Are you feeling unseen, in an unchanging season? There’s something you need to know: God sees you. In your weak place, God sees you. When others look past you, God sees you. When you feel hopeless, empty, and stuck, God sees you. But when God gets ready to move, He will MOVE. He will come to where you are, in that place of desolation where the odds are stacked against you, and change the landscape. You will not die in the desert because of El Roi! God is able. Do you have faith enough to give Him a “desert” praise?
and if the enemy can keep you from
seeing if he can keep you from seeing
them the blessings he can keep you stuck
in a place of brokenness if he can keep
you from seeing the advantages or the
opportunities he can keep you running
that’s that’s a very important thing is
that when you’re when your vision of who
God is is obscured by what you’re going
through something very small can block
out something much bigger can I stay
here a minute like you’re gonna say no
something very small can block out
something much bigger how could I
illustrate this I’m gonna try to
illustrate this real quick I know y’all
aren’t prepared for this so for just a
minute
freaking out the camera people but
something very small this very small but
you what you’re supposed to see you
can’t see
pray for me y’all yeah something very
small this is very small right it’s very
small something very small can block out
something much bigger now you can’t see
anything that’s supposed to be seen
something very small and maybe it’s no
coincidence that I’m using this iPhone
discuss some of y’all with stomach
ulcers because you won’t come off of it
and see what’s right around you or you
won’t use that Bible left you got that
other app open what’s it called instance
the what huh insta insta instant it’s
not Instagram right now it’s like insta
gross it’s like it just makes me feel if
I stay on it too long it’s just like I’m
in an alternate reality and now I can’t
see what is invisible something small
can block out something bigger okay is
that camera on y’all we didn’t plan any
of this so pray for your preacher right
now pray for the camera man I’m still
six feet apart by the way I want y’all
to know that but I’m just showing you
this illustration how something small
and this is what first Kings 19 says
about it that Elisha who was the great
man of God who taught Elisha in second
Kings six everything that he knows
because this is not
they knew because the same God that
delivered me from the paw of the lion in
Nepal the bear will deliver me from this
uncircumcised philistine – the only
reason elijah knew what to see in the
situation that he’d never been in before
he had followed the great man of god
elijah the prophet the one who called
down fire on mount carmel remember that
Bible story Shawn I mean he said if God
is God serve Him if Bale is God serve
him choose this day who you will serve
and God answered by fire 850 false
prophets the prophets of Asherah had to
had to bow their knee and and then when
when Elijah got done with that with that
miracle he went up on a mountain and
pray now listen to this about
perspective into my perspective he said
I hear the sound of the abundance of
rain I hear something that I can’t see I
know something that I can’t see and when
a servant went to check the sky he said
I know you said you heard something but
there’s nothing there and Elijah said to
a servant what we need to say to our
soul go back and look again go back and
look again rejoice in the Lord always I
will say it again rejoice I will say it
again rejoice say it again say it again
say it again check it again look again
go again look again say it again say it
again in the chat say it again in the
comments say it again say it again say
it again God is good say it again the
Lord is my shepherd say it again God is
with me say it again he has not left me
say it again I’ve never seen the
righteous forsaken say it again he is
the bread of life
say it again he’s a way maker say it
again he’s a miracle worker and when he
checked the seventh time he saw
something very small a cloud the size of
a man’s hand something so small three
and a half years of drought came to an
end because of something very small but
you know what’s weird
when Jezebel a Habs wife a abbe was the
wicked King Jezebel was the one really
running the show
one preacher said the last decision I
have ever made was I do because after
that Jezebel took over and she would
kill the Prophet she was she was much
more ruthless than Ahab was but when
Jezebel heard what Elijah had done she
she said well put it up there on the
screen first Kings 19 she sent a
messenger to Elijah to say may the gods
deal with me be it ever so severely if
by this time tomorrow I do not make your
life like one of them i’ma kill you but
she couldn’t she couldn’t there are
certain things that devil can’t do to
you but if he can get you to believe it
he doesn’t even have to do it if he can
get you to get so blocked by something
small are you on this camera go back to
this camera something’s how could
something so small look what Elijah the
great man of God did in verse three so
Elijah was afraid he was afraid so he
fled and he ran and he ran and he ran
because Jezebel couldn’t kill him so
since she couldn’t kill him all she
could do was convince him and so I
believe this message is prophetic not
pathetic prophetic in the sense that you
are allowing something small to block
out something bigger and I promise you
right now God’s calling is bigger than
any crisis trust me on that and read
your Bible if you don’t believe me
that’s how I can go through it because I
know that God’s calling is bigger and so
why would I let something small block
out something big with he hung the stars
and named them
why would I refuse to lift my eyes to
the hills when I know where my help
comes from so there is something bigger
there is something greater
there is something other on the other
side of this
I wonder what’s on the other side of
this that is so big that the enemy sent
a storm to disrupt your piece to destroy
your joy God is with us in this place
right now do you feel that and so the
Prophet said those who are with us are
more than those who are with him he must
have went to public school
this dude is bad at math Elijah is bad
at math and the surfing that’s like huh
because he’s counting right he’s like
those with us are more than those with
them all right so one two and then he
starts counting enemy one two three four
five say seven eight nine ten because I
know somebody said that looks like well
preacher that’s just this is cool this
is neat but have you seen the news I’m
like but yeah I saw it
I see the statistics but what good is it
gonna do for me to be afraid like I want
to be aware but there’s a fine line
between aware and afraid and let me just
say this when we can edit it out if it’s
too strong I think it’s dangerous when
we start watching a death count on a
ticker like it’s a score in a baseball
game I think that kind of crosses a line
I think it puts us in a state where we
have made entertainment out of misery
and then we become addicted to being
afraid and it kind of feels comfortable
it’s like oh this is normal you know one
of the reasons Elijah ran from Jezebel
he was used to running he had been
hiding for three and a half years so he
did what came natural and a lot of us
when we get in a fierce stay it’s
because it feels familiar to us this is
like group therapy isn’t it to know that
sometimes we we feel more familiar in a
state of fear than we do in a state of
faith
and what the Prophet gave him was a
different way to do math I wrote in my
notes I said this is miracle math
somebody put it in the comments this is
miracle math miracle math is like this
you ready there’s more of us than them
huh
close your eyes and you’ll see it
because I’m not talking about what you
can’t see I’m talking about what’s more
real than what you can see close your
eyes and you’ll see it this is miracle
math it’s it’s a miracle math it’s like
Gideon you have too many men too many
men I’m going to fight a battle that’s
exactly what I need is soldiers know you
got too many because if you go in with
this many men you will think it was you
that won the battle so when he gets down
to 300 God says now go in the strength
that you have
now go it’s miracle math it’s like Jesus
there’s 5,000 men and women and children
what do you have five loaves into fish
it’s not enough right depends on whose
calculator you’re using this is not
Texas Instruments this is the son of God
put it in my hands what you got in your
house a little bit of oil a little bit
of time a little bit of sanity a little
bit of praise just a weak Wi-Fi
connection but I’m hooked up hooked in
to the presence of God and God is a
multiplier and God is enough and God is
with me this is miracle man how long has
he been dead three days that’s just
right this is miracle man God said do a
do a recalculation I thought I was
outnumbered but I’m not I thought it was
over but it’s not I thought it was done
but it’s not this is miracle man
he prayed after he encouraged him don’t
be afraid then he said open my eyes open
my eyes there’s to prayer and and that’s
that’s really not a physical statement
right
his eyes were working just fine that’s
why he was scared
he’s like much my vision is 20/20 bro I
don’t know what you’re looking at is
like no no no no no open his eyes Paul
called it the eyes of your heart
perspective now when the servant looked
again verse 17 and this is the whole
message okay he opened his eyes after
the Lord granted Elijah’s request and he
looked and saw the hills full of horses
and chariots of fire all around Elijah
now let me tell you what’s really
wonderful about that verse is that when
Elijah prayed help did not come help was
already there so when Elijah prayed you
goodness when he prayed open his eyes
Holly so that he may see the Lord only
had to show him what was already there
and we can pray for provision and that’s
wonderful and we can pray for healing
and we should and we really need to pray
for everybody who’s a nurse or a doctor
or a clerk or a law enforcement officer
our first responders like all of it we
need to pray for each other but the
thing we need to pray for more than
anything else is perspective we’re
coming into a time where what is
invisible is more valuable than what is
visible when everything that can be
shaken will be shaken so that that which
cannot be shaken will remain we’re
coming to a time where peace is more
profitable than Bitcoin we’re coming to
a time where joy cannot rest on external
circumstances and when he looked he saw
the hills full of horses they were
already full he just couldn’t see it he
saw the hills full of chariots of fire
the fire was already burning but you
know what didn’t happen when he prayed
and I don’t know if you want to hear
this or not and LJ we’re not going to be
able to put a b3 on this but it’s true
and I need to say God did not answer
Elijah’s prayer by eliminating the enemy
instead he illuminated his presence so
faith is not a lever that I pull God
make it stop God is a lense faith
there’s a lens that I look through to
see that God has been there the whole
time he’s with you right now but I’m
still scared
every said I’m I’m still scared then
just stay with me just stay with me and
whatever is going on up there whatever
is going on out there you need to stay
with your father right now and you need
to stay in faith right now and the only
way that we can really deal with fear
because if we stay in fear and then we
stay in frustration and then we get
stupid because you are not very
strategic when you’re scared so don’t be
afraid watch this the only way to do
that is to change the focus to change
the focus okay the situation did not
change in second came six the focus did
the only way I know to stop being afraid
is to change what I’m focused on and so
I just need us right now to begin to ask
the Lord to illuminate not eliminate Oh
God take the fear away it doesn’t work
like that
Oh God give me all the answers tell me
the plan I need the strategy God said
before I give you the strategy I want to
give you your sight and shine light on
your situation
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