Victory Life KY

You See What I'm Sayin' III

Episode Summary

Revelation (spiritual seeing) is what empowers us to rise above the fears, failures, disappointments, circumstances, excuses, and become the person God created us to be. To experience some of His supernatural. Or like the apostle Paul says, “we walk in the spirit instead of the flesh.”

Episode Notes

Here’s the thing, seeing what God is saying is the only way we embrace our new lives, our spiritual lives.

Revelation (spiritual seeing) is what empowers us to rise above the fears, failures, disappointments, circumstances, excuses, and become the person God created us to be. To experience some of His supernatural.
Or like the apostle Paul says, “we walk in the spirit instead of the flesh.”

But unfortunately, to often we miss the supernatural because we’re looking for the spectacular.

And I realize the religious world, the unbelieving world, not to mention, we have a real enemy that constantly try pulling us from God’s world.

So we constantly have talks like this because at the end of the day, everything about God and His Kingdom come down to this one truth; we have to believe what the book says.

It’s the only way into His world.

Remember Paul’s instructions from 2 Corinthians, We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen.
For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Being able to see the unseen reshapes our thinking, which ultimately shapes our living. We’ve got to see things from His perspective.

John 1:12-13,NLT- To all who believed Him and accepted Him, He gave the right to become children of God. They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

I can tell you from my own battles, embracing the reality that I’m a son of God, created like Him, called to follow His lead is something my humanity is constantly unwilling to accept.

None the less, if any of His word is truth, all of it has to be truth. You talk about seeing what He’s saying, leave here today with this reality settled in your thinking, I’M CREATED LIKE HIM

1 Corinthians 15:48-49,NKJV- As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

When Jesus told us to repent for the Kingdom of heaven has come, He’s telling us to change; change our thinking, believing, our doing.

That means taking enough time with Jesus and His word that it begins shaping our expectation for God to do certain things in our lives.

And a major key in this reality is seeing ourselves like Him, as eternal people. It’s important we keep this reality out in front of us.

Think about this, Peter tells us a day with the Lord is like one thousand years. From that perspective, a year is only a couple minutes.
And that’s how Paul can tells us not to be moved by the things we see.

He understood, the more we focus on the unseen the more spiritual transformation we’re going to experience.

But here’s the deal, you ever read something God said, but file it away as one of those un-understandable’s? Because you don’t see what He’s saying.

Revelation (spiritual seeing) according to Isaiah 28, comes to every believer, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little, there a little.

And I know we get consumed with this life, the cares of this world, the desire for other things, not to mention the enemy doing everything possible to keep us distracted.

So when we find ourselves distracted, maybe rebellious, failing more times than we care to admit. We have to know that El-Roi The God who sees, sees our end from our beginning is still here, never leaving us or forsaking us.

Remember Paul’s revelation, “It’s only by the grace of God that I am what I am.”

Romans 7:18-25,NLT- And I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. I want to do what is right, but I can’t.
19, I want to do what is good, but I don’t. I don’t want to do what is wrong, but I do it anyway.
20, But if I do what I don’t want to do, I am not really the one doing wrong; it is sin living in me that does it.
21, I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong.
22, I love God’s law with all my heart.
23, But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
24, Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
25, Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So you see how it is: In my mind I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.

And this is why sometimes a simple talk like this is all we need to redirect our thinking. Our focus. To be open to a fresh approach to a little Holy Spirit inspired living.

To understand, just like Paul that it’s only by the grace of God that any of us, on any given day can stand in His presence.

Sometimes right in the middle of us giving into the same trap that gets us every time. You know the one… you start seeing what He’s saying!!

Philippians 1:6,AMP- I am convinced of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ, right up to the time of His return, developing that good work and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in you.

Since Jesus is the visible image of the invisible God, one of the first thing He addressed society about was that we would have to change our thinking and our actions.

Colossians 1:15-16,NLT- Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth.
He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the UNSEEN WORLD. Everything was created through Him and for Him.

Make no mistake, God absolutely expects us to embrace the fact that in our new lives in Christ, we've been made like Him, to function like Him.
But here’s the kicker, because of free will, when it comes to the unseen, His divine secrets, His Kingdom, God has reserved it's truths for those who seek Him.

Hebrews says, God rewards those who sincerely seek him.

Jesus himself said, "if you seek me you will find me."

We have to remember, one of the first things Jesus told His followers was that they had to change the way they think and what they do.

And not out of some religious obligation, but out of a revelation of their new life in Him.

Staying open to reality that the Kingdom of God is in every born-again believer will change our approach completely concerning His church.

Lets make sure we keep this out in front if us, the church is people, discovering, believing, embracing the reality that we belong to a different world, called to this one, for our windows of opportunity.

And one of the greatest revelations every believer needs to be aware of is the fact that whenever, wherever we show up, Gods kingdom shows up.

The company you work for is exposed to the kingdom of Heaven every day you show up.

And every believer willing to embrace the grace God has given you will be the ones He uses to demonstrate His kingdom through.

Those willing seek and follow Him are the ones He's leading right where He needs them.

Something religion will never see is the reality that Jesus is the only one that makes us worthy of our new, God created kingdom. And this is why He tells us to resist the devil.

Here’s something every believer needs to stay aware of as we take steps of faith to follow Jesus, one of the enemy’s most crippling powers is condemnation.

But according to Romans 8, there is none for those of us who re in Christ, who walk according to the Sprit.

This is why we have to be able to see what He’s saying. His word has the power to bypass intelligence and speak directly to the heart of a human.

This why Jesus told us in Matthew, "SEEK FIRST the kingdom of God and His righteousness."

Here's the thing, His kingdom is a spiritual kingdom. It exists in the spirit. So if you're going to seek it first, that's where you're going to have to do your seeking.

Think about this for a second, when Jesus told us that all our provisions would be taken care as long as we seek God's kingdom first;

If I'm understanding Jesus correctly, all our provisions will come out of our new kingdom.

I honestly don't thing we give our new lives in Christ, especially kingdom living the consideration it demands,

Primarily because of religious, church traditions.

And I'm convinced this is why Jesus told society that we must change how we think and what we do.

And I get it, all this spiritual stuff is different, weird, doesn't make sense, but God's ways, His word, is not of this world. So it's going to be different.

So until we leave this world, God still needs believers willing to demonstrate His kingdom to this world Jesus died for.

This is why we can never underestimate the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom. It literally is the power of God unto salvation.

That’s why He told His closest followers; "the ability to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven have been given to you."

Then He simply said, the kingdom of Heaven is like a seed a man sowed.
You see what I’m saying