Have You Received Your Sight? Acts 9:17-19- So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” 18 Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. 19 Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. What are we seeing since we have been saved? Has the bright light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ shown round about us and given us sight into the unseen realm of God or are the worldly scales still covering our eyes and making us blind to this newness of life in Christ Jesus and all He wants us to have and to see. Have the scales fallen from our eyes that we might receive our sight? Can we say that once I was blind but now I see what great and wonderful things the Lord has done for me? God wants to open our eyes to His way and so wants us to see things the way He sees them. 2nd Corinthians 4:18-While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. (NLT)- 18 So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever. When we pray are we seeing the answer or are we still seeing at the problem? Do we truly believe that we receive while we pray according to Mark 11:24 or do we doubt. God wants us to look with our spiritual eyes and know that He has made a way where there seems to be no way, that the answer to whatever we are going through is in Christ Jesus. He wants us to see that whatever we need He is the great “I Am”; He is El Shaddai, the God who is more than enough. Too many times we good born again, Bible believing, Holy Ghost filled Christians still have the worldly scales covering our eyes to the full gospel, to this life of faith. That God has truly made a way where there seems to be no way and that our words will produce what we speak. We must know that if we will speak the Word of God over our lives and continue to speak the Word of God then His Word will produce what He said and what we say. We have to see this with our spiritual eyes. There is so much in the Word of God about receiving sight, about what we see and how we “see” things. All through the Gospels Jesus went about healing blind eyes and in a lot of those scriptures when the blind eyes were opened they followed Jesus. We know these were accounts of physical healings but are our eyes opened since we believed and are we following Jesus? Are we seeing that God has blessed us and that we have been delivered from sickness, death, hell, poverty and the grave? Are our eyes opened so we may clearly see the salvation of the Lord? In Acts 9:18 the Word says; “He received his sight at once and he arose and was baptized”. In three days God had from the time Saul had his Damascus road experience done such a work in him and brought him into a relationship with God the Father and Jesus Christ but that was not enough. He sent his servant, a lay person to lay hands on Saul so that he would receive his sight and be filled with the Holy Ghost. This infilling of the Holy Ghost was so Saul who was now called Paul could have the boldness to preach the Gospel and not only that but so miracles, signs and wonders were done through him. Saul was a persecutor of Christians but by the grace of God he was saved and mightily used of God. Many such people have been given a new life in Christ Jesus and they have received their sight to the glorious Gospel and all it holds. There is so much to the gospel and the salvation message that we have not had our eyes opened to. This message of faith which we preach is a message that contains the whole gospel starting with salvation and moving on into the blessings and all that comes with the New Birth. When we are born again we are no longer just “sinners” saved by grace. When we are born again the life and nature of God, of Jesus Christ takes up residence in us by the Holy Spirit and where the life of Christ is the life of sin cannot reside. Light drives out all darkness. If we desire to have the fullness of God in our lives we must let the life of Jesus swallow up the natural life. We must not allow the ways of this world to consume us and keep us blinded to the ways of God. John 3:3-3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” So many in the world today have never had their eyes opened, they have never received their sight to a good God, a God full of compassion and mercy. When the bright light of the Gospel was first given to us we were blinded to the things of this world and we were given a new sight. We had an eye transplant and all we could see was Jesus and His goodness and we wanted to tell everyone about Jesus. After a while the newness begins to wear off and if we are not careful to stay in the Word and go to church and be doers of the Word, building ourselves up on our most holy faith then the scales of this world will start to cover our eyes and we will slip back into blindness. Don’t let the scales of this world cover our eyes. In psalm 91 there are seven things God said He would do for those who love Him. He will deliver us; He will protect us; He will answer us; He will keep or be with us; He will save us; He will honor us; and He will give us long life. Open our eyes to this: God’s will is to deliver us, protect us, answer us when we call, be with us, save us, honor us, and give us long life. We must live for His glory. There must be no turning back, no looking back, no relinquishing of our faith, but going on and on for His glory. We must go on and on with Him to where the things of this world grow strangely dim. We must rise to a new level and go on until like Enoch, we walk with God and are not, for God has taken us.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:57:31 +0000
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