This is our second to the last (6th) study on the series of the seven eyes of God. You can order for my book on spiritual communication – ‘How to know and to hear the voice of God’ for an exhaustive explanation and deeper understanding and clarification on this subject.
It is a divine obligation and promise to lead, guide (I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shall go: I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee. Psalms 32:8-9) and to sustain us all the way in life from the birth or beginning of our spiritual life (Isaiah 40:9-11) to the end of our sojourn or appointed time on earth (For this God is our God for- ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death Psalms 48:4) to bring us home safely to his holy mountain, his heavenly Jerusalem the city of great King which is our final spiritual abode and promise inheritance….These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city. Hebrews 11: 13-16.
As Enoch (Hebrews 11:5) pleased God in his walk of faith and was translated to heaven: even so must we walk now and daily with God but not without his guidance and guiding eyes. We know not the way – the Lord is the way – the Lord is our shepherd. Psalms 23: 1.
There are present dangers and eternal consequences of any involvement in spiritual adultery. Spiritual adultery is our participation, involvement or attachment to another or any foreign or strange god (s) apart from our sole commitment and wholehearted devotion and worship of strange god(s) in the place or in addition to the worship of the God of heaven and earth….If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee. If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you….they provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They sacrificed unto devils, not to God: to God whom they knew, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not. Deuteronomy 13: 1-11. 32: 16-17
Keep yourself from idols. (1 John 5: 16-21.) Spiritual adultery is a big slap on God’s face. We must seek to and live for the Lord alone. Never should we seek for any help out of our predicament (s) of any kind from Satan and his agents as we wait as long as it takes in prayer of faith, hope and patience unto God that performs all things for us….And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God, for the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:19-20.
There is no other rock like our Rock – there is no god like our God, the Ancient of days. It is provocative and diminutive of the Sovereignty and Omnipotence of God when we consciously or ignorantly worship demons and seek for foreign aid(s) for whatever reason. We must overcome every situation and challenging circumstance which is to try us for their sorrows shall be multiplied which hasten after other gods…..So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to enquire of it; and enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse. 1 Chronicles 10: 13-14. Psalms 16:4.
We must be prepared and detached from every foreign god(s) (demons) if we are serious of walking with God and be led by him. We cannot hold on to the gods of our father or mother’s house (Genesis 31: 17-20: 30-35. Judges 6: 25-26) gods of from our place of birth or of any nation (Deuteronomy 12: 19-32. 2 Kings 1: 1-6) gods of our in-laws (1 Kings 11: 4-11) and gods of any man or woman (Daniel 3: 14-18: Genesis 35: 1-4).
Carved images should never be in home or possession either for the appreciation of an art work, or souvenir from a tourist land or preservation of cultural heritage. The molten image(s) to the spiritually blind man is nothing (though the idols are nothing) yet unconsciously and ignorantly, he has opened the door of claims and evil fellowship to the enemy in his life – for they are the representative of demonic spirits, an evil deity or power which belongs to darkness….And the king commanded all the people, saying, keep the Passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; but in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the Lord in Jerusalem. Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord……And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy against them, and say, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places. And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols. And I will lay the dead carcasses of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars. In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished. And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 2 Kings 23: 21-24. Ezekiel 6: 1-7.
Friendship with the world is enmity against God. There is a need for separation unto the Lord if we are to be accepted and be led always. We cannot love and cherished the world more the Maker thereof. We become part of a sinful and adulterous generation meant to be destroyed eternally when we prefer the world and its pleasures above the sacrifices of self denial against such things that holds and stops us from fulfilling divine pleasures and purposes of him that has created all things for his pleasure…..And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. Mark 8:34-38.
We cannot be independent of God. We must constantly depends on him alone all the days of our lives – this is the blessing and privilege of divine relationship for guidance, instruction and whatever project we embark upon as the spirit shall show us things to come if we ask….Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3: 5-6.
We cannot over-emphasize the need for a constant and daily presence and guidance of God. It is perilous and frustrating if we are living without the guidance eyes of God in the world and powers of darkness… And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight. Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people. And he said, my presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest. And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence. For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth. Exodus 33: 12-16.
Where divine guidance is absence, divine presence is wanting. God shall not go with us where he is not leading or guiding us. If he leads us besides the still waters and to get there, we must pass through the valley of shadow of death – be sure that his presence shall be there as his rod and staff shall comfort us against all dangers and see us through all evil as light shall arise out of darkness for the upright…..And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, here am I. And he said, I am God, the God of thy father: fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation: I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes. And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. Genesis 46: 1-5.
God’s opinion must be sought as his pleasure must be satisfied and his will be done in all things that we set our hearts to do or lay our hands upon if we are to have his backup, approval and lasting blessings in our endeavors and undertakings. We have nothing to lose and all to gain as long as we are walking in the will of God…. Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart. Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father. But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the Lord commanded, saying, the fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin. Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield. He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valor out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver. But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the Lord is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim. But if thou wilt go, do it; be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down. And Amaziah said to the man of God, but what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The Lord is able to give thee much more than this. 2 Chronicles 25: 1-9.
There is no hurriedness in faith and guidance. We must wait until we are sure that the Lord is leading and guiding us. As long as the Lord has not spoken, we are to remain and not move an inch. We should not rush into error and failure because his ways and thoughts are different from our ways and thoughts…..Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near, and said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the Lord thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:) that the Lord thy God may shew us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you. Then they said to Jeremiah, the Lord be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the Lord thy God shall send thee to us. Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the Lord our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the Lord our God. And it came to pass after ten days that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah. Jeremiah 42: 1-7.
There is the constant need for intense seeking of God’s face to know his will (Zephaniah 1: 1-6) as we set time and days apart, suspending engagements, social and other activities to seek the face of the Lord once a while: perhaps – twice or thrice or more in a year by fasting and prayer for an understanding and knowledge of his will and other issues in our lives…..seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually……Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 1 Chronicles 16: 11. Acts 13: 1-3.
We should not act on our own intuition; neither should we do that which seems right in our own sight lest we become like a sheep without shepherd (2 Chronicles 18:16.) Every sheep requires being under the watchful and constant eyes of the shepherd for protection (1 Samuel 17: 34-37) and guidance through his skillfulness and braveness….For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof. As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it. Isaiah 31: 4-5.
If any sheep stubbornly walked away from the shepherding rod and watchful eyes of the shepherd, he stood the risk of becoming a prey and be destroyed by wolves and other carnivorous animals – thus a self-willed and heady believer against the direct will and guidance of God qualifies himself as a sheep without shepherd, exposed to danger and destruction. We see this in the life of Jonah, the runaway prophet which almost dies for his self willed except for the divine mercy of second chance (Jonah 1: 6-10) and in the proverbs of a bird that missed her place of rest and comfort (Proverbs 27:10) and in the life of king Ahab which shall not hearken to the voice of the Lord’s true prophet (Micah) because the Lord has hardened his heart to the end that he might die in the battle for all his transgressions and wickedness against the eyes of divine purity and vengeance….. And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spoke to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good. And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak. And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand. And the king said to him, how many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the Lord? Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the Lord said, these have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil? Again he said, therefore hear the word of the Lord; I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the Lord said, who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead? And one spoke saying after this manner and another saying after that manner.
Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will entice him. And the Lord said unto him, wherewith? And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the Lord said, thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so. Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee. 2 Chronicles 18: 12-22.
The word of God is the final authority in all things – spiritual and physical. It is our compass in the ocean of life and atlas in its wilderness – light in our darkness and keys that opens all our doors. We shouldn’t add nor remove from the word of God ( Proverbs 30: 5-6) lest we be found a liar and be cursed – lest our name be removed from the book of life and be called the least in the kingdom of God.
Choosing to live without the binding and unchanging principles of the word of God (Proverbs 21:16) we becomes like a sheep without the shepherd, listening not to the voice of the shepherd…..I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies…..Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalms 119: 59&105.