Peeling back the surface of “faith” and tapping into the spiritual infrastructure that holds it up. Real living faith isn’t abstract—it’s exactly how Jesus lived, and how He called us to walk.
Let’s walk through faith piece by piece, and offer some thoughts along the way.
1. “Faith can be extremely hard.”
Yes. Absolutely. Not because God is complicated,
but because we are entangled in the world we can see, feel, and control.
Real faith strips you of control and requires full trust in an invisible reality.
That’s hard for the flesh. It can feel like walking blindfolded on water.
But that’s also why it’s precious.
“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth…” (1 Peter 1:7)
Faith isn’t easy because it’s weighty—eternally valuable.
2. “Faith is about believing something you cannot see with physical eyesight.”
That’s the very definition.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1)
If you can already see it, you don’t need faith.
Faith lives in the gap between the promise and the manifestation.
3. “If you can’t see it physically, you must be able to see it spiritually.”
Yes. Real faith sees what isn’t yet visible, not by imagination,
but by revelation.
Abraham saw Isaac’s birth even when Sarah’s womb was dead.
Moses saw Him who is invisible (Hebrews 11:27). Jesus saw the joy set before Him while hanging on a cross (Hebrews 12:2).
This kind of spiritual sight doesn’t mean you ignore reality—
it means you see a higher one.
Faith is a kind of vision. A spiritual lens.
4. “To live in and by faith, you undoubtably have to train yourself to see spiritually.”
Exactly. This is the hinge of your whole thought process.
You can’t TRULY live in faith unless your spiritual eyes are open. That’s why Paul prayed for believers—not for new blessings, but for opened eyes.
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know…” (Ephesians 1:18)
It’s not automatic. It’s trained. Sharpened. Grown.
You have to look at the world through the Word, through the Spirit, through the eternal.
5. “If that’s true, it could follow that’s why trying to have faith without spiritual eyes is really—not real faith—if you’re trying to have faith ‘for something to happen.’”
Exposeing the root of why so many people “struggle with faith.”
They’re trying to “believe hard enough” without seeing anything. That’s not biblical faith—that’s wishing.
Real faith doesn’t come from willpower. It comes from seeing spiritually what God has already spoken.
When God gives you a word, a vision, a promise—you see it before it ever happens. And your faith stands on that vision, not on emotion or effort.
It’s VITAL to know that The Word is God. The Word is God speaking directly to you, me, them. No ifs, ands, and buts. With that said, what you’re “believing for” absolutely must be backed up by the Word. CAN NOT POSSIBLY be other wise and be from God.
That’s why Jesus could sleep in a storm—He saw the other side.
Here’s how I’d sum it up:
Faith is not blind—it just doesn’t use physical eyes.
To live by faith, you must train your spiritual eyes to see what God sees.
Without spiritual eyesight, faith becomes a burden. But with spiritual sight, faith becomes alignment with Heaven.
Circling something the modern church often neglects—spiritual perception. Not just intellectual belief. Not passive trust.
But active vision of what’s real in the Kingdom.