WHAT YOU SEE...IS NOT ALWAYS WHAT YOU GET.

Hello Faith People. What you see...ain't always what you get. Just ask Earnest T. Bass. He wanted to woo Charlene Darling with his charms. He just want to court the love of his life... even though she was married by Sheriff Andy Griffith of Mayberry. To resolve the problem... a "real preacher" was coming through...and Dud and Charlene were going to get married by a "real preacher" to satisfy Earnest T. Bass. Ernest T. plotted to steal the bride before the wedding could take place. Everyone was in place for the wedding...the preacher was there... brothers and father of the bride was there...the witnesses were there...the bride and groom were ready to make there vows. SUDDENLY...Ernest T. should up and kidnapped the bride. All looked well...until...he removed the veil...and discovered that his bride was in reality a substitute...Deputy Barney Fife. The real bride was safely being married. Barney Fife's response to Briscoe Darling's assertion of Ernest T. Bass being a strange...Barney sums it it...
"HE'S A NUT." What he saw...was not what he got.

Look at a couple of examples:

ISAWABUNDANCEONTHETABLE

Did you see I SAW A BUN DANCE ON THE TABLE...or did you see I SAW ABUNDANCE ON THE TABLE?

GODISNOWHERE

Did you see GOD IS NO WHERE or did you see GOD IS NOW HERE?

What you see...is what you believe...is what you speak...is how you act. IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW YOU LOOK AT IT. It's the old... the glass is half empty or half full MINDSET.

We see with either a RENEWED MIND...or an UNRENEWED MIND. When we are BELIEVERS in the D.B.R...and we keep our minds renewed with the washing of the water of the WORD OF GOD...we begin to look at things DIFFERENTLY than a lost person or a carnal Christian.

"For we WALK BY FAITH [that is, we REGULATE our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus WE WALK]...not by SIGHT or APPEARANCE."
(II Corinthians 5:7 The Amplified Bible)

"Now FAITH IS...the assurance (the confirmation, the title-deed) of the things [we] HOPED FOR......being the proof of things/evidence of things [we]...DO NOT SEE...and the CONVICTION OF THEIR REALITY---FAITH...PERCEIVING...as REAL FACT...what is NOT...
REVEALED TO THE SENSES." (Hebrews 11:1 The Amplified Bible)

"But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to please and be satisfactory to Him. For WHOEVER (that would be you) would come near to God...must (necessarily) believe that God exists and that He is the Rewarder of those who EARNESTLY and DILIGENTLY...SEE HIM (out)." (Hebrews 11:6)

What do you see...when debt overwhelms you...when sickness lingers...when anxiety, worry, and tension pulls you in twenty different directions. Do you see WOE IS ME...this must be God's will for me...or do you see:

"And MY GOD will liberally SUPPLY (fill to the full) your EVERY NEED according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus."
(Philippians 4:19)

Do you see:

"I have STRENGTH for ALL THINGS in Christ Who empowers me--I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses INNER STRENGTH INTO ME, [that is, I am self-sufficient in CHRIST'S SUFFICIENCY]. (Phillipians 4:13)

Whatever you are going through....don't FOCUS on your problems/needs...and don't deny that you have problems/needs....HOWEVER... look intently into the face of God...via the WORD OF GOD...and begin to speak your solution instead of the problem. As the old song says... "Turn your eyes upon Jesus...look full in His Wonderful face...and the THINGS OF EARTH will grow strangely dim...in the light of His GLORY AND GRACE. Between the point of prayer....................................................................and the point of provision....walk by faith, act by faith, speak by faith. Remember:

UNRESTRAINED THOUGHTS....PRODUCE UNRESTRAINED WORDS....RESULTING IN UNRESTRAINED ACTIONS. What we THINK...what we SAY...what we DO...is based on if we SEE....I SAW ABUNDANCE ON THE TABLE...and...GOD IS NOW HERE.

Love and Faith Kisses
Rodney "I've Got My Feet Planted On The Good, Good Word...I'm Standing On The Promises That I Heard...Signed, Sealed, Delivered by the Blood of the Lamb...I'm Not Moved By What I Feel...I'm Only Moved By The Word That's Real...The Word Came To Life, Came To
Me" Boyd

P.S. Thanks to Janny Grien for the Song Covenant Woman.