Sermon Tone Analysis

Renewing Your Spiritual Prescription

Remarks

It is the first Sunday of 2022.

Revelation 21:5 (NKJV)

5 Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

There are some who are looking back in anger.

Some are looking forward in fear.

What we need to do is look up to God under anointing!

Text

Stephen had just finished preaching and sharing a Word from the Lord.

“Renewing Your Spiritual Prescription”

Receiving Sight

My Vision Problem

When I was about 10 or 11, in about the 4th grade, I started experiencing headaches that wouldn’t subside.

I would go to the nurse and they would call home and let them know.

And I would end up taking some sort of Tylenol or something.

This went on for a great many months.

And eventually, I don’t know whether it was the nurse who got the thought, or it was that mom or a teacher noticed me squinting, but it was discovered that these headaches were a result of the fact that I was straining to see the board every day at school.

Is this a familiar story to anyone?

And so we made our way to the eye doctor one day.

And they did their thing.

And when I left, I felt like they had done everything but get the serial number off my eye socket.

But then, a few weeks later, there was a day that I would never, ever forget: the day my glasses arrived.

I remember putting those glasses on, and all of a sudden I began to see detail that never in my life had I remembered noticing.

I saw creases in my hands that I hadn’t known about.

We walked out the front door of the place, and across the street there was a field full of flowers and that there was a very memorable moment.

Seeing the detail of individual blades of grass moving back and forth.

I don’t believe I’m exaggerating at all when I say that the world had changed for me that day.

I had no idea just how bad my vision was - my outlook was - that entire time.

But then, someone who knew what my eyes SHOULD BE SEEING gave to me some corrective lenses.

Seeing Again

And, if I may, I want to suggest that what happened to Paul is what has to happen to EVERY.

ONE OF US.

You’re going along in this world, thinking that your outlook and your vision for your life is totally normal and as it should be… but through the conviction of the bright light of the glory of God, that incorrect vision is shut off!

Renewing Prescription

Adjustments Needed

But, check this out...

You know what I found out?

Over time, your sight changes.

Even still wearing those corrective lenses, my sight progressively changed.

And the original prescription I received was no longer going to be enough to support my vision.

You know what I had to do?

I had to go back to the doctor, and allow him to again look at my vision and give me a new and fresh view.