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Victorious Life In Preceiving The Unkown
by Rev. Ty McGehee

God’s plan for our lives is that we walk in victory. Through Christ Jesus, we have become a new creation in God, born of God and adopted as His children. The Apostle John tells us that what is born of God overcomes the world and that this victory comes by our faith (1 John 5:4). 

The writer of the book of Hebrews in the eleventh chapter tells us that faith is the substance, or realization, of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. By faith, we believe in things that are not seen and count them as though they exist in the physical world.

This process seems simple enough, but yet there are so many Christians that are not experiencing a truly victorious life in Christ Jesus. This is largely the result of our western worldview. One may ask what does that have to do with my spiritual walk. It has everything to do with your spiritual walk. Worldviews in general are divided into three main areas, religion, supernatural, and science. The use of supernatural here, is recognition of daily manifestation of spiritual activities, such as medicine men in primitive cultures. In these third world cultures seeing and participating in spiritual activity is a daily occurrence. Perceiving the unseen is a natural aspect of daily life in these cultures. This lends understanding of why miracles are so readily prominent in these cultures when they are evangelized, just look at the signs and wonders that have happened in Africa. In the western worldview, the middle category of supernatural is missing. Western culture places focus upon science or the physical world and basis its understanding on natural laws and patterns, because of this we have a distorted view of the supernatural or spiritual world. It is hard for most of us to understand the idea of a spiritual world more or less to perceive or peer into the invisible. But for us to account the unseen as real, or the impossible as being done, we must first see into the unseen or spiritual world. 

Elisha taught this principle to his servant. In the book of II Kings, a story unfolds where the King of Syria was waging war against the King of Israel. God was revealing the King of Syria’s plans to the Prophet Elisha and the king of Syria was upset by this and sent an army to bring Elisha to him. One morning Elisha’s servant went out and saw that the city was surrounded by an army and became scared. Elisha told his servant, “Do not be afraid, for those that are with us are greater than those with them.” Then Elisha prayed, his servants eyes were opened, and he saw that the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire (2 Kings 6:8-17).

The key to victorious living is found in prayer. Prayer is a dynamic means by which we engage the spiritual world.  The eyes of Elisha's servant were not opened until Elisha took action.  The action of prayer.  Elisha prayed, "God open his eyes." God opened the eyes of the servant.  The servant was looking at this problem like many of us look  at our problems today.  We look with our physical eyes and not our spiritual eyes; we look from our own perspective and not from the perspective of God.  We must begin to look from the perspective of God; we need to have our spiritual eyes opened.  This is the reason why Elisha prayed, "God open his eyes," in other words, Elisha was praying God open his spiritual eyes and allow him to see into the invisible or spiritual realm. 

When our spiritual eyes are opened we can peer into the invisible, we can look at things from God’s perspective and not our own. Seeing into the invisible unlocks divine insights and revelations from God. In Jeremiah 33:3 God says call upon me and I will show great and mighty things. To better put this verse, God will reveal divine revelation or insight if we call upon him in prayer.  

Prayer is our open channel to God. To live victoriously we must pray victoriously. Before we can pray victoriously our spiritual eyes must be open. Seeing into the invisible or spiritual world is the foundation to victorious praying. Without perceiving the supernatural our prayer life will not experience the full gamut of what God is offering to us in spiritual guidance.