DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?

THE DOORS ARE OPEN

There is a story about four people named:
Everybody
Somebody
Anybody
Nobody

There was an important job to be done and
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do
it.
Anybody could have done it but Nobody did.
Somebody got angry about this, because it
was Everybodys job
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but
Nobody realized that Everybody wouldnt do it
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody
when Nobody did what Anybody could have
done!
Now the Lord had said to Abram:Get out of your
country, From your family And from your fathers
house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a
great nation; I will bless you And make your name
great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those
who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be
blessed.
Gen.12:1-5
Three things were going to happen in this
TRANSITIONING of Abram
1. RE-positioning: a new place
2. RE-naming A new identity: As for Me, behold, My
covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of
many nations. No longer shall your name be called
Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have
made you a father of many nations. Gen.17:4-5
3. RE-tooling: a new gifting. I will make you
exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of
you, and kings shall come from you. And I will
establish My covenant between Me and you and
your descendants after you in their generations,
for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and
your descendants after you. Gen.17:6-7
We all must transition through this same
process. We must cross over individually and
corporately.
These shifts in the spirit realm require that
you and I see what God is bringing to a close
(clear endings) in order to embrace where
God is taking you (new beginnings)
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I
understood as a child, I thought as a child; but
when I became a man, I put away childish
things. 1 Cor.13:11
Two key words here for us:
1. became-- come into being
2. put away make no effect
Your childhood represents your pastALL of it,
good and bad, the sum of your experiences
These experiences have a strong gravitational
pull on you that try to keep to stuck in your past.
The Gospel is the message that a man called
Jesus came from another realm to break the pull
of sin and shame from us.
For if we have been united together in the
likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in
the likeness of His resurrection, knowing this,
that our old man was crucified with Him, that the
body of sin might be done away with, that we
should no longer be slaves of sin. For he who has
died has been freed from sin. Ro.6:5-7
The cross deals with your past
The resurrection your future
But what about my PRESENT!
That depends which gravitational pull you
yield to.
You put away past by a CLEAR vision of your
future!
Without a CLEAR vision of your future the
gravitational pull of your past will overwhelm
your future. (Pr.29:18)
God showed Abraham his FACE in the future
Jer.29:11 I know the plans that I have for you,
declares the Lord. They are plans for peace and
not disaster, plans to give you a future filled with
hope. (GW)
God always shows our face framed in His future.
Thats why dreams and visions are so important.
Your face is in the future.
Did Abraham struggle with this pull?
In Gen. 15 is important for us as a church and
YOU as an individual.
Here we see the frustration and the fruitlessness
of Abraham coming outthe pull
He laments in a cry of desperation You have
given me no heir
But then God brings him out of his tent door
AYIN DALETyear of the tent door:5774
God is calling you out of the place of confinement
Out of your isolation
Out of your limitation
Look UP! He gives him the SAME word he gave
him years earlier. It just wasnt in season.
NOW is the time this is YOUR season!
God has YOUR face in the future and the way
to break free from the pull of your past is to
SEE your self NOW in the FUTURE!