SEE THE UNSEE

See The Unseen Here is another vital principle to observe where the prayer of faith is concerned. You’ve got to see the unseen! You should be able to visualize what you desire, and it’s only when your desire is specific that you can see it. How do you see the unseen? Through the eyes of faith! Because you can’t possess what you can’t see. “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:18). Abraham, the great patriarch of old, had to see the vision of God’s promise to him to become a father of many nations. “And he (God) brought him (Abraham) forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:5-6). As Joshua planned to attack Jericho, the Lord said to him, “…See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour” (Joshua 6:2). These two examples show us how imperative it is for us to have a mental picture of whatever our desire is. And here is the ultimate reason: The extent of your vision is the boundary of your blessing! I love Dr. David Yongi Cho’s testimony. He tells the story of how, many years ago, when he had just started out in the ministry and was pastoring a small church, he asked God to give him a chair, a table, and a bicycle. But God asked him what kind of chair, table, and bicycle he wanted, and he gave God his specifications. Believing that he had received, he came before his congregation on Sunday morning and announced, “Praise God, I have a chair, a table, and a bicycle.” His members, young Christians who were just beginning to learn God’s Word, asked incredulously, “But you walked to church today. Where’s the bicycle?” Of course, he had nothing to show his members, but he asserted that he had all the things he had mentioned.  So after the service that day, some of his members decided to go home with him and find out if he really had those things. On getting to his house and finding none of those items there, they asked him, “Where are the chair, table and bicycle.” “They’re inside me,” he answered. “I’m pregnant with a chair, a table, and a bicycle!” His members had to hold their stomachs for laughter, and they went around telling people, “Come see our pastor. He’s pregnant with a chair, a table and a bicycle!” They had never heard anyone talk like that, but Pastor Cho had been able to see in reality the existence of those items. Through the eyes of faith, he had seen the unseen. And soon enough, the exact chair, table, and bicycle he had received by faith became a reality in the physical realm. Understand this: “To see the unseen” isn’t the same as “being optimistic.” It actually means “to see the way God sees, and speak of the physically non-existent as though they already existed.” In his letter to the Roman Church, Paul shared something very instructive about the God-kind of faith: “…even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).