When you go through challenges, personal attacks, setbacks, failures, difficulties, great losses, and family trauma, you need to regain your PERSPECTIVE! Spiritual growth starts in by getting God's perspective. Take for instance a dude named Jacob, who had lost his perspective. It's valuable to look at how he thought everybody was against him, when nothing could have been further from the truth. We end by looking at some FUN visual illusion IMAGES that help you see how important PERSPECTIVE is for your problems!

2. Keeping Your Perspective
In the Bible, in Genesis 42, Jacob is
surveying his current situation.
Jacob truly believes he is about to
lose yet two more sons to death.
He believes he can see what is
happening to him. He summarizes
his predicament in verse 35 with
these words:

3. Keeping Your Perspective
And Jacob their father said to
them, “You have bereaved me:
Joseph is no more, Simeon is no
more, and you want to take
Benjamin. All these things are
against me.”
Genesis 42:35

4. Keeping Your Perspective
Nothing could have been further from the truth!
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Joseph was not dead – he was the Prime Minister
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Simeon was in the loving care of his brother Joseph
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Benjamin was being treated like royalty by Joseph
Jacob says, “All these things are against me!”
 WRONG! 

5. Keeping Your Perspective
“For we walk by faith,
not by sight.”
2 Cor. 5:7

6. Keeping Your Perspective
When you go through the
storms of life, getting
God’s Perspective
on the problem will
help you regain peace.

7. Keeping Your Perspective
“He is no fool to give up
what he cannot keep, to
gain what he cannot lose.”

9. Keeping Your Perspective
"For I am convinced that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
things present, nor things to come, nor
powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Romans 8:3839)

10. Keeping Your Perspective
"Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our
outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being
renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is
producing for us an eternal weight of glory
far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the
things which are seen, but at the things which are not
seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but
the things which are not seen are eternal.”
(2
Corinthians 4:16-18)

11. Left vs Right
Hemisphere
left side
sees the trees
right side
sees the forest

12. Keeping Your Perspective
Definition of Perspective
 How do we see things
 How do our brains work
 What can we can do to change the way
we see things?
 How can we keep a good perspective?
 Perspective – proof through pictures
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13. Perspective Defined
Literally, in visual topics
Perspective (visual), the way in which objects appear to the
eye.
 Perspective (graphical), representing the effects of visual
perspective in graphic arts
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Metaphorically, in relation to cognitive topics
Perspective (cognitive), one's "point of view", the choice of a
context for opinions, beliefs and experiences
 Point of view (literature), the related experience of the narrator
 Perspective (psychological), or wisdom
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Mathematics
Perspective (geometry), a property of triangles

14. Keeping Your Perspective
"Weeping may last for the
night, But a shout of joy
comes in the morning."
(Psalm 30:5)

15. What is Perspective?
Perspective - What we see both
emotionally and physically
 Our perspective drives our sense of
being safe or unsafe
 Our perspective comes from our sense
of past experiences
 It involves the “amygdala”
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17. Keeping Your Perspective
In each of our hemisphere’s in our brain
we see different things
 The side we use most will determine
how much of that side will effect our
ability to be calm and see the full
picture.
 We need to see both the close view and
the full distant view.
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18. Left Hemisphere

logical

precise

details (sees the trees)

communicates

concerned about time

happier, more positive

doesn’t see problems

19. Right Hemisphere

big picture, sees the forest

creative, artistic

can put a room together (decorates)
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anxious, fearful, negative

focuses on problems

admits to problems

operates on hunches

20. Keeping Your Perspective
“Do not be anxious about anything, but
in every situation, by prayer and
petition, with thanksgiving, present your
requests to God. And the peace of
God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
(Philip. 4:6-7)

21. Keeping Your Perspective
Shopping shows differences between Men
and Women:
 Men in their left hemisphere view of
shopping will go, get it and be done.
 Women because of their right
hemisphere view of shopping will see
more things of interest and will need to
check them out.
 What does this look like?

23. Keeping Your Perspective
Our EXPERIENCES will effect how we
will see the big picture
 A postman who sees a ceramic dog
might have a fear response more than
the average person. Why?
 FEARFUL experiences!
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24. Keeping Your Perspective
This is how love is made complete among
us so that we will have confidence on the
day of judgment: In this world we are like
Jesus. There is no fear in love. But
perfect love drives out fear, because fear
has to do with punishment. The one who
fears is not made perfect in love. We love
because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:17-19)

25. Hormones effect positive
thinking
Adrenaline, Catecholamine and Cortisol
 Epinephrine. A hormone secreted by the
medulla of the adrenal gland, especially in
times of stress or in response to fright or
shock. Its main actions are to increase
blood pressure and to mobilize tissue
reserves of glucose (leading to an increase
in the blood glucose concentration) and fat,
in preparation for flight or fight. Derived
from the amino acids, phenylalanine or
tyrosine.
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26. The Storms Of Our Lives

27. Keeping Your Perspective
“And after you have suffered a little
while, the God of all grace, who has
called you to his eternal glory in Christ,
will himself restore, confirm,
strengthen, and establish you.”
1 Peter 5:10 (ESV)

28. What Do You See?

29. Keeping Your Perspective
Our Perspective determines our Attitude
 Our Attitude determines our Behavior
 Our Behavior determines Consequences
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30. Keeping Your Perspective
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Look at the complete picture

32. Believe it or not, these lines are
straight and parallel.

33. Another "false spiral" -- actually a series of
concentric circles, hard as it may be to believe. To
prove that there's no spiral, try tracing your finger
around one of the circles. You'll see that it never
moves inward or outward.

34. Can you tell which of these cars is
the largest?

35. Believe it or not, the right most car is the largest.
Our brain is wired to take perspective into
account, hence the common perception that the
leftmost car is larger.

36. What appears to be a huge chasm in
the middle of the street...

37. ...Is actually a street painting, seen
here in
mid-creation.

38. Which square is a lighter shade, A or
B?

39. Taken out of context, you can see A and B are the
same shade. Our familiarity with light and shadow
tricks us into thinking B is "actually" lighter than
A.

40. Which of these two dots is in the true
center of the circle?

41. With the distracting lines out of the way, it's
apparent that the green dot is at the center.

42. The two birds in this image are
identical. Not just in size and shape,
but in color too.

43. Check out the same image with
the background removed.

44. Are the walls of this house facing
outward, or inward?

45. Depends on how you look at it. If you isolate the
top portion of the image, the house appears to be
concave, facing inward. Isolate the bottom, and
the perspective is reversed.

46. A variation on a classic illusion, this cat can be
perceived as rotating in either direction. With
practice, you can make it switch at will!

47. Here's a simple one. Are these two
rows of squares perfectly parallel?

48. They are indeed perfectly parallel, which
becomes more apparent when the line between
them is highlighted.

49. Can you tell where on this curve the lines
are the longest, and where they are the
shortest?

50. They are all the same length.

51. Can you unweave this web and
find the hidden word within it?

52. A little color-coding helps to
reveal the truth.

53. Believe it or not, this image is not animated. The
effect persists only in your peripheral vision; if
you focus on any one of the spirals, it will stop
moving.