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Go out and 31 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:26,120 Speaker 2: tell people about this saving power of Jesus Christ, Amen, 32 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 2: and that he can do what no one else can do. 33 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 2: You are his light in all the world. You see, 34 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,480 Speaker 2: we're all on this journey of faith together, and if 35 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 2: we're going to experience the fullness of God's promises, we're 36 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 2: going to have to develop the ability to see beyond 37 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:46,040 Speaker 2: where we are right now. See, it's so easy to 38 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:49,120 Speaker 2: get stuck in a problem. It's so easy to see 39 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: what didn't work out, what didn't happen, the mistakes we've made, 40 00:01:54,320 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: maybe what someone else did to us, and then we think, 41 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 2: what's our next step? God, how are we to get 42 00:02:00,480 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: out of this? It becomes difficult to see the next 43 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: step sometimes. But when we take our eyes off of 44 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 2: the circumstances, off of the problems that are trying to 45 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:15,239 Speaker 2: weigh us down and hold us back, that's when we 46 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 2: can put our eyes on the promises of God, not 47 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,680 Speaker 2: the problems. We can't set our eyes on the problems. 48 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 2: We have to set our eyes on the promises. That's 49 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: how we're going to rise above where we are right now, 50 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 2: we have to look beyond where we are and lift 51 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 2: our eyes. In the Book of Genesis, Abraham was called 52 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 2: by God to go on a journey of faith with him. 53 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 2: He spoke to Abraham and said, leave your father's house. 54 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 2: Abraham did. The Bible says he believed God, and it 55 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,640 Speaker 2: was credited unto him as righteousness. He left his father's land. 56 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: He took his family and his nephew Lot, and they 57 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 2: went on this journey. But there was a point in 58 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 2: his journey. We're in law. His nephew and himself had 59 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 2: acquired so many possessions that they had to part ways. 60 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: The land could not sustain both of them. So Abraham 61 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: looked at Lot and said, you pick first. Which way 62 00:03:13,440 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 2: do you want to go? What direction do you want 63 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 2: to go? Lot, I'm giving you first choice. Well, Lot 64 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 2: looked around and he found a place that he thought 65 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,799 Speaker 2: would be perfect for he and his family. The Bible 66 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:26,720 Speaker 2: calls it was east, It was towards the Jordan. It 67 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 2: was lush in voliage. It was a city that was bustling. 68 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 2: It was places of opportunity. So Lot chose that part 69 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: of the land. When Abraham looked the other direction, what 70 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 2: he saw was dirt. He saw was dust, no development, 71 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: just land. And he thought to himself, Wow, what in 72 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 2: the world have I gotten myself into. But see, it 73 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 2: was at that point that God spoke to Abraham and 74 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,960 Speaker 2: he said, Abraham, lift up your eyes. Now, lift up 75 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 2: your eyes. Now look out as far as you can see, 76 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,000 Speaker 2: from the north, the south, the east, and the west. 77 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 2: He said, what you can see, the land that you 78 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 2: can see, I will give it to you. I will 79 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,279 Speaker 2: give it to you. You see, it was this point 80 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 2: that Abraham had to lift his eyes. I love that phrase, 81 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:32,520 Speaker 2: lift your eyes, because this lifted eyes became the theme 82 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 2: of Abraham's life. You see, God knew that Abraham could 83 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:40,400 Speaker 2: easily get his eyes on the wrong thing. He could 84 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 2: have easily said, why did not choose first? Why did 85 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 2: he get the best? Now I'm just stuck in the 86 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 2: dirt and the dust, and he's over there prospering. Why 87 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 2: did I make that mistake? But see, God wanted him 88 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: to lift his eyes so he could see beyond the 89 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 2: dust and the dirt and begin to see his destiny unfold, 90 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:03,320 Speaker 2: begin to see what God wanted to do in his life. 91 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:09,160 Speaker 2: Do you know the name Lot means veil, And when 92 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 2: he separated from Lot, it was as if God lifted 93 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: the veil from his eyes and he was able to 94 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 2: see God in new ways. You see. God wanted to 95 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: reveal himself to Abraham in unseen ways. You see. It 96 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 2: may have looked like Lot got paradise, but Abraham he 97 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 2: got the promise, and you do too. You have the 98 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 2: promises of God. In fact, the veil has been lifted 99 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 2: from your eyes. It has been torn into by the 100 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,839 Speaker 2: power of Christ. And God wants to show you along 101 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 2: this journey things you haven't seen before. He wants to 102 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 2: reveal himself in powerful ways. You see. When God spoke 103 00:05:57,680 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: to Abraham and told him that he was going to 104 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 2: be a Father of many nations, said Abraham, I want 105 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 2: to show you this land that I'm taking you. I 106 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: want you to inhabit it, i want you to possess it. 107 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: I'm gonna make your seed great, and I'm gonna bless 108 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 2: people all over the earth. His name was Abram. God 109 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 2: hadn't changed his name yet to the Father of many nations. 110 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 2: He was just Abram, a man that was believing God 111 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 2: going on this journey of faith. In fact, he didn't 112 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 2: look anything like what God was saying about him. But 113 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 2: God's promises are spoken in the unseen realm. God's promises 114 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,640 Speaker 2: are spoken but not seen yet. That's why the veil 115 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,160 Speaker 2: was lifted so that Abraham could see into the supernatural realm, 116 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 2: so Abraham could get a glimpse of what God wanted 117 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 2: to do. He wanted to take the veil off of 118 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 2: Abraham's eyes so that he could see what God was doing. 119 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,159 Speaker 2: You see, god promises are progressive. They unfold in his timing. 120 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,720 Speaker 2: They may not be seen yet, but it's only a 121 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 2: matter of time until God gets you to where you 122 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: need to be, until you start looking like God says 123 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 2: you're gonna look, until you start having what God says 124 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:23,040 Speaker 2: you're gonna have. It's progressive and it's in God's timing. 125 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 2: I have these beautiful lemon trees in my backyard. I 126 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 2: have two of them, and they're full of fruit right now. 127 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 2: And a friend of mine we were in my backyard 128 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 2: and we happened to be walking by the lemon trees, 129 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 2: and she stopped and she paused for a minute, because 130 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 2: they're beautiful, full of fruit. And she said, those are 131 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: the most amazing lime trees I have ever seen. And 132 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: I started to laugh and I said, those aren't lime trees, 133 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 2: those are lemon trees. She said those are lime trees. 134 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 2: They look like limes to me, and I said, oh okay. 135 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 2: I said, the fruit on those trees are still in process. 136 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 2: They are not finished yet. They don't look right now 137 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 2: the way they're going to look. They're green now, Yeah, 138 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 2: they look like limes, but they're gonna turn yellow in 139 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:19,559 Speaker 2: just a matter of time. You see, Hebrews eleven says, 140 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 2: we inherit the promises of God through faith and patience. You, 141 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 2: just like those lemons, are in process. You are becoming 142 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 2: everything God wants you to be. You may not look 143 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:37,560 Speaker 2: like you want to look, you may not be where 144 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 2: you want to be. But don't devalue your journey. Don't 145 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 2: start thinking that the journey isn't worth it. The process 146 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:49,599 Speaker 2: is what builds your strength. The process is what develops you. 147 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: The process is what makes you become what God's called 148 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 2: you to be. You see, Abraham didn't despise the process. 149 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:03,760 Speaker 2: He proved God to be faithful and true. Abraham went 150 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 2: from tests to test to test of his faith. He 151 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 2: went through challenges. He didn't even have his promised child 152 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 2: till he was one hundred years old. But he saw 153 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:19,920 Speaker 2: the character of God. You see, someone else may look 154 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 2: like they have paradise, but don't forget you have the promise. 155 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:28,400 Speaker 2: You're in the process, and you are becoming everything God 156 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 2: wants you to be. If you find yourself consumed with 157 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 2: a problem today, you're going through a transition in your life. 158 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,800 Speaker 2: You're wondering, how is this going to work out? It's time. 159 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: It's time. It's time to lift your eyes from the 160 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 2: problem and set your eyes on the promises. You got 161 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 2: to realize beyond this place is greater heights, greater victories, 162 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: greater strength, greater anointing. It is time to shift your 163 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,440 Speaker 2: perspective to God's promises. Listen, I believe if you won't 164 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: get stuck, if you won't settle where you are, if 165 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 2: you'll continue the process, you will become just like Abraham, 166 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 2: and you will see God's faithfulness. You will see his provision, 167 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:15,800 Speaker 2: you will see his promises, and you will become everything 168 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 2: that God intended you to be. Amen. 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