The Holy Spirit desires above everything else that we walk in the truth and are free from deception and lies because that means we are walking with satan and we know that Jesus was manifested in the flesh to destroy the works of the devil which is deception. Today I will continue the theme of the eyes of the heart and the ears of the heart being full of the Spirit and governed by the Holy Spirit dictates rather than our opinions.

In Matthew:13.16-17 Jesus speaks these words But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; 17 for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

Now these words are powerful because they point to the fact that even Moses, Elijah, Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekiel who spoke with God knowing God’s ways desired to have their hearts hear and see things of God but could not as Jesus had not come to open the way of God in our hearts. Jesus here is speaking to His disciples, not everyone who was present,only those who had left everything to follow Him and He points out to them that they have been blessed to have eyes to see and ears to hear.

Well we certainly know that Jesus was not talking about physical eyes and ears because all listening to Him at that time had those. He was speaking about men’s hearts being able to hear and see God and speak for God just like He did. He preceded the parable of the various soils of the heart with this so we would know the true context of His discourse.

You will also note that He had said to them in this discourse that let him that has ears to hear let him hear. In the book of Revelation:2 & 3 in each dialogue Jesus has with the individual churches He says let he that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying. Which clearly depicts that there are ears of the heart that have to be available for us to hear God and understand Him. Paul the Apostle spends time praying in ephesians that the eyes of our hearts being enlightened and the ears of our hearts being able to comprehend the mystery of God.

I know that I from my part prayed for years that the eyes and ears of my heart would be enlightened to know what God is saying and how to respond to receive what He promised and after years that began to happen in my life and has continued.

I recall the Lord taking me through a period where I spent hours on the introduction of the epistles and He taught me who qualified for what was written and who could not have it because their hearts did not qualify.

The book of Ephesians and Colossians are addressed to faithful ones to the Lord and that is why ignorant people use them out of presumption and find their lives ruined because they don’t have the eyes and ears of heart to know what the Lord is revealing and satan can take them hostage because he knows they are not in truth,but deception.

There is a whole difference between a single word of wisdom and the Spirit of wisdom. God can give you a word of wisdom about a particular situation you are facing but that does not make you the Spirit of wisdom who has understanding in every situation.

It is as we grow in the eyes of our hearts and ears of our heart by surrendering to the Holy Spirit that we are then able to comprehend what God is saying and have His picture of situations and recognise His heart beat. Jesus at a point in samaria rebukes James and John saying you do not know what manner of spirit you are off.

Their hearts had not come through yet and they still needed to continue in the process of following the Lord with their hearts. In the book of Proverbs it talks about wisdom as seeking for it as you would for gold.

Well ask yourself which the Holy Spirit always wants us to do, how many hours of the day do you spend at work to get a salary and what portion of your life do you surrender to that company for its benefit outside your spouse and children each day.

It is the same with God we must give Him time for the eyes and ears of our hearts to be opened because in real terms our hearts are desperately wicked and deceitful above all things and who can know it. Only the Lord can search it out and show our true intent and purpose and give us according to what we deserve.

Peter speaks of the heart in 2 Peter:1.19-21 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation, 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

The dark place is our hearts which Paul also mentions that the god of this world has blinded the hearts of men which need to be enlightened by truth till the Morning star arises.

That is when Christ arises in our hearts it is no longer us but Him in us. We are also told that Jesus who is the word Himself increased in wisdom and stature so it is clear that as men we need to continue to grow and develop in the eyes and ears of our hearts that have been polluted by darkness and find grace to come out and be free to serve the purposes of God in our lives.

As you can see clearly this area of the heart is a lifetime issue which we will need to continue with all the days of our lives.

When I read that Pauls greatest desire was to know Christ and the power of His resurrection I thought what this man has raised the dead seen Asia saved and experienced special miracles and yet he says he wants to know the Lord and that is his greatest desire, that there should certainly keep us humble and make us seek to know more of the Almightiness of God and go wholeheartedly after it with everything in us.

My prayer for you today as you receive these words and the grace of God in them to empower you to action and pursuit of His will in the eyes and ears of your heart is that you make them the pursuit of your life and let them be the centre of your existence and just watch how life will change for you and things that were a bother,frustration and worry will melt like wax at the Presence of the Lord in your life.

Have a God filled day of recovery and restoration of your heart and true enlightenment that defeats your enemies in Jesus Name. Amen.