Breath of Power - Week 08/04

Week 8: February 16 -22, 2004

SEEING WITH GOD'S EYES

Key passage: John 8: 56 -58

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM."

There is a difference between man’s vision and God’s. Man’s vision is earthly, limited and corrupt, but God’s vision is not. It is eternal and heavenly. It is seen with the eyes of faith, and it defines God’s will and purpose in the life of the person to whom it is given. When a person receives a heavenly vision, it becomes one of the most important things in his or her life. The vision influences the person and becomes one of the strongest driving force in his or her life.

Abraham was 75 when he received the call from the Lord to leave his idolatrous native land to go to a new land where God would reveal to Him. Then he did not know exactly where God had promised him, but followed God’s voice by faith, confidently looking forward to receiving a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God (Gen 12: 1-5; Heb 11: 8-10). According to God’s promise, Abraham had a son in his old age through his wife Sarah, and God was to ask for that son as a sacrifice. Abraham obeyed, taking Isaac to Mount Moriah to offer him as a burnt offering. He was ready to give God his best – his son. There he saw Christ, the only begotten Son of God, in a figure, long before he was manifested on the earth. He was exceeding glad to see that God has made a perfect provision for man’s redemption (Gen 22:14; Jn 8:56).

About 2000 years after, the unbelieving Jews stood with the manifested Christ on the physical plane of this world, but did not recognize him, because they saw him with the eyes of men. Their minds were corrupt and they were enslaved to sin (Jn 8: 34). They denied the truth and filled their lives with religion, traditions and legalism, without knowing God or His Son who He sent as man’s Messiah. Jesus told them they were not true children of Abraham; their real father was the devil (Jn 8: 41, 44).

We all like Abraham need God’s vision to walk into our future. We need to turn away from our own ways and follow after God’s plan and purpose for our lives. We need to face all our life challenges with faith and be willing to make sacrifices in our service to God.

Pray that God will take away from you anything that will attempt to blind you from seeing God’s plan and purpose for your life. Pray that God will give you the courage and faith to live for His praise.

Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi



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	Week 8: February 16 -22, 2004 SEEING WITH GOD'S EYES Key passage: John 8: 56 -58 "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to Him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have You seen Abraham?" Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM." There is a difference between man’s vision and God’s. Man’s vision is earthly, limited and corrupt, but God’s vision is not. It is eternal and heavenly. It is seen with the eyes of faith, and it defines God’s will and purpose in the life of the person to whom it is given. When a person receives a heavenly vision, it becomes one of the most important things in his or her life. The vision influences the person and becomes one of the strongest driving force in his or her life. Abraham was 75 when he received the call from the Lord to leave his idolatrous native land to go to a new land where God would reveal to Him. Then he did not know exactly where God had promised him, but followed God’s voice by faith, confidently looking forward to receiving a city with eternal foundations, a city designed and built by God (Gen 12: 1-5; Heb 11: 8-10). According to God’s promise, Abraham had a son in his old age through his wife Sarah, and God was to ask for that son as a sacrifice. Abraham obeyed, taking Isaac to Mount Moriah to offer him as a burnt offering. He was ready to give God his best – his son. There he saw Christ, the only begotten Son of God, in a figure, long before he was manifested on the earth. He was exceeding glad to see that God has made a perfect provision for man’s redemption (Gen 22:14; Jn 8:56). About 2000 years after, the unbelieving Jews stood with the manifested Christ on the physical plane of this world, but did not recognize him, because they saw him with the eyes of men. Their minds were corrupt and they were enslaved to sin (Jn 8: 34). They denied the truth and filled their lives with religion, traditions and legalism, without knowing God or His Son who He sent as man’s Messiah. Jesus told them they were not true children of Abraham; their real father was the devil (Jn 8: 41, 44). We all like Abraham need God’s vision to walk into our future. We need to turn away from our own ways and follow after God’s plan and purpose for our lives. We need to face all our life challenges with faith and be willing to make sacrifices in our service to God. Pray that God will take away from you anything that will attempt to blind you from seeing God’s plan and purpose for your life. Pray that God will give you the courage and faith to live for His praise. Written by – Evangelist Oguazi Onyemobi

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