{"id":2758,"date":"2013-04-17T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T05:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2013-03-31T18:51:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-31T22:51:03","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-04-17-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/17\/pearls-of-wisdom-04-17-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 04-17-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>God\u2019s Vision, Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>God sees through different eyes than the world.\u00a0 His vision is pure and lovely and clear and perfect.\u00a0 His vision is love vision.\u00a0 His vision is pure power.\u00a0 He is Love and that is the way He sees us.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t look at things the way the world looks at things.\u00a0 When God sees people, He sees value in them.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t see what they can do for Him.\u00a0 He sees their worth as individuals.<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s vision is one of redemption and wholeness.\u00a0 He sees us as His again, bought with the blood of His Son Jesus Christ&#8212;-redeemed at last, free, delivered, once again His own.\u00a0 We have been bought with a price, the highest price the Father could pay, the blood of His Son.<\/p>\n<p>Without God\u2019s vision, we perish, we are made naked, we have nothing and are nothing.\u00a0 In fact, that is exactly what Proverbs 29:18 says:\u00a0 \u201cWhere there is no vision (no redemptive revelation of God), the people perish (are made naked).\u00a0 When we don\u2019t understand Who God is and what He has done for us, we perish, and we are naked, devoid of anything of value or worth because He is our all in all.<\/p>\n<p>Paul prayed for us in Ephesians 1:18 that the eyes of our understanding would be enlightened or that the eyes of our heart would be flooded with light.\u00a0 He was talking about us understanding God and His Kingdom.\u00a0 Oh, yes, it is possible to do just that very thing.\u00a0 God wants us to be able to understand Him.\u00a0 After all, He is our Father.\u00a0 We are His children.\u00a0 He wants our hearts to be overflowing with His Light; He is Light.\u00a0 He said in Genesis 1:\u00a0 \u201cLight, be.\u201d\u00a0 In other words, God was saying this:\u00a0 \u201cI Who am Light, Be in this earth.\u201d\u00a0 And the earth was filled with Him.\u00a0 He wants us to understand how He operates, so that we can imitate \u201cpapa\u201d and be exactly like Him.<\/p>\n<p>God wants our eyes to be opened to turn from darkness to light and from the power of satan to God Himself (Acts 26:18).\u00a0 He wants us to open our eyes to behold wondrous things out of His Word (Psalm 119:18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God\u2019s Vision, Part 1 God sees through different eyes than the world.\u00a0 His vision is pure and lovely and clear and perfect.\u00a0 His vision is love vision.\u00a0 His vision is pure power.\u00a0 He is Love and that is the way He sees us.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t look at things the way the world looks at things.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}