![]() God’s Word is unique from all other writings and sayings!īecause Yahuwah, by his Holy Spirit, is the Author of the Scriptures! Yahuwah Elohim – the LORD God, the God of Truth, the King of Glory – is bigger, smarter, and more powerful than you and me! He is Righteous, Eternal, and All-Mighty. And God has provided His Word for our benefit and as a complete instruction for our moral and spiritual needs It is alive and piercing and discerning! God’s Word is sharp enough to expose the motives of our heart (Psalms 44:21b). (Hebrews 4:12)Īs these verses tells us, the Word of God is powerful!! Notice the decription of God’s Word. (Psalms 33:6)įor the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. If we are honest and humble then we will admit that God is bigger and smarter than any of us! Therefore our first step is to make the decision to believe ( Proverbs 3:5-6) - believe that the Bible truly is the WORD of the Living, Eternal God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all things:īy the Word of Yahuwah were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. The first and most essential step for receiving the true and legitimate enlightenment that is ‘from above,’ is to believe the written Word of God. We will look at these five steps, just skimming over the surface of these very significant steps, and then, look at one major warning. To explain further, we will now look at five steps we can take to help us be more receptive to receiving the wonderful and liberating gift of true enlightenment that is ‘from above’. O God, You are my God early I will seek You: my soul thirsts for You, my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is to see Your power and Your glory, so as I have seen You in the sanctuary. when we have personally seen with our spiritual eyes Yahuwah’s truth, presence, power, and glory:.when we put away scornful attitudes and any hardness of heart and we are truly willing to be teachable,.when we seek our own personal encounter and relationship with the living God - the God of the Bible,.True and legitimate enlightenment that is ‘from above’ begins: Yahuwah loves each one of us, and He desires to answer our sincere prayers for wisdom and insight into understanding His ways and walking with Him. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask Him? (Matthew 7:11) ![]() Yahuwah Elohim is eager to give us good gifts: It is possible to obtain this wonderful, liberating gift of true en lightenment ‘from above’! “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.” (James 1:17) True and legitimate enlightenment ‘from above’ is a divine gift from Yahuwah Elohim, the Father of lights: ![]() True and legitimate enlightenment that is ‘from above’ – from the heavenly Father – is a wonderful, liberating gift! To enlighten the eyes of our understanding means to illuminate with divine knowledge and truth. It is an understanding that enables us to comprehend God’s eternal truth with certainty. It is a ‘knowing’ with NO doubt!Įnlightening the eyes of our understanding refers to a spiritual understanding that enables us to ‘see’ what is ‘beneath the surface’. To enlighten the eyes of our understanding is a phrase that is referring to our ‘spiritual’ understanding - an understanding of confidently ‘knowing’ the truth deep within our spirit. That brings us back to the question: “What does it mean to enlighten the eyes of our understanding”?įrom the usage in Scripture, it means to illuminate, shed light on, or instruct our understanding. But according to the above passage, the ‘knowing’ of Messiah occurs when the “eyes of our understanding” are enlightened. The heavenly Father desires to give each of us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Messiah. “That the God of our Lord Yahushua Messiah, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him: the eyes of your understanding being enlightened.” (Ephesians 1:17-18a) What does it mean to “enlighten the eyes of our understanding”?
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