Open my Eyes

Sunday 18 June
READ: Gen. 21:14- 19 MORE LESSON: Psa. 119: 18

Haggar was in crisis in the wilderness with her son. The water skin had gone dry and it looked like they both would soon die of thirst in the scorching heat of the desert. She began to weep. This is what most people would do in such a situation when it looks like there is no hope. Where would she get water in the desert for herself and her son? It looked like death was imminent. Many times when a problem is overwhelming and there seems to be nothing that can be done, all that people do is to weep. Crying about a problem doesn't solve it but praying does. Gen 21: 17 says that God heard the voice of the lad. It wasn't Haggar's wailing and weeping that got God's attention; it was the voice of the lad.
The solution came when God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water (Gen 21:19). This means that the problem was not even lack of water, the problem was because her eyes were closed. The Bible seems to imply that the water had been there all the while but she couldn't see it. She started crying and the tears blinded her the more so that she didn't know that the water she was weeping for was around her. She and her son would have died of thirst if not for God that sent His angel to call her attention to the well of water that was close by. The water was in a visible area but for as long as she could not see the water, she couldn't drink it. When she found the water, it was so much that it was enough to fill her bottle with much more remaining.
There is something that you are looking for and might be crying for but you are not getting. Yet, that thing is just around you where you are; all you need is for God to open your eyes. There are opportunities, hidden treasures and solutions around you, you just need your eyes to be opened. Your problem is not the problem; the problem is that your eyes are closed. When God opens your eyes to the right idea, you will arise and shine. Today God will open your eyes to the information you need to take you to the next level. You need the correct information and you also need the current information. When the eyes of your inner man are opened, you will get both the correct and current information and you will be moved from your present state to the next level. Ask God to open your eyes now to the answer you have been waiting for.

Prayer/Action
* Lord, open my eyes to the solution to every problem I am facing, in Jesus’ name.
* I receive spiritual sight to see what others are not seeing, in Jesus’ name.

TODAY'S PROPHETIC PRAYER
Whatever puts off people's candle light shall not prevail over mine, I shall glow and shine more and more, in the name of Jesus.