Tag: discernment

Sight Check – How Do You See?

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light.”

Matthew 6:22 

I try to remember to look up or ahead when I am walking to see everything possible. When I drive, I can only look forward. I can only see what is before me. Limited as it is, I see. But it is not the full picture. In fact, the weather or time of the day all affect not what I see but how I see.

I gave that example to better reflect on how critical it is that we assess not just what we see, but first “how” we see the world before us.

As believers in a world that tends to try to separate itself from the Creator, there are dimensions that we are graced to perceive beyond this reality. Faith elevates how we see things and people and situations. Hope dissects how we see a worrisome situation. But for many of us, this is easier said than done.

Oh, the agony of wanting to believe when nothing looks worthy of our faith!

We want to believe the best in people. We want to hope for the best in life because of the goodness of God. We want to see the possibilities in a dire situation in a positive way. That is just what faith does – it affects and almost demands “how” you see the world.

But too often we forget.

Too often, we become distracted by the distortions of this world and its systems and cultures. We forget the “how” from time to time and focus on the what. Seeing becomes a matter of what we see rather than how we see what we see.

The how represents the perspective of our understanding and frame of seeing. The scripture above emphasizes the power of our sight not for what we see but for how we see it. It is referring to the frame in which we see through, that is beyond the physical eyes.

Just as we see different in the dark and in the sunlight, in light of Resurrection Sunday, the Spirit of God is reminding us that the health of our eyes depends on the source of our perspective.

Do you still seek the Lord for wisdom in ALL things?

Is your faith and your hope in God still backing up all the what you see? Or has the pressures and tribulations of this day and age gotten a hold of your sight?

The Lord wanted me to remind us today that it is time for a spiritual sight check.

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Especially in this marvelous week of Easter, in this season of death and Resurrection, we are called to examine the health of our eyes that is the lamp of our body.

Friend, may I ask that you consider how you see all that you see? How do you see your life? your money? your spouse or partner? your family? your church? your career? your worth? your purpose? and your being?

HOW do you see it all? With what lenses do you perceive the meaning of what you have been given to steward as a child of God?

As we seek the Lord for new understanding and seeing in new dimensions of faith and trials, I pray for you as I pray for me too. I pray that the Lord sends a divine breeze to cast away the blurriness before us and that the eyes of our understanding are enlightened in Jesus Name. Amen.

When Disappointment Becomes Despair – II

“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.”

2 Corinthians 4:8

I am confident that the Lord sees our hearts because His word in Proverbs 13:12 proclaim that, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.”

So what happens when you feel like your hope is deferred?

How do you faithfully respond when the eagerness and faithfulness to cling to a word that God has given you is seen as delayed from where you stand?

What do you do when your own minds starts to wage war against you and call you crazy for believing in the promise in the first place?

When you have done all you can, when you have done your best in being patient, when you have mastered worship as a response to the pain of waiting, and still your circumstances portray everything unlikely to the promise of God, then what?

Does the heart then not become sick? Does disappointment not then become despair? Does your fleeting hope then not make you so grievous that you dare to question the intent of God when He gave you the desire in the first place???

Believe me when I say I stand with you in that place of confusion, uncertainty, and tiredness.

But we cannot stay there!

We must not stay there!

By the power of the living Christ, WE WILL NOT REMAIN IN DESPAIR in Jesus name!!!

Because that is not what God promised. That is not what God called us to. That is certainly not what God has brought us this far to do.

I confess that these last few days felt like hell. I felt such a grieving distance from God that it pained me to pray and utter faithful words like I did when the promise was first revealed to me. But like a refreshing rain, the Holy Spirit poured into me in my hour of hopelessness.

When I was about to give up, when I was about to tap out, when I was about to release my hope completely and claim defeat over this word, God turned ME around. God shifted something in me and called me to decide.

Friend, the only thing between your disappointment and your despair is your decision to change your mind about how you see the disappointment in the first place.

No, it may not look anything like the promise. No it may not feel like your faith is strong enough to withstand the process to the promise. But I am here to remind you that God is not man that HE should lie. God told you He would. He promised you something. He said He would do it, so HE will do it.

IN FACT, IT IS ALREADY DONE!

For we serve a God who is timeless, a God who WAS, IS, AND IS TO COME. So if you got a word that is to come, know that it is already done and you are only yet to see it manifest.

I am praying for you as I am praying for myself, may the Lord renew our minds today. May our hope be renewed and our confidence strengthened in our mighty God who has never failed. You can count on God’s word! He has done it before and we will see Him do it again, Only bigger than the last time in Jesus name. Amen!

When Disappointment Becomes Despair – I

“We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.”

2 Corinthians 4:8

I cannot begin to name all the reasons that has kept me from posting for over 3 months. I cannot begin to count the many battles fought, lost, and fought again till won to be here in this present hour. But to God be the glory who fights our battles even when we are too stubborn to let go of the reins.

Despair is defined as the complete loss or absence of hope.

For any believer to find themselves in a place of despair is nothing to joke about or skid over. It is serious business when you reach a place in your journey, a time in your life, a realm in your walk of faith, that dares you to look God in the eyes and say that you do not believe the promise anymore.

I don’t know about you but for me, to despair feels like an agonizing breach of contract with God. It is a state of mind that abruptly rips apart the intimacy between me and God because I confess that I no longer have confidence in what God said to me.

I was in that place these past few days and I am still recovering from the war it was to fight back the strongholds that tried to keep me there.

It honestly began with a subtle disappointment. Then that disappointment reminded me of another disappointment over the same promise, then another fell in line, and then another, and before I knew it, I was immobile in my house under the heavy weight of despair.

See the thing about hoping on the word of God is that it necessitates expectation. Hope stirs up in you a distinct level of expectation from God where you look for the promise everywhere, every-time. Hope will do that to you.

Hope will have you stretching all your limitations and believing in God for an unseen type of miracle.

But what happens when your hope starts to feel the weight of waiting???

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Are You Awake?

“How long will you slumber, O sluggard? When will you rise from your sleep?”

Proverbs 6:9

We all know that there is a danger to sleep-walking, but no one readily tells you that there is also a danger to spiritual slumber.

In this place of Promise, I am realizing more and more that I cannot afford to slumber spiritually even for a moment. Purpose requires me to be spiritually steadfast at all times. And it is no different for you.

There is indeed a shift in the atmosphere. God is shifting things for HIS glory and only those spiritually awakened can feel and see what is happening according to the will of the Almighty.

I wonder today if you are one of the chosen who has allowed your spirit to fall asleep.

I wonder today if you are one of the chosen who have become so distracted with the physical that you have ignored the existence of the supernatural realm of the greater things that are happening right now.

Friend, it is time to wake up!!! And it is time to move in your awakening!

How much conflict have you allowed to prosper while in your spiritual slumber? How much confusion have you allowed habitation in your heart? How much pollution have you given residence to while you ignored your slumbering Spirit?

Child of God, awake and arise in the Spirit of God! Awake your slumbering spirit and arise in the strength of the Spirit!

The battle for your mind, your joy, and your peace has waged long enough while you slumbered in spirit. The distractions and disputes within you and all around you ought to come to a halt now because the Spirit of the living God in you is rising back up.

The Spirit of fearlessness and faithfulness is rising again in you, aiming to do what the Creator intended for it to do through you.

It is in your awakening, that you are aware. It is in your awakening that the fruits of the Spirit begin to flourish and bloom. It is in your awakening, that discernment empowers your every thought, speech, and action. So arise you slumbering Spirit in Jesus name!

I pray for your awakening today. The God of wonders is calling forth your slumbering spirit right now. May it heed the Voice of God and arise obediently in Jesus name! Amen.