THE EYES OF THE LORD
OUTLINE
1. WE FIND GRACE IN THE THE EYES OF THE LORD
2. THE LORD KEEPS US AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE
3. THE LORD GUIDES US WITH HIS EYE
4. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE RIGHTEOUS
5. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR SUFFERING
6. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE THE WICKED
7. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR GIVING
8. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR GRATITUDE
9. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR SINS
10. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR HEART
11. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE CHURCH
12. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE NATION
THE MESSAGE
THE EYES OF THE LORD
1. WE FIND GRACE IN THE THE EYES OF THE LORD
Genesis 6 : 8
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
Luke 2: 52
52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
2. THE LORD KEEPS US AS THE APPLE OF HIS EYE
Deuteronomy 32 : 9-10
9 For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
10 “He found him in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He kept him as the apple of His eye.
Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; Hide me under the shadow of Your wings,
Zechariah 2:8
For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
Deuteronomy 11: 11-12
11 but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven,
12 a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
3. THE LORD GUIDES US WITH HIS EYE
Psalm 32:8
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
Isaiah 42:16
16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them.
4. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE RIGHTEOUS
Psalm 34:15
The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry.
1 Peter 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
Psalm 33:18
Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him, On those who hope in His mercy,
Psalm 101:6
My eyes shall be on the faithful of the land, That they may dwell with me; He who walks in a perfect way, He shall serve me.
2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. In this you have done foolishly; therefore from now on you shall have wars.”
Zechariah 4:10
For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven rejoice to see The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. They are the eyes of the Lord, Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”
1 Kings 15:11
Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did his father David.
5. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR SUFFERING
Exodus 3 : 7 - 10
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their [a]sorrows.
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Genesis 31 : 11-12
11 Then the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, saying, ‘Jacob.’ And I said, ‘Here I am.’
12 And He said, ‘Lift your eyes now and see, all the rams which leap on the flocks are streaked, speckled, and gray-spotted; for I have seen all that Laban is doing to you.
Psalm 102: 19-20
19 For He looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,
Psalm 113: 6-9
6 Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in the heavens and in the earth?
7 He raises the poor out of the dust,
And lifts the needy out of the ash heap,
8 That He may seat him with princes—
With the princes of His people.
9 He grants the [b]barren woman a home,
Like a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord!
6. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE THE WICKED
Genesis 6 : 5-7
5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
Psalm 37: 12-13
12 The wicked plots against the just,
And gnashes at him with his teeth.
13 The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees that his day is coming.
2 Samuel 22:28
You will save the humble people; But Your eyes are on the haughty, that You may bring them down.
7. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR GIVING
Mark 12: 41-44
41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.
42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.
43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;
44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”
Malachi 3:10
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
2 Corinthians 9:7
7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.
Luke 6: 38
38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.”
8. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEE OUR GRATITUDE
Luke 17: 17-18
17 So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine?
18 Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”
Psalm 103:2
2 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
9. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEES OUR SINS
Jeremiah 16:17
For My eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from My face, nor is their iniquity hidden from My eyes.
Hebrews 4:13
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Psalm 90:8
8 You have set our iniquities before You,
Our secret sins in the light of Your countenance.
Psalm 11:4
The Lord is in His holy temple, The Lord’s throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He ponders all his paths.
Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Psalm 53: 2-3.
2 God looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
3 Every one of them has turned aside;
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
10. THE EYES OF THE LORD SEES OUR HEART
1 Samuel 16: 6-7
6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!”
7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
John 1:47
Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”
11. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE CHURCH
2 Chronicles 7 : 12-16
12 Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: “I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
13 When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
16 For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that My name may be there forever; and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
12. THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE NATION
Psalm 66:7
He rules by His power forever; His eyes observe the nations; Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
Psalm 2 : 1-8
1 Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed,[d] saying,
3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us.”
4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
The Lord shall hold them in derision.
5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,
And distress them in His deep displeasure:
6 “Yet I have set My King
On My holy hill of Zion.”
7 “I will declare the [g]decree:
The Lord has said to Me,
‘You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You.
8 Ask of Me, and I will give You
The nations for Your inheritance,
And the ends of the earth for Your possession.
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