Eyes Up – Touré Roberts

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okay so hebrews chapter 12

not unfamiliar at all you know this

passage you’ve

heard it some of you preached it

it says therefore we also since we are

surrounded by so great

a cloud of witnesses

let us lay aside every weight and the

sin which so easily ensnares us

and let us run with endurance

the race that is set

before us let us

let us run with endurance

the race

that is set before us the race the race

the race the life

the journey

that has been

set oh i feel the spirit

that that has been set before us in

other words your life no matter how

challenging

it may be or difficult it may be in

moments

that race has been set

before you

because you can handle it i feel god

you can handle it you can handle your

race you can’t handle my race

and you weren’t given my race

but you can handle yours i’d never seen

that before until i started studying

this passage of scripture this race this

race

has been placed

in your life

this moment this season the challenges

the highs the low all of those things

boom

have been set before you are we tracking

so

as a result of that let us run with

endurance it’s going to cost you

something

you’re not just going to waltz through

it

there’ll be some seasons where it will

feel like a waltz

there will be other seasons where it

feels like

something else

milliwhop

times a thousand or something anyway

that

so i have to have endurance but but i

can have endurance

if i know the race has been

set

so the set race has been set

and i have been ordained and anointed

to win

[Laughter]

god wouldn’t put you in a race you

weren’t anointed to win

so so it’s just a matter of endurance

that’s why galatians says be not weary

you know this in your well-doing for in

due season you’re gonna reap

if you don’t give up

did you hear me all i gotta do is not

quit

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let us run with endurance the race that

is set before us

looking unto jesus

the author and the finisher of our faith

that’s amazing that’s amazing but we

won’t do that now

who for the joy that was set before him

endured the cross

yo in his race was the cross

yo

and before the cross rejection

and isolation

and loneliness

and betrayal

i think i would have died at betrayal

i would have quit i i i wouldn’t have

done galatians 6 9 well

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and yet

it says

that

his race

involved the cross it says it says set

in our looking unto jesus the author and

the finish of our faith who for the joy

that was set before him so so there was

something set before him in his set race

we’ll get to it

endured the cross

despising the shame oh man

just he was humiliated

and he knew he was going to be

humiliated and yet and still went on why

because he knew

for the joy that was set before him and

do it across the surprising shame watch

this despise machine and

has set down

at the right hand of the throne of god

he knew the end

in the beginning family if we’re going

to walk with god i’m going to pray we’re

going to get into this if we’re going to

walk with god we’re going to have to

learn how to watch this

receive perceive and experience the end

in the beginning and in the middle

i feel the lord

and that’s what i want to get at today i

want to talk today it’s just it’s a

prophetic

exhortation it’s a word and it’s simply

two words

eyes up

eyes up

eyes up god’s gonna wish for that to you

eyes up one more passage

psalm 16 8

it says

i have set the lord always before me

because he is at my right hand

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i shall not be moved

father we love you

we thank you

we need you

and god i just

i sense your rich love for every person

present watching listening it is rich

it is radical it is overwhelming

and it is intentional

and it is not your desire that one

person leave out of here untouched

deeply

and sharpened

in this area of focus

to the extent that they will ride in

their high places

hallelujah and never be shaken to the

extent that they were shaken up to this

point again

i thank you god that you’re going to

show them how to navigate this season

and every season

that hidden in this this this scripture

is an insight

that will cause us

to rise above

no matter what

thank you for the spirit of wisdom and

revelation and insight and knowledge and

prophecy and and full use to heaven’s

resources full access to heaven’s

resources god to produce in your sons

and daughters that which is beautiful

that which is divinely inspired and

ordained that which will change us

from the inside out forever

in jesus name

amen amen god bless you please be seated

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so awesome to be here with you um

my wife and i just just celebrated um

seven years of

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marriage it’s so so amazing

uh to to see what god

can do when god does something

you catch all you say

it’s amazing to see what god can do when

god does something and we’re so blessed

and we decided to get away

uh we were tired y’all anybody ever been

not tired we were tired like just

just dragging we just drug ourselves to

the airport

it was it was crazy we just come off of

an incredible conference woman evolve

conference who went to woman evolve

oh my sweet jesus what god did at that

conference was just

i mean in fact not what he did what what

he’s doing he’s it’s still happening

what would happen if you just so

happened to be there what would happen

to you is still happening to you

and it will continue to happen to you

that’s the way a touch of god works when

god touches you it is an eternal touch

and i’m digressing i need to stay

focused but

but we were tired because god was doing

a lot of things and there were a lot of

things happening and we just felt so

blessed to to steward

that that moment

um

and so we got away

and we decided to go somewhere we had

never been before

and and we went

um

far away

and

overseas

and

the whole trip was incredible i mean it

was amazing it was breathtaking it was

beautiful it was heaven on earth i mean

it was just awesome except for one part

there there was we we ended up going to

two islands and and and the first island

uh you know everything was fine you know

the plane everything the second island

um

they decided to put us on this this

little

teeny weeny plane

i mean a little plane i wish i had a

picture of it i would i would show you

but it was i mean it was like i’ve never

been on a plane this small before

it was like

i mean the thing was tiny so tiny

that you know

we were sitting sarah and i were sitting

next to each other and we barely had

enough room

in the seat

and then you know and then so so we’re

waiting for the pilot to get in the

plane

and uh we’re waiting for the pilots

plural to get on the plane because

they’re you know the two sets of

controls there and i’ve never been on a

plane that didn’t have more than you

know that had two pi know that’s my

experience is two pilots right you got

your pilot in your co-pilot in case

something happens to the pilot the

co-pilot is there and the co-pilot can’t

ride

so one guy climbs on this little itty

bitty plane

and i’m like where’s your co-pilot like

what

and this little thing we’re gonna need

some backup so i said okay you know i

was feeling adventurous i’m like okay

baby we’re gonna you know we’re gonna

we’re gonna we’re gonna this thing

out a little bit you know what i mean

and uh and it was real cool you know a

little runway and then we lifted up over

that water

and uh things got a little confusing

and uh you know and and so here we are

on this little plane this tiny plane and

we’re gonna be on this plane for an hour

on a little

tiny plane with one pilot

and

i don’t know how to fly

and sarah doesn’t know how to fly

and what i didn’t know until after the

flight is that we were actually both

freaking out inside

but we had too much pride

to tell each other i mean we’re in

tongues and we’re smiling you know

but

we’re in tongues under our breath

and it’s horrible

and then we’re too far from the old i

mean we’re just all you see is water

deep water and there’s nothing around us

and then i’m not gonna lie to you like

you know your your holy ghost field

faith believing in god for miracles this

is a house of miracles now look you hear

me say oh that went out the window

i’ll be honest with you

and i started looking at the water

and then i started looking at the single

pilot

and then my imagination starts running

wild with me

and then i start thinking what if he has

a heart attack

and what’s sad was

it should have been a compassionate

thought for the guy

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oh that would be terrible no if you have

a heart attack you can’t perform you

it was bad i oh i wasn’t very proud of

who i was in that moment

and i started looking at the water

and like

like in i i almost it sounds like a

panic attack almost it tried to overtake

me because my mind as i started looking

at the water and i started looking at

the pilot and i saw the frailty of the

pilot and i saw the massiveness of the

water and i saw the tidiness of the

plane and i’m doing all these

calculations i don’t know how to fly the

plane and so i spent 20 minutes looking

at the gauges

trying to figure out

okay i think that says half a tank of

gas

i mean it was really

i was embarrassed as your leader i was

embarrassed

for you for me

and then i’m looking at the other

control and jaylens and pilot he knows

but i’m looking at the other control and

i’m like okay i think if he were to pass

out you know god bless you but let me

get this let me get the

let me get the reins of this thing

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i think

doing this is up

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it and i think you know on the there’s

then then there’s the speed or i don’t

know what it’s called i’m gonna mess

this all up but but then there’s

something and i think you know

up is more right up is more

i i your pastor i’m on vacation i’m

supposed to be relaxing but my mind is

all over the place

and i’m freaking out and here’s what’s

even scarier this is the truth

i i feel like

my thoughts

and what i was looking at was actually

beginning to produce the um

that i was afraid of

i don’t know if it’s true or not but it

felt like it was like there was

something

trying to overtake me

because of

quite frankly this this this focus

i’m looking at the water i’m looking at

the plane i’m looking at our

circumstances

and man just this this this fear

like came over me in this panic and i

you know and i have control issues and

so again i’m trying to figure out how to

work the plane okay if you guys that’s

all right you know i mean i might even

move you out the plane you know so i can

have no i’m kidding i’m kidding

and then

something within me

said stop looking at the stuff

stop looking at the water

stop looking at the plane

stop looking at the pilot stop looking

at the controls

and

and the more i stopped looking

at those things

the better i felt

and we landed and i blessed the lord

jesus and

gave the pilot an insane amount of cash

as a tip just

you know

but but i knew that that was the

beginning of a much deeper lesson that

god was trying to teach me

a much deeper lesson because because

you know they talk about the the eyes

are the gateway to the soul but your

eyes are also connected to your mind

and so so this this is happening and

then i go

to the gym

two or three days in so i thought i knew

that god was trying to show me something

that was clear but i was done with i’m

safe and i’m not and i’m good now i

don’t have to really deal with it

but i went to work out a couple days

later on the island i’m getting to where

i’m getting

i think

and i go to work out at the gym and and

i don’t know if you’ve ever done this

but like

we were gone for eight days and

like only about

five of those days are really like

restful

because when you kind of get to you two

days out from return

you start kind of picking up work a

little bit again

can we just be honest like like if

you’re like me because we like in order

for us to take a vacation we have to put

a lot of weight down

you don’t realize until you’re gone but

we carry a lot of weight all the time

and you can’t just

go on vacation and then come home and

put that weight back on you have to

begin to put that weight back on slowly

right

so i’m in the gym i’m getting ready to

work out and i just use early in the

morning and

i went to pray because i wanted to put

my life in contact i was context i was

concerned about some things

some things that i needed answers on and

direction on and breakthrough on various

things and so i i went to pray i’m

carrying these things because i felt

like and maybe this is something you can

resonate with i just didn’t feel like i

was on top of things

you ever felt like you had just a lot of

things going on in your life

you know and you trust god and you know

about all that kind of stuff but you

don’t feel like you’ve got it you feel

like it’s got you

has that ever happened to you before

and that’s that’s kind of where i was

amanda i just i

i felt like i’ve got these things going

on and and i know i’m supposed to be

resting but but i rest better when i am

on top of these things and i went on a

treadmill and i just went to pray

and the lord said

put your eyes on me

simple phrase

nothing profound necessarily it’s not

anything that i had never heard before

but it was god’s solution for me in that

moment when i’m trying to

get on top of stuff

and the crazy thing the cr the crazy

thing that happened the moment that

happened

is things got lighter

the the moment that i set

my gaze

on him just look at him it’s almost like

you know i could have said well no god i

got all these things he’s like no no no

just look at me

just just just just look

at me and when i did that

a shift came

and those things were no longer

on top of me

i was

on top of it

things that were

previously daunting

became defeated

in this new space

isn’t that crazy in a second in a split

second

i went from

watch this having weight on me to being

weighty

and all i did the circumstances never

changed

the situation never changed nothing

changed

i changed

and the only thing that i had to do

was to lift my gaze

and when i lifted

my gaze

everything

shifted

i think that this is how peter was able

to walk on water

i really do i think that this this is

how he was able to do it

because i think that the water honestly

figured figuratively represented a

challenge in his life

it represented something that was in his

race

that he needed to overcome

and we all know the story about peter

and we get mad at peter because peter

stopped looking at jesus and he began to

sink

that’s just humanity

i’m more concerned about the divinity in

the story

the divinity in the story

was that peter

walked

on top of his circumstances

oh i feel the holy spirit

it was the difference watch this it was

the difference between the water

drowning him

the circumstance the challenge the

situation even for you make it personal

it was literally the difference between

what he was facing overcoming him to the

point of drowning him

to him walking on top of it and getting

to his destination

and the only

thing that changed

was where he was looking

oh i feel the holy spirit

can i take my time

never underestimate see god was teaching

me a lesson about the power of what you

set your eyes on

oh god i feel the holy spirit

and so

and so

the bible says

let us run the race that was set before

us

looking

unto jesus

the author

and the finisher of our faith i almost

called this message

winning the long game

because what i’m realizing now

is that focusing on jesus is how you win

the long game

because oftentimes we are bogged down

distracted greatly

uh disoriented

by

things that are

short-term issues

all fill the holy spirit

your life family is a race

it’s it’s a race a race that has been

set

and the author and the finisher

of that race

of your faith your conviction the author

and the finisher is saying the way that

you get it done is to look at me

yeah

like

intentionally

back in in in hebrews 12 when it talks

about looking unto jesus this is not

just glancing at jesus

this is not just periodically what it is

convenient

having a gander at jesus

no this this word has the idea of

fixation

it has the idea of of staring god

staring

which is what brings that second passage

of scripture

into into light because it says i love

it david says in psalm 16 8 he says

i set the lord oh i love this i set the

lord before me always

because he is at my right hand i shall

not be moved i set the lord this is an

intentional thing

oh god

in other words i i view my life through

the filter of jesus if if jesus is not

my light filter then i am susceptible to

the whims

and the worries that are watch this

natural to natural people

but god did not save me

to be natural thinking the bible says

that i am a partaker of the divine

nature that’s in peter right read your

whole bible you’ll find it

it says

god

try not to speak in tongues some of you

may not understand that but he says

when we get saved we’re made partakers

of the divine nature and we spend the

rest of our days post-meeting jesus

trying to adapt and be transformed to

this new nature this nature that doesn’t

get shaken when things are crazy doesn’t

get shaky when obstacles come it is a

divine nature based on an identity of

one who knew that the cross was coming

who knew that betrayal was coming who

knew that all these negative hurtful

painful things were coming yet was fixed

because there was a joy set before him i

feel that for some of you there are some

things that god has placed in your life

and you are going to have to get focused

you are going to have to get disciplined

you are going to have to get serious

about staring at jesus if you start

staring at people if you start staring

at circumstances you’re going to miss

what god has for you but i hear god

saying that when you look at me i’m

going to elevate you i’m going to raise

you up above your obstacles above your

mountains you’re going to walk on high

places if that’s you holler at your boy

this morning

up

eyes up

don’t look down here

it’s too low

your destiny is not down there your

destiny is there there is a joy that has

been set before you and jesus is that

joy

through the filter of jesus that’s where

the power is

you can’t see see that that’s why the

bible says that with god all things are

possible

and none of us get to the possible

consciousness because we don’t filter

our life with jesus

oh god help me

so so when the promise comes it’s

difficult to even receive the promise

without the filter

i need the filter

david says i set

the lord always before me

because he is at my right hand

i shall not be moved that’s what happens

i was being moved on that plane

[Applause]

that wasn’t even me

i trust god

ella come here baby come here i trust

god

come here

i trust god

we have memorized

our favorite scripture

it’s psalm 27 right

let’s say it together

the lord is my light and my salvation

whom shall i fear the lord is the

strength of my life of whom shall i be

afraid when the wicked even my enemies

and my foes came upon me to eat up my

flesh they stumbled and fell though a

host shouldn’t camp against me my heart

will not fear the war should rise

against me and this i will be confident

one thing have i desired of the lord

that will i seek after that i might

dwell in the house of the lord all the

days of my life to behold the beauty of

the lord and to inquire in his temple

so so when i didn’t make god my filter

i was being moved i wasn’t even being to

ray i know this is true

come on somebody ought to praise god

and then it goes on to say for in the

time of trouble he shall hide me

[Applause]

i’m talking about

eyes up

for some of you i like to talk about but

let’s just do this stay in this thing

right here

for some of you i’m telling you

the antidote to your season is eyes up

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what you stare at creates your existence

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some of you are living in a reality

that is unnecessary

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because your eyes aren’t up

eyes up

two words

eyes up

letting jesus filter your life

but what does that look like practically

come on let’s go i’d like to go

practically

from a practical perspective

what is how is this achieved

when i think about

eyes up and and looking at jesus this

this

this discipline creates

unshakeable optimism

unshakable optimism

i thank god for

for all of the the teaching about

positive thinking and and all that

that’s wonderful you know

it’s it’s fine

good for you

helpful all that kind of stuff most of

the time

because you shouldn’t be positive about

something that’s stupid

so it does have its limitations

if i might i’m sorry i guess i shouldn’t

have said that but

but there is this

this unshakeable

optimism

that our lives can have full time

especially in difficult times

when we allow our lives to be

filtered by jesus so how is this

achieved what does this really mean what

does the the filter of jesus really mean

like what okay pastor he laid it sounds

amazing

and i want that okay but

but like

what what what is that what does that

really really mean

i think that you know when you start

talking about the eyes

and you know there’s a connection

between the eyes and the mind and the

mind and the eyes in fact the mind has

eyes

can i talk about that just for a second

before i get into the practicalities

so so in other words the your eyes what

you see influences the mind

right so i was looking at the water and

oh my god my mind started bugging out

right

okay but then your mind also has eyes

that that’s why and paul put it this way

he said that the eyes of your

understanding might be enlightened the

eyes so you’re understanding your mind

has eyes too there they are perception

you have physical eyes and then you have

the eyes of your understanding

and so we know that we don’t see jesus

with our

physical eyes because we didn’t walk

with him in that way

hey

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but we can perceive jesus paul’s prayer

that the eyes of your understanding is

in ephesians 2 just read the whole bible

ephesians 1 rather or two

that the eyes of your understanding will

be enlightened that you might understand

what the hope of your calling is that

you might perceive my my mind has eyes

my mind has eyes

and my eyes affect my mind so i have to

protect myself

in two dimensions

in the physical dimension as well as the

spiritual or the mental dimension

so so i protect since i understand that

my eyes create my existence

are you tracking with me

the poor pilot

probably healthy as all outdoors was

getting ready to have a heart attack

because what i was seeing was creating

something in my mind so my sight is

connected to my mind

that’s one dimension so i have to

protect what i see there’s some things

that i don’t want to look at

oh how far can i digress

there’s some things that i watch this

make the conscious decision not to see

because i’m afraid of what it will do to

my mind

and if it gets a hold of my as a man

thinks so is he if it gets a hold of my

mind i’m in trouble so so see a wise an

unwise person the average person doesn’t

regulate their intake

they don’t regulate what they they see

and they don’t regulate their mentality

which is something we can talk about but

they don’t regulate what they see a

smart person a wise person understanding

the power of sight

and understanding the power what they

focus the power of what you look at what

you gaze at that person is very

intentional and very regulated about

what their eyes see

i’m not doing porn

can we talk about just one second

i don’t i don’t do porn

because i’m protecting my mind

i’m not even protecting my eyes

necessarily

what i am protecting is my mind because

i don’t want those images to be in my

head

who is quiet

yeah

it’s harmless no it’s not

it affects your mind

and and then you get into a relationship

that you you want to be nice and pure

and you freaking iggy you

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now when appropriate

everything has its place but you don’t

want to be thinking about

then then

be and see because you couldn’t wait

for the right thing you engage in the

wrong thing and now when you get the

right thing you got the wrong thing in

the right thing

and now they’re problems

yo i’m way out there man i’m way

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way out there this is this is not

judgment this is understanding

it’s not me trying to come down here i’m

telling you there’s a cost your mind

doesn’t go free

there doesn’t mean

yeah you walk by some

oh god here we go there are some really

uh creative shapes out there

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i don’t want to see your booty

now you your booty’s fine it’s that’s f

it’s you and enjoy it appreciate it love

it respect it just know when you walk by

me i’ma do this

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i don’t want to see it

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i wish i had two or three people that

say something

check this out

job said i made a covenant with my eyes

that i might not offend i made it me and

my eyes

are in covenant

a covenant is a mutually beneficial

relationship

so okay okay so so i’m saying hey i

i’m gonna take care of you

and i is gonna take care of me so i’m

making covenant with my okay and me and

you i look look look we to protect each

other dawg

because if i if i protect you you’ll

protect me

so it’s a covenant it’s a covenant that

says no i’m gonna let my eyes work for

me

and not against me oh i’m way out there

but somebody needed it i’m very

uncomfortable by the way too but that’s

okay

somebody somebody needed it

so your eyes are connected to your mind

watch this and your mind also is

connected to your spiritual eyes your

eyes

of perception

so as it relates to jesus and as it

relates to to experiencing jesus and

jesus being the filter of our life

what we have to do

to

to access the identity and image of

jesus

we do so through perception

perception

that’s how we engage jesus we engage him

with the eyes of our understanding so

let’s talk about let’s get into it so

how how is this

achieved what do you mean what do you

mean by setting jesus jesus specifically

in front of you

there’s just four things for for

attributes or four parts of

of setting jesus and and what that looks

like and unpacking that that i just want

to talk about it really quickly and the

four things as it relates to setting

jesus in front of you as the filter of

your life so that you will not be moved

is first of all his person

the person of jesus right i’ve never

seen him before

but

spiritually with the eyes of my

understanding

i experience the person of jesus

the the identity of jesus

um

the the rel i met jesus when i was nine

years old

and from nine to now 49

i’ve had this relationship with jesus

that has made

him a person

beyond him being my lord and my savior

he’s a person so i set the person of

jesus in front this necessitates

relationship right

i need to be in relationship with you

and this is

possible

and i’ll i’ll just say this and i’m

going to move on because we only got

about about two more hours for this

message but

if you’re hearing you don’t know him

personally if you don’t know jesus

personally i have deduced that there are

only two reasons why a person would not

embrace jesus

either they don’t have enough

information about jesus

or some way they got some misinformation

about jesus

because he is absolutely too beautiful

he is too attractive

to the heart mind soul body and life

everything that makes you up jesus is

too appealing to

to be discarded

i mean he

he he is adorable

he’s called in one place yeah and

somebody said he’s sexy and i don’t know

that’s not that might be too too far

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but

oh jesus

i’m sorry i’m sorry

oh somebody help me

no but

but jesus

is absolutely wonderful

conscientious caring

into you

like like like really really into you

and having the ability to be into you

even when you ain’t into

you like like you know the bible talks

about goodness goodness and mercy

following us all the days of man that’s

attractive

like like like

there’s so much i can say but he’s just

wonderful

and merciful

and kind his person number two his power

it’s one thing to have

somebody who don’t have nothing pursuing

you

i’m just being too real today

i’ll be trying to push up and you’d be

like whatever

you have flowers he’s just trying to do

the whole thing no

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but he’s powerful

can’t you see him moving about

even let’s just go biblical time he’s

still doing it now but can’t you see him

moving about healing and blessing and

providing and protecting and moving

jesus was like a major vip

like major people from flying it were

not flying in i guess they were riding

in

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walking miles

and miles to seeing people leaving watch

this businesses to follow him

leaving their

power and influence people laying down

their lives being willing to do anything

for him

his

raising the dead lazarus come out

casting out devils and healing blind

people and all this kind of stuff no i’m

not talking about some wimpy jesus i’m

talking about seeing when you set him

before you when he is your filter you

see his person but you also see his

power

and when i see his power i’m not afraid

no weapon formed against me shall

prosper

with god all things are possible his fa

so when i see life when my life is

filtered through

the power of jesus now things that seem

hard don’t seem hard no more

now it’s easier to accept the promises

right his person his power his

priorities

so when i set jesus in front of me

i see his priorities and guess what his

priorities are me

this is you know this is kind of hard

for church people i’m almost done this

is kind of hard for church people

church people forget that jesus is into

people

i’m serving jesus so you’re going to

hell and you’re going to hell then

you’re going to hell and you are

especially going to hell

[Applause]

you getting fail you you get a fail and

you

dude

you don’t even know jesus

[Applause]

because literally his priority

his people

[Applause]

it’s not even the church as the

institution

the institution

it’s the church as the organism

to bless people but it’s not even the

institution

i’m on my soapbox today god somebody

help me

but but this you know it’s it’s so funny

i’m on my soulbox i’m just gonna i’ll

step back down just a second

but here he here is a phrase

that bothers me

and we hear at all times

i’m just taking a stand for god

so god needs you

to stand up for him

god is some weak

being in a corner

sending out

christians

to his front go get him please

you’re not taking a stand for god you

can take a stand for yourself

you can take a stand for your values

your beliefs that’s all fine but don’t

blame it on god

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you’re not taking a stand for god

to stand for god is to love people

radically

creatively

innovatively

that’s what it means to stand for god

because god’s priority is and will

always be people not some institution

it’s going to be people

i will leave the 99 you know what the 99

represents the institution i will leave

the 99 those who have already been

gathered

oh i’m on my soapbox now for fishery

i’ll leave the 99 to go after the one

because i’m

in to people

but what we do is we say hey you won

come over here and join the 9-9

nah doc

all of the grace

all of the focus

all of the creativity

all of the innovation

all of the resources should be channeled

watch this not towards the 99

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but the one

the filter of jesus

his person

his power

his priorities

and his promises

when i said when i set jesus

in front of me

i’m seeing all of that

i’m seeing

how beautiful he is

i’m seeing

how powerful he is

i’m seeing

how into me

and others

he really is

and i’m seeing the fact that i’ve got

promises over my life

i’ve got promises over my life

this plane can’t go down because i got

stuff to do

that promises

[Music]

over my life

this weapon form cannot prosper because

there are promises

over my life that i have

not seen yet

got to find a way to land this plane fun

intended

i’ve got

i’ve got to be intentional i’m i’mma

land it i’m gonna land it i’ve i’ve got

i’ve got i’ve got to be intentional

about setting

god before me

and then it says because he is at my

right hand

i shall not be moved what does that mean

your right hand represents strength

strength i know some people left

analysis i’m just

telling you what it

means the right hand

represents the place of strength

so when i set

god before me i set him before me i see

life through the lens

of god god this the god factor changes

everything

i take this away and the plane is going

down

fast

i bring this up

and my whole consciousness

is different

i set him up my whole perspective

oh god this is going to change

somebody’s life

just changing just eyes up

somebody right now

right now

i don’t want you to look at your problem

anymore

you have been eye level with your

problem and that is a problem

you’ve been looking at it like this

you’ve been meditating you know that you

you you talk about mindfulness some of

us are mindful of our problems so it’s

negative mindfulness

because we are eye level

with our problem

and anything that you are eye level with

you’re on the level of

so what you’re going to do is you’re

going to just

just slowly but surely

look up

and that thing is going to get smaller

and smaller and smaller so that you can

run your race but you also have to make

god your strength what are you trusting

in one last passage i want to show you

real quick it’s in psalm 27 8.

you’ve seen this before you’ve heard it

before it says some trust in chariots

and some in horses

so of course this is ancient texts we’re

talking about physical things and things

that represent physical strength and

ability right chariots some trusts and

chariots and some in horses it says but

we will remember the name

of the lord our god

what are you trusting in

what does it take to make you feel safe

because that’s what you trust in

oh god help me

it says

but we will remember the name of the

lord our god then watch this it’s

balanced then it says they have bowed

down and fallen

who who was they those who trusted in

choices and horses and chariots and

chariots and horses

it says they have bowed down to these

things watch this and have fallen man

wait a minute that doesn’t sound like a

good deal

i bow down to you i put my trust in you

and you betrayed me because i fail

it says they

have bowed down

and fallen but we have risen

and stand upright

i got to stop

hear me out

eyes up

there’s a lot

that’s happening in our world right now

and i get it

there’s a lot of stuff that’s going on

but a lot of things a lot of the

breakthroughs and the victories that we

want to see are going to happen

through this

the solutions

the strategies

the type of ideas

that create change over conflict

are not going to happen if you’re just

looking at the problem

eyes up

i feel like

transparent moment we’re going home in a

little while

four or five hours we’ll be out of here

promise not a second longer than four

hours

but when the lord was dealing with me

about

this

this message to you i was afraid

because i felt like

the average person lives life in a

trance

and our whole culture and our whole

world

is

almost and i want to say it’s

intentional but i won’t do it but it’s

almost like designed to keep us in a

trance

because if i can distract you i can own

you

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and i can make

an economy of you

oh god okay okay can i just

let me just

i can

you look i talk about this often but you

look at

for the last 10 years some of the most

best-selling books are all about

manipulating people

and they have cute titles and everything

how to win friends and influence people

that’s all cute i’m sure it’s a great

book but think about what people are

talking about people are learning and

getting well versed on how to distract

you

eyes up

eyeballs eyeballs eyeballs eyeballs is

everything i’m a business guy eyeballs

eyeballs how do i get eyeballs how do i

get eyeballs look at that how do i get

your eyes

because if i can get your eyes i will

control what you see if i control what

you see i will control your reality i

will control what you need

and i just so happen

to supply the need that i created

within you

i think one of the greatest deliverances

that the world the church the body will

experience in this season

is their eyes

getting their eyes back

eyes up

i want to pray for you my heart is like

really really uh filled

with god’s passion about this moment for

you

god wants to give you your eyes back

things have been snatching your eyes

there’s a war for your eyes every single

day i promise you there’s a word for

your eyes i remember my phone is not up

here but i remember

i was doing business with a guy 15 years

ago

or maybe even longer but about 15 years

ago

and he was saying uh ty can you bring me

my phone please and he was saying

thank you my friend he was saying

that everything

was coming to this

and i laughed at him get out of here man

and he meant he’s like no and i should

have invested but

he said everything was coming here

pull out your phone real quick just pull

pull out your phone i’m sorry just plug

your phone

raise your hand if you’ve got alerts on

it right now

eyes

eyes i’m after your eyes

put it back away because i want to keep

you in the flow of this thing

pookie on there or leroy

what time you’re getting out of church

[Applause]

[Music]

the eyes

in jewish culture

and jewish culture and we’re in a jewish

community right now and you you’ve seen

our jewish brothers and sisters

walking down and you’ll see

these

uh and i’m going to mispronounce it but

the intention is right but they’re

called zz i believe t-z-i-t-z-i c-z or

z-zeismanns

anyway

and those tassels there they’re threaded

in a particular way and they have a

certain amount of threads to remind them

of the commandments

and it’s about their eyes

that even though they have to use their

physical eyes to move around these

tassels hang down and they grab them

every once in a while and it’s a

reminder to them of what to focus on

i’m concerned

about your eyes

i i i want you and i’m going to pray and

you’re going to get this

but i want to pray about

the discipline of setting

jesus

always

before you

as you move about as you see life

as you make decisions

don’t do it without this

david said i set the lord

always before me

because he’s at my right hand i’ve made

him my strength

oh god watch this i have made seeing

jesus my strength

i’ve made see and since i’ve done that

i won’t be moved in a lot of things

that are trying to move you from your

place i won’t be moved move from where

move from my race

you’re on a race you’re in a race

you’re in the race the race has been set

since we are compassed about what this

great cloud of witnesses let us run with

endurance

the race

that is set before us

let us lay aside

the weights and the sin all these things

that would ensnare us

all these things that will trap us we

got to lay that aside

literally greek word cast off get it out

of the way it’s a distraction

and let us run with endurance

the race that set before us looking unto

jesus you know what that do i thought

the endurance was just for the trials no

the endurance also is in you having the

ability to stay focused on jesus when

real life happens to you

because the first thing that goes

when a blow comes is your focus

stop seeing jesus

overwhelmed with the issue

i want to pray for some people today

does that make sense is it this clear

eyes up

eyes up

eyes up

eyes up

eyes up and i also hear get up

because there’s a connection between

your eyes up

and you getting up

eyes up

how many times in the bible you see and

he lifted his eyes and saw and he lifted

his eye filled the holy spirit you are

going to see something see you’ve been

looking too low and there’s some things

that are going to inspire you if you

look up

if you lift your eyes up eyes

up

eyes

up

eyes

up

eyes

up from here on out eyes

up when you want to look low no eyes

up

cause your future

is up

i want to pray for some people

if you’re here and you know what

we haven’t done this before since we’ve

done a meet-up

my family if you’re here

if you’re watching

and you’re like man

p.t you’re talking to me

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because i haven’t been looking at jesus

and i haven’t i’ve been overwhelmed by

stuff but i almost forgot that i have a

god

and i’ve been trying to do it in my own

strength

and i’ve been trying to get free in my

own strength

but god is calling me to look at him

if that’s you

i’m just gonna mess this whole thing up

but i just want you to get as close to

the stage as you can i want to pray for

you honey can you come up here please

eyes up

if you like god’s talking to me

and i

i just

it’s gonna shift family

i was going crazy on that airplane

how did that happen

i was being moved

like who you know what i mean

like

i had all these thoughts in my head

and mirror it was like

like and here’s the crazy thing

i felt like there was power

in what i was thinking

you might say that pt no i mean who

knows what could happen if i would have

allowed what i was looking at to

overtake me god only knows i could have

freaked out panicked and made the guy

crash

[Music]

it was a major

battle

and i’ve never experienced that before

but i think i went through it

not just for me but for some of you

eyes up

if you’re here and you’ve never opened

up your heart to

to jesus listen

family

i can’t even imagine and i am a

practical man

you know i’m not some like weird

religious person anything like that

uh i’ve seen a lot of things i i had a

life

i’m just not that guy’s what i’m saying

i didn’t i didn’t like

i wasn’t like down and and god found me

when i was down and that’s however you

find you that’s fine it wasn’t like that

you know i’ve always

had some good stuff going for me in life

i’ve always been by the grace of god

intelligent and resourced

and i’m telling you right now i can’t

imagine

it is a dreadful and fearful thought

to be in this life without jesus for

real

i can’t even

you know sometimes i was talking to my

my wife

and i was just thinking like

we are so distracted a lot of the time

and it’s okay i love you

and just gather around wherever that

pain is somebody just just gather around

and love it and just love it

you love it you’re not by yourself

and i

we’re just driving i was like

like it almost feels like the majority

of culture is in a trance

and we’re not really rooted and grounded

in nothing

you know what i mean and we have we’re

good people and we have good ideas and

we we we want you know we we demand

justice and then let me tell you

something the kingdom is the kingdom of

justice

and and we you know and we’re after this

and we’re seeking and we’re reading

books and that’s wonderful you know

we’re trying to gain knowledge and we’re

you know we’re moving from one trend to

the next and you know now is all this

stuff what ayahuaka what is it called

knowledge

ayahuasa whatever

and again

i’m not knocking because people were

looking for something

i get it

but we were talking the other day and

there’s like there’s no grounding

and so you got to keep going from thing

the thing the thing the thing the thing

if there’s nothing that grounds you and

settles you you got to keep moving i get

it no judgment

but

it hurt me

because jesus is not one of many

he’s it baby

and not even it in the sense that i mean

and everything else no that’s because

that’s like religious stuff

no he’s saying i’m it because i’m it.

this is it wasn’t an egotistical

statement when he said i am the way the

truth and the life

that wasn’t ego

that was love

in other words what you’re searching for

i promise you i’m it

healing

victory

protection

breakthrough

salvation

blessing

purpose

power

i got you

and you don’t have to come to me perfect

in fact

my strength

is made perfect

by your weakness

by your cray-cray

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[Music]

so if you hear and you say and listen i

can’t like make anybody

do jesus

i just talk as i as i’m led as as the

unction moves me and then what he does

is he touches hearts

he touches hearts

he touches and he says i know you i

formed you before i formed you in your

mother’s womb i knew you

and he says i’m into you and i’ve got

you and i love you and i want you and i

don’t want to just be this religious

figure in a book but i want to show up

in your life and and talk to you at

night and and be there with you in your

darkest moment

and show you the door out

if that’s you

and you’re here

and you do feel that tug

that draw

to open up to jesus and just to say yes

i want you to come here and if that’s

you

i want you to come all the way here

and just just press through and find a

way and press through my staff will help

you get here

if that’s you i want you to come or lift

your hand or something i want to see if

that should put your hand up come on

don’t

come come come closer just get as close

as you can

come on come on come on come on wherever

you are our pastors are here

come on yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes yes

yes

yes

totally

absolutely yes

i’ve been walking with the lord

for

21 years

and i have never regretted it

every single day i am more grateful and

more thankful

i have never

i have never you will never you will

never regret it you will never

not not jesus

not jesus

not jesus come here not jesus you will

never ever ever ever ever ever

ever

ever

ever regret

ever

ever

ever

ever

you will never ever regret

i promise you

i promise you not him

not him

not him nope

not jesus

no no not him

people maybe but not him

not him

not him not him

not him

[Music]

yes

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[Music]

this is breakthrough mode

this is a breakthrough moment this is a

new moment

yeah

you’re getting ready to meet

to meet

that little boy

that little boy

that little boy

yeah

that’s it

that’s it i got you

more importantly he got you

he will never let you go

he will never let you go

he will never forsake you

never reject you he will never ever let

you go ever

ever

ever yeah yeah

yeah

hello

[Applause]

[Music]

come on let’s worship

[Music]

just in your own way

i want you to repeat after me

heavenly father

[Applause]

i thank you for your word

i receive it

[Music]

i thank you for jesus

thank you for making him

who had no sin

[Applause]

all of mine

all of my weakness

all of my shortcomings

all of my limitations

all of my brokenness

you put in his body

nailed it to the cross

and put it to death

[Applause]

and when he was raised up

free and victorious

[Music]

because i’m in him

i’m raised up to

and therefore

i will lift mine eyes

unto the heels

for which cometh my

help my help

comes from god

so from this moment forward

my eyes will be up

and not down

in jesus name

amen come on

eyes up

i see your eyes they’re up oh god i feel

there’s victory in this i see it

i see it

i see it oh i see it

oh you just got a secret weapon

you just got a secret weapon when the

enemy comes at you you just don’t do

this

i see it

when the enemy throws something at you

you’re gonna do this

i see it

i see it eyes up

it’s gonna be amazing

and you will behold

amazing things hear me

it’s not down here

what you’re after

what you’re looking for

it’s not down here

what’s up

good to see you my friend

it’s up

ah it’s up

up

it’s up

it’s up

come on only up from here baby only up

from here

only up from here

only up only up hold it up

oh god

oh god

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this is called glory

this is called glory

this is what we came for

i know we got to go in a few minutes but

this is this is what we came for

we didn’t come in god’s house

just to have a little no no no

we came for glory he said i want to

dwell

among you

glory

we’re gonna take this glory in the

streets

if it is possible i don’t know if it is

i i want us to seal this in communion

is not

a religious exercise

it is an opportunity for a moment of

transformation

jesus said do this often

do this in remembrance of me

in remembrance

he says as often as you do this you will

show forth or proclaim the lord’s death

now i gotta be honest with you

i i didn’t know why we want to remember

when i was you know

younger less mature in the faith still a

baby you know but i’m like why do we

want to remember his death i didn’t

you know i used to kind of freak out

with you know people wear the crucifix

like why you want to remember the

suffering but now i get it i was wrong i

get it

when we look to the cross

it is important to see beyond jesus

dying but seeing your sin dying

a condition that causes us to miss the

mark

sin is not an act it’s a condition that

brings about a limitation that’s why it

says for god made him who had no sin to

become sin so that we might become the

righteousness of god right so when you

see jesus on the cross you have to see

you have to understand what happened in

the garden on the way to the cross

you remember when he was saying i want

this cup to pass from me

what happened in the garden was he

became sin

and then he went to the cross and so sin

yes jesus died but sin died that’s what

was that’s what when he said it is

finished

he was saying i i have broken in my body

my body was broken for you i’ve broken

in my body that which keeps you broken

so my journey to wholeness has a lot to

do with

regularly reminding myself of what god

did i said it early on in the message

the biggest issue that we have is

amnesia we forget who we are and what we

have

and so we take stuff we don’t have to

take

are you tracking with him so communion

is powerful because we get to remember

and anytime we remember it creates a

mind renewal and we are transformed

according to paul roman’s 12. we are

transformed by the

renewing of our mind so communion is

about mind renewal

my life changes when my mind is

renovated

and so his body

the wafer represents his body

which was broken thank you my precious

queen

my body

which was broken he said take eat this

is my body which is broken now i just

believe

that there may be some things that need

to be broken

off of your life so that you can be

whole

right brokenness leads to wholeness

isn’t that something his body was broken

so that we might be whole

so what has god broken

that is still active in your life

and i want you to think about what needs

to be broken and once you get that thing

or those nine things or those two things

once you get that in your mind

in this moment as you break the wafer

between your fingers i want you to

envision that thing breaking

so take a minute

what does the lord want to be broken off

of my life so that i can be whole and

once you gather it i want you to just

just break the way for it whenever

you’re ready

body was broken

we might be whole by

the chastisement that brought us shalom

that’s wholeness that’s peace

was upon him and by his stripes we are

healed if there is a sickness that needs

to be broken if there is some sort of

addiction or something that you can’t

say no to that needs to be broken if

there is a soul tie an ungodly soul tie

created through an intimate relationship

that you have with someone that was not

ordained for you that can be broken

whatever miracle this is a house of

miracles

there is an alliance some sort of

allegiance that needs to be broken if

you

if you’ve dabbled in something

hallelujah

and you want that to be broken see some

of you are coming back home

and i love the fact that home always

exists so once you break it

i want you to take of his body

thank you

and now his his blood

seals it

hallelujah gives us access

to the promises of god hallelujah we

speak the blood anytime the enemy wants

to con to condemn you or to judge you

and say you’re not enough just say the

blood

but the blood

oh you’ve been too wrong you’ve done too

many things you’ll never know yeah but

the blood the blood the powerful blood

let’s seal it with that which represents

the blood

jesus we remember you

and we thank you for this reminder this

fresh reminder

of what happens when we have the

opportunity to look at you

god we thank you that not only can we

look at you but you took the time today

to look at us

father as we leave this place may our

eyes only be locked on you

and may we experience you in everything

that we do

what a sight you are to behold father

and i thank you that this is just a

fresh start a new beginning for so many

of us may we carry this reminder with us

when those old voices start speaking

father may we be reminded that all we

need to do is look to jesus thank you

god for this time together and for this

word and for the opportunity to be in

relationship with you

lead us guide us talk to us we’re open

and we’re ready in jesus name i pray

amen amen amen

you