God is Moving: Can You See Him (Part 2)

Why Seeing Requires Intention

Moses told Israel, “With your own eyes you saw… but to this day the Lord has not given you eyes that see or ears that hear” (Deuteronomy 29:2, 4). The people of Israel had seen God move miraculously, but they did not have understanding. They wanted the benefits of God’s move, but did not really want to draw near to understand Him.

Spiritual sight is a gift—but it must be desired and stewarded. Isaiah warned of people who hear but don’t understand and see but don’t perceive. Jesus echoed that warning, reminding us that dull hearts block revelation.

Yet the Psalmist prayed, “Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law” (Psalm 119:18). Seeing begins with humility.

Jesus told the church in Revelation to buy “salve” for their eyes. Oswald Chambers explained that the Holy Spirit Himself is that eye salve—bringing everything into God’s light.

Seeing is not merely observing events; it is recognizing God’s hand within them.

How We Cultivate Eyes That See

Here are eight postures that sharpen spiritual discernment:

1. Walk in humility and obedience. Pride blinds; obedience opens.
2. Stay in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. He reveals what the Father is doing.
3. Watch and pray. God is always at work; prayer trains us to notice.
4. Embrace holy interruptions. God’s disruptions often carry divine invitations.
5. Be willing to learn anew. God’s unchanging nature doesn’t mean unchanging methods.
6. Keep love as the lens. Love helps us see people as God does.
7. Know God’s Word. Scripture anchors discernment and guards against deception.
8. Ask if it glorifies God. What glorifies Him bears the mark of His hand.

These postures don’t guarantee comfort—but they do cultivate clarity.

Seeing God at Work Today

We live in turbulent times—marked by division, noise, and uncertainty. Yet God is not absent. He is redeeming, restoring, and reviving.

When revival stirs among students, refugees, or prisoners—do we rejoice or critique?
When conviction comes—do we draw near or step back?

God’s movement rarely fits our categories. He chose a teenage girl to bear His Son, fishermen to build His Church, and a persecutor to become an apostle. He still chooses the humble to confound the wise (1 Corinthians 1:27–29).

I’ve seen this firsthand.

The Lord led my husband and me to a smaller church than where we had been. Not long after, a new pastor arrived. He had never pastored before and had been radically saved only five years earlier. Stepping into leadership after a painful moral failure, he seemed an unlikely choice.

Yet God said, “Stay.”

It soon became clear this young man was part of the answer to my prayers for a harvest in our city. In his first year, more than 400 people came to Christ and over 200 were baptized—in a church of only about 100 people.

Lives were transformed. Hearts were healed. Revival stirred.

Moving With God

Seeing what God is doing isn’t about special insight—it’s about surrender. When our hearts are yielded, God entrusts us with revelation: a neighbor’s need, a church’s next step, a city’s turning point.

Like the Psalmist, we pray, “Lord, open my eyes.”

It is harvest time.

May we move with God as laborers in His harvest, seeing and joining His redeeming work.

Read How to Embrace Your Place in God’s Plan.