Hi Brian!

It was so wonderful to spend time with your family this weekend! The word for this week is "sight". There are a few different words translated "sight" in the Bible, but the one we'll be looking at is found only one time. 2 Corinthians 5:7 says this:

7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) KJV

This is the Greek word "eidos". Strong's Concordance says: a view, form. Thayer's Greek Lexicon says: the external appearance, form, figure, shape. The verses before and after say this:

6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. KJV

This is speaking of believing something because the Word says so, even when our natural mind says it can't be! The Theological Dictionary of the New Testament says this: The point is that we are to walk in a sphere in which there is no visible form. Walking by faith, then, is really just believing what the Word says, and ordering our lives by it, no matter how things appear to be. It was hard for the disciples of Jesus to do this UNTIL they saw Him for themselves! That's one of the reasons that Jesus said this in John 20:29:


29 Jesus said unto him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. KJV


That's us! We have not seen Heaven, but we believe because the Word of God says so, and we believe that when our spirit and soul leave our body, we WILL be in the presence of the Lord immediately! Why do we believe this? Because the Word says so! We DO know how to operate in supernatural faith! Now we have to apply that principle to every area of life and to every promise found in the Word of God. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 8:17) and faith acts by believing the answer instead of the problem! There is NEVER a dull moment walking with God! Here is another new song from the Hilllsong United album Zion called "A Million Suns":

Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!