Confronting Blind Spots: Humility, Accountability, and Restoration

You see, if we're honest with ourselves, most of our blind spots have the same root. Now, you're not gonna like this word, but I'm a say it anyways because I don't care. Most of our blind spots have the root of pride. And see, because we're so prideful, we tend to want to ignore those shortcomings, and then we wonder why we keep lapping the same mountain about a certain issue because we won't deal with the pride. Instead, we wanna ignore the blind spot. [01:04:21] (38 seconds)  #PrideCreatesBlindSpots

But because of the blind spots, we think we're doing them a favor when we're only when when when we're the ones drinking the poison. You think that you not forgiving that person is pushing them away and giving them the silent treatment is actually helping them, it's killing you. See, that's why some of us, we won't cut out toxic folks in our life because we think we are the only one that can help them. And we all have toxic people in our life that we should have cut off twenty years ago. [01:05:53] (40 seconds)  #CutToxicTies

Make the pain count towards your purpose. So he went into the house of the Lord, and watch this, he worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and when requested, they set food before him, and he ate. See, it's not enough just to worship the Lord, which is plenty. At some point, you gotta go back to your house and feast on the Lord as well. When's the last time you feasted on the Lord? If the only time you eat is on Sunday morning, you are starved. If the only time you worship is on a Sunday on a Sunday morning with pastor Adam and his team, you are malnutritioned. You are anemic because you cannot survive on one meal a week. And the meal you get here while it is good, it's not enough. Sometimes you gotta go home and open up your book for yourself and do what Jesus said. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Sometimes the only way that you will find some sanity is by opening that book and reading some sane words. [01:40:51] (78 seconds)  #FeastOnTheWordDaily

it's time to move people and to compel people to action. You didn't hear what I just said? It's time to compel people to action. We've had enough of standing around and feel good and sugarcoating and seeker sensitive. We've got to start acting on what the bible says, and not just reading what the bible says. The bible says don't just be a hearer of the word, be a doer of the word. At some point, we gotta put up or shut up. At some point, we gotta do what the bible says. [01:01:27] (36 seconds)  #BeADoerOfTheWord

So driving down the road, and you have the you have the rearview mirror in the middle, and then you have the two side mirrors on your car. Correct? Hopefully. Right? Hopefully, not hanging by duct tape or hanging off the car, but it's on your car. Right? You know that when you're driving down the road, and let's say you're in the middle lane of a three lane highway, and you wanna change lanes to the right or to the left, there is a point in time where you've looked in the side view mirror, and you see the car some distance. But if you don't turn and glance, that's called the blind spot. Y'all are missing this revelation. That means it's not enough to just look at the smaller mirror. Sometimes you have to keep your head on a swivel at all times because the enemy is waiting for you to miss the blind spot so that you'll crash. And there's a lot of crashes happening in happening in the body of Christ because people are failing to look around when they're supposed to. [01:16:37] (66 seconds)  #CheckYourBlindSpots

There's an inspection coming body of Christ. There's an inspection coming. Mark 11 verse 11 says this, when Jesus entered Jerusalem, he went to the temple, but it was really late in the day. He looked around and turned around and walked out and went back to Bethany. What that scripture tells me is this, God is looking around right now in the body of Christ, inspecting quietly. Don't be caught on the next day when he comes and he starts flipping your tables and rolling up whips. Because that's what happened in the in chapter in verse 15 of that same chapter, the bible says, the next day he goes into Jerusalem, enters the temple, and that's when he starts wrecking shop. There's an inspection coming. [01:44:50] (56 seconds)  #PrepareForDivineInspection

Blind spots are not easily detected, but they are easily missed. The easiest way we catch blind spots is by seeing them for other people. What that means is I can see yours much easier than I can see mine. The most difficult way we miss blind spots is failing to see them for ourselves. And when somebody else points out our blind spots, we get, watch this word, offended. [01:09:01] (32 seconds)  #DontBeOffendedByCorrection

Now I know some of y'all used to do that. Don't act like you didn't do that back in the day. You thought toothpaste could really heal that pimple. Baby, that ain't gonna work. That's like spraying Windex. Everybody see that movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding? When you sprayed Windex on everything? Windex can't help you. Windex can't remove the blind spot. Only the holy ghost can. [01:07:06] (23 seconds)  #HolySpiritRevealsBlindSpots