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The Eye Gate – Looking Right On

The Eye Gate – Looking Right On

Beloveds, I pray you are sticking in there with cleansing your eye gate daily. For then you will start seeing what God sees and look past that which you see in the natural. I bless you with the strength and discipline you need to overcome in Jesus name.

Let us look at the next scripture.

Proverbs 4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

What does it mean to look right on? Fixing your eyes unswervingly, steadily upon an object not allowing the gaze to deflect to the left or the right.

The object on which we set our eyes are then, the Word of Truth who is Jesus Christ.

What does eyelids look straight means? Do nothing rashly, but everything with premeditation; examine your conduct.

How do we examine our conduct? By weighing it against God’s word – keeping His precepts in mind.

So let us then add in the explanations to this scripture – Let thine eyes look (unswervingly, steadily, not looking to the left or the right) on (the Word of Truth, Jesus Christ), and let thine eyelids look straight (without doing anything rashly but premeditate and examine your conduct, weighing it against God’s precepts) before thee.

A Vision

I would like to share with you what I believe the Lord showed me this morning in my quiet time before I received this scripture for this post. I was looking at a spiritual battlefield from the top of a mountain. I looked at the forerunners at the front of the battle and I saw people fighting against a horde of demons. It was very interesting the way they fought. They were wielding their swords against the enemy but they were not looking at the demons that they were fighting against. They were busy reading scriptures from the Bible and they kept their eyes only on what they read. They didn’t for one moment take their eyes off of the Bible. The more they kept reading the more they could clear the path to walk further. All of a sudden I saw a huge wall in front of them and it was moving and trying to push them back. Then the forerunners started declaring the Majesty, Glory and splendor of God. They were declaring who God is! The moment they started doing this light filled the place and many angels were released that assisted the forerunners to push this wall back.

I believe that this is our message, we need to set our eyes only on the Word of God and in who He is. We will not overcome if we try to fight without His Word.

My beloved friend, are your eyes unswervingly, steadily upon the Word of Truth when you face trials or difficulties? Or do you look to the left or the right, struggling to keep Your eyes on Him? Do your eyelids look straight, do you first premeditate and watch your conduct before responding? Are your eyelids focused on Gods precepts? Where are your eyes at?

PRAYER

Father, I bring my eyes and eyelids before you by the blood of Jesus. Father, my eyes have wondered, I have not been looking at Jesus, the Word of Truth unswervingly. I have not kept my gaze steadily upon Jesus. I repent, I am guilty, I ask that You will forgive me for not looking at You, for looking to the left and the right, for getting overwhelmed and then be swallowed by doubt and fear. Father, I repent that my eyelids do not look straight, I do not keep Your precepts in mind, my conduct and behavior is of one that doesn’t know You. Please forgive me for not reading and focusing my eyes on Your Word and for allowing my eyes to look everywhere else but You for assistance when it goes tough. I rededicate my eyes and my eyelids to You in the name of Jesus. I ask that You will please remove all contamination of the world from me in the name of Jesus. I give You permission to once again fill my eyes and eyelids with Your light and truth in Jesus name. Jesus, I give this eye gate to You and I ask that You will please bring me to my senses. Holy Spirit, please remind me when I want to default to not keeping my gaze upon the Word of God.

Now, I turn my eyes upon Jesus,

I look full in His wonderful face.

And the things of the world will grow strangely dim.

In the light of His Glory and Grace.

This I pray in the precious name of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen and amen.

The Eye Gate – Don’t Look At What You See

The Eye Gate – Don’t Look At What You See

Beloved, I hope you are challenging and pushing hard against yourself to get rid of the wrong learnt behaviors (according to the Word of God) that we don’t even realize we have because it has become part of us. It does require a whole lot of effort, but soon enough it will become second nature to reject that which is in contradiction with Gods Word. I salute you for sticking in there and for doing this for our King Jesus who we love so dearly.

Let us look then at the next scripture and keep rewiring our minds and eyes to look at things the way the Word of God directs.

2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Let me ask you this question. How do you look at difficulties/problems/trials and what do you really see? I am asking this because we all are falling short of staying in the Spirit, especially when we face heartache, financial pressure, children that are lost, sickness and disease etc. We tend to get so overwhelmed by what we see in the physical that we forget how to stay in the Spirit and look with our spiritual eyes.

If we do not look at what we see physically and we do not allow ourselves to be affected negatively by it, if we hook immediately into Jesus, then we will see things that doesn’t look at all like what we are physically seeing. This is where your spirit is seeing what God is actually saying about the situation.

The difficult part is to train yourself to immediately bring your eyes under the blood of Jesus and ask Holy Spirit to help you stay in the Spirit and not operate out of emotion that can lead you astray.

NUGGET

DO NOT LOOK AT WHAT YOU (physically) SEE! Especially when it is shocking or very negative.

THE DEVIL IS A LIER! God speaks a different Word!

I had to many times in difficult situations repeat to myself, don’t look at what you see. This helped me to focus on being mindful of asking God what I needed to do. I made sure to not agree with my emotions that were dictating to me how bad it was because of what my physical eyes saw.

The moment there is a negative or horrific thing you are facing – Call immediately upon Jesus and ask Him to open your eyes to really see what is happening in the spirit, just like it is written in 2 Kings 6:17

My Testimony

When our children were 3 and 5 years old we did not have any medical aid whatsoever. Our finances were tight and everything that needed medical attention had to be prayed through. This was my time where I have learnt what it truly meant not to look at what I see.

The one day after I was done homeschooling our daughter she stayed behind in our school room to play. I was outside doing some washing when I heard a horrific scream. I immediately started praying in my heavenly language because I knew I needed Jesus. The lady that was helping me ran out the door because she couldn’t handle the sight. A room divider fell over unto our daughter and its corner fell on her foot making a hole in it and blood gushed out of this hole. There was a blue line across her foot as well where it hit her. Prayerfully I cleaned the hole and wrapped her foot up. I then said to her that we will be trusting Jesus for healing and we will ask him to remove the pain. (We can get so emotionally wrapped up in our children’s pain that we forget to stay in the Spirit and rely on Gods help. We tend to immediately run to the help of the world. I couldn’t, I was forced to rely only on God because we did not have the means to go to the doctor). Our 3 year old son was standing with his little guitar strumming away and he said: “Mommy when there is trouble, we worship Jesus”. I asked him to do the worship while I was praying. As I was praying I saw a picture of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and I asked the Lord to roar over her and drive away the enemy that was trying to torment her. Instantly, in that corner of the living room where we sat we heard a massive roaring of thunder outside. (It was clear blue sky that day, no rainy weather at all.) Our daughter immediately responded and said that Jesus, the Lion is roaring over her. We prayed over that hole in her foot and commanded it in the name of Jesus to close up. A half an hour later she said to me she wanted to take a bath and we must take the bandage off. I opened it and the blood stopped and there was no sight of a hole! The blue line across her foot was still there but there was no pain. How awesome is God. He encountered our little one. That day I had to push hard against not looking at what I saw with my physical eyes. If we had a medical aid it would’ve been easy to just get it sorted by the doctor. I wouldn’t have learnt to look at difficult situations with different eyes. How God loves us.

Another story

Our 3 year old son also had his own ordeal. He used to help his grandfather making breakfast most mornings. The one day grandfather just turned around for a second and our boy pressed his whole hand down unto the hot stove plate. There was instantly a colossal blister across the palm of his hand. I have never seen a blister that big. We knew how to look at the situation and we did not come in agreement with how bad and terrible it was. Although he cried for two hours, we prayed and worshipped for those two hours not giving up. At one stage when he calmed down I prayed and commanded that blister in the name of Jesus to dry up, the pain to go and to be gone within 2 days. Within 2 days the blister was open, the skin fell off and new skin grew over that wound. Yes, within two days! Another miracle!

I have many such stories where we had to look past what we physically saw and looked with our spiritual eyes. It is quite a battle at first , but sticking in there and not budging will bring forth great fruit. I am grateful to God for teaching me how to look with other eyes. We need to know that especially in difficult situations God always teaches us something. It is how we look and respond to what we see where we will either overcome or be defeated.

My beloved friend, what do you see when you face trials? Do you see the unseen (many times we have to stick in there and not let go until something happens, just like 2 hours later for me? Or do you see like Elisha’s servant saw in 2Kings 6:15 and he was afraid?

Let us then press on by training our eyes to see what Jesus sees in our difficult situations and not immediately be overwhelmed by what we physically see.

Let us pray: Abba Father, I am just like Elisha’s servant in 2 Kings 6:15 that saw all the horses and chariots around the city and got afraid. I repent and ask forgiveness for looking at what I see. Please forgive me for getting so emotionally overwhelmed that I forget that You speak a different Word. Please forgive me for not being mindful of You and how I ought to deal with difficulties. Please wash me and cleanse me with Your precious blood in the name of Jesus. Father, please forgive me for my first response that is to run to others for help. I repent that my eyes are defiled and full of horror, expecting and believing the worst when I see something bad happen. Please forgive me for giving over to the lies of the enemy in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit I need your help, I need You to please take charge when I face difficulties, I ask that You would immediately come and remind me to ask You to open my eyes so that I won’t look at what I see but to what You see. Father, I ask for a cleansing of my eye gate in your blood, I rededicate my eyes to You and I ask like Elisha asked, open my eyes Lord that I might see in the name of Jesus. Let Your kingdom come in the way I look at difficulties in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh. Amen and amen!

The Eye Gate

The Eye Gate

Beloved, if this is your first time reading this blog I would suggest you start with the previous post on let the light in for a bit more context on the topics we will be covering the next few months or so.

I really want us to ponder daily on what we will be learning in this time. Not just today or tomorrow but we need to condition ourselves to run back to the Word of God everyday and weigh ourselves up against it to make sure we are living a life worthy of the Lord. Colossians 1:10. Our lifestyles should show that we are walking as Christ directs us to.

I pray that Holy Spirit will convict and minister to your heart as you read. I pray that you will really press in daily to change your mindset and to open up your gates for the King of Glory, Jesus Christ to enter and shine through you.

If you want to understand a scripture better you can google your scripture reference by adding commentary and read up on what the commentaries say about what the scripture really means and what the history behind the scripture is. This helps a lot if you don’t really understand or you want to make sure you understand correctly and don’t make your own assumptions.

So, here we go with part 1.

I want to start with the next scriptures. It is indirectly connected to the eye gate, but I feel it is necessary for us to start here!

Matthew 7:1-2“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

Isn’t this the truth? How many of us, when we look at someone immediately make an assumption of who we think they are? We don’t know them or what pain they carry, but we will assume they are this way or that way by the way they dress, how many tattoos they have, or even what others say about them. We tend to look at someone with a critical eye and many times we believe the worst. Many of us have learnt a behavior of being suspicious of others and never giving them the benefit of the doubt. If we are constantly in a mode of finding fault with others our lives will become miserable and we will breed bitterness in our hearts that will lead to a heart without compassion.

Another behavior we have learnt is thinking that our ways are better than others, or we know better than others, making out that others are dumb and the list goes on. This is pride! If we can stop looking at other’s shortcomings and first look at ourselves and realize we all have flaws we will be able to dodge the trap of the enemy by falling into pride that God hates!

First Nugget

WATCH HOW YOU LOOK AT OTHERS!

Catch yourself out before you fall into sin and look for the potential in that person rather than looking at their short falls. Be careful of being critical, for you will be judged by others the same way you have judged! What you sow, you will reap.

Matthew 7:3-5

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

We are many times quick to want to correct others for the things they do or say that are wrong. We need to first gauge ourselves to see if we have the right to correct them or not. Really testing our hearts to see if we are maybe not doing the same things.

This scripture is speaking about people that are quick to “sort others out” or quick to point out peoples inadequacies. It speaks about many of us that don’t even realize that we ourselves also do things that are out of line and therefore we should be careful of going around trying to correct others while we are guilty of doing the same things or worse. We are called hypocrites if we operate like this.

It would be much better if we change the way we correct others by identifying with them in their wrong doings, coming from a place of humility. By doing this it will help us to be mindful of our own conduct and stay clear of being called hypocrites. We would be much more effective in helping our brothers and sisters to be set free from their wrong doings and at the same time we will keep ourselves from not being deceived by thinking we don’t do wrong.

My Personal Experience

Many years ago when God started teaching me this principal of judgments coming back, I really didn’t understand the implications. I won’t go into details about what happened, but I will give you a summary.

There was a pastor that did great signs and wonders and He broadcasted over television for many years. I did not know him well, I only saw him a few times, I did not know anything about him. One of my friends loved this pastor and he went to a lot of his meetings. One day my friend told me something about this pastor and immediately I was offended and I made an assumption that this pastor was blasphemous. I didn’t hear it myself, I made an assumption by what I heard. A few weeks passed and two of my friends spoke about this pastor and the amazing work that he has been doing for God. The only thing I said to them was: “But you know there is something wrong there?” They didn’t really respond to what I said and we carried on with the conversation. (We must be very careful of judging, many times the person we are judging has something that we can learn from, but by making assumptions about them we immediately close our hearts to everything they say or do and we lose out on something that God wants to teach us). The very next day I couldn’t get out of bed, I had so much pain in my body. It was so intense that at one point I asked God, “Father what have I done, why am I in this state?” God answered immediately by telling me I have judged and slandered His servant. God told me that I did not know what He told this pastor in the secret place about what I was told by my friend.

So 2 things happened, it didn’t just end at judging, it spilled over to slander and gossip. By telling my friends about what I felt about this pastor I have defiled them with my judgments against Gods anointed. So, I immediately phoned them and repented. I then asked God to pls forgive me for what I have done. The next day I was completely healed.

Many years after this incident I went through a huge health ordeal and I couldn’t sleep at night. One of the things that brought me through was lying infront of the television while that same pastor’s program of healing the sick was on. That was the only place I could fall asleep at night over that period of time. If I didn’t sort my heart out years before I would’ve never watched that pastors program in that time and I would’ve probably suffered a whole lot more.

Nugget Two

If you can’t speak or think about others in a respectful way, even if you are sure there are things wrong, just STOP! Do not touch God’s anointed. Psalm 105:15. Do you know who Gods anointed are? Everyone who is a child of God is His anointed. We do not have the right to speak out about anyone even if they have issues or are doing wrong. Most of all, be careful of defiling your friends by talking disrespectfully about others. If you need to vent, speak to the Lord and allow Him to touch your heart.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE: When our first child was born I remember looking at my dads conduct and I would quietly in my heart say that I will never be like him – I will never shout at my children. That was a judgment and an inner vow. So, our baby got older and without realizing I started shouting at her until one day I heard God speaking loud and clear: “What are you doing? The very thing you didn’t want to do you are doing. You have judged your father with a heart full of pride and arrogance – the same measure you used to judge is measured to you.” I repented!!! I asked God to remove the judgments coming back on me by my judging my father.

Judging another is pride, by doing it we indirectly say that the other person is bad, they don’t know what they are doing and we know better, God hates pride. We cannot judge a persons character, who they are, what they do, what they look like or how they behave because it looks wrong to us. We judge the sin but never the character of a person, because that can break their spirit. It is Gods job to change people, if we think it is our place we are greatly mistaken. This means that we are taking Gods place as judge and we are sitting on His judgment seat. It is not our place! Something to surely repent of.

Beloveds, if we stop looking at others inadequacies and be aware of the fact that we also have many or more , we will start having more grace for others and we will become less critical. We are all falling short, none of us have the right to behave in a way where we think we are better than others because they do things a bit different than us or they look different from us.

Therefore let us stop our eyes from looking with judgment and train our eyes to look for the potential and good in others.

Let us pray:

Abba Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus Christ who died on the cross for my sins. I pray this prayer for my bloodline, myself and my seed line. Father I want to bring Matthew 7:1-5 before you where it states that I should not judge otherwise I will be judged; that when I judge, the same measure I use will be measured to me. Father I am guilty of doing this and for reaping exactly that which I have sown. I repent and ask that you will pls forgive me for judging _________________________________________(state all the names of the people you can remember that you have judged) I am guilty of finding fault with them, for thinking highly of myself, for thinking my ways are better, I repent of my pride and arrogance in Jesus name. Father I repent of taking Your place as judge. I repent for sitting on the judgment seat that is Yours. Please forgive me for not realizing what I was actually doing because I was deceived. Please wash me in Your blood and please take Your seat, I step down and I give it back to You in Jesus name. Father I also repent of every time I have defiled my friends by gossip and slander. I repent that I have influenced them to turn away from the people I have judged. I ask that You will forgive me and cleanse us all, by the blood of Jesus from this defilement in Jesus name. Father, these judgments have come back upon me and I have been judged by others for the same thing I have judged others with. If the judgments I have sown have not yet come back unto me I ask for mercy. It is a principal in Your Word which means it will come back on me some time or another. I repent and ask that you will please break every judgment I have made that will come back on me in Jesus name. Please remind me of every instance where and who I have judged so that I can repent effectively for it. Cleanse me in Your blood and pls remind me that I am also mere man and I make many mistakes. Father, pls forgive me for always trying to take the speck out of others eyes before I even look at myself or realizing that I have a log in my eyes. Therefore pls help me to have grace with others around me and to only find the good in them. Father, I bring my eye gate before You and I ask that You will cleanse the way I look at others by the blood of Jesus Christ. I ask for a new see and a new look in Jesus name. I rededicate my eyes to you in Jesus name and I ask that I will look through the eyes of Jesus when I look at others. Father, pls convict my heart every time I default back to the old ways of being judgmental in Jesus name. I choose to walk away from this behavior and I give my eyes to you so that You be glorified in how I look upon people, in the name of Jesus I pray. Amen and amen.

Don’t stop here! Let us everyday work at changing our behaviors and mindsets! Let us be mindful of how we look, think and behave towards others daily.