Chazar; To See

I remember reading about the "miracle well" testimony when I was a boy
A story told by an American soldier of how they discovered a well that was fully built and functional in the desert during the Gulf War.
It was such a profound testimony that it stayed somewhere in my memory and resurfaced at about 2 AM today while I was sleeping.
How in God's name do you explain that mere hours before you need water for a major military operation, a well that had the capacity to supply 100,000 liters of water surfaced right in the middle of a desert with working generators and pipes, and so on?
Logic would offer technical explanations as expected, but what mattered, however, was that someone prayed and what the person needed was provided or made visible by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Many of us will remember the popular El Roi, the story of Hagar who abandoned her baby boy, Ishmael because he was dying of thirst and she couldn't provide him with water.
An angel appeared to her out of nowhere and made a well visible
She was able to provide for her son and save his life
Hagar, who was alone in the desert, suddenly discovered that even in her struggle, God sees her!
This was why she declared El Roi, the God who sees!
Sometimes, something is there and we can't see it
Sometimes, nothing was there, and then something appeared there
Sometimes it is a question of perspective
We see a problem when we could have seen a miracle.

A divorced father of three was once speaking with a lady he wanted to get remarried to
He had prayed and fasted that the lady would agree to be his wife
The lady, however, was convinced beyond doubt that she couldn't be found dead, being married to a divorcee.
The lady didn't have issues with being his "comforting secret lover"
She saw his situation as "You meet my needs and I meet your needs" arrangement, but she couldn't see herself as his wife.
The man didn't want that sort of arrangement, but this lady would be on the phone with him all day trying to sell the idea to him.

The man met another lady, and they began to talk about marriage
The other lady told him to find his ex-wife, give his children to them, and be free
Why was he so particular about raising his children when they have a living mother who traditionally should have been saddled with the role of a nurturer
The lady told him no woman would marry a man with such baggage

He moved on, he met another lady, and they began to talk about marriage.
This lady told him she never had a discussion with God about inheriting anybody's children.
She had harvested and kept her eggs towards that purpose as soon as she turned thirty-five, and her investment in that egg freeze was divinely obtained.
If God wanted her to raise another man's children, he wouldn't have given her that sort of instruction.

One day, the lady who offered to be a "comfort lover" called him out of the blue to find out how he was doing.
He picked up the call from the airport in Atlanta as he was travelling to the USA with his children on vacation.
She saw on video how the man and his children were pulling their boxes and having fun all the way
She even said hello to the three boys.
After that moment, she began to shift her stance
"When are you coming to ask for my hand in marriage?"
"My parents asked me who I was seeing, and I mentioned your name."
"I don't want you and your boys talking to any fine babe in America, please, your focus is on me."
What changed?
She had imagined that his children were toddlers who would struggle to accept her as their father's wife
When she saw that they were teenagers, despite the man's young age, she realised she had misread the situation

She was thirty-eight.
The man was forty-two.
The children were aged sixteen, fourteen, and twelve.
They practically needed no attention from her and were boys.
Boys are always a delight to raise as a step-parent; it is the girl child that usually sees the step-parent as rivals or usurpers or supplanters.
The boy child doesn't really care about such things
She knew this from experience, as her father was widowed early and had to remarry their stepmother.
Her brothers treated the stepmother like their older girlfriend, while she had struggled with accepting her even till that day.

He eventually asked her what had changed. Why are you suddenly all over me?
She told him she misread the situation
She "mis-saw" and misinterpreted what he had to offer
She said she was open to the idea of marriage with him all of a sudden
He told her he would give it a thought
The discussion, however, changed everything
It changed how he saw himself and his situation.

He travelled from the USA to Germany with his boys, and right at the airport, his last son made friends with a German lady.
They became friends, and the German lady became his wife a year later
He knew he wouldn't have had the confidence to woo the German lady if he still saw himself in the old light in which he saw himself
It was that shift in perspective that altered how he approached his situation and converted what he thought was a liability to a blessing.

IN the case of Elisha and his servant, the young man could only see the enemies that had surrounded them in a bid to arrest his master
His master, however, was seeing more than that
While they stood side by side, one saw things from the terrestrial plain, while the other saw things from the celestial plain
One saw problems, the other saw solutions
One saw men, the other saw angels with chariots of fire all around himself
What they both saw determined how they both reacted
The servant reacted with fear
The master reacted with authority

We were once in a worship service
We were having open altar
A minister came to deliver words of prophecy to the assembly
I saw an angel standing beside the minister
The pastor standing next to me didn't
I told the pastor to touch the minister when he was done speaking
The pastor looked at me with eyes full of questions
That was when I realised he couldn't see
I had assumed before then that we both could see that there was an angel on the altar with us
I touched the minister on the shoulder, and the power of God broke out all over the assembly in diverse measures
After the service, the pastor came to me and asked me how i knew the power of God would break out by touching that minister
I said, "Didn't you see the angel standing next to him?"
The pastor said, "I didn't".
The ability to see made all the difference.

Jesus said the Pharisees can't see, and yet they lead others who can't see.
He called it "The blind leading the blind"
Believers are by default "seers".
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have passed away; BEHOLD (SEE) all things have become new.
The inability to see is a limitation to movement at every realm
You must endeavour to see

Finally, Cleopas and his wife travelled from the Upper Room to Emmaus after the resurrection of Jesus.
They met Jesus on the way, but they couldn't see him
They couldn't recognize him
They saw him only as a stranger
They didn't pay attention to their hearts burning in their chest or the wisdom being spoken by a total stranger who was not even one of the disciples
As he spoke, they listened and yet he was the stranger and they were the disciples
They felt everything they would usually feel whenever Jesus was in their midst, but they didn't see Jesus with their physical eyes
They got to their house and invited this stranger in
Then they observed how he took charge of their meal and broke bread.
Suddenly, they realised he was the LORD!
Their eyes opened from within
As soon as they saw him, they made new decisions and returned to Jerusalem that same night
Seeing helps us with movement, making the right decisions, going in the right direction, and making progress with speed and clarity.

This is what tonight's communion service offers.
Don't miss it.

PS: After the communion service, we will express the power of the Holy Spirit to the full at the Avalanche of Healing and Miracles Service, holding tonight at Supernatural Life Assembly Surulere, Lagos.
The first meeting is online via zoom
The second meeting will be held at the church premises.
I see
I know
I do
I become!

-GSW-