See It to Be It [Part 3]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright there is a greater reality about who you are, then you might be looking like at any given moment, excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series. Power to bless taken from Pascarella's book of the same title is presented in an old church in North Carolina. 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 Ministries as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us@pastoroutin.org or call 877-544-4860 that's 877-544-4860. More on that later in the program but now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright Leanne Payne writes about this artist does not create. He is merely discover and servant to the work that is already there. The work says release me from chaos.

Give me my form. I shake my being and listening to the work, the artist frees it to become to be. She continues gift to me my form gift to me. My being the sole and chaos cries out separate me from the darkness. The stone I'm here all of me is here freely in the spirit. When we invited broods over us in the situation and comes into us who are priests of Almighty God. He doesn't see you so much power in this thing when you're talking to a sales clerk at the cash register and you might say that's a lovely you have looked into a block of stone and see sold in the same help make me form the free me for who I really am destined to be and you have is an artist chiseled away a little bit and invited the Holy Spirit to come alongside and make that person into the very one that God has designed her to be exceedingly powerful so you are a collaborator a code labor with Christ. You are in this with God doing what God does. So let's just lay out here to radical countercultural foundations of all blessing if you don't understand anything about the power blessing.

Start with these two basic foundational truths and this is the first completely countercultural. We are shaped by formative voices beyond us, not our own inner voice. We contrary to what the spirit of the age says cannot find ourselves by looking within. We need an external voice of love, authority, discernment and artistry to see us and called us forth. We need to have a vision that we can see about who we are destined to be.

If I only look inside myself. I'll only find whatever my own sinful nature, could ever find to be. I need a revelation. The only way ever become a Christian is by a light that comes into the darkness, and the only way that your ever shaped into all that you're destined to be is by light of revelation and vision. The gets painted in five is why we have to help one another to see the highest vision of heart's when the fun things and write a book like this is course just stories that are in our own MedSTAR own family and in our own church and is a good number of those and in the book once about important leader in good friend Jeff Deaton that many of you know Jeff if you don't know him is is a reproductive endocrinologist, which is a fancy way of saying he's a fertility doctor and Jeff has traveled with me a lot because he has volunteered to direct down right ministries for many years and so Jeff has been quite a servant, and he'll go off and just be there at the book table reality and resources to people and interacting and planning always in a very appreciative this will never introduce him always have fun time say this is Jeff Deaton. He is responsible for many women in our city becoming pregnant so that's just a fun way to introduce Emma and having it as a blessing and so it he's he's he's unlikely as unlikely kids to become a doctor grew up in a small Tennessee town parent at noncollege great parents but they never going to college and most of the most his friends in his town. They would graduate high school and take good hard-working jobs. But the idea of going on to college and then medical school residency and fellowship to specialty trained and become a pioneer fertility medicine is not something that he would've envisioned for his own life, but by the providence of God, his mother just mother worked for a doctor in the town. Dr. Harrison and his wife and Jeff is very good at math. Sort of a math word and did all these math competitions and stuff and the Harrison's daughter who was like the cutest girl in town. I needed help with her math and the asked Jeff to come tutor her. So not a bad gig. You know he gets to go over to her. This cute popular girl in math but just said what he was really interested in was not so much the girl but in the Harrison's because the widow over there several times a week just know that the wares are spending so much time there.

They sort of spiritually adopted him and he said what happened was that he just heard.

Conversations never heard before. He said I have assumed that learning stopped after high school or maybe Epcot.

He said, but they talked about what they were learning all the time. I never envisioned that you know maybe I was good at math or something that could relate to me going into medicine, but they talked about this all the time. He said my parents who were such good parents did not have words to articulate what they themselves could not see for my future but the Harrison's could bet you got a story like that and that's Alan Wright will have more teaching moment from today's important series inspiration and practical help to grasp is that in conjunction with the exciting really suppressed Allen's new book the power of last three put together some tools to get you started on the journey of speaking life empowering the people you that the toolkit includes a message of Pastor Alan's recent sermon on the mysterious blessing of afternoon remarks at the gateway to understanding the power of all blessing also included in the kit is a booklet with a list of scriptures that can be spoken directly as blessings blessing Scripture soprano pricing can easily access them for specific situations when you make your gift right ministries this month will happily send you the power to bless toolkit is our way of saying thanks for your partnership resources are available for immediate digital download or available in CD and a quick partner with us and be inspired and equipped to bless someone's life to 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 banks from Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website. Pastor our and data like today's teaching you once again is somebody in your life that God is used. To help you have a vision that is much higher than what you would have ever known for yourself blessing is built on this principle contrary to the spirit of the age which wrongly says don't let anybody tell you you audibly just look inside yourself and follow your own inner guide and all that mumbo-jumbo so we got, you know parents getting duped into believing that they're not supposed to tell their children anything about who they are. Parents are scared to tell their child anything about what they think their child's destiny might be or even what they think their gender might this is just the spirit of the age. What the Bible paints a picture is that there are wiser discerning more spiritually mature voices along your path they can recognize and discern real virtue actual direction and speak it and you are authorized with the power to bless people in that way just want to spend my whole life doing your artist chipping away at stone and here's the second foundational truth that you've seen from Genesis 1 and will let this be enough for today. Blessing comes first. Not after the chaos has come into beautiful for how countercultural because the way the world is to withhold blessing like a ^ that's dangled until we've proven ourselves, but with God blessing doesn't wait until the flower has blossomed before blessing the blood or even the seed that is yet to germinate with God. The blessing precedes the fruitfulness. So if you want to exercise the power to bless, then you are recognizing that your blessing the people who do not yet manifest all that you're going to speak over their lives and so there is a higher truth of greater reality about who you are, then who you might be looking like at any given moment for the truth about your life is that you are holy and set apart unto God.

Even if you're at your worst moment you still in Christ are holy unto the Lord, even if you see a human being who is doing something that is absolutely terrible.

It doesn't change the fact that human being was made in the very image of God that there is a way in which we practice faith for others to flourish and therefore can speak into their lives. What we see in faith, even though it may not yet have been manifested in our lives and this is just absolutely foundational to all blessing God is like this.

He looks with there's nothing and he envisions what can be. He speaks it in this period of God broods over and brings it into form. What you do with your life the way I looked on it when those little babies were entrusted and came in this world and I held my little baby every night and would pray and sing and bless that baby I'm sitting there looking at this little baby and discerning the mind of Christ for this child's life and's beating it before it ever come to pass, send me that your controlling or manipulating it means you're releasing it means that your blessing is very much very much an expression of just how much your like God, you're not God I'm not God.

He's the creator of the ends of the earth, but you sure are creative, you can envision what hasn't existed yet.

Imagination is godlike and you can bless in cooperation and collaboration with the Holy Spirit within broods over that which is formless and brings it into beauty swimming by the power to bless good news about all of this mystical reason of the book is that if you go walking with God for decades and decades and decades which is, what started in my life.

Now I want to be but I would decades and decades long. Will got I got so much and if you are chess today for the first time hearing about the concept blessing.

Guess what, you can start today. It's so simple and endlessly deep started us on Bennett the Redbook estimate did you like it. He said yet as good as it really really tell the truth that is as we like about Isabel is that the thing I like about blessing. He said you know is like the game of chess. He said chess you can actually learn to play about 10 to 15 minutes. You can learn what each of the different pieces on the board. Do the pawn and with the root does in the night.

You can learn to play chess about 10 to 15 so you start plan.

You could spend the rest of your life.

Learning the interesting intricacies of this amazing game and that's the way it is a blessing you could start today by speaking a positive affirming vision over someone's life in agreement with God's word spoken with your faith and discern and releasing blessing into their life and you can spend the rest of your life and all eternity discovering the depths of its power.

Every single Christian has been given the authority the power to bless MS-DOS Alan Wright. Today's good news Messenger and seated to be from the series the power to bless also taken from Pascarella's book of the same title. Pascarella is back with us in the studio shearing is boarding the new thought for the day. Stick with us inspiration and practical help to bless those who have been conjunction with the exciting release of Allen's new book, the power to bless you put together some tools to get you started on the journey of speaking life empowering the people you that the toolkit includes a message of Pastor Alan's recent sermon on the mysterious blessing from them the marks at the gateway to understanding the power of all blessing also included in the kit is a booklet with a list of scriptures that can be spoken directly as blessings blessing Scripture soprano pricing can easily access them for specific situations when you make your gift Alan Wright Ministries this month will happily send you the power to bless toolkit as our way of saying thanks for your partnership resources are available for immediate digital download or available in CD and a partner with us and be inspired and equipped to bless someone's life to 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 thanked him Alan Wright Ministries, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor out.org back in the studio with Pascarella and reporting good news thought for the day.

This is something that anybody can do right.

Anybody can learn to bless nothing that's what's so powerful about this. Daniel is one of these want to keep reiterating with our listeners is that the blessing though it is not as familiar to us is fundamentals like prayer or the meditational Scripture or that in in the worldview of the Bible.

It is just as fundamental. It is something that is absolutely essential part of a daily part of the of the Christian life and so you know you would never say well I'm knocking to pray until I can pray with great eloquence and mighty faith know you to start praying you would never say well I'm just not going to start loving somebody until I can love them perfectly now just start where you are. When this is same thing will blessing and it's a very simple process.

Daniel where is simply become a treasure hunter look for that treasure, and others. Do you know someone right now that I'd say were listener that you see a virtue that person more clearly than he or she can see them selves well speak that out. I see this quality in your then a second step is attached to that quality. Something about what that means for their identity so you don't just say hey I saw you being very patient the other day with your little sister. And that's a beautiful quality about you. Then you relate that insight.

I think that this is how God has made you and it's who you become and are becoming a very patient person and then you attached to that quality a positive future. People who are able to be patient find that they end up receiving and stepping into many good things because a lot of good things come to those that are able to wait and it's a world in which people are generally impatient, but I see you as being patient. We see we start speaking something like that into a child's life or anyone's life and it becomes very very powerful that anybody can learn how to do that and as you have said.

The book goes real deep with the concept of blessing, but lots of nourishing stories and then the and we actually have a worksheet where you can take a step-by-step approach and learn how to do this, as you could start today Pascarella and I know you're careful to differentiate what a positive faith vision in this teaching see it to be. It is compared to what some may be nervous or afraid is just positive thinking and creating something out of nothing that that doesn't have any behavioral basis right. One of things is very important in the book. Towards the end of the book and please when you get the book. Make sure you make it to this chapter and ends and and really you gotta turn your like any to say to her kindergarten students.

You got to turn your brain to put your thinking cap on right but it is to say that Jesus came full of grace and truth. Not that Jesus was sometimes grace and sometimes truth would gotta what we are right in other days of the tyrant like I got a lot of grace. Other days as like it's all truth. You know Jesus was 100% gracious hunts and truthful at all times and I think that blessing.

One way to understand blessing. Is it blessing is grace and truth, and the more that you can have grace and the more you have truth at the same time, the more powerful the blessing and I really dive deep into this because the opposite of blessing is curse where there is no grace and there is no truth, the devil wants to lie and bring no grace in your life. That's what curse is all about well but there are other expressions of speech that using the same idea, grace and truth.

If you have all grace, but no truth which is something we hear a lot of in culture. I would call that a moralism it's theirs.

That's like saying there is no right or wrong that's not that's not a blessing is not a blessing to tell somebody something that's false right to just magically think I can pull some out here. I'll fill out Hussite you know our many many blessings I spoke to my son but I never said to hey I think you're gonna be a great NBA All-Star one day. No bit is about five 8 1/2 and an end and basketball what Ms. thing so to been ridiculous and wrong to say I think you'll be a great NBA that just wouldn't resonate with the truth.

It would be right on the other hand, there's a form of speech that I would call moralism. It's got a lot of truth but it's got no grace is kind of the Pharisees.

The Pharisees had a lot of truth but Jesus is your like whitewashed tuning full of dead men's bones.

You could you search the world over a government comprises that hell you are, and what that the law was bad because there was no there was no grace to accompany the truth. They had so when we bless we are not talking about magical thinking and were not talking about purely just positive thinking and were not saying in some clichéd way I go just you know vision it, name it. Claimant note we're talking about something that is rooted in Scripture has real discernment with it and is is a is a release of of a faith vision that then helps form someone's identity. That's what blessing is all thanks for listening today.

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