14 Reasons Why Using The Eyes Of Our Hearts Is Important

14 Reasons Why Using The Eyes Of Our Hearts Is Important

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The concept of using the eyes of our hearts is not unfamiliar with most Christians. We talk about sing songs about opening the eyes of our hearts and we pray to see God with our hearts, but do we really seek to use the eyes of our hearts and it is important to God that we do?

Lets find out what the Bible tells us:

1. God has commanded us to imagine His Word. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. - Josh. 1:8; (also I Chron. 29:18) (meditate the word meditate includes in its definition the requirement to imagine).

2. Divine creativity comes through images. Ex. 25:9-22; 35:35 speaks of the creative design God gave for the Ark of the Covenent.

3. When God reasons, He uses imagery. Come now, let us settle the matter, says the LORD. Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. -Is. 1:18.

4. When Jesus taught, He used imagery. Jesus spoke all these things to the crowd in parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. - Matt. 13:34.

5. As Jesus lived, He ministered out of vision. Jesus gave them this answer: Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son and shows him all he does. Yes, and he will show him even greater works than these, so that you will be amazed. Jn. 5:19,20).

6. God has declared that one of the primary ways He communicates with us is through dream and vision. he said, Listen to my words: When there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. - Num. 12:6; (also described in Acts 2:17).

7. God counsels us through our dreams at night. I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. - Ps. 16:7.

8. Sight is better than blindness. (Jesus healed the blind - Mk. 10:46-52).

9. The Lords Supper utilizes imagery (This is My blood, this is My body, do this in remembrance of Me - Jn. 6:53,54; I Cor. 11:23-25).

10. Personal transformation occurs while we look into the spiritual realm. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. - II Cor. 4:18 (Also see II Cor. 3:18).

11. Pictures are powerful and produce heart faith. In Gen. 15:1,5,6 God shows Abram a vision and then we are told Abram believed the Lord, and he credited it to him as righteousness.

12. The Bible is full of pictures, dreams, visions, metaphors, similes, parables, and images (Genesis through Revelation).

13. Our prayers are to be full of imagery. The Good Shephard Psalm, Ps. 23, is a beautiful example of prayer that is full of imagery.

14. Our worship is to be full of imagery. Your love, LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the highest mountains, your justice like the great deep. You, LORD, preserve both people and animals. - Ps. 36:5,6

I encourage you to open and use the I eyes of your heart in prayer, worship, and every aspect of your life.

About the Author:
Mark Virkler is with Christian Leadership University. CLU is a Christian University and Online Bible College offering Christian education including Christian counseling and Christian theology seminaries and offers certificates, undergrad, Masters, and Doctorates in the various Christian colleges of CLU. http://www.cluonline.com



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