Seeing with His Eyes

January 14

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Plato

Begin your day well and allow it to progress through its normal activities with the joy of the Lord as your strength (Nehemiah 8:10) and the power of the Lord as your ultimate weapon. Let the Holy Spirit within you reveal new aspects of the Christ you love and serve according to the promise Jesus spoke in John 14:26 ("...the Comforter will...teach you all things.") Let Him reconnect you with the faith that first caused you to hear His truth and believe His word of salvation.

As you tap into that bedrock of your confidence in His completed work in your behalf, may you find yourself more on fire for Jesus and more optimistic about the work He’s doing in you and through you and in your behalf than you have ever yet been. May you recognize the good that His power, released in you, can bring to you and to those around you.

Everyone is fighting some kind of battle, as Plato has noted, and the Christ in you is mighty to pull down every stronghold (II Corinthians 10:4,5)--whether in yourself or in those for whom you pray. I pray you are so re-energized in your inner man, that you are so empowered with renewed expectation of Jesus moving in and through your prayers, that nothing you see of difficulty in your own sphere or in that of those with whom you interact will intimidate you--for through the eyes of faith (II Corinthians 5:7), every problem becomes an opportunity for the Lord to glorify Himself!

I pray there is a new fire of vision--of hope and joy and faith and love lit within you that will burn up every anxiety, care, tension, and negativity—for as Proverbs 29:18 tells us, “Without vision the people perish.”. I pray it will illumine you to see God's solution to every problem you face. In seeing with HIS EYES, may all your problems become small, may the power within you become greater than all you need in order that you might become “more than a conqueror” Romans 8:37, through the Christ to whom you surrender so He may win every battle you face in your behalf.