On Vision at Daystar Christian Center
Habakkuk 2:2-3
I remember many years ago when I was in school, I came across a book titled Dream Seeds by Dr. Mike Murdock and if I remember correctly, one of the chapters was titled The Grasshopper Complex; It was all about the story of the 12 Spies. I call them the twelve leaders because they were top guys from the 12 tribes of Israel that Moses sent to spy out the promised land. Ten of them came back with a negative report saying “the land that we went to check out is a land that swallows up it’s inhabitants, it is filled with giants” and then they made a powerful statement, that they were like a grasshoppers in their own sight. I got to realize the power of one’s mindset, that the real battle happens in the mind. If we are going to be small, it starts from the mind. If we are going to be big, it starts from the mind. If we are going to be victims, it starts from the mind. If we are going to be victorious, it starts from the mind. So when we discuss vision, we are describing that capacity to see with the inner eyes. I define vision as the ability to see people (including yourself), places, and phases not just the way they are but the way they could be.
Vision is the ability to see but what we are describing has to do with the inner eyes.
The way we humans have been designed, what we see with the inner eyes ultimately becomes our physical reality.
Vision makes you a magnet, literally attracting its material equivalent into your life.
I got to understand the principle a little bit better about two to three years after I read Dream Seeds, then I read the fourth dimension by Pastor Paul Cho and it blew my mind.
I share the testimony of the fact that it was the first time I would read a book twice within 48 hours. I mean I started from the beginning, my heart was expanding and I was having all kinds of powerful experiences as I went through the book. My inner eyes opened when I discovered the power of the imagination and how God uses it to change our lives. I started the book, finished it, went back to chapter 1 and then finished it again because there was so much there and I knew I had not retained most of what was there.
The main thing I learnt there is the fact that in Genesis 15 Abraham said “Lord, you promised to give me a child, the way it’s going now it doesn’t seem like it’s going to be possible physically, so what is going to happen?” and God said to him “Come out of the house, look up, count the stars, as many as those stars are so will your descendants be”. God had to change the picture in his imagination before he could change his life.
God had already made the promise, God had the power to do it but He needed the cooperation of Abraham to get the job done.
Ephesians 3:20 says that God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we may ask or think. More recent translations say “that we may ask or imagine.” The asking and the imagining are there in the same verse. I think a lot of the time we do not receive the answers to our prayers simply because what we are imagining is not matching with what we are asking or what we are asking is not matching with what we are imagining.
We are asking for God to prosper us but what we are imagining is lack and poverty. We are asking God to heal us but our imagination is filled with the picture of being sick. The two need to match.
The human mind is like a camera, you have an image or images that you store on the memory card and whatever image is there is what is printed out on the postcard. It is the same thing when the power of God comes on you, it is the picture in there that the power of God prints out in real life.
Romans 12:2 God says “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”. Those are two opposite processes, there are two possibilities. It is either your natural circumstances are controlling and shaping your imagination or your imagination is shaping your circumstances.
When God wants to change your life He changes your thinking, He changes the pictures in your imagination.
The place where you have the opportunity to overcome your challenges, to overcome your limitations is your imagination, that’s the place of possibilities. There’s no limit to what you see with your inner eyes.
God says you are transformed by the renewing of your mind so once the limits are taken from your imagination, the limits are also taken in real life.
I learnt from Joseph that the best way for me to deal with negative situations and circumstances is for me to pray so that God gives me a vision that takes me beyond that situation or that circumstance.
Catching the vision for Daystar Christian Center, catching the vision for Success Power International and the things I do today, that came from a season of frustration in 1994, I just felt like I cannot be stuck here, I prayed and then caught the vision.
Habakkuk 1:1-4
How do you respond to situations that seem to be overwhelming when things are not working right?
Pray, call on God, draw on the sovereignty of God. The things that are impossible for you are cheap with God.
The pandemic has affected a lot of people, it has affected businesses, people have lost their jobs, some have had salary cuts, some of us actually had to battle with the illness, some even lost loved ones. Things have slowed down globally but how are you going to respond? Because we’ve learned with time that “it is not what happens to Earth that hurts us, it is how we respond that hurts us.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision people perish.
That’s it, it is a vision fight. We have to be able to see possibilities in the midst of impossibilities. We’ve got to be able to see Miracles where everybody else is seeing obstacles.
Whatever the challenges may be that you are going through, the Spirit of God says to tell you that there’s a higher dimension for you. The solution is not far away. Where you’ve been seeing obstacles there are miracles now. Where you saw death, there is a resurrection in the name of Jesus Christ.
Proverbs 29:18 from The Message Bible.
“If people can’t see one God is doing they stumble all over themselves. But when they attend to what he reveals they are most Blessed”.
Take your eyes off the problem, take your eyes off the situation or the challenge. It may be a relationship problem, take your eyes off. It may be financial challenge, take your eyes off it. It may be some sickness or disease, take your eyes of it. Fix your eyes on God because God has a miracle for you.
Jeremiah 33:3. He says “Call unto me, I will answer you and I will show you great and mighty things that you don’t know”. Hallelujah!
Do you know what we should do? Just give him praise, just give Him thanks that’s it. The solution is close by.
I prophesy in the name of Jesus Christ receive open eyes now in the name of Jesus. Thank you Lord.
Where there is no vision or revelation, people perish, people cast off restraint.
Where there is revelation but people don’t build their lives on the revelation people still perish.
Matthew 7:24-26
When you have distortion of vision, it makes small problems look big to you.
When it comes to this vision thing, we don’t see things the way they are, we see things the way we are.
We don’t see other people the way they really are, we see them the way we are.
There are many things that frustrate our capacity for vision, our past experiences is one of them. We grow up getting the perception of who we are from the environment.
We did not name ourselves, we just grew up knowing that our parents called us a particular name and then we accepted that as our identity and that’s how also so many things have named us with time, our performance in school, performance on the job, even the jokes that our friends cracked etc. they have been shaping our personality. What our family had, what our family did not have and we are right now in the middle of a situation that is affecting people’s lives and the Spirit of God is calling out to us to say; You are not what they have called you, you are not what you have done, you are not what you have achieved.
We have distortion in our sense of identity when we do not factor God into who we are.
Joshua and Caleb were different, once they brought God in those giants became midgets.
You and God cannot fail, you and God cannot be victims.
PRAYERS
In the name of Jesus Christ I declare the days of seeing yourselves as small are over. The days of being overwhelmed by circumstances are over.
These are the days of new visions and new dreams. That’s what this month is about.
Thank you Heavenly Father thank you Lord for open Heavens right now.
God is pouring out new visions, new dreams and revelations right now get yours. Ask him for new visions and revelations.
Father I thank you because I have spoken your word as you asked me to say it. Thank you Heavenly father because there is a new season for us. It’s the beginning, the dawn of a new day.
I receive open Heavens over every single person that is a part of this service right now online or offline all over the world. Heavenly Father open our eyes and ears, enlarge our hearts. Yes Heavenly Father, new visions, new dreams, give it to someone while they are reading their Bible, give it to someone while they pray, give it to someone in the dream of the night. Thank you father, I declare every limitation is broken in the name of Jesus. Amen
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