We are in a time where every believer needs to function in the ability to to see, do you have spiritual perception.
We are living in changing times and experiencinggreater challenges. But there is good news. We do not have to pierce through the lens of adversity or hard times. We should either grope our way through hardship, rear off the highway of destiny, or even engage in survival mode in these times. Rather, we can stand strong and brave because as spiritual believers, we have God given eyes to see what others cannot.
Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 4:18 to “fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For the things which are not seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. We cannot give up but must continue to be people of action who fix our eyes on the unseen, believing in and having assurance of its existence.
While the measure of adversity, we face today is great, it is also indicative of our incredible opportunity that lies ahead. We can see through the tough stuff and the climate of the day, even though we may be are tired we can trust God has an incredible plan.
We have an advantage and that advantage of spiritual eyesight, which by reason abuse, and the Holy Spirit, we can learn to see through our circumstances into ways which we have never seen before.
Spiritual eyesight gives us an advantage to see the heavenly realm -what unbelievers cannot see. We look at the world with our natural eyes, but with our spiritual eyes, we look at the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 6:12 warns us of the reality of the reality of Spiritual realms. And that spiritual realm also includes fallen angels who oppose God’s purposes.
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this words darkness.”
This verse emphasizes the spiritual nature of a believers battle against evil.
In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit moved upon the prophets of God, giving them the ability to see in the spirit.
The account of Daniel the prophet explains this well Daniel fasted and prayed for 21 days, seeking understanding of a vision while a spiritual battle rages in the unseen realm. Although he was heard on day one, a demonic entity called the Prince of Persia withstood the angelic messenger for three weeks until the archangel Michael intervened in 2 Samuel 12:16-23.
Under the New Testament covenant, the Holy Spirit is in all God’s people and available by His power, to help us see what we cannot otherwise see and what the unsaved cannot see. Paul explained it to the Corinthians this way.:
“Even if our Good News is veiled, it’s veiled in those who are dying, in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Messiah, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.”
Believers do not live as a spiritually blind do. We want the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ Jesus to shine on us even brighter, illuminating greater knowledge and greater understanding of God’s marvelous plans and purposes. God has a desire to fill our hearts so that we may do exceedingly and abundantly above what we can think or ask. This is walking by faith and not by sight. Faith actually opens our spiritual eyes.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the Word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.” -Hebrews 11:1-3
The amplified Bible explains faith as the “conviction of our reality.” The more we see those unseen things in the spirit the greater the realm of faith in our circumstances will be. Natural eyes only see the surface of things -present realities, the appearance of the things as they are in the world. God has given us our physical eyes that are marvels of creation. They are wonders of the product of wisdom, skill, and creativity., they baffle scientist even today.
But by the power of the Holy Spirit, because of the blood of Jesus and our redemption in Him, God allows us to see what our natural eyes cannot. He allows us to see beyond the surface and into the reality of things as they really are, according to God’s plan, work, and good purposes. The moment we enter into a new relationship with our Creator through Jesus, we experienced a new birth. Like a natural birth it has a process. Gradually God opened our spiritual eyes to see what we could not see before well once we could only constitute surface meaning in the words of stories of the Bible, we are now able to go deep enough to see a greater dimension and fastest of wonder, beauty and the glory of God’s Word.
The Bible is a great history and storybook, but in the spiritual the light illuminates, the Scriptures come alive in a meaningful way. Words, truths, promises, instruction, revelation, nature, and history open up with our spiritual significance with direction and insight. With God supernatural help, we can behold every wonderful thing He has for us.
With spiritual vision, we understand our situations and faith that was once seemingly impossible. It’s an advantage to help us accomplish the smallest and greatest feats despite insurmountable worldly odds.
When John the Baptist saw Jesus for the first time, he had to see Jesus for who He really was, the Son of Man. A casual observers -like one of us, had we been there that day, may have seen Jesus as an unremarkable, plain, dusty, and modest, looking 30 something year old man. Im sure some of them did not notice Him at all. The Bible tells us in the book of Isaiah that nothing in His appearance would have necessarily attached someone to Him. Jesus was born into a humble carpenters, family, and a small farming town of Bethlehem and grew up in Nazareth, a town swarmed by the elites of the day as a place of nothing good. Then one day He showed up where John was, at the Jordan River in Northern Israel, an obscure and desolate location in the wilderness. John saw Jesus as the Lamb of God who had taken away the sin of the world. John had eyes to see what the world could not. The Father had opened them when He designated John as the one who would prepare the way for His Son. John would point Jesus out to the world.
Jesus was a savior of the world, and the Holy Spirit His gentleness and power.
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