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Your faith 36 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 4: is amazing. Go out and tell people about this saving 37 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 4: power of Jesus Christ, Amen, and that he can do 38 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 4: what no one else can do. You are his light 39 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,640 Speaker 4: in all the world. You see, we're all on this 40 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:11,359 Speaker 4: journey of faith together, and if we're going to experience 41 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 4: the fullness of God's promises, we're going to have to 42 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 4: develop the ability to see beyond where we are right now. See, 43 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 4: it's so easy to get stuck in a problem. It's 44 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:27,239 Speaker 4: so easy to see what didn't work out, what didn't happen, 45 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,959 Speaker 4: the mistakes we've made, maybe what someone else did to us, 46 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 4: And then we think, what's our next step? God, how 47 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 4: are we going to get out of this? It becomes 48 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,880 Speaker 4: difficult to see the next step sometimes. But when we 49 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 4: take our eyes off of the circumstances, off of the 50 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:47,720 Speaker 4: problems that are trying to weigh us down and hold 51 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 4: us back, that's when we can put our eyes on 52 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 4: the promises of God, not the problems. We can't set 53 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,360 Speaker 4: our eyes on the problems. We have to set our 54 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 4: eyes on the promises. That's how we're going to rise 55 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 4: above where we are right now. We have to look 56 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 4: beyond where we are and lift our eyes. In the 57 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 4: Book of Genesis, Abraham was called by God to go 58 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 4: on a journey of faith with him. He spoke to 59 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,240 Speaker 4: Abraham and said, leave your father's house. Abraham did. The 60 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,720 Speaker 4: Bible says he believed God, and it was credited unto 61 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: him as righteousness. He left his father's land. He took 62 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 4: his family and his nephew Lot, and they went on 63 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,639 Speaker 4: this journey. But there was a point in his journey 64 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 4: where Lot, his nephew, and himself had acquired so many 65 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 4: possessions that they had to part ways. The land could 66 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 4: not sustain both of them. So Abraham looked at Lot 67 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 4: and said, you pick first. Which way do you want 68 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:50,400 Speaker 4: to go? What direction do you want to go? Lot, 69 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 4: I'm giving you first choice. Well, Lot looked around and 70 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: he found a place that he thought would be perfect 71 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 4: for he and his family. The Bible calls it was east. 72 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 3: It was towards the Jordan. 73 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 4: It was lush in foliage. It was a city that 74 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 4: was bustling. It was places of opportunity. So Lot chose 75 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 4: that part of the land. When Abraham looked the other direction, 76 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 4: what he saw was dirt. He saw was dust, no development, 77 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,760 Speaker 4: just land. And he thought to himself, Wow, what in 78 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 4: the world have I gotten myself into. But see, it 79 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,240 Speaker 4: was at that point that God spoke to Abraham and 80 00:04:34,279 --> 00:04:38,760 Speaker 4: he said, Abraham, lift up your eyes. Now, lift up 81 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 4: your eyes. Now look out as far as you can see, 82 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,839 Speaker 4: from the north, the south, the east, and the west. 83 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 4: He said, what you can see, the land that you 84 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:53,760 Speaker 4: can see, I will give it to you. I will 85 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 4: give it to you. 86 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 5: You see. 87 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,360 Speaker 4: It was this point that Abraham had to lift his eyes. 88 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:05,280 Speaker 4: I love that phrase, lift your eyes, because this lifted 89 00:05:05,320 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 4: eyes became the theme of Abraham's life. You see, God 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 4: knew that Abraham could easily get his eyes on the 91 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 4: wrong thing. He could have easily said, why didn't I 92 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 4: choose first? Why did he get the best? Now I'm 93 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,560 Speaker 4: just stuck in the dirt and the dust, and he's 94 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 4: over there prospering. Why did I make that mistake? But see, 95 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 4: God wanted him to lift his eyes so he could 96 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 4: see beyond the dust and the dirt and begin to 97 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 4: see his destiny unfold, begin to see what God wanted 98 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:40,600 Speaker 4: to do in his life. Do you know the name 99 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 4: Lot means veil, and when he separated from Lot, it 100 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 4: was as if God lifted the veil from his eyes 101 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 4: and he was able to see God in new ways. 102 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 4: You see. God wanted to reveal himself to Abraham in 103 00:05:57,440 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 4: unseen ways. 104 00:05:59,480 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 3: You see it. 105 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 4: He may have looked like Lote got paradise, but Abraham 106 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 4: he got the promise. 107 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:09,920 Speaker 3: And you do too. 108 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: You have the promises of God. In fact, the bell 109 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 4: has been lifted from your eyes. It has been torn 110 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 4: into by the power of Christ. And God wants to 111 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 4: show you along this journey things you haven't seen before. 112 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:31,320 Speaker 4: He wants to reveal himself in powerful ways. You see 113 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 4: when God spoke to Abraham and told him that he 114 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 4: was gonna be a Father of many nations, said Abraham, 115 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 4: I want to show you this land that I'm taking you. 116 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 4: I want you to inhabit it. I want you to 117 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 4: possess it. I'm gonna make your seed great, and I'm 118 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,480 Speaker 4: gonna bless people all over the earth. His name was Abram. 119 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 4: God hadn't changed his name yet to the Father of 120 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 4: many nations. He was just Abram, a man that was 121 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 4: believing God going on this journey of faith. He didn't 122 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,840 Speaker 4: look anything like what God was saying about him. But 123 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:13,680 Speaker 4: God's promises are spoken in the unseen realm. God's promises 124 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 4: are spoken but not seen yet. That's why the veil 125 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 4: was lifted so that Abraham could see into the supernatural realm. 126 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 4: So Abraham could get a glimpse of what God wanted 127 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,640 Speaker 4: to do. He wanted to take the veil off of 128 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 4: Abraham's eyes so that he could see what God was doing. 129 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 4: You see, God's promises are progressive. They unfold in his timing. 130 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,560 Speaker 4: They may not be seen yet, but it's only a 131 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 4: matter of time until God gets you to where you 132 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 4: need to be until you start looking like God says 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 4: you're gonna look, until you start having what God says 134 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 4: you're gonna have. It's progressive and it's in God's timing. 135 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 4: I have these beautiful women trees in my backyard. I 136 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,560 Speaker 4: have two of them, and they're full of fruit right now. 137 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 4: And a friend of mine we were in my backyard 138 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 4: and we happened to be walking by the lemon trees 139 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 4: and she stopped and she paused for a minute because 140 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 4: they're beautiful, full of fruit, and she said, those are 141 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:20,320 Speaker 4: the most amazing lime trees I have ever seen. And 142 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 4: I started to laugh and I said, those aren't lime trees, 143 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 4: those are lemon trees. She said, those are lime trees. 144 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 4: They look like limes to me, and I said, oh okay. 145 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:36,840 Speaker 4: I said, the fruit on those trees are still in process. 146 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 4: They're not finished yet. They don't look right now the 147 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 4: way they're going to look. They're green now. Yeah, they 148 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 4: look like limes, but they're gonna turn yellow in just 149 00:08:49,559 --> 00:08:54,959 Speaker 4: a matter of time. You see, Hebrews eleven says we 150 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,200 Speaker 4: inherit the promises of God through faith and patience. You, 151 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 4: just like those lemons, are in process. You are becoming 152 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 4: everything God wants you to be. You may not look 153 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,400 Speaker 4: like you want to look, you may not be where 154 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 4: you want to be, but don't devalue your journey. Don't 155 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,200 Speaker 4: start thinking that the journey isn't worth it. The process 156 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 4: is what builds your strength. The process is what develops you. 157 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:28,559 Speaker 4: The process is what makes you become what God's called. 158 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 1: You to be. 159 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:35,199 Speaker 4: You see, Abraham didn't despise the process. He proved God 160 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 4: to be faithful and true. Abraham went from tests to 161 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:43,520 Speaker 4: test to test of his faith. 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