Sunday: Father, Oh how awesome and grand You are. I want to always keep my eyes and focus on You. The things around me tend to want to grab my attention but I know when I focus on that stuff my view of You tend to get blurry. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.” Psalm 121:1-2 If my eyes are lifted up I see Your promises, I see Your rainbow. I see Your beauty and Your creation. There is nothing more beautiful than having my eyes lifted to You. I worship You and praise Your name always. Amen
Monday: Lord, in the physical when I walk with my head looking at the ground I can’t see what is in front of me. It is no different when I keep my focus on my issues and problems instead of looking up to You. I can see my immediate steps which keeps me focused on the present and not what is all around me. “Unto You I lift up my eyes..” Psalm 123:1 “My eyes are ever toward the Lord..” Psalm 25:15 When my eyes are lifted up I see Your beauty, I see the mountains, the sky, the clouds. Flowers look up to the sun, I look up to You. They know what keeps them alive. I need to get my mind off the issues of life and keep my eyes and heart on You. I rejoice that You have given me everything and all I have to do is lift up my eyes to You and I can see it all. I don’t have to be blind and lost in darkness. I lift my life to You today and thank You for Your unconditional love. My eyes are ever toward You!!! Amen
Tuesday: Father, I’ve noticed that when my thoughts are constantly turned inward toward my situation, my circumstances, my problems, my heartaches, my hardships, my misfortune, my abuse, then I become down, discouraged and depressed. When I am in this place I can only see what has happened before and what is happening to me now. I don’t see You and Your glory. When I do think of the future I find myself thinking a bunch of thoughts created by fear, vain imaginations and selfishness. I really don’t like it when I am in this place! I want to lift my eyes to You and see Your ways, Your thoughts, Your love and Your peace. “But my eyes are upon You, O God the Lord; In You do I trust and take refuge..” Psalm 141:8 I thank You that You are my Refuge and I can always see You and always trust You. I lift my eyes and my voice to You and praise Your name forever and ever. “God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1 Amen
Wednesday: “For I always pray to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, that He may grant you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the deep and intimate knowledge of Him. By having the eyes of your heart enlightened so that you may know and understand the hope to which He has called you and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints. And so you can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength.” Ephesians 3:17-19 Many times, Lord, I find myself hiding my head in the sand so that I don’t have to see. There are things I don’t know how to deal with and it seems at the moment that hiding from the situations is easier than looking up to You. This verse tells me that I can have the eyes of my heart open “so I can know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of Your power in and for me who believes, as demonstrated in the working of Your mighty strength.” I can keep the eyes of my heart lifted up to You. My heart is the center of my of being and I desire to keep it that I understand and comprehend You. You aren’t trying to be a big secret person that we can’t understand or follow. Your ways and thoughts always have me in mind. You say I can “know and understand what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of Your power in and for me who believes”. I believe. I lift my eye to You. I choose to lift my heart and eyes to You. Amen
Thursday: Lord Jesus, I am so thankful for You and that You are always there for me. I can look and see You wherever I look. I am never alone. I don’t want to keep my eyes closed and blinded to what You are doing and what You have done. “So be very careful how you live, not being like those with no understanding, but live honorably with true wisdom, for we are living in evil times. Take full advantage of every day as you spend your life for his purposes. And don’t live foolishly for then you will have discernment to fully understand God’s will. And don’t get drunk with wine, which is rebellion; instead be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And your hearts will overflow with a joyful song to the Lord Jehovah. Keep speaking to each other with words of Scripture, singing the Psalms with praises and spontaneous songs given by the Spirit! Always give thanks to Father God for every person he brings into your life in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. And out of your reverence for Christ be supportive of each other in love.” Ephesians 5:15-21 I praise You always and thank You again that I can lift my eyes to You and always see You! Amen
Friday: “So no wonder we don’t give up. For even though our outer person gradually wears out, our inner being is renewed every single day. We view our slight, short-lived troubles in the light of eternity. We see our difficulties as the substance that produces for us an eternal, weighty glory far beyond all comparison, because we don’t focus our attention on what is seen but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but the unseen realm is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 When I lift my eyes to You I will see things differently than what I try to see on my own. Paul was saying in these verses that I can see something that can’t be seen with the natural eye. I can see Your reality – from Your perspective. I must choose Your reality to escape the destruction of the world. As I let Your reality and opinions replace how I see things and what I hold dear – my weakness and fears are replaced with Your power. My sadness is turned to joy. My lack becomes abundance. My sickness is replaced with wholeness in the body. To live in Your abundance I must believe the truth about my identity of righteousness in You. I must lift my eyes to You and see from Your perspective. I give You my life and love. Amen
Saturday: “He gives power to the faint and weary, and to him who has no might He increases strength causing it to multiply and making it to abound. But those that wait for the Lord, who expect, look for, and hope in Him, shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up close to God as eagles mount up to the sun; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint or become tired.” Isaiah 40:29, 30 When my eyes are lifted up to You – then my heart is lifted up to You. My strength is renewed and I fly like an eagle and am close to You. Wow! Lifting my eyes to You results in lifting my life to You which results in being able to run and not be weary; to walk and not faint or become tired. What a promise from You. You care for me. You value me beyond my comprehension. Your desire is for me to always be able to look to You and walk in perfect peace and love. I desire that and say that “I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.” Amen