Sermon Cloud

Vision – Have you got your Holy Spirit Goggles On?

Personal Vision for Yourself

Proverbs 29:18 (Amplified Bible)

¹⁸Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish; but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]--blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he.

Judges 6: Gideon – Someone who’s vision was off

11The angel of the LORD came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites. ¹² When the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon, he said, "The LORD is with you, mighty warrior."

 ¹³ "But sir," Gideon replied, "if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the LORD bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the LORD has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian."

 ¹⁴ The LORD turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?"

 ¹⁵ "But Lord , ^[a] " Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

  CLIP TWO – How Squidward Sees his life

My Story – How I was seeing my life

Scriptures that tell us how we should be seeing things:

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 3:13-14

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us - whatever we ask - we know that we have what we asked of him" (1 John 5:14-15).

"'Have faith in God,' Jesus answered. 'I tell you the truth, if anyone says to this mountain, "Go, throw yourself into the sea," and does not doubt in his heart but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins'" (Mark 11:22-25).

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen"Ephesians3:20,21

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so

that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans

15:13

We have to have patience:

“ . . . In our moments of impatience let us remember that hope always

means waiting for something that we do not yet possess. But if we hope for

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something we cannot see, then we must settle down to wait for it in

patience.” Romans 8:24-25

“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who

promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23 RSV

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing greatness of the power may be of God and not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are constantly being delivered over to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death works in us, but life in you. But having the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I BELIEVED, THEREFORE I SPOKE,” we also believe, therefore also we speak; knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that the grace which is spreading to more and more people may cause the giving of thanks to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:7-18)

CLIP THREE - RUDY

Romans 4:17-18 (The Message)

 ^17-18We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

I Samuel 17:32-37 – David’s Vision

Kaleidescopes – Holy Spirit Goggles

Matthew 13:15-16

⁵For this people's heart has become calloused;
      they hardly hear with their ears,
      and they have closed their eyes.
   Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
      hear with their ears,
      understand with their hearts
   and turn, and I would heal them.'^{[a] 16}But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Ephesians 1:17-19

I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless strength!

Our Vision as a Church

REVIVAL CENTER is a church serving the Los Angeles County by reaching people from all walks of life.

We are committed to a high level of participation in ministry by all who wish to identify with us in the body of Christ.

It is our vision to build a house of worship and a community with one vision which is to deliver the message of Acceptance, Love, Healing, Salvation and Forgiveness.

NOT INCLUDED BUT (have exciting services that involve the arts.)

REACHING PEOPLE

Matthew 28:19-21

Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations,^[a] baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. ²⁰ Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Acts 1:8

⁸ But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

We have to GO and we have to REACH!!!

CLIP 4 – King of Hill

We have to get in gear and start doing what God has called us to do in our services – extra work, but worth it!