How to have an eternal Vision / Word of the Week: Vision / Prayer Prompts for an eternal vision

As a partially blind individual, I heavily rely on glasses to correct my distorted vision. In an image-saturated culture, we must learn to rely on Godly goggles to repair and improve a skewed vision of our lives, our future, and this world. This week let’s spend time asking God for an eternal perspective – the bridge that gaps now and the eternal future.

Key Verse: Where there is no vision the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18

• Monday – So often, we can describe where we’ve been with great detail. The valleys we’ve walked through are vivid pictures permanently engraved on our eyelids. And while the enemy would love to keep our eyes fixed on the rearview mirror of life, God is asking us to look ahead. Have you allowed something in your past to disqualify you from your mission?
  • And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?” Genesis 16:8

• Tuesday – God has something amazing prepared JUST FOR YOU. Today, spend time seeking God’s vision for your life, remembering no eye has seen, and no ear has heard all He has prepared for your life.
  • However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9

• Wednesday – More times than I’d like to admit, I have frantically sought a breakthrough, desiring to take the quickest exit route available. While I was worrying and aimlessly wandering, God was weaving and working. So, where do you need to see the goodness of the Lord? Pour your heart out to the One who sees the beginning from the end.
  • I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm 27:13

• Thursday – Have you found that temporary things (seen) overshadow your eternal (unseen) perspective? Vision is what bridges the gap between now and the eternal future. Ask God to give you a 30000 ft perspective to soar above any weeds in which you find yourself entangled.
  • 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. 2 Corinthians 4:18

• Friday – As you enter the weekend, look for ways to taste and see the goodness of God around you, choosing to see the world through His eyes.
  • Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. Psalm 34:8

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