Compassionate Vision

Natural vision only happens when we open our eyes and see the world around us. Spiritual vision to see the lost only comes when our heart is moved with the compassion from God's heart to see others beyond ourselves, which is why we need to be born again! Natural blindness and spiritual blindness are dangerous on so many levels. Spiritual blindness will send people to hell while "Christians" who are blind cannot see anything beyond self and need to get born again so they can see and enter into the kingdom. The kingdom of God is about souls and having compassion for lost. God desires for us to bring a harvest of souls to Him.

In Exodus 2:1-10, we encounter the first time the word compassion is used in the Bible. (I encourage everyone to reread these scriptures) When Pharaoh's daughter rescues Moses from the ark, that his mother put him in along the riverside bank so he would not be killed based upon the decree that all Hebrew male babies should be put to, she was moved with compassion after she opened up the ark, and heard the cry of Moses.

Here is what God wanted us to see from this amazing type and shadow of evangelism: "Compassion for souls and for people will cause you to see them in their despair.

Do you just see the circumstance they are in or can you unpack that situation and see the person that is trapped within that circumstance? Unless you open that situation up, you will not hear their cry. You will see the circumstance and have feelings about it, but God wants us to see them, unpack the situation, hear their cry, rescue them, bring them into His house, so they can grow and He can send them out to do the same. Isn’t this the same process He is doing with you?"

Without compassion in your harvest field, there is no power. You are limiting the Holy One of Israel, Psalm 78-34-42. Compassion is Evangelism and Evangelism is compassion. Psalm 145: 1-9. When we are moved with compassion like Jesus, Matthew 9: 35-38, we will see, ascertain what must be done about it, aka their circumstances, and be moved with compassion, aka a gut wrenching cry that you want God to move in their life. Without this vision we are spiritually blind and are good for nothing in the harvest field. Compassion is a byproduct of our relationship with God, 1 Peter 3:8-9 and 1 John 3:16-17. Our Godly compassion needs to be making a difference in people's lives, Jude 1:14-25. If it is not, REPENT and receive your compassionate vision today!

Questions to discuss:

1) Why did you not have compassionate vision for the lost prior to this message, aka limiting the Holy One of Israel in your harvest field?

2) What is compassionate visions answer or response when seeing someone in a circumstance they need rescued from?

3) How is compassion the same as evangelism and evangelism the same as compassion?

4) What were some aha nuggets that is causing this message of Compassionate Vision to become life in your life?

Being His Ambassador,

Rev. Ryan Welker