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IS YOUR EYE HEALTHY? Hey Sis hey!! Happy Fri-yay! How ya doing? I hope that your holiday is becoming as interesting as mine and that you have begun to find true purpose in the midst of this unexpected hiccup? Yes! You know it's not so much about what happens to you in life as it is about how you respond to it so aye, cheers to making the most of every situation! Anyways, that's not my word for tonight even though that was for someone. Hahaha. Amen? Amen. The question for you today is "Is your eye healthy"? "The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness..." Matthew 6:22-23 (ESV) I had been talking to the Lord in the cause of the week asking him what he wanted me share about in this week's mail, and while randomly studying Matthew 6, i got to this verse and the Lord said 'Stop! Right there! ' He wanted me to ask you if you have been keeping your eye healthy and your whole body full of light. Do you know what 'lamp of the body' means from the scripture above? It means that your eye is the light of your soul. It means that your eye is the window to your soul and what you open and expose it to will determine whether your whole body will be full of light or darkness. Knowing and understanding this, what then have you been letting into your soul? The function of the eye is so critical yet so overlooked. We see pictures everyday of our environment, surrounding, etc. We watch TV shows, movies, videos, read books and novels everyday, but how much filter are we putting on those things we are letting our eyes feed on and what is the standard we are adapting? Sisters, it is so important that you begin to guard your soul jealously and stop being careless with the things you are letting into it. God's standard must become your standard, and you know his standard through his written word. Your eye is one of the gateways into your soul alongside your ear, nose, mouth and skin but the eye happens to be the most critical of all the gateways because it deals with sight. And sight is one of the most defining things about life. And if our eyes are feeding on unhealthy things, then our lives are in danger. Guard your gates, especially your eyes. Psalm 119:37 says: "Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things, and give me life in your ways" I encourage you to stop now and pray that scripture over yourself. What you watch is affecting you more that you can recognize. It is shaping your life, your perspective, your habits and your choices even. How many of you ever watched a movie and subsequently had a dream centered around what you watched, good or bad? Or you saw a picture somewhere and somehow, that image never passed from your mind? I knoww. It's real!! That's how fast what you watch seeps into your soul! If your eyes is that much of a super highway into your soul, then you better be guarding it jealously! Don't make light of everything. Don't say it's just a funny video or its just for fun when it clearly contains content that is polluting your mind, body soul and spirit. No it's not just a video. It's not just a picture. It's not just a novel or a magazine. These things have a strong impact on your soul and can even open the door to some strongholds of oppression. I know because i once opened the door to fear oppressing my life many years ago because of something i watched . And whilst i watched it, the still small voice of the Lord kept saying "Back off now. You can still back off now it's not too late". Well i chose to watch it till the end and the battle that ensued as a result of that action was not funny at all. Your best bet is to be feeding on the right things. Clean, healthy, soul-lifting content, for your own good. The Bible will never corrupt your soul. A clean christian movie will not pollute your mind. A decent helpful magazine will never contaminate your dreams, but you have to make the conscious effort to filter what you are feeding on for your own good. It's okay if people think you are overreacting or taking things too seriously, as long as you keep protecting your self. And i pray right  now that the Lord will give you the grace to walk away from any and everything that has the capacity to pollute you in Jesus name. Amen! MEDITATION SCRIPTURE: Matthew 5:29 Love you and I'm praying for you! Abba loves you very much. Regina U.