See It to Be It [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright make something and then turn around and condemning the very thing that he made it all the powerful beauty then this is the very Alan Wright to another message of good news will help you see your life in a whole new light. I'm being 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.

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She just pushes the another pair shoes is like the other night I was watching a basketball game between two teams that I didn't care much about my wife off to the room she said why watching that game and I didn't understand. Question is like it's a basketball game and so it's, like that whiny that purchase. It should. And so anyway we got you some shoes and NCC deftly worked to the clearance section and got the coupon and we came up to check out Shrek and the lady that was serving us there at the cash register. The clerk was a team that she was. She wasn't happy she wasn't having a good day.

See she was a little rude when really looking at us like it was just a big inconvenience and it honestly, that's a pet peeve of mine because I grew up working in my granddaddy's clothing store and I was taught that the customer is king and you put on a happy face when I what you're feeling you serving and that she went and so I was trying not to get a little irritated that my wife, my sweet wife see see and spoke very very kindly to this woman happen to be African-American lady and she looked at her name things and my wife said will that's a beautiful beautiful thing. How you pronounce your name number with the name is right now in the lady said pronounce her name and said I love that name is beautiful and that all of a sudden one picture and she said well really she said and I'm not sure I've ever like that. My mother named me this because of the essence and answer what is beautiful and I and I laid a talk for a few moment's and as we left I like to say we have a blessed day lady said you you have blessed day to and I look back over my shoulder at the way she was interacting with the next customer was totally different but you gotta decide is just a sweet pastor's wife have in a moment where she brightened somebody's day was that powerful spiritual warfare. They just push back the darkness and won a victory in the name of Jesus say about some of the layers of of of a one minute conversation like that. Here's one of the layers is that, listen, people and pandemic people are anxious. People are tired and the simplest gesture of blessing can be transformational. Another thing that was going on all throughout the summer. As you know all kind of racial unrest everywhere right so hear something. I am wasn't thinking about all these nuances of the same when you just follow the spirit, the spirit knows all these things nuances to this part of the nuances is that different cultures have different ideologies about naming their kids. Yes, I grew up in a white culture and the idea was name the kids the same basic name thereby else's name on me as I go to like where you do don't wind up with an unusual day. Some I might make fun of Alan my brothers Mark Mould brother David. We got about 15 letters between all three. Name's there was one time in this church. We have three important leaders. All the same time they David Smith. We had two deacons on the board named David Smith and her music.

Mr. Davis met some I say who you contacted David Smith which one and NHC you know… That's part of this brother within other cultures and their their segments with African-American culture where there's a lot of creativity in the names naming is something that is very important and you know what, if you've ever been, could ever try to identify with the people that in any way be disenfranchised or were not the majority, and not the one setting all the standards you know naming your child that something that nobody can.

Nobody can do that for you so you get full, you get full swale not be as creative as you want. Follow your own heart and that whatever and there's a lot more depth to all of this you know and not just our culture but cultures all around the world right people have different in different cultures and segments in an and micro-sets of cultures within cultures people name things differently and here's what we know we can get real judgment will want to like the way I name is better when you naming you have unusual names are all choosing. So when aunt says it's a lovely name I'm interested in your name.

She's also saying that my way of naming my kids not better than the way your mother named you I like you not only affirming a person she's affirming the whole culture and she's affirming when your firm and name your affirming and identity when your firm and identity your affirming a person so I'm saying is that blessing is not just someone who is prophetically gifted. Who can cure a direct word of the Lord apply to somebody's future without knowing that they would go through 25 hospitalizations give them a word that you're gonna walk through the fire without being scorched. That's a powerful blessing, but I'm saying is just as powerful if in a simple moment, you might just tell someone they have a lovely name so I wrote this book. This is this is why Christians are were designed to live this way his day in and day out and it's it's powerful. I guess what I want to start is were going to do 66 sermons on the power to bless some of which all make some references of things I've written about, but there's so much more that I didn't put the book and then after Easter wouldn't have a focused time of our community groups putting into practice blessed these are things we've been talking about for 25 years, but what we can do is give opportunity for you to learn the craft to talk about nuances of this and become become expert and in the power blessed so but I'm happy to get a few foundational weeks with you on Sunday morning and I want to start here, that is, I think got to be the Starting Pl. in Genesis chapter 1. It is, I cannot wrap my mind around how important Genesis chapter 1 is I feel like that I could just stay in Genesis 1 years because of what it unveils about the nature of God and the nature of humanity. Genesis chapter 1 verse one in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.

God called the light day and the darkness he called night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day just highlight a few things here that will build the foundation of understanding what blessings about 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 to bless you put together some tools to get you started on the journey of speaking life and empowering the people you that the toolkit includes a message of Pastor Alan's recent sermon on the mysterious passing from the gateway to understanding the power of all blessing also included in the kit is a booklet with a list of Scriptures can be spoken directly expressing blessing scriptures are probably 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 download or available in CD and click partner 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 were stingy and 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 Alan.like teaching is in the beginning God created.

This is to say that the first thing the Lord wanted us to know about his nature in the opening verse of the Bible is that he is a creator.

He is creative. That is who God is. He's the creator of the ends of the and all encouragement begins with knowing that he made everything and therefore he is in control of everything. The prophet Isaiah said, have you not known, have you not heard the Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the year.

He does not faint or grow weary. His understanding is unsearchable. So when the prophet goes on to encourage that those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength and mount up with wings as eagles. It is all rooted in this foundation that God is a creator so it doesn't get tired. He's not like the creature altogether different and it verse two you see this God is moving. The earth was without form and void and the darkness of the face of the and the spirit of God was hovering so the Holy Spirit has a role within the triune Godhead to bring the form out of chaos. That is that what is void of its distinctiveness is not destined to remain in that chaos.

But to have the spirit bring beauty and form to it. This understand God creates in the spirit shapes what is been created, and then God spoke in verse three and God said, let there be light and there was light.

So you see the Trinity here this mystery that God is one, but three that there is a father who initiates pre-creation spirit who moves, informs and beautifies and shapes and there's a word that goes forth told by John John chapter 1 who that word is in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

He was in the beginning with God and all things were made through him and without him was not anything made that was made. So Jesus is the word so all creation came through Christ the work. So God initiates creation because he has creative power. The spirit moves bringing shape order and beauty as God speaks forth the word. It all comes into its being so this is the nature of the creative power of God and we can understand that how God fashioned all of this is by his own imaginative, creative instinct, knowing for sure that what he spoke would come to pass and that's what you call faith Hebrews 11 three says it plainly.

By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible, so God used words to create the world and the spirit in 100% harmony with the father's word that he spoke is bringing shape to all of this and so all of this creative power is immediately linked to God's blessing because as soon as he made the first day. God said that was good.

So here's what God does.

He makes something and then he blesses, he creates and he affirms it as it doesn't make something and then turn around and condemning the very thing that he made was that he made it known the holy and powerful beauty then this is the very creation when it comes to the pinnacle of his creation. What you see is that this creative instinct is still at work but notice this.

Genesis 126 now in the pinnacle with the very highest moment of his creation, God said, let us make man in our image as a mean God is more than one this is is proving that we have the Trinity.

Even in Genesis chapter 1 after our own likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the scene of the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

And so God created man in his own image. Verse 27 in the image of God he created them male and female. And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on our numbers jump in verse 31 and God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day look at this blood look at this this if the very first thing that were to know about God is that he makes and blesses the very first thing you're supposed to know about humanity, the most important thing to know about who you are here in Genesis 126, God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness in this emphasis continues in verse 27 God created man in his own image in the image of God he created them male and female you commit so fundamental. The greatest fundamental of human nature is that you are made in the image of God. It is so hard for the sinful mine to believe this but beloved. You are very, much like God.

You're not got you want to send and I have lots of sin but you are made in his image, and what this means is, though human beings are not creators or gods. We are creative like God and all blessing originates with God for every good and perfect gift comes down from heaven, though all originates with God. We are authorized to bless the creation like God.

God, the creator and a blessing and you are also designed to be creative. That means shaping and forming the world in collaboration with God imagining what can be having faith that it will come to pass and then blessing and affirming God's good creation, so that it can be released into that desk. We are in that sense makers and blisters, that's who we in Leanne Payne's brilliant chapter on creative power in her compelling book the healing presence.

She reminds us that Michelangelo commented on his greatest works like the sculpture of Moses or his famous sculpture of David saying that he saw these figures in the stone clamoring to be free and then chipped away the stone to uncover these masterpieces. Listen to what Leanne Payne writes about this. The artist then is not creators. 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 Bruce over us in the situation and comes into us who are priests of Almighty God. He doesn't see view it so much power in this thing when you're talking to a sales clerk at the cash register. 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's so let's just lay out here to radical countercultural foundations of all blessing if you can 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 will 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 her life. Alan Wright. Today's good news message seated to be from the series the power to bless also taken from Pastor Ellen's book of the same title. Pastor Ellen 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 really surpassed Allen's new book, the power to classically put together some tools to get you started on the journey of speaking life empowering the people you that the toolkit includes 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 scriptures are probably pricing can easily access them for specific situations when you make your gift to Alan Wright 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, seven 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website Pastor at work during the studio to share. Pastor Alan sporting good news thought for the day from the series that also comes from the pages of Pastor Alan's book the power to bless in your definition of blessing and I think it's key in this message hear the phrase a positive vision, a positive faith vision for someone that's key here right when you see what is a positive vision or someone because of authentic discernment and or because of what you know of the word of God to be true for their lives. Then when you proclaim that your speaking truth is grace and its truth and what that does is it helps form and identity seat and Dana were learning who we are not paid. Looking inside ourselves and saying all I'll figure out my weight the whole spirit of the ages, I would.

All that won't try to tell you by what do or who they are. Don't let Abe I tell you who your what that does not know by ourselves with her in her own signature when I was see our lives.

We need people of real discernment and godly faith. They can help speak that vision of life, so we did with foreman identity and then we are empowered out of that identity live that way and that's the power of blessing work. Today's good news message is a listener supported production of Alan Wright Ministries