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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welcome to our Wednesday’s broadcast of

the gospel truth today I’m continuing to

teach a series that I just started this

last Monday talking about the power of

imagination I have a brand new book on

this and I tell you this is a powerful

powerful teaching this is the first time

that we’ve ever offered this and during

the first two days of this week I’ve

just been trying to establish how

important our imagination is I’ve used

Psalms 103 verse 14 where it says the

Lord knows our frame he remembers that

we are but dust and that word frame

there is the Hebrew word why et ser it’s

important to understand that that same

word that was translated frame there

where you talk about like your skeleton

the thing that holds us up you know if

you frame a building that is talking

about all of the support the walls and

and the beams and all of these kind of

things our frame that same word that was

translated frame there was also

translated imaginations in Genesis

chapter 6 verse 5 in first chronicles

chapter 28 verse 9 first chronicles 29

verse 18 in other places it’s talking

about your imagination and I’ve just

been describing how important your

imagination is to God moving in your

life your imagination let me define

imagination for you here’s what the

American Heritage Dictionary defines

imagination as it says the process our

power of forming a mental image of

something not real or present now that

is really important and I’ve given a lot

of examples if you

just any of this she can go to our

website a WMI dotnet you can watch the

previous programs i’ve given all kinds

of an illustration about how you can

picture the house that you grew up in

you could count the number of doors the

number of windows although you have

never just written it down and memorized

how many doors you have in your house

how many windows you have and yet if i

was talking to you you could tell me

because you can see it you can picture

where you park your car in a large

parking lot you can picture how to give

directions to somebody and you can say

you go out here and you turn left go

down three lights and turn right and yet

you can’t see those things how do you

know that there’s three lights because

you can picture it you think in pictures

I use that verse out of first chronicles

chapter 28 verse 9 where David was

telling his son Solomon that the Lord

knows the the imaginations of your

thoughts you think in pictures you know

if I was to say right now think of an

apple you don’t see the word Apple Appl

II what you see is an apple and some of

you might see a red apple

some of you might see a green apple not

just one that’s not right but you know

you could have a ripe green apple that’s

a type of apple and I could use words

you might see different things but if I

say now everybody think of a red apple

and I could use words and say now

everybody think of a red apple that is

overripe that it’s beginning to shrivel

up because it’s so right now see a worm

coming out of it and you know like words

paint pictures and you words can help

you see things you think in pictures

again if I say dog you don’t see the

letters D o G what you see is a dog and

most of you will see a dog that you’ve

had some kind of a interaction with it

could be your dog a neighbor’s dog or a

dog that bit you or something and if you

if I say dog you picture a dog somebody

might be picturing a little dog a little

white fluffy dog that’s been you know

taken

the shop and it’s got a bow in its hair

and it’s toenails or its little claws

painted and stuff but I could change

your image by saying everybody think of

a big dog a big black dog a big black

mean dog and I could use words and your

picture begins to change as I use words

to describe things whether you know it

or not you think in pictures this is how

you think again let me go back to this

one verse and just read it out of first

chronicles chapter 28 verse 9 David said

and thou Solomon 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 you think in imaginations

you think in pictures whether you

understand it or not you know if you

were to assemble something if you buy

something from the store and you have to

assemble it and put it together they

will have a written text and tell you

how to assemble it but they will always

put illustrations in there because a

picture is worth a thousand words and so

you could be reading it and saying man

it connects a with B I don’t quite

understand that but then you look at the

picture and you see a and B listed over

there and how it fits together and it

helps you to get it you think in

pictures the point that I’m trying to

make is a lot of people think that when

you talk about imagination you’re

talking about something that’s not real

you’re talking about childish fantasy

let me give you a definition of fantasy

I’ve got that here here’s what the

dictionary defines fantasy is it says

the creative imagination in other words

it’s one use of an imagination and then

the second definition a product of the

imagination an illusion the third

definition is a delusion and this is

what a lot of people see in the sixth

definition it says it’s a fantasy such

as you know Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs or whatever it is those are

fantasies and

a lot of people relegate when you start

talking about imagination to something

that’s fantasy and it’s not beneficial

you need to grow up you need to get

beyond fantasy you need to deal in

reality well I do agree that you we need

to grow up and not fantasize but

imagination is much more than a fantasy

I’m saying don’t use your mind to just

fantasize like say for instance if you

are a if you’re a you know a hundred and

twenty pounds dripping wet you’re five

foot tall you are probably not going to

be a star basketball player and if you

start to start trying to imagine that

well then that’s fantasy if you want to

be a great football player and you’re

you know 80 pounds and you just aren’t

you just hadn’t got any boat to you you

aren’t gonna make it in in the National

Football League and so some things yes

they’re fantasies and we’re wasting our

time for you to believe that you’re

going to be seven foot tall when you

know God’s only put in you the genetics

for five foot eleven it’s just a fantasy

you don’t need to do that but if you

have a promise from God such as by His

stripes you were healed such as whatever

you set your hand on to will prosper

that God will bless you and cause all of

these blessings to come on you and

overtake you

that’s not fantasy it may not be a

reality in your life yet but they are

promises of God and you need to use your

imagination to conceive those miracles

and man I ministered on this yesterday

I’m not going to go back through that

but that’s powerful the Word of God is

an incorruptible seed and your

imagination is your spiritual womb again

that Hebrew word ye T ser it means

conception it is where you can sieve

your miracle your miracle start in your

imagination

that is really really powerful and again

my personal testimony is that I knew

God’s will for my ministry for my life

but I wouldn’t allow my imagination to

go there because for one thing for four

decades

it just wasn’t time I wasn’t ready and

so God just told me to be faithful where

I was so for decades I pastored three

little churches I ministered on radio

and I did some things but he just wasn’t

time and then on July the 26 1999 I had

a dream the Lord woke me up and spoke to

me and says the time has come and I got

up at 3 o’clock in the morning and

started studying about the time for what

has come and the Lord spoke to me and

said your ministry is just gonna start

when you start on television January the

3rd 2004 you started on television you

would have missed my perfect will and at

that time did you know that that was 32

years in the ministry and he was

basically telling me everything I’d done

up until that time was preparation time

so during those 32 years I knew that God

wanted me to have a worldwide ministry

to touch people all over the world I

knew that that was God’s will for me but

one of the reasons I didn’t dream about

is because it just wasn’t time and so

God had me focused on what I was doing

and he was preparing me I didn’t have a

Karass Bible College to go to I went

through the school of hard knocks and it

took me 32 years to graduate you know

that’s one of the reasons that we really

promote our Bible colleges because you

can you can make it going through the

school of hard knocks you can learn on

your own I did but there’s a better way

and I believe it’s curious Bible College

amen you can learn at my expense and at

the expense of all of our other

instructors we have over a thousand

years worth of ministry experience in

our instructors and I mean many of them

have been 4050 years in ministry and

because of it man you can learn by our

mistakes you don’t have to go out there

and make the

same mistakes that we did so anyway I

one of the reasons I wasn’t dreaming

about what I knew God’s will for me was

this because it just wasn’t time God

wasn’t prompting me he wasn’t leading me

to do it because I needed to be focused

on where I was and finishing where I was

at that moment but there came a time

that God told me I was limiting him by

my small thinking and that’s when I

began to start dreaming big and it

changed everything

the imagination is powerful let me share

this verse with you out of Genesis

chapter 6 and this is just shortly after

the fall of Adam and Eve and it says in

Genesis chapter 6 and in verse 5 it says

and God saw that the wickedness of man

was great in the earth and that every

imagination of the thoughts of his heart

was only evil continually again this is

another scripture that is linking your

thoughts to imagination that every

imagination of the thoughts of his heart

was only evil continually then look over

here in Genesis chapter 11 this is right

after the flood and not long after that

men began to start coming together and

they were building the Tower of Babel

and in Genesis chapter 11 it says in

verse 6 and the Lord said Behold the

people is one and they have all one

language and this they begin to do and

now nothing will be restrained from them

which they have imagined to do here

again is a scripture linking what you

can do to your imagination your

imagination is where you conceive things

it’s your spiritual womb if you can’t

see it on the inside you will never see

it on the outside people are praying for

physical healing and they’re desperate

and they’re pleading but they don’t see

themselves healed they haven’t conceived

it they’re just waiting on it to come

from the outside when the truth is that

healing comes from the inside you have

to

see yourself healed you have to see

yourself prosperous you know we had one

woman come through our school in the

very beginning this has been 25 years

ago and I don’t remember exactly how old

she was but she was older than me she’s

probably 60 possibly 70 years old I

don’t know at that time 25 years ago and

anyway she had lived through the Great

Depression and it made such an

impression on her that she saw herself

poor she saw that they nearly starved to

death and this woman would take her

jelly jars and she would scrape every

single thing that she could out of that

jar then she would put water in it and

swish it around and get every little bit

out and use it I mean down to the last

little bit jelly

she would take her soap bars and when

they got to where they were small

instead of throwing it away she would

save the packaging and she would put all

of these little soap bars in there and

then she would melt them and make a new

soap bar and just make sure that she had

everything out of it she would drive

across town and spend five dollars in

gas to go to a place where they were

given triple coupons so that she could

save a dollar on some she’s been $5.00

to save a dollar

she had a poverty mentality and it’s

understandable why she did because her

family it was it was bad what they went

through and there was just this fear and

so she did everything as cheap as she

possibly could I tell you sometimes

buying the cheapest product is not the

most economical because that thing

doesn’t perform as well it breaks you

have to go replace it when if you had

just bought something that was quality

it would last longer and do a much

better job it would it make you more

productive and there’s just benefit to

sometimes buying something that’s worth

a little bit more because it’ll last and

work better but this woman she heard me

preach on prosperity she understood it

she could quote the scriptures but it

wasn’t working for her and she couldn’t

understand why and as I got to know her

I told her I said it’s because you see

yourself poor

you have fear about being poor you have

never conceived prosperity you could

quote the Scriptures but the image

that’s on the inside of you is poor you

top poor you talk about those rich

people did you know that the moment you

talk about those rich people these

people you know what you’ve done you

have just distanced yourself from ever

being like that I know that the man who

is our media buyer he just went to be

with the Lord not long ago but the man

who is my media buyer Doug nice he came

to Colorado Springs one time and he took

me out to the Broadmoor and we played

golf at the Broadmoor it’s the nicest

golf course I’ve ever played on it was a

fancy fancy place and any way that you

had to have a caddie to play there and

at the end of the thing they were

cleaning my golf clubs which is one of

the things that caddies do and I knew he

was wanting a tip so I pulled out my

wallet and all I had was a $20 bill I

was gonna give him $5.00 so I leaned

over to Doug and I said Doug do you have

change for a 20 and he just looked at me

and he says I’ll take care of it and he

went around and gave my caddy his caddy

every caddy and the foursome $20 tip and

it made me feel about that big but you

know what I was just thinking porting

that Doug was a very prosperous man I

don’t know how prosperous he was but I I

know that he owned a horse that I think

was a million dollars or something so

anyway he was a prosperous man and he

thought differently he saw a different

image and I was thinking poor and that’s

one of the reasons that he was much more

prosperous than me you know not long

after that I went to Phoenix Arizona and

I was playing golf in Phoenix Arizona

and it was on a very nice golf course

there and I had some pastors with me and

when we got through the caddie was

cleaning the clubs and one of the guys

came to me and he said Andrew did he

have changed for a twenty and you know

what by that time I had taken

inspiration from what Doug did I had

changed the way that I thought I’ve been

to start thinking differently and I told

him I said I’ll take care of it I went

around and gave every one of the caddies

a $20 bill you know what that’s a small

thing in a way but it’s a big thing it

reflects how you see yourself you know

God has prospered me I’m not I’m not

like some people might think well I had

one of my employees just come and say

that they saw on the internet that I was

worth 12 million dollars and I said man

I don’t know where they got that from I

couldn’t come up with personally twelve

million dollars if I had to but anyway

people say that I’m not I’m not super

wealthy or prosperous I Drive a car that

was given to me I live in a house that

costs $60,000 to build and things I just

love it but anyway my point is I am NOT

poor but I’m not super wealthy but did

you know what I have started seeing

myself prospering not necessarily so

much on a personal level but in the

ministry I have believed God and our

income now is like 40 times greater than

it was in 2002 when the Lord told me I

was limiting him by my small thinking by

my small imagination

I begin to thinking man we have built we

now have over a hundred and twenty

million dollars worth of assets for our

Bible College and ministry here in

Woodland Park and I only owe 23 million

against it we have I don’t know that’s

probably four-fifths or something like

that or anyway we’ve got a huge debt to

equity ratio and I’m getting that garage

paid off quickly and we’re gonna take

care of that but my point is all of this

happened because I begin to see myself

differently I begin to start thinking

prosperously there are people praying

for prosperity but you see yourself poor

you talk poor you think poor you spend

more money driving across town to save a

dollar in coupons than you do then it’d

be to your advantage to go ahead and pay

the full price did you know my time is

worth a lot I forget right now exactly

what it is but at

one time I know and it’s probably more

than this now but at one time I had to

have seven thousand dollars an hour 24

hours a day seven days a week in order

to just pay my bills here in the

ministry seven thousand dollars an hour

and because of that now if I if I want

to go do something rather than drive an

extra ten minutes so I could save a few

bucks I look at it is you know that’s

ten minutes seven thousand divided by

one sixth of that I don’t even know what

that is but it would cost me hundreds of

dollars to go save ten bucks over here

my time’s worth a lot I think about

things differently I begun to start

seeing it depends on how you see things

if you see yourself poor it becomes a

self-fulfilling prophecy if you see

yourself sick it becomes a

self-fulfilling prophecy if you see

yourself inferior there are people that

I know that have great talents and

abilities and they should be able to

prosper but every time they begin to

prosper somehow or another they find a

way to just short-circuit the thing and

defeat it and it’s because of the way

they think they should be prospering but

they aren’t because their imagination is

operating like a limiter like a governor

you know they put governor’s on cars on

buses on trucks and things like this and

when the speed hits a certain thing this

governor kicks in and it won’t let you

go above that speed and people do this

to restrain their truck drivers so that

they can’t speed and stuff so there’s a

governor a limiter that allows you to

only go so fast did you know your

imagination can be a limiter you can

limit well God can do because if you

can’t see God using if you can’t see

yourself laying hands on the sick and

seeing them recover if you have never

seen yourself doing that you will never

see yourself doing it it will not come

to pass if you can’t see yourself ever

having enough money if you think in lack

and you just live in lack you always be

in lack unless you can see

yourself having extra unless you can see

yourself being prosperous it will never

come to pass as a man thinketh in his

heart so is he proverbs 23:7 ends and

these verses that I’ve used show that

your imagination is a part of that

thinking process it’s where you conceive

things

it’s your spiritual womb so what I’m

trying to do is just to show you how

important your imagination is it’s not

talking about fantasy that is one use of

an imagination and we need to grow out

of fantasy but man we need to use our

imagination to conceive the miracle that

you are desiring from God we hope you

are blessed by today’s episode of the

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