THE WORLD IS PRESENTLY COMPASSION-FATIGUED AS THERE ARE LOTS OF PITY STORIES FLYING ALL AROUND AT THE SAME TIME
YOU DON’T HAVE TO CONSENT TO THE LIFE THAY YOU DON’T WANT YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE BACK YOUR CONSENT
HOW YOU SEE YOURSELF IS HOW PEOPLE WILL SEE YOU
HOW FAR CAN YOU SEE?
Dr Cindy Trimm on “Extraordinary Works” at KICC’s IGOC 2021
Isaiah 28:21
John 5:1-
I really love the theme and today I want to look at one of the extraordinary works found in the scripture.
The Book of John 5:1-6 gave us the story of the Bethesda
We have a paralysed man whose life was changed when he encountered Jesus. Extraordinary is something that occurs out of the ordinary. I want you to prophesy right now that nothing will prohibit you from doing what God wants you to do in this generation. At Bethesda, the atmosphere was counter destiny and counter purpose. Empowerment is not people giving you power. You have enough of that. Empowerment is being able to maximise the potential that you already have loaded up in you. Many people suffer from lack of identity. There are people who lack motivation. Motivation is yours to unleash. While people around you can inspire you, you have to motivate yourself.
The Bible described the reasons the people at the pool were helpless, handicapped and hopeless, they were expecting help from the outside. Many of us also have rough life going on for us. We stay around people who think only the same way. This great multitude lacked motivation. They were blind means they lacked vision. They were waiting for something to happen outside of them. This is where majority of the people are, always waiting for something to happen on the outside of them.
They keep waiting for the Angel to come down into the pool and there was a limitation because only one of them can be changed per time. These people have not taken up responsibility for their own life. Nothing will happen to you except you take all responsibilities for your own life. The lie from the pit of hell is that we live in a world only a few can achieve great things.
The first thing will need to do is a mindset reformation. We are taught what to think but not how to think. You should not think outside the box because if you do, the box will always be your reference. Jesus taught the need for the shift of mindset. Jesus met the man with infirmity for 38 years. This means a wishy-washy person in our generation. People that are not stable in vision and purpose. Whatever industry you are in, the heavens are opened and whatever you can imagine, God has empowered you to bring that to pass. Nothing is impossible. If you think, then you create it.
I am going to address you on The Power of a Question.
Jesus gave this paralysed man an opportunity to chose his life. A lot of us speak to people only to be pitied. We only tell stories to make people pity us and not to really rise. The world is presently compassion fatigued. What I want God to do is to help you tell your stories from the point of view of empowerment. I grew up under difficult circumstances. I struggled for things. I started my business at the age of 5. We should not focus on poverty as a reason to be pitied. Life occurrences happen and we should change the narrative by taking those occurrences as a gift to bounce higher in life.
Your crisis has been sovereignly allowed because it is a potential to elevate. I don’t want you to see yourself as a victim of circumstances whenever you are in a problem. See that problem as an opportunity to get you to the best version of yourself. Jesus becomes a catalyst, a tool by which God mirrors to this man what he has a potential of becoming. God used Jesus as a catalyst to help this man rewrite the narrative of his life and He uses the power of a question: Will Thou Be Made Whole. Jesus gave him three specific things through the power of a question.
- A vision of possibilities that was larger than the vision he had for himself.
- He gave him the ability to be delivered from possibility blindness.
- He gave him the possibility of putting feet to his dream.
A VISION OF POSSIBLITY THAT IS LARGER THAN THE VISION HE HAD FOR HIMSELF
One of the things I have discovered is that we all have our stories. We all live our lives to the best of our ability. You don’t have to accept life as it is. At any given moment, you can take your personal life back. The day I got my breakthrough from poverty was the day I took back my consent. Whatever you say Yes or No to is what heavens back up. Wherever you are presently, you consented to be there. And if you consented to it, you can take your consent back from devil. Everything flows through you.
Consenting happens through the law of the mind. You are the way you are because you allowed the thinking pattern. You can change your mind. You don’t have to accept life the way it is. You can refuse to consent to poverty and struggle. We preach the gospel so that you can get a vision larger than who you are. A lot of people are stuck just the multitude at that pool. Your feet can never take you where your mind has not been. A lot of things that God will show you will be so extraordinary that you will need faith to accept them.
Never reduce your vision to fit your pocket book but demand that your pocket book expands to fit your vision. How you see your life unfolding the show it is going to unfold. Your faith in your vision keeps you future focussed.
Things to Know About Vision
- Spiritual reality yet unborn to time and a place. God gives you a vision to shift your advantage point from your perspective to his perspective.
- Vision dictates to goals. Goals dictate to strategy. And strategies help the visions to come to pass. Strategy is attached to a specific timeframe.
You need to set specific goals at certain timeframe in your life. The people around you is an indication of what your life will look like 5-10 years from now. The paralysed man was surrounded by people that kept him on the same spot for so many years.
- Vision is about perception. Perception is about how you see things happening. How far can you see? Have you trained your spiritual eyes to see farther than your physical eyes. (Matthew 13:16, Ephesians 1:18)
- Visions is you gaining spiritual frequency. God allows you tap into spiritual frequency through vision. How you see yourself is how people will see you. If you see yourself as a pitiable being, people will keep on having pity for you. You need to change how you think.
You’ve got greatness in you and you don’t have to die with that greatness. You will never be able to progress beyond what you see. You must have vision for your life.
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