Key Thoughts and Scriptures:
- Even hell is bewildered by how God turns every circumstance toward His glory.
- When life feels upside down, God’s hand is never out of place.
John 5:19 NIV …The Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing…
- Seeing clearly isn’t easy. Even Jesus’ own disciples struggled to recognize what God was doing right in front of their eyes.
John 4:1-42 NIV …I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest…
- The woman who had avoided her community became the one who reached it. When she saw who Jesus really was, she couldn’t keep quiet.
- That’s what happens when revelation replaces reputation.
- When we see differently, when we see from God’s perspective, everything changes.
- God sees hungry hearts beneath the rebellion.
- Sometimes our expectations can actually block our vision.
“Expectations can damage relationships.” – Doug Stringer
- And that’s true not only between people, but between us and God.
- One of the most important truths we must hold onto is this, God is not obligated to keep moving the way He moved before. Even when He was the one who gave the directions in a previous season.
- Moses and the rock (Exodus 17:5-6 NIV, Numbers 20:7-8 NIV)
- The crossings of the Red Sea and the Jordan River (Exodus 14:21-22 NIV, Joshua 3:13 NIV)
- Same God, same power, but His methods changed because the moment and the mission had changed.
God’s New Move
Isaiah 43:19 NIV See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?…
- When we stay flexible, humble, and attentive to the Spirit, we can recognize God’s movement in real time and lead others into it.
“You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.” – A.W. Tozer
Luke 1:26-38 NIV …“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.”…
- Mary didn’t demand a full explanation. She simply trusted that God’s promise was enough.
“When the Lord says, I’m gonna do a new thing, will you embrace it?” – Jack Hayford
- Sometimes faith looks like saying yes before we see how it will all work out.
Luke 1:39-45 NIV …“Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear!”…
“God is always at work in His world. Jesus watched to see where the Father was working and joined Him.” – Henry Blackaby
- So maybe this year, part of seeing God clearly is learning to recognize His work, not just in our lives, but in others.
Luke 2:36-38 NIV Anna
- She was widowed young and instead of growing bitter, she devoted her life to worship and prayer.
- The Redeemer had come and when the moment arrived, she knew. She didn’t miss it because her heart had stayed tender. Her eyes focused on the Lord.
Seeing God Move
“The only way to see clearly is to let the Holy Spirit adjust your vision.” – Oswald Chamber
John 20:11-18 NIV Mary Magdalene at the tomb
- Jesus was standing right there, but Mary thought He was the gardener. She couldn’t see Him through her grief until He spoke her name.
- Sometimes disappointment, sorrow, or fear blurs our vision.
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- This year, when your plans collapse or your prayers seem unanswered, remember the story isn’t over yet.
- God may already be standing in front of you doing something brand new.
James 1:27 NIV Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- What looked like a loss became a doorway into greater Kingdom impact.
- Seeing what God is doing isn’t about having special insight. It’s about cultivating a heart that stays open, humble, and responsive.
- When our spiritual eyes are clear, we begin to notice His fingerprints everywhere, in both the miraculous and the mundane.
Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
- When we say yes to God, even when it’s uncomfortable or unclear, we start to see from His perspective.
2 Kings 5 NIV Naaman’s story
Spiritual clarity comes from intimacy with the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 2:10 NIV …The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- When we stay in step with the Holy Spirit through prayer and worship and time in the Word of God, He reveals what our natural eyes can’t perceive.
Revelation 3:18 NIV I counsel you to buy from me…salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.
- Spiritual sight grows through attentiveness.
Matthew 26:41 NIV “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
- Watching is about being alert to where God is already working, both around us and within us.
- Small moments of obedience often lead to big encounters with God.
- We must be prepared to embrace holy interruptions.
Sometimes God’s movement doesn’t feel spiritual, it feels inconvenient.
Exodus 3 NIV Moses and the burning bush
- What looked like a random interruption was actually the start of Moses’ calling.
- When we’re flexible enough to let God rearrange our plans, we discover divine appointments hidden in ordinary moments.
Luke 10:25-37 NIV …But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?…
- We have to keep love as the lens over our eyes.
1 John 4:12 NIV No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
- When love is the motive, our eyes are purified.
Matthew 9:36 NIV When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
- God in His faithfulness knows how to gently expand our vision.
Psalm 121:1-2 NIV I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
- Sometimes our spiritual eyesight is clouded simply because we’re looking down.
- Faith is a form of sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 NIV For we live by faith, not by sight.
- The more we walk by faith, the clearer our vision becomes.
- That’s when ordinary life becomes a place of ongoing revelation.
Ephesians 1:17-18 NIV I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people.
Links:
- Please don’t send me to Africa – Scott Wesley Brown
Books:
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
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