Lift Up Your Eyes

If we want to see the promises of God fulfilled in our lives, we have to learn to look beyond our circumstances. Lift up your eyes and expect the greater things God has in store!

Your faith is amazing.
Go out and tell people about this saving power of Jesus Christ.
Amen and that he can do what no one else can do. You are his light in all the world.
You see, we’re all on this journey of faith together.
And if we’re gonna experience the fullness of god’s promises, We’re going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where we are right now.
See, it’s so easy to get stuck in a problem.
It’s so easy to see what didn’t work out, what didn’t happen, the mistakes we’ve made, maybe what someone else did to us, and then we think, What’s our next step, god?
How are we gonna get out of this? It becomes difficult to see the next step sometimes.
But when we take our eyes off of the circumstances, off of the problems that are trying to weigh us down and hold us back, That’s when we can put our eyes on the promises of god, not the problems.
We can’t set our eyes on the problems. We have to set our eyes on the promises.
That’s how we’re going to rise above where we are right now.
We have to look beyond where we are and lift our eyes.
In the book of Genesis, Abraham was called by god to go on a journey of faith with him He spoke to Abraham and said, leave your father’s house.
Abraham did. The Bible says, he believed god, and it was credited unto him as righteousness He left his father’s land.
He took his family and his nephew lot, and they went on this journey.
But there was a point in his journey where lot, his nephew, and himself, had acquired so many possessions that they had to part ways.
The land could not sustain both of them. So Abraham looked at lot and said, you pick first?
Which way do you wanna go? What direction do you wanna go, lot? I’m giving you first choice.
Well, lot looked around, and he found a place that he thought would be perfect for he and his family.
The Bible calls it, it was east. It was towards the Jordan. It was lush in foliage.
It was a city that was bustling.
It was at places of opportunity, so lot chose that part of the land.
When Abraham looked the other direction, what he saw was dirt. He saw was dust.
No development, just land. And he thought to himself, wow.
What in the world have I gotten myself into?
But, see, it was at that point that god spoke to Abraham.
And he said, Abraham, lift up your eyes now. Lift up your eyes now. Look out.
As far as you can see from the north, the south, the east, and the west, He said, what you can see?
The land that you can see, I will give it to you. I will give it to you.
You see it was this point that Abraham had to lift his eyes.
I love that phrase, lift your eyes. Because this lifted eyes became the theme of Abraham’s life.
You see, god knew that Abraham could easily get his eyes on the wrong thing.
He could have easily said, why didn’t I choose first? Why did he get the best?
Now I’m just stuck in the in the dirt, in the dust, and he’s over there prospering.
Why did I make that mistake?
But see, god wanted him to lift his eyes, so he could see beyond the dust and the dirt and begin to see his destiny unfold, begin to see what god wanted to do in his life.
Do you know the name lot means Vail?
And when he separated from lot, It was as if god lifted the veil from his eyes, and he was able to see god in new ways.
You see, god wanted to reveal himself to Abraham in unseen ways.
You see, it may have looked like lot got paradise. But Abraham, he got the promise.
And you do too. You have the promises of god.
In fact, the veil has been lifted from your eyes.
It has been torn in too by the power of Christ.
And god wants to show you along this journey, things you haven’t seen before.
He wants to reveal himself in powerful ways You see, when god spoke to Abraham and told him that he was gonna be a father of many nations, said Abraham, I wanna show you this land that I’m taking you I want you to inhabit it.
I want you to possess it.
I’m gonna make your seed great, and I’m gonna bless people all over the earth. His name was Abraham.
God hadn’t changed his name yet to the father of many nations.
He was just Abraham, a man that was believing god, going on this journey of faith.
In fact, he didn’t look anything like what god was saying about him.
But god’s promises are spoken in the unseen realm. Amen.
God’s promises are spoken but not seen yet.
That’s why the bell was lifted so that Abraham could see into the supernatural realm so Abraham could get a glimpse of what god wanted to do.
He wanted to take the bell off of Abraham’s eyes so that he could see what god was doing.
You see, god’s promises are progressive. They unfold in his timing.
They may not be seen yet, but it’s only a matter of time until god gets you to where you need to be until you start looking like god says you’re gonna look.
Until you start having what god says you’re gonna have. It’s progressive. And it’s in god’s timing.
I have these beautiful lemon trees in my backyard.
I have 2 of them, and they’re full of fruit right now.
And a friend of mine we were in my backyard, and we happened to be walking by the lemon trees.
And she stopped, and she paused for a minute because they’re beautiful full of fruit.
And she said, those are the most amazing lime trees I have ever seen.
And I started the lab, and I said, those aren’t lime trees. Those are lemon trees.
She said, those are lime trees. They look like limes to me. And I said, oh, okay.
I said the fruit on those trees are still in process. They’re not finished yet.
They don’t look right now the way they’re going to look. They’re green now. Yeah.
They look like limes. But they’re gonna turn yellow in just a matter of time.
You see Hebrews 11 says, we inherit the promises of god through faith and patience.
You, just like those lemons, are in process.
You are becoming everything God wants you to be.
You may not look like you wanna look, You may not be where you wanna be, but don’t devalue your journey.
Don’t start thinking that the journey isn’t worth it. The process is what builds your strength.
The process is what develops you. The process is what makes you become what god’s called you to be.
You see, Abraham didn’t despise the process.
He proved god to be faithful and true Abraham went from test to test to test of his faith.
He went through challenges. He didn’t even have his promised child till he was a 100 years old, but he saw the character of god.
You see, someone else may look like they have paradise, but don’t forget, you have the promise.
You’re in the process, and you are becoming everything.
God wants you to be If you find yourself consumed with the problem today, you’re going through a transition in your life, you’re wondering how is this gonna work out?
It’s time. It’s time. It’s time to lift your eyes from the problem and set your eyes on the promises.
You gotta realize beyond this place, is greater heights, greater victories, greater strength, greater anointing.
It is time to shift your perspective to god’s promises.
Listen, I believe if you won’t get stuck, if you won’t settle where you are, if you’ll continue the process you will become just like Abraham, and you will see god’s faithfulness, you will see his provision, you will see his promises, and you will become everything that god intended you to be.
Amen? He’s a faithful god. He’s a faithful god. Thank you for watching this message.
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