What you imagine may be more important than you realize. Ultimately, what you imagine determines what you believe, and how you believe determines how you receive. Having a positive imagination is what the Bible calls hope! And hope is what faith is based upon.

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today I’m going to start a brand new

series teaching on your imagination I

have a brand new book out on this

entitled the power of imagination and

the subtitle is unlocking your ability

to receive from God and you know this is

one of the most beneficial things I

think that I could ever teach you I’m

really excited about sharing this with

you because when the Lord began to

reveal some things to me about my

imagination and stuff it has

revolutionized this ministry I could

actually spend a week or two giving you

just personal testimony about how this

changed my life you know probably the

second most important encounter that

I’ve ever had with the Lord as far as

the visible outer outward results the

change that it’s made in my life

happened on January the 31st 2002 and

I’m not going to go into the whole

teaching I actually have an entire

teaching on this entitled don’t limit

God I’ve got a book out on it CDs and if

you want more information you could get

that material but on January the 31st

2002 God spoke to me from Psalm 78 41

and said that I was limiting him by my

small thinking and I know that may sound

simple to people but it was a major

Block in my life I have known since the

Lord first touched my life in 1968 I

knew that God called me to something big

and within a very short period of time I

begin to start having the desire to

reach people all over the world to have

a worldwide ministry

to share these truths that God was using

in my life with people all over the

world and within a short period of time

I knew that that was God’s will for my

life his calling and I’ve known for

decades that I was supposed to be on

television and on and on I could go I

knew what God’s will for my life was but

I wasn’t seeing myself accomplishing

that and there’s multiple reasons for

that again I’m not going to go into this

other long teaching but the point I’m

trying to get across is is when the Lord

told me I was limiting him by my small

thinking the one of the major things

that happened was I begin to take the

limits off of my imagination now even as

I begin to say some of these things I

know that there’s people watching this

program who think you know imagination

that’s fantasy that’s what children do

with Disneyworld and things like this

and we we need to be realistic we need

to be practical and stuff the definition

of imagination can include fantasy I’m

going to go into these things in more

detail as I get further into this

teaching but I’m not talking about

fantasy I’m talking about using your

imagination to just be able to picture

what God’s will for your life is coming

to pass and again many Christians think

well this is similar to positive

thinking and they think that you know

you need to get away from this and just

deal in reality I’m going to show you

from a lot of scriptures that you use

your imagination constantly it’s

impossible not to imagine you just have

to on purpose deliberately choose to

imagine the right things instead of the

negative things there’s a scripture in

Romans chapter 1 verse 21 which I

happened I have an entire teaching set

on that – about the keys to stayin full

of God and one of the things that’s

listed in Romans 1:21 it says their

imagination became vain notice it didn’t

say that their imagination quit working

you can’t live without

imagination your you have one and it’s

either working for you or it’s working

against you you don’t have a choice to

just turn it off it is working and it’s

a driving force in your life but you

have to choose to use it for godly

purposes to see what God is saying about

you come to pass let me start here by

going to Psalms 103 and in verse 14

alright let me just back up and read a

few of these verses this is so powerful

if you take it in context in verse 12 it

says as far as the east is from the west

so far hath he removed our

transgressions from us like as a father

pity of his children so the Lord pities

them that fear Him

well this is powerful you know so many

people present God as this harsh cruel

demanding hard-to-please perfectionist

that is just constantly upset every time

we mess up and yet the scripture here

this is an Old Testament scripture

before Jesus arrived on the scene and

gave us the perfect representation of

God in the Old Covenant there was wrath

there was punishment there was rejection

that we don’t see in the New Covenant

but even under this Old Covenant here’s

David saying that God is like a father

that pities his children has mercy on

his children think about how you deal

with your children you know if you’re a

good parent you encourage them to do

better and to do what’s right but when

they mess up you don’t just rail on them

you don’t reject them you don’t tell

them that they’re stupid and that you

can’t ever do anything right if you do

things like that that’s not being a good

parent if we you know Jesus said this in

the New Testament in Luke chapter 11 he

said if you being evil know how to give

good gifts unto your children how much

more will the Heavenly Father give the

Holy Spirit to those who ask him and if

you go to the verses right in front of

that he’s saying if you ask for an egg

you know will you give them a stone or

if you ask for a piece of bread will you

give them a stone if you ask for an egg

will you give them a serpent and stuff

you wouldn’t treat your children that

way and if you

ask the father how much more will the

Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to

those who ask him

so Jesus used this same logic if we

treat our children better than what God

has been represented that something is

really wrong with that picture God is

more loving he’s more kind to us than

any parent is towards their child so

this is saying in the same way that we

pity our children so the Lord has pity

on them that fear him and then look at

this in verse 14 for he knoweth our

frame he remembereth that we are dust

man that is a powerful Scripture God

knows our frame did you know the word

frame is talking about like in a person

it your spine is your frame your

skeletal frame that your whole body you

know is built upon and God knows our

frame did you know that the hebrew word

that was translated frame right here is

the hebrew word ye t ser yetzer and that

word was translated mind in Isaiah

chapter 26 verse 3 the Lord will keep

him in perfect peace whose mind is

stayed upon him and it’s also five

different times in the Bible it’s

translated imagination or imaginations

for instance in Genesis chapter 6 and

verse 5 the Lord came down and he saw

that the imaginations of man’s heart

were only evil continually did you know

that that’s that exact same greek word

excuse me hebrew word and the reason i’m

emphasizing this is to show you that

when he says he knows our frame he

remembers that we are but does this is

saying that God sees our heart God knows

how we think proverbs 23:7 says as he

thinks in his heart so is he the way you

think comprises everything that happens

in your life you can’t go anywhere in

your physical body that you haven’t

already been in your mind now that’s a

huge stay

and I know that some people that’s a

radical statement and yeah well that’s

not so it is so and I’m gonna be

teaching this later and so your thoughts

it’s like if you’re in a tunnel you just

can’t walk through dirt and rock and

things like that you have to dig out

this place and and remove that material

before you can step into that space you

can’t do anything in your physical body

that you haven’t already done in your

mind you can’t commit sin if you haven’t

already conceived it in your mind matter

of fact this exact word right here that

was translated frame in Psalms 103 14 it

was translated mind in Isaiah chapter 26

verse 3 and the word literally means

conception that is purpose that’s what

it means

did you know that your imagination the

way you think is where you conceived

things its conception you know in the

same way that a woman can’t just have a

baby it doesn’t come by the stork you

don’t get pregnant by standing next to

somebody else who’s pregnant and having

them lay hands on you

I’m not going to teach on this but

hopefully everybody understands this you

have to conceive a child that is the

conception right there this is saying

that the frame the mind your

specifically your imagination the same

word was translated imagine or

imaginations five times in the Old

Testament your imagination is your

spiritual womb and in the same way that

you would think a woman crazy who’s just

praying to have a child but she never

has a physical relationship with the man

it is just as crazy for us to be praying

for healing but have you ever seen

yourself healed to be praying for

prosperity but have you ever seen

yourself prosperous in my situation

going back to when I was talking about

in 2002 in the Lord showed me I was

limiting him by my small thinking the

thing that happened was I would not let

myself dream and think big now I knew

what God we

I knew that he had called me to have a

worldwide ministry I knew that if you

would have asked me I could have told

you I could have even given you some

specifics but I wouldn’t let myself see

it and there’s multiple reasons for this

one of them is because every time I had

tried to voice my vision and tell people

what God had called me to do

people just ridiculed me and back at

that time our ministry was very small

and people were staying away from my

meetings by the thousands of people and

any time I began to speak about my

vision what God had called me to do

there was no physical evidence there was

nothing in the natural that looked like

what I was saying was coming to pass and

so people would just criticize me

sometimes it would be malicious and they

would say bad things but you know the

thing that hurt the most was when people

who loved me and they meant well and

they just look at me like well yeah you

know you’re delusional they wouldn’t say

it that way but you know well god bless

you and you could just tell that they

weren’t in agreement and it was people

that I respected and honored that they

would criticize me and so anyway because

of that I just wouldn’t allow myself to

speak out my vision and I really

wouldn’t allow myself to see what God

said about me coming to pass because it

just caused problems in people also I

was fearful I had seen a lot of people

who God began to use that started out

with a pure heart and then when they

began to increase and people begin to

start coming to their meetings and

things begin to start working I’d seen a

lot of those people turn away from the

Lord and start reading their own press

releases and get impressed with who they

were and they lost their relationship

with God and I was fearful of success

again I’m not gonna go into all of the

details and explain this I’ve got a

series entitled don’t limit God that

would explain that you could call our

helpline and these people can give you

access to that or you can go to our

website and get that material but I’m

just telling you that I was actually

fearful I knew of God I knew where

God was leading me I knew that someday

I’d get there but I was just in a

situation where I was loving God with

all of my heart I was seeing people’s

lives changed in 2002 we were on

television and we had approximately 3%

of the American television audience able

to get my program and so it’s not like

we weren’t reaching anybody and nothing

was happening we were seeing good things

happening in people’s lives changed but

I knew that God just had so much more

but I was afraid to sit down and see it

coming to pass and I’m not sure that I

would have used this terminology right

in 2002 but since then the Lord has

shown me that what I was I was afraid to

imagine the success because I was afraid

that it might damage me damaged my

relationship with the Lord I was afraid

of the criticism I’d get if I started

speaking it and on and on and for

whatever reasons it could be different

with you but many of us just won’t allow

ourself to dream big and to see things

happen part of it is that many of us

have been taught that you know what you

just need to focus on where you are you

have had life beat you down and tell you

that you’re a loser

you’ve tried things before and failed

and you didn’t like the pain that was

associated with it whether it was

physical pain or emotional pain and so

you just draw back and you’re shooting

at nothing and hitting it every time you

are aiming low because you just don’t

think that well I just can’t do this you

know if I could talk to you personally

I’ve talked to lots of people lots of

people I mean thousands of people about

this and if I could talk to you

personally I can I can guarantee you

that the majority of people watching

this program right now believe that

there is more for them than what they

are experiencing I can say that without

without any reservation the majority of

you believe that there is more that

you’re missing out on some things and if

that’s so we’ll then why aren’t you

pressing and moving in that direction

well it’s

because people think I could fail

they’re afraid of failure they’re a fade

afraid of criticism they’re afraid that

people might mock them and all of these

kind of things and we have kind of this

herd mentality where we just kind of fit

into what everybody else is doing but

you know what it’s not the people who

are just like everybody else who changed

the world you can go look at whoever you

want to people that have made a

significant difference that I mean had

literally changed the world and every

one of them dreams outside of the box

they imagine things that other people

wouldn’t even imagine you know I was

just talking to some of my staff

yesterday and they were talking about

some of the silly inventions that their

kids have come up with and they look at

that and think I could have done that

and people have made billions off of

these little tiny things that they’re

doing it and they said why didn’t I do

that and it’s because we get so occupied

with just trying to make a living focus

on where we are and we aren’t dreaming

big about God what do you have for me

what are your plans for me your

imagination again is your conception the

reason most people aren’t giving birth

to the things that they really desire in

their heart is because they haven’t

allowed the conception to take place I

remember when I built a deck on my house

and it was like a three or four tiered

deck and I took a five-gallon bucket and

I set it outside of our door and I would

sit on that five-gallon bucket and just

stare at this area and think and think

and think and I’d do this an hour at a

time my wife came out one time and

thought what are you doing I was seeing

that deck I was gonna build it and I was

seeing you know what layers I wanted to

see I wanted to picture what the end

result was gonna look like before I ever

got started you don’t sit down and just

start building something without a plan

or a picture of what it’s going to look

like you know when a builder builds

something they make these plans when we

built our bill

buildings for Cara’s Bible College I

think it was a million and a half

dollars that it cost me to pay these

architects and have the plans drawn and

I spent a million and a half dollars

before we ever moved the shovels worth

of dirt because you had to have a plan

you had to have a picture of what the

end result was like you couldn’t just

get a hundred people out there and say

build build us a building they had to

all see the same thing they had to be

operating in agreement and cooperating

with each other you have to have a plan

did you know if you are trying to get

from where you are let’s just say that

you’re in Texas and you’re trying to get

to New York did you know if you don’t

have any idea of where you’re going if

you don’t have a destination in mind

well then any old Road will do you could

just take any road and had many

direction

but if you’re trying to get from Dallas

to New York you have that picture where

that is you have to know the direction

you’re going you have to either look at

a map or have some kind of a GPS thing

or something but you have to move in a

certain direction you have to have an

end goal inside and if you’re traveling

a long distance if it’s going to take

you more than one day to get there you

know you have to have some idea of that

you’re gonna have to spend the night

along the way or do something you have

to think about this you know all of that

is your imagination you can let me just

say it this way you if you parked at a

grocery store did you know that you

couldn’t even find your car where you

had parked if you don’t have an

imagination you have a picture of where

you parked you remember it was on this

side or that side of the mall or

whatever and you can picture now you may

not have spent enough time thinking

about it that you could remember exactly

where you are but you have a picture

that when you come out the door you

either turn to the right or to the left

or you’re at the very back of the thing

you have all of this pictured in your

mind you know what that is

that’s your imagination you couldn’t

find your car you couldn’t find anything

you know recently I left my sunglasses

on on my death

in my office and when I got home I

forgot about it the next day when I got

to driving a car I didn’t have mice in

place and I got to thinking where are

they and I got to trying to remember in

all of a sudden I saw those sunglasses

exactly where I had left them I saw them

and I was probably close to 20 miles

away from my office I didn’t see them

with my physical eyes but as I was

thinking where did I have those

sunglasses

I pictured myself laying them right

there I laid them on top of something

thinking I’ll remember that they’re here

and yet I had walked away and forgotten

it but when I was trying to remember I

saw him I could tell you exactly where

they are I could have called somebody

and said they’re right over here and

tell them where it was because I could

see it you know what that is that’s your

imagination you use your imagination to

give directions you know if you were to

tell somebody how to get from where you

are to the airport you could sit there

and say well you go out here and you

turn left or right whatever it is and

you go down let’s see it’s 1 2 3 and 4

lights you’ve probably never counted

those lights you don’t know this just by

memory but you know what you can see it

you can actually see yourself going down

that road and you can count the number

of stoplights

before you make a right turn earlier and

you could tell person that this building

is over here there’s a bank or there’s

this convenience store or whatever you

can see it even though you may be

looking at a black wall you could see it

that is your imagination you can’t give

directions you can’t remember you can’t

build anything and you can’t go anywhere

in your physical body that you haven’t

already been in your mind specifically

your imagination you have to conceive it

and if these things are so which I’m

saying and they are and I’m going to be

showing you a lot of scriptures and

proving this to you if what I’m saying

is true well then you know what one of

the reasons that people are praying for

things but they never see it come to

pass is because they haven’t conceived

it in their imaginations

same way that a woman prays for a child

but if she hasn’t had a physical

relationship with the man there is not

going to be a second virgin birth you

can have people lay hands on you until

they rub all a hair off the top of your

head and you are not going to have a

virgin miracle you have to conceive a

miracle and it starts in your

imagination God knows your frame which

is specifically talking about your

imagination that same word was

translated imagination or imaginations

five times and it literally means

conception you have to conceive a

miracle this is how God made us this is

our frame this is what holds everything

else up if you don’t begin to use your

imagination in a positive way then that

imagination will actually work against

you it will automatically become vain if

you don’t redeem it and begin to start

using it in a godly way so I’ve got this

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before you even have a need God has

already supplied your need I know that

all day long people are being blessed

here and their lives are being changed

if there’s anything you want to know

about anything then Jesus is the one

folks the moment you get saved you ought

to show the world of what Jesus has done

for you I’m just enjoying being fed by

people that have walked places that I

haven’t walked if you lay foundations in

people’s lives they will get a hold of

grace because you can’t be a pastor and

do what a pastor does without grace I

feel like this is an opportunity at the

minister’s conference for ministers to

receive the ministry that we need you’re

gonna speak to the mountain and it’s

gonna move but first you gotta have

faith in God it’s time for us to

rediscover the full power of the Holy

Spirit before you were even formed in

your mother’s womb God already had

determined a purpose for your life a

god-given purpose God has a purpose to

train you and what you’re called to do

and I tell you Cara’s Bible College is

the place for that man if you want a

life change come to Karras

the next two to three years could be the

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sit under the word for four hours a day

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