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  SEEING THROUGH THE EYES OF GOD
  by Carter Conlon
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the importance of seeing people and
situations through the eyes of God, focusing on the value and purpose of
each individual in God's kingdom. It highlights the power of faith, the
transformation that occurs when we turn to the Lord, and the need to
have 'good eyes' that are filled with God's light. The message calls for
a shift in perspective to love and value others as God does, leading to
miraculous transformations and a renewed sense of purpose in reaching
out to those in need.

Topics: "Divine Perspective", "Transformational Faith"
Scripture References: Acts 14:5, Matthew 6:22, Psalms 101:2, 2 Corinthians 3:16, Mark 8:22, Acts 3:1

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This sermon emphasizes the importance of seeing people and situations
through the eyes of God, focusing on the value and purpose of each
individual in God's kingdom. It highlights the power of faith, the
transformation that occurs when we turn to the Lord, and the need to
have 'good eyes' that are filled with God's light. The message calls for
a shift in perspective to love and value others as God does, leading to
miraculous transformations and a renewed sense of purpose in reaching
out to those in need.

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You'll turn your Bibles please to the book of Acts chapter 14. I want to
speak to you this morning about seeing with the eyes of God Seeing with
the eyes of God Father I thank you Lord for your presence here. It's
obvious your presence is here among us Thank you Lord for how you're
stirring our hearts and Drawing us to something deeper perhaps than
we've known before Thank you Lord for giving us life abundantly Helping
us to understand our purpose on the earth each of us Lord valuable to
you Nobody a write-off.

Nobody cast away in your kingdom Everyone like a precious jewel in your
hand father. I thank you for this knowledge today God. I ask you Lord
for the anointing of your Holy Spirit to be able to speak these words
and We ask you for the anointing to be able to hear them Would you help
us Lord to see with your eyes if truly you do live inside of us Lord
then surely We ought to be able to see what you see We thank you for it
with all of our heart in Jesus name Amen, Acts chapter 14 beginning at
verse 5 And when a violent attempt Now this is a Paul and Barnabas are
traveling and Where they are traveling and where they are preaching.

There's not only people coming to Christ There were many many people
coming to Christ during the preaching of Paul and Barnabas but also
there was a lot of violent opposition to their message and When a
violent attempt was made by both the Jews the Gentiles and the Jews with
their rulers to abuse and stone them They became aware of it and fled to
Lystra and Derby cities of Lyconia and to the surrounding region and
they were preaching the gospel there and Alistair a certain man without
strength in his feet was sitting a cripple from his mother's womb who
had never walked This man heard Paul speaking Paul Observing him
intently and seeing that he had faith to be healed said with a loud
voice Stand up straight on your feet, and he leaped and he walked praise
be to God Matthew chapter 6 verse 22 tells us Jesus said the lamp of the
body is the eye If your eye is good your whole body Will be full of
light Now he didn't just speak that to fill Verses in a in a book that
was going to be called the Bible But he actually meant it his words were
true if your eye is good your whole body will be full of light And so
the question arises. What are you looking at today? And how is what
you're looking at affecting somebody else and what does it mean to have
a good eye? What does a good I look like? First of all, it means the
ability or conviction to recognize that it's it's not Recognize what is
not good and to turn away our focus from it Listen to the words of the
psalmist David in Psalm 101 verses 2 and 3 David said I will behave
wisely in a perfect Way, oh, when will you come to me? I? Will walk
within my house with a perfect heart. I will set nothing wicked before
my eyes Or another the another translation puts it this way The original
is when it it says nothing wicked actually the the real word is
worthless I will set nothing worthless before my eyes.

I hate the work of those who fall away It shall not cling to me a
perverse heart shall depart from me. I will not know Wickedness so
important as believers in Jesus Christ That we understand that our life
in God the productive life that God has for us will begin by looking
away From what brings weakness into our lives? By not looking for
fulfillment in things that cannot satisfy They pop up and they promise
that they're going to be exhilarating. They promise they're going to be
fulfilling But if it's not from God if it's not from the kingdom of God
It has no eternally value in it and it might satisfy your heart just for
a short time But ultimately it will not leave your body full of light on
The contrary many things might leave you full of darkness and despair
and fear and a wrong viewpoint and a wrong vision a wrong understanding
of what is the purpose even of your life and an improper view of what it
means to be part of the church of Jesus Christ in this Generation, it's
so important that we make the choice say God.

I don't want to gaze upon wickedness I don't want to look at things that
are worthless Everything that's a value if there's good report if it's
praiseworthy If it's going to build me up in my understanding of your
kingdom These these are the things Lord that I want before my eyes
Because the you told me the lamp of the body is the eye if my eye is
good My whole body will be full of light. I don't know but you but as a
Christian I want my body to be full of light. I don't want darkness
coming out of this body.

I I don't I don't want Spiritual spots in my eyes that are clouding my
view because I'm wasting time Looking at things that I shouldn't be
looking at or looking at directions that cannot satisfy Looking for
things that cannot meet the deep desire of the heart of God nor anyone
else's heart around me Then it follows Paul says that when we turn our
focus to what is good and begin to look let that begin to do its Its
work in us then something miraculous begins to happen in our lives in
2nd Corinthians chapter 3 verses 16 to 18 Paul said when one turns to
the Lord the veil is taken away now in the context of this is speaking
about Attempts in in our own humanity to be as God is which always do
fail But there can be other things before us that are avail Things that
that cause us not to see clearly But when we turn to the Lord the veil
is taken away Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the
Lord is There is Liberty the original translation of that word means
generosity So when we begin to look away from what weakens us and we
start looking towards God in Jesus Christ We see this incredible
generosity of God towards us. Did you know that this morning? Incredible
generosity the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace long-suffering
goodness faith meekness temperance Understanding their giftings of God.
We see this willingness of God Not only to send his son to die on the
cross But the willingness of God because of that victory to to pour into
you and to pour into me giftings and abilities That could only come from
him things that we don't naturally have Abilities and one day we are
able to stand say God did this for me.

I beheld his victory. I beheld his heart I I beheld something about him.
And as I began to look towards him I Saw this incredible generosity of
God and What he was willing to do in my life the light that he was
willing to put inside of me the ability to see what Men who live outside
of a relationship with God can't see was willing to give me this ability
in verse 18 Paul says but we All with unveiled face beholding is in the
mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed Into the same image
from glory to glory just as by the Spirit of the Lord We are being
transformed by God's presence inside of our lives if we are looking at
the right things If our eyes are focused on the victory of Christ if
we're looking into the Word of God every word having the power to create
incredible change inside of our minds and inside of our hearts and as as
you and I are looking with Expectation in our heart knowing that God
cannot lie.

His words are true And as we begin to behold him Something starts
happening in the heart. Oh Thank God I've been I've been living as a
Christian a long time now, but 40 years and I'm starting to grow more I
think now Than in a long time The Bible makes a promise that we will
still even bear fruit in old age will be planted by a river of water
that God plants and Promises to give to us and even in the storms will
not be taken down will still be bearing fruit even when we get old Oh,
thank God for that with all of my heart I'm finding things are becoming
clearer the older older I get I'll tell you about that in just a moment
Can remember it by the time I get All right, you gotta love me you gotta
love me anyway, so I'm saying As our eyes begin to clear and Light
starts entering our body the light of Christ's life enters us then We
start seeing With the eyes of God that which is of great value to him In
the gospel of Mark chapter 8 there was a town called Bethsaida Now
Bethsaida was the home of the Apostle Peter his brother Andrew and
another Apostle called Philip Bethsaida was a fishing village It is the
place where? Jesus called these men they left their nets and he said I'm
going to make you fishers of men It was an incredible town. It had it
was a town that had a calling by the time archaeologists Rediscovered
Bethsaida there's something in curious that happened somehow Bethsaida
had become very very distant from the water and they can't really even
explain how that happened I know one commentator says perhaps there was
an earthquake that took some of the sea into the depths of the earth I
really don't know all we know is where Bethsaida is located today.

It's quite distant From the place that it was supposed to be and it's a
type to us It speaks about it to us about a town that was established
around a specific purpose But somehow along the way they lost the
purpose and the purpose began to fade from view They began to be distant
from the purpose and that can happen in the Church of Jesus Christ You
and I are saved. We are set apart. We are given giftings of God.

We're given incredible promises We're changed we're transformed for a
divine purpose, but it can happen that we can lose sight of it may I put
it that way our eyes grow dim and The sea is getting farther and farther
away It must have been an odd situation as the water is receding and
seemingly there's no history of it So it seems that nobody was aware of
it That's what can happen to the Church of Jesus Christ. We can become
very distant from what God intended our purpose to be So in this town
called Bethsaida in Mark chapter 8 beginning of verse 22 It says Jesus
came to Bethsaida and they brought a blind man to him And he begged him
to touch him Now I'm speaking in the context of a type in other words I
want you to picture a church for example, or a believer a group of
believers said We're called to be fishers of men we're we're called to
be ambassadors of a kingdom a great great kingdom and Somehow that
purpose has gone become distant has become dim and there's a blind man
in Bethsaida And he comes to Jesus and says please touch my eyes. I
can't see anymore So he took the blind man by the hand and let him out
of the town Sometimes we got to get out of where we are so that we can
begin to see again Sometimes we got to have a willingness to say Lord
lead me lead me to where I need to go I'm gonna I don't see my purpose.

I I don't see what You've called me to be any longer. I don't see your
power to Perform it. So Lord lead me to where I need to go He took him
by the hand he led him out of town and when he had spin on his eyes and
put his hands on Him he asked him if he saw anything and he looked up
and said I see men like trees walking And then he put his hands on his
eyes again and made him look up and he was restored and saw Everyone
clearly you see when we're restored The first thing that happens to our
eyes as we begin to see people It's all About people Jesus died For
people he lives for people.

He has a church on the earth for the sake of other People it's all about
people now. We can go to church and we can we can like Bethsaida I'm
sure they had a lot of things going on there. We can get involved in
ministry.

We can do stuff We can study maybe they studied their history who knows
They were doing a lot of stuff, but they had lost their purpose and we
in the Church of Jesus Christ We can get involved in in a myriad of
activities we can sing and dance and clap and go to fellowships and we
do all kinds of stuff and Somewhere along the line we forget that we're
left on the earth for the sake of other people We're left there as a
testimony of who God is what God did on the cross through his son Jesus
Christ of the reality That everyone can have a new life there can be
healing there can be deliverance There can be a new vision given to
every heart restoration and homes and families This is the reason we are
called to be fishers of men as Peter and Andrew and Philip were In Acts
chapter 3 Beginning at verse 1 Peter and John went up together to the
temple at the hour of prayer the ninth hour and A certain man lame from
his mother's room was carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the
temple Which is called beautiful to ask alms of those who entered the
temple who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked for
alms and Fixing his eyes on him With John Peter said look at us Fixing
his eyes on him This is incredible because what you're about to see
outside of this temple is an eye-to-eye moment Peter and John are
looking now with the eyes of God at a man That maybe some consider a
nuisance Maybe some would say in their hearts. I wish he wasn't here
Maybe some would pass by pitifully and say well what a hopeless
situation This man is in a hope somebody does something for him, but
Peter and John having their bodies now filled with light and the life of
God are walking into the temple to pray and Their hearts and their eyes
are fixed on what is really of value and importance to God If they had
been looking at their sundials They didn't have watches if you look at
their sundials if they had such a thing They may have missed this man if
they've been looking at the schedule of What they're gonna do after the
prayer meeting if they're looking at their notes of what they're gonna
share and they may have missed this But their eyes were fixed on what is
really important to God and there's a miracle about to happen and I want
you to see this and understand this because they looked at this man and
Said look at us and when that man looked up it says he gave them his
attention Expecting to receive something from them. Then Peter said
silver and gold.

I do not have I don't believe for one second that Peter and John were
broke They had to eat they had to live know what I believe this really
means is We we're not going to give you we don't have for you what you
think you need We have something else for you but what I do have I give
you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk and he took
him by the Right hand and lifted him up and immediately his feet and
ankle bones received strength So he leaping up stood and walked and
entered into the temple with them walking leaping and praising God This
miracle happened when this man saw in their eyes something he had never
seen before He had never seen this in anybody's eyes, that's why Peter
said look at us look at us it was an eye-to-eye contact these men are
now looking with the eyes of God and Suddenly a man who's been lame for
years all his life. He's not been able to walk There's been this area of
weakness in his life that has has left him literally a beggar in a place
of glory May I call it that and he's sitting there now suddenly two men
with the eyes of God are looking at this man And he looks into their
eyes and sees that he's loved first of all, he's loved People need to
see that they are loved through the body of Jesus Christ when we meet
somebody on the street Whether they're vile or whether they're pleasant
Whether they're influential or whether they have no influence at all It
doesn't matter people need to see in our eyes that they are loved That
is paramount in the Church of Jesus Christ. God.

Would you help me to see with your eyes today? God so loved the world
the scripture says he gave his only begotten Son God so loved the world
men and women need to see that they are loved by God He saw beyond that
he saw that he was treasured When everyone else considered him a
nuisance God didn't consider him a nuisance because the scripture says
he chooses the weak and the foolish Those things that are nothing and
those things that the world despises To put to nothing the wisdom of
this world and to confound the strength of those who think they can live
in their own strength Without God, this is who he chooses. Not only was
he loved he was treasured He saw in their eyes that he was not a burden
To a holy God. He's not a burden He saw that he had a purpose there was
a plan for his life and that he had a future He saw all of that in the
eyes of Peter and John because they were looking at him with the eyes of
God and They were able to do this because their bodies were filled with
light and their bodies were filled with light because they were looking
away from what would weaken them and looking to what really matters and
healing begins to flow and in that very moment with the eyes of God
radiating through human vessels a lifetime of weakness vanishes and a
miracle happens and A man who's been lame from his mother's womb stands
to his feet is given strength and comes into the temple leaping walking
praising Leaping it says twice and praising God.

That's the cry of my heart I'm praying for you folks that God that
people would see God in your eyes and You'd bring him into the temple
and you'd be walking to your seat They're going boing boing boing
leaping and praising God as you head for the seat. I guarantee one thing
We will not throw them out of here We will let them praise we will let
them shout we will let them dance before a holy God People who have been
touched by the power of God people that you have reached out to and
grabbed them with your hand and pulled them up and brought them into the
house of God because They have seen God in your eyes and in your life
and heard him in your voice and When you told them they could be healed
they believed it Because you knew the healing of God in your own heart
Now that brings us back to the Apostle Paul where we started in Barnabas
in Acts chapter 14 Now Paul had his own troubles He's fleeing violence
at this point in his life There's a plot To abuse him and Barnabas and
to kill them to stone them when they didn't just throw pebbles at you to
get you out of Town they killed you in those days. And so they know
there's this plot So they're actually fleeing this plot so that their
focus could have easily been on themselves Barnabas we we got to find a
place to hide Barnabas.

We got to get out of here We got to find strength Barnabas put guards at
the door. Make sure that everything is okay But their focus you'll see
is still not on themselves They were preaching the gospel in this new
place They found themselves in and in Lystra the certain man without
strength in his feet was sitting again from crippled from his mother's
womb And he'd never walked This man heard Paul speaking and Paul
Observing him intently. So here again, we have an eye-to-eye contact.

I hope you see this And it's not a pun on my part, but I hope you see
this They have an eye-to-eye contact Paul is preaching the gospel. I
know what Paul speaking about. He's speaking about life He's speaking
about strength.

He's speaking about the generosity of God. He's speaking about beholding
God through Jesus Christ He's talking about the transformation of the
human heart the fact that we become new Creations in Christ when Christ
is in us would become a new creation old things all pass away He's
talking about the empowerment of God's Holy Spirit to be taken out of
weakness and be brought into strength These are the themes of Paul. It's
not difficult to understand what he was saying because it's all in his
epistles and his letters So I'm not I'm not inventing something you can
search it for yourself and see really what Paul's theme was when he
preached the gospel is talking about the incredible power of God the
incredible mercy of God that Paul himself was a An accessory to murder
and how he hauled people out of their homes and tortured them and
Compelled them in some cases to even blaspheme the name of God Then he
talked about the mercy of God coming to him meeting him Knocking him to
his face on a road blinding his eyes for three days God coming in with a
human vessel called an an ass and putting his hands on him scales
falling off his eyes the power of God's Spirit coming into his life the
Transformation of this man who was a zealot for an unrighteous form of
religion Suddenly transformed into a man who's willing not first He was
wanting to kill people who differed from him now because of the Holy
Spirit and Christ in his life He's willing to die for people Who differ
from him talk about a transformation and as he's preaching there's a man
sitting there And he's looking into the eyes of Paul and the scriptures
Paul was intently observing him and saw something in the man's eyes Saw
that he had the faith see the eyes are the window of the soul You know
and saw that he had the faith to be healed and he said with a loud voice
Stand up straight on your feet And he leaped and walked stand up He
spoke new strength a new life into a man who had never walked before And
so I guess it brings this right down to a question now As I come to the
end of this message, what are you looking at? And is what you're looking
at looking back at you If you're looking at people, what are you looking
at them for and what are they seeing? Is it a look of disgust in this
generation? Is it anger? Is your feeding source the news and not the
Bible? Have you embraced Opinions about people that are not biblical and
you're looking at them.

So what are they seeing in your eyes? Or do they see the eyes of God?
Looking through you. Are they suddenly convinced? Not only that they
should turn away from evil, but are they suddenly convinced that they
can have a new life Are they convinced that in an area where they've
never been able to walk they can walk? now where they've been weak where
there's been something passed down into their life because of experience
Parentage association disappointment, whatever it was. Are they
convinced they can actually get up and walk in newness of life now? Will
we bring them to the house of God will they leap and dance in his
presence because they have seen the eyes of God in us They've heard his
voice They've been encouraged to believe That they can be a new creation
in Christ Jesus Who are we looking at and why are we looking at them?
There's a look in our eye and the sound of our voice caused them to
believe that with God all things are possible I Don't think that you and
I have to be relegated to reading about these miracles for the rest of
our days and never knowing that Jesus made a promise If your eye is
good, if your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light Cry my
heart is God.

Give me good eyes Only you know what that is. Give me good eyes Help me
be looking in the right direction All the days of my life Lord. Let me
look in the right direction and God No wonder you said when the teacher
came to Jesus what's the most important commandments he says All the
prophets and all the law are summed up in these two things You will love
the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength and the
second is equal to it You shall love your neighbor As yourself doesn't
say your Christian neighbor Your neighbor You shall love your neighbor
Everybody walking down the street is my neighbor.

Everybody live in my neighborhood is my neighbor Everybody in my
apartment building is my neighbor You shall love your neighbor on these
two things You can take all the law and all the prophets and you can put
a string through it and you can hang it on those two hooks Everything
that is taught here is summed up in those two things So if we don't love
people with the heart with the eyes of God, isn't it true that we have
missed the whole thing? We've forgotten our purpose don't we become like
Bethsaida Called to be fishers and Somehow the lake just drifted away
and we weren't even aware that it happened We end up blind Needing a
touch of God and so I guess that's my altar call today. It's twofold For
everybody just like me say God, would you help me to see people the way
you do? Would you put power in my speech? Would you give me faith for
them? So that they too can believe would you and would you give me
faith? To speak to them with you put something in me That when they look
into my eyes, they see the eyes of God When they hear my voice, they're
suddenly empowered to get up and do something. They've never done before
ever in their lifetime ever Maybe it's walking.

Maybe it's just feeling good about themselves You know, some people
never felt good about themselves from the time they were in the cradle
They've never understood a tender touch. They've never known what it is
to be loved They've never known what it is to be special and so they're
they're lame in that sense They can't go forward. But what if they see
in us? What if they see in us something of God? That shows them the
incredible value of their soul the wondrousness of how they're created
in the image of God the Beauty of the strength that God has for them and
the plan that he has for their lives the giftings He's willing to give
the first view of God most people will ever get is through you and Me
because we are the temple of the Holy Spirit And our eyes Literally are
the windows into the temple It's like people standing outside this
magnificent building and they want a glimpse They're a little afraid to
go in but they want a glimpse So they kind of clear the frost and they
look in to see what's going on.

That's what our eyes are That's who we are. We are the window into The
temple of God the presence of God the power of God May we again begin to
realize our purpose on the earth? Oh Bethsaida May we get back to being
what we're called to be fishers of men Fishers who are happy to go
fishing It's not a chore it's not like pastor Patrick he's happy to go
fishing if he's not here he's fishing I'll tell you that right now.
That's where he is Not even the ice can stop him from fishing.

Nothing can stop him from fishing He's happy to God may we become happy
to go fishing happy to just see people and love them at the heart of God
So Winning is not a program so winning is a passion It emanates from the
heart of those who have really been gripped by the heart of God We've
been looking at what's really valuable in the sight of God God Give me
your eyes God give me your eyes listen I know fully well like you I can
you can get lost in all kinds of things in the church and forget what
you're supposed to be I Know it from personal experience One of the one
of the delights of my life is Meeting people at the door now on Sunday
night So if you want to meet me you got to be here Sunday night, that's
Maybe we should close by singing meet me. Oh meet me God give me your
eyes God give me your eyes. God.

Give me your eyes Give me your eyes, and if you're here today, and
you've been lame Your whole life I Want you to know that whatever area
you've been layman you can walk again You can walk again If you had the
faith if you believe That God is able you can walk in that area of your
life We sang about it you can you could cast that mountain away That's
been trying to convince you that this is as far as you go and no farther
You can speak to that thing and say no you're not going to dominate me
anymore No, sir. No, sir No more of you I'm now beholding Jesus, and
he's going to give me life, and I'm going to walk Brand-new in this area
of my life And so if either of those are you I'm gonna open this altar
this morning And in the main Sanctuary, I'm gonna ask you to slip out of
your seat and Hop in the balcony as well, and just meet me here, and
we're gonna pray together And we're just gonna believe that in whatever
area of your life that you need God to touch you You're gonna leap and
dance and praise again It's gonna be that simple I'm gonna believe with
you. This is a joy gonna explode in your heart.

That is God birthed It doesn't come doesn't even say that there was
worship going on in the temple If you believe that we are the temple of
the Holy Ghost there was worship going on inside that man I have lived
this I know exactly that moment what it looked like I visited a church
one time as a young Christian And I couldn't wait for the service to be
over so that I could worship God I'm not saying this. I'm not trying to
be derogatory, but they were so steeped in their tradition so They'd so
fallen From the purpose I think of what they were for that I had to wait
for the sanctuary to clear so I could run the I did I ran The aisle and
I sang he lives he lives Christ Jesus lives today He walks with me, and
he talks with me a long life's narrow way. He lives he lives Salvation
to impart you asked me how I know he lives he lives within my heart I
felt like the lame man.

I felt like that man running and leaping and dancing in the temple
Praise be to God praise be to God praise be to God If that's you today
in the annex you could step between the screens North Jersey you could
do the same and also those that are with us at home as part of our home
fellowship God bless you today and You can just stand up in your living
room And we're gonna believe God for healing and new eyes Thank you,
Jesus. Thank you I was just thinking of a Testimony I heard in this
church one time a long time ago on a Sunday night and Just a young man.
He was with a group of other young guys, and they plan to go out and
commit a robbery On the weekend and they were planning their robbery
They were gonna mug somebody and steal whatever they had and so they're
heading down the street And they're gonna they're gonna do their robbery
and their mugging and this little old grandmother goes walking by the
street She looks at one of them in the eye She says son The wages of sin
is death But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ He
said it so shook him up that he left his buddies and he ran home Came to
church and gave his life to Jesus Christ.

Thank God The power the power of somebody that just sees the value of
people I've been in ministry a long time But God in his mercy recently
has taken my hand Led me out of where I was and spit in my eyes And
caused me to see again You are all that is of any value in this church
You know all these golden walls and stuff will all be gone one day This
will all be dust you are all that's of any value to God all that's you
That's the value of God And Every every soul that will ever come to this
altar from every walk of life and Every state of weakness, whatever it
is. God is well able to give strength well able It's an incredible
Message that we have an incredible power in the simplicity of our
message. It's not complicated.

Don't make it complicated Don't need to know Hebrew and Greek Just need
to know Jesus and you need to know what he can do. I'm gonna pray with
you today Father God in Jesus name. I Thank you Lord for leading us out
of town as a church Lord especially out of this city and Helping us not
to lose our purpose Lord Reminding us of what's really of value There's
so much the city would disregard and discard and throw out in its
streets There are so many people filled with pain Nobody sees them, but
you do Lord.

And so we're asking that you would look through our eyes At them and
give us your heart for them And let your power Lord God emanate from us
towards them Father God we ask for the privilege that in the days and
years ahead There would be people leaping and dancing in our aisles in
this church Lord They would leap and dance in the lobby they would leap
and dance on 51st before they even get in the front door because Your
power has come and lifted them out of poverty out of weakness out of
shame out of imprisonment and giving them new life new strength and new
hope I Thank you with all my heart God for what you're doing in me, I
thank you Lord I Cherish it Lord God with everything in me Lord it all
comes back to the beginning You died for people Thank you Lord for
giving us back our sight Thank you Jesus even today as we leave everyone
everyone God Everyone that we meet on the street our restaurants or
parking garage, whatever it is subway That we would see them now with
your eyes The great value the great plan the beauty of what you can do
Give us the grace to look away from that which is bringing weakness and
dullness into our vision Let us look Lord to what really matters Thank
you for it God Now Lord, I ask you to give strength to everybody at this
altar today who needs strength everyone who's struggling with addiction
a sense of hopelessness a A wonderment of does God love me as he a plan
for my life. I Asked Lord that everybody at this altar would stand up
and walk everyone Would walk in this newness of life that you provide
for us because of the cross. I Thank you Lord for great mercy Not only
to us Lord, but to this city.

I give you praise and glory for it. Oh God in Jesus name You

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/Kpv5Nv92otM.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/carter-conlon/seeing-through-the-eyes-of-god/
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