What Are You Looking At?!

While 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. - 2 Corinthians 4:18 NKJV

Enlarging Your Vision Is Raising Your Level Of Expentancy

We have to change what we SEE before we can change how we live.

Every day we have to live with an attitude that good things will happen.  When you get up in the morning you can set your thoughts like this:

"This is going to be a great day! God is guiding and directing my steps. For the steps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord and he leads me in the paths of life. His favor surrounds me, goodness and mercy follow me wherever I go.  I expect that today circumstances will change in my favor. I expect today that people will go out of their way to help me.  I expect today to not only be blessed but to be a blessing toward other people!"

Our Expectations Set the Boundaries For Our Lives!  Expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles!

You have what your faith expects. So what does your faith expect every day of your life?  You and I must look through the eyes of faith and start seeing yourself how God sees you.  And start seeing yourself according to the inheritance...you don't have to talk to God into it, he's already made provision for you.  

“According to your faith let it be to you.” - Matthew 9:29 

You can choose to focus on the things that are subject to change OR you can choose to focus on those things that are eternal, the things that are for God, His plans for your life.  What things get your most attention?  Ask yourself today:

What am I looking at?!  

DOUBLE FOR YOUR TROUBLE!

At the start of 2010, God gave a Word to Pastor Art Sepulveda..."Double For Your Trouble." This is a word for anyone that receives it! The foundation scripture for this powerful word is Isaiah 61 from The Message Bible. Read and receive it for yourself!

ISAIAH 61

The Message Bible

The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me.

He sent me to preach good news to the poor,

heal the heartbroken,

Announce freedom to all captives,

pardon all prisoners.

God sent me to announce the year of his grace—

a celebration of God's destruction of our enemies—

and to comfort all who mourn,

To care for the needs of all who mourn in Zion,

give them bouquets of roses instead of ashes,

Messages of joy instead of news of doom,

a praising heart instead of a languid spirit.

Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness"

planted by God to display his glory.

They'll rebuild the old ruins,

raise a new city out of the wreckage.

They'll start over on the ruined cities,

take the rubble left behind and make it new.

You'll hire outsiders to herd your flocks

and foreigners to work your fields,

But you'll have the title "Priests of God,"

honored as ministers of our God.

You'll feast on the bounty of nations,

you'll bask in their glory.

BECAUSE YOU GOT A DOUBLE DOSE OF TROUBLE

and more than your share of contempt,

YOUR INHERITANCE IN THE LAND WILL BE DOUBLED

and your joy go on forever.

"Because I, God, love fair dealing

and hate thievery and crime,

I'll pay your wages on time and in full,

and establish my eternal covenant with you.

Your descendants will become well-known all over.

Your children in foreign countries

Will be recognized at once

as the people I have blessed."

I will sing for joy in God,

explode in praise from deep in my soul!

He dressed me up in a suit of salvation,

he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo

and a bride a jeweled tiara.

For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers,

and as a garden cascades with blossoms,

So the Master, God, brings righteousness into full bloom

and puts praise on display before the nations.

Your Vision: The Blueprint of Your Life

YOUR VISION IS YOUR FUTURE

What is the driving force in your life?

The vision in your heart is driving you toward the future of your life!

Where there is no vision the people perish (Proverbs 29:18)

If you don't have a goal, a dream, a desire - you're going to miss out on God's best for your life.

The good news is that we can readjust, we can make some changes. You're not stuck! God wants you to have a fresh start!

YOUR VISION IS YOUR BLUEPRINT FOR LIFE

A blueprint is a large sheet of paper and on that, an architect has drawn a picture of what is going to become a reality. But first it has to be drawn, but before it is drawn, he has to envision it. The contractor will only build that which is drawn.

It's the Holy Spirit's job to paint that in your heart. We have to allow the Holy Spirit to work with us through the Word of God to paint a real positive and healthy future for our lives.

Do you have a clear blueprint for your life?

4 Foundational Truths for Developing Your Vision - The Blueprint of Your Life

1. Dare to believe in God's future for your life

(Jeremiah 29:11)

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

2. Take responsibility for your own blueprint

(1 Corinthians 3:9)

Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints;

3. Write the vision and make it plain

(Habakkuk 2:2-3)

Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.

4. Decide to sow seed toward your future

(Genesis 26:12)

Then Isaac sowed seed in that land and received in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted, and the Lord favored him with blessings.

God has a picture for your life! He wants you to do something! It's a dream for your life! A desire for your life! Your best is yet to come!

What You SEE Is What You Get

Matthew 6: 22-23: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!"

Scientists have said that the eye is like the lense of a camera. They eye doesn't think, the eye doesn't have it's own mind. The actual sight is in the mind.

The way you see things is not decided by your eyes, but by how you think! What Jesus is saying in the scripture above is that your eye is the light of your life. How do you see your life? How do you see your tomorrow? If your eye is good...if you see good...if you focus on good...if you see the positive...if you focus on the thoughts of God, the plans of God, the purposes of God, the promises of God...then your whole life will be lit up and the blessing of God will be on you!

"Light" in the Bible always makes reference to God's presence, God's power, God's blessing. So Jesus is literally your light and your life! Now if your eye is "bad" - that is you have a negative outlook, you see life cynically, you see life negatively from a wordly perspective, from an unGodly perspective, from a fleshly perspective, from an evil perspective...if that's how you focus on life...then your whole life will be full of darkness Jesus says. It's what you're going to move toward in your life.

It becomes the Light or the Dark - most people live the lives by the way that they think - not necessarily by what they want.

What You SEE Is What You Get!

"He who seeks good finds goodwill, but evil comes to him who searches for it" - Proverbs 11:27

Vision is the ability to see what is not yet! It's the God-given gift to see those things which are not as though they were!

"The greatest tragedy in life is people who have sight, but no vision." -Helen Keller

YOUR VISION IS YOUR FUTURE