Look up

Hi Life Church- Mooroopna 31-10-21

Commend Pastor Gideon, neil and the board.

“Look Up”

Abrahams- Father of faith Lived approx. 65 - 70 years in Ur.

Left at Ur with his dad. Tarried in Haran 5 years(70-75 yrs old) till his father died then God spoke to him.“Blessed to Bless’, Father of Nations- Judaism, Moslem, Christianity. He travelled to the land of Caanaan, Lot left then God speaks....

Genesis 13:14–15 (NKJV) 14 And the Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are—northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.

“Lift up your eyes”- Elevate your view- Look Up

The Natural Eye

The Human Eye Has Incredible Capacity To See

Looking Normally-Based on the curve of the Earth: Standing on a flat surface with your eyes about 5 feet off the ground, the farthest edge that you can see is about 5 Km or 3 miles away.

Looking Up- The farthest object visible with the naked eye is the Andromeda galaxy, located an astonishing 2.6 million light-years from Earth.

Looking Down limits Your Ability To See

Looking Down- See About 5 Feet

Where You Look From Makes A Difference

The Higher Up You Are The Further you See

Illustration- The View From Mount Buffalo Mountain top views. The veiw is amazing. You can see so much more. Its breathtaking.

Illustration -Chicken Hill- we live just past chicken hill- What hill? They should have said past the slight incline.

Seated With Gods View

Ephesians 2:6 (NIV) 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

The Veiw From The Throne- Breathless, Spectacular

Why Was He Looking Down? Things happen that cause us to look down

- Family Conflict With lot

-Lot had taken the best land

-Things happen and we think about them after the fact

-Loose sleep, Consume our thought

-Stops us seeing the blessing-take our eyes off God

You Need To Look Up

Where does my help come from ?

Psalm 121:1–3 (NIV)

1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

where does my help come from?

2 My help comes from the Lord,

the Maker of heaven and earth.

3 He will not let your foot slip—

he who watches over you will not slumber;

Wide Open Spaces

2 Corinthians 6:11–13 (The Message) 11–13 Dear, dear Corinthians, I can’t tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life. We didn’t fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren’t small, but you’re living them in a small way. I’m speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively!

Moving Forward From Where You Are

Gods Plan is that we move Forward into wide open spaces

You Are Designed To Move Forward- eyes feet face forward- elbows and knees all bend forwards, bend backwards you will loose your balance and tip over, try to walk fast backwards- can't see where your going

Ignite Is To Grow its Capacity To Make Disciples-

---1“Look Up” - Looking To God- Problem to Solution

Jesus is the Way The Way the Truth & the life

Your Mouth Will Tell You Where Your Eyes Are

.Matthew 12:34 (NKJV) 34 Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Always talking about the Negative v Speaking Hope

---2“Look From The Place Where You Are”

-This isn't your destination

Personel Challenges

Church Through Covid Challenge - Incredibly challenging, Momentum killer,

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NKJV)13 No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.