Lift Up Your Eyes | Victoria Osteen
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Thanks so much for listening to the podcast today. I want you to know that Victoria and I are praying for you and your family this summer and just asking God to bring you more peace and joy and victory than you've ever seen before. Know that God's for you. He's got you in the palm of his hand, and I hope you enjoy the message today.
Your faith is amazing. Go out and tell people about this saving power of Jesus Christ. Amen. And that he can do what no one else can do. You are his light in all the world. You see, we're all on this journey of faith together. And if we're going to experience the fullness of God's promises, we're going to have to develop the ability to see beyond where we are right now. See, it's so easy to get stuck in a problem. It's so easy to see what didn't work out, what didn't happen, the mistakes we've made, maybe what someone else did to us. And then we think, what's our next step, God? How are we gonna get out of this? It becomes difficult to see the next step sometimes. But when we take our eyes off of the circumstances, off of the problems that are trying to weigh us down and hold us back,
That's when we can put our eyes on the promises of God, not the problems. We can't set our eyes on the problems. We have to set our eyes on the promises. That's how we're going to rise above where we are right now. We have to look beyond where we are and lift our eyes. In the book of Genesis, Abraham was called by God to go on a journey of faith with him. He spoke to Abraham and said, leave your father's house. Abraham did. The Bible says he believed God and it was credited unto him as righteousness. He left his father's land. He took his family and his nephew Lot and they went on this journey. But there was a point in his journey where where Lot, his nephew, and himself had acquired so many possessions that they had to part ways.
The land could not sustain both of them. So Abraham looked at Lot and said, you pick first. Which way do you want to go? What direction do you want to go, Lot? I'm giving you first choice.
How can we lift our eyes beyond our current circumstances?
Well, Lot looked around and he found a place that he thought would be perfect for he and his family. The Bible calls it, it was east. It was towards the Jordan. It was lush in foliage. It was a city that was bustling. It was places of opportunity. So Lot chose that part of the land. When Abraham looked the other direction, what he saw was dirt. He saw was dust. No development, just land. And he thought to himself, wow, what in the world have I gotten myself into? But you see, it was at that point that God spoke to Abraham. And he said, Abraham, lift up your eyes now. Lift up your eyes now. Look out. Look out. As far as you can see from the north, the south, the east, and the west. He said, what you can see, the land that you can see, I will give it to you.
I will give it to you. You see, it was this point that Abraham had to lift his eyes. I love that phrase, lift your eyes, because this lifted eyes became the theme of Abraham's life. You see, God knew that Abraham could easily get his eyes on the wrong thing. He could have easily said, why didn't I choose first? Why did he get the best? Now I'm just stuck in the dirt and the dust and he's over there prospering. Why did I make that mistake? But see, God wanted him to lift his eyes so he could see beyond the dust and the dirt and begin to see his destiny unfold, begin to see what God wanted to do in his life. Do you know the name Lot means veil? And when he separated from Lot, it was as if God lifted the veil from his eyes and he was able to see God in new ways.
You see, God wanted to reveal himself to Abraham in unseen ways. You see, it may have looked like Lot got paradise, but Abraham, he got the promise. And you do too. You have the promises of God. In fact, the veil has been lifted from your eyes. It has been torn in two by the power of Christ. And God wants to show you along this journey things you haven't seen before. He wants to reveal himself in powerful ways. You see, when God spoke to Abraham and told him that he was going to be a father of many nations, said, Abraham, I want to show you this land that I'm taking you.
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