I’ll never forget the day the Lord opened my eyes to a hidden enemy I didn’t even know I had. I was sitting in a small, sunlit room, Bible open on my lap, heart heavy with questions. I had been believing God for something big — something only He could do. I had prayed, fasted, spoken the Word, and yet, deep inside me, there was a struggle. A war. I didn’t realize it then, but what I was fighting against wasn’t just doubt or fear. I was wrestling with something far more subtle: sense knowledge.
You see, all my life, I had been taught to trust what I could see, hear, touch, taste, and feel. I had grown up in a world that exalts the five senses as the highest authority. If you can’t see it, it’s not real. If you can’t touch it, it doesn’t exist. If you can’t prove it, you shouldn’t believe it. This way of thinking had seeped into my mind, even as a believer. It had sat quietly on the throne of my heart, dictating what I thought was possible — and more dangerously, what I thought God could do.
It wasn’t until the Holy Spirit led me to the Scriptures with new eyes that I realized how sense knowledge was an enemy to faith. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJV) says, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” Not by what we see, not by what we feel, not by what the experts say. By faith. Yet, there I was, trying to walk with God while demanding constant evidence from my senses.
It was like trying to sail across the ocean with one foot in the boat and one foot clinging to the dock. I wanted to move with God, but my mind kept asking, “Where’s the proof? Where’s the sign? How will you know it’s working?” My senses cried out for certainty while God was calling me to trust His Word alone.
Faith, true biblical faith, is believing what God has said, even when every sense screams otherwise. Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV) declares, “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Evidence of things not seen. Evidence my eyes cannot confirm. Evidence my ears cannot hear. Evidence my hands cannot touch. Faith is spiritual evidence — and sense knowledge has no part in it.
I remember during that season, God challenged me deeply. I was praying for healing in my body. I would speak healing scriptures, but then every time I felt a symptom, my heart would sink. My mind would race: “You still feel pain. Nothing has changed. You must not be healed.” The Holy Spirit whispered one night, almost like a thunderclap inside me, “Are you going to believe your body, or are you going to believe My Word?”
That night broke me and built me at the same time. I realized that sense knowledge — the physical feelings, the rational doubts, the visible symptoms — were constantly trying to sit in judgment over God’s Word. I had made my senses my lord without even realizing it. And as long as my senses ruled me, faith could never reign.
Throughout the Bible, the heroes of faith had to reject sense knowledge to walk in the promises of God. Think about Abraham. God told him, “I have made you a father of many nations,” (Romans 4:17 NKJV) when he was nearly a hundred years old and Sarah’s womb was dead. Every bit of sense knowledge shouted, “Impossible!” — yet the Bible says Abraham “did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.” (Romans 4:20 NKJV).
How could he do that? How could he believe against what his body, his circumstances, and human wisdom told him? He had learned to divorce himself from sense knowledge and cling to God’s unchanging Word.
And isn’t that our fight too? Every day, the Word of God says one thing, and the world — and our senses — say another. Sense knowledge says, “The doctor’s report is final.” But God’s Word says, “By His stripes you were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24 NKJV). Sense knowledge says, “You’ll never afford that house, that education, that ministry.” But God’s Word says, “My God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 4:19 NKJV).
I am learning — painfully but joyfully — that walking by faith often feels like walking blindfolded, led only by the voice of the Shepherd. Not by the sight of the past. Not by the noise of fear. Only by His voice.
Jesus Himself faced this. When He stood outside the tomb of Lazarus, the people’s sense knowledge screamed at Him: “Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days.” (John 11:39 NKJV). The stench was real. The death was real. But Jesus spoke beyond what the senses testified. He commanded life where the senses confirmed death. And Lazarus came forth.
Faith listens to a higher reality than the senses. Faith taps into the spirit realm, where the Word of God is the highest authority. Sense knowledge anchors you to what you can explain; faith anchors you to what only God can do.
Today, I want to ask you what God asked me: “Are you going to believe your senses, or are you going to believe My Word?”
Your healing, your breakthrough, your restoration — it is not trapped by what you can see or feel. It is already accomplished in the spirit. The task of faith is not to make it happen; it is to believe it has already happened because God said so.
I had to learn to speak life when everything felt dead. To declare abundance when my wallet said otherwise. To praise for victory when I still smelled the smoke of battle. Sense knowledge is an enemy to faith because it demands proof when God demands trust. Sense knowledge says, “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Faith says, “I believe it because God said it.”
I encourage you today, if you are standing on a promise from God, do not consult your senses. Consult His Word. Feed your spirit, not your mind. Worship God for the answer even before you feel it. Walk by faith, not by sight.
In the end, it’s not the strongest or the smartest who see God’s promises fulfilled. It’s the ones who dare to believe the unseen. The ones who shout victory when sense knowledge screams defeat.
Today, by His grace, I choose to believe His Word.
Today, I walk by faith.
Today, I dethrone sense knowledge from my heart.
And today, I say boldly, “Let God be true and every man — and every feeling — a liar.” (Romans 3:4 NKJV).
Amen.
