Text: Ephesians 1:15-23
Truth: Only God can open our spiritual eyes to the true riches of our identity in Christ.
Thrust: We must pray and ask God to open our spiritual eyes and the spiritual eyes of others so that we may live worthy of our calling in Christ.
Thesis: Since only God can open our spiritual eyes to the true riches of our identity in Christ, we must pray and ask God to open our spiritual eyes and the spiritual eyes of others so that we may live worthy of our calling in Christ.
Turning Point: What you see with your heart is the most important of all.
Theme: True riches in Christ
Topic: What we must pray for (for ourselves and others)
Title: Your Spiritual Eyes
Tagline: Open your heart.
Thoughts:
- People pray for all sorts of things.
- We usually pray for the things that are important to us.
- But often we don’t pray for what is truly important.
- The reason is simple: we only pray for what we can see or what we want to see with our physical eyes.
- The truly important things cannot be seen by the naked eye. In fact they can only be seen by the eyes of our hearts.
- To grow and experience all that God wants for us, we must be able to see with our spiritual eyes.
- This can only happen by God’s grace and power. Only God can open our spiritual eyes to the true riches of our identity in Christ.
- For this reason, we must pray and ask God to open our spiritual eyes and the spiritual eyes of others so that we may live worthy of our calling in Christ.
- What you see with your physical eyes may seem important. But what you see with your heart is the most important of all.
- Pray for your spiritual eyes. It can see better. Open your heart.