Sunday Morning 1st Service | I Am #1 | Pastor Rob Thomas

The Lord will see to it. How many of you have a situation in your life that you have worried and worried and worried and worried yourself silly over, kept yourself awake at night, and what you need to do is stop and realize and remind yourself that the Lord's gonna see to it. It's not your business. It's not your job to carry that weight and that burden. The Lord's gonna see to it. [01:24:36] (22 seconds)  #LordWillSeeToIt

Provision usually comes through surrender. So, guys, Abraham had to obey. He didn't understand. We don't understand reading that story. How could God ask a dad to do that? But it means we press forward even when we don't understand. It means we trust him. It means we, like Abraham, if god commands it, we bring our Isaac to the altar. Okay. Okay. And we say, lord, I trust you. [01:26:22] (32 seconds)  #SurrenderForProvision

Guys, here's the deal. The great I am sees you totally and completely. Again, you no longer have to hide or pretend. He sees it all. And because the great I am sees you, he also provides, and you no longer have to strive or live in anxiety. Understanding the truth about this can change everything in your day to day life. [01:36:30] (35 seconds)  #GreatIAmSeesYou

He is the God of more than enough. He is all in all. He is everything that you need. And you can walk out of this place with your head lifted a little more high than you came in because you're buying into the truth. You're just finally surrendering those things that you're carrying that you weren't meant to carry. Guys, and keep your eyes open. Because as you start doing this, God's gonna start showing up in unexpected ways in your life. [01:40:39] (30 seconds)  #GodIsMoreThanEnough

And so here she is. She's walking. She's she's alone. She's got the hot sand under her feet, and, you know, fear probably gripping her heart in the midst of all this, hopelessness, all the questions that are swirling around in her mind. She's going, you know, why in the world is this happening to me? I didn't ask for this. I gave them what they wanted, and now I'm the one being punished for it. Nobody sees what I'm going through. Nobody cares. [01:04:45] (29 seconds)  #WhenNoOneSeesYou

This is what the kind of the picture invokes here. She said, the god who sees me. Actually, in a literal translation of this is because the god who sees me, what I don't like about that translation is it's all it's it's it's inferring something that god does. Oh, god looks and he sees me like it's an action. In reality, the literal translation would be the God of seeing me. So it's not what he does, it's who he is. He is the God of seeing. [01:08:45] (32 seconds)  #GodOfSeeing

He sees the shame of past mistakes that you continue to carry. He sees the loneliness that you feel even in big full rooms like this. Guys, this promise means that you don't have to perform and you don't have to pretend. So give yourself a doggone break. Stop pretending. Stop performing. He knows and he sees. He is the god of seeing you. He knows every thought. He knows every hurt. He knows every disappointment. [01:10:25] (40 seconds)  #StopPerformingGodSees

So you got the word El. She calls him El Roy, the god who sees me. El meaning the mighty one. Roy comes from a Hebrew word root word ra'ah, and it means to look upon or to perceive. So if you were to think about this in the natural sense, imagine you've got your little toddler and you've got them at a playground, and you've been playing with them and doing all the stuff, but they're doing fine. They're playing over here in the grass, and they're doing their thing, and you're tired, and you finally decide to take a seat. [01:07:56] (29 seconds)  #ElRoyExplained

Have you ever felt like nobody notices what you're carrying? The the the the quiet pain behind the scenes, the the the the late night tears that you cry, the sense that you feel invisible in your own life. I think we've all been there at different points. Have you ever felt rejected? Have you ever felt alone? Have you ever felt like god himself was so distant? [00:58:54] (28 seconds)  #HiddenStrugglesMatter

Guys, look back over your life. How many times does god come through in ways that you didn't expect and at times that you didn't expect? Yeah. He is still the same god. That same Jehovah Jireh, that's still who he is for you today. [01:29:46] (18 seconds)  #JehovahJirehToday

God has already got provision prepared for you. He is Jehovah Jireh, the god who provides, and you gotta understand that you are not alone on that mountain, that he not only sees your need, but he meets your need. [01:32:25] (16 seconds)  #GodHasProvisionReady

And we stop striving and we stop worrying ourselves and we stand back and we watch god move. What did we say? The lord will see to it. He sees you, and he knows what you need, and he has unlimited resources. [01:27:04] (24 seconds)  #StopStrivingWatchGod

We were created in his image. And every time you speak about yourself, you are invoking the name of God. Whether you're a believer or a non believer, every time you speak his name, every time you say something about yourself, every time you refer to yourself, every time you say I am, you're echoing the name that God gave us to introduce himself. [00:54:54] (26 seconds)  #EveryIAmMatters

Hagar's in this position. She's broken. She's running. She's in the midst of her pain, and and not not only that, but she feels invisible in the midst of her pain. She feels used and abused, rejected, and alone. And in the midst of that, utterly invisible, unseen. But right there in the middle of the desert, in her deepest trouble, God meets her. [01:06:24] (27 seconds)  #GodMeetsYouInTheDesert

He knows every need you have in your life, and he provides every kind of need. So, again, some of you may need financial provision. Maybe the bills are piling up or or maybe you need strength for another day. You are so weak and so fatigued and you're so tired. He has all the strength that you need. Maybe you need wisdom. Maybe you need wisdom with a difficult child. [01:25:31] (25 seconds)  #HeMeetsEveryNeed

He sees you, and he meets you right there in the midst of your wilderness. He meets you in your darkest moment, in your darkest place. He's there. He is the God of seeing you. The third promise in this, being truly seen brings real comfort and fresh direction. So Hagar goes from this place of total despair and isolation to a place of hope and reassurance because she recognized that she was seen. She recognized that she was not alone. And the same god who finds her who found her in the desert sees you today wherever you are. [01:11:42] (41 seconds)  #BeingSeenBringsHope

God already sees your tomorrow's need. Yes. He's already prepared for it. He's got it ready to go. He's got your ram caught in the thicket. That thing that you're looking for that you need so desperately, he's already he's already there. But can you be patient? Can you allow for his timing? You know, sometimes we get what we ask for. [01:28:30] (28 seconds)  #RamInTheThicket

He sees you in the desert season. So, your desert season, it looks different for all of us. Maybe your your desert season is financial stress or maybe it's a broken marriage or maybe it's maybe it's maybe it's grief, maybe it's health struggles, maybe it's just loneliness or or just the daily grind that leaves you feeling just utterly empty and alone. Like Hagar, you may feel rejected, you may be feel forgotten, but you are not invisible to Elroy yi. [01:11:13] (29 seconds)  #NotInvisibleToElRoy

God sees what no one else sees. How many of you are thankful for that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How many of say that brings a little bit of comfort? Because there's things going on in your life right now that nobody else sees. There's things going on in your heart and your mind that nobody see. There's struggles that nobody else knows about. He sees. He knows. He sees the exhaustion behind that smile that you keep putting on your face. [01:09:53] (26 seconds)  #GodSeesWhatNoOneElseSees

With every step that he took, every mile that he walked probably felt like the deepest loss of his entire life, and he kept walking. He kept obeying step after step. Fear, sorrow, and things that probably tried to capture his heart. Yet Abraham keeps walking, keeps trusting that God knows what he's doing. God's gonna provide. [01:20:10] (30 seconds)  #AbrahamKeptWalking