Stretch Your Faith

"Where there is no vision, the people perish…” Proverbs 29:18

When Elijah was about to depart from the world, he asked Elisha what he could do for him before he left. Elisha requested a double portion of Elijah’s spirit. Elijah told him he had asked for a difficult thing, but said that if Elisha saw him when he was taken, then it would happen. If he did not see him, then it would not. God created humans as visual beings. Your eyes take in four million bytes of information at a speed of 187,000 miles per second. When your eyes receive an image, they add depth, color, and clarity to form a complete picture. The human mind, without even trying, automatically converts words into images. For instance, if someone says the word “apple,” a picture of an apple appears in your mind. This is because the human brain understands that the easiest way to grasp a concept is to see it.

You were created to be a visionary. 

Luke 11:34 says that the lamp of the body is the eye, and if the eye is good, the whole body is filled with light. Famous televangelist Mike Murdock once said, “Faith operates with photographs.” Faith is the substance of things hoped for. You will never change the direction of your life until you change what you see.

Troy Aikman, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback, was once offered two hundred fifty thousand dollars by an advertising agency to wear their brand of ball cap during post-game interviews. They explained that their manufacturer estimated that for every thirty seconds Aikman wore the hat, sales would increase by one hundred thousand dollars per second. They understood that people are visually motivated. Famous actor Sylvester Stallone signed a contract with a tobacco company for five hundred thousand dollars to smoke their brand of cigarettes in any movie he appeared in. The company understood the principle that what is placed before a person’s eyes influences their direction. People are moved by what they see. If God is going to do anything in your life, you must see it first.

Someone once asked a man who trained seeing-eye dogs what his greatest challenge was. He replied, “The biggest problem I have with seeing eye dogs is getting them to stop looking down at where they are and start seeing what the master sees.”

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