to keep running and so uh that is something that that again we'll be talking about in the series on vision but you need to write the vision down what is god's vision for your life you know again we're talking about different uh aspects of vision but god has a vision for your life and like i said that's you being conformed to the image of christ but guess what he also has a vision for your everyday life he has a vision for your life that you be blessed that you be healed that you walk in the blessings of god so that you can be a blessing to others you know there's there's stories i would love to tell you uh you know the bible says not to let the left hand know what the right hand's doing and and so there's things that i do that i don't tell people about just you know but you would be surprised at what a blessing you can be to people and to you it's no big deal but to them it's huge and it's just because you cared enough to help them and you know maybe you didn't just pull a dollar out of your pocket and say be blessed and be warmed and filled like the bible says not to do but you can actually give them something that would actually help them you know something that would put them ahead and you know i know there's a lot of controversy on that because people say well what if they buy this with that once they buy that with that well you know again like jesus what is that to you you be faithful you you're blessed will be a blessing just that simple now let's move back in here listen carefully your spiritual growth will never exceed your spiritual vision now write that down your spiritual growth will never exceed your spiritual vision in other words right now how you see yourself how you see god's uh plan in your life that's exactly where you are that's where you're walking to the degree now a lot of the problem is people see just a small degree of god's plan and that's what they walk in and they really don't see any more than that see the key is you have to expand the vision to see all that god has for you see there are people there are complete denominations that only see god's plan as far as the new birth there are people that see god's plan only as far as quote unquote the baptism of the spirit which to them only goes as far as speaking other tongues and so see these are each advances in people seeing the vision of god well what is the total vision of god jesus jesus is the total vision of god that means your life is such that whatever a person needs you're able to give it to him wherever you're at wherever you're you're whoever you're around whatever they need you can give them why because you understand what you have and you see the vision of god that you walk like jesus talk like jesus act like jesus live like jesus give like jesus feed the hungry like jesus i mean all of this see that's the vision and but some people only have a limited vision so the key is expand your vision enlarge your vision but the way to get there usually is by you have to start by writing it down and the sad part is when you write it down i probably shouldn't even tell you this right now but the sad part is when you write it down then walk away from it and come back and look at it and you will realize the limited-ness i don't even know if that's the word but the limitedness of your vision because what you wrote down if that was your vision you can come back and look at and go wow that's really uh that's not all god has for me but it's a good start so your your vision has to be broken up into goals meaning this is a step you know if you're going to go from i don't know from from dallas to like portland like we did a while back obviously we looked at the end result and said okay we're going to portland but then we had to look at which way we were going to go to get there we didn't you know head out on highway 20 and head east and end up in shreveport that wouldn't have been the right way to go we had to actually look and say what path will take us there that path you know the way that we went uh going up through wichita falls and up to uh colorado springs and then through denver and then up through cheyenne and then across uh over through montana and uh you know all the way up into a boise idaho and then across into portland oregon see all of those towns those were goals each one of those was a step along the way for the final goal which was to be in portland well that's the same way you need to do with your life you need and maybe you started with the goal of getting born again and not going to hell well okay that's you know maybe not the most noble but it's a good start right but after that you say you know maybe god has a bigger vision for me what what what this thing i was sick but you know maybe maybe god has a vision of me being healed okay so let me find out what god says about healing and then that becomes your goal and then you say you know i found out that in healing it's the holy spirit that does it and maybe one of his gifts of healing that did it so maybe i need to find out about this holy spirit and how he works and and oh look god has a baptism in the holy spirit well that's a goal that god has for me so i need to enlarge my vision to get that goal and so to attain that you might say you know uh and so you can go on beyond that and then you start realizing hey if i if god wants me saved if he wants me healed if he wants me baptized in the holy spirit and empowered to do the same works of jesus then that must mean that he wants me to do the works of jesus if he gave me the power he must want me to do it and so i have to start actually giving the power away to people that need it and that becomes a goal see see you're already doing most of you are already doing a lot of these things but you just didn't realize these were actually goals that you've accomplished toward your ultimate vision of being like jesus so hopefully you'll realize how far down the road you are you know you might start in dallas like we did but you may already be in denver as far as on your spiritual journey toward portland you may even be in boise idaho already see what i'm saying you're just making your your progress it's about progress not always being perfect if you're shooting for being perfect all the time once again you're going to fall short of the glory of god what you need to recognize is that god has put it in you and that you're moving toward it and as you move toward it you're getting better and better and better and better that's the key right is constant progress not always now you're looking at perfection and you were made perfect and the key is to get those two things to come together but you're on the path at least now you're on the path you used to you weren't even on the path so you know just be glad you're on the path amen and that you're moving that direction so listen i'm gonna have to hurry here obviously uh to get through some more of this but go with me to second kings second kings if i can get there i'm working out of a new bible so i apologize if the pages don't turn correctly in case you don't know our my office was completely moved and everything is still in tubs and everything else and my i have bibles all over my office but the bible that i was looking for this morning i could not find so i had to grab one off the shelf in here so uh in second kings chapter six yes and we're going to start in verse 15 15 i believe it was 15. yeah second kings 15. now and you know this story but i want you to see because there's some points we're going to bring up in verse 15 now again i'm reading from the modern english version it says when a servant of the man of god rose early in the morning and went out a force surrounded the city both with horses and chariots and his servants said to him alas my master what will we do and he said do not be afraid so that's what you got to do what you what do you have to do do not be afraid see when you do not be afraid you are doing something you're not being afraid and there are times when you have to actually do that on purpose right matter of fact i'm going to be teaching here very shortly on what i call the family of demons the family of demons you've got daddy demon you've got mother demon you've got baby demon and so we're going to talk about these things and we're going to talk about how they work together and so again i'm ready to jump into that too because it's something god's been showing me so anybody says here what we would do and he said do not be afraid for there are more with us than with them that's always good news we have to remember even from a spiritual viewpoint you know only one third of the angels fell and went with satan and so we still outnumber them two to one but yet christians always act as though you know we're outnumbered and surrounded and besieged and you know everybody acts like you know we're in the alamo or something and just waiting for that final assault no no no no uh end of the story is we win we win amen you have to remember that there's more for us than against us so now and he says then elisha now listen careful here's where we get to it in verse 17 17 then elisha prayed lord open his eyes and let him see now this man was seeing he looked out he saw it says right there in the early morning they went out of force surrounded the city both with horses and chairs so they were there they were physically there and this man was seeing the physical horses and chariots and these soldiers and that's why he started getting afraid because that's what he saw and then elisha says lord open his eyes well his eyes were open but not spiritually what does that mean he's oh he listen if you only see the visible you are limited and you will never get beyond that and everything is going to be fear and everything is going to be oh it's terrible it's horrible look at this and look at that and look how it's going and don't you see the circumstances well the word circumstance means to surround like a circumference it's the word so the idea of a circumstance is to make you feel like you're encapsulated like you're cut off like you're surrounded don't go by circumstances recognize you know even during world war ii uh at the uh during the battle of the bulge and i think it was bad stone where uh the guy wrote in and you know that the nazi general wrote and said surrender and the guy wrote back one word sent it back in a note guess what that word was nuts why because what that meant was we ain't surrendering and then one guy i think it was uh i can't remember the guy's name now but he was a general and he said we're we we are surrounded on all sides and we got the enemy right where we want them we can shoot in any direction and hits one see that's how christians need to think we need to realize no so what if you're besieged uh the bible says that it's not us that's besieged it's hell that's besieged and the gates of hell will not prevail against the church so it's the church supposed to be kicking in the gates of hell and not worried about well i hope our gates will hold no the gates don't need to hold that's what patton told him said i don't hear anything about you digging in or holding anything he said we're not going to hold on to anything but the enemy and he said we're going to kick him all the way now i'm not going to use the language he used but he uh said he was going to hold him by one hand and kick him uh to get him where they want him and so now and and matter of fact he even said at one point fortresses are a testimony to the stupidity of man why because any fort can be bypassed or be actually taken and so we need to realize whenever you hold up into something like that you are actually allowing the enemy to locate you no the truth is we don't have to have walls in this sense to keep us protected we are on the advance and you can't advance inside of a wall and so we we need to realize it's the enemy that's scared he's just trying to bluff you into being more scared so you won't attack him so anyway sorry let me get right back in the scripture here now but notice here he says lord open his eyes open his eyes and let him see what was he saying lord he's just seeing through these physical eyes lord let him see through the spiritual eyes let him see in the spirit realm now see this is where we need to be functioning the world sees the natural we can't be that way that's not who we are we are we are born of the spirit we are to see the spirit and whenever you see the spirit you see the vision you have the vision of god and you see his vision for your life and you see it because i can well again i don't want to go too far into that but i'm going to give you some other scriptures real quick just so you know satisfy some of the uh you know religious uh thing that's in people uh you know because i gotta throw another scripture because everything i'm saying is scripture and i hope you do realize that the the disciples didn't have this uh what they had was in them and they went and they said this is what jesus said and this is what jesus said and they didn't say well jesus said in matthew chapter 11 verse no they didn't say that can you imagine matthew saying that well jesus said in me chapter 11 really they had it in them they lived in his word and so it was part of them too many people try to make this into some magic you know spell incantation well let's pull this scripture out if we say it enough it'll come to pass no no that's not how it works that's just witchcraft and so you need to realize how the reality of this is this word is to be put in you and and it's put in your soul because your spirit already knows it and then when you put in your soul it actually changes your actions so you bring it to pass it's not going to miraculously manifest in the sense it's just gonna you start saying it and it's going to create it that's not what happens that's actually witchcraft this new age what it is is that this word in you causes you to change so that you actually walk it out that's the way it works most people just try to confess it until it comes to pass no the confessing is simply to change you so that you start believing and when you believe you act different all right so again all right we know you could take this this one message and probably break it into about five different messages so far so but i'm going to take you very quickly go with me to uh let's see we will go to matthew chapter 11. let's go there real quick and i'm just going to read that and then we'll move on matthew 11. and i want you to look and i think it's yes verse 15. i'm just throwing this out here for you for you for you to look at uh it says in verse 13 for all the prophets and the law prophesied until john and if you are willing to receive it he is elijah who is to come he who has ears to hear let him hear when i see everybody there had ears to hear but everybody didn't hear and so you can so he's not talking about the physical area he's talking about the spiritual ear you can hear things by your spiritual ear which means what you're hearing is scripture by the holy spirit that he actually brings to your remembrance because that's his job his job is not to lead you to lay hands on the sick his job is to lead you into all truth and that truth should cause you to act on that truth and then lay hands on the sick that's the process now now he says here go with me to uh matthew 13. yeah we'll go to matthew 13. real close matthew 13 and we're going to look at verse 15 there too uh no you know what we're going to go to 14. this is uh matthew 13 14 in them is fulfilled the prophecy of isaiah which says by hearing you will hear and shall not understand and seeing you will see and shall not perceive for this people's heart has grown dull their ears have become hard of hearing and look at this and they have closed their eyes they have closed their eyes now they're not walking around with their eyes closed remember jesus talked about people and he even talked about the pharisees being the blind leading the blind so he wasn't talking about the physical eyes he was starting to spiritualize right then he says let now notice and they have closed their eyes lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn be converted and i should heal them bring them home so to speak now notice he said they have closed their eyes god didn't do it he didn't even say satan did it he said they have closed their eyes why because they quit focusing on the invisible on the spiritual on the truth and started looking at circumstances looking at at ways of doing things and rituals and things like that beloved and that's exactly what the church is today for the most part it's more into rituals it's more into a party and and making certain things rather than the reality of looking at the spiritual truths that are ours that we're supposed to be walking in now uh quickly we're going to go to genesis go to metagenesis and you can either get a hold of this teaching and go back and study this out this will be a great teaching for life teams as a matter of fact in genesis and we're going to go to genesis 13. genesis chapter 13 verse 14. now this is about abram notice abram before he was abraham right and in verse let's see here yeah in verse 14 and watch this after lot had departed from him there's a sermon in that right there let me tell you the lord said to abram lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are northward and southward and eastward and westward all the land that you see i will give to you and to your descendants forever you hear that he said lift he had to get abram to look and he said i want you to look as far as you can see north south east and west as far as you can see i'm going to give that to you and to your descendants now but notice that starts by saying after lot had departed for him from him and actually the king james it says after a lot was separated from him and so you have to realize uh if you're going to fulfill your vision the vision that god has for your life if you're going to fulfill the the destiny for your life there's going to probably be some separation you're going to probably have to separate from some people because people are your biggest hindrance many times he said well i thought that was the devil well how do you think the devil works most of the time he works through people and he tries to convince you you can't do that you can't you would you wouldn't believe the stuff that people told me when i was starting out when i've just started stretching out and started trying some of the stuff that i was learning and believing man i heard from everybody close people i mean close people family members things like that oh who do you think you are you know you think you're this you think you're that what makes you think god will use you like he would smith wigglesworth or like he would john lake or anything else i heard that from everybody but you know what i closed my ears to that and i opened my ears to the word of god and because of that i saw the invisible i didn't see the visible man when i started i was messed up i was broke i was i mean it was a mess my life was a mess and but you know what in the middle of all that mess i didn't wait till i got my life straightened up i didn't wait till i got here all my ducks in a row as they say i started stepping out i started doing what i was learning and it seemed like the more i stepped out see what i was doing i was looking at the invisible and the invisible was becoming the visible more than the visible was visible now you might have to get that and sort through that but the bottom line is the the invisible became more real to me than my circumstances and guess what the circumstances began to change why because when you look at the invisible invisible you can do the impossible so don't listen when people tell you you can't do this can't do that beloved if god before you who can successfully be against you and god says that you can do all things through christ now that doesn't mean wrong things you do wrong things you're on your own doing the wrong things but if you're going to do the things of god you can do all things through christ which strengthens you so remember that now and again uh let's get further now it says in uh well even in i didn't read all of verse 14 uh in genesis there but then um yeah in genesis 14 it's it said in genesis 13 sorry verses 14 through 18. notice it said he said look and then it right after that says then abraham removed his tent in verse 18. abraham removed his tents and then this is the key to the next law here first you have to look you have to have vision you have to see where you're going and then you have to act abram didn't sit there and go well that'd be great god just bring it to me no he he actually obeyed god and got up and removed his tent he actually moved he did something there was action because faith without works is dead right and so there has to be action put to your faith now in um again one in genesis 15 it says the same thing and he he actually had abram come out and he said look up at the stars look at as many stars as you see that's what kind of father you're going to be you're going to have that many children and you're going to be a father of many nations now he said this when he had no children he was old in the physical there was no way possible maybe you don't understand how impossible it was but he got what he did was he got abram god got abram to look beyond his natural notice he had to look up he didn't say abram look at your body abram look at your wife's body notice how old they are notice they don't work anymore he didn't say that he said abram get your eyes off with this and look up and look at the stars enlarge your vision those are your kids look at them start naming those stars because those are your kids and whenever he started looking up all of a sudden he realized god can do this and when he did it says that at one point depending on how you read the verse actually it says that he did not consider his body but he actually considered the word of god and considered that god was faithful and able to produce the promise and so you have to look at that now another version you could read that it actually says he considered his body actually the king james says he considered not and so the idea is that he actually considered it he recognized it but then he said but this holds no water to me this holds no weight to me in other words yeah i know that's true i'm not ignoring the natural but i just know god is bigger so it's not just it's not that we ignore things you ignore cancer it'll kill you you don't ignore it you deal with it you look at god you look at his word and you look at these things you go no this is how it will be and you start seeing the invisible and listen if you're if you're going through something like cancer or something like that you don't talk to all the people that well do you know anybody that survived this no i don't i just know people that died from it and that's what you do well let me look it up online let me find oh yeah the the death rate of the mortality rate of this is you know 97 no you don't look that stuff up you look this up you look up because you got to decide what report you're going to believe you're going to believe the report online that you don't even know who wrote that anybody can go online and write anything it's amazing well it's on it's on the internet it must be true no no it's in this book if it's true this book is what's true and you've got to decide whose report you're going to believe and when you start believing this report then your body will change so i'm not telling you ignore it i'm saying deal with it how do you deal with it you get this word in you and this invisible becomes more true and more real to you than the visible thing that you see going on in your body and then you'll start talking to your body and go body you better line up you know you have to line up because by his stripes i'm healed and then you grit your teeth you dig in your heels and you don't believe any other report that comes along and you don't put up with anything else that's what it takes to get past this why because you're so used to looking at the natural and looking at the visible but you've got to get beyond the visual and see the invisible if you're ever going to do the impossible amen so all right now let's go quickly here uh yeah actually you know a lot of people go with me to john chapter 5 john 5 look went right to it and in verse 19. if you go back a little bit let's say go to verse 16 it says so the jews persecuted jesus and thought to kill him because he had done these things on the sabbath day that's what religion does you do a miracle on the wrong day it'll try to kill you jesus answered them my father is working still and i'm working so the jews thought even more to kill him because he not only had broken the sabbath but also said that god was his father making himself equal with god then jesus said to them truly truly i say to you the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do for whatever he does likewise the son does yeah a lot of people take it we'll see jesus only did what he saw his father do okay and they think that he saw no no he saw with the eye with the eye of faith he saw the invisible he saw what the scripture said what he was sent there to do which is to heal the brokenhearted to set the the captive free uh you know he was seeing and even here he said my father's working so i'm still working and he said he wasn't saying well i'm just waiting and as i see my father heal that blind man over there i'm gonna go heal him no that's not what he was saying and actually the word uh to see here means to envision it means to envision right or to cause to see so jesus was looking past the natural and he was looking at the spiritual and in the spiritual all he was saying was look if my dad was here if my heavenly father was here guess what he would heal that man so that's why i'm here to do it and so then he wouldn't heal the man so we need to realize don't try to make that so super spiritual that you end up doing nothing that's what most people that uh try to take that verse they twist it so that they don't have to do anything now but the point i want to make there is that god's power doesn't work for your plans unless his plans are your plans now just think about that now also in um as i said well yeah uh here's the question are you fulfilling god's plans which is his will right are you fulfilling god's vision you have to have vision you have to see where god wants you to go and so if you're not you know if you're if you're listen you have to make god's plan his will his vision your plan your will and your vision that's what jesus said he said if you're going to come follow me he said you have to lay down your life and take up my life what does that mean move to israel and wear sandals and a robe no he's saying you have to make my mission your mission you have to make you have to make my objective your objective you have to make my vision your vision and that's the problem is we have too many christians trying to instead of them trying to fulfill god's will his plan his vision they're trying to get god to fulfill their will their plan and their vision and then they wanted god to come up well god this is what i'm going to do you know bless it no no if you find out what the plan is it's already blessed and then you just walk it out and so you don't have to struggle for these things it actually gets very easy so um yeah so bottom line you know there's there's these two different plans two different types of vision uh you can have a vision for your life and we're going to talk more about this but listen you've got to see the invisible you've got to get in this book and get the words in this book to create pictures in you so that you can see you doing what this book says and when you do that when you can see the invisible you can do the impossible so again well i got to stop but we'll be back shortly but i appreciate you tuning in and as always if we can help you let us know

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Length: 47min 35sec (2855 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 12 2021