Moffat Mungazi
Trust Maanda
Looking at the Unseen
2 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 KJV
As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; [10] As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Paul is saying things are not as they appear. It looks like we are unknown, and yet we are well known, like we are dying, and yet we are living.
It looks like we are poor, yet we are so rich that we even make others rich. We look like we have nothing, and yet we possess all the things. Things are not exactly what they appear.
I heard the story of a woman in America. She was poverty-stricken and indigent. Her son had gone to India to be an electrical engineer.
And because of her poverty-stricken condition, their social welfare department came to her house to investigate if she qualified for social welfare benefits.
They investigated the case to see if she was a woman in need of social welfare help.
They found out that the woman had a son who was a very wealthy man in India.
They asked her, “Well, why doesn’t your son support you?”
She said, “Oh, I just can’t ask him. I am his mother, I’d just rather take welfare benefits than to ask my son.”
“Don’t you ever hear from him?”, they asked.
She said: “Oh, I hear from him at least once or twice a month. He writes some of the sweetest letters and sends her very nice pictures that you have ever read or seen.”
They wondered how, if he loved his mother enough, and he had plenty of money, he would not take care of her. They asked to see the pictures her son was sending her.
She went through her Bible, and she pulled them out. You know what they were? Bank drafts. A banker’s draft works as a cheque, but, unlike a cheque, it cannot bounce.
The bank writes out the cheque for you and simultaneously takes the funds from your account. So, a bank draft is like a prepaid cheque.
The social welfare people told her that those were not pictures: they were cheques worth tens of thousands in United States dollars.
The bank drafts had pretty pictures on them. She had thousands of dollars, converted from Indian money into American money.
What was it? In the ledge of her Bible, she had treasure that she thought was “just pictures,” but, come to find out, it was real value to her. She was a poor, but rich woman. She was ignorant of what she possessed.
Christians are rich people, but many times, are poor because they do not know what they own.
The bank drafts were in the pages of the seemingly poor woman’s Bible.
In the pages of your Bible lays treasure. All the divine blessings promised to a believer lay in the Bible.
Those are not pictures. They are not just paper. They are your life, your breakthrough and every blessing you can imagine, for this life and the life to come.
When the Bible says, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, that with Him all things are possible, those are not pictures.
God Almighty sent those promises to you for you to enjoy them. The Scriptures are a reality.
The Word is something you can live by. With any promise in the Bible, you are rich. Do not live an underprivileged life when your Father in Heaven is rich in silver and gold.
The Bible is a rich treasure of untapped resources. Eye has not seen; ear has not heard what God has prepared for His people.
It is nonsensical for a small kapenta fish in the Indian ocean to drink water sparingly, afraid to exhaust it.
It is more nonsensical for you to be afraid of exhausting the powers and blessings of God.
The promises of God are an ocean. Ask abundantly, so that your joy may be full.
God saves the lost, heals the sick, and fills with the Holy Spirit, those who desire to be filled.
God’s inexhaustible promises in the Word are available for appropriating by any believer. You can get right in there and find every promise.
When Jesus died on Calvary, He made a bank deposit of all the blessings and signed a blank cheque book in His Blood.
Every believer has got a blank cheque book with enough pages to last until eternity.
All a believer needs to do is to fill their desires on the cheque and send it; the bank of Heaven can never be bankrupt.
The cheque is backed up by the riches in Glory. The cheque will not bounce. God’s Word will not return void, but it will accomplish that which It was sent for.
You are rich and you do not realise it. Scripture are not pictures!
TRUST MAANDA is a Gospel preacher and transformational speaker. He writes in his personal capacity. He can be contacted on +263772432646
