Lord, Open My Eyes

Lord, Open My Eyes

 For the past several months I have been daily praying, “Lord, let me see you at work all around me.”  I am amazed at how HE has answered those prayers. There are so many LITTLE things I would have missed if I had not been asking Him to open my eyes. This was yesterday’s reading from STREAMS IN THE DESERT. – Bill Welte is President and CEO of America’s Keswick

Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he may see.” (2 Kings 6:17)

This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and one another: “Lord, open our eyes so we may see.” We are surrounded, just as the prophet Elisha was, by God’s “horses and chariots of fire” (2 Kings 6:17), waiting to transport us to places of glorious victory.

Once our eyes are opened by God, we will see all the events of our lives, whether great or small, joyful or sad, as a “chariot” for our souls. Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such. On the other hand, even the smallest trial may become an object crushing everything in its path into misery and despair if we allow it. The difference then becomes a choice we make.

It all depends not on the events themselves but on how we view them. If we simply lie down, allowing them to roll over and crush us, they become an uncontrollable car of destruction. Yet if we climb into them, as riding in a car of victory, they become the chariots of God to triumphantly take us onward and upward. Hannah Whitall Smith

There is not much the Lord can do with a crushed soul. That is why the Adversary attempts to push God’s people toward despair and hopelessness over their condition or the condition of the church. It has often been said that a discouraged army enters a battle with the certainty of defeat.

 I recently heard a missionary say she had returned home sick and disheartened because her spirit had lost its courage, which led to the consequence of an unhealthy body. We need to better understand these attacks of the Enemy on our spirit and how to resist them. If he can dislodge us from our proper position, he then seeks to “wear out the saints of the most High” (Dan. 7:25 KJV) through a prolonged siege, until we finally, out of sheer weakness, surrender all hope of victory.

Reimann, Jim; Cowman, Mrs. Charles E. (2008-09-02). Streams in the Desert: 366 Daily Devotional Readings (p. 142). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

Team YOU: 1 Samuel 1-3; Proverbs 5; Luke 8:26-56

Motivations:  God never promised we would be comfortable in the world. In fact, He promised the opposite. Yes, it's uncomfortable to send our children to schools that attempt to undermine God's Word. It's uncomfortable when obedience to God puts us in the minority. It's uncomfortable when the evil world system encroaches upon our freedom to worship Christ. But we should be uncomfortable. In a fallen world that crucified Christ, our discomfort reflects our desire to serve and honour Him.

John MacArthur

Practice to Remember: Level 1:Ephesians 4:25; Level 2: Ephesians 4:11-16

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