Unveil My Sight

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1 John 5:20.
NKJV.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.
CLV. Yet we are aware that the Son of God is arriving, and has given us a comprehension, that we know the True One, and we are in the True One, in His Son, Jesus Christ. This One is the true God and life eonian.

To be given “an understanding”; Greek dianoia: “a way to understand” means that The Logos,
the Son of God is the lens through which we view life and rightly comprehend His intent.
He has “given us insight”, a clear heart vision to reflect our minds upon and know “the true God and eternal life”.
To have inspired comprehension. (This is the Daystar.)


As in the NKJV here and most other translations, dianoia is often translated as understanding
and even other times as mind.
Comprehension is the best English word to capture its meaning.
This is what is meant when the Lord instructed:

Mark 12:30. ‘Love the Lord with all of your comprehension’ .

To love the Lord with all your comprehension requires sanctification from all worldly influences.
Paul refers to “the eye of your comprehension being enlightened”, and then refers to those who are alienated from the life of God as having their way of comprehension darkened resulting in
“blindness of their hearts”. Ephesians 1:18, 4:18.
Jesus said:

Matthew 6:23. If the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

This follows from Jesus warning his disciples to avoid the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisy. Luke 12:1. The traditional teachings of the Pharisees was the very thing that Paul had to renounce from his education to walk in the Spirit.
Colossians 2:8. Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ.

Acts 26:18. To open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the authority of Satan unto God that they may receive remission of sin and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me.
 
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Peter also makes reference to this Truth:
2 Peter 3:1. Stir up your comprehension by way of remembrance:
He is speaking of a sound mind when he writes:
1 Peter 1:13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your comprehension, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

The expression ‘gird up the loins of your comprehension’ is a powerful image of a sound mind.
Loins refers to the hips, our strongest weight-bearing joints, and critical for keeping our balance.
God’s ‘ball and socket’ design is used extensively in modern engineering design. Therefore, a sober, pure and sincere mind keeps us walking in ‘the light of Truth’.
As Paul prays:

Philippians 1:9-11. And this I pray, that your love may abound in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve all things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

Hebrews 8:10. I will put my laws in their comprehension.

 
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Luke 24:
44
Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.”
45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
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Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
48 And you are witnesses of these things.
49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem
until you are endued with power from on high.”
 
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Romans 16:
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Now to Him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept secret since the world began,
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but now made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, for obedience to the faith,
27 to God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Amen.
 
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2 Corinthians 3:
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Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech—
13 unlike Moses, who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily
at the end of what was passing away.
14 But their minds were blinded. For until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading
of the Old Testament, because the veil is taken away in Christ.
15 But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
16 Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord,
are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
 
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Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom Ephesians 1:
15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,
16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers:
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,
18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power
20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church,
23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Psalm 119:18. Unveil my sight, to regard your wonder working instructions.
 
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