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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Thursday’s broadcast of the gospel truth
today I’m continuing to teach on the
power of imagination I have a brand new
book out on this this is first time
we’ve ever offered it this is my latest
book and I tell you this is powerful
stuff I also have two sets of DVDs one
taken from television and one from a
live meeting and then I have a set of
CDs that were taken from a live meeting
on this and I tell you this teaching on
imagination has revolutionized my life
when the Lord spoke to me January the
31st 2002
I’ve actually got a teaching on this
entitled don’t limit God but it
basically concerned my imagination I
knew what God’s will for my life was but
I hadn’t allowed myself to imagine me
accomplishing it now there’s reasons for
that and that’s what that other teaching
is all about but I’m talking about the
power of imagination and since God just
literally told me to loose my
imagination and start dreaming big
thinking big I tell you it has
transformed our ministry we used to
reach 3% of the US population now we
reach all of the english-speaking world
my programs are broadcast in Farsi in
Russian in Spanish and all kinds of
different languages we reach around the
world and we have over three billion
people that can watch this program on
television networks individual stations
etc and it has just transformed my life
your imagination is powerful and I ended
yesterday’s program I want to go back to
this and Genesis chapter 11 verse 6 it’s
where the law
came down to see the Tower of Babel that
people were building and it says this in
Genesis chapter 11 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 now this is important
this is saying that you can’t do
anything unless you imagine it and if
you can’t imagine it you can do it I
really believe that you know I’m not
going to get into any of the details but
I have not only dreamed about our
ministry and me accomplishing what God
has told me to do but there’s just times
that I was looking at things I really
believe I’m not going to go into the
specifics but God has shown me things
that at this moment mankind can’t do but
I believe that someday we will
accomplish those things you know let me
just use this example that if any of you
are familiar with all of the Star Trek
shows movies and things like this they
had these things called replicators
where you just push a button and it’ll
produce anything you want did you know
that when Star Trek first came out with
these things called replicators and then
you could just produce foods you could
produce tools you could just do anything
you could replicate it make it from this
machine that was total fantasy to most
people but some people took that and
because they could see it even though it
was just a you know in a sense a trick
an illusion on television it wasn’t real
at that time did you know that they now
have you can replicate things my son has
a printer that can print things and he
can’t he prints all kinds of stuff now
he doesn’t have the industrial type
printer but I’ve actually seen on the
internet where they can print a wrench
out of a machine they just push a button
in this thing starts printing it and it
will adjust and they actually were able
to unscrew bolts and things like this
using a replicated thing I’ve also seen
on the internet where they are now
replicating body
parts they are taking things like livers
and stuff and they are using the tissue
from people and printing new body parts
in the hopes that that will cause less
rejection because all of the material
that they’re using come from that person
and I know some of you may not have seen
that but I’ve seen those things they’re
actually doing it this if you can
imagine it you can do it I really
believe that that’s what Jesus are not
Jesus but God the Father back in the Old
Testament this is what he’s saying that
now nothing will be restrained from them
which they have imagined to do I really
believe that if you can imagine it and
not fantasy just you know daydream but
if it becomes a part of you if it is
something that you concede in your
imagination you can give birth to it it
can be done you know at one time it was
impossible to think that people could
fly people thought that was fantasy but
you know what now we fly all the time
not only here around the world but we
have gone to the moon we send things to
the outer limits of this universe and
stuff all of those things were
considered fantasy at one time and yet
men have done it if you can imagine it
you can do it and think of this God saw
that nothing that they imagined will be
restrained unto them and his plan for
the human race was actually threatened
by our imagination and so he came down
and he confounded the languages at
battle so that they couldn’t communicate
words paint pictures and it feeds a
Mandan imagination you know we’ve got a
good friend of mine Mark coward he’s the
one that runs our practical government
school at Karis Bible College and we
were just out eating one day and we were
visiting and catching up and I was
telling him about what God did in my
life on January the 31st 2002 and how he
told me from Psalm 78 41 that I was
limiting the Holy One of God by my small
imagination and ice
dreaming and he’s seen what happened
here in our Bible college and did you
know what words as I spoke what God had
spoken to me it painted a picture on the
inside of mark and by Mark’s own
admission his own statements it just
really impacted his life it transformed
him and so I took what God had put on
the inside of me and what I’d
experienced and with words I
communicated them and I saw the same
transformation happen in Pastor Mark
coward that happened in me and I’ve seen
this happen this is why our whole
ministry is all about you know
television I’m speaking words all over
the world and there are people in the
most remote places I’ve had people from
the South Pole that were there on a
military expedition and shut up there
for six months at a time and somebody
took an entire library of my teachings
down there and left them and out of
boredom they got to listening to these
and they got born again spirit-filled
transform their life on the South Pole
and we’ve got people from every
continent from all over the world and
you know what these words that I’m
speaking they communicate and they touch
the hearts the imaginations of people
and there are people literally all
around the world that have been healed
delivered set free prospered fallen in
love with God become an effective tool
ministering to others because I’m
communicating and so the Lord saw that
because the people were of one language
and they were speaking these words that
nothing would be restrained from them
which they had imagined to do so the way
he stopped that so that his plans could
come to pass he divided the language and
created these different languages so
here’s my point
if the imagination is so powerful that
it could literally threaten God’s plans
for this planet then I tell you what
that is that is quiet a statement right
here it even threatened God’s purposes
when imaginations where you
used in an evil way and he had to do
something to restrain it your
imagination is powerful it is one of the
most powerful forces on this planet and
again going back to my personal
testimony I can promise you that when I
started imagining things things just
transformed you know going back to
January the 31st 2002 when the Lord
finally got it through to me that I was
limiting him my small thinking I called
my staff together On February the 11th
2002 and I told him I said man God has
shown me I’m limiting him by my small
thinking and I said I don’t know how
long it takes to change this image on
the inside and that’s one of the ways I
was limiting him I knew God wanted me to
have a large ministry and be a major
player in the body of Christ but I
hadn’t seen myself doing it I saw myself
being insignificant and not making a
major contribution and there’s reasons
for that that’s what this other teaching
is all about but I called my staff
together and I said I don’t know how
long it takes to change this image on
the inside I don’t know if it takes a
month a week a year multiple years but I
said I am gonna see myself doing what
God called me to do and I began that
process of changing the image on the
inside and my personal testimony is that
before I could notify my partners it
took me about I don’t know close to a
month to put all of these things into
words and write a letter and then it
took about a month for my staff to be
able to proof that produce it mail it
out and the mail get there so it was at
least a couple of months after my
experience before I communicated to my
partner’s what had happened so before
they heard about it before there was any
thing in the natural that happened I
started changing the way I thought I
started seeing us expand and reach out
on new television and radio and do
things and before my partners heard
anything about it did you know it’s like
a dam
broke in the spiritual realm and
finances begin to flood to us we nearly
doubled our income before I told anybody
about it before they heard about it
there was just something in the
spiritual realm that happened I’m
actually the Lord painted a picture to
me that he had been trying to bless me
but my small thinking was like a dam
that just kept all of his blessings from
flowing through he had given them but I
had dammed them up by my small thinking
and when I started changing my thinking
it’s like this dam broke and in the
spiritual realm all of these things
begin to happen and I mean within a
matter of a month or two we started
seeing miracles happen in our finances
and I had also wanted to go on a
television network I had been knocking
on the door for two years and the person
who ran that network was a personal
friend of mine I had been on their
network as a guest I had even preached
they gave me 45 minutes to preach on
this network at the time it was the
second largest network in the world and
yet every time I tried to go on their
network and I contacted them they it’s
like they didn’t want me they gave me a
price for my program that was higher
than their normal rate card and we just
couldn’t work it out I had done
everything I knew to do but did you know
within a week of me making this change
in my thinking they sent me a letter and
said why aren’t you on our network says
you should be and they said you just
send us the material of the programs
we’re gonna start you this coming Monday
and we will give you a price that I
guarantee you you can afford and they
did and I mean all of a sudden when I
changed the image on the inside things
that weren’t working on the outside all
of a sudden begin to work finances begin
to come in I also needed somebody to run
our ministry we had hired three
different people before but they just
didn’t work out and so Jamie had taken
over being the CEO of our ministry just
because we love our ministry more than
anybody else did and so she was doing a
good
job but man it was a strain on her it’s
not her real gifting and she wanted out
of it but how do you take a ministry
that is based on giving everything away
and bring in somebody with the physical
financial expertise that we need and yet
everything is given away this was always
a conflict with all of these previous
managers that we had and so we were in a
dilemma we needed somebody with the
financial expertise that could run a
large ministry but we also needed people
spiritual enough to be able to give
things away and within a week of me
changing the way I was thinking and
started dreaming bigger I had a man call
me who he was actually one of my board
members I called him because we were
gonna cancel a board meeting because I’d
had a death in the family and I had to
go so I called him to cancel and when I
called him he says well I’m glad you
called because God has just spoken to me
to leave his position he was a
management position in a you know you
know a worldwide business secular
business he had actually taught in their
university training people how to run
businesses and he was just a high-level
executive in this thing and when I
called him he says God told me to quit
my job and come out and take your
ministry to the next level did you know
that was a miracle Jamie and I for years
had been praying and looking and trying
to find somebody and I mean within a
week of me changing the way I thought
and I started seeing myself
accomplishing things the finances
increased opportunities to go on
television networks increased people
that I needed to be able to accomplish
it those people just begin to come out
of the woodwork did you know at that
time January the 31st 2002 we had 28
employees we now have over 650 employees
about 500 in the US and 150 around the
world we only had one office excuse me
we had a second office in the UK in 2002
now we have I think it’s 16
offices around the world we had I think
at that time two or three different
locations of our carriers Bible call is
now we have 65 70 locations around the
world we had probably around 200 people
in our Bible College this year we’re
gonna have a thousand in our main campus
and around the world we’ll have seven or
eight thousand I’m just giving these
statistics to show you that when I
changed the way I thought it changed
what God could do in my life again I go
back to all of the things that I’ve been
saying this week if you’ve missed any of
this teaching please go back to our
website or get the materials and study
this because I’ve shared that your
imagination is your spiritual womb the
Hebrew word ye t ser that was translated
imagination in five different places in
the Old Testament it was translated
frame in Psalms 103 14 it was translated
mind and Isaiah 26:3 all of these words
though that word means conception this
is how things happen you have to
conceive it in your imagination if you
can’t see it in your heart you won’t see
it on the outside and this is where so
many people are missing if they’re
praying for God’s will they’re praying
for their marriage to be healed they’re
praying for their body to be healed
they’re praying for their finances to be
healed
they’re praying for their emotions to be
healed and yet they don’t see it they
haven’t let the word of God
paint a picture on the inside of you you
see yourself depressed you see yourself
poor you see yourself a failure and it
becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy you
know Don Crow who’s a super good friend
of mine he ministered with me for I
don’t know 25 or 30 years and Don was
just one of my closest friends he’s my
best man in my wedding
and anyway Don I meant his father and
his father was just a mean angry person
and he was very very hard on
and they had a farm in Ralston Oklahoma
he had I don’t know how many cars but 20
30 50 cars or whatever they were just
junk cars on his property and he used
them for parts he would cannibalize
things and he was always working around
the farm and fixing something and he
would have done work with him and like I
said he was just a bitter angry person
and he told dawn when he was a kid he
said you’re so stupid you can’t screw a
nut on a boat without cross threading it
and he just trashed not and anyway as a
result did you know that those words
painted a picture in Don and Don had to
deal with and praise God he dealt with
it and he overcame it to a very large
degree but he had to deal with this this
thought that you’re just such you’re so
stupid you can’t even put a nut on a
boat without cross three men and Don had
to really deal with a lot of
condemnation and I remember working on a
car with him and he was probably in his
30s or 40s at the time and Don would
literally shake when he started screwing
a nut on a boat because of the words
that his father had spoken over him and
he would put that nut on and he did it
just perfectly but he’d think I maybe I
crossed three so he would take it off
and redo it and I saw him do that so
many times that he actually wound up
cross threading that boat it became a
self-fulfilling prophecy and did you
know that there are some of you that you
maybe your parents maybe your friends
maybe some negative experience maybe a
failure in a marriage are being fired
from a job are who knows just all of the
things that can happen you have an image
on the inside of who you are and what
you can do and it limits God you’ve
allowed other people to force an
identity on you that is not consistent
with who you are now in Christ in Christ
you are a brand-new person and it says
in Philippians 4:13 Paul said I can do
all things through Christ who
strengthens me you’ve got to
change that image you know my dad died
when I was 12 years old and my brother
is four-and-a-half years older than me
so he was 16 or 17 when my dad died and
anyway he wanted to become he even told
me one time he says you know our dad’s
gone I’m gonna be your father I’m gonna
help you and boy I resented that I you
know I’m not sure that he was wrong and
what he meant but I resented it and I
went the other direction and you know
this sibling rivalry is a great mechanic
when he was just 16 or 17 years old he
had a car that he took the motor apart
nearly down to the last nut and bolt we
had a two-car garage in for a year so we
weren’t able to use it because he had
his car in there and he had taken the
motor apart just to see what it was like
and to see if he could put it back
together and he did and it ran and
anyway he became a mechanic and he tried
to teach me some of these things but you
know this sibling rivalry I just said no
and I went the other direction and to
this day what I don’t know about motors
and mechanical things is amazing I
specifically went the other direction so
I had this inferiority this feeling of I
can’t do anything mechanical that was
just in me and when the Lord touched my
life and changed me I started trying to
break out of there I had to change the
way I saw myself and I remember taking a
little serving bow we had this house
that we rented and we bought the
people’s furniture that was in there and
one of the things they had was a wooden
car carved a serving bowl that had
grapes and things carved in it and on
the bottom when you picked it up it had
a little music box that played now this
may sound like a very small thing to you
but you know what I just determined I
can do all things through Christ and I
had to change that image on the inside
prior to that time I would have said man
it’s mechanical I can’t deal with it but
I just started saying I can do this and
I took that thing apart i unscrewed it I
took all the things apart and worked on
it and did you know what I fixed it into
this day I have that
little serving bowl in my office and you
pick it up and you can hear that little
music box play
I had a washer washing machine that was
given to us and Jamie and I needed it
but it was broken and so the people got
a new one and they said if you want it
you can fix it again I didn’t have any
money to fix it I took that thing apart
prayed in tongues over it and fix that
washing machine and used it for years
now those are small things but you know
what it’s illustrates how I was changing
this image on the inside in the past I
would have just said nope that’s not my
expertise I can’t do it but I began to
let the word of God the incorruptible
seed of God’s Word to paint a picture
that I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me and I started
applying myself in changing that picture
and it changed everything
and to this day I have a can-do attitude
I have a new identity because I am a new
person if you’ve been born again you can
do all things you need to change that
image on the inside that’s talking about
your imagination it becomes a limiter a
governor on what God can do in your life
and you need to take the limits off God
again I’m out of time but I’m going to
continue this on my program tomorrow
I’ve got a brand new book entitled the
power of imagination and I really
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you get to a point where it’s like what
can I do for this ministry now as
opposed to not what can it do for me
what Andrews doing I’m doing it with
them when I partner with them Jamie and
I are here just to thank you so much for
being partners with us I tell you we are
reaching around the world I remember
when Jamie and I were it I would run the
sound while she was doing the praise and
worship and then she’d come back and run
the sound while I was preaching we did
it all ourselves now we have so many
people helping us and it couldn’t happen
without you it’s very true when very
thankful for our partners and what
they’re doing and you’re going around
the world too and everything that this
ministry does amen so we just wanted to
say a special thank you and we love you
and every good thing that is happening
through this ministry you’re gonna share
in every one of those rewards so god
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we’d like to point out Andrews upcoming
speaking schedule mark your calendars to
come meet Andrew at one of these events
and like a word of God transform your
life in October Andrew will be in West
Bromwich England then he’ll be in
Walsall England for the European
ministers conference with guest speakers
Paul Milligan Billy Eberhardt and pastor
Bobby and Ian
lastly in October Paul Milligan and
Billy upper heart will be speaking in
Walsall England at the International
Business Summit
please note andrew will not be speaking
at this event and in November at Karis
Bible College in Woodland Park Colorado
will be hosting the women arise
conference with speakers Carly Tara des
Dorothy Brown and pastors sue sheriff
insurace Johnson will also be hosting
the musical Esther the queen of Persia a
police note andrew will not be speaking
at these events later in November Andrew
will be in Woodland Park to host
Handel’s Messiah performed by the
Colorado Springs chorale for more
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