WHAT DO YOU SEE?

During prayers this week, the Lord drew our attention to the creation story and explained some things to us. We will be taking it up from there today

In the beginning God ( Elohim)  created [by forming from nothing] the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. God saw that the light was good (pleasing, useful) and  He affirmed and sustained it; and God separated the light [distinguishing it] from the darkness.

Genesis 1:1‭-‬4 AMP

First, the earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness and there was darkness

Then God looked and said Let there be light. So there was light and God saw that the light was good.

First, what does light do?

It helps to see properly.

If I come into a room that is dark (a wasteland as the earth was described), I will need light to move around

Here, we see God's first reaction in the face of darkness: Let there be light

It is calling forth "sight"

But I found out something this week, that it is not just calling forth sight. It goes beyond this

Let's go back to Genesis again. It says after God created light, He saw that light was good.

Now, the earth was described as a wasteland; empty, void and filled with darkness.

If I throw light upon this, the wasteland, emptiness and voidness remain. In fact, they are magnified in the presence of light.

You see more clearly.

That is what light does, it helps you to see more clearly.

Whenever I'm too lazy to do my home cleaning, I put off the light cos light helps me to see how much cleaning I need to stand up and do right away. Darkness hides it just a little bit

So if God says let there be light, what is automatically shown as this light is switched on is the state of the earth: void, wasteland, empty, etc.

How can this be good?

As we prayed this week, the spirit of the Lord drew my attention to this:

That beyond sight, the light was vision

You see, sight is limited to that which we see around us. Vision is the ability to see farther than your eyes can see.

When God saw the light that it was good, what He saw was vision. All the earth was about to be (they already were in His sight)

He wasn't seeing emptiness, voidness or wastelands, no!

What He saw was Good. He saw the Earth and all of creation even before they were created!

There was a visualization of that which was then unseen. And it was Good!

It was this vision that allowed God to know what was next. What the fields should look like, where the sky should stay, the placing of the moons and the stars etc. He didn't have to think or do trial and error because He had seen.

Also note that, God did not have a template for creation (Except that which He saw).

The only thing that had a template in creation was man, and the template is God (Man was made in the image of God)

So there was no sight whatsoever that looked like what the Lord envisioned and called forth

He had not seen a version of earth or something that could be a foundation for this earth that He was about to call forth but yet He saw. The earth at that point also did not look anything like what He saw, but there was a possibility of an unknown because He saw

Even before man was created, for every "it was good", man appeared in the picture. The vision of course included the interactability possibilities of all things to be created

Where there is no vision [no revelation of God and His word], the people are unrestrained; But happy and blessed is he who keeps the law [of God].

Proverbs 29:18 AMP

Where there is no vision, the people perish. We are only carried as far as we can see. We cannot move beyond our sight

We are as big/great as our vision. I'm going to chip this in from the prayers before we proceed.

We talked about the creation and man being made with the template, God

And because man is made with the template called God, some functionaries got called into this creation called man.

So man has the creative ability of God.

You have the DNA of God, so you have the creative ability of God.

What does it mean to be creative? The ability to bring things to life.

In design, a lot of people work with already built templates/existing products and improve on it.

In fact, most of the things we see are improvements on that which already exist.

But for the man in Christ (because we've been returned to status quo), we can bring the unexisting into existence. We do not need to have a template to see

We are not limited by surrounding situations. We already have the only template we need, and it is God's DNA flowing inside of us!

This DNA that we have causes us to see as God sees. Wasteland, void and emptiness all around but He saw beyond it!

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.   But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

Matthew 6:22‭-‬23 KJV

The only source of light for the body is the eye. The bible makes us understand that Jesus Christ is Light

[12]Later, Jesus talked to the people again. He said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never live in darkness. They will have the light that gives life.” ERV Bible. John 8:12

I am the light of the world.

The only source of light for the body is the eye.

Jesus (our light) is now our eyes

We see all situations through His lens

Whoever follows me will never live in darkness

Darkness was the state of the earth until God said let there be light. And all things started coming alive, one after the other

This light that gives life, we have it.

But first, this light SEES life.

The body moves based on what it sees. Again, Our direction is determined by what we see

What we see is very crucial in this life. It is what determines where the body moves to.

And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:  For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

Genesis 13:14‭-‬15 KJV

Abraham had just been seperated from Lot. They had shared lands and Lot chose the fair part of the possession. So Abraham was left with that which was "not so good"

God appeared to Him just after this:

Look with your eyes, all the land which you see, I will give to you and your seed forever

All that which you see, I will give to you forever. We can only possess as far as we can see.

Whatever you see is what belongs to you. It is unto us just as we envision

There is so much power in our sight, so much!

And one thing I've found in, one of the most difficult times to see is when things are not so good. It's very possible that we forget our "God status/DNA" and focus on the physical.

There we saw the giants ( the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”

Numbers 13:33 NKJV

Quick back note:

Moses had sent some men to Canaan to spy.

They were moving back to the promised land, so they wanted to see what it looked like and all It will take them to get in.

How fruitful the land was, the soil, the walls protecting it, all details about the land basically.

Now here is the report brought back by those sent

For 40 days these men were spying and checking out the land.

They saw that the land was good:

The men told Moses, “We went to the land where you sent us. It is a land filled with many good things ! Here is some of the fruit that grows there.

Numbers 13:27 ERV

But they added a BUT

They saw powerful people, giants

They saw impossibilities of entering the land

And you know what happened?

Everyone that saw how they could not did not actually enter the promised land.

But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh were among the men who were sent out to explore the land. They are the only ones who did not get the sickness that caused the others to die.

Numbers 14:38 ERV

Only Joshua and Caleb entered the land

Why? Because they saw the land as attainable.

Sometimes, we see good but there are BUTS

You look at 2020, with one mouth Confess it is good and the next minute you add the buts

You cannot move past the buts in your vision. What you see is your reality, it is what shapes your destiny. Your vision is the only key to your future

A lot of people are seeing a future that is in front. But no, your future is really what you see now. Your future is right here is your present sight!

We didn't see all of the things happening in the world today coming.

What we saw was what God told us about 2020 and beyond.

You see when God was describing Canaan to His children as theirs, there was no mention of it being a land filled with Giants that they cannot overcome. It was their land, the one He was about to give back to them, flowing with milk and honey

God obviously saw the giants living there at that point but that detail was unimportant cos He has envisioned that land as home to His children. 

There was a land flowing with milk and honey (exactly as told by God). But they focused on a detail that did not matter to God, the giants in the land. As they kept on seeing the giants, they became like grasshoppers.

They who were meant to inherit the land saw themselves as grasshoppers, as ones who couldn't own that land. So they didn't

Whatever it is 2020 has brought our way, this is a reminder that God saw all of these things ahead and they were inconsequential. 

The pandemic, the chaos in the world, the projections for the coming months/years due to all of these,

ALL INCONSEQUENTIAL

He gave us a word to guide our sight. And this is exactly what we must see. We must see alongside God

This is not the season to start complaining or adding buts.

And I just sense this as an instruction for us in my spirit, that we should be mindful of our words.

Don't add buts to it. Refuse to see the situations that will add buts to that which is yours

Don't join people to wish 2020 away. It might be jokes but please don't. This is not the season for that, at all.

Don't push things that the Lord had clearly told you were for 2020

Faith is the evidence of things not seen. The only substance of our vision is Faith. It is not directed by what is happening around us, No!

Everything in this world is a matter of perspective

Where you are seeing from. And what you see.

Scripture says the light shines in darkness and is not overcome by darkness. This light we have said is our vision.

Whatever darkness is in the world, it cannot overcome our vision cos it is light. It cannot overcome that which we have seen and believed. Never!

Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.  Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

Jeremiah 1:11‭-‬12 KJV

What seest thou?

What do you see?

Jeremiah saw and said what He saw. And what did God say?

You have seen very well, for I watch over my word to perform

When the Lord gave us the word for the second half of the year, I kept thinking about it and the Holy Spirit led me to this scripture.

We see and believe before there is a performance.

I'm going to share our anchor scripture for the second half here again.

And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.

Luke 1:45 KJV

We've already established the connection between our vision and faith.

And here is what this brings to us :

A performance of the things which were told from the Lord

God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

Numbers 23:19 KJV

It's a simple case of What you see is what you get

Your future is right here in your present sight/vision, begging you to see well, to ignore all that is around. I'm going to end this with this question for us all.....WHAT DO YOU SEE?