How far you can see determines what you can receive and indeed what you canachieve. God told Abraham that as far as he could see, He would give unto him(Gen 13:15) and because he saw far and wide, God gave him the world. God is still doing the same today. He is God yesterday, today and He is God forever (Heb 13:8). What He did before, He can do again and again. 1Corinthians 10:11 tells us that the words written in the Bible are for our example. When our obedience is complete, there is nothing that God cannot do for us. What He did for Abraham, He is able to do for any other person.In Psalm 119:144, we read as follows, 'The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting, give me understanding and I shall live'. It is important for us to understand that when God talked to Abraham about seeing He was not talking about seeing physically, He was talking about seeing with the inner eyes; He was talking about seeing in the spirit. Success in life is not determined only by what you see physically, it is determined more by what you can imagine. God said concerning the children of men who tried to build 'a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven' (Gen 11:4), ''and now nothing will be restrained from them which they have imagined to do.''(Gen 11:6). It has also been said 'whatever a man can conceive and can believe, he can achieve'. We can see the truism of this in the landing of man on the moon and in the recent achievement of the Americans in landing a satellite on mars. Getting to mars has been considered as a near impossible task, but some American scientists believed it could be done, and it has been done. So, the success or otherwise that we achieve is a product of the mind. That is why the word of God in Proverbs 23:7 says, 'for as he thinketh in his heart, so is he'. It is how deep we can see in our minds that we can achieve on the physical plane.I remember an incident that occurred 20 or so years ago. A good friend of mine and I had stopped by the roadside at Isolo (by Jakande Housing Estate) in Lagos to buy corn. Something happened as my friend and the Ebira corn seller haggled on the price of the corn that my friend picked and the woman said, 'some people have eyes but cannot see.'At the time, we (the corn seller, my friend and I) saw what she said as funny, so we all laughed. But come to think of it now, I can see that what the woman said was very thoughtprovoking. It is true that people have eyes but it is also true that many of us see our eyes more as vessels for avoiding bumping into others as we walk on the road; or to avoid colliding with other vehicles or trees or houses or people as we drive,for reading and for such other things. We also see our eyes as the important part of our body that enables us to see what we eat, etc.But the function of our eyes is more than these. Our external eyes shall only function to produce optimally for us if we marry it to the inner eyes; that is if we allow the inner and the outer eyes to work together.When Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), (Daddy G.O as he is fondly called by members of his Church) visited Kenneth Hagin's ministry in the United States and saw a fairly large congregation, he thought within himself that it was something that could also be achieved in his ministry, so he got to work and substantial improvement was achieved in the membership of the Church. Then he visited South Korea and saw Paul Yonggi Cho's (now David Yonggi Cho) ministry and saw that the congregation that he saw in the US was a lot fewer than what he saw in South Korea, he thought within himself again,' we can do this also. The result of this is the mammoth gathering of worshippers that assemble at the monthly Holy Ghost service on the Lagos/Ibadan express road.Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo, the Presiding Pastor of the Living Faith Church Worldwide also visited America and saw Oral Roberts University and thought within himself 'this can be repeated anywhere.' And his ministry has not only established one university but two ' one in Ota, Ogun State and another in Omu-aran (his hometown) in Kwara State.What is the motivating factor in the two examples given above. It is the deep knowledge that the two men have of God, that nobody can do anything without God, but that working with and believing in God, nothing can ever be impossible. In fact, Bishop Oyedepo would always say that if anybody says he is the one responsible for all that is being recorded in his ministry, God will kill him. Somebody once asked him how his ministry had managed to record so much results within a relatively short time and he responded, 'we are not doing anything. We are just watching Him doing it'. These two men of God do not see with ordinary eyes, but also see with their inner eyes. The inner eyes (the eyes of the mind) enable you to see the deep things of God.When you only see with the outer eyes, and you visit where Pastor Adeboye and Bishop Oyedepo visit, whatever you see would mean very little to you, and you'll return home and begin to sing, 'beautiful', 'wonderful', 'marvellous,' concerning the things you see. But if you see with the combination of the outer and the inner eyes, there will be a strong and irresistible urge in you to replicate what you see in other places in your environment too, for your benefit and for others, or for your community or nation. Hosea 4:6 says, 'my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge'. Because of lack of knowledge there are among our people, those who think that certain things that they see happen in some places happen because the people in such places are different from us.Helen Keller contacted a strange ailment when she was only nineteen months old, which left her deaf and blind, yet she impacted her world powerfully. She was the first deaf and blind person to obtain the Bachelor of Arts degree. She was an author, political activist, and lecturer. An American president, Woodrow Wilson awarded her one of the highest honours in the USA. There are many other achievers in diverse fields of endeavours like her. They cannot see with the physical eyes, but their inner eyes create joy for them in life and enable/d them to make the world a better place for all.Seeing can be proper or improper. It is proper seeing when your seeing benefits others, but improper when it is only for your benefit and the benefit of your family members. Example of improper seeing is when somebody who, for instance, is influential in government knows how to have the road in front of his house properly constructed and tarred, drainages done, but the township roads that lead to his own street are in a mess. He is in a position to influence the maintenance of these township roads, but he did nothing. Would he not have problem in getting to the good road in front of his house and so suffer what other people who ply the township roads suffer'Not seeing well enough may be one of the real problems that we have in this country. Just imagine what this country would be like today if our people, particularly the political operatives who travel to different nations of the world have been seeing like Pastor Adeboye, Bishop Oyedepo and some others.Elder Adeyemi wrote in from Sango Ota, Ogun State
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