Today’s Message
It’s Morning Now # 1
January 10, 2021
Introduction:
This is the year that has these signposts: your loneliness diminishes because you have fellowship. Your despair decreases because you have vision. Your confusion begins to lift because you have direction.
I. IT’S TIME TO LIFT OUR EYES FROM THE JUNGLE AROUND US TO THE HEAVEN ABOVE US.
A. Foundational Pillar Number One for 2021: “See things from His
Colossians 3:1-2 MSG
1-2 So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from His perspective.
B. Foundational Pillar Number Two for 2021: “It’s morning in your life.”
Genesis 1:1-5 MSG
1-2 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see. Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss. 3-5 God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared. God saw that light was good and separated light from dark. God named the light Day, He named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning—Day One.
1. Vision sees beyond
1 Peter 3:10-11 AMPC
10 For let him who wants to enjoy life and see good days [good—whether apparent or not] keep his tongue free from evil and his lips from guile (treachery, deceit). 11 Let him turn away from wickedness and shun it and let him do right. Let him search for peace (harmony; undisturbedness from fears, agitating passions, and moral conflicts) and seek it eagerly. [Do not merely desire peaceful relations with God, with your fellowmen, and with yourself, but pursue, go after them!]
2. Vision sees nothingness and emptiness as a treasure chest of
Where there is no vision (a divine or prophetic illumination or revelation), the people perish (cast off restraint, run wild, or are destroyed). Proverbs 29:18
3. Vision separates
C. Foundation Pillar Number Three for 2021: “God will protect you now.”
Psalm 121:6-8 TPT
6 He’s protecting you from all danger both day and night. 7 He will keep you from every form of evil or calamity as He continually watches over you. 8 You will be guarded by God Himself. You will be safe when you leave your home and safely you will return. He will protect you now, and He’ll protect you forevermore!
1. God is an eternal God, you and I were created in His image to have
2. Eternity has no time or time limits, only the “
II Corinthians 5:17 TPT
17 Now, if anyone is enfolded into Christ, he has become an entirely new creation. All that is related to the old order has vanished. Behold, everything is fresh and new.
3. God is the
John 5:1-9 TPT
1 Then Jesus returned to Jerusalem to observe one of the Jewish holy days. 2 Inside the city near the Sheep Gate there is a pool called in Aramaic, The House of Loving Kindness. And this pool is surrounded by five covered porches. 3 Hundreds of sick people were lying there on the porches—the paralyzed, the blind, and the crippled, all of them waiting for their healing. 4 For an angel of God would periodically descend into the pool to stir the waters, and the first one who stepped into the pool after the waters swirled would instantly be healed. 5 Now there was a man who had been disabled for thirty-eight years lying among the multitude of the sick. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there, He knew that the man had been crippled for a long time. So Jesus said to Him, “Do you truly long to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered Him, “Sir, there’s no way I can get healed, for I have no one who will lower me into the water when the angel comes. As soon as I try to crawl to the edge of the pool, someone else jumps in ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your sleeping mat and you will walk!” 9 Immediately he stood up—he was healed! So he rolled up his mat and walked again! Now this miracle took place on the Jewish Sabbath.
Psalm 143:8 NKJV
8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.