OPEN YOUR EYES

by Glenice Mills

During worship on the 20^th June 2015 the Lord spoke to me. This is what He said:

“Open your eyes – see what is happening! The seasons, the times – don’t be numb! Don’t go to sleep – wake up – open your eyes – see what I am doing.

I am doing a new thing, there’s a stirring, a stirring, a rumbling – things are shaky. Why do you fear? I am shaking the old – foundations are crumbling.

They have to crumble – have to crumble – so I can build – build on the new foundations. Many are falling – churches are falling – My plans – so I can build the new!”

When you write a word under the anointing of worship it can take time to consider and seek the Lord for understanding. You dare not take this word and try and put your own understanding on it. There are some statements the Lord wants to expand on so as I endeavor to do this, it is His word, His truth, not my opinion or my own understanding.

OPEN YOUR EYES!: When the Lord spoke this to me it was with a firm voice. He wanted to get my attention! The Lord wants to open our spiritual eyes to things He is doing at this time. He wants to show us greater understanding, not from the perspective of what we see happening in the natural – around and about us, but from His heavenly perspective. He is the higher way – He sees what is now and what is ahead for us. We must know the seasons and times both for ourselves individually but also for what is happening in the world around us.

Our eyes are about vision – seeing the way forward. So why is the Lord instructing us to open our eyes? Clearly we have had them shut whether that is by personal choice or because it was not time for us to see.  It is about His timing - a time to remove the blinkers off our eyes so we see with fresh vision and greater understanding.

It is easy to become numb and unaware of what is truly going on. When our eyes are opened we become aware of our environment all that is happening around and about us. We see things with clarity. We need clarity of vision like never before. Information is coming at us from all angles and if we bow to the overload we will lose our way. That is one of the problems of modern technology. If we hear or see something often enough we will become numb.

Critically the eyes of the five-fold ministry are the prophets. They are the one’s who see what is to come. Many prophets feel an urgency and a burden for the body of Christ, for what they are seeing happening at this time. We know evil is increasing, however, many are seeing where the Word of God is being weakened to appease man’s flesh, his sin and his wrong choices. Sadly the world is coming into the church and we are blind to it. Many add Jesus to what they want to happen in their lives, and follow their man made desires, rather than what the Lord wants. The truth is there is no easy way – the true walk in God will be difficult. We will have struggles, we will be different – and so we should be. We cannot bow to the idolatrous practices out there. We have to come back to yielding our lives fully to the Lord no matter what the cost.

The Lord wants us to open our eyes to the enemy’s strategies at this time. There are lots of prophetic words that are encouraging and comforting and yes we need these words but we don’t see too many words of warning or correction. Is it because God is not warning or correcting? The God I know warns but sadly we have become a bit au fait about His prophetic words. The more challenging words are put in the ‘too hard’ basket. Any words that are deemed not encouraging or comforting are often cast aside. This is a concern. For us in the body of Christ we must also be willing to speak and hear words from the throne room of God that would challenge, and have us come in humility and repent. This is where the true, mature prophet needs to wake up and open their eyes to the enemies’ ploys. Now is the time for us to be sharp, not blunt!

Open your eyes! See what is happening! Let’s get away from a ‘my narrow world’ thinking and ask the Lord to show us the bigger picture of what is happening in our cities, our regions, our nation, the nations of the world.

The truth is things aren’t going well. Evil is increasing. The Lord wants His prophets to speak, to confront the evil that is deceiving many, and have us bring the ‘difficult words’.

I know this is a first part of what the Lord is saying from the revelation He gave and the next part will look at what areas are going to be shaken and what are going to crumble. Some things have to fall so they can be rebuilt on a firm foundation.

  

Galatians 5:11-14 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.

But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

Therefore He says:

Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.