Hope for Today

Beloved, if this is your first time reading this blog I would like to ask you to first go back to the post on “Let the Light in” before reading further.

For those that have been walking with me from the beginning of this series on cleansing our gates, I salute you! Well done for sticking in there and for becoming mindful of the way you look at things around you. Well done for getting heavens perspective on things and not look with your physical eyes at what you see. May you keep at it even when we carry on to the next gate.

Our scripture verse for this week is Matthew 6:22 The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. 

Explanation

The meaning for “the eye is the lamp of the body” – The eye controls what goes into us. Therefore the eye is the window that allows either evil or good into us and this affects our whole being. A persons eyes can easily become contaminated by what it is focused upon. By allowing ourselves to look at things that are in contradiction to Gods Word our windows get dirty and our beings get filled with darkness.

“If your eyes are healthy, your body will be full of light” – Body in this sense speaks of your whole being – YOU AS A PERSON. If our windows are clean, our beings are filled with purity.

This verse speaks about what we allow our eyes to focus upon and how it will affect our whole being. If we look upon good or evil we can either carry light or darkness in our beings. This means that what we allow ourselves to focus on will have an affect on our conduct. Our BEHAVIORS will be influenced by what we BEHOLD (we look at).

What do we behold? What do we hook our eyes upon? What is the condition of our windows and our beings (the whole of me)? Do we experience light and life in our beings? If not, serious introspection is needed and then repentance and cleansing.

One example of how our beings can become defiled is when we are watching soap operas. Over the long run it can influence one so much that you start living the way that is portrayed in the story. How many of us as woman have watched soap operas and have been brain washed by looking at the way the men pursues the women: it looks so romantic and beautiful to us. We get emotionally invested in the love story and we start modeling this way of living in our daily lives with our husbands or boyfriends. We then start expecting them to behave the same way the soap operas dictate. The problem is that we then get disappointed because they are not romantic like what we see in the soap operas. We start comparing them with the guys in the stories and we become bitter because they are not doing what we have seen. This is a false image! Investing our emotions in things like this can easily affect our expectations and behaviors towards our loved ones in a destructive way.

This is the outflow of what your eyes looked upon and the affect it has on your whole being (behavior). Your windows are dirty because your eyes are hooked into the wrong place. We have to look at Gods Word on what Godly husbands should behave like and not look to the world for answers.

This is only one example, but there are many other things that we model in our daily lives that comes from what we see on television, media or see from unbelievers. Let us not conform to the ways of this world because our eyes are looking in the wrong place.

Beloveds, let us not only read this but let us start rejecting the things that we know will make us stumble. Let us give up on those soap operas, the books filled with love stories, Instagram or Tik Tok that paints an amazing picture of life but behind the scenes it is a different story. Go and look at Song of songs in the Bible about what a Godly relationship looks like. The Word of God is filled with everything you need for life and Godliness. I think it is time for us to return to the Word of God and get acquainted with Him again. Let us hook our eyes into the bread of life, Jesus our Savior.

Bread of Life Prayer

Returning to the Word of God

Father we come before You on the ground of our covenant with You. I include everyone in my family -, bloodline, seed line and the body of Christ in this prayer. I declare the following according to Your Word in John 6:35 which states; Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to Me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in Me shall never thirst.

Father we acknowledge the state of our spirits, souls, and bodies before You, we know that there are still many areas covered in darkness and we acknowledge that we are hungry and dry because we have been eating from the bread of the world which is packed with death. We have been feeding on what the news, the media and the voices of darkness are speaking. We have lost sight of You, the bread of life, relying and trusting on that which we are fed by the world. I trade and come in agreement with John 6:51 where Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

You’re all empowering, Life giving, sustaining, healing, You are love, hope and mercy. I ask that You bring us back to life. Every area that has died because of eating from darkness, fill it with life again in the name of Jesus. I ask that Your life-light will start to flood our beings once again. Thank You for the flood of life released into every cell, DNA strand, our senses, organs, brains, and everything else pertaining to our spirits, souls, and bodies in the name of Jesus. I ask that we will be filled with true Life and Light, which is Jesus the Christ who came in the flesh and who died for our sins at Calvary.

Father I acknowledge that we don’t know You because we have been neglecting Your Word which is our daily bread. Our days are filled with heaviness because we are not upheld and sustained by You, our daily bread that gives life to us. Please forgive us for our neglect, for our numbness, for our lethargy and apathy in this area. Please forgive us for keeping ourselves busy with reading things of the world but we can’t even sit for five minutes to read Your Word. Forgive us for feeding off that which is useless and not life giving. We renounce and denounce eating from the bread of death in the name of Jesus. I ask that the blood of Jesus Christ will cleanse us and remove the lethargy and apathy that have come upon us in the name of Jesus. Father I give up this way of living, this way of feeding off darkness and I come in agreement with Philippians 2:16 which states “holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.” Father, I am choosing to hold fast to the Word of life in the name of Jesus. John 1:4 states that In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. Father, please restore the Light of Your Word in us in the name of Jesus.

Father, I repent and take full responsibility for walking in paths that lead to destruction, for looking at and agreeing with the world’s point of view, for allowing the world to dictate to me how I should live, behave, and think. I choose to return to my daily bread, Your Word that is life to me. I come in agreement with the following scriptures, and I declare it over myself and everyone I am standing in for in the name of Jesus.

Psalm 119:105 Your Word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.

Father, please forgive us for only reading or hearing Your Word but not living it. Please convict our hearts in the name of Jesus every time we are deceived.

Luke 11:28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and obey it.”

Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the Word of our God endures forever.

Matthew 7:24 Therefore everyone who hears these Words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will never pass away.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My Words will never pass away.

Psalm 33:4 For the Word of the Lord is right and true; He is faithful in all He does.

Isaiah 55:11 so is My Word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The Words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.

Father, please help us to live according to what Your Word directs so that we can live lives worthy of You. Holy Spirit be our guide and lead us in paths of righteousness. We choose to look and eat from the Bread of life who will uphold us all the days of our lives! I pray this by the precious blood of Jesus Christ, in the name of Jesus.

Amen and amen