References:

• Learning to want what God wants can happen through the primary and urgent matter of communicating with God.
  • 1 Timothy 2:1-4 through Supplications, Prayers, Intercessions, Thanksgivings
  • … so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity.
  • This is good and pleases God our Savior
    • Eph 5:8-10 “Once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light! 9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true. 10 Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.”
    • The undeniable connection is that our commitment to offer supplications, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings for all people pleases the Lord.
    • Doing this demonstrates to ourselves and others the “light from the Lord” in us.
• John 9:4-9
  • φῶς (phōs) - light
    • God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality
      • of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it
      • that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly
      • reason, mind
    • the power of understanding esp. moral and spiritual truth
      • This definition of “light” connects to the opening of the blind man’s eyes.
      • Jesus spit in the dirt and made mud to spread on the man’s eyes
      • When he washed, his eyes were opened. This was not just a physical opening, but opened the man to a new moral and spiritual understanding.
  • πτύω (ptoo'-o) - spit
    • The irony - when his eyes were opened, suddenly other’s eyes were clouded
      • “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
      • Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”
      • The Pharisees and religious leaders are pronounced “blind” by Jesus (see John 9:39-41).
• Jesus’ may open and bring light to our eyes by where and how we are looking in s.p.i.t. prayer (is the acronym a coincidence? I think so. haha).
  • Consider the four types with an example
    • Supplications - look around and ask for what you see as needs and wants.
    • Prayers - look up into the face of God, still your heart and soul and listen.
    • Intercessions - look in and see the heart transformation God works that we may intercede according to His heart.
    • Thanksgivings - look ahead to what He has already done in the future.