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Spiritual Senses See Beyond Your Natural Vision/ Apostle Lisa Schwarz 

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so for those of you who are here last

time I spoke on the West Side Story and

I’m going to give you just a brief super

brief overview of that message and it’s

the idea that you had 12 tribes of

Israel and they were all given the

promise that was provided for them on

the west side of the Jordan and that

promise included an abundance of

provision that they would not have to

work for in other words there was an

abundance that God had in mind for them

that they would not have to use their

own hands they would not have to toil

for but rather by the grace of God there

was a provision provided for them well

two of the tribes two and a half tribes

actually Gad Reuben and the half tribe

of Manasseh decided as they looked at

the East side of the Jordan they were a

people of livestock and they thought

well this land is adequate for us we

could stay here we could plant here we

could reap here and so they actually

went to Moses and they said if it’s okay

with you we’ll stay here don’t take us

across to the west side but we’re gonna

settle for we’re gonna compromise we’re

going to LA to allow ourselves to be

situated in the less than best of the

kingdom and so we talked about all the

places in our life where God is inviting

us into the West Side Story but we’ve

chosen to compromise we’ve settled for

the permissible and we’ve missed out on

the beneficial

what happened here is they grabbed a

hold of the good land and they missed

out on the godland they settled for what

they could see in the natural and they

missed out on the Unseen because they

had no spiritual vision and that’s what

I want to talk to you about today I want

to talk about spiritual vision I love

that maravel talked about seeing things

that are not but calling them as though

they are having a spiritual vision being

able to see things in the natural but

then also in a moment shift and

recognize that although I’m seeing

something with my natural eye there is a

spiritual happening in this moment and

God I’m asking that you would remove a

veil that I would be able to see more

than just the east side but I would be

able to see what’s on the west side

in Luke chapter 10 I was reading this

weekend I I did a training yesterday

private training and the Lord had me

Teach right through uh Luke chapter 10

and it’s the it’s the passage where

Jesus lays hand and he sends the 70 out

two by two and they go out and they

begin to heal the sick and cast out

demons and they come back to Jesus and

they say this

even demons responded to the sound of

your name

and they were very excited about that

and of course we know he says that’s

great but don’t rejoice in the work

rejoice in the fact that your name is

written in the in the in heaven he said

don’t rejoice in the doing rejoice in

the being but as he responds in that

moment one of the things he says to them

is while you are doing these things I

saw Satan fall like lightning from the

sky

see there was a thing that they were

actually seeing in the natural but while

they were doing that Jesus was actually

seeing something in the spirit he was

recognizing there’s more than something

going on it’s more than laying hands on

somebody and they get delivered from

their depression it’s more than laying

hands on somebody and they get delivered

from their addiction but while you’re

doing that if you allow me to show you

the bigger picture Satan is being

trampled upon in the midst of those

natural doings and these aren’t natural

doings but sometimes we limit it even to

what we see with the natural eye

he then goes on and he turns to his

disciples and he says this

and he says it to them privately and I

believe it’s in the message it might be

in the passage translation it says he

turned and he whispered

the idea of an intimacy that he’s about

to show something about to tell

something to them that he doesn’t want

anybody else to hear and he says this

blessed are the eyes which see the

things you see

for I tell you that many prophets and

Kings have desired to see what you see

but they have not seen it to hear what

you hear but they have not heard it

look Jesus has set us up to see come on

everybody just say I’m set up to see

I am set up to see we are designed to

see what nobody else is going to see

the Bible says in second Corinthians 4

18 while we do not look at the things

which are seen But at the things which

are the things which are not seen for

the things which are seen are temporary

but the things which are not seen is

attempt is eternal and again we have

this idea of two things we could be

looking at in one moment I could be

looking out here when you’re standing

here and they’re praying I could be

looking at you or I could be looking

into the spirit

see I want to see beyond what’s seen and

I want to see what’s unseen when I’m

looking at what what should be prayed

over you what are people saying over you

what what does God have to say to you

I’m not interested in the temporary I’m

interested in what is God doing

eternally in the life of Pastor Scott

I’m not looking at what’s happening in

his natural man I’m not looking at

what’s happening in his natural

circumstances I’m looking for what is

God doing and where is God taking him a

thing a work that is eternal

my eye is not set on what I see my eye

is set on what is unseen well I want us

to go to Luke chapter two and we’re

going to look at the man named Simeon

we’re just going to learn from Simeon

what caused Simeon to have eyes to see

the Messiah

I’m going to read it straight from you

it says and behold there was a man in

Jerusalem whose name was Simeon and this

man was just and devout waiting on the

consolation of Israel and the Holy

Spirit was upon him now this is

fascinating to me because this is before

the Holy Spirit had been loosed when we

know the spirit was always here but this

is before the resurrection of Jesus and

the depositing of the Holy Spirit into

the life of the people but we know in

the Old Testament that the Holy Spirit

would come upon people and so clearly

Simeon was experiencing or lived in the

appalling of the Holy Spirit

right so there’s the infilling and then

there’s the appawning of the Holy Spirit

and as a Believer a lot of us live in

the infilling but we miss out on the

uponing and what’s interesting is Simeon

lived in the appalling of the Holy

Spirit

and it would have been revealed to him

by the holy spirit that he would not see

death before he had seen the Lord’s

Christ

so he came by the Spirit come on he is

upon the spirit it’s revealed to him by

the spirit and he’s led by the spirit

to the into the temple and when the

parents brought in the Child Jesus

to do for him according to the custom of

the law he took him up in his arms and

he blessed him and he said this look

Lord now you are letting your servant

depart in peace according to your word

my eyes have seen your salvation which

you have prepared before the face of All

Peoples a light to bring Revelation come

on a light to bring Revelation Jesus

brings Revelation everybody say I am

designed to see

I am designed to see he is a light that

brings Revelation to the Gentiles and

the glory of your People Israel now I

want us to take a look the very first

thing that it says about Simeon it says

he was a man who was just just what he

just was

I I there’s no other way because

sometimes again let’s go back to the

doing versus the being

are you just

are you okay with being I’m just I’m

just here this is just who I am

it’s not really about what I’m bringing

to the table the words that I have to

say come on you understand the Kingdom

of Heaven is not a matter of talk it’s a

matter of power

it’s a matter of just being

the the carrying of his presence he was

just

this was a man who was more concerned

with his being than his doing

the Bible says he was pure and he was

undefiled

he was holy I would like to propose he

was not a man who settled for the

permissible will of God but there was an

intentionality in his life of pursuing

the person of God of pursuing the

Holiness of God of living a life not

settling for compromise but living in

the best

of God

come on there had to be something in his

character and his nature the Bible tells

us it was his character and his nature

and I’ll bet

it was his character and his nature it

was the fact that he just

here I just am

that caused the Holy Spirit to settle

upon Him number two he was devout now

when you read this this word nothing

fancy about it it’s the idea of being

devoted or being faithful it’s the idea

of total commitment so to be devoted

means to be faithful now I would like to

propose to you that there are a lot of

people probably in this room who have

faith but I would also like to propose

to you that perhaps you struggle with

faithfulness

because there’s a big difference between

having faith and being faithful

and and this the Bible says that Simeon

was not just a man look we don’t know

when he got this word he could have been

12 years old when God said come on well

we read and we think oh we got it

yesterday and he was able to hang in

there for 24 hours

some of you can’t hang in there for 24

hours let’s be honest come on some of us

feel good today but tomorrow you wake up

and you’re you’re feeling your

circumstances you’re feeling your

emotions it’s hard for you to be

faithful to the attributes of Jesus that

are within you of the ability to suffer

long and we lack the ability to be

faithful when Jesus was on God bless you

when Jesus was in the boat and there was

a storm rising up on the very heels of

the disciples seeing all kinds of

Miracles

in a moment there was fear that gripped

them and we know that g they wake Jesus

up and he calms the storm and then he

looks to the disciples and he says oh ye

of little faith

and often we read that and we think

little faith means it was small

but if you read it in the Greek it

actually denotes the idea of a

short-lived faith

meaning you had faith in my yesterday

for the works that you saw in yesterday

but your faith was short it wasn’t able

to persevere and the faith you had

yesterday has disappeared and you’ve

lost the ability to be faithful

throughout throughout time

but the Bible says that Simeon was

faithful faithfulness means a steadfast

loyalty that is not easily swayed I

wonder today what has swayed you away

from your faithfulness

in Christ maybe you’ve showed up today

and you’ve said I have faith

and I want to challenge you and say but

are you Faithful are you wholly devoted

has something swayed you away from the

promises of God has something swayed you

away from the joy of the Kingdom the

Peace of the Kingdom the fruit of the

Kingdom I’m going to move on he was

expectant he had eyes that were set on

finding come on some of us wake up we

tell a story we show up into a space and

we’re looking for the things that are

wrong some of us do that in church we

look at somebody and we say but have you

seen what they’re wearing but have you

seen where they come from but have you

seen their addiction see he didn’t have

eyes that were looking for the wrong

things he had eyes that were looking for

the promises of God and I wonder today

if you have positioned yourself to see

the promise of God I wonder today if you

have practiced dwelling upon everything

that is excellent everything that is

good everything that is come on just

quoting scripture to you guys I’m not

that smart Philippians 4 8 read it

everything that is lovely everything

that is praised with I have positioned

myself today to find and to see I’m

expecting today to see a promise of God

in my life

he positioned him he was expectant and

some of us are expecting the worst

call it what you want but it’s not the

eyes of Christ I I wonder when Peter

stepped out of the boat was he expecting

to walk on the water or was he expecting

to sink

and what happened I bet when he walked

out on the water he was expecting to

walk but when he shifted his eyes

come on when he repositioned his eyes

from Christ to the waves that’s when the

promise began to sink

see it was all about where he positioned

his eyes

verse 27 going on Simeon he was

surrendered to the Holy Spirit

how many of you know that you can have

the Holy Spirit but not be surrendered

to the Holy Spirit

come on there’s a very big difference

you have to surrender yourself to the

Holy Spirit James 4 7 says submit

yourself to God the idea of subjecting

yourself laying yourself down in the

presence of the Lord resist the devil

and he will flee from you I wonder what

you are subject to I wonder how many of

us in this room have subjected or

submitted ourselves to fear and in doing

so you have resisted the Holy Spirit

come on I just said it in the opposite

I wonder how many of us in this room

have submitted ourselves to our finances

to the lack in our lives and in doing so

you have resisted the prosperity and the

provision of God because you cannot have

both you are either a friend of God or

you are a friend of the world

I’m not making up stuff to pray to speak

to you guys read it it’s in James

chapter 4.

I wonder in this room how many of us

have subjected ourselves come on to your

relationships and in doing so you have

resisted the intimacy of the Holy Spirit

how many of us have looked to the love

of the world we’ve submitted we’ve

subjected ourselves we’ve laid ourselves

to talk sin down to toxicity to toxicity

is that a word toxic relationships let

me change it well toxic relationships

and in doing so you have resisted the

health the wholeness the wholeness and

the design God has in mind for you for

relationship

but the Bible says surrender submit

yourself subject yourself to God

resist the devil and he will flee from

you come on if you’re doing one you’re

doing the other

to submit yourself to God is to resist

the devil but listen to submit yourself

to subject yourself to demonic

influences your life is to resist the

Holy Spirit

all right so what are the results

listen this is what I want for you I

want us to talk about Simeon was able to

see what other people missed here’s what

we see when you have eyes so we have

learned that these are the things that

cultivate spiritual uh spiritual uh

Vision in our lives and and I want to

remind you that the anointing the

spiritual vision is anointing it’s it’s

the gift of God it’s the way he wants to

move in your life and that’s going to

come up out of a character that is just

that is devoted that is surrendered to

the spirit that is expectant it has its

eyes set Upon Jesus and in doing so just

like Simeon you will be able to see what

other people miss

other than Anna the prophetess in the

prophetess in that room that day we

don’t know how many people were there so

like I’ve always had this Vision because

when I was I wasn’t a kid but I taught

three and four-year-olds for years in

church and all the pictures and all the

little stories it just showed just

showed Simeon mom and dad and baby Jesus

and so I guess I just kind of always

assume those are the only people in the

room but it’s very possible that there

were hundreds of people in the temple

that day but only one person saw what

everybody else missed

only one person saw come on I wonder how

many people were rubbing up we know that

the Bible says with the woman with the

issue of blood that there was a crowd

that was pressed up against him that the

energy the message says it like this

that the energy of the kingdom was

surging round about Jesus but only one

person got healed

come on spiritual vision will give you

glimpses of what everybody else is

missing

it will help you to see what everybody

else is missing you remember Elisha with

his servant in second Kings chapter six

when his servant all he can see is the

Syrian Army on the mountaintops round

about them and Elisha’s like what is

your problem see your problem is is your

eye is set on what you see in the

natural and you haven’t asked the Lord

to open your spiritual eye that you

might see beyond the natural that you

might be see beyond the east side and

you might glimpse into the west side and

the Bible says he asked he prayed that

his eyes would be open and the Lord

opened the eyes of the young man and he

saw and behold meaning he beheld meaning

he perceived he took hold of there was a

shift in his mindset in that moment he

saw that the mountains indeed were full

of horses and Chariots of Fire all

around Elisha

I want to remind you that David West

left out of the lineup

because when Samuel the prophet look at

when Samuel the prophet chose Saul he

chose based on a physical appearance

and the second time when he went to to

pick the one who was to be Anointed God

said I am not interested in the outer

appearance of a man rather I am

interested in the heart of man Samuel I

need you to close your eyes to the

Natural and I need you to open your eyes

to the spirit I need you to close your

eyes to the will of man and I need you

to open your eyes to the will of God I

need you to close your eyes to every

Vision every visual to what the kings of

the world look like and I need you to

open your eyes to what the kings of the

spirit look like come on that’s why they

miss the Messiah they were waiting for a

king a mighty man of war

that’s why they missed the Messiah

and David wasn’t even brought into the

lineup his own father missed what God

saw and I wonder today how many of you

feel like there’s a something in me

there’s a glimpse that God has given to

me there’s a something in me that God

has shown me that’s bigger than anybody

else even my own mother even my own

father even my own Pastor has missed it

but God sees it

but God sees it

so David was left out of the line lineup

but God sees what the people in your

life have missed God sees in you what

you have missed come on some of us need

to look in the mirror and catch a

glimpse some of you need to look in the

mirror and go home I’ll close my eyes to

the Natural I’m going to open my eyes to

the spirit I’m gonna close my eyes to my

past come on and I’m going to open my

eyes to my destiny I gotta close my eyes

to my wounds come on and open my eyes to

my healing I gotta shut my eyes to my

demons and open my eyes to the Holy

Ghost who is in me upon me all around me

come on I gotta close my eyes to the

choices I’ve been making and open my

eyes to the will of God am I I gotta

close come on I gotta close my eyes to

fear I gotta close my eyes to my

finances to my current Provisions

because I’m allowing what my eye sees to

navigate where I’m going instead of what

God is saying what God is showing me to

navigate where I am going you understand

that the Bible says that he’s

immeasurably greater than you could ever

ask or imagine and a lot of us haven’t

even learned how to imagine with the

Holy Spirit we’ve imagined in our own

mind we’ve imagined in our own heart our

imagination is filtered through our own

hurts our imagination is filtered

through our smallness and we’re missing

out on the bigness of what God wants to

show us

and that’s what he is saying here and

secondly he recognized come on this kind

of goes with what I was just saying

Simeon recognized the work of God while

it was still in an infant stage

come on to grow something that you’ve

had you saw it when it was the size of a

mustard seed and people around you were

like oh come on Scott

but look if I’m Elijah

and I’m waiting for a storm and I see

the cloud sides of a man’s hand I might

have missed it I’m just being honest I

might have missed it

but Elijah recognized

something that is small

is what God is going to take when it’s

mixed with my faith when it’s mixed with

my declaration when I look at does

something the faith the size of a

mustard seed I can speak to a mountain

and it will be moved

and I wonder how many of us think we are

too small

we think we are not ready yet we think

we are too immature that my faith is

still in an infant stage I wonder how

many leaders in this room have missed it

in somebody around you because you say

they’re still too weak they’re still too

broken their faith is still too small

and God says will you let me open your

eyes that I can show you the work that I

want to do even while it’s still in an

infant stage

even while it’s still an infant stage

most of us in this room need to start

with how we see ourselves

in Acts chapter 9.

Saul Saul knew everything there was to

know about religion

and the Bible says when he was smoked

with the Holy Ghost I’m just going to

say it like that when he got smoked he

got a lot of times are like the holy

spirit said gentleman I’m like not

always

um

because Saul definitely got knocked off

his horse and he was struggling with

blindness the Bible says there were

scales that were on his eyes and when he

went to

um when he went to have it removed from

him if you read ananias laid hands on

him and it says that the scales came

from something like scales came from his

eyes and if you read that I believe

again in the passion translation it says

there was a white crusty substance

and I think about when you wake up in

the morning and sometimes there’s a

crusty substance that’s in your in your

eyes and I wonder how many of us have

been asleep to the spirit

and today there’s a crusty substance

that God wants to wipe out of your eyes

in Revelations chapter 3 it talks about

anointing your eyes with a Sav

he says you claim you can see but you

don’t

and I want to anoint your eyes with a

spiritual Salve that will loosen the

crust from your eyes come on some of us

in this room think we already know and

because you think you already know Jesus

says to the Pharisees in John chapter 9

because you claim you can see you shall

remain blind

and see Paul thought he already knew

everything Saul before he was Paul Saul

thought he already knew everything there

was to know about religion but in the

spirit

his knowledge that religion was actually

a white crusty substance that kept him

from seeing clearly

you want to come up and if and I wonder

today if if there is a white crusty

substance I wonder today what is keeping

you perhaps it’s it’s not as simple as

somebody just laying hands on you and

releasing spiritual vision maybe there’s

some things honestly in your character

that God wants to shift

come on because you can’t

look if I wear glasses which I do not

but if I wear glasses Leah you wear

glasses you can’t take your glasses off

and expect to see as clearly as when

you’re wearing them and some of us come

into church and we put on our spiritual

vision and we show and then all

throughout the week we take our glasses

off and everything feels and then I

gotta go back to church because I lost

my vision I lost the promise I lost

sight of what God was showing me and God

is saying today look there is a vision

come on everybody say it again I am

designed to see I am designed to see

it’s not just me come on we’re opening

I’m gonna just actually just speak a

communal word over this over this body

God I’m praying right now in the name of

Jesus for eyes that would be wide open

come on not barely open I’m not talking

about one eye I’m talking about wide

open come on I’m praying holy spirit

that at some point some of us might be a

little bit freaked out by the things God

begins to show you

Angelic beings perhaps even demonic

realm that you would have the Intel the

strategies of the spirit

and that God would be showing you and he

would be revealing to you the greater

ways of the spirit I ask holy spirit

that you would open their eyes to the

greater visions and greater portions

that you have in mind for each one of us

even for me come on God you say

you say you’re immeasurably greater I’m

asking Holy Spirit see now even in the

spirit my eyes are wide open I’m just

going to teach you for a moment my eyes

are wide open and I’m looking and I see

things in the natural but even as I’m

focusing in the spirit God is giving me

a vision in my mind’s eye that even as I

said that I saw like a stage curtains

beginning to open

see behind the curtains there’s an

entire scene that the audience is

waiting to see and at some point at just

the right time when it’s the opening day

those curtains open and even if even as

I even as I was just praying just now I

saw in the spirit curtains beginning to

open and so I’m going to speak into that

because I’m not going to pray make up

something to pray for God you say that

you’re opening curtains today that

you’re showing us what’s behind the veil

you’re showing it just as Jesus come on

because we are designed to see what’s in

the holy of holies come on in the Old

Testament they couldn’t just enter in

but the Bible says that Jesus made a way

that he tore the veil from the top to

the bottom there’s a whole message in

and of itself of how Supernatural that

was but the point is is he made a way so

that with an assurance of faith we can

step into the presence of God and we can

peer into the spirit realm and look we

don’t have to go in and come out and go

in and come out because the Bible says

that he is our Abode this is where we

will abide this is where we will reside

this is where we will tarry this is

where we will hang out this is where we

will linger and this is where we will

live.