Beloved, I hope you are challenging and pushing hard against yourself to get rid of the wrong learnt behaviors (according to the Word of God) that we don’t even realize we have because it has become part of us. It does require a whole lot of effort, but soon enough it will become second nature to reject that which is in contradiction with Gods Word. I salute you for sticking in there and for doing this for our King Jesus who we love so dearly.

Let us look then at the next scripture and keep rewiring our minds and eyes to look at things the way the Word of God directs.

2 Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

Let me ask you this question. How do you look at difficulties/problems/trials and what do you really see? I am asking this because we all are falling short of staying in the Spirit, especially when we face heartache, financial pressure, children that are lost, sickness and disease etc. We tend to get so overwhelmed by what we see in the physical that we forget how to stay in the Spirit and look with our spiritual eyes.

If we do not look at what we see physically and we do not allow ourselves to be affected negatively by it, if we hook immediately into Jesus, then we will see things that doesn’t look at all like what we are physically seeing. This is where your spirit is seeing what God is actually saying about the situation.

The difficult part is to train yourself to immediately bring your eyes under the blood of Jesus and ask Holy Spirit to help you stay in the Spirit and not operate out of emotion that can lead you astray.

NUGGET

DO NOT LOOK AT WHAT YOU (physically) SEE! Especially when it is shocking or very negative.

THE DEVIL IS A LIER! God speaks a different Word!

I had to many times in difficult situations repeat to myself, don’t look at what you see. This helped me to focus on being mindful of asking God what I needed to do. I made sure to not agree with my emotions that were dictating to me how bad it was because of what my physical eyes saw.

The moment there is a negative or horrific thing you are facing – Call immediately upon Jesus and ask Him to open your eyes to really see what is happening in the spirit, just like it is written in 2 Kings 6:17

My Testimony

When our children were 3 and 5 years old we did not have any medical aid whatsoever. Our finances were tight and everything that needed medical attention had to be prayed through. This was my time where I have learnt what it truly meant not to look at what I see.

The one day after I was done homeschooling our daughter she stayed behind in our school room to play. I was outside doing some washing when I heard a horrific scream. I immediately started praying in my heavenly language because I knew I needed Jesus. The lady that was helping me ran out the door because she couldn’t handle the sight. A room divider fell over unto our daughter and its corner fell on her foot making a hole in it and blood gushed out of this hole. There was a blue line across her foot as well where it hit her. Prayerfully I cleaned the hole and wrapped her foot up. I then said to her that we will be trusting Jesus for healing and we will ask him to remove the pain. (We can get so emotionally wrapped up in our children’s pain that we forget to stay in the Spirit and rely on Gods help. We tend to immediately run to the help of the world. I couldn’t, I was forced to rely only on God because we did not have the means to go to the doctor). Our 3 year old son was standing with his little guitar strumming away and he said: “Mommy when there is trouble, we worship Jesus”. I asked him to do the worship while I was praying. As I was praying I saw a picture of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and I asked the Lord to roar over her and drive away the enemy that was trying to torment her. Instantly, in that corner of the living room where we sat we heard a massive roaring of thunder outside. (It was clear blue sky that day, no rainy weather at all.) Our daughter immediately responded and said that Jesus, the Lion is roaring over her. We prayed over that hole in her foot and commanded it in the name of Jesus to close up. A half an hour later she said to me she wanted to take a bath and we must take the bandage off. I opened it and the blood stopped and there was no sight of a hole! The blue line across her foot was still there but there was no pain. How awesome is God. He encountered our little one. That day I had to push hard against not looking at what I saw with my physical eyes. If we had a medical aid it would’ve been easy to just get it sorted by the doctor. I wouldn’t have learnt to look at difficult situations with different eyes. How God loves us.

Another story

Our 3 year old son also had his own ordeal. He used to help his grandfather making breakfast most mornings. The one day grandfather just turned around for a second and our boy pressed his whole hand down unto the hot stove plate. There was instantly a colossal blister across the palm of his hand. I have never seen a blister that big. We knew how to look at the situation and we did not come in agreement with how bad and terrible it was. Although he cried for two hours, we prayed and worshipped for those two hours not giving up. At one stage when he calmed down I prayed and commanded that blister in the name of Jesus to dry up, the pain to go and to be gone within 2 days. Within 2 days the blister was open, the skin fell off and new skin grew over that wound. Yes, within two days! Another miracle!

I have many such stories where we had to look past what we physically saw and looked with our spiritual eyes. It is quite a battle at first , but sticking in there and not budging will bring forth great fruit. I am grateful to God for teaching me how to look with other eyes. We need to know that especially in difficult situations God always teaches us something. It is how we look and respond to what we see where we will either overcome or be defeated.

My beloved friend, what do you see when you face trials? Do you see the unseen (many times we have to stick in there and not let go until something happens, just like 2 hours later for me? Or do you see like Elisha’s servant saw in 2Kings 6:15 and he was afraid?

Let us then press on by training our eyes to see what Jesus sees in our difficult situations and not immediately be overwhelmed by what we physically see.

Let us pray: Abba Father, I am just like Elisha’s servant in 2 Kings 6:15 that saw all the horses and chariots around the city and got afraid. I repent and ask forgiveness for looking at what I see. Please forgive me for getting so emotionally overwhelmed that I forget that You speak a different Word. Please forgive me for not being mindful of You and how I ought to deal with difficulties. Please wash me and cleanse me with Your precious blood in the name of Jesus. Father, please forgive me for my first response that is to run to others for help. I repent that my eyes are defiled and full of horror, expecting and believing the worst when I see something bad happen. Please forgive me for giving over to the lies of the enemy in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit I need your help, I need You to please take charge when I face difficulties, I ask that You would immediately come and remind me to ask You to open my eyes so that I won’t look at what I see but to what You see. Father, I ask for a cleansing of my eye gate in your blood, I rededicate my eyes to You and I ask like Elisha asked, open my eyes Lord that I might see in the name of Jesus. Let Your kingdom come in the way I look at difficulties in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth who came in the flesh. Amen and amen!