The Week of October 10-October 17, 2025
by Jennifer Greene-Sullivan
Last Friday, October 10, 2025, I found myself in an interesting place—a place of stopping.
Over the past month, I had overloaded my schedule and my creative spirit after the launch of The First Grade Chatterbox (September 15). My immune system was tired, and my mind was overstimulated. That Friday, the Lord pointed out something serious to me:
“Your dopamine levels are out of whack because of social media—followed by hormonal, brain chemistry, and emotional reactions to it.”
So, I was instructed to eliminate social media from my diet until He says otherwise. My temple had a stimulation problem, and I needed a detox. I’ve been fasting from social media and blogging since that day.
That very evening, my strep-carrier child sneezed in my left eye. I wiped it, prayed I wouldn’t get an infection, and went on about my business. But by Sunday morning, my eyelashes were tender, and my eye ached. By Monday, I was stricken with raging conjunctivitis and a severely inflamed eyelid.
The antibiotic ointment didn’t help. The pain worsened. I found myself awake in the middle of the night, my eye throbbing—yet those long, quiet hours became sacred time to praise, to pray, and to recommit myself to my relationship with Jesus.
In those midnight moments, I poured out gratitude and honor to my Father. By 3 a.m. Tuesday, I cried with a contrite heart, overwhelmed by His presence and goodness. I thanked Him for my family, my restoration, and the unwavering relationship I share with Him.
The Holy Spirit reminded me of all the times I’ve been up in the night since 2022—sick, hurting, or restless—and how faithful He’s been to heal me, perfectly and completely. Even parts of my body that were born crooked have found healing through my deep, mind-blowing relationship with my Father, my Jesus, and my sweet Holy Spirit.
We have grown so close that when I pray, my answers often come within moments. Sometimes healing is instantaneous; sometimes it’s incremental—but it’s always complete in Him.
“The hearing ear and the seeing eye,
the Lord has made them both.”
— Proverbs 20:12 (ESV)
This week of quietness reminded me that my job is simple:
I am the dog who just wants to eat the crumbs from the Master’s table. I snatch every morsel from the floor, the chair, or the air—wherever it falls.
Like the Canaanite woman who cried out to Jesus for her daughter’s deliverance, I’ve learned that humility and persistence move the heart of God. She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” (See Matthew 15:27.) Her faith unlocked healing—not because of sight, but because of BELIEF.
By Wednesday and Thursday, my vision was so blurred that I kept my eye closed most of the day. I lost my left-side peripheral vision. Today, as I see more clearly, I’ve noticed bruises up and down my left side—evidence of bumping into counters, thresholds, and tables while walking without sight.
Yet even as my physical sight dimmed, God was exercising my spiritual eyes.
“Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear?”
— Mark 8:18 (ESV)
Yesterday, I stayed home to rest, hoping to speed recovery. As I prayed over my lack of healing, I felt led to start cleaning and decluttering my kitchen desk workspace—transforming it into a new secret place for prayer and for Bible study. During one rest break, I heard Jesus say:
“Open the kitchen medicine cabinet. Reach behind the first cup.”
So I did. Behind the mug were steroid eye drops from Sophia’s last contact issue. Then He told me to move to the left—and I found another medication I’d thought was lost.
“Take these,” He said.
From that moment, healing came quickly. By evening, the pain was gone. I slept through the night for the first time in a week. I woke up able to blink, to see, and to praise His name!
“Blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.”
— Matthew 13:16 (ESV)
Then, while talking with a friend today, Jesus gave me this word:
“Out of necessity, the mind sees.
What do you need to see when you already hear from Me?
The blind lead the blind right up to the houses of vanity and the dens of iniquity.
Demonic influences build principalities and powers.
You’ve lost your peripheral perspective.
Focus on Me. Focus on Me alone. That’s all.”
How often do we, like those in Matthew 13, see but do not perceive, hear but do not understand?
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or understand.”
— Matthew 13:13–15 (ESV)
This week of learning, healing, and believing has led me to one conclusion—I NEED MORE OF JESUS.
Maybe you’re walking physically blind right now. Maybe your spiritual eyes are dim. Listen for His voice. It is true. It is real. He is calling you to come up higher in devotion, in submission, in faith.
“Whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
— Matthew 21:22 (ESV)
Let go of your need to see—and just believe.
Let the Master of the Universe direct your vision.
His promises to us are literal and true.
Hearing Leads to Seeing
Jesus said,
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
— John 10:27 (ESV)
And the prophet Isaiah wrote,
“And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way; walk in it,’ when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.”
— Isaiah 30:21 (ESV)
Faith is born in those sacred moments when we hear His voice and follow His lead. Scripture tells us that faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ (Romans 10:17).
If you are not immersing yourself in the Word of God or seeking a true, interactive relationship with Him, the believing part will always lack. Our physical eyes can deceive us, but spiritual hearing anchors us in truth. To walk by faith is to walk by the sound of His voice, not by what we see.
So today, let’s open our ears, steady our hearts, and fix our gaze on Jesus—the Author and Perfecter of our faith. When we listen and obey, sight will follow.
Prayer
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for opening my spiritual eyes to see and my ears to hear. Thank You for reminding me that faith is not born from what I see but from what I hear—Your living Word. Lord, I ask that You continue to train my spiritual senses to discern Your voice above every distraction and deception.
For those who doubt, for those who wrestle with unbelief, and for those blinded by the lies of the enemy—Father, pierce the darkness with Your light. Let them hear the whisper of Your love calling them home.
Renew our hearts, Lord. Restore our faith. Refocus our sight on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith. May we walk by faith and not by sight, hearing Your Word and obeying without hesitation.
In Jesus’ mighty name,
Amen.
Postscript
To the One Who Doesn’t Believe
To the atheist who may have stumbled across this post and whose mind is already filling with arguments like “There is no Christ” or “This woman is delusional”—pause and consider who whispers those thoughts to you.
The enemy has a voice, and he uses it to deceive hearts and defraud souls with or without faith. He hates you because you are eternal. Whether you choose Jesus or reject Him, your soul will live forever—but the enemy’s desire is for your eternity to be one of separation from God.
I urge you: choose life. Choose truth. Choose the One True King.
You may not believe in love, so hearing “Jesus loves you” might not move you. But you do believe in yourself—your logic, your reason, your independence. So I ask you: can you heal yourself? Can you forgive yourself? Can you save yourself?
You can’t because no man can: Only Jesus can.
It’s not too late. Turn back while there is still time. Call on the name of Jesus today. He will hear you. He will answer. He will encounter you in a way that no argument can explain and no reasoning can deny.
Go ahead—pray to Jesus.
Ask if He’s real.
I dare you.
He will meet you right where you are.
To the One Who Fakes It Till She Makes It
You tell yourself you’ve learned to pretend well enough.
The lies come easy now. Your private self stays hidden—or so you think.
But you cannot lie to yourself, and you cannot lie to God. Faking faith is the same as no faith at all.
Believe me, I have been there.
Put your idol of self down, honey, because idolizing self isolates you from Adonai.
Old habits die hard, but a restored, rededicated, reconnected heart transforms by the power of the blood of the Lamb.
Your strength, your determination, your stubbornness—
they mean nothing in the grand scheme of God’s Spirit and Truth.
Lay it all down now, because you’re running out of time.
It will all catch up to you—one way or another.
Prayer
Father,
For the one who has been faking it, wearing masks to hide her pain—meet her there.
Strip away the layers of pretense and show her the beauty of authenticity in You.
Let Your mercy invade her heart and restore her to wholeness.
Teach her that surrender is not weakness but freedom, and that faith begins where pretending ends.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
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