Do You See What He Sees

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Perhaps you started with big dreams in your hearts- you’re going to excel in your careers, excel as parents, and excel in your walk with God. You get started, but then things get difficult, and achieving your goals doesn’t happen as quickly as you had hoped.

Discouragement sets in, and we start to give up.

Do You See What He See
1. Expand Your Horizons
Psalm 31:24:
24 So be strong and courageous,
all you who put your hope in the Lord!
A. Look yourself in the mirror and say,” I am not going to settle for mediocrity. Nothing maybe going my way right now, but I am going to trust God to help me expand my horizons.
B. Focus on your goal, set your course, and have the attitude, I am going to reach my full potential in God. I am going to start living my best life now!
C. How’s your spiritual vision this morning? Are you focusing on your problems, on what you can’t do, on what you can’t have?
D. The barrier is in your mind. It’s not Gods lack of resources or your lack of talent that holds you back.
It’s simply because you are focused on the wrong things.

2. Get a New Vision
Mark 8:18:
18 ‘You have eyes—can’t you see? You have ears—can’t you hear?’ Don’t you remember anything at all?
A. Your vision of who you are and what you can become has a tremendous impact in your life.
B. You need to start allowing God to use your imagination to build you up, to help you accomplish your dreams.
C. Take out the paintbrush of faith, hope, and expectancy and begin painting a bright future on the canvas of your heart.

Matthew 6:22-23:
22 “Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light. 23 But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
Spiritual vision is our capacity to see clearly what God wants us to do and see the world from His point of view.
But this spiritual insight can be easily clouded. Self-serving desires, interest, and goals block that vision.
Serving God is the best way to restore it.
A “good” eye is one that is fixed on God.

3. See Yourself Rising
A. Each of us has a picture of ourselves in our imaginations.
B. You will never consistently rise higher than the image you have of yourself, and you will never accomplish things that you don’t first see yourself accomplishing.
C. If you can learn to look at life through your eyes of faith and start seeing yourself rising to new levels-seeing yourself accomplishing your dreams, receiving more, giving more, loving more, and enjoying life, seeing your family serving God- you’ll experience God’s blessings and favor.

Conclusion: It doesnt matter what you end up being in life as long as we are serving the Lord. I dont think it really mattered to David if he was a shepherd or a king as long as he could bring honor and glory to his Lord.David was a man who the Bible says was a man after Gods own heart and he was far from perfect.
I dont know why some people have such success and it seems others struggle but at the end of the day I want to hear people say" my heart looks like His heart" so matter what path my God leads me I will follow, either He has called me to be a shepherd or a king.