Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen Quotes

“Seen things have become so real to some people that they have forgotten about the unseen. We live in a world of the natural. We rub shoulders with the physical day after day until the unseen realm seems unreal. We are almost tempted to believe it doesn't exist! But Paul said: For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17,18”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“Faith is the substance that God used to create the universe, and He transported that faith with His words. God used His words as containers to transport His faith out there into the vast nothingness, into the darkness. He said, ''Light, be!" (Gen. 1:3.) And light was!”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Romans 4:16,17”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“God had promised Abraham something that was absolutely impossible in the natural. Abraham was too old, Sarah was too old; and God does not violate His laws. So God changed their names! Abraham means "father of nations" and Sarah means "mother of nations." Every time Sarah stuck her head out the tent door and called Abraham! he didn't hear Abraham!- he heard Father of Nations! The Bible says, Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Rom. 10:17).”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“This is the way you begin to change the seen and shape the unseen. Abraham called things which were not manifest in the natural realm as though they were until they were! Abraham was the man who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken (v. 18). He was 99 years old, and his wife was 90; but he was not weak in faith (v. 19). He would not consider any thing that contradicted what God had spoken.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“When there was nothing but darkness, God took the Word light and spoke it into existence. He took that which was not and brought to naught that which was!”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are. 1 Corinthians 1:27,28”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“Many Christians have formed within themselves a "grow worse" image. They never see themselves getting any better. They never see themselves having any more than what they have had because of past experiences. Perhaps they allowed fear to creep in and cause the circumstances to be as they are. Sometimes it is just a wrong decision they made that brought on the problems. Then the devil said, ''These problems are happening because God is teaching you something." When they believed him, they received that "grow worse" image as being from God the Father. Then they couldn't pray in faith. That image held them in bondage for years because they were deceived by the evil one. All that time, God in His mercy would have loved to heal them or deliver them if they had released faith in God's deliverance.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“You change the seen with God's Word. You shape the unseen by calling things that are not as though they were. (Rom. 4:17.)”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“Let me paraphrase what Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:18: "If you don't get rid of that image of looking at the seen, and produce another image inside you, then the afflictions of life will not work in you an eternal weight of glory. But they will, if you're looking at the things that are not seen.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“It is God's Word that will establish the image of the unseen within us. We should not allow circumstances or the cares of this life to create images within us. What the Word says should create the mage.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“It is God's Word that will establish the image of the unseen within us.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen

“The word temporal means "subject to change." Things you are seeing with the physical, natural eye are always subject to change through spiritual law.”
― Charles Capps, Changing the Seen and Shaping the Unseen