Let's Be Clear

[00:00:22] Peace and love everybody. This is D.P.

[00:00:25] We're walking back to perspective.

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[00:01:05] There's some great stuff going on.

[00:01:07] Listen last week or last week but episode three we ended talking about influence

[00:01:17] and how influence plays a big role

[00:01:19] and how we see and we perceive not just our life but the purpose that we are

[00:01:25] looking to fulfill in life.

[00:01:30] And with that being said, I want to make this statement right?

[00:01:35] That if influence plays a big part in how we perceive

[00:01:41] then what we perceive will determine how we understand.

[00:01:47] Say that again, if influence plays a big part in how we perceive

[00:01:54] then what we perceive will determine how we understand.

[00:02:01] For many of us this year as we are in pursuit of purpose

[00:02:07] we cannot execute that purpose without focus and clarity in our vision.

[00:02:17] For many of us we can't move forward until we are clear about some things.

[00:02:27] For many of us, one of the main things we can't move forward with without clarity

[00:02:34] are the relationships around us.

[00:02:40] Again last week I made this statement that for many of us it's not our enemies

[00:02:48] who play a part in influencing us.

[00:02:50] But that enemy can play a big part in influencing the ones who we love

[00:02:57] that we allowed to influence us.

[00:03:00] What do our closest friends and family members those who we loved nearly?

[00:03:08] Do we know what they guard their ears from?

[00:03:12] Again not just do they guard their ears from gossip about us,

[00:03:16] from talks about us, but do they guard their ear enough to make sure that nothing enters them

[00:03:21] that will cause them to become insecure.

[00:03:25] That will cause them to lose focus on their path to finding purpose.

[00:03:35] Vision is a really big thing when it comes to purpose.

[00:03:42] We can only go as far as we can see.

[00:03:51] And sometimes what we see has to be adjusted so that we can make proper steps forward

[00:04:03] to where we're going.

[00:04:08] For many of us, if our perception and perspective is tainted

[00:04:21] if it's soiled, if it's infected, we can't move any further

[00:04:31] until we rid ourselves of the infection.

[00:04:37] Because what good is it to go into purpose in pain with excess baggage,

[00:04:48] with feelings and hurt that if we just take the time to find the solution for,

[00:05:01] we can move into these areas.

[00:05:03] Clearly, we can move into them with an open mind and move into the knowing that this is

[00:05:14] really where I'm supposed to be.

[00:05:16] This is really what I'm supposed to be doing.

[00:05:20] So for many of you while you're writing your vision boards or you're finishing your vision board,

[00:05:25] I hope you put on there that this year you are going to make some things clear.

[00:05:35] Set some boundaries in certain areas.

[00:05:39] Have specific goals, right?

[00:05:42] Not just unobtainable targets.

[00:05:46] But really set down and think and plan.

[00:05:51] Based off of what I see right now when I'm understanding right now,

[00:05:57] do I have the solution to clear my vision to know exactly where I'm going?

[00:06:08] What you don't want to do is move into certain areas of your life without clarity and

[00:06:14] focus because if you do certain things that should be consistent and constant for you,

[00:06:24] would become uncertain.

[00:06:30] So in that we land in the particular city by the name of Beth Sayida,

[00:06:38] end of Episode 3, we was on a boat with Jesus, ended disciples.

[00:06:44] He was kind of given them a little lecture on infection and influence.

[00:06:50] In telling them pretty much in the nutshell,

[00:06:54] based off of you was perception of me so far and what you've allowed to influence you,

[00:07:00] you really don't understand me and who I am and the magnitude of what I am.

[00:07:09] I'm supposed to pause right there and say this.

[00:07:14] Whatever you do this year, make sure that your perception on God is really, really clear.

[00:07:23] Alright, whatever that means. If that means you get away from negative focus,

[00:07:28] if that means you get away from people who don't believe in God themselves.

[00:07:34] If I'm on this spiritual path of connecting with God this year,

[00:07:41] I need to see him clearly. I need a clear perception and view on him above anything else.

[00:07:54] But after we get off the boat with Jesus, we land in Mark 8 verse 22.

[00:08:01] We're in a town called Beth Sayida, right?

[00:08:05] And it says that as Jesus is getting off the ship, him is disciples

[00:08:10] that I met by a group of people who bring this blind man to Jesus and they act Jesus.

[00:08:19] Can they heal him? Here's something that's really simple, really elementary.

[00:08:33] But it blew my mind right? Jesus does not have any dialogue with this group.

[00:08:40] He doesn't say much else to this group. The very first thing he does is he takes the man by the hand

[00:08:48] and leads him out of the village that he got him from. When the very first things, we have to be okay with

[00:09:00] and we're going to receive clarity and focus, right? We have to be okay with Jesus taking us out of

[00:09:08] environments that had become our normal. Certain things have just become normal for us.

[00:09:21] For some of you insecurity has become normal. For some of you lack poverty, depression,

[00:09:32] anxiety, it's become normal. This almost as if you live there and because you've lived there

[00:09:41] so long, you know where everything is. You know how to maneuver in it, not knowing that being

[00:09:53] just in that state alone will cause you not to move forward. The very first thing Jesus does

[00:10:01] above nothing else is he takes this man out of an environment. I looked up something

[00:10:10] where it came to sight and vision and clarity and I found something in an article written by the

[00:10:19] Cleveland Clinic, right? It says, I'm that vision loss in blindness can be caused by number

[00:10:27] of factors. But some of the main factors are this. You ready? You can go blind or be blind due to genetics,

[00:10:41] due to an environment by an accident or by a disease. I say it again, you can go blind

[00:10:57] through genetics, through an environment by accident or by sickness, some type of disease.

[00:11:15] Here's the funny thing, in Mark 8 we don't know that this man is born blind.

[00:11:24] The Bible doesn't say he's born blind. So genetically we can't really say he was born blind.

[00:11:32] But it raises an eyebrow to me as to why Jesus will take him out of a normal environment.

[00:11:41] You ready? Check this out. What about your environment that does Jesus see that you don't see?

[00:12:01] Why are you on the state there? Why let's come to Buddha? Why are you like the people there? What about

[00:12:09] your environment does God see? You can't stay in. Some of our environments have made us blind.

[00:12:31] Blindness is nothing but a lack of clarity and focus. So some of our environments

[00:12:40] have caused us to lose clarity on our purpose. Some of our environments

[00:12:51] have made the focus that we need to obtain and to be,

[00:12:59] and to discover, have made our focus blurry. And sometimes those environments are enhanced by people.

[00:13:16] So we're around people who are negative. We're around people who don't desire any more out of life.

[00:13:28] We're around people who don't hold us accountable to staying focused.

[00:13:37] We can become blind that there's a bigger picture for our life. So I'll ask this question to you.

[00:13:49] What does Jesus see about the people around you and their influence on you? That he would

[00:13:59] rather heal you alone than around them. Wow, what does Jesus see about your family?

[00:14:09] That he will allow you to feel like you're ostracized in that your body or so.

[00:14:13] And that nobody wants to kick it with you. Nobody wants to talk to you. They really don't want

[00:14:23] you around. So God will let you feel isolation because sometimes the influence of our environment

[00:14:35] will cause us to stay blind longer than we need to be. So do some inventory. What about my environment?

[00:14:44] What about what about the people that are in that environment? Does God want to isolate me from

[00:14:54] so he can heal me? What about certain environments that keep my heart from being open and my eyes

[00:15:07] from being open? Does God see that he doesn't like? That he would rather heal me by myself.

[00:15:18] Then they heal me in their presence. Jesus takes me by the head that come out of the city.

[00:15:32] And here's the next thing Jesus does. Bible says that Jesus spits in this man's eye. For many of us,

[00:15:59] the second step for us to start seeing things clearly is we need a divine solution.

[00:16:10] Here's a crazy thing growing up I've never had to wear like glasses or contacts or anything

[00:16:16] like that. But I do have friends and things that nature who do wear contacts.

[00:16:24] And one thing they have to do in order to maintain those contacts every night,

[00:16:29] they take those contacts and put them in contact solution. Or some people who find themselves with

[00:16:37] allergies a lot and they irritate their eyes. They have to keep like vising in or different

[00:16:43] eye drops and eye solutions for the eyes. Get note that the purpose of those solutions,

[00:16:53] especially if you're using eye drops, one is to relieve pain.

[00:16:58] Treat infection. ease the redness or irritation in your eye or to treat a condition.

[00:17:12] So because of the environment that this man is in,

[00:17:17] Jesus has to add divine solution to his eyes. Because in that environment,

[00:17:32] he suffered pain to his vision. And ultimately because of influence could have

[00:17:39] called an infection that could cause a condition that caused him not to see.

[00:17:55] He's blind because of pain. He's blind because

[00:18:00] while in the midst of travels, he finds himself in a place

[00:18:06] that their influence is so high that things start to infect the way he sees. The next thing

[00:18:20] Jesus does is take spit divine solution and he rubs it in the man's eyes. Can I tell you

[00:18:39] possibly one of the main reasons why he had to take a minor develops before he spit on

[00:18:45] and gave him divine solution? It's because he didn't want his environment to stop his process.

[00:18:57] Let me end the first thing I'm going to do if I see one of my homeboys being spit on his

[00:19:02] A.o. They bite the spit on you or I'm checking the person that's getting ready to spit on them.

[00:19:17] Not knowing that that spit is going to be needed to give him a site back because some of our

[00:19:28] environments are not smarter enough than though. That what God may be trying to do to us,

[00:19:36] may be looking nasty. May look in you main. Doesn't look normal. They don't know that what looks

[00:19:49] nasty to them is actually going to be your divine solution. They don't know that the pain that you're

[00:20:00] going through is not for them to rescue you out of it but it's going to be your divine solution

[00:20:06] to sing your purpose clearly. So again, what about your environment? But he rather pull

[00:20:18] you out of so he can hear you alone. Didn't around them after this disgusting moment of spit.

[00:20:35] Jesus not asking me. Hey bro, what you see? Man looks around his eyes.

[00:20:47] Yeah, I see. I can only see two things. What you see? I see people but

[00:21:16] but they look like trees. They're walking. I see like trees walking. Now here's my problem with

[00:21:45] you're ready? I'm just glass on them. I've got to say that. He sees people no more one. It's the

[00:21:58] first thing, right? But the characteristic people he sees is not normal. They look like trees.

[00:22:19] They look great. They look grand. They look big. But they're inconsistent. She made danger. They're inconsistent.

[00:22:31] Tree's ain't supposed to move. It's not in the nature of a tree to move. But uh

[00:22:41] why? Because they have roots that are deep in the ground and keep them rooted.

[00:22:49] Unable to move but yet he sees people

[00:22:58] watch this and their inconsistency. Okay, so he glasses off. I pull them off. Put it back

[00:23:11] on. Really? He sees what's supposed to be consistent acting inconsistently. Take a

[00:23:31] guy to put them back on. Your best friend ain't supposed to move. They're supposed to

[00:23:49] be by your side and not be inconsistent. But yet right now you see their characteristic

[00:24:02] of being inconsistent. For some of you, you feel like my job is supposed to not move. It's supposed

[00:24:13] to be consistent. I'm supposed to cock in every day, go in every day, leave every day, take a

[00:24:19] lunch break every day, go home every day. But all of a sudden you now see that even what you call

[00:24:31] consistent has the potential of being inconsistent. Here's another thing that amazing me and

[00:24:43] we can ready to go because I got a little bit of work just like me. Ready?

[00:24:47] So only things that are around him during this miracle, watch this are trees and the disciples.

[00:25:04] These are the same people that Jesus told, you're not consistent in knowing me. You're not

[00:25:19] consistent in your learning about me. You're not consistent in your trusting me. So what this

[00:25:31] blind man really is, it's just affirming some of the same things. He just told his disciples on the boat

[00:25:39] about themselves. We got to go back and ask you another question. Are you insisting?

[00:25:53] While we talk about and talk around everybody else and everybody in your life being consistent

[00:25:58] how has be them to be consistent for you and show up for you? What is your ability

[00:26:05] like to be consistent? If I'm supposed to be the rooted friend, if I'm supposed to be the best

[00:26:12] friend of I'm supposed to be the confinant, do I show my ability to be consistent for other people?

[00:26:20] Because relationships always work both ways. Did never one sided.

[00:26:33] You ready? Pursue glasses on again. Bible says Jesus wipes his May his eyes for a second time.

[00:26:43] I said okay, but do you see he says okay I see everything clear now. I'm getting my focus back.

[00:26:56] I'm saying things with clarity again. Here's what Jesus tells them. Go back home. Don't go to the village

[00:27:14] that you just came from. Go back home. Once you have come to certain realizations

[00:27:34] and your mind is healed, your vision is healed, your heart is healed. It's not wise for you

[00:27:46] to not maintain your miracle. Don't go back to the village. Go where? Home. Something

[00:28:01] about home where you can be who you're supposed to be. Because obviously when you've got to this

[00:28:15] village, you already had certain things about you that that environment took away. This environment

[00:28:26] caused pain, caused infection which in return gave you a condition. So don't go back there.

[00:28:44] Back to go. Remember I told you about the Cleveland Clinic? They make this statement about vision.

[00:28:53] Let's say that vision makes a big difference in your life's well-being and quality.

[00:29:05] They say to safeguard your vision. Make sure that you don't put yourself in environments.

[00:29:16] Make sure that you stay away from certain things people end or objects that will cause accidents.

[00:29:25] Make sure that you live a healthy life so that where you don't inherit any conditions.

[00:29:33] That occurs when you go blind. The well-being of who you are and the relationships around you

[00:29:51] hinge on your ability to have a clear view of all of it. So as we go, stay clear

[00:30:09] because you'll have to pin some. Before you go, you already know what to do.

[00:30:18] Share this with two people. I love you. See you Wednesday. Peace.