When we look at something - sickness, lack, loneliness, injustice or whatever, we are tempted to believe that this is the way it is; there will be no change at all. But are you open to the fact that you may be looking at things through the world's eyes, not by God's. Our scripture tells us, 'For we walk by faith, not by sight.' Is that just a throwaway statement that the Apostle Paul wrote just to fill the space on a page? No, it is fact!
Let us back up to Chapter 4:18. This reads:
'While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.'
Jerry Savelle quotes this verse as,"Subject to Change'. Think about that for a moment. If we walk by faith and not by sight, then the things we see - bad stuff, sickness, hurt, trouble and all the rest, are subject to change. How? By prayer and what we confess.
If we say, 'I've lost my job, I'll never get another one like it,' then you probably won't. If you confess sickness upon yourself or others, you or they, will remain sick and so on. We must change how we look at things and what we say about them. If your child is not doing very well at school, confessing, 'He's not academic, he'll never do much in life', then he probably won't. The child needs faith-filled words putting into him, not doubt.
Proverbs 18:20 reads, 'A man's stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth'. What we confess, we get. What we see, happens. We need a mindset that Jesus had, that things are subject to change.
Take it on board that you can walk by faith, not by what you are seeing. What you see and hear about is subject to change. After all, you were!
Copyright 2019 Grahame Howard
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