Light in Their Eyes

"The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." Matthew 6:22

Recently the Lord has brought this back to our attention. We've all probably noticed it at some point--you can often tell if someone is a Christian if they have light in their eyes.  And beyond that, the measure of light seen often correlates directly with the strength of that person's relationship to God.
If our eye is single--if all our attention is being used up on God-- then there won't be any darkness left in us.    And that's where God is taking us!  That's what the Father wants.  He wants a people who have been so tangibly transfigured by Him that their eye--their whole countenance--show it.

There is another side to this. Unfortunately, some people aren't saved.  And some of those people are harboring unclean spirits, or even demons.  How do I know?  Well, if nothing else, you can see it in their eyes.

Even among the saved, some people don't have as much of that visible light as they could.  Maybe they've become distracted.  Maybe they lost somebody.  I've heard that some people lose their light--they lose that positive countenance--after something terrible happened in their lives.  That's why we need to fix our eyes on Jesus (Hebrews 12:2).  He'll perfect our inner light.  He'll perfect the work of the Spirit within us.  That's why we need to keep our attention 'single'--solely focused on Him.  He is greater than this the darkness of this present world.  He is greater than our own problems. If we look to Him, He will change us, and we will begin to take on His light.  That's what our Lord wants.

Uriel, God is My Light

"Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous."                Psalm 112:4

"Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him, and He will do it.  He will bring forth your righteousness as the light And your judgment as the noonday."               Psalm 37:5-6  

As followers of Jesus, we share in His light and His life.  We should have our lives modeled after Him.  We should in our lives display the light of the world.  People should look right through us and see Jesus in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)--the light that saves the world.

"Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation..."                Psalm 27:1

God is our light and our salvation.  And we are the light and the salvation of those who do not yet believe.  Until one comes to know God, the best thing they could have is you and I.  People should look at us and see love.  They should look in us and see something otherworldly.  They should recognize us by good fruit.  And what is this fruit?  That we love one another.

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:35

Do we have Love?  It's possible to not have it.  If we don't have God, we won't have Love.  If we know Him and belong to Him, then we will have His Love.  If we have His Love, then others will know it.  This is how we are supposed to be recognized!

God's Love is also His light.  Heaven is full of God; it is also full of light (Revelation 22:5).   And we can be full of His light too!  We can be built up from the inside out and shine brighter and brighter and brighter.  We need to realize that the light within us is greater than the darkness in the world      (1 John 4:4). We need to go from Glory to Glory--to let Him be our light and clothe us with His glory (2 Corinthians 3:18).   We need to let His light shine on our faces and even change our countenance. This is how we should minister.   This is how we should shine out into the world.

Confirmed:  Last Friday we were doing street ministry, and we stopped in at a Christian bookstore.  There was a biblical name book on sale, and we 'happened' to open it up to the name Uriel:  Hebrew-  "God is my light".  We all thought that was a fitting message for our street ministry.  We felt God was looking down and approving us--approving that we were ministering His light.

Later the next day, I oversaw a story on the news about a boy named Uriel.  I do not know the last time that I heard this name...God is so good with His confirmations.

Confirmed:  I was reading an excerpt on the Elijah List about Bob Jones.  It was all about God's light, His glory, and the importance of shining for Him in ministry.  It expanded on being the light of the world.  Bob also had a unique revelation on the presence of God's glory on this earth, which is worth a read if you have the time.  Below is a segment of this article; I bolded parts for emphasis.

Back in the early 70's wherever you walked, people would see you shining. I'm talking about those that were unsaved. They would see you shining. Sometimes they would just want to draw up close to you because they would say, "I've been so depressed. Can I sort of stand by you because when I stand by you I'm not depressed anymore? I don't know what it is but whatever you got I need."

Evangelism was that easy. It's God's glory! I don't see how you could do really good power evangelism without God's glory. And every one of these things is first and foremost in the name of the Son as He came to glorify the Father. So in the name of Jesus as we begin to move in these latter times we will see some of the greatest signs and wonders you ever seen. It's to glorify the Father.

So be excited in these times and get aboard the glory train. For that's the invitation of this. Get aboard that glory train and let's ride with Him in His glory as we glorify the Father. So in Jesus name these things I spoke, let it enter into your conscience, your spirit man to where you shine; an inner shining and inner glory that will shine in the darkest night that will never let darkness come in.

For you see; when light shines, darkness hides and you're the shining light. And this is what He's saying, "Shine! That's your glory! Don't put a bushel over your glory, but let your glory so shine so that man may see the glory and come to the knowledge and to salvation." In Jesus name. Amen.

Light in Their Eyes

This morning the Lord gave me a vision of a myself holding a laser.  I pointed it out into the distance and it was very bright and powerful.  Then I turned the laser's light into my own eyes.  In the vision, I knew that this was actually a good thing, and symbolized the Light of God being placed into my eyesight.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light."  Matthew 6:22

"Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness."  Luke 11:34

Luke 11:34 implies that if our eyes are healthy, then they will be full of light.  And it clearly states that our whole bodies will be full of light as a result of healthy eyes.  We need to have God touch our eyesight and give us His some of His Light.  We need to have God touch us and give us eyes to see.

"But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear."  Matthew 13:16

We need to have received this kind of impartation from God.  We desperately need to be blessed by Him.  This is what the Body of Believers needs right now.  We need in our eyes a reflection of His Light and His Love.  We need our eyes to be glorifying to the Father.

Our eyes should show that we came from the Father of Lights Himself.  The Light in our eyes should be a part of our testimony.  Our eyes should testify to joy and the unconditional goodness of God.  The Lord wants our eyes to be full, and then He wants our light to spill over into the rest of our face and the rest of our body.   Let's chase God and not give up.  Let's seek His face until He gives us enough Light to transform our very face and countenance, as well.  Let's seek Him until we find those things that He wants us to find.   Let's encounter Him in a way that makes all situations pure joy.

"All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel."  Acts 6:15

But there is a major obstacle to receiving the Light and Love of the Father--We cannot be judgemental towards others.  We cannot have any logs in our eyes, and even a speck of impurity means that a measure of God's Light will be blocked out (Matthew 7:5).   We have to look on others like Jesus told us to, without judgement, but with plenty of Love.  And we need to have His help with this.

If Jesus Christ is your Lord, then you have the Holy Spirit within you already.  Hallelujah!  And with the Holy Spirit comes all the Light of the world.  It's already there, right inside of you!  I'd encourage you, don't stifle it.  Don't block out with your judgement of others any amount of the Light that He wants to shine through.  Let His Love pour out of your eyes and transform your perspective.  Let His Light make your countenance angelic, and let it make you perfect.  Let this light transform your mission place and then your entire world.

I believe that vision this morning was for any Christian.  What God showed me in that vision this morning was that God's already given us His Light.  He's placed it in our hands and graciously put it into our hearts.  He wants this gift to shine through our eyes, too.  So let's use it to look inwards, as I saw myself doing in the vision.  Let's allow His Light to inspect us and cleanse us from all impurities.

Let's let this Light and this Love remove the logs, planks, and specks from our eyes.  When you are filled with His Light, it will become so very clear that you don't have any right whatsoever to judge.  The blockages will be removed and your eyes will become full of Light, for all to see.  We need to have His Light, and we need to Love one another with it.

Between the ages of ten and nineteen I attended the same Church.  I was saved at eighteen, and after a few months of absence I saw the Church Pastor again.  He knew I was different. He saw it in my eyes.  He saw how God's Love had fully changed me, how it had changed my countenance, how it had transformed my eyes.  I was a new creation, and I had been born again as a son of the Father of Lights.   We all need to keep this Light within us flowing out to the extent that it's obvious to others.

Confiirmed:  Two mornings ago I received from God a vision where Vanessa and I had light bulbs on top of our heads.  I felt it represented His Love manifesting in new ways with new ideas.

Confirmed:  I was on the Quickened Word website earlier today and saw a new post that confirmed the Lord's message of Light and Love.  The post's author had a dream about lighbulbs just last night, shortly after I saw them in a vision the day before!   I love how God gives value to all the members of the Body and allows anyone desiring to "see in part".  Here is the post....I'd encourage you to take a look.  It's so important for us to be the Light of the World.

The message here remains the same--as said in the book of John, we know that we are His because of our Love. And we will make known that we belong to the Father by our Love for one another.  This is how we should represent the Church--by Love for those who hate us and Light that shines through our eyes and actions for all to see.