May 8, 2024 … Seeing More Clearly …

May 8, 2024 …  Seeing More Clearly    …      

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... </b> …    Please take the time to take in this song with lyrics with The Maranatha Singers singing … Open Our Eyes, Lord … Poignantly, yet powerfully, singing of how we Christians are to pray that God will open our eyes and ears to see and hear God’s plan for our lives more clearly. 

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Highlight Passage: … 2Kings 6:17 [NLT] … 

17 Then Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes and let him see!” The Lord opened the young man’s eyes, and when he looked up, he saw that the hillside around Elisha was filled with horses and chariots of fire. …           

…  Elisha prayed to help his servant see God’s plan of action, dispelling his fear of the enemies of God’s people.                                                      

Highlight Passage (in context)  … 2Kings 6:15-23 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …  

… The account in Scripture of Elisha helping His servant see more clearly God’s plan to defeat the God’s enemies.                                                                   

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Reference Passage: … Psalms 23:1-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of seeking the vision to follow God’s Shepherd, leading him to God’s glory. 

Reference Passage: … Psalms 119:18, 105 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David sings of to have his eyes opened to see God’s path in life more clearly.  

Reference Passage: … Habakkuk 2:2-4 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …   

… God’s prophet, Habakkuk, reveals God’s instruction to patiently wait for believers to be able to see God’s plan for the future times of God’s glory.

Reference Passage: … Matthew 6:33 [NLT] … 

33  “Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously. and HE will give you everything you need.   

… Jesus teaches, in His sermon on the mount, of how we are to seek to serve the Christ and His kingdom above all else to be able to see His way in life more clearly and to receive His enabling grace .               

Reference Passage: … John 14:6 [NLT] … </b> 

6 Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.   

…Jesus relates to Thomas and His disciples that following His way is the ONLY WAY to seek and follow God’s way.    

My Devotional Journal: Today’s Our Daily Bread  Author, Amy Boucher Pie -  AT THIS LINK  -   wrote about a friend, Joy, being concerned for the well being of Joy’s relative, Sandy, who had addiction and mental-health issues; and going with Joy to find Sandy, praying … “God, help me to see what I’m not seeiing.”  Then, seemingly finding Sandy’s apartment empty, but upon leaving, seeing the tiniest movement of a curtain, which showed that Sandy was still alive and giving hope that we could help Sandy.      

And this story in today’s ODB entry, as well as the author’s reference to the Bible story of Elisha (see highlight passage), praying for God to open the eyes of Elisha’s servant to be able to see God’s plan unfolding, calls for me to pray that God will give me (and you, too) God’s vision to seek and follow His way more clearly.   Will you join me to pray for clearer - Spirit-led  - vision so that we can follow God’s path today and tomorrow.                                                                       

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, …for showing me Your way to follow You by Your word.  

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray. again today, that all reading here will join me today, … to follow Your light, shining on Your path, Lord, for us to follow You today.    … Amen

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