Dealing with Delay
Romans 4:19
Abraham considered the natural and the spiritual. But he had received revelation from God, and he was more convinced of the spiritual. 

Revelation is the superimposing of God’s reality and God’s plan on the circumstances of your life. It is the blueprint of God that shows you where you are going. 

When the Word says Abraham did not consider his own body, it doesn’t mean he denied his own body. It means that he did not consider the deadness of his own body, or his  wife’s body, as the final answer. He saw what God saw more vividly than he saw what the devil saw. The devil is a liar. Abraham considered God’s direct promise to him so superior to natural reality that it carried more weight than natural reality. 

II Cor. 4:18
Paul did not say we deny those things which are seen. He was saying the things which are seen are not the final answer. God, in His eternal realm, has the final answer. 

The principle is: spirit controls matter. The spiritual realm is eternal, immortal, invisible, and incorruptible and is infinitely more powerful than the natural realm. The natural-material realm is real too, but it is subservient to the spiritual. It is temporal. It is subject to delay, death and corruption. One of the greatest battles we as Christians must wage is the battle of passivity – the inclination to lay back and allow the enemy to walk all over us. We need to fight the good fight of faith. A good fight is on we win. 

An Amplification of Hebs. 4:12 The Word of God is alive, actively alive. It is filled with the life of God and is full of His energy. It toils and works in us and is operative and effectual. It is sharp enough and fully competent (adequate, sufficient, ample, has enough ability) to channel itself through the various areas of the soul and spirit, reaching its desired end and attaining its desired goal. It will arrive and will accomplish its goal once it gets there decide between soul and spirit, apportioning to each what is needed, as it critiques the thought and intentions of the heart.