Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of song and lyrics from the Maranatha Singers singing… Open Our Eyes … poignantly singing of our pursue of faith to be able to follow Jesus so closely that we can almost see and hear Him with eyes and ears of faith.
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Highlight Verse[s]: 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.
… God, thru Elisha’s faith, gives the servant’s eyes of faith.
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Highlight Passage [context]: 2Kings 6:8-19 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God gives Elisha and his servant eyes of faith to see the Lord’s armies always there to do battle for the faithful.
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Reference Passage : … Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. 6 Seek His will in all you do, and He will show you which path to take.
… Trusting God and avoiding our own perceptions/feelings gives us the Lord’s eyes of faith.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 10:13 [NLT] … 13 The temptations [also translated “tests” or “trials” or “troubles” or “tribulations”] in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, He will show you a way out so that you can endure.
… No matter where we go or what we encounter, our eyes of faith will allow us to find His way in life.
Reference Passage : … Ephesians 6:12-13 [NLT] …USE THIS LINK …
… We may face unseen powerful enemies; but we do so following the Lord and doing battle with His full armor.
Reference Passage : … Hebrews 11:1, 6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… God’s faithful have eyes of faith, knowing that our Lord is always there to give us His watch-care.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Poh Fang Chia, uses an illustration about unseen things like radio waves to help us see that our eyes of faith are necessary to go thru life following God’s way. The ODB author wrote: Stephen Cass, an editor at Discover magazine, was determined to investigate some of the invisible things that are part of his daily life. As he walked toward his office in New York City, he thought: “If I could see radio waves, the top of the Empire State Building [with its host of radio and TV antennas - see photo] would be lit like a kaleidoscopic flare, illuminating the entire city.” He realized he was surrounded by an invisible electromagnetic field of radio and TV signals, Wi-Fi, and more.
And then the ODB author made reference to the story of Elisha (in the highlight passage) helping his servant to have eyes of faith and see God’s angel armies who were there to do battle against Israel’s enemies. This true OT story and the reference scriptures show us that we must have eyes of faith, … knowing that our God will always be there for us to follow Him into and thru the battles of life.
We may not be able to see the radio waves emanating from the antennae atop the Empire State Building [see photo]; but we can have faith that they are there. And likewise, we may not be able to see the angel armies Paul wrote about in Ephesians 6:12; but we can know that our God will show us the way thru any battle we face in life against our spiritual enemies (see see reference scriptures).
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Abba Father, … thank You, Lord, … for always being there to help us do battle in life against our enemies … seen and unseen.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, … King Jesus, … I pray, Lord, that all reading here can, and will, join me to have faith that God’s angel armies are there for us today, helping us do battle. … Amen
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