{"id":17771,"date":"2014-02-12T00:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T19:52:39","slug":"turn-eyes-upon-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/12\/turn-eyes-upon-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">O soul are you weary and troubled?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">No light in the darkness you see?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">There&#8217;s light for a look at the Saviour,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And life more abundant and free:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Turn your eyes upon Jesus,<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Look full in His wonderful face;<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">And the things of earth will grow strangely dim<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the light of His glory and grace.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Through death into life everlasting<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">He passed, and we follow Him there;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Over us sin no more hath dominion<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">For more than conqu&#8217;rors we are!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">His word shall not fail you He promised;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Believe Him and all will be well.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Then go to a world that is dying,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">His perfect salvation to tell!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/st5E8_bIzn8\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~ \u00a0Helen H. Lemmel, 1922 \u00a0~<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The inspiration for <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus<\/span><\/em>, which Helen entitled &#8216;The Heavenly Vision&#8217;, came from the writings of author and artist Lilias Trotter (1853-1928), a brilliant artist whose talent opened the doors to wealth and influence. Her other love was missions. After struggling in prayer for two years, she laid down her love of art in order to fix her eyes solely on Jesus and on His calling to the mission field. She served for more than 38 years as a missionary to the Muslims of Algeria. She also authored several books and tracts. The following is an excerpt from her tract, &#8220;<em>Which Passion Will Prevail?<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen harmless worlds at once &#8212; art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the good hiding the best.&#8221; It is easy to find out whether our lives are focused, and if so, where the focus lies. Where do our thoughts settle when consciousness comes back in the morning? Where do they swing back when the pressure is off during the day? Dare to have it out with God, and ask Him to show you whether or not all is focused on Christ and His Glory. Turn your soul&#8217;s vision to Jesus, and look and look at Him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from Him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Life gets busy, and even crazy! But whenever I sing this song, my eyes focus on Jesus, and I do find refreshing in \u201clife more abundant and free.\u201d This is what Jesus desires for us each and every day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.<br \/>\nWe do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith.<br \/>\nHebrews 12:1,2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There are others who are \u201cweary and troubled\u201d in the darkness of life. \u00a0 Jesus commands us to share His light with them too.<br \/>\nGo into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone.<br \/>\nMark 16:15<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">* ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ *<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Lord, I don\u2019t want the good of life to hide Your best. \u00a0Help me focus on &#8220;Your wonderful face,&#8221; and do what You say, go where You call, and share with those You lead me to. \u00a0You promised Your Word would never fail me, so I\u2019m turning my eyes on You, Lord. \u00a0In Jesus\u2019 Name, Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O soul are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There&#8217;s light for a look at the Saviour, And life more abundant and free: Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face; And the things of earth will grow strangely dim In the light of His glory and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[5452,5453,3660,5454,5450,554,5451,1396,5449,5448,1739],"class_list":["post-17771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-which-passion-will-prevail","tag-john-lomacang","tag-clella-gilbert-fox","tag-hebrews-121-2","tag-helen-h-lemmel","tag-jesus","tag-lilias-trotter","tag-mark-1615","tag-the-heavenly-vision","tag-turn-your-eyes-upon-jesus","tag-womens-on-line-bible-study","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-4CD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17775,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17771\/revisions\/17775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}