Gaining Spiritual Eyes

First15 Devotional

First15

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Today as we wrap up our week of diving deeper into the fullness of life available to us, we’ll explore what it means to gain spiritual eyes. Our human perspective is so utterly limited this side of heaven. We see ourselves, God, and others incorrectly on a regular basis. To experience the fullness of life, it’s imperative that we take up God’s perspective on all things and allow him to enlighten the eyes of our hearts. May you walk away from today with a new, eternal perspective.

Our Scripture for today comes from Ephesians 1:18, and today's worship is More to Me by Steffany Gretzinger.

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0:00.0	Today, as we wrap up our week of diving deeper into the fullness of life available to us,
0:10.0	we'll explore what it means to gain spiritual eyes.
0:14.0	Our human perspective is so utterly limited this side of heaven.
0:19.0	We see ourselves, God, and others incorrectly on a regular basis.
0:24.2	To experience the fullness of life, it's imperative that we take up God's perspective on all
0:29.2	things and allow him to enlighten the eyes of our hearts. May you walk away from today
0:35.3	with a new new eternal perspective.
0:38.4	Welcome to the first of teen podcast.
0:59.6	Our verse for today comes from Ephesians 1, 18.
1:01.5	Scripture says,
1:04.4	Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened,
1:08.2	that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you,
1:12.4	what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints?
1:21.8	In order to go deeper in God, we must allow him to open the eyes of our hearts, to see him as he truly is. So often, we settle in our relationship with him for that which can only be seen with our physical
1:29.6	eyes. We settle for community apart from unity in the Spirit, God's Word, apart from revelation
1:37.2	from the Spirit, and look to open or close doors as our guide, rather than making space to ask for the Holy Spirit's leadership.
1:46.8	It's time for us as the body of Christ to truly live in the fullness of relationship afforded to us
1:53.7	by his sacrifice. It's for this reason, in Ephesians 1 16 through 19, Paul told the church in Ephesus, I do not
2:03.5	cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2:10.8	the Father of Glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of
2:16.7	him, having the eyes of your hearts
2:19.3	enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the richest
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