From Darkness to Light

Friday 25 March
READ: Lk. 24:30-35
MORE LESSON: Act. 9:18-19

Spiritually, darkness has been the greatest challenge on earth. No wonder Jesus came as the light of the world. The Bible says the whole world lies in darkness and until Christians begin to shine their Jesus-given light, there is no hope for the world. However, no matter the intensity of light, if the eyes of people are not opened, the light is useless. As it is that people can remain in darkness no matter how wide open their eyes are if there is no light, people can also remain in darkness not because they don't have eyes; but because their eyes are not opened.
The Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of light, so everyone in it must have the power of sight. Flip Wilson said: “What you see is what you get”. Being able to see into the spiritual realm has a lot of advantages. One day God wanted to commission Jeremiah into ministry and one of the things he wanted to be sure the prophet had is the power of sight. He said, Jeremiah, what seest thou: Jer 1: 11, and until God was sure Jeremiah could see correctly, He did not perform His Word. God wants all His children to be seers. Blindness pegs a man's destiny and makes him live a beggarly life. A man with open eyes has access to divine secrets and will live a prosperous life.
Luke 24:31 says: And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he
vanished out of their sight. The evidence that a man's eye is opened is that he is able to see the Lord. When you see and know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour and see God at work everyday, then your eyes are opened. Before a man can see correctly his heart must be inflamed like the disciples that Jesus talked with on the way; their hearts burned within them and their eyes were opened. Beloved, until you begin to hear the voice of Jesus and read His Word, your eyes of understanding remain closed. But when your heart burns, then your eyes will begin to see. What are indications that a man is not seeing correctly or does not see? This happens when:
i. he cannot see God's provision and plan for his life,
ii. a man does not know what to do always,
iii. a man's pathway in life is not even or is awkward all the time,
iv. one does not see beauty, good, success and victory, but evil all of the time.
v. a man does not know his true state by thinking he is what he is not.
But when a man sits, talks, eats with Jesus, his eyes will definitely open ( vs.30-31). May your eyes of understanding be opened, and may you begin to see all that is necessary for your progress, in Jesus’ mighty name.

Prayer/Action
* Oh Lord, let the scales in my eyes fall now, in Jesus' mighty name.
* Father, open my eyes today and deliver me from all manners of darkness, in Jesus' mighty name.
* I receive my sight right now, in Jesus' name.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I decree that no evil wind shall succeed against me this day, in the mighty name of Jesus.