When it comes to faith most people believe that God is able to do all things but very few believe that He is able to do all things through them,
The word of God proclaims that Now faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen, and the question is are we as children of God able to come to the revelation of Now Faith.
Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Man in his carnal state, in his unregenerate state has five natural senses which are sight, smell, taste, hearing and touching.
On the other hand the child of God who has been born again has six senses, the same five that the natural man has, plus he has been given one more by God and it is called the eye of faith and this eye gives him the ability to see things which are not seen.
The eye of faith does not see things as the natural eye see’s them nor does it respond to things that the natural eye responds to because the eye of faith see’s things and responds to things that are eternal instead of things that are temporal..
2 Cor 4:18
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.
The trouble with many of God’s people is that even though they are born again and have six senses they operate for the most part with only five.
1 Cor 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
In order to receive the blessings of God, to grasp a hold of and to walk in these blessings they have to be seen in the sixth sense.
All of the promises of God are produced in two realms,
#1 in the invisible realm,
#2 the visible realm and in order for them to manifest themselves in the visible realm they have to be seen in the invisible realm.
Mark 11:24
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Listen to the words
Believe that you receive them (the invisible realm) and you shall have them (visible realm).
How is it that we are able to believe?
We believe because we are able to see it with the eye of faith.
When we look to the things which can not be seen with the eye of flesh we become convinced of what we see because they lay in the realm of the eternal and everything that is not resting in the realm of the eternal is going to pass away.
Now follow what I am saying,
You might look at yourself and see your sickness; you might look at yourself and see your hopelessness, you might even look at yourself and see nothing but your troubles and your heartache but if you will ask God according to His word and not according to your five senses asking according to faith in the sixth sense then you will begin to see your sickness, your hopelessness, your troubles and heartache’s as becoming transitional and passing away and instead of you seeing sickness you will begin to see your healing, instead of seeing hopelessness you will begin to see your deliverance, instead of seeing your situation and circumstance you will begin to you see how blessed that you really are,
And although nothing has changed in the physical, you will begin to perceive the spiritual and how that the eye of faith is declaring to you that what you believe for is done and finished.
The Lord Jesus Christ has commanded us to believe and we are to believe that we have received the things which we are praying for.
Mark 9:23
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
I need to proclaim it again,
All of God’s promises exist in two forms
The invisible and then afterwards the visible
You first must believe that you have been healed, you must first believe that you have been delivered and that you have been blessed in the invisible before it manifests itself in the visible.
2 Peter 1:3
According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
Eph 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Believe that you are healed because the word of God proclaims that you are healed even though your physical body tells you that you are not healed, believe that you are delivered even though your five senses tell you that you are not delivered, believe that you have your miracle even though your miracle has not yet materialized,
I am not giving you the foolishness of name it and claim it, blab it and grab it I am showing you a principle of truth in the word of God,
Until you see it with your spiritual eye, until you see it with your sixth sense, your eye of faith, your natural eye is going to continually tell you that you have not received anything.
Rom 8:24
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Hear the word of God because it is telling us that hope that is seen is not hope, so why do we continue to hope for it.
Do we as children of God really have understanding concerning hope?
Do we really understand how the word of God defines hope?
The dictionary explains the word of hope as something you can wish for or by chance it might happen in your life.
But that is not the definition according to the word of God.
The word hope in the bible is the second stage of faith, the first stage is to believe God, the first stage is to see it with your sixth sense and to believe your prayers as you pray in the eye of faith and then as hope kicks in you begin watching and expecting every day for the manifestation in the visible, you anxiously begin waiting for the manifestation of what you have already seen in the sixth sense.
This is the meaning of hope according to the word of God, the patient confident expectation of the manifestation of the word of God for which faith has believed for.
You believe that you have it, you see it and are convinced of that which you see in the spirit and then hope shifts into place and you confidently and patiently and expectantly wait for it to manifest itself in the natural or in the visible realm.
Look at Rom 8:24 AGAIN
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Now insert the word faith in place of the word hope.
For we are saved by FAITH: but FAITH that is seen is not FAITH: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet have FAITH for?
Listen to me,
Once you see it in the natural you do not have to believe for it anylonger, the only things that you have to believe for are the things that you do not see in the natural once they have manifested themselves in the visible you no longer have to hope for them.
Listen to the Apostle Paul,
but hope that is seen is not hope:
for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
Rom 8: -25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
If we will believe then we will begin to see the invisible and then the second part of faith which is hope will set in and we will begin to patiently wait for that which we see in the invisible to take place within the visible and what manifests itself within the visible realm you no longer have to hope for.
Listen to me,
Any blessing that is to be received by faith must be seen in the invisible realm before it can manifest itself in the visible realm, it must be seen in the spirit realm before it can be manifested in the natural realm.
Why?
Because the word of God proclaims that faith is the evidence of things not seen?
Heb 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Allow me to give you an illustration.
Perfume is non existent to our sense of hearing and if we try to hear perfume then we are going to miss out on the existence of perfume,
But just because you can not hear perfume does not mean that perfume does not exist and just as perfume is non existent to your hearing so faith is non existent to your five natural senses.
We do not doubt the existence of perfume just because we can not hear it and we do not doubt the existence of what we see just because we may not hear taste or feel it,
Then why should we doubt the existence of miracles, why should we doubt healing and deliverance simply because our five sense do not recognize there existence.
Listen to Paul in
2 Cor 4:18
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.
In other words, the things which are not seen are the things that are for real.
They are eternal and will endure forever and the things that are temporal are the things that are not real and they will not endure for ever and are only present awaiting the arrival of things that are eternal which can only be acquired by faith.
The five natural senses belong to the natural man and the word of God tells us that the natural man can not discern nor know the things of God.
1 Cor 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
For the child of God to ask or to consult, to verify, to discuss or to check with your natural senses for evidence of your prayers been granted is as ridiculous as trying to see with your ears, in other words when the man of God lays hands on you and you believe in God, do not look to your natural eyes to see if you have been healed but look to the word of God and rejoice in that which is eternal and if you’re physical senses show you something that is contrary to the prayer of faith that you have been believing for then believe and have faith in God.
For the law of faith states that you have to believe and then you will receive and you will receive according to your faith.
It dose not matter if you feel worse after you have received prayer, it does not matter if things get worse after you have prayed and it
does not matter if all of hell assails itself after you have believed,
Believe because receiving always follows believing.
John 14:12-15
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Mark 16:17-18
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Hear the truth,
Symptoms mean absolutely nothing, the devil is good at symptoms and he is good at giving you an explanation through your natural senses.
Here is something that you need to understand, there are times when a instantaneous work will be done and there are times when it is a progressive work but no matter what it is still the work of faith
Mark 16:18
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
That word recover is a progressive work and it is the same when Christ cursed the fig tree and the fig tree progressively died.
The tree did not instantaneously dry up, Christ spoke to the tree and the roots immediately heard the word and began the progressive work of dying.
The next day when the disciples passed by the tree was dead
Hear me,
If you will believe then faith is activated and speaks to hope and says patiently and expectantly with confidence I am waiting for it for it is on the way.
Hab 2:3
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come , it will not tarry.
Why is it on the way?
I Jn 5:14-15
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
RECEIVING FOLLOWS BELIEVING