 Many people Think Faith Is acting like something Is so when it really isn’t so , and if we do that long enough , then it Will become so . But that’s Not it at All . Faith Is real . 
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 Hebrews 11:1 Says , <br> <b><i>Now Faith Is the substance of things hoped for , the evidence of things Not seen .</i></b> 
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 Faith Is substance . This Is saying that Faith Is real . It Is the evidence of things Not seen . Notice it didn’t Say <b><i>things that don’t exist .</i></b> They do exist . They Just aren’t seen . 
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 Even in the natural world , we’ve come to realize that there are things that do exist that we can’t See . We can’t See television signals , but they do exist . In Fact , wherever You are Right Now , there are television signals Right there with You . 
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 If You Say <b><i>No there aren’t</i></b> Just because You can’t See or Hear them , that doesn’t mean they don’t exist . It Just means You aren’t very smart . They do exist , they are Just unseen . They are unseen realities . 
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 A television set can make unseen signals visible . When we See the Images Is Not when they became real . They were already there . A television set doesn’t generate Images . The set Just Receives the signal and Converts it into sights and sounds that we can perceive . But the television signals were already there , before we tuned them in . 
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 Probably every person reading this letter has watched television when suddenly the picture went blank . What did You do? I bet You didn’t call the television station and complain about them stopping their broadcast . The first thing You did was check and See if everything was working on your television set . 
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 Was the electricity on? Was it plugged in? Did a tube go out or did some circuit melt? You checked your receiver to See what was Wrong with it . You Trust that the station broadcasts 24/7 . You don’t question that until You eliminate All the possible Problems with your set . 
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 Likewise , God Is real and does exist . He Just can’t be seen . He Is broadcasting All His Power and Blessings 24/7 . It’s Never God’s transmitter that Is broken . It’s always our receiver that Is the Problem . 
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 If we Ask God for something and we don’t See it Manifest instantly , most people question Why God hasn’t answered that Prayer yet . They assume that because they haven’t seen or heard anything , nothing has happened . That’s All Wrong . We Need to have more Faith in God than we have in a television station . 
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 There Is a very Good illustration of this Truth in 2 Kings 6 . Elisha , the prophet of God , was revealing the Syrian’s battle plans to the King of Israel . Every Time the King of Syria tried to ambush the King of Israel , Elisha would warn the King of Israel , and he would ambush the Syrian’s ambush . 
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 This happened so often that the King of Syria finally asked his servants to reveal who the traitor was . He knew that the King of Israel could Not be maneuvering like he was without inside Information . 
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 When one of the King of Syria’s servants said that Elisha , the prophet of God , was revealing the Words that the King of Syria said in his bed chamber to the King of Israel , the King of Syria sent his armies to capture Elisha . 
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 2 Kings 6:15 Says , <br> <b><i>And when the servant of the man of God was risen early , and gone forth , Behold , an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots . And his servant said unto him , Alas , my Master ! how shall we do?</i></b> 
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 When Elisha’s servant saw the Syrian troops , he panicked . He knew Why they were there . They had discovered Elisha was the one telling the King of Syria’s battle plans to the King of Israel . They were in big trouble . Look at the response of Elisha to this situation in 2 Kings 6:16 : <b><i>And he answered , Fear Not : for they that be with Us are more than they that be with them .</i></b> . 
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 People who don’t Believe anything exists beyond their five senses would Say Elisha was Lying . He was Confessing something was so when it really wasn’t so , hoping that it would become so . 
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 But that’s Not the Way it was at All . Elisha Spoke the Truth . There were more with him than was with the Syrian army . It’s Just that Elisha’s forces were in the unseen Reality . 
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 The key to Understanding this Is to recognize there Is another Realm of Reality beyond this Physical world . Those who are limited to Only their five senses Will always struggle with this . 
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 They Think Elisha was Lying , and indeed , he would have been Lying if All that exists Is this Physical world . You could count the Syrian troops by the thousands , and there was Only Elisha and his servant . 
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 But Elisha wasn’t Lying because there was another world of Reality . If You looked at the whole picture , the Physical and Spiritual world , then Elisha was Right on . 
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 In the Spiritual Realm , there were many more horses and chariots of Fire around Elisha than there were Syrian troops . 
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 According to 2 Kings 6:17 , <br> <b><i>Elisha prayed , and said , LORD , I Pray thee , open his Eyes , that he may See . And he LORD opened the Eyes of the young man ; and he saw: and , Behold , the mountain was full of horses and chariots of Fire round about Elisha .</i></b> 
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 Gehazi’s Physical Eyes were already wide open . God was opening his Spiritual Eyes . He was able to See with his Heart into the Spiritual world . And when the Spiritual world was taken into consideration , then Elisha’s statement was perfectly True . 
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 Those who See Faith as an attempt to make something real which isn’t real Will always struggle with those who See Faith as simply making what Is Spiritually True a Physical Truth . 
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 Those who limit Truth to Only the Physical Realm would have called Elisha one of those <b><i>name it , claim it ,</i></b> <b><i>blab it , grab it</i></b> cultists . 
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 But in saying such things , they Condemn themselves . They show they Only Consider what they can See , taste , Hear , smell , and feel to be Reality . They are what the Bible calls <b><i>carnal .</i></b> 
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 When Gehazi’s Eyes were opened , the Syrians didn’t disappear . They were still there . The Physical Truth was still True , but there was a greater Spiritual Truth that emerged . 
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 True Faith doesn’t deny Physical Truth ; it Just Refuses to let Physical Truth dominate Spiritual Truth . True Faith subdues Physical Truth to the Reality of Spiritual Truth . 
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 Because Elisha Believed in the realities of the Spiritual world , he raised his hand and smote All the Syrians with blindness . Then he led the whole Syrian army captive to the King of Israel . 
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 Praise the Lord ! That’s Not bad for an old prophet whom Carnal people would Say was All by Himself . 
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 Elisha was Not Just Speaking some wishful statement , hoping that it would become a Reality . He knew what was real in the Spiritual world , and he controlled his Emotions and actions accordingly . 
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 There Is No indication that Elisha saw the horses and chariots of Fire around him . He didn’t Need to . He Believed it . Those who operate in True Faith don’t Need to See with their Physical Eyes . Their Faith Is evidence enough . 
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 There was a woman at a campmeeting who had a huge goiter on her neck . She went forward for Prayer and knew that she knew she was Healed . So , she got up in front of the audience and gave a Testimony of her goiter being Healed . However , the goiter was still visible . But the people praised God , thinking that the Healing would Manifest itself shortly . 
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 The next year at the same campmeeting , the woman got up again and praised the Lord for her Healing , but there still wasn’t any visible Proof . This concerned a lot of people , but they didn’t Say anything . 
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 Then the next year , the same thing happened . This was too much for most of the people , and it caused the leaders of the meeting to approach this woman and tell her she couldn’t testify of this Healing again until the goiter was gone . 
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 The woman told the Lord that she knew He had Healed her , and she didn’t have to See visible results to Believe it . 
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 But for the sake of the Unbelievers , she asked the Lord to physically remove the growth . It disappeared and the woman showed them what she already knew was True . You can get that Strong in Faith . Your Faith Is substance and All the evidence You Need . Faith Is real . 
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 I’ve experienced this in my own Life . When my youngest Son , Peter , died on March 4 , 2001 , my wife and I Spoke our Faith and said , <b><i>The first report Is Not the last report .</i></b> We Spoke Resurrection Life back into Peter’s Body , and then we headed into town . It was one hour and fifteen minutes from the Time we got the call until we got to where Peter was . During that Time , I was operating in Faith . 
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 I remembered prophecies that had Not yet come to pass in Peter’s Life , and therefore , I knew it wasn’t Time for Peter to Die . I rejoiced by Faith , seeing Peter Alive and well . 
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 My oldest Son , Joshua , met Me at the door and said , <b><i>Dad , five or ten minutes after I called You , Peter Just sat up .</i></b> Thank You , Jesus ! 
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 This Is the point: I didn’t rejoice more once I saw Peter raised from the Dead than I did while I was still Driving . During the drive , I knew Peter was Alive , and I was rejoicing with All my might . 
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 It was actually anticlimactic when I saw in the Physical what I had already seen in the Spiritual . Don’t get Me Wrong ; I was Blessed and I rejoiced to See my Son raised up after being Dead for five hours . 
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 But the Physical Reality wasn’t more real to Me than the Spiritual Reality of Faith . 
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 This Is the Way I Live . I Know it’s Not <b><i>normal ,</i></b> but I’m Not getting <b><i>normal</i></b> results either . I’ve been Believing big , and there have been big results from that Believing . 
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 When we moved into our New offices , and when we See the warehouse Finished , that was , and Will be , anticlimactic . I’m seeing All these things in the Spirit Now . When they Manifest physically , others Will be impressed , but I’m impressed Now . 
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 I’m Not Believing for something that isn’t real to become real . I’ve seen into the Spiritual Realm by Faith , and I’m simply making what I’ve seen in the Spiritual world Manifest in the Physical world . 
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 All of the things I’m seeing with my Physical Eyes Now , I have already seen in my Heart . I saw it on the inside before I saw it on the outside . 
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 This Is a wonderful Way to Live . This Is the normal Christian Life . This Is walking by Faith and Not by sight ( 2 Cor 5:7 ) . 
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 -- Andrew Wommack <br> Capitalization of keywords by Randy Lucas 