Judges 6:36-37 NKJV So Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel by my hand as You have said— look, I shall put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that You will save Israel by my hand, as You have said.”

John 20:24-25 NKJV Now Thomas, called the Twin, one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not believe.”

What’s the commonality between Gideon and Thomas? They desired to see natural events to believe spiritual truths. Jesus lets us know blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed (John 20:29).

Because God is gracious, He may honor our internal desire to see something natural to believe, but this isn’t the norm. We’ve got to grow up and mature and walk by faith (believing the truth of God’s word) and not by sight (what we experience with our natural five senses) (2 Cor. 5:7).

When we believe the truth of God’s word without any evidence from our senses, that’s faith (Heb. 11:1). That’s the faith we need to obtain everything God has promised through Jesus.

It doesn’t matter if it’s manifesting healing in our bodies or recovering from heartbreak, when we only believe what God has said and act like it is so, we’ll experience every promise of God.