SEE THE INVISIBLE

In life, there is always, as it is commonly said, two sides to the coin. Everything God created, He did in two folds; male and female, to and fro, up and down, peace and war, joy and sadness, day and night, stress and rest, bright and dark, good and bad, success and failure, visible and invisible.
All these are manifest in realities. We can go on and keep naming them, the list is endless. The presence of one confirms the reality of the other. The presence of sickness confirms the reality of good health. There can be no success if there was no failure. The presence of war confirms the reality of peace. In the same way the presence of the seen (visible world) confirms the reality of the unseen (invisible world).
I want to categorically state here that the unseen world is more real than the visible (seen) life. The invisible rules the visible. The unseen dictates the seen. The unseen commands the seen. As a matter of fact, life is first established in the unseen before it is manifested in the seen. Whatever is seen in the natural had occurred already in the supernatural.
Having established this fact, it becomes necessary therefore for me to state that “to win in the natural world, you must first win in the spirit”. Whatever you are able to establish in the spirit you can play out in the natural.
When I say “in the spirit”, I mean the unseen realities. The invisible world is more eventful than this our natural world. When anyone knows to transact in the invisible and speak the language of the unseen, the natural world becomes a play ground for him to sport.
“The people that shape this mundane plane actually transact in two worlds, they see the invisible and do the impossible”
To make your life count in the natural you need to see the invisible. Before God created the universe there was nothing existing in the natural but God saw the unseen before it materialized into the natural.
In this edition, I will like us to consider the faith angle as well as some biblical characters. God honor people who are in the very habit of seeing the invisible. He said to Thomas “Blessed are those who do not see and yet they believe”. That is part of seeing the invisible. Those who see the invisible actually live in the real world. They control the visible, tangible, material and natural world.
What could have made a man like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr say “I have a dream?” when it was still absolutely impossible for anyone to imagine the possibility of the Negros being
    
 considered as normal human beings created by God, he declared he saw the children of the black race being judged not by the colour of their skin but by the quality of their character. At the time, it was unimaginable, but today it has been exceeded in fulfillment. You can actually see the invisible. It is the centre of successful living.
“Great minds are those who see what others don’t see”
Great architect are not those who can redesign other peoples work and make it better, but those who go into the unseen and bring about the new “never seen before” designs into the natural. Great singers are not those who with a better voice re-sung other peoples’ songs, but those who get into the real world of the invisible  and copy the goings on there and paste in the natural. They hear the songs in the world invisible and they replicate them in the world natural.
Great writers don’t combine other people’s works and bind them together in one volume; they pen down the never heard, never written before in a style exclusively unique to them because they look with the eye that sees the invisible.
What makes a man like Michael Angelo famous about the early 1500? He was a sculptor and a fine artist who would look at what everyone else sees as trash and make a global phenomenon out of it. He didn’t see like everyone else saw but with the eye that can see the invisible he breaks into the unseen realm and replicate the trend and grandeur of the spiritual in the physical.
Great achievers are those who scale through the visible obstacles of the mundane and abide in the infinite world of the unseen. When they return to the natural, they sprout up as a new species of humans never so known.
In the bible the man Abraham had a nephew called Lot. God blessed both men tremendously that the servant of both men began to fight for space. To settle the truce, Abraham asked his nephew Lot to look on all the lands around them and choose any part for himself so he Abraham can go to the land opposite. The bible said “Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere…”  Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan. “Gen. 13: 9-10”
That was a man who depended on just his natural eyes to look. He saw the fancy and beauty of the visible natural world and hinged all his life on it.
The bible said “Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain…” verse 12. The idea here is that, Lot depended on the physical vision which in
     
essence is the finished product but Abram looked beyond the fanciful fields of Jordan or the tough rocky mountains of Jordan and looked into the invisible where creativity actually originates.
It doesn’t matter what the physical may look like; beautiful or ugly, from the unseen world you can re-create what you want from what already is. The invisible governs the visible
Abram chose the non attractive rocky mountains of Canaan which later became the “promised land” while Lot went for the captivating and lustrous plains of Jordan which was soon destroyed by fire from above – the plains was known as Sodom and Gomorrah.
This will lead me to talk about the choices we make in life, e.g marriage. Many ladies will be approached by at least two men, one looking like the green lustrous plains of Jordan (Sodom and Gomorrah) and the other looking like the rocky mountains of Canaan – The Promised Land. The one who sees from the natural will go for the captivating one. Not many will take time to see the invisible to know what the visible actually portrays. This may explain the reason for so many short lived and failed marriages. They were deceived by the fancies of the plains of Jordan. But it is said that “all that glitters is not gold”.
The choices we make in life if not critically scrutinized before taken may end up disastrous.
You must know this fact about God; He doesn’t package His gifts too well. When God wraps His gift for you, the bible says it will have “no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.” Isa. 53:2. So, the physical appearance can be really deceptive except we can truly see the invisible. Don’t judge by what you see on the outward, go into the invisible to know the worth of what is before you. God conceals, your Job is to search out (Prov. 25: 2). The truth is in the unseen.
Don’t turn down some offers because it is physically unattractive – see the invisible. The material world predicates upon the invisible.
A man once prayed and demanded to be made a Director General in government because he was due for it. Instead he was made the General Manager of a parastatal . He took it even though he didn’t like the decision. He was eventually made a Director General by which time he had realized the overall worth of being the Director General is nothing compared to the honour, glory and fortune that came from being the General Manager.
It is not where you are or the title bestowed upon you that matters but what you are able to do with the invisible to create the visible.
    
A young lady once came to me in company of a young applicant who didn’t have a steady job. She pointed at him and said to me, “Can you imagine, that thing there said he wants to marry me”. This is in contrast with the big society boys that flock around her. Well, she married ‘that thing” and are still happily married, blessed with children and both in their different lucrative jobs. How many society weddings do we know that never lasted three months?
The visible is a finished product, in the invisible you decide what you want before it is created.
I  equally know  a few ladies who turned down the marriage proposals of the men who loved them on the grounds that the men didn’t dress too well, couldn’t combine their colors or didn’t speak good English. Some of those men are happily married today and some of the ladies aren’t.
2Corinthians 4: 18 says the following in the King James Version and in the amplified respectively:
“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”
“Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen: for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting”
When Lot was separated from Abram, God told Abram to look with the eye that sees the invisible from his present position, standpoint and status “Northward, Southward, Eastward and westward,” for as far Abram could see God said He would give him. Gen. 13: 14, 15.
Until you are able to see, you can’t handle. Seeing brings possession. What you see in the physical may soon fade away. But what you see in the invisible realm stands forever. Develop your seeing eye; the eye that sees the invisible.
A young man named Esau came back one day from the fields exhausted and famished and met his younger brother stirring a stew of red pottage on the fire. In that condition he begged his younger brother for some of the stew; the brother demanded Esau sells him his birthright first. Esau wondered as it were, at his younger brother, Jacob’s “foolishness”. But the two men see from the two different worlds. “What is birthright to me when I am dying? You can have it if it would do you any good” Esau would say to Jacob. Gen. 25: 29-34.
     
Esau was a realistic person. A very practical man. He deals in the “real world”. There are so many people today in our world who are very real and practical: ideologists, thoughtful and pragmatic. Yet there are the Jacobs in our time as well who may not be seen as real and practical but are actually the real people who are the thermostats of their age defining the times and seasons of their lives. They live in the Real World- it’s what they make happen that the rest of us see.
Jacob said to Esau “swear to me” and Esau swore. “I have no need of any birthright in the face of this physical hunger not that it’s like I want to die”. Great people know physical realities and feelings are temporal but the unseen are eternal.
When the day of retribution came, Esau didn’t believe what didn’t seem to count then did really count and infact, defined his entire destiny. Jacob possessed an eternal inheritance that should have been Esau’s. The bible declared that Esau cried with bitter cries seeking reversal, but was too late. Jacob saw the invisible.
The power of the mind can never be over-stretched. It’s in the mind that the issues of destiny are incubated. The mind houses the factory that rolls out all the segments and components that make up a man’s entire existence. What you are and will ever be is first designed and produced in the mind.
People who do not engage their minds in useful and productive plans and designs for their lives ultimately find themselves become what they find themselves to be (an accidental happening). But those who gainfully engage their minds in the architectural designs and plans for their destiny become what they planned and expect themselves to be.
Every builder or engineer first visualizes what he desires to have, then puts it down in a sketch on a paper and then starts acting it out. So it is generally in life. The mind’s eye is for visualization. That’s the eye that sees the invisible. As far as the eye can see the mind will achieve and the life acquire.
An idle mind is the devil’s workshop. An idle mind is fruitless and a waste. The devil trades in it and moulds the person for his tool. The mind is the centre of a man’s fulfillment. Whatever a man turns out to be in life is first hatched in the mind. The mind that is never proactive becomes a warehouse for the devils apparatus and that person ends up a pond at the mercy of the devil. God works and speaks in pictures. That’s how the mind is activated to pursue a goal. Every great man living or dead never became great by accident. They set goals, they had expectations, they worked at them and nothing deprives an active mind of the realization of its goals.
     
Big dreams can be scary but obtainable. Lack of dreams guarantees failure. Great feats that were achieved were first achieved in the mind. Failure in any area, great or small is a result of defeats in the mind. The mind is the power house. If you can see it you can achieve it.
“All things are possible to him who believes.” Mk. 9: 23.
“…He hath set the world in their heart Eccl. 3: 11”
The power of your imagination is your greatest tool and asset in life. Whatever your mind can imagine, your life can achieve; “for it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do… Phil.2: 13”
“…And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do” Gen. 11: 6
If your mind can see it, your life can hold it.
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us”, Eph. 3: 20.
If you end well and finish strong having done all, it is because you saw well and ran well. The invisible that you see is what becomes the visible in your life.
What you think about often you begin to do. What the eye of your mind sees often moulds the thoughts of your head. What you think about often shaping your attitude, your attitude forms your character, your character develops your habit, your habit tell who you are.
Start now to engage your mind in creative and productive imagination and you automatically are incubating pictorially the embryos of who you become tomorrow and, believe me, the world is yet to see an improved, new and a better you that is about to emerge.
Begin now to see the invisible for those are threads that knit together to form the fabric of who you are.
Let’s take a glance into the invisible and let’s glow in the natural. God bless you