Is your spiritual eye opened?

Ephesians 1:15–19 (NKJV)

15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:

17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power

two type of understanding.

The natural understanding & spiritual understanding.

The natural mind & the spiritual mind

The natural eye & the spiritual eye

To understand the natural things, our natural eyes must be opened, our natural mind our natural understanding must function properly.

To see and understand the spirtual things, our spiritual eyes must be opened, and our spiritual understanding must be enlightened.

To know the hope of God’s calling, to know the riches of the glory of his inheritance, our spirititual eyes must be opened.

The Apostle Paul was praying for the believers in Ephessus for their spiritual eyes to be opened.

When your spiritual eyes is opened, when your understanding is enlightened then you will see the world very differently, your worldview will change dramatically. It will impact the way you live.

Ephesians 4:17–19 (NKJV)

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

The Gentiles (unbelievers) walk/live in the futility of their mind

Their works can be accounted to the blindness that is in them

Because their understanding is darknened and the eyes of their spiritual heart is blind.

Becuase of their blindness they have given themselves to works all uncleaness and lewdness.

So why would you try to imitate the works the blind, to look like them, act like them, be like them.

when you see a blind person

May God openes the Spiritual eyes of God’s people.

What happens when Your spiritual eyes is opened and your understanding enlightened.

Psalm 119:96 (NKJV)

96 I have seen the consummation (limitation)of all perfection, But Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Hebrews 11:24–27 (NKJV)

24 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

25 choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin,

26 esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.

27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible.

Moses was mighty in word and deed in Egypt, yet when his spiritual eyes was opened.

In light of the spiritual things, the glories and riches of Egypt became utterly contemptable.

When he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches the treasures of Egypt. The aflliction of the people of israel was more appealing to him than the glories of Egypt.

He forsook Egypt becuase he saw what was visible.

How do we see the things of God in our life.

what kind of level of appeal does the things of God have in our life. What kind of level of appeal does the things of thins world have over our life.

The people of Israel as an example

Deuteronomy 29:1–4 (NKJV)

1 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which He made with them in Horeb.

2 Now Moses called all Israel and said to them: “You have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land—

3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great wonders.

4 Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.

The people Israel even though they saw the signs and wonder in the land of Egypt and in the wilderness. Because their spiritual eyes were not opened, because their spritual understanding was not englitned. They saw but did not percieve, they heard but did not understand.

Hence they chose Egypt, instead of The promise land.

They esteemed the glories of Egypt more than the glories of the promise land.

Therefore they perished in the wilderness.

May God opened our eyes.

It is very dangerous to walk with God, to walk this spiritual walk without your understanding ebeing enlightened and your eyes opened.

Isaiah 42:18–20 NKJV

18 “Hear, you deaf; And look, you blind, that you may see. 19 Who is blind but My servant, Or deaf as My messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is perfect, And blind as the Lord’s servant? 20 Seeing many things, but you do not observe; Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

You can be a servant of the Lord and be blind, and deaf.

This is heavy stuff.

2 Kings 5:14–27 (NKJV)

14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

16 But he said, “As the Lord lives, before whom I stand, I will receive nothing.” And he urged him to take it, but he refused.

17 So Naaman said, “Then, if not, please let your servant be given two mule-loads of earth; for your servant will no longer offer either burnt offering or sacrifice to other gods, but to the Lord.

18 Yet in this thing may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand, and I bow down in the temple of Rimmon—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord please pardon your servant in this thing.”

19 Then he said to him, “Go in peace.” So he departed from him a short distance.

20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “Look, my master has spared Naaman this Syrian, while not receiving from his hands what he brought; but as the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

21 So Gehazi pursued Naaman. When Naaman saw him running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him, and said, “Is all well?”

22 And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me, saying, ‘Indeed, just now two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the mountains of Ephraim. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of garments.’ ”

23 So Naaman said, “Please, take two talents.” And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and handed them to two of his servants; and they carried them on ahead of him.

24 When he came to the citadel, he took them from their hand, and stored them away in the house; then he let the men go, and they departed.

25 Now he went in and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you go, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant did not go anywhere.”

26 Then he said to him, “Did not my heart go with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and your descendants forever.” And he went out from his presence leprous, as white as snow.

Gehaz was the servant of Elisha, he was the servant of the Lord.

he saw the miracle right before his eyes.

He saw that what Naaman could not buy with his gold and silver, with his prestige and power, Elisha had.

The poor prohet Elisha, whow was insignificant, obscure and unknown in comparison to Namman in the world standard of things, had something with that Naman could buy with his silver or Gold.

We may be poor, insignificant, unknown in the world but we have something that no silver, no gold, nor worldy prestige or power could buy.

Even though Gehaz wittness this miracle, since the eyes of his heart was blind he chose to pursue Naaman than Elisha. Verse 21 “So Gehaz pursued Naman”.

Just like the people of Israel pursued Egypt, Gehaz pursued Namman, and as a result he received his leprosy.

May God open our spiritual eyes.

Judas iscariot.

He betray His saviour and Lord for 30 pieces of silver.

If your eyes is not opened, you can give the spiritual things for something so worthless like pieces of silver.

Elisha and his servant

2 Kings 6:8–17 (NKJV)

8 Now the king of Syria was making war against Israel; and he consulted with his servants, saying, “My camp will be in such and such a place.”

9 And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are coming down there.”

10 Then the king of Israel sent someone to the place of which the man of God had told him. Thus he warned him, and he was watchful there, not just once or twice.

11 Therefore the heart of the king of Syria was greatly troubled by this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not show me which of us is for the king of Israel?”

12 And one of his servants said, “None, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

13 So he said, “Go and see where he is, that I may send and get him.” And it was told him, saying, “Surely he is in Dothan.”

14 Therefore he sent horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and surrounded the city.

15 And when the servant of the man of God arose early and went out, there was an army, surrounding the city with horses and chariots. And his servant said to him, “Alas, my master! What shall we do?”

16 So he answered, “Do not fear, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”

17 And Elisha prayed, and said, “Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw. And behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Elisha was not distubed but what he saw in the physical because his spiritual eyes was opened to the spiritual things.

What is it in the physical that is causing you to be fearful, discouraged, feeling hopeless, May the lor open your eyes.

This servant was walking with Elisha but was aways fearful, always