Faith for Others to Flourish [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan writing when I said I am blessed to see that was not denial of the real difficulties of life.

It was instead an utterance of something was even more true. That's Pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life for a whole new light. I'm getting excited for you to hear today's message in a series titled the power of blessing is presented with an older church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright ministry as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today special offer. Contact us at pastoralan.org that's Pastor Alan.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860.

More on that later in the program but right now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright you have not only physical eyes, which are absolutely remarkable and anybody who's ever lost their eyes slider is been impaired visually be the first to tell you that that being able to see in and of itself in the natural is an absolute miracle fact that you can see, and you can take in physical reality around you and translate that to messages in your brain and apprehend what is going is absolutely extraordinary but there is something that is even more extraordinary. I tell you in it or spiritualize spiritualize see through the mechanism of faith, your faith is essentially spiritual vision and when you see something your spiritualize know it to be true then you're able to be convinced or convicted that this is absolutely real. That's why people who walk closely with the Lord and walk by faith and not by sight come to understand the things that are real and they are at times a reality that is higher and truer than anything that you could see with your eyes and you can grow in this you can learn and this is why there are people that you see and they have their spiritualize or have have have have been have been learned have learned how to focus his illustration this week where if we will go the beach. We love the beach and normal life and when we go to be 20 light boosters take a walk on the beach.

I just walk on beach and though I walk on the beach for all the years I've always seems as though the child eyes like to look super fun sharks tooth lovely for sharks teeth are there sharks tooth is a treasure because it's so well is the tooth of a shark and what is treasure because it's rare and it's hard to find and everything on the beach look like little black spec and so the sharks tooth is different though and and and and and looks like tooth and and I would like to try to click shortage when I if I would go the beach for a week.

I would say on average I would find approximately zero sharks teeth like a black spec to me. I may not know him so as I bend over to pick it up is a shell I better. It's a shelf is about three or four times in you while not bending over out here with these black shells.

I was give up on it. Now my daughter Abigail 15 on Abby. She has a gift for seeing sharks dishes like she I'm looking just walking out to be strong. That's all it is sure to let big when their perfect start to see if she would really be looking. She's going 535 10 sharks teeth and in and in and one day I miss my five fibroma one little walk down the beach. I'm looking I can look at the you do it so well that either their black and a smaller pointing and you just know your focus away from everything else is at the little black things I said there are little black shells down there. We look at the same area of beach.

She sees sharks teeth.

I see black shells. So what happens is that she bends over once he sees a sharks tooth and she takes it and then she has a sharks tooth.

I don't see a sharks tooth, so I II don't bend over, and I don't have a sharks to in other words, is something incredible that happens when you're able to see something because when you're able to see something you're able to appropriate it and that's the way this was spiritual vision.

Faith sees something and you know it's real and what you do you pick it up appropriated and you make it your own. For example, spiritually speaking, we speak about salvation itself. Oftentimes Christians will use the word saved to describe the experience of someone to become a Christian. And so they might say will when were you saved and that might, you might say well it was in October 2004, but it's only simple when you say when were you saved, you might say, and point to a day. If you have a day and point in history. You remember that the US it was on this day, but in actuality was the correct answer.

The correct answer is 2000 years ago when Jesus hung on the cross took the penalty for my sin and then was raised from the grave. Three days later for my justification, proving that his sacrifice had been complete for me and that he was had the authority to forgive my sins that that was when I was saved but I came to realize his saving work for me in October 2008, and I accepted it and I took it as my own.

So when you when you see something. It was a sharks tooth pick it up. You see a treasure you pick it up and this is what faith does this is what spiritualize the spiritualize sees something and realize that it is real and then you just you take it you take it as your own, only to say this, that faith is not magical, fanciful, wishful thinking.

It is not pretending it is not denial. If I were to go down the beach and pick up one of my many black shell fragments that I pick up and out of my frustration just say this is a sharks tooth about making sharks to take my kids be very quick to remind me know that as a shell when I was a kid, I was told to wait until demonstrated sharks tooth and a shell was a see if it would break in your fingers. I don't know if is actually true or not but you sharks teeth you don't, they won't just snap your fingers at tooth of a shark but a shell going to snap like that anyway. When Bennett was little and he found his first sharks tooth and he gave it to me it looked very much like sharks to both solicit drill nothing and I broke it and traumatize a boy that day that they still claim they still claim it was a sharks tooth but you recall some sharks tooth. But if it's a shell it's a shell were not talking about with faith about you being able to just have some that you wish were true and call it forth. What were talking about a spiritualize and see something that is true and you appropriated when talking about a kind of phenomenon that somebody might say we're just in denial. But if you see in the deep things of the spirit in you walk by faith and not by sight. Then then it's it's it's more real to you than the things that the eyes could see in the natural on on on Friday late afternoon late into the evening was leaving the parking deck at Baptist Hospital and as I handed my ticket stub my parking ticket to attendant and their gracious to let clergy part freedoms written on Ravenel and Reitan little turtle man I give to him free and so handed to her and she said how are you and how does when you're in us and in a in mind amazing thing you can think of thousand thoughts and one half of the second like what Magnus was the response and the fact the matter was then this is been a long week long week and all everyday. Been a long day, and Friday was turned into a really long day a really didn't want to get up go to the new Cana Fellowship on Friday morning. It was Joe was so tired but I got up and went to the 7 o'clock meeting and then the day we went on in there good things in it and I thought you know this can be a good day late in the afternoon I thought I might've got hit some golf balls today and unwind a little bit on the vinegar phone call that our nephew Zach was taken to the emergency room.

Thank you for your prayers for for Zach to many many challenges in his life and and so my sister-in-law Catherine and she's got to go get amount school, taking the emergency room because of some irregularities that they found in his blood work are very concerned about it and the so much so so don't wait Cogan taken of the hospital and so I want to go over and give them and but also on Friday night.

I really was obligated to be at the Reinhard Bunkie evangelistic crusade is a been part of the pastoral support team for this and there is a place reserved for me to be there needed to be that I wanted to be with my sister and I want to be with my nephew in the emergency room and so I said, I'm so wait here until the blood work comes back and we can see were believing together that he's going to Israel go home for the hospital and not states believe government is blood work to be good and and so about the time that was it.

Without wishing we should have results.

The nurse came in, she said, I'm so sorry we lost his blood had to come and take some more blood from the child and go back and do the test all over again. So we just sit there for another hour and finally underside do I go to not go outside aphesis catechisms here and I got my phone. I will turn around and come back on the way to Greensboro.

This is more important, but I'm also going to buy it so I'm come tornado you hate those times like that of torn and and I come out to handle lady Mark my targeting. She said how are you know I thought about saying I thought about saying you know what I'm tired. I'm tired.

I am really tired and honestly my bags are little bit they give me some trouble this this this week I felt like a man I talked to Philip Beswick at old and I said how are you he's there will which partly want know about how you immediately say what they're doing pretty good so that was limited to that.

I felt like saying you know what know I'm actually pretty worried. I'm worried about. I'm worried about my nephew.

I don't know what's going on with this in and in this family got so much they had to face over the years and I don't I don't want to have to admit in the hospital and is concerned about that and want talk about things I'm concerned about is it we just had to fix the roof piece of the roof at my church were hundred $42,000 and now there's a whole out in the parking lot where a pipe is been compromising dirt been taken away and I don't know how we will pay off the roof problem and I don't know how to pay for that and what I'm talking about that entity. We got a great radio ministry and it is just poised to just absolutely exploding 400 radio stations and I don't know how to pay the bills next month and honestly house will play some golf this afternoon but the weather has been iffy and instead I came to the hospital and then my back hurts more when I don't exercise and I gained a little bit weight something a little bit unfit today. I'm tired and I'm worried you know that's part of me thought you know now that's there's some truth to that, and I could say that but you know what instead I thought I just told I just sign the card. Rev. Alan Wright and she said how are you and I just said I'm blessed Alan Wright will have more teaching moment. Today's important series. Set your mind on God's blessing and see the curses of the world. This special offer from Alan Wright Ministries will help coincide with the release of Pastor Alan's new book having a blast. We created a clip style devotional for your gastric kitchen counter beautiful spiral-bound devotional offers 28 days of inspiration. Utilizing some of the most moving excerpts from the nubuck using day for four weeks. Keep the premises and assurance of God's blessing right in front of you wrote to Philippians whatever is true, noble, and Cuyler think on these things make a gift to Alan Wright Ministries today and will send you an inspirational flip style devotional as I thank you for your partnership. Each spiral-bound devotional come to the convening style stand thinking. Keep inspiration in front of you and fill your heart with God's blessing the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries this broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today.

We will send you special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past our.work. Today's teaching now continues once again is Alan writing when I said I'm blessed as I want you to see that was not denial of the real difficulties of life.

It was instead an utterance of something was even more true is more true to say I'm blessed and highly favored than it was at that moment to say I'm tired and worried although I'm tired and worried and there's a place for talking about that we are a church. We are people we want to open up you want to be honest when other kind of place I how are you fine prayer. Find a problem when I will be like that kind of people not saying you deny your problems cover a mop and don't pay attention to what would be real with one others a place that is saying is in that moment everything with him. He said you know the real definition of my life in the definition of this date is that I am blessed that I'm highly favored you say what you know that that's just pie-in-the-sky. That's the problem with Christian you and you know what was the evidence you be blessed today. That's a hard day you leave in the hospital for go to site your nephews and the what's going on here. Here's why I'd say that is because I've seen something I saw when I was in fourth grade I saw when my family broke up I saw it when my mother told me that Jesus is real and we could pray to him. I saw from the time I was a little boy saw Jesus was real was happiness over the years. My spiritual I've been able to see him. I can't find a sharp stupid but I can find Jesus almost anywhere. See what I have seen in faith is that he came died for my sins imputed his righteousness to me so that any given moment. The reality of what Paul said and that is I'm blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ to the fact of the matter is what I say I'm blessed. I am blast little tired backward little bit but blast.

That's what faith sees now.

When I spoke the words I'm blessed open is like when I spoke the words, like bending down picking up the short flight, I got it. It was more real to me bus speaking it and then God was good enough to have some eye that would agree with me because it's hard to find some. I will agree with you know most people rated cursor but you find one personal agree with you that your blessed and something happens doesn't. This is what happens with faith. What happens is like every day.

Parents your children are asking like the parking attendant asked me, but their asking of themselves by you meet special your kids asking how am I sleep you may not hear words from your children with a little little colicky baby keeping you up all night long to get up Miller night tired back curtain.

Wish you could play golf you got a poopy diaper baby looking up with you. That baby then say with words, but the baby is asking you see me.

How am I to you and after the naturalize what they see as messy diaper messed up sleep schedule messed up checkbook as part of the flashing is that you are messing your mess up. That's what you do so to reduced energy intake that baby that first iPhone say that they say you want to who you are. Come here.

Let me smell that baby skin. We put my nose down into this will bill you see that you will come for one more time. I tell you, you are you not the little creature that is coming here messed up our lives is Apple my you are a treasure beyond all treasures to what I see of your life is that you will grow in wisdom and stature in favor with God and you have a destiny in front of you.

You are beautiful you are fearfully and wonderfully made. I tell you I love you come here let me rock you and sing you a song psychologist and sociologists who don't even know the Bible have discovered that when that baby who cannot even say anything back to receive such blessing is that that that is the most important vital transforming experience that the child could have and without it will face many difficulties in life that little toddler grows them to hello baby grows until toddler running around the backyard and comes bounding in the house one day with muddy feet and just absolutely muddies up your nice carpet and then falls into a lamp and breaks it, you have it really hard day already and you look over that child. That child looking at you and may not ask it with words but is essentially saying how am I how do you see me and I see with the eyes of slight natural site.

See the CMS they see a bigger mess to clean up an ACM broken lamp in frustration on child and didn't think to take off a muddy shoes and the flesh wants to say is I tell you who you are. You are a mess and now you have messed up things again your mess up sometimes and faithfully as are the has a faithfully as a phase. See a rambunctious child who's got a zest for life. When you don't get almost all of your feet like that when you been doing kick in that soccer ball around. Well, that's because you will be such a fine athlete when you come running here and knock over that lamp like a I guess is because you got a lot of energy you have energy to do great things with your life. And next time you come intake issues.

Also, don't get mud all over the place. I want to remember this is you, I love not just carpet because you've been fearfully and wonderfully made in God is a great plan for your life in a destiny and I see it in faith over your life. Child what I'm saying beloved is it Jacob did something like that for his grandsons and in the eyes of God. When you look at somebody's life that looks all messed up and you have the capacity to see beyond the mess and see the potential that is inch Christ Jesus for their life in a destiny for their life because there made in the image of God, and you can see good things for them and you can speak it and you can have faith for them to flourish.

What I'm saying is that God puts that on the level of Hebrews 11 Moses and Joshua and Daniel and David and and and even God himself, say, let there be light. He's saying when you have that kind of faith in you, speak it out. You are doing something that is so miraculous and so powerful is so far-reaching is so irrevocable that it goes right here in this book.

What I'm saying. Beloved is that if you learn how to speak out blessing over others with faith for them to flourish, Moses and Joshua and Daniel don't have anything on you because you have entered into the Hall of Fame of faith you have been blessed and when you know it and you develop your spiritualize. You can bless everybody and they will be blessed and asked the gospel Allen writing today's good news message for others to flourish in our series, the power of blessing and pastor Alanis back with us in the studio, sharing his parting good news thought for the day. Stick with this. Such a mind on God's blessing instead of the curses of the world.

This special offer from Alan my ministries will help coinciding with the release of Pastor Alan's new book having a blast.

We created a flip style devotional for your gastric kitchen counter beautiful spiral-bound devotional offers 28 days of inspiration. Utilizing some of the most moving excerpts from the nubuck using day by day for four weeks. Keep the premises and assurance of God's blessing right in front of you wrote to Philippians whatever is true, noble and pure, think on these things make a gift to Alan my ministries today and will send you the inspirational flip style devotional as I thank you for your partnership.

Each spiral-bound devotional come to the convening style stand seeking keep his inspiration in front of you and fill your heart with God's blessing the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor out.work on the studio, pastor, and by the way, author of this brand-new book, the power to bless and holding it in my hands into what a great teaching going from the pulpit teaching now into the book format of not only understanding the power of blessing, but then taking that and applying it the power to bless by the way the book is available everywhere.

There's a word in both the series and the book the power to bless and there really is a power to the blessing right this is taking something so simple on our part and pairing it with the power of God. I like to the title you know little words make a difference and we called it the power to bless because I wanted there to be a great big promise in the title of the book and this is the promise. This power, which is a sharing in the very power of God is something that is available to every believer that you you are not powerless to be part of the transformation of so much is a power that God shares with you can't control people do not call to manipulate people and you're certainly not pushing but you can help change them. I blessing their today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries