Vision for Your Life (1 of 3) - Ps James Hensley - 24 Feb 2019

The book of Genesis records how God came to a man named Abram and challenged him to SEE. Genesis 13:14-15 The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Look around from where you are, to the north and south, to the east and west. All the land that you SEE I will give to you and your offspring forever. I want you to notice something here; God tells Abram to take a look around. And then God tells him, if you want to possess the land, you have to do more than look at it, you have to SEE it. God says: Look around and all the land you SEE … I will give to you. Abram, don’t just look at the land, you’ve got to SEE yourself in the land. You’ve got to SEE the land filled with your descendants. You’ve got to SEE the land producing a great harvest under your management. I’ll give you all the land you can SEE! And this is the great challenge for all of us…to SEE! Looking at the land, it would have been easy for Abram to assume: it was too vast to ever populate. it was too harsh to ever tame. it was too well defended to ever conquer. This is the danger of LOOKING with our natural sight. When we look at Our circumstances Our resources, or lack thereof Our own lives, with strengths and weaknesses We start making assumptions about what’s possible and putting limits on what God can do. 2 Corinthians 5:7 We live by faith, not by sight. It’s not that we DON’T look with the natural eye; but faith allows us to see beyond where the natural eye can take us. Faith and reason are not opposed. Reason takes us as far as our natural senses can take us and then faith takes us beyond what’s REASONABLE to what’s POSSIBLE in God. 1 Corinthians 2:9-16 Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes the deep things of God … Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given us by God. The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. For who has known the mind of the Lord? But we have the mind of Christ Paul is saying you can’t know the heart of God but looking with the natural eye. Further you can’t know your future by looking with the natural eye. God has prepared things for us that can’t be seen by the natural eye. They can only be discerned by the Holy Spirit - this is why Holy Spirit is so important! Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision the people perish. In other words, the difference between those perishing and those flouring in life is VISION - that is the ability to SEE! 1. Holy Spirit Helps Us to See the Invisible and to Receive the Impossible 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit.