I See You

Introduction- Good Morning Church!

Bless His name as we come together to hear His word and respond to His calling.

Prayer-

Our church leadership has been in a time of fasting and prayer as a church with the sole purpose of wanting the Lord to intervene in one specific area of our life in the church. We are all on the same page and asking the Lord to do something that we ourselves have not been able to see or do by ourselves.

What things in your life might the Lord say is needing your prayers and your attention?

Time is the biggest excuse for not getting done what is needed in our lives. If we only had more time!

Sharing some words from my friend… a survey he found where most people said that time was a problem in their lives.

The question asked was... “Do you think that you are accomplishing all that is needed at your work place? The results came back that a low percentage said no… that they needed about 10% more time to accomplish that. A higher percentage came back no…that they needed 25 % more time to accomplish the task. The last group, well over 50% of the people surveyed said no…that it would take over 50% more time to accomplish the task. Here a spoiler alert… you cannot be given one more minute in your day or anyone else’s. You get 24 hours just like everyone else. The problem is not time…it is time management, it is your priorities, it is not being distracted by the less important so that you can accomplish the more important. Now when you say this, most people get up in arms because no one believes they waste time.

During prayer time Wednesday morning, I shared that the Lord during my fasting and praying gave me three words… I see you. I had no idea what He was going to do with those words for a Sunday message. I SEE YOU.

I could not even set a text this morning because there are so many texts that say or reference that God sees us where we are at and numerous scriptures that tell us how God sees us and looks at us.

How God sees us as new believers 2 Cor. 5:17- “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

How He sees us as connected with Him- John 15:5- “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

How He sees our commitment to Him- Colossians 3:3- “For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God”

How He sees us in serving – 2 Timothy 1:7- “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control”

I SEE YOU…

Those could be words of comfort and those could be words of rebuke.

I see you when you are hurting is a source of comfort and the words I see you when you are in rebellion and doing things that are not pleasing is a rebuke and warning to get things right between you and the Lord.

All of us want the Lord to see us when we are hurting, when we are suffering in things beyond our control.

But we don’t want God to see us when we are doing things that we know are not pleasing and things that He has given us instruction about in the past.

So my words today is that God sees you! He sees you in your hurts and sufferings and He sees us when we are far from God doing things that He has talked to us about.

So when we call out for God to see us, make sure we understand that He sees all… that nothing done is secret is lost in the darkness. It is a warning and an encouragement for the church this morning.

Illustration-

I think of David… 2 Samuel 11…He is the King of Israel at war with his neighbors and he is at the castle away from the battle and walks atop his roof and sees a bathing young women. He calls for his servants to tell him who that woman is and then she was sent for. He sleeps with her and to make a long story longer, she gets pregnant from him and he begins a plan to cover it up. He attempts to get his leader Uriah to come back from battle to sleep with his wife Bathsheba so no one would know. Uriah won’t do it because he has honor amongst his men. He then orders that the leader be returned to battle and put out front to be killed and that is what happened. The problem is long before King David got Bathsheba pregnant. I think God has a sense of humor of showing us our faults when he identifies the bathing women that David slept with as Bathsheba. The problem is David was not out with his army in battle and when he was where he shouldn’t be with someone he shouldn’t be with, there will be consequences.