See with the Eyes of Heaven and Hear the Heart of Heaven - Morning by Morning, June 6, 2025

“Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking” (Ezekiel 1:28).

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Morning by Morning, June 6, 2025 - See with the Eyes of Heaven and Hear the Heart of Heaven

Good morning, Lord Jesus. I speak out Your name and listen for Your voice to begin my day embraced by my Father, centered in Christ, and filled with Your Holy Spirit, for Your Word says Your sheep hear Your voice and follow You (John 10:27). Your Word says the children of God are led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14).  ...

“Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking” (Ezekiel 1:28).

Like the Apostle Paul prayed for the Christians at Ephesus, according to Your will and Your Word for all of us, You opened the eyes of Ezekiel’s heart to see with the eyes of heaven; You opened the ears of his spirit to hear the heart of heaven (Ephesians 1:18). By Your Spirit, You brought Divine understanding and Spiritual enlightenment for Ezekiel to “know what is the hope of (Your) calling for him,” as You do for each of us (v. 18).

In the experience of his encounter in Your Presence, Ezekiel tried to describe it with human words of heavenly visions—living creatures and spinning wheels in gleaming amber, shining crystal, and radiant fire. But the limitations of language keep us from fully grasping all he was experiencing. His response to Your revelation was to fall on his face, embraced in glory of Your manifest Presence. And it was there—there with his heart humbled before You and there in the heavenly realm of the glory of God that he could hear Your voice and respond to Your word.

You said to him, “Son of man, stand on your feet, and I will speak to you.” (Ezekiel 2:1). And when his body and spirit came to attention to listen and respond to Your voice, he declared, “the Spirit entered me when He spoke to me, and set me on my feet; and I heard Him who spoke to me (2). As he waited and listened, You spoke and led.

You gave Ezekiel instruction, encouragement, and guidance for the days ahead, for Your mission before him, and Your calling upon him (v. 3-5). You even prepared him for what might seem like the failure of coming rejection from an earthly perspective, but would be accounted to him as righteousness, obedience, and faith from Your heavenly perspective (6-7). And You assured him that regardless of how others responded to him and the words of spirit and life You would speak through him, “they (would) know that a prophet has been among them”—they would know they had been in the presence of one who had been in the Presence of God (v. 5).

Thank You for giving us each the invitation and the gift of coming into Your Presence every day. As children of God, Your Spirit, Your Holy Spirit, has entered us (Romans 8:9). And now we’re invited to come boldly to Your throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16). When we draw near to You, You draw near to us (James 4:8). When we seek You will all our hearts, we find You (Jeremiah 29:13).

By the Word of God, we are Your sheep; You know our names; and we can hear Your voice (John 10:3). We are sons and daughters of God, filled and led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14). Like Ezekiel, as we bow down to fall on our faces in humility of heart before You, You lift us up to stand in awe of You, firm on our feet as You stand firm within us (James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6).

We may not necessarily see with open visions into the heavenly realm of living creatures and spinning wheels in gleaming amber, shining crystal, and radiant fire, but we can look with the eyes of our hearts and reach out in the yearning of our spirits to encounter the living God every day (Ephesians 1:17-19). We can abide in You as You abide in us (John 15:4).

According to the hope and promise of Your Word, through “Christ Jesus our Lord” ... “we have boldness and with confidence through faith in Him” (Ephesians 3:11-12). In the mystery of faith and the power of Your grace, we can “know the love of Christ” and even “be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:19). As God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, You come as One to come live and abide within us (John 14:20 and 17:21). For “He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him” (1 Corinthians 6:17).

When we pursue You in both humility and faith, You remove every barrier between us and purify our hearts through the blood of Christ (Colossians 1:20; 1 John 1:9). Nothing can separate us from Your love and Your Presence (Romans 8:38-39). And You continue to promise the Blessing of Your Presence for all who seek You. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.... Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (Matthew 5:6-8). 

We are blessed as Your children, as Your sheep, as Your servants, as Your disciples, as Your friends, as Your ambassadors, as Your Body and Bride of Christ, to pursue Your Presence, to hear Your voice, and to follow You every day on our adventure of faith in You (John 10:27). Let us never “neglect so great a salvation” with all Your blessings of abiding in Your Presence and being led by Your Spirit (Hebrews 2:3). Let us never forsake our incomparable inheritance in You. “Joy inexpressible and full of glory!” (1 Peter 1:8) Now, “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with (us) all!” (2 Corinthians 13:14) In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.