Seeing With Your EarsSample

Faith That Hears What Eyes Can’t See

Many people think faith is stirred by what we see, but in God’s kingdom, it’s what we hear that activates the unseen. Faith doesn’t begin with the eyes; it begins in the ears. Scripture tells us that Jesus came to “preach, proclaim, and announce”—not to break open prison doors with His hands, but to open prison minds with His words. Freedom, healing, and deliverance all flowed not from physical acts, but from spoken truth that the listener could hear and believe.

We often miss this foundational truth: faith is a divine persuasion based on who you know. If you trust the One speaking, then you trust what He says—even when you can’t see the evidence yet. Just like you trusted the description of a hidden phone because you trusted the speaker, so must we trust God’s voice even when the promise is hidden from our eyes. Faith is not guessing. It’s being convinced because we know the nature and character of our God.

The challenge, however, is that Satan also speaks. But his lies are often laced with just enough truth to be convincing. He pairs natural evidence—what we can see, feel, and touch—with deception that contradicts what God has said. The doctor’s report, the bank account, the rejection letter—they’re all real in the natural, but not final in the spiritual. We must decide which “evidence” we will accept: God’s word or the world’s facts.

This is why faith must be continually fed. Romans 10:17 doesn’t say faith came from what we heard, but that it comes from hearing—present tense. That means it’s ongoing. You don’t live on yesterday’s word. Like Elijah who stretched over the boy three times, we must stay in the word, meditate on the promise, repeat what God says until what’s dead comes back to life.

God is calling us to spiritual maturity—where we don’t live by reactions to circumstances, but by responses to His voice. And it begins in the secret place. When the widow’s son died, Elijah didn’t announce panic to the crowd. He shut the door, got in the secret place, and did spiritual warfare in private. That’s what mature faith does—it gets honest before God, pours out the frustration, and waits for divine instruction. The woman only saw the resurrection, but Elijah had already heard the word in the secret place.

This walk is not about hype. It’s not about emotional highs. It’s about consistent hearing, consistent obedience, and consistent intimacy with God. The more we hear, the more we see. If you're not hearing God's voice regularly, you will struggle to stand when the evidence around you shout defeat. But if you stay in His word, faith will come; Again, and again. And you will see the unseen.

Reflection Questions:

1. What natural evidence in your life is currently contradicting what God has spoken?
2. How often are you hearing God's word versus just reading or remembering it?
3. In what area of your life do you need to shut the door and go into the secret place to hear fresh instruction?

Action Step:

Today, choose one negative report you’ve received (financial, health, emotional, etc.). Then, find one scripture that speaks truth against it. Write that scripture down and say it out loud at least three times a day for the next 7 days. Each time you do, declare, “I believe what God says more than what I see.”