BLESSED TO BE A BLESSING

THE WORST THING YOU COULD LOSE IS TO LOSE YOUR VISION.

TO LOSE YOUR VISION IS TO LOSE EVERYTHING - AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR NATURAL SIGHT, ...I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR SPIRITUAL SIGHT.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ILLUMINATION THAT COMES ON THE INSIDE OF YOU.
THE BIBLE SAYS THE LIGHT OF THE BODY IS THE EYE, THEREFORE IF THAT EYE BE SINGLE THE WHOLE BODY IS FULL OF LIGHT. METAPHORICALLY HE IS SAYING THE SAME THING THE EYE DOES TO THE BODY THE VISION DOES TO YOUR SPIRIT.
IT ILLUMINATES IT CAUSES YOU TO HAVE LIGHT IT IS THE PLACE OF THE ENTRANCE WHEREBY YOU BEHOLD LIGHT AND EXPELS DARKNESS.

AND IF YOU LOSE YOUR VISION THEN THE WHOLE BODY BECOMES FULL OF DARKNESS.
AS THAT IS NATURALLY, SO IT IS SPIRITUALLY.
ALL THE ENEMY HAS TO DO TO IMPAIR YOUR MOBILITY, STOP YOUR MOVEMENT & IMPED YOUR PROGRESS IS START MESSING WITH YOUR VISION.

I WANT TO TALK TO YOU FROM THE SUBJECT OF HAVING ONE HEART AND ONE VISION.
ACTS TALK ABOUT SINGLENESS APART AND MATTHEW TALKED ABOUT SINGLENESS OF THE EYE.

IN THE BIBLE AND THE BOOK OF ACTS WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE GREAT NEAR CLOSE THAT OCCURRED IN THE LIVES OF THE DISCIPLES IT TIES THE ABILITY FOR THEM TO PERFORM MIRACLES WITH FELLOWSHIP.

IT SAYS THEY CONTINUED FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE IN BREAKING OF BREAD AND IN FELLOWSHIP.
THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE OUR LIFEGROUP MEETINGS OUR CELL GROUPS, HOUSE TO HOUSE MEETINGS.

THAT WE DON'T BECOME ISOLATED AND INTROSPECTIVE.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS THE ENEMY FIGHTS CHRISTIANS MOST.

- THE ENEMY WANTS TO BRING YOU TO A POINT WHERE YOU BECOME CYNICAL ABOUT OTHER BELIEVERS AND YOU STOP FOOLING WITH PEOPLE ALTOGETHER.

- AFTER YOU'VE HAD SEVERAL BAD EXPERIENCES YOU GET TO THE POINT YOU DON'T WANT TO COME OUT OF YOUR HOUSE, YOU WANT TO GO UP AND GET IN A LITTLE CAVE OR A LITTLE HOLE... "I DON'T WANT TO TRUST ANYBODY, I DON'T WANT TO OPEN UP TO ANYBODY, YOU ARE AFRAID".

- BUT IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BREAK-THROUGH THAT FEAR AND ALLOW SOMEBODY, NOT EVERYBODY - BUT ALLOW SOMEBODY TO BE ABLE TO ENTER INTO THAT INNER SANCTUM SO YOU CAN HAVE FELLOWSHIP.

FELLOWSHIP GIVES YOU CROSS-POLLINATION, IT CAUSES YOU TO BE FRUITFUL.

WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANY THOUGHTS THAT YOUR OWN THOUGHTS YOU CAN'T MONITOR WHETHER YOU'RE PROGRESSING OR DIGRESSING.
YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO BOUNCE SOME THINGS OFF OF PEOPLE.

IN THE BIBLE SAYS THE THING THAT CAUSED THEM TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT IS THAT THEY CONTINUED TO BREAKING OF BREAD AND GOING HOUSE TO HOUSE.
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP NOT ALL HIS SPIRITUALITY, NOT JUST HAVEN'T CHURCH BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME FUN.

THAT'S WHAT THE EARLY CHURCH DID.
AND THE BIBLE ATTRIBUTES THEIR ABILITY TO PERFORM MIRACLES TO THIS.
AND THE BIBLE SAYS THEY WENT HOUSE TO HOUSE IN FELLOWSHIP & BREAKING OF BREAD AND IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THEIR ABILITY TO PERFORM MIRACLES.

SINGLENESS OF HEART... WHERE YOU HAVE ONE HEART.

ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT THINGS YOU EVER ATTAIN IS ONE HEART.
TO GET DOWN TO THE POINT WHERE YOU ARE ONE IN ANY AREA OF YOUR LIFE TAKES A LOT OF WORK.
IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME BECAUSE WE ARE BORN WITH INCONSISTENCIES, WE ARE BORN OUT OF BALANCE.

WE ARE BORN NOT AT A PLACE OF WHOLENESS, ONENESS, SOLIDARITY, OR STABILITY.

THAT'S WHY DAVID SAID IN PSALMS 27 - HE FINALLY COMES TO THE POINT WHERE HE SAYS "HEY THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS I COULD ASK GOD FOR THAT I AM BOILING IT DOWN TOO, AND THAT ONE THING THAT I HAVE DESIRED OF THE LORD IS WHAT I'M GOING TO SEEK AFTER AND THAT IS THAT I MAY DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER."

WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO ONE THING YOU HAVE UNITY, YOU'VE GOT SOLIDARITY, YOU'VE GOT FOCUS AND YOU'VE GOT POWER.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THE ENEMY DOES, EVIL DOES, LIFE DOES, TROUBLE DOES IS DO EVERYTHING THAT IT CAN TO KEEP YOU FROM HAVING ONE HEART!