Appetite: Stay Hungry But Watch Your Weight Part 2 (Sermon Notes)
Part 2
VISION VS PRIORITY
Priority is Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first. You cannot seek ye first the Kingdom if your eyes are dirty because you do not see priority because you don’t perceive what priority is.
Matthew 6:22 (ESV)
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
The Greek work for single or clear is Haplous: It often implying being generous or having an undivided focus.
Eye Check: If your eye is healthy and focused on the Kingdom, your whole body, your whole life experience is full of life. How we look at something is based off perception.
Watch out. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Don’t let him mislead you.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (READ) 2 Cor 11:15 (READ).
Ugly Truth: Some don’t know the difference between LIGHT and darkness because their eyes can’t perceive what is right from wrong, from what’s holy and unholy because some have more darkness in them than light. God is the Light of the world AND so should we be too.
Some think God is talking to them, and it may have been the devil talking to them. Speaking to the dead is darkness.
KNOW the difference between LIGHT and darkness. BE the difference and walk in the LIGHT!!!
Psalm 119:37 (ESV)
37 “Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.”
Somethings we are looking at is adding unnecessary weight to our lives.
STAY HUNGRY!! STAY HUNGRY!!
TOO MUCH SOCIAL MEDIA WILL MAKE YOU HEAVY.
Comparison is weight.
Your eyes HAVE to be healthy …….
Matthew 6:24
He gave them a choice, Him or money.
“24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Some have made money their God.
No one can serve two God’s. According to scripture, you will love one and hate the other.
Question: Who’s your master? Money? Materialism? Things? God should be your answer. Don’t make money your master. Money will fail you BUT God will NEVER fail you!!
DON’T MAKE GOD YOUR MASTER. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY.
Phil: 4:6 (ESV)????
6 “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
No matter what you are going through STIILL give Him thanks!! Give Him thanks in ALL circumstances. BE grateful during good, bad, and stressful times.
No matter what someone tries to tell you, if you don’t perceive it, you will NOT receive it.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV)
18 “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7 (ESV)
6 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
Don’t cast your cares on them, cast them on HIM.
It’s one thing to have fear BUT another thing when fear has a hold of you. Everyone has a moment of fear. Fear is an emotion we were born into. When fear controls you, it becomes a problem. We should only fear (revere the Lord). Fearing the Lord draws a person toward God, not away from Him.
✓ Psalm 111:10: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding" (ESV).
✓ Proverbs 14:27: "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death" (ESV).
✓ Ecclesiastes 12:13: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (ESV).
THE BIBLE SAYS in 2 Timothy 1:7
7 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” (ESV)
Jesus is telling them not to worry. We too should not worry. We should seek GOD first. Whatever you seek FIRST is your source and resourcing you.
Question: Have you made fear your God?
STAY hungry and SEEK the Kingdom of God FIRST!!!
NUGGET #2
"WHOEVER (whatever YOU SEEK FIRST IS YOUR SOURCE AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RESOURCING YOU!" ~DR. HART RAMSEY~
Question: Who’s your source? Paycheck, spouse, God??? God is the SOURCE, everything and everybody else is a resource.
Some depend on the wrong things. Some budget wrong and they don't allow God in their budget. You did this and that...and Jesus ain’t in this or that. If Jesus ain’t in it... there will be limits.
***TAKE THE LIMITS OFF OF GOD!!***
Put God into your budget first. In ALL our ways we should acknowledge GOD
Proverbs 3:5-6.
Message: When you want to stay in a carnality mind you will make something what it’s not.
Some are financially blessed but miserable.
Carnal minded people
Our first priority needs to be seeking Him. When you seek Him, you become more like Him.
When you become more like Him you can. Forgive easier.
When you become more like Him you can love easier
When you become more like Him you do not become irritated one/or agitated so easy.
When you become more like Him when you see the person who did you the worst and love them anyway.
When you become more like Him, you do not go to bed angry/mad at your spouse.
We should be emulating Jesus!!
Kingdom priority is seeking the Kingdom FIRST. It’s an act of spiritual sight.
FYI: if our internal eye is clouded by anxiety, materialism or bad vision we literally can’t see the Kingdom to prioritize it first. That’s why our appetites don’t seek Him first. We seek what we want first because we don’t see clearly .
You can’t have Matthew 6:33 (ESV) without Mathew :6:22 (ESV) . Verse 22 is the vision that helps you see verse 33 and prioritize what God is telling you to see. Seek ME first.
So, if our perception is fixated on worldly treasures (Which is the context of verses 19-21), then verse 33 becomes a legalistic chore. Ex. Complaining about coming to church etc.
Seek the scriptures first, don’t go to Google first. AI is not anointed intelligence. Don’t go to AI, it’s artificial intelligence, it’s fake…Some go to fake intelligence and make them their God.
When you do not know light from darkness, you just look to get your needs met. You cannot seek first what you haven’t seen as the ultimate treasure.
If your eyes have been open, if you’ve become a NEW creature in Jesus Christ…..ACT as such NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS!!!
When your appetite is based on resources you can’t seek Him first.
NUGGET #3
IF THE EVE ISN'T RIGHT, THE FEET WON'T FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH.
The Bible says, “God orders the steps of a GOOD man.” Psalm 37:23 (KJV)
You won’t know the path if you can’t see the order. Everything we do comes from VISION and PRIORITY. Many get in trouble because they get caught in a process of always looking to the Lord. It’s often based from a place of trouble and not love.
NUGGET #4
STOP JUST LOOKING TO THE LORD AND START SEEKING FOR THE LORD!
Question: Are you the one that always ask Help! Help! Help Lord Help?
SEEK and you SHALL find!
Isaiah 55:6 (ESV)
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;”
Matthew 7:7-8
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Some may not be receiving any help because they are not seeking.
Isaiah 55:6
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;”
We should be repeat seekers of the Lord while He may be found. We should always be searching/pursuing/ seeking Jesus. Stay in seeking Jesus mode!!
Seek God in SONShine or rain! Seek! Aim and strive after the Lord! Persue God ALWAYS!!
God wanted them to elevate their thinking. We too should elevate our thinking.
Stop losing sleep over things you cannot control. Stop struggling over things He already said he’d provide.
We are anxious for God to do what we want BUT we won’t wait. In the wait, we mess up because we take it out of God’s hands. Sometimes the wait is getting you together.
Advice to self: Seek God! Pursue God! Patiently wait on God.
The worse thing is to get a blessing that you are not ready for…..
Jesus gives us the blueprint for breakthrough, the recipe for success. So, what are YOU seeking FIRST?
The promise of provision is given to those who SEEK HIM FIRST!!
So, our appetite has become ruined because we've been putting something first before our 5 course meal.
Some have made God an after thought instead of our source.
Worrying is harmful to your emotional and mental.
Some need a SEEK care, not self-care! Get yourself together. A SEEK care will show you how to properly self-care.
Some have put the weight of their faith in the wrong source. Worry has become someone’s God and it’s pressing against their souls.
We must STAY hungry for GOD and watch our weight. Stop meditating on the wrong information. Meditation is a magnifier and what you choose to magnify enlarges the weight of anything we obsess over. Obsess over the Kingdom, God and seeking Him first.
What you magnify will enlarge your territory.
Get God out of your guest room and put Him in the living room. We made Him a guest when He should have residence in our body.
Nugget #5
SEEKING HIS KINGDOM AND RIGHTEOUS STANDARDS FIRST, ELIMINATES WEIGHTED WORRIES
When you seek the Kingdom of God, you are seeking the provision God promised us. It’s multiplies! It increases! What we choose to do first determines the outcome of our NEXT!
Question: Have you made God first or have we ruined our appetite by eating something that gives a temporary filling?
Every time we worry , we are saying, GOD can you handle this???
Worry decreases our faith.
The antidote to worry is seeking the Kingdom of God First.
Jesus preached one central message and that message was straight KINGDOM!!!
Matthew 4:17 (ESV)
The Kingdom of God is about a relationship with Him. Your mentality BECOMES Kingdom.
Matthew 6:10 (ESV)
10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
In scripture, Jesus asked for the transference of heaven's systems into this earth reality. We can’t perceive that revelation if your eyes are not clean.
VISION VS PRIORITY
Priority is Matthew 6:33 Seek ye first. You cannot seek ye first the Kingdom if your eyes are dirty because you do not see priority because you don’t perceive what priority is.
Matthew 6:22 (ESV)
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,
The Greek work for single or clear is Haplous: It often implying being generous or having an undivided focus.
Eye Check: If your eye is healthy and focused on the Kingdom, your whole body, your whole life experience is full of life. How we look at something is based off perception.
Watch out. Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Don’t let him mislead you.
2 Corinthians 11:14 (READ) 2 Cor 11:15 (READ).
Ugly Truth: Some don’t know the difference between LIGHT and darkness because their eyes can’t perceive what is right from wrong, from what’s holy and unholy because some have more darkness in them than light. God is the Light of the world AND so should we be too.
Some think God is talking to them, and it may have been the devil talking to them. Speaking to the dead is darkness.
KNOW the difference between LIGHT and darkness. BE the difference and walk in the LIGHT!!!
Psalm 119:37 (ESV)
37 “Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.”
Somethings we are looking at is adding unnecessary weight to our lives.
STAY HUNGRY!! STAY HUNGRY!!
TOO MUCH SOCIAL MEDIA WILL MAKE YOU HEAVY.
Comparison is weight.
Your eyes HAVE to be healthy …….
Matthew 6:24
“24 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
Some have made money their God.
No one can serve two God’s. According to scripture, you will love one and hate the other.
Question: Who’s your master? Money? Materialism? Things? God should be your answer. Don’t make money your master. Money will fail you BUT God will NEVER fail you!!
DON’T MAKE GOD YOUR MASTER. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY. YOU CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MONEY.
Phil: 4:6 (ESV)????
6 “do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
No matter what you are going through STIILL give Him thanks!! Give Him thanks in ALL circumstances. BE grateful during good, bad, and stressful times.
No matter what someone tries to tell you, if you don’t perceive it, you will NOT receive it.
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV)
18 “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7 (ESV)
6 “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
Don’t cast your cares on them, cast them on HIM.
It’s one thing to have fear BUT another thing when fear has a hold of you. Everyone has a moment of fear. Fear is an emotion we were born into. When fear controls you, it becomes a problem. We should only fear (revere the Lord). Fearing the Lord draws a person toward God, not away from Him.
✓ Psalm 111:10: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding" (ESV).
✓ Proverbs 14:27: "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death" (ESV).
✓ Ecclesiastes 12:13: "Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man" (ESV).
THE BIBLE SAYS in 2 Timothy 1:7
7 “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” (ESV)
Jesus is telling them not to worry. We too should not worry. We should seek GOD first. Whatever you seek FIRST is your source and resourcing you.
Question: Have you made fear your God?
STAY hungry and SEEK the Kingdom of God FIRST!!!
NUGGET #2
"WHOEVER (whatever YOU SEEK FIRST IS YOUR SOURCE AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RESOURCING YOU!" ~DR. HART RAMSEY~
Question: Who’s your source? Paycheck, spouse, God??? God is the SOURCE, everything and everybody else is a resource.
Some depend on the wrong things. Some budget wrong and they don't allow God in their budget. You did this and that...and Jesus ain’t in this or that. If Jesus ain’t in it... there will be limits.
***TAKE THE LIMITS OFF OF GOD!!***
Put God into your budget first. In ALL our ways we should acknowledge GOD
Proverbs 3:5-6.
Message: When you want to stay in a carnality mind you will make something what it’s not.
Some are financially blessed but miserable.
Carnal minded people
Our first priority needs to be seeking Him. When you seek Him, you become more like Him.
When you become more like Him you can. Forgive easier.
When you become more like Him you can love easier
When you become more like Him you do not become irritated one/or agitated so easy.
When you become more like Him when you see the person who did you the worst and love them anyway.
When you become more like Him, you do not go to bed angry/mad at your spouse.
We should be emulating Jesus!!
Kingdom priority is seeking the Kingdom FIRST. It’s an act of spiritual sight.
FYI: if our internal eye is clouded by anxiety, materialism or bad vision we literally can’t see the Kingdom to prioritize it first. That’s why our appetites don’t seek Him first. We seek what we want first because we don’t see clearly .
You can’t have Matthew 6:33 (ESV) without Mathew :6:22 (ESV) . Verse 22 is the vision that helps you see verse 33 and prioritize what God is telling you to see. Seek ME first.
So, if our perception is fixated on worldly treasures (Which is the context of verses 19-21), then verse 33 becomes a legalistic chore. Ex. Complaining about coming to church etc.
Seek the scriptures first, don’t go to Google first. AI is not anointed intelligence. Don’t go to AI, it’s artificial intelligence, it’s fake…Some go to fake intelligence and make them their God.
When you do not know light from darkness, you just look to get your needs met. You cannot seek first what you haven’t seen as the ultimate treasure.
If your eyes have been open, if you’ve become a NEW creature in Jesus Christ…..ACT as such NEW CREATURE IN CHRIST JESUS!!!
When your appetite is based on resources you can’t seek Him first.
NUGGET #3
IF THE EVE ISN'T RIGHT, THE FEET WON'T FOLLOW THE RIGHT PATH.
The Bible says, “God orders the steps of a GOOD man.” Psalm 37:23 (KJV)
You won’t know the path if you can’t see the order. Everything we do comes from VISION and PRIORITY. Many get in trouble because they get caught in a process of always looking to the Lord. It’s often based from a place of trouble and not love.
NUGGET #4
STOP JUST LOOKING TO THE LORD AND START SEEKING FOR THE LORD!
Question: Are you the one that always ask Help! Help! Help Lord Help?
SEEK and you SHALL find!
Isaiah 55:6 (ESV)
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;”
Matthew 7:7-8
7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Some may not be receiving any help because they are not seeking.
Isaiah 55:6
6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;”
We should be repeat seekers of the Lord while He may be found. We should always be searching/pursuing/ seeking Jesus. Stay in seeking Jesus mode!!
Seek God in SONShine or rain! Seek! Aim and strive after the Lord! Persue God ALWAYS!!
God wanted them to elevate their thinking. We too should elevate our thinking.
Stop losing sleep over things you cannot control. Stop struggling over things He already said he’d provide.
We are anxious for God to do what we want BUT we won’t wait. In the wait, we mess up because we take it out of God’s hands. Sometimes the wait is getting you together.
Advice to self: Seek God! Pursue God! Patiently wait on God.
The worse thing is to get a blessing that you are not ready for…..
Jesus gives us the blueprint for breakthrough, the recipe for success. So, what are YOU seeking FIRST?
The promise of provision is given to those who SEEK HIM FIRST!!
So, our appetite has become ruined because we've been putting something first before our 5 course meal.
Some have made God an after thought instead of our source.
Worrying is harmful to your emotional and mental.
Some need a SEEK care, not self-care! Get yourself together. A SEEK care will show you how to properly self-care.
Some have put the weight of their faith in the wrong source. Worry has become someone’s God and it’s pressing against their souls.
We must STAY hungry for GOD and watch our weight. Stop meditating on the wrong information. Meditation is a magnifier and what you choose to magnify enlarges the weight of anything we obsess over. Obsess over the Kingdom, God and seeking Him first.
What you magnify will enlarge your territory.
Get God out of your guest room and put Him in the living room. We made Him a guest when He should have residence in our body.
Nugget #5
SEEKING HIS KINGDOM AND RIGHTEOUS STANDARDS FIRST, ELIMINATES WEIGHTED WORRIES
When you seek the Kingdom of God, you are seeking the provision God promised us. It’s multiplies! It increases! What we choose to do first determines the outcome of our NEXT!
Question: Have you made God first or have we ruined our appetite by eating something that gives a temporary filling?
Every time we worry , we are saying, GOD can you handle this???
Worry decreases our faith.
The antidote to worry is seeking the Kingdom of God First.
Jesus preached one central message and that message was straight KINGDOM!!!
Matthew 4:17 (ESV)
The Kingdom of God is about a relationship with Him. Your mentality BECOMES Kingdom.
Matthew 6:10 (ESV)
10 “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
In scripture, Jesus asked for the transference of heaven's systems into this earth reality. We can’t perceive that revelation if your eyes are not clean.
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