Gateway Church's Podcast
The Secret of Seeing
A Gateway Sermon
You have your Bible I want you to turn to two particular chapters once you go to Luke chapter 11 and Genesis chapter three Luke chapter 11 and Genesis chapter three I want to show you something this morning that I've seen in the last five months since I've departed from here. I love this about God is that the day you get saved you start a journey and the journey never ends. I'm looking forward to heaven don't get me wrong but I love heaven here and if you know anything about me if you have an inkling of who I am I'll put it down to you in a nutshell I want what Jesus said we could have and this is what he said I know you're in a forty day of fasting and prayer when he said to disciples teach us to pray he said pray for the kingdom of God thy kingdom come thy will be done where how hmm that's what I want to know how do we get that kingdom that's unseen and to this kingdom which we do see and where does it intersect I want to know where that crossroads is I'm a bottom line kind of guy I want to know where the rubber meets the road I don't care about the fluff you show me a coconut pie take a cream off I want to coconut I'm looking for the stuff that's what I'm looking for I've seen some things in the last five months that have caused me to see an intersection here well these two worlds meet and that's what I want to show you this morning so if you have your Bible open up to Luke 11 first before I go there I'm going to read you a couple verses out of mark just to set the tone for the message titles the secret of seeing I'm going to show you a secret I've seen and it is about seeing but this verse in mark chapter four verse ten says this but when he Jesus was alone with those around him and with the twelve they asked him about the parable he just spoke now I want you to understand something right up front how many of you are in a Bible reading program right now you're trying to read through the Bible in the year don't be embarrassed if you're not it's okay I love those so I'm about to make a statement about that so don't get mad at me I love Bible reading programs but sometimes Bible reading programs cause us to read to check things off to get to the next place I just want to caution you when I read the Bible one of the things I've learned to do is I've learned to have a conversation with God as I read and you know what lightning had struck and it hadn't killed me yet so evidently he's not too frustrated by it all right so I just read you a sentence of a verse that I want you to see again what's this but when he was alone those around him with the twelve asking him about the parable now who's here it's okay to talk in church and doesn't offend God matter of fact I was just talking to him backstage he's in a good mood he likes you it's all right who's here the twelve they're here are there others here okay how many have ever heard the theology that most of all that he spoke was to the twelve and to the twelve on anybody ever heard that theology all three of you very good all two of you I think somebody had their hand halfway that theology is out there that it's not for everybody it's just for something it was for the select and when that handed it was over I'm telling it's alive got him right here the twelve were here but there's others here and I want you to see what he says in the midst of those twelve and the others being there he says this to you the twelve to you the others it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God what did he want them to know he wants them to know the mystery of the kingdom of God but to those who are on the outside all things come in parables now again when I read the Bible I just have a conversation with God I said okay God I'm going to be honest with you it appears to me that this looks like your partial to you has been given but to you is not man you read that way can you see it that way that's what I said I said now I read other verses that say you're not partial so which is it he said I'm not partial I said well then why does it look like you're partial he said okay where are you in the context of this scripture it's very important to know where you're in the content he just read them up here he just spoke a parable and that parable was about the solar of the sea which is really a parallel out the heart which is really showing a picture of four conditions of people's hearts it's all it is okay he said if you don't understand that when you can't understand any of the others according to what Jesus said he said this is the foundational parallel out of the thirty eight he spoke this is the foundational one so I said to him you mean to tell me that you're not partial so what's the difference and he said the difference is people's hearts I said okay help me a little bit more he said the reason is given to some and not given to others is not dependent upon me it's dependent upon them the condition of their heart some can receive in some can't because something already occupies their heart and has hardened it and therefore they can't receive I said oh he said that's why the Pharisees Isaiah prophesied about they would see the miracles they would hear the truth but it wouldn't penetrate their heart because something else was already there and because it was already there they won't get what I'm giving which is the mystery of the kingdom you see that okay so what he wants us to catch is the mystery of the kingdom how do you want us to catch he said I want you to know right there again in the verse verse 11 so you had been given to know and listen this is what I heard the Holy Spirit say for the church right here this weekend I've said it in every service and I'm gonna say it in this one because I believe what he spoke to me in the very first service is a word for now he said to me sitting on the front row last night he said the church is obese with knowledge this is not in my notes I had no thought of this prior to the services are coming he said the church is obese with knowledge but we are in starvation with experience I'll give you an illustration at the age of 12 I had knowledge of salvation but it wasn't until I was 14 I experienced it and they're worlds apart you can have all the knowledge you want about healing it's a whole lot different than experiencing you can have all the knowledge you want about freedom and how to get free from bondage is of the enemy it's a whole lot different than knowing and actually experiencing it so I'm not talking to you this morning about gaining some insight so you'll notice it yep I know that I'm talking to you about something this morning that you can actually experience that has the potential to change your life forever see the difference all right so what is it he wants us to know and experience he wants us to know and experience the mystery of the kingdom now what is the mystery you see how when you read the Bible you can ask questions you see how you have a conversation do you think he just chose those words because of us and acute he chose those words because they have specific meaning he was trying to convey something he's trying to reveal the father to us okay every kingdom has a king right every king sets up rules if we play by the king's rules we get what the king says if you don't no wonder the church doesn't see all that we want to see we're not understanding his mysteries now I'm gonna tell you something about mysteries that I know I read in the Greek this word mystery I read the English part I'm not a Greek scholar you can do it too that word mystery means secret that's where I got the power of the servant secret I'll show you the mystery of seeing just a second the secret of seeing but I want you to understand about mystery means secret now what says how many do you tell your enemies your secrets you don't how many tell your servants your secrets and may be depending on the depth of the secret how many would you tell your best friend your secrets I'd do that listen what Jesus said what says when he's leaving he says to his disciples I no longer call you servants but I call you friends if you can catch a picture this morning Jesus is trying to move us from servanthood of obeying to understanding secrets out of our heart from his heart he wants to move you into friendship so let's look at a secret all right now a secret is a lot like a riddle anybody ever played the riddle game at your house have your friends over play the riddle game I want to share riddle then you can ask yes or no questions great this game is really not popular anymore we used to do it evidently I'm not doing any more because it's just nobody does it let me give you one riddle kind of help you understand what I'm going to talk about this mystery this secret a riddle could be something like this if you come over to our house we're sitting around the living room and say okay we're going to do the riddle game and you can only ask yes and no questions I'll share the riddle then you can ask yes and no questions and whoever gets it then lo and behold you get the share riddle won't this be fun okay here's a real a man was on his way home he encountered a man with a mask and he realized he would never get there people said okay I said I'll say it again a man was on his way home encountered a man with a mask and he realized he would never get there so the first question is only did the man with a mask have a gun nope did the man with the mask was it Halloween nope and so somebody in the in the group starts thinking outside the box like you should do with God did the man in the mask have a glove yes did the man in the mask with the glove have a ball in it yes did the man in the mask tagged the man who rounded third base out at home yes is this a baseball game yes you see what happened to you even in the short time we talked about that really went oh oh I got it and that's what happens with God he likes to say I'm going to show you a mystery I'm going to show you a secret and you go and then he says a little bit more oh I still ah that's what I want you to see this morning I'm going to share one secret with you and then I'm going to show you the revealing of the secret and then I'm going to show you who lived that secret all right here we go to Luke chapter 11 no one when he has little lamp verse 33 puts that lamp in a secret place or under a basket but on a lamp stand that those who come in may see the light no mystery there no secret there and you turn the light on is for our benefit and for everybody who comes in here's the secret verse 34 the lamp of the body is the eye the lamp of the body is the eye therefore when your eye is good watch what the potential of the eye has the eye has the ability when it's good to make the whole body full of light but when your eye is bad your whole body is full of darkness therefore take heed take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness so I'm reading this verse and I said to the Lord okay I don't get it are you talking about our physical lives I mean do people who have trouble with sight did they not get to play you know I'm 44 and am I getting dimmer in here is a more darkness because I can't see he says it has nothing to do with your physical life I said okay what does it have to do with he's one so glad you asked once you turn the Genesis chapter 3 and I'll show you I say great now a year ago I preached a message to you gateway that was entitled relationships gods intent I read these exact verses to you in Genesis chapter 3 these exact verses I never saw what I'm going to show you I thought I preached the whole council of God on these where I had full revelation don't ever get that message it doesn't have a clue within it don't download that one this one it's a replacement message I can't believe I'm reading the exact book and I don't see any of this it's like did you rewrite this another time because I mean it wasn't in my Bible last year he said yeah it was alright verse one chapter 3 now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field we're looking for the mystery of the secret of the eye watching see if you see it he was more cunning than any beast of the field with the Lord God had made he said to the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden that's the question that the serpent asked eat and the woman said to the serpent listen you dumb snake what do you think it I didn't say it watch he said we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden God said you shall not eat it nor shall you touch it lest you die now did God say that it's okay talking church he did say part of that he didn't say all of that she added a little something God said if you eat of it you shall all three of you thank you you shall that's what God said alright Jesus I'm going to show you something Jesus said your eye has the ability to create light and darkness God said it has the ability to create life and death we're talking about life and death light and darkness there they're they're alike watch she said you can't touch it or eat it God didn't say that God said you could juggle it if you wanted to you could sniff it you could lick it you can play golf with it you can't eat it that's all he said the moment you eat it death will happen now watch what Satan says back his defense to the woman said in verse four then the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die for God knows what's the accusation like he's keeping something from them God knows in the day that you eat of it your eyes will be open and you got to be very careful when you read stuff that he says because he's a liar right he's the father of lies so when I see anything that he says I watch it your eyes will be open in verse four and you will be like God like he's withholding something from them knowing good and evil so what's this verse six so when the woman saw wait now her physical eyes are working pretty well weren't they when the woman saw that the tree was good for food that it was pleasant to the eyes they're working just fine the tree desirable to make one wise that's what made her do it that God was whole withholding wisdom from her he wouldn't she took of his fruit and she ate she also gave it to her husband with her and he ate then look at verse seven then the eyes of both of them were what now wait didn't that any exactly what Satan said would happen he said if you eat of it your eyes will be open that's not what God said right God said you'd die Satan said if you eat of it your eyes will be opened and that's exactly what happened in verse seven and it said and their eyes were open so here's the question when you're reading the Bible you have to have conversations you have to say to the Lord what did they see prior to this and what do they see now and here's the secret what he's revealing to us here is there are two views of life the first view that Adam and Eve had in the garden prior to eating the fruit was that God supplied everything he was in the center of their world their very existence came from God the food they ate came from God their marriage came from God their relationships came from God their job description came from God everything that was in their life came through the eyes to their view of the father that he was the one they gave at all okay what happened after they ate the fruit what did they see for the very first time they saw themselves they had had no self-awareness that had no self-consciousness they knew nothing about self now how could Satan tell them the truth of what would happen he didn't just know about it he had already experienced it because when he stormed the gates of heaven and said God I will be equal to you God said no you will not be when he did that for the very first time he saw himself that's why he knew if I can make an accusation against God and get them to entice them to eat of the fruit the tree I know they'll experience death but I'll make them think they want to experience that that they'll actually be getting a benefit that they'll see something they've never seen before and when they saw themselves for the first time what did they do they hid themselves they had shame and they drew from the very life that created them can I tell you a view of yourself will not once but will always create death so what is our problem our problem is we have two big a view of ourselves and two little view of God Adam and Eve only knew a view of God and then they got a picture of themselves our problem is advantage we've only had a view of ourselves and we're trying to get a glimpse of God so let me examine for just a minute let's just stop here just a second these are the two views if you want to know the secret here it is you're living life today right now from one of these two views from a view of yourself or from a view of God Satan would love to trap you in the view of yourself this is what he's after this is how he trapped Adam and Eve listen the decision they made in the garden that day is the same decision you and I make every day it wasn't a one time decision it's an every day decision it's an every moment decision it's an every second decision we have to decide today and you're the only one that can decide it my wife bless ease heart she's not deciding it for me I'm deciding it am I going to live in the life in the view of that God is in control of this and that he has something for me to do or am I going to live in the view that I'm you know I got some stuff to do here I'm pretty important let me just show you on scale one to ten one being the lowest ten being the highest how enemy would like to trap you in the view of yourself okay see if you recognize these people down here at all I'm worthless I don't even know why I'm alive and on why God ever created me I don't I don't have anything to offer anybody in life you know nobody loves me everybody hates me I'm going to the garden to eat worms anybody ever been invited this pity party nobody ever shows up do they it's only you by yourself but see the enemy would love to track you down here on this end of the scale and your view of yourself is I'm worthless I have nothing off and he just keeps it and puts depression on you he puts all these things in and he keeps keeps pounding you in and you're what you don't have anything offering and you're sick and you ought to just tell yourself who you think is motivating that this is a pity part of this is the low end scale if you have any measures success at all he says oh man they're doing good they're doing good so I can't trap them down there they refuse to stay down there they crawled out of that deep depression and there and they're on the way and then so he tries to trap you on the other hand he said you know I'm really God's gift mankind really don't know how the earth ever got along without me being here I'm pretty important don't you know who I am would you like to touch me a lot of people down here so I think I'm going to go back that way that was terrible the enemy trying to trap you on both ends or somewhere in the middle the father said that this way it's life or death this is death why because it steals the life of God Jesus says he called it light and called it darkness this is darkness take heed that the light that's in you not darkness okay if he can't trap you here I know you're in a forty days of fasting and prayer I'm in the forty days of feasting and prayer I'm not going to tell you when I'm having for lunch if he can't trap you in yourself if he can't trap you to live in your life about yourself then he tries to trap you in your view of God okay he's trying to trap you in your view of yourself this is the mystery this is the secret or he tries to trap you in your view of God so let's take our view of God on the scale of one to ten can be in the greatest one being the leaf he tries to get us down here and say don't you know God's distant he's cold he's uninvolved he doesn't want to be involved with you he sent Jesus so he could take us a radical Jesus came back so he sent the Holy Spirit he's sitting on the throne taking a nap I can prove it to you you remember when they used to go visit God once a year they had to have blood on the priest got to go just in case he didn't come back they put a rope around his ankle because you know God he's a little mad don't kick him off and he got a lot of rules and regulations and you can make him mad he tries to paint this picture all the time and if you beg Jesus long enough well he's not here anymore if you beg the Holy Spirit to beg Jesus and he'll beg God maybe you'll get something but you got to ask a lot you ever heard that who's painting that picture this is not who God is he's on the other end of the scale what he wants for you to catch he wants you to catch a view that I sent Jesus so that I could have relationship with you I sent the Holy Spirit so that I can empower you to have relationship with me in the earth I sent those gifts to the Holy Spirit to help you have relationship with me to draw you into me to entice you to come through Jesus to me I want to be involved in everything you do this is the view that God wants us to have but many of us somewhere between one and ten this being ten we get hung up down in here and we don't know God loves us listen he does and anything between here and there is a accusation of Satan just like it was in the garden from him to get you trapped in your view of God he can't trap you in your view yourself he tries to trap you in your view of God and I'm telling you God's bigger than both of them so let me give you an illustration that works if you know me at all I mean at all you know I'm interested in three things there's been three things that have been missing from the church for 50 years those three things are called the gift of faith the gift of miracles and the gift of healing there've been absent in the church for 50 years not present at all hardly and some of it looks weird so I've been asking Lord he's been stirring me in our conversation he's been stirring me said I want you to start praying for people so in the last few years I've been I've been praying for more and more people you know and we come to church and I've got real comfortable with people come up say hey I've got six great let's pray you know and I'm you know oh boy and we've seen some miracle we've seen cancer disappeared we've seen a little girl who needed a bone in her neck she didn't have one her head just fluffed around pray for her and her bones back in her neck she know long flops around you she kind of likes it we had a little boy over at Lake Country Church that had diabetes juvenile diabetes been taking his own shot every day of his life he didn't have tight those shots anymore he thinks that's kind of cool my wife had she had a mole growing on her shoulder and the thing kept growing and growing and getting ugly and ugly and my mom said to her she's no doctor but she said that's cancer my wife said really my mom was being sweet about it my wife said hmm Lord what do you say about it he said I gave you authority to curse it okay I do and fell off oh it was already coming off wasn't it no wouldn't it shriveling just a little bit no it was growing she just decided to curse it it's no longer there she kind of likes that she said don't think my shoulders pretty I said huh huh I did so what's been talking to us about healing talking to us about praying for people so we got boldness you know inside the church in the music's playing you feel the goosebumps and you know you feel the presence and you pray for people so one day I'm talking to the Lord and he said to me hey how many miracles did I do inside the church and I said you did it much he said how many miracles did I do outside the church and I said where are you going with this he said answer the question I said you did more outside the church he did inside the church he said huh in that shocking and you don't pray for anybody outside the church Lord those people out there mean people in here they love me out there they mean he said get over it I said so you want me to start praying for people out now okay so that's fresh on my mind two months ago my wife and I go to Aversons and we're in Aversons shopping for groceries men pay attention to this I'm with my wife shopping for groceries you're taking notes right this down she likes it she tases me the rest of the week when I go note to south groceries when you're going to go to store so we're in the grocery store we're minding our own business and we got our cart phone we got it we're paying for our groceries and out of the clear blue we see this little lady over there he was bent at the hill she got her neck cocked up like this because she can't stand up straight and you can tell she's got an infirmity she's right here with the grocery cart and she's looking right above the bar and she's pushing it and my heart breaks that this woman is on and she reminded me of the woman in the scripture with the infirmity that Jesus lose 18 years later after the infirmity and my wife hits me she said you ought to pray for her I look back to what's my of your prayer it broke but I'm already feeling I mean my heart's breaking for this woman I have my feeling compassion for her but all of a sudden I feel this like what am I going to say to her how am I going to get her to agree people at church they come to me I feel the music they know music out here I don't feel any good sponsor I don't feel like praying for healing today and she said pray for her and so she finished his her groceries about the same time we finished ours and she's out to start heading out the door and so we're going out the door and my wife said I'll take the basket so your hands will be free so I'm I'm trying to walk as a slow pace as I can get because I don't know what to say but this woman moving at a slower pace than me I'm catching her very fast and I don't know what to say I don't know what I'm going to do how am I going to approach her I mean she's going to think I'm a pervert or a weirdo or a wacko or something and about that time her receipt blows out of her bag on to the parking lot I said from heaven thank you I pick up her receipt and I run up to her and I said man you dropped your receipt you want it she says now I said I told you they're all mean they're all mean now what do you say I said could I take your buggy for you? I'm like dear God she needs more in prayer so I grab her buggy and I mean she's looking at me you know I mean think about this woman's life for a moment she has no friends she could golf that everywhere she goes I put her buggy up and I see her getting a car and slam the door I mean she really I me hard I'm thinking oh God I don't know what I'm doing out here and so you know my heart says go go go go go go go go I just go back and get my car shut the door my says then you pray for us a shut up talking about this see that's gonna cause me not to chase you I know it I lost I'll go to the grocery again with you next week so two weeks later I'm listening to this guy preach and in the midst of the preaching I hear the Lord say hey I want to talk to you about that woman in the parking lot I know you're gonna bring her up somewhere I said Lord I'm sorry I'm just too afraid I've got fear all over me I can't do it out there they're just they're mean and I just there's no music and there's I just can't do it he said it's not fear I said well if here feels a whole lot like it he said his cousin or something because it feels like him he says not fear he said you have to big a view of yourself I said excuse me he said you have to big a view of yourself I said help me understand he said Jeff you see your in capabilities you see your lack of power you see all these things you see your thought life you see and your you think you're afraid of what others gonna think he said what it is is you have to big a view of yourself and you don't have a big enough view of me he said let me tell you ultimately what it is not only that you have a big view of yourself the big thing is you really don't think I'm gonna back you up I said why you have to be right all the time and that's it I realized at that moment I really didn't think God was gonna back me up it's a can I tell you something Jesus never thought that because he saw exactly who I was so what you need to catch you you need to catch a bigger view of who I am because when you catch a bigger view I am the life on you dims and when you catch a view of me yourself begins to fade away he said I'm privy to you it happened to the hundred and twenty when they were in the upper room they called such a view of God when the upper room that when the spirit of God came down on them they didn't care what they look like they had lost all self-awareness totally that's that's good anybody else he said Enoch I said oh Old Testament not just New Testament he said yeah he said Enoch Enoch walked so close with me for 300 years I took him he was six generations removed from Adam and Eve if you think they couldn't do it in the Old Testament how did Enoch do it he had such a view of God that he pressed in so hard he got so close he had the view down the tent on the scale God can do it and he took him he said how about Lycia I said what about Lycia he said what do you think his view of me was that's why I think he had a pretty good one he said well do you remember the story he took me to second Kings he said remember the story when the servant went out that day of breakfast and he looked out in the Syrians and surrounded the whole city and they were coming to get a Lycia and him and he backed back into the room he said hey yo Eli we're in trouble he goes we're not in trouble he goes you ain't been out there to look at he said those who are forced are greater than those who are against this he goes would you mind going to take a look because there's two of us and there's a bunch of them when I add that up my mask says that is a loss he said go look again and then as the servant of a Lycia walks out the door he prays his prayer father opened his eyes and letting see what you've already shown me he walks out and he sees the hills field with the armies of God comes back in with a little struct hey Eli we're all right but now here my question to you is this do you think that servant ever forgot that experience not a knowledge thing that experience do you think that might have carried through the rest of his life you see this is what I'm praying for you today I'm praying that God will open your eyes take the secret of seeing and let you get such a view of God that we could care less about ourselves we could care less about what people think about what we're wearing where we're living what we're driving we could care less what they think about us praying for people in the public we could care less about us we could care only about what the father says and does and when we catch that folks that's when we'll start having church that's the secret to see my concern for the church today is along the lines of the prodigal son most of the time we've talked about the prodigal son the one that left and squandered his father saying that was the tragic part of the story I'm telling you it's not the tragic part of the story I've seen it in a different life the tragic part of the story is the son who stayed home who lived in daddy's house his whole life who was around daddy every day and never caught daddy's heart that's the tragedy this is what I don't want to happen at the end of my life I have been in the house my whole life and I never once caught daddy's heart I'm trying to catch his heart now and he says to me it's not about you that brings death not once but every time it's about me and when you tap into me I will bring life every time and I want you to change your view of me I am not distant and cold I am present every day and I want to do something in your life today and when you get that view this little woman will be a piece of cake I said hammer down let's get it met a man a couple months ago actually I met him a year ago I saw him a couple months ago his name is Ray Ray is in his late 70s early 80s he's a good guy Ray's a golfer which is godly and he was out golfing one day and in the green that he was just finished putting on he's walking down this incline because it was an elevated green he was he walking down he tripped and stumbled and rolled to the bottom and when he came to at the bottom of the hill he realized his excruciating pain in his ribs he realized I've messed up and so they pick him up carefully they get him to the emergency room they take the x-rays and he just confirms what he already knows he's shattered he is broke he's busted up his ribs are separated and broken I mean he's he's messed up and the doctor is one of his really good friends for a long time so Ray I love you bro but there's nothing I can do for you there's some pain pills you're gonna have to go home get flat and it's gonna take a while he gets that diagnosed takes the pain pills he goes home and he's sitting on the side of the bed and I mean where's the masculine guy I mean he looks like John Wayne I mean when you're around I mean you know we're going hunting trips he's got the 45s trap he's got these boots that you know rattlesnakes couldn't bite he could stomp their head and kill them and I mean he carries his gun and he got this cute little hat and he walk around me he looks like John Wayne I mean you don't want to mess with him but inside his most tender sweet guy he's sitting on the side of his bed he's just weeping he's not a wimp he just weeping because the pain so excruciating and Ray said I was sitting there Jeff and I just weeping and it dawned on me I'm not talking to my daddy about this and this thought hit him I'm gonna read you this version we're done he said this thought hit him he said hey dad where were you today about ten o'clock weren't taking a nap where he and then he quoted this word Psalms 91 12 in their hands they shall bear you up lest you dash your foot against the stone I want to know where you are you said you pointed ain't it did my angels take the app morning off did they not go the golf course I know it's godly you see how he's talking to god does it sound like he's a little cocky because this way he's telling me I'm not making this up you know what it is Ray has a view of God down here that says he said I can come into the throne boldly I don't have to be timid because not mad he not hacked off he likes me and I can talk with him honestly you'd be shocking to have an honest conversation with God wouldn't it this is what Ray's having Ray said after that conversation with the Lord he said I went to bed I woke up the next morning nothing and changed nothing so I was excruciating pain said I went to bed that next night and I woke up the next morning and you know how you brace yourself get out of bed we got pain especially when you're broken ribs he tries to get out of bed he goes hey and so he tenderly put his hand up there and he's like no pain so he stands up out of bed and he starts no pain any no pain so he calls his doctor say doc something happened I got to come down and see I want you to take x-rays in me again he said Ray I've known you a long time you're not taking those drugs real serious are you said have you overdeed on those drugs but come on take more and I told you he said no no no so he runs down the doctor's office they shoot x-rays again he said Ray it's a miracle it's a miracle no explanation other than god has healed you it's a miracle so I sat there I said so what'd you do after that he said I went play golf I said well how'd you do that he said almost shot my age it was a great day what does he know that maybe you and I don't know can I tell you it's the secret of seeing he's lost sight of himself and he's found the sight of God he's looked in the very heart of God and he's called a glance of our daddy what view of you in life from this morning what do you see I'm gonna ask it about your heads father my prayer today is for everyone in the sound of my voice to catch such a glimpse of you that we lose sight of us God would you move on us like you moved on the servant of Elisha what Elisha saw what Enoch saw what David saw what 120 saw or what Jesus knew what Ray knows would you move so much on us that we could see what we don't want to know more about you we want to experience you and one of these days of 40 days of fasting and prayer I'm asking you would you move in on the people of Gateway Church and unveil unveil the eyes and let them see in this I pray in Jesus name Amen (gentle music)