Do you see what I see??

  I am coming to realize God and His perspective is different. I started to ask him to give me a healing vision of your provision when life seems impossible. To truly believe he is a way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. I wanted him to show me how to live above the pressure of this world. It was made noticeably Clear JESUS!! How did he do it?  And I heard him whisper “Child what seems impossible to man is possible to God, so seek me!! You dig in my word on those days when everything looks dark. And then you will see promises fulfilled and hope. Many before us have sat in a waiting room of life.” Waiting, and hope is difficult sometimes, but God tells us to wait and hope and we do this by faith. God has never broken a promise or a provision and has never lost control of his perfect will and plan. See in Hebrews 13:8 it says. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” He was there at creation and he is working and speaking today. Now in Galatians 5:5 it says, “by faith we eagerly wait through the Spirit the righteousness for which we hope.” I do not know about you, but I need hope. And I want to encourage and breathe hope into others. There are many stories of this faith and hope throughout the Old and New Testament; stories like Job in the midst of his storm ,Abraham when he traveled to sacrifice Isaac,  Moses when he was in the desert alone living in fear and shame, and of course there's our wonderful perfect example the one who gives us the vision and his Spirit  and his power Jesus!! See we now  live in the new covenant  of Jesus perfect fulfillment of the law. God showed us even in his human nature he struggles in the waiting room of life as the man In the garden of Gethsemane. There he had to hold on to hope with the full vision of what is to come next, he knew heaven was on the other side, he knew healing and freedom, but he also saw the cost and still he chose death so me and you could have life, and the gift of his Spirit so we could live like he lived here on earth in fellowship with the Father. He did this so we could in our Spirit live in full fellowship with the Father in Spirit and in truth. That by his power we too in the midst of dark days overflowing in love, grace and hope. God teaches us through his word that what seems impossible in man's eyes is possible with God it's when he gives us a new perspective it's the vision of his perversion he has full equipped us for everything we will ever need in this faith walk journey called life and that light on our path to help guide us is found through his Word. Like when Jesus rested, went away to pray alone, or was empowered to teach, to make disciples, to heal the sick, cast out devils and set the captives free. People traveled near and far just to get to this man named Jesus. Why because he brought healing, hope and miracles and he spoke, acted in love and spoke truth with grace. He was able to do all this because he walked in will with the father and had  heavenly perspective and guess what we are able to walk in the will of our Father too, even in a seemingly dark world. This may not always feel good or look the way we thought. But if we trust him in faith and hope it will be better than we could have ever dreamed or imagined for his ways, his plans and his purposes are always best. And he will be providing exactly what we need right when we need it most. For he is a timely God of order and understanding.

How do we do this?  Well 1 John 2:27nkjv says “But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.”

The Holy Spirit is the one that gives us spiritual insight he's the one that gives us understanding of the word of God he's the one that opens our spiritual eyes to what the word of God is actually saying and then it's by his power that we're able to live it out like Christ and have him direct our steps. Now if you're struggling for the world to see Jesus working in your life you may need to prayerfully consider asking him to anoint you so that you start to have this spiritual heavenly perspective. We always have to remember Jesus promised that he would send someone to help believers glorify the son! The Holy Spirit's one job is to magnify Jesus in our lives and to help us be Christ ambassadors!! Thank God he is our helper, our comforter, our friend!! The Holy Spirit will ignite the scriptures in our hearts that we have a fire to be different to live in this world with a mission and a purpose to bear much fruit!! This is an amazing gift and promise full of Hope. That to face this world and be different I don’t do this on my own power!!  The person the Holy Spirit will help me to not be of the world but like Christ. This is where many miss it. Faith comes from hearing the word of God. And faith is the necessary ingredient for tangible change and growth in a believer’s life. The Spirit is unable to work in a vacuum or a void space. We must read scripture in order to ignite the Spirit so he will fill us with power to overcome the world and ignite the fire for everyone to see. So seek to align yourself with the Spirit to follow his lead. Back in the ancient days when a student would follow a teacher or a rabbi, they would do everything he did, they would take in every word and meditate on it. They would ask questions to get understanding about the word given and then mimic the lessons learned. They did and acted the teacher they followed. They would follow so closely behind their teacher that they would be covered in the dust from him walking. My question to the church today and one that I ask myself is have I spent so much time in fellowship with the word that the world around me knows that I've spent time following my teacher and who is my example who is my teacher well Jesus himself and he sent me his Spirit so that I'm able to do this will in the world until he takes me to my heavenly home.

So what if we started to look at our lives through our Father's eyes, our story being a part of his story. I think that would mean that we would have to really stop and see that every soul matters what makes a person who they are. Each person that we cross paths with has a story. And God laid down his life for each one. The child of God and the sinner he wishes would come home. I know that God has transplanted me twice in my life. He took a girl from Maine, put her in soil in Pennsylvania so she could start to sprout, and then he transplanted again to North Carolina so I could bloom and flourish to bear much fruit. And all of this for his glory through the unexpected gardens of opportunities and learning to embrace God's story as my own. Through this growing process I have found that the best way to live is a life like Christ to be a Godly person.

Joshua 24:14- 15 14 “Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Psalm 101: 2-3 I will be careful to lead a blameless life—
    When will you come to me?

I will conduct the affairs of my house
    with a blameless heart.
3 I will not look with approval
    on anything that is vile.

I hate what faithless people do;
    I will have no part in it.

For me I want to be a Jesus person. Knowing that if I abide in him, he will abide in me.  If I endure these hard circumstances with a heavenly perspective in heavenly vision, I will get to reign with him in heavenly places both here on earth and eternally in heaven. I heed warnings like if I would deny him… so with my everyday talk, life, actions, it says that he will deny me also and that is something that breaks my heart after everything he's done for me. I want to be known as different. I hope that if I lose my faith in him, guess what he's still gonna remain faithful because he can't deny himself, because my God is faithful!! Therefore, I have to fight the good fight! Therefore, I asked God for his vision, his perspective for his wisdom, his understanding and his leading. Yes, life can be difficult, but to be faithful we must persevere till the end. It is all about Jesus, it's always been about Jesus. Jesus is always the subject; Jesus is the foundation, he is the example, he is the final action and the final word. By his life, he was a testimony of what it means to see the way the Father sees. I am so glad there is a higher power to direct our ways and he's willing to, but the reality is as we pray for his direction how many of us actually sit still quietly to listen to the leading and for his insight or do we just see it through the lens of our own hurt, arrogance, pride, and worldly perspective. 

Therefore I strive to be different. This is why I strive to have my example be him. This is why I pray prayers like give me your eyes Lord, give me your ears, give me your heart, give me your wisdom, give me your understanding, help me to see the world the way Jesus. I pray we all strive to be the one that walks on this earth knowing that what we see here in the visible is nothing that compares to what is in the unseen. And heaven is directly on the other side of this world. So when you start to live with a heavenly vision of his provision here on earth what seems impossible becomes possible because God sees Jesus as the perfect example of this. Jesus saw the world through his Father's eyes by the power of the Holy Spirit, guess what we can too . He gave us his Spirit so we can have the mindset of Christ.

Have you ever asked the Holy Spirit to help you see, to live like Jesus, serve like Jesus, versus serving yourself? When we do this it changes everything! This is where faith grows, when we let go and let God concentrate on his perfect will through us the more that we walk with him and follow Jesus the more peace and happiness and fulfillment we will have in our lives. I am so thankful I am a work in progress. Because progress means I am changing and walking in faith and when we do that, we have nothing to fear for our stories, our lives of growth, the lives that are full of seasons, of pruning. Flourishing lives of change will be lives that should bear much fruit!! WHY? Well because we are sustained and powered by his power and living water and sealed by his name. Children of God new creations in Christ. And when we walk with him daily the reality is we know how the story ends!! So flourish and bring life to a lost and dying world that has no heavenly prospective, and by his grace bear much fruit until we see Jesus face to face in our forever home.

Father, thank you for your blessings in my life. Thank you for choosing me and thank you for anointing me. You are changing my life, my mind and my calling. Please give me a fresh awakening a fresh anointing given me heavenly sight heavenly wisdom for my mind show me and teach me your ways let your grace shine upon me and on the path that I travel give me full understanding of things that my natural mind just cannot comprehend or understand please father enlightened me and bless me that my life may be a pleasing aroma to you and a pleasing sight and a blessing to others as I serve them on this journey of my life to be more like your son Jesus until I reach my heavenly home!!

 I pray all of this in Jesus' mighty name Amen.