This power-packed series is filled with insightful truths that Andrew has touched on for years but has never quite put together in a teaching like this one. You’ll find out how it’s not a matter of doing more or doing something better; it’s a matter of understanding the way God designed you to think, believe, and receive. You’ve probably heard Andrew quote often, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7). Now let him show you how to think properly so that you can be all God created you to be: it will change the way that you see yourself, your circumstances—everything!
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it’s when you keep your imagination your
thought your meditating on the Lord day
and night that’s when you have perfect
peace and now here’s Andrew
welcome to our Tuesday’s broadcast of
the gospel truth today I’m continuing a
series that I just started yesterday
talking about the power of imagination
this is a brand new book that I have out
also we have DVDs and CDs this is the
first time we’ve ever offered this on
television I’ve talked about imagination
but I’ve never just specifically taught
on it and this is a brand-new teaching I
tell you it is gonna transform your life
you know I’ve got a companion series
that we’ve entitled don’t limit God I’ve
got a book out on that CDs and stuff and
I have one little section in there about
imagination this is that same point
those same points but it’s just
amplified on and I tell you when the
Lord began to speak to me about how I
had limited him by my small thinking it
was my small imagination is what it was
and I started introducing this yesterday
I used a verse from Psalms 103 verse 14
where it says the Lord knows our frame
he remembers that we are but dust and
the Hebrew word that was translated
frame in Psalms 103 14 is the word yet
sir why et ser I can barely speak
English much less Hebrew and Greek I
know a little Greek and a little Hebrew
one owns a laundry and the other one
runs a deli but anyway I it’s this
Hebrew word that was translated frame in
Psalms 103 14 was also translated
imagination or imaginations five
different times in scriptures it was
also translated mind in Isaiah chapter
26 verse 3 where it says the Lord will
keep him in perfect peace
who
mind is stayed upon him so the point
that I’m making is it says he knows our
frame a frame is like if you’re a
building a building you have to frame it
up first and then you put all of the you
know the sheetrock and everything else
on top of this frame it’s the skeleton
our frame is what holds our body and God
knows our frame specifically talking
about the way we think and even more
specifically talking about our
imagination let me read a verse to you
out of first chronicles chapter 28 verse
9 and this exact same Hebrew word yetzer
is translated imaginations here in verse
9 this is David speaking to Solomon his
son and he says and thou solemn and my
son know thou the god of thy father and
serve him with a perfect heart and with
a willing mind for the Lord searches all
hearts and understandeth all the
imaginations of the thoughts if thou
seek him he will be found of thee but if
thou forsake him he will cast the off
forever so this says that the Lord
searches the hearts and understandeth
all the imaginations of the thoughts and
so this shows you that your imagination
is a part of your thought process now
I’m going to say some things here that
this is not weird it’s just things that
most people don’t think about and
because it’s not mainstream because most
of us weren’t taught these things we
just think this is a little off but this
right here says that he understands the
imaginations of the thoughts you think
in pictures your imagination is
literally according to the dictionary
your ability to picture something that
is not real or present now you can
picture something that isn’t real in
other words something that hasn’t come
to pass yet like I’ve used this example
if you’re building a building you can
picture what that is gonna look like and
from that you start drawing plans and
you share it with the contractor and all
of the workers
because they have the same picture and
the same dimensions then they start
building that thing and it comes to pass
so you can picture something that isn’t
a reality yet or you can picture
something that is a reality but it’s not
right in front of you
like yesterday I was using the example
that if you wanted to give directions to
somebody you can say you go out here to
the main streets you turn right or left
and then you go down and you start
counting how many traffic lights there
are or you will tell a person that on
this corner you will see a convenience
store or there is a house or or there’s
this tall building and you can picture
it you aren’t seeing it it’s not in
front of you but you’ve seen it before
and this is the way you think it’s the
way you remember things let me put this
together with another verse it’s right
here in the next chapter and this is
after David had started giving an
offering for the building of the temple
and it was worth billions of dollars he
gave out of his own personal account and
the people saw their King so passionate
about building the temple that they
started giving and they gave the
equivalent of billions of dollars this
was an offering where billions of
dollars came in in one offering first
chronicles chapter 29 David was so
overwhelmed that he began to pray in
front of the people and he said Oh God
who are we that we could offer like this
to you we were slaves in Egypt we had
nothing and now you have blessed us so
that we are giving the you know the
equivalent of billions of US dollars to
this thing and he was just praising God
and then he said this in verse 18 Oh
Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel
our fathers keep this forever in the
imagination of the thoughts of the heart
of thy people and prepare their heart
unto thee now this is really important
what he’s saying is God helped them to
remember this but how did he say it he
says keep it in the imagination of their
thoughts this is how you remember again
going back to directions you could say
you go down three lights four lights or
whatever you can’t see that with you
physicalize but this is how you remember
I used as an example yesterday that if
you park your car someplace in a large
parking area you have a memory you have
a picture of where that car is parked
you may not have gone to the effort to
sit down and say all right it’s the
fourth car in from this aisle or
something like that but you know the
direction you know when you walk out the
door whether you go right or left or if
it’s at the back of the parking lot or
whatever you know if I was to ask you
how many windows do you have in your
bedroom if you have windows in your
bedroom
most obviously not sat down and just
counted those windows but you could tell
me because you know what you can see it
even though you aren’t at home or I
could talk about your office or you know
just anything I could say how many you
know the house that you grew up in how
many bedrooms did it have how many rooms
did it have or whatever and most of you
have never sat down and just you know
catalog these things have it written
down somewhere and you’ve memorized it
and you know this just by rote but know
what you do you you can picture it I can
tell you the house that I grew up in now
if you say for instance moved around all
of the time and you don’t have just one
house that you grew up in well then that
might keep some of you from doing this
but those of you who lived in one place
for the majority of a time you can go
back and you can see that house even
though you might be thousands of miles
removed from it that’s how you remember
things and if you can’t see it you can’t
remember it
you know I’ve used this example often
somebody might have heard me tell this
but when I got drafted and sent to
Vietnam we had water blitz that they
brought our water to us I lived on a
fire support base and it was completely
surrounded and cut off the only way in
or out was by air and so they brought us
water in these water blizzards now most
people if you’re in the military or you
know there’s some people who understand
what a water believe it is but the
majority of people don’t know
water believe it is so you’ve heard me
say this you might you know if somebody
said something about a water blivet you
might say well that’s what andrew talked
about but you know why you couldn’t
retain that very long unless you can see
it but if I use words to describe this
water blivet they came in different
sizes 250 500 a thousand fifteen hundred
gallon water blivet sand they were
rubber they were black they were
cylinders and on each end of this
cylinder they had a brass end on one end
was a spigot so the helicopters would
put a strap on each end of this water
blivet and they would draw bring these
things in and then you would go and get
your water out of it fill your container
and the atmospheric pressure as the
thing you know you drain the water out
the pressure would just collapse those
things they would go flat and then
they’d pick them up and carry him off
now you may not have a perfect picture
of it that’s the reason that you know we
have this saying about a picture’s worth
a thousand words I could talk for the
rest of this program describing a water
blivet and giving you more clear picture
of it or I could take a picture and if I
put a picture up there and if you saw it
then you can remember it but when you
remember this is what David is saying
Lord keep this forever in the thoughts
of the hearts of your people
in other words help them to remember by
seeing this help burn this into their
memory what happened this day help them
to never forget the way that these
people just gave of their material
things to be able to build the temple
you think in pictures whether you like
it or not again some people think that
an imagination is fantasy fantasy is
imagining something that isn’t real and
it’s impossible of being real like you
know believing that a fairy godmother
turned a pumpkin into a chariot and
stuff that’s fantasy but imagination it
you could use it for a fantasy I am not
encouraging that but you have to use
your imagination to see things that
haven’t yet come to pass things that
you’re wanting to build are accomplished
you have to see yourself a success you
have to see yourself healed you have to
see yourself prosperous you have to do
that that is not fantasy that is based
on what God’s Word says he wishes above
all things that you may prosper and be
in health even as your soul prospers
third John chapter one verse two you
have to see yourself well and that’s not
fantasy that is reality and some of you
may say but the doctor says I’m gonna
die that is a fantasy know the Bible
says by His stripes you were healed now
you can take that scripture that by His
stripes you were healed first Peter 2:24
and the Word of God is like a seed an
incorruptible seed it says that in first
Peter chapter 1 verse 23 being born
again not of corruptible seed but of
incorruptible seed by the Word of God
that lives forever and that word seed
right there is the word spora which is
you know we talked about a flower
pollinates the spores they get carried
by a bee or the wind or something and
they cross pollinate and that’s the way
that flowers reproduce and the word
spora
is a derivative of the greek word sperma
where we get sperm from a seed that is
planted in the womb of a woman and then
it can season she brings forth the child
and this is exactly what the greek word
that is used in all of these scriptures
that I’ve been using Psalms 103 14 God
knows our frame he remembers our frame
he knows that we are but does that word
frame is yetzer y et ser and then over
in first chronicles chapter 28 verse 9
he says the Lord search with all hearts
and understandeth all the imaginations
of the thoughts
that’s that Hebrew word yet sir and then
here in 1st chronicles chapter 29 verse
18 Oh Lord God of Abraham Isaac and of
Israel our fathers keep this forever in
the imagination of the thoughts of the
heart of that people
that’s that Hebrew word yet sir and it
literally means if you look it up in the
Strong’s Concordance it means conception
that is purpose your imagination is
where you conceive things and so people
are praying for healing and asking God
to heal them but they aren’t conceiving
healing you can take the scripture first
Peter 2:24 by His stripes we were healed
and you can take that see that
incorruptible see that incorruptible
sperm of the Word of God and you can put
it in your heart and you can conceive
your miracle through your imagination
you need to take the Word of God and not
just be able to quote it first Peter
2:24 who his own self bare our sins in
his own body on the tree that we being
dead to sins should live unto
righteousness by whose stripes ye were
healed it’s one thing to be able to
quote it but then you have to take that
and meditate on it I’m gonna I tell you
this is so powerful it’s hard for me to
restrain myself here but I’m gonna be
teaching you that meditation based on
Psalms 1 verse 2 and Psalms 2 verse 1 is
talking about imagination you can’t
meditate on the Word of God without your
imagination so you can either just read
a scripture and be able to store it in
your mind and recall it and even maybe
give the address of where that verse is
but have you ever taken it and meditated
on it imagined so that not only do you
have a fact that by His stripes you were
healed but have you seen yourself healed
have you seen yourself already healed or
let me ask it this way when you dream
let’s say for instance you’ve been
unable to get around you got hip
problems or knee problems or something
or in you’re in a wheelchair are you you
hobble around it’s hard for you to get
around did you know if you’ve had
something like that a long time it is
not hard to get your body healed but
once you get sick in your mind once you
see yourself this way if you dream and
when you dream you see yourself on
crutches or hobbling around or in a
wheelchair are you seeing yourself with
allergies and you that’s the way you
dream it’s the way you see yourself
that’s when that sickness has become a
part idea if as long as it’s just in
your body it is nothing I’ve seen the
dead raised I’ve seen blind eyes open
deaf ears open healing is an easy thing
to accomplish but it has been purchased
for us by the Lord but as a man thinks
in his heart so is he proverbs 23:7 if
you have allowed that sickness to go
beyond just your body and now you see
yourself sick that’s the way you dream
it’s the way you identify that’s your
identity then you know what as you think
in your heart that’s why you’re gonna be
you’ve got to change on the inside
before you can change it on the outside
you know I’ve used this example a number
of times so somebody may have heard this
but this is just a great it’s a classic
example to me but I heard a story about
a woman who is legally blind she had
very poor eyesight and she had these
huge glasses with thick thick glasses in
it and with that she could just barely
function but she had very poor eyesight
she had had so many people pray for that
she didn’t want anybody else to pray for
her because she wasn’t expecting
anything to happen she wanted to be
healed but she had tried and it she was
just disappointed she didn’t want to be
disappointed again
so there was a healing evangelists that
came to her church and she avoided him
because she didn’t want to go through
the disappointment of having him pray
for her nothing happened finally he
cornered her on the last night said I
want to pray for you he made her take
her glasses off and then he prayed for
her and after he got through pray and he
says now can you see so she started to
open her eyes and he said shut your eyes
and she shut her I was thinking well how
am I gonna tell if I can see if I don’t
open my eyes so he said a second time
now can you see so she started to open
her eyes again and he said shut your
eyes and she was just three
confused thinking how am I going to tell
so the third time he says now can you
see and she started to open her eyes
again and he said to her he says I
didn’t tell you to open your eyes you
have to see yourself seen before you can
see he didn’t use these words but in
other words you have to in your
imagination you have to see yourself you
have to conceive your healing on the
inside before you get it on the outside
and so she finally understood what he
was saying she kept her eyes closed she
was praying in tongues and just waiting
on God to help her see it and after a
few minutes she says I see it I can see
myself seen without glasses and he says
now open your eyes so she opened her
eyes and her vision was restored and she
could see clearly without her glasses
now see this is a problem that mote
there’s many people I would say probably
most people pray for healing and they’re
thinking it’s gonna come from the
outside that God is just going to some
hour another zap them but healing
actually comes from the inside you have
to see yourself healed before you will
see yourself healed in the natural you
have to be able to conceive it in your
heart and going back to my personal
testimony on January the 31st 2002 God
told me I was limiting him by my small
thinking and it I could spend time on
this but I was limiting him because I
wouldn’t allow myself to dream big I
knew what God’s purpose and plan for my
life and ministry was but I was afraid
to dream big because of the criticism
because of the money that he was going
to take because there was potential
failure because on and on and on I just
wouldn’t allow myself to start dreaming
big but you know why I made a decision
that I was gonna take the limits off God
and I began to start just dreaming big I
started seeing myself standing in front
of large crowds of people I started
seeing myself reaching people all over
the world did you know when the Lord
spoke that to me Jane
the 31st 2002 we covered 3% of the US
television population today we cover
nearly half of the world’s population we
cover over 3.2 billion people can watch
this program in in Russia alone we’ve
got our programs translated into Russian
and it reaches over 11 time zones we
reach more people in Russia than we
reach in the United States my TV
programs are translated into Farsi and
they’re broadcast in Pakistan and in
Dubai we’ve had Imams
over there get born-again watching my
program and now they take my materials
and teach them in the mosque I don’t
know how that works but they have told
me this is what they’re doing we’re
reaching people on every part of this
planet we reach all of the
english-speaking world and we also reach
large percentage of others we’ve got my
stuff translated I forget exactly but I
think it’s 48 58 different languages or
something and you know what all of that
happened because I started dreaming and
seen it happen I knew that God wanted me
to do it but I had never seen it happen
you need to see yourself healed you need
to see yourself prosperous you need to
see yourself accomplishing God’s will
your imagination is your spiritual womb
and it’s where you conceived a miracle
you have to give birth to miracles in
the same way that you have to give birth
to a child you don’t just pray for a
child the stork doesn’t bring it you
have to conceive it you have to conceive
a miracle now I guess you could have a
child by adoption you could have
somebody else carry your child you know
a surrogate mother but those things are
abnormal the way that God created it to
be is you conceive a child and about the
only way that Christians have been
getting healed delivered set free is to
have somebody else who spent time
conceiving miracles and they come along
and they
they let you adopt their miracle you
know praise God for that I’m not against
that but I’m saying you can’t always
count on an anointed man or woman of God
being around but every person every
person watching this program can
conceive your own miracle and that is
what your imagination is the word that
was translated mind that was translated
frame and translated imagination is the
Hebrew word ye ets ER and it literally
means conception if you want a miracle
conceive it take the incorruptible seed
of God’s Word and put it in your heart
and allow yourself to start dreaming and
seeing these things come to pass I tell
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