Tap into the Unseen: Access God’s Creative Force & Break Free from the Darkness

We can’t have faith without hope, and we can’t have hope without faith.

They go together because faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. The reality is this: the unseen world is the real world, and this world we live in is the created world. God is the ultimate creator. He created what we see out of what we don’t see.

We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).

Why should you look at things that are not seen instead of things that are seen? Because the things that are seen are usually a problem. You see the debt, you see the sickness, you see the doctor’s report, you see the problems of life that are all in the realm of the seen. God’s Word says, “For the things which are seen are temporary...” Your problems, whether you see it that way or not, are temporary, “...but the things which are not seen are eternal.” So the eternal world, which will be here forever, is the realm you cannot see now.

In the realm of the unseen is the solution to the problem you have here in the realm of the seen. God has the answer to your dilemma in the realm of the unseen. To be clear, your problem is here in the realm of the seen. The question is, how do you reach into the realm of the unseen to get the solution for the problem you have here on earth and bring the solution back to the physical realm where it will benefit you? The answer has to do with your confession.

What we say regulates what moves back and forth between the realm of the seen and the realm of the unseen. Hope and faith work together, but we have to understand that faith is a substance in the realm of the unseen. That substance called faith is the solution to the problem. That’s why Paul said, when writing to the church at Corinth, that we must walk by faith and not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). What did he mean? He meant as Christians, we must live our lives based upon what God says instead of what we see. When His Word says one thing and our eyes see something different, then we must choose to act on His Word instead of our sight.

If you make decisions in life based upon what you see, you are going to have a life of chaos because you are going to live a reactionary life—a life where you are constantly reacting to something that is happening.

But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance (Romans 8:25).

Delivered from the Power of Darkness

By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible (Hebrews 11:3).

In the physical world as well as in the spiritual world, hope is associated with light while hopelessness is associated with dark- ness. This should not come as much of a surprise because the physical world was created out of the spiritual world. The Bible says that what is seen was created out of what was not seen, so there is definitely a direct connection between spiritual light and physical light.

When a person is having a spiritual problem, it can be solved by running toward the light because God is light. When the light of God shines on a problem, all spiritual demonic manifestations and problems must go, because He has delivered us from the power of darkness.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love (Colossians 1:13).

Darkness is Subject to the Light

We know that light travels at the speed of 299,792,458 meters per second or 186,282 miles per second. That’s faster than most people can comprehend. But let me ask you this. How fast does darkness travel? Darkness doesn’t move under its own power. It has no light. Darkness retreats at the same speed that light advances. As we said before, darkness only exists where there is no light, because light always overpowers darkness.

The apostle John talked about light and darkness when he wrote, “In the beginning was the Word [referring to Jesus] and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” (John 1:1-5).

The Greek word for comprehend (katalambanō) could also be translated as overpower. In that case, verse 5 would read like this: “And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not overpower it.” Once again, we see that darkness is subject to the light.

With that in mind, remember that Jesus said in Matthew 5:14, “You are the light of the world.” And He said in verse 16, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.”

At the entrance of every house there is a light switch. When you flip the switch, the light comes on and the darkness goes away. But have you ever noticed that when you leave the room, there is not a dark switch that you flip to turn on the darkness as you leave? Of course not! To bring darkness back into the room, you turn off the light because light rules over darkness.

In the light is deliverance. In the light is the power to heal. In the light is the anointing and the manifested power of the Word of God. When you walk in the light and speak His Word from your heart, you receive restoration and healing. When you believe His Word and speak His Word in spite of what you see, that’s called walking by faith. You receive your deliverance according to your faith.

According to Your Faith

Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you” (Matthew 9:29).

In Matthew chapter nine, Jesus touched the eyes of two blind men who were following Him and He healed them. Notice He didn’t simply say to them, “You are healed,” but instead He said, “According to your faith let it be to you.” Another version of the Bible says, “As you have believed, so let it happen” (NTE). Where was the responsibility in this situation? It was on the ones who were blind and what they believed.

Jesus touched their eyes; He met them at their point of faith. They had faith that if He would touch them, they would be healed. Then when He touched them, according to what they had believed, it happened. That tells me it’s really important what we believe. It is impossible to have vision without light. Jesus literally delivered them from the power of darkness.

Once when Jesus was in Capernaum, a Roman soldier, a centurion, approached Him and pleaded with Him. He told Jesus that his servant was at home paralyzed and in great pain. Immediately Jesus replied that He would go to his house to heal his servant.

Surprisingly, the centurion told Jesus that he was not worthy for Jesus to enter his house, but he offered another solution. He told Jesus that if He would just speak a word, his servant would be healed and explained why this would work. He said that like Jesus, he had soldiers under his authority and if he told them to go or to come, they would do exactly as he commanded.

When Jesus heard him make this statement, He turned to His disciples and those following Him and made a profound statement. He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!” (Matthew 8:10).

It’s amazing that of all the rabbis, Pharisees, teachers, and even His own disciples, Jesus declared that this Roman centurion (a Gentile) had more faith than anyone else in all of Israel. (Matthew 8:5-10.)

What did the centurion understand that caused Jesus to proclaim he had great faith? He understood submission and authority. The centurion said, “Send the word and my servant will be healed” (vs. 8). He didn’t say, “Go touch my servant.”

On the other hand, the blind men believed that if Jesus touched them, they would be healed. That’s where they had focused their faith. He said to them, “As you have believed, let it be done unto you,” and He touched their eyes and they were healed.

The centurion said to Jesus, “Speak a word, and my servant will be healed.” Jesus said to him, “Go your way; and as you have believed, so let it be done for you” (vs. 13). Did Jesus go to his house? No, He didn’t need to, because the centurion believed that if the word was sent, his servant would be healed. As he believed, it was done to him.

Let me ask you something. What are you believing? What you are believing is extremely important because the paradigm set in the Word of God is this: what you believe is what you receive. This clearly explains the words of Jesus when He said, “According to your faith let it be to you” (Matthew 9:29).