Changing Our Perception to Receive

Yesterday, Pastor Steven Furtick's said something that is at the very core of a section of the Path workshop I teach, entitled, Paradigm Shifting. He said, "What you perceive determines what you will receive." When we aren't able to perceive the wealth that has been deposited in each of us we miss out on receiving what is available to us.

If we can't get past the fact that our younger brother is no longer in diapers, we could be missing something important that he has to impart. Although we may be dissing him, we are the ones who truly suffer. It is through humility that we are able to allow the Lord to shift our perception, so that we can receive all that He has for us that exists outside of our particular paradigm. Isn't that the best trade off imaginable?

We are offered an exchange for something that we never spent a dime to acquire. All of the old stale thinking we acquired through life experiences that got us to where we are now, will not take us to where we are going. But if we humble ourselves to the vast wealth that is available through Christ, although it may come through our next door neighbor with the beer belly, or the friend that we couldn't imagine has a special impartation or a child's word of wisdom at the right moment, we will receive.

Isn't it time we cleaned off our clouded lenses that have hindered our view point and allow our perception to be altered, so we can receive God's unlimited supply? Give yourself the best gift possible this Christmas, surrender your old way of thinking and receive a higher way. Scripture says, "For as he thinks in his heart, so he is." Proverbs 23:7

Lord, help us to see you and those you have created as you truly are and not through our limited lenses of understanding. When we only see the ordinary, show us the extraordinary in others and ourselves. You call out the potential in us, never dwelling on our lack, because you know when our eyes behold You, there is no lack.