Eyes (of our heart)
Perception
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Perception is everything. Scripture often talks about "seeing" or to consider our our eye; most of the time it is referring to our perception. We must allow God to teach us how to see.
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EPHESIANS 1:17-19 I pray…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you…
EPHESIANS 1:17-19 I pray…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you…
PSALM 17:8 Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me under the shadow of Your wings.
PSALM 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry.
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MATTHEW 6:22 The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. Bit if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! [NKJV]
LUKE 11:34-36 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light. [NKJV]
LUKE 11:34-36 The eyes of your spirit allow revelation-light to enter into your being. When your heart is open the light floods in. When your heart is hard and closed, the light cannot penetrate and darkness takes its place. Open your heart and consider my words. Watch out that you do not mistake your opinions for revelation-light! If your spirit burns with light, fully illuminated with no trace of darkness, you will be a shining lamp, reflecting rays of truth by the way you live. [TPT]
PSALM 33:13 The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. From the place of His dwelling He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth;
PSALM 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight… [NKJV]
PROVERBS 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The Lord has made them both. [NKJV]
JOB 17:1-2 My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished, the grave is ready for me. Are not mockers with me? And does not my eye dwell on their provocation?
PSALM 17:11 They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, crouching down to the earth…
PSALM 17:15 As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. [NKJV]
PSALM 17:15 As for me, because I am innocent I will see your face until I see you for who you really are. Then I will awaken with your form and be fully satisfied, fulfilled in the revelation of your glory in me! [TPT]
PSALM 18:22 For I’ve kept my eyes focused on His righteous words and I’ve obeyed everything that He’s told me to do. [TPT]
PSALM 18:28 God, all at once you turned on a floodlight for me! You are the revelation-light in my darkness, and in your brightness I can see the path ahead. [TPT]
PSALM 19:12 Without this revelation-light, how would I ever detect the waywardness of my heart? [TPT]
ACTS 26:18 [Jesus to Paul on the road to Emmaeus] “But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you. I will deliver you from the Jews, as well as from Gentiles, to whom I now send you, to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.” [NKJV]
PSALM 18:22 For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me. I was also blameless before Him, therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
PSALM 18:27 For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty looks.
PSALM 18:28 For You will light my lamp; the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness.
PSALM 19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork.
NUMBERS 15:39 And you shall have the tassel that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you may not follow the harlotry of to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined. [NKJV]
ISAIAH 35:4-5 Say to those who are fearful-hearted, ‘Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God’ He will come and save you.’ Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
ISAIAH 29:18 In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness. [NKJV]
ISAIAH 32:3 The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen. [NKJV]
ISAIAH 33:17 Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; they see the land that is very far off. [NKJV]
2 CORINTHIANS 4:3-4 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of the age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. [NKJV]
DEUTERONOMY 7:16 …your eye shall have no pity on them…
DEUTERONOMY 32:10 He found him in a desert land and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.
JUDGES 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in their own eyes.
I SAMUEL 24:9 …someone urged me to kill you. But my eye spared you…
JOB 7:7-8 Oh, remember that my life is a breath! My eye will never again see good. The eye of him who sees me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall no longer be.
JOB 13:1 Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
GENESIS 3:4-5 The serpent said to the woman, “You certainly will not die! For God knows that on the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will become like God, knowing good and evil.” [NASB]
GENESIS 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves waist coverings.
JOB 24:15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight..
ZEPHANIAH 1:17 I will bring distress upon men and they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord;