Improving My Vision

Lakewood Church
Pastor Joel!

Improving My Vision

• The pictures I have in my mind affect my future. If my vision is limited, the my future will be limited.

Genesis 11:6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

• There was a knee surgery study where they pretended to do the surgery. Years later the subjects reported improvement; the conclusion was that since the brain EXPECTED to get better they got better.

John 5:38-40 There is nothing left in your memory of his Message because you do not take his Messenger seriously. "You have your heads in your Bibles constantly because you think you'll find eternal life there. But you miss the forest for the trees. These Scriptures are all about me! And here I am, standing right before you, and you aren't willing to receive from me the life you say you want.

• God wanted Abraham to have a picture of the promise so he could be reminded of that promise.

Genesis 15:5 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

• Life may not be fair, but God is fair! Life's plan doesn't get cancelled because of a disappointment or mistake.

Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

• Let the seeds of greatness God placed on the inside take root.

• If you can see the invisible, then God will do the impossible!

Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

• Sometimes you need to get out of your environment to enlarge your vision.

• "Frog in a Well" A frog was born in a well with his family and thought it was the best thing in the world. "We have ALL the water to ourselves. One day he crawled up to the top and saw a pond and realized what he had was just a drop in the bucket compared to what the world had to offer.

• "Rapper Interview" There was a rapper who sang violent and negative lyrics. A reporter asked him why that was so. He said, "Man I'm just rapping about life." The truth is that he was rapping about HIS life. If he had just walked 3 miles out of his neighborhood, then he would have seen a different life!

Joshua hung around Moses and went to the promised land. Elisha hung around Elijah and got a double portion. Sampson hung around compromisers and lost his blessing. Who you hang around has a lot to do with your vision.

-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm Pre