“I call on You, my God, for You will answer me;

turn Your ear to me and hear my prayer.

Show me the wonders of Your great love…

Keep me as the apple of Your eye;

hide me in the shadow of Your wings…

from my mortal enemies who surround me” (Ps 17:6-9)

 

If you desire to learn how to pray, go to the Psalms and pray along the scriptures. The Psalms are the best teacher when it comes to prayer! Make friends with King David in particular!

David was often in trouble, like many of us. Some troubles come because we sin. Other troubles come because of the persecution of the wicked against the children of God.

David prays with faith, boldness and confidence that God will hear him. He wants, once more, that God reveals to him that special, wonderful, supernatural love given only to a child of God. The wicked, the unbelievers know God only from afar. They experience the general grace of God manifested in natural blessings. But they can never experience ‘the wonders of God’s great love’, as David calls it.

All the wealth and fame of unbelievers cannot bring them to their knees to worship God! Their success makes them proud and ‘God is none of their thoughts’. It is the peculiar work of God the Holy Spirit that convicts a man of sin against God! He alone can humble a man to the point of conversion!

David prays for protection from his deadly, persistent enemies. He wants God to ‘keep him like the apple of God’s eye’, to be as the pupil of His eyes. What does he mean?

 

The pupil is a black hole located in the center of the iris in the eye. It allows the light to enter the retina. The iris reacts to light. The pupil gets wider in the dark and narrower in the light.

The cornea is the transparent membrane that covers the eye. It can be affected by different medical conditions, allergies, infections or injuries. These cause serious pain or itching and they can harm the vision. A deep injury to the eye leads to incurable blindness.

The eye is the most sensitive organ of the body. The pupil is the most sensitive part of the eye. Any wound is extremely painful.

These are the medical facts.

 

Spiritually speaking, the pupil of the eye is the gate of ‘the light to the body’. The condition of the eye affects the whole body! All blind men are sick men…

This ‘gate’ can be open, and then the body is filled with the blessings of light. There is no sickness that can hide in a body full of light. The doctors detect it and easily treat it. The same gate can be closed, thru injury to the eye. Then the whole body suffers with strange ailments hidden in the darkness of ignorance and fear. You are sick and you do not know it…you imagine the worst about the condition of your body…you fear your sickness and the doctors are unable to detect it thru medical means…

The enemy of the eye is not the big stone but the little splints, the motes and the dust (Mt 6:22, 23; 7:3)

It is not the big sins that harm my vision, but the little ones, the careless attitude, the foolish mistakes, the speaking too much, the keeping silent when I should have spoken, the missing of the mark, the religious hypocrisy borrowed from the world…

Surely God values His eyes!  Jesus Christ is God’s Beloved! Jesus is the Apple of God’s eye!

In Christ, we the believers have the same value! God loves us! What a revelation!!!

 

IN CHRIST I DECLARE:

“I am the apple of God’s eye; therefore I forsake all my fears and my inferiority complex!

From today, I will see myself only thru God’s eyes and not mine!

Dear God, please help me!

Wash me and I shall be clean!

I repent from any ‘little’ sins that harms my vision!

May God purify my vision and my prayer!

God protects His eyes, therefore He will protect me too!

To be God’s toe is good, but to be His eye is better… I am the apple of God’s eye!

As God cannot endure pain when His eye is touched, He will also help me quickly!

My pain will touch God’s heart always! My tears will wet His face!

I fear no sickness, no bullet and no harm from any man, for my wound shall be God’s wound!

I believe that God cares for me!

I believe that He is mindful of me!

As God protects His eyes, detecting danger from afar, He will cover and protect me from wicked words, jealous stares and fowler’s snares set by enemies!

Keep me, O Lord, as the apple of Your eye!

This is my prayer tonight!

No more, no less…

In Jesus name,

Amen!”