A Seeking Heart → Attracts Light
Bible Text: Jeremiah 29:11–13 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.You shall seek me, and find me, when […]
A Tender Heart → Receives Light Easily
Bible Text: Isaiah 66:1–2 Yahweh says,“Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool.What kind of house will you build to me?Where will I rest?For my hand has made all these things,and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh:“but to this man will I look,even to he who is poor and of […]
A Pure Heart → Restores Sight
Bible Text: Matthew 5:6–8 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful,for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart,for they shall see God. Memory Verse: Psalm 24:3–4 “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his […]
A Hardened Conscience → Deepens Blindness
Bible Text: 1 Timothy 4:1–2 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; Memory Verse: Ephesians 4:18–19 “Having the understanding darkened, […]
A Divided Heart → Distorts Vision
Bible Text: James 1:5–8 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and […]
A Proud Heart → Sustains Blindness
Bible Text: Proverbs 16:18–19 Pride goes before destruction,and a haughty spirit before a fall.It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor,than to divide the plunder with the proud. Memory Verse: James 4:6 “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” A […]
A Hardened Heart → Produces Blindness
Bible Text: Hebrews 3:12–15 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.For we have become […]
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS AND THE CONDITION OF THE HEART
Bible Text: Matthew 13:13–15 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand. In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear,and will in no way understand;Seeing you will see,and will in no way perceive: for this […]
Spiritual Blindness Is Not Permanent: God Is Able to Open Blind Eyes
Bible Text: Isaiah 42:6–7 “I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness,and will hold your hand,and will keep you,and make you a covenant for the people,as a light for the nations;to open the blind eyes,to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon,and those who sit in darkness out of the prison. Memory Verse: Psalm 146:8 “The […]
From Blindness to Sight
Bible Text: John 9:39–41 Jesus said,“I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”Jesus said to them,“If you were blind, you would have no […]