These are perspectives found in Hebrews 11 that strengthen God’s people to suffer and overcome resulting in the obedience of faith to the glory of God in Jesus Christ.

The Eyes of Faith see these things:

1. Vs. 3–“The word of the unseen God is what orders the world that is seen around us.”
2. Vs. 6–“God exists, and He rewards those who diligently seek Him.”
3. Vs. 10–“We seek to live in a city that has an actual foundation designed and built by God.”
4. Vs. 11–“Our God who promised is trustworthy.”
5. Vs. 13–“While we wait for God’s distant promises, we are now strangers and exiles in the earth.”
6. Vs. 14-16–“We do not seek our own country, but a Heavenly one.”
7. Vs. 19–“God is able to raise the dead so as to keep His promises.”
8. Vs. 24-25–“I’d rather be God’s people and suffer than be royal and enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.”
9. Vs. 26–“The reproach of God’s anointed one is worth more than any treasure of the world, because of its reward.
10. vs. 27–“Because I see what is unseen, I endure not fearing the wrath of the king others see.”

A way to use this tool: each of these calls and responses can be done with the family gathered at the table after dinner, read from a list posted nearby, and discussed at length. Each is a deep well of what faith is about. They are meant to generate questions, and discussion, and to give words to confess together with believers in Jesus Christ what we believe about the gospel. Chiastically they unfold by theme: the Unseen-ness of faith, the Reward of of faith, the Citizenship of faith, the Promises of faith, and the Eternal Hope of faith.

May God strengthen your faith in He who is unseen, that through Christ you may enter into greater reward, as Spirit in-dwelt citizens of an unshakeable kingdom, trusting in God’s promises both now and forever. Amen.