The eye is like the “soul” window; if a window is clean and clear, light floods the room, the building, our lives, and everything around us. If the window is darkened, blacked out, dirty, or has not been cleaned in a while then no light can enter. In Matthew 22, Jesus is telling us the heart is like the eye of the spirit man within us
The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
(Matt. 6:22-23)
You are the light of God to all those who know you! You are full of His light, and we should all be so very generous with everything within us, around us, and all things from the Father freely flowing through us to everyone with whom we meet.
The eye is like the “soul” window; if a window is clean and clear, light floods the room, the building, our lives, and everything around us. If the window is darkened, blacked out, dirty, or has not been cleaned in a while then no light can enter. In Matthew 22, Jesus is telling us the heart is like the eye of the spirit man within us. If our hearts are toward God, then our spirit being is filled with light, but if our hearts are toward the earth, things, what we need, what we don’t have and treasures of this world system, we are not seeing into the realm of the spirit that is set up for our everyday way of living as Christians—Christ-like beings.
The Greek word for “clear” is from the root word that actually means “generous.” When our hearts are generous, our entire spirit lives are be flooded with understanding, but it also works the other way. When the eye is not clear, it is “bad,” dark, darkened, and clouded over with worry, fear, anxiety…those things that cause darkness in our thoughts. Our ‘window’ should be revealing the light of God is being filtered with darkness and dirt—stuff that we allow that should not be there.
The bad eye—or evil eye as some would say—is not allowing the light of God to come forth into our everyday thinking and being. Bad or evil eye in Greek means “grudgingly.” Proverbs 28:22 says, “A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth.”
Let me summarize it this way. How we handle our money, especially our giving, or our not giving, actually opens or closes the windows of heaven on our spiritual enlightenment! If I am a giver, then God gets His light into my life, my mind, my heart, my understanding, my revelation!
If we are not hearing the voice of God like we desire to, or if we are not getting revelation like others, but our hearts long to hear the voice of our Father, then we must check the condition of the window of our lives. Are you and I generous, prompt-to-do-it kind of givers? In this I am not talking strictly about money, even though when we hear “giving” we automatically go to thoughts of finances.
Giving is multifaceted, in dimensions beyond our comprehension! Giving is about everything, everywhere that is coming out of us! For instance, do you give mercy, grace, favor, light to others? Are you optimistic, giving off the character of, “I trust You Lord. Even when I don’t understand with my head, I am optimistic that my Father has every day of my life in His Hands, and I trust You, my Lord!”
Or do you give judgment, doubt, distrust, misgivings, discomfort, suspicion, etc? Do you think of each person you meet as, “Lord, what would You have me give to them?” Many times the Lord would simply say to give them a happy face, a smile, a warm, “Hello, how are you today?”
Are you giving of the light of God that you have received in times past or are you more concerned and thinking only about what you need, your wants, your desires, what is happening that moment to you, for you, etc? Then you might check the condition of the window of your soul. The intent of our hearts will tell us the cleanliness of our windows!
Is life all about you, what you need, what you want, what you have or don’t have? Then the answer to why you are not receiving great revelations from heaven could be that the window to your soul is too dark, too dirty and grimy with “self”! Yuck! But the opposite is true also. It is an easy fix, so to speak!
When we check the condition of our hearts, and our thoughts—when our lives are consumed with, “Lord, what can I do for You today? Lord, what can I do for others today? Lord I want to be used today and every day by You, to pour out Your love to others today! Let the light of Who You are shine forth from my life to all those around me!”
When our hearts and minds are a sparkling, clean, clear window to our soul, then out of our being we sow life, peace, wholeness, happiness, a giving and generous heart, a literal perceptive feeling to those around us of, “My life is all about Him, and that includes, ‘What can I do for you today? What can I give you today?” A happy look, a peace-filled word, a hug, a smile, a simple ‘Hello,’ with the message that says, “I have time for you today, and so does my Father God!”
The more I give out through the clear and clean windows of my soul, the more I can expect to pour back into my soul, mind, and spirit of divine revelation, insight, wisdom, understanding, grace, mercy, favor, peace, blessing, which is the outpouring of His light into my life, through the clear window, the clean window of my generous, not grudging heart!
Obtaining revelation is about getting the windows of your soul open and clear before His throne, then watch out! The floods of His light, His glory, His revelation will begin to pour forth into you…and through you!
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Harry and Cheryl Salem are ministers of the gospel. They are parents to sons, Harry III and Roman. Roman has married a beautiful young lady, Stephanie, and she has become their daughter-in-love. Healing and restoration have come full circle for the Salem family with the miracle birth of Roman and Stephanie’s baby girl, Mia Gabrielle. She is named for their daughter, Gabrielle Christian, who is in heaven since 1999. Their latest joy will be arriving in March 2017 with Roman and Stephanie’s second miracle baby of restoration for the Salem Family!
The Salems have seen the altars flooded with people receiving salvation, with countless re-dedications, with miraculous healings and with bodies, lives, marriages and souls being restored because of His mighty anointing!
Cheryl was crowned Miss America 1980, but tremendous adversities nearly ended that dream before it began. As a young girl, she survived a horrific car crash that cracked her back and crushed her left leg, resulting in a physical handicap and over 100 stitches in her face.
Eleven years old, poor, crippled and scarred… but a miracle, too! This was the outlook Cheryl chose, as she had been told that she might not ever walk again. But walk, she did! And she walked the runway in Atlantic City, against all odds, all because of Jesus.
Harry’s father passed away when Harry was 10 years old, leaving him with a mandate to be the man of the house, to never cry, and to take care of his mother and sisters. This challenge caused Harry to excel, but to also grow up with a cautious outlook on life.
He quickly made a name for himself in the corporate world, becoming a major executive before the age of 30, but he knew that there was more. He and Cheryl met, married and started their family, but it wasn’t until the mid-nineties that Harry had an encounter with God that changed him forever. He let go of the pain of growing up without his father and the stress of the mantle that had been placed on his shoulders at such a young age. He began to trust God – and he has never looked back.
Cheryl has recorded numerous music CDs, the latest being I Am A Worshiper. The most popular worship music she has released over the past few years are the four prophetic CDs of healing and restoration. Her prophetic flowing style on both the keyboard and vocally of the Book of Revelation and the Book of Proverbs are fast becoming the most requested music CDs! She and Harry have co-written 36 books with topics ranging from Mourning to Morning to Entering Rest – Be Still. Their book, We Who Worship, is designed to bring the reader into a deeper level of purity and intimacy with God in worship. Their marriage books Two Becoming One and Don’t Kill Each Other! Let God Do It! are great books for couples to read and are also used for couples Bible studies together.
Salem Family Ministries presents We Who Worship Gathering annually, a worship event, which includes worship, dance, art, musical theater and drama. They are walking out the Lord’s plan set before them for School of Worship, intensive training sessions, where the Salems teach, impart, and personally work with students to help them grow to the next level in their worship life and ministry.
Both Harry and Cheryl are sought-after ministers, who speak in churches and events across the nation. Harry has a heart for men, preaching and teaching on overcoming issues in life. Cheryl is a popular preacher at ladies events, encouraging women to reach their godly potential, but the focus of Salem Family Ministries is to take this unique, tag-team style of ministry into churches, two by two, to reach families for God, one by one.