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Series: Intercession, Warfare, and Worship

'Seeing God' changed my life. I don't mean that I saw him with my natural eyes but my spiritual eyes, by faith. Please don't minimize the importance of my assertion just because I used the term 'spiritual eyes' instead of claiming to have seen God in the flesh.

In Isaiah 6, the prophet saw God through the revealing work of the Holy Spirit because up to that point in God's unfolding plan of redemption God revealed Himself to man primarily as Spirit. Jesus is the full revelation of God to man - Immanuel. Jesus died, rose again, and ascended to the Father. Yet he continues to reveal himself to man through the Holy Spirit.

Stephen saw him 'standing on the right hand of the Father', Paul was 'caught up to heaven' , John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day and 'saw Him' - and so it is that even today, God wants to reveal himself to each of us through the inner workings of the person of the Holy Spirit.

You cannot see the wind but you can see the tree branches moving. The evidence of 'Seeing God' then is a change in our character followed by a change in our behavior. Then and only then will others see God in us.