{"id":29487,"date":"2020-10-26T11:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=29487"},"modified":"2020-10-26T11:27:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:27:47","slug":"the-evil-eye-and-its-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=29487","title":{"rendered":"The evil eye, and its consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <strong>Emmanuel Aziken<\/strong><br \/><br \/>And it came to pass after these things, that his master&#8217;s wife cast her EYES upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.<br \/>Genesis 39:7.<br \/><br \/>Mrs. Portiphar with her EYES full of sexual lust had over the years cast her EYES on Joseph.<br \/><br \/>The eye is the gate into the mind and how the eye sees reflects what we are.<br \/>The bible talks about the evil eye &#8211; Deuteronomy 15:9, Proverbs 23:6 &amp; Matthew 6:23.<br \/><br \/>In Deuteronomy 15:9, the evil eye is one which is covetous and is set on acquiring all that comes into view by hook or crook.<br \/>Jesus tells us that if the eye be evil, the heart will be full of darkness.<br \/><br \/>Mrs. Portiphar could only see Mr. Joseph as a sex object. That was what she saw and it blinded her sense of reasoning as she covetted him.<br \/><br \/>Mrs. Eve ADAM had been in a similar situation with her quest for food and knowledge. &#8220;And when the woman SAW that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the EYES&#8230;&#8221; Genesis 3:6.<br \/><br \/>It is for this reason that the Bible warns us about the lust of the eyes &#8211; 1 John 2:16.<br \/><br \/>May God give us good eyes to behold righteousness and bring light into our bodies.<br \/><strong><br \/>\u25aa\ufe0e Aziken, a Lagos based journalist and publisher based in Lagos, sent this via WhatsApp<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Aziken And it came to pass after these things, that his master&#8217;s wife cast her EYES upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.Genesis 39:7. Mrs. Portiphar with her EYES full of sexual lust had over the years cast her EYES on Joseph. The eye is the gate into the mind and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":29488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}