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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you today about protecting your imagination.
Speaker 1: We all have pictures that we see in our mind.
Speaker 1: God created us as visual beings, like a movie screen.
Speaker 1: Different images will come up, sometimes we're not even thinking
Speaker 1: about it, and the negative imagination will come. We'll see
Speaker 1: our business going down, our child getting off course, us
Speaker 1: losing our health. There's no truth to it. It's not
Speaker 1: going to come to pass. But if you let that play,
Speaker 1: you'll go through the day worried. Wrong imaginations will keep
Speaker 1: you awakened. Dwelling on these negative images will cause you
Speaker 1: to live in fear. It will keep you from expecting
Speaker 1: God's best. It's all an imagination. It's not a reality.
Speaker 1: It's just something you're seeing in your mind, and it's
Speaker 1: one thing to have something to deal with that's actually happening.
Speaker 1: We all face challenges, but too often we're letting these
Speaker 1: wrong imaginations of what might happen, what might not work out,
Speaker 1: what might fall apart to steal our joy cause us
Speaker 1: to live stressed. The good news is you control your imagination.
Speaker 1: You control what pictures play in your mind. Just because
Speaker 1: that negative image comes doesn't mean you have to tune in.
Speaker 1: You can change the channel. The scripture tells us to
Speaker 1: cast down these wrong imaginations, quit letting these negative images play.
Speaker 1: When my mother was fighting terminal cancer, in the middle
Speaker 1: of the night, lying in bed, she would see herself
Speaker 1: being buried in a new pink dress that she had
Speaker 1: never worn. That picture came up on the movie screen
Speaker 1: of her life. She didn't ask for it, she wasn't
Speaker 1: thinking about it. She was trying to stay in faith.
Speaker 1: But these negative imaginations will come, especially when we're in
Speaker 1: difficult times, and they'll show us all the worst case scenarios.
Speaker 1: Have you ever noticed when you're in the heat of
Speaker 1: the battle, you never see pictures of you overcoming the sickness,
Speaker 1: if your business taken off, you're meeting the person of
Speaker 1: your dreams. Those pictures don't automatically come. It's just the opposite.
Speaker 1: If my mother would have pulled up a chair and
Speaker 1: watched that movie night after night of her being buried
Speaker 1: in that pink dress. That would have taken root in
Speaker 1: her spirit. She would have become depressed, defeated, and might
Speaker 1: not be here today. And when you see these negative pictures,
Speaker 1: don't take debate. They are not a reality. That is
Speaker 1: not predicting your future. That is a wrong imagination that
Speaker 1: you need to cast down. Quit worrying about something that's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. Quit losing sleep over something that's
Speaker 1: just in your mind. That's the enemy trying to torment you,
Speaker 1: try to convince you to live stressed out, worried. He
Speaker 1: knows he can't bring it to pass. He doesn't have
Speaker 1: that authority, so the next best thing he'll do is
Speaker 1: try to deceive you into believing that it's a reality,
Speaker 1: so you don't enjoy your life. Don't fall into that trap.
Speaker 1: Guard your mind. I talked to a man that was
Speaker 1: very concerned about his health. His father died at the
Speaker 1: age of forty six, his grandfather died at fifty one,
Speaker 1: and other relatives had died early deaths as well. All
Speaker 1: through his thirties and forties, he was so stress, so fearful.
Speaker 1: Every voice said, that's going to be you, too bad.
Speaker 1: It's in your genes, You're not going to make it.
Speaker 1: Those images would come in his mind. He saw himself
Speaker 1: like his father, getting sick, going downhill. When he made
Speaker 1: it to his forty seventh birthday, he was so happy,
Speaker 1: so relieved. He made it past his father's He was
Speaker 1: still strong and healthy. Thought said, don't get too happy.
Speaker 1: You made it to forty seven, but you'll never make
Speaker 1: it to fifty one. It's just a matter of time.
Speaker 1: Those images kept coming, him going downhill, him losing his health.
Speaker 1: But he made it past fifty one. He made it
Speaker 1: past sixty one, past seventy one, past eighty one. He
Speaker 1: was ninety three years old, looked like he was seventy, strong, healthy, joyful.
Speaker 1: He said, Joel, if I had it to do over again,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have lived all those years worried, losing slight,
Speaker 1: afraid that my health wasn't going to last. Are you
Speaker 1: worrying about a wrong imagination, about something that's not going
Speaker 1: to come to pass. Are you going to look back
Speaker 1: years from now and have to say, like him, if
Speaker 1: I could do it over again, I wouldn't spend all
Speaker 1: that time discouraged, afraid over what I thought was going
Speaker 1: to happen. Why don't you start changing the channel. Those
Speaker 1: negative pictures are not a reality. Some of the things
Speaker 1: the enemy is showing you he should win an Academy award.
Speaker 1: It looks very real, it looks impressive, but it's all
Speaker 1: made up. It is not going to happen. Quit believing
Speaker 1: those lies. This scripture goes on to say, you have
Speaker 1: to bring down every high thing that exalts itself above
Speaker 1: what God says about you. God's not going to do
Speaker 1: it for you. You have to bring it down. God
Speaker 1: says you will lend and not borrow. Whatever you touch
Speaker 1: will prosper and succeed. Instead of watching that picture of
Speaker 1: you struggling, not having enough business, going down, cast down
Speaker 1: that imagination that's exalting itself above what God promised you,
Speaker 1: start seeing yourself prosperous, coming out of debt, paying your
Speaker 1: house off, having an abundance so you can be a
Speaker 1: blessing to others. That image is not going to automatically come,
Speaker 1: but you can create it. Use your imagination for the
Speaker 1: right purposes to see what God says about you. God says,
Speaker 1: with long life, he will satisfy you. Instead of watching
Speaker 1: that channel of you going downhill being buried, in that
Speaker 1: pink dress, not making it past your father's death. Bring
Speaker 1: down that imagination, start seeing yourself strong, healthy, living a full,
Speaker 1: blessed life. Or maybe you've gone through a disappointment, a loss,
Speaker 1: an unfair situation. Life hasn't turned out the way you
Speaker 1: had planned. Those images will come up of you living depressed, lonely,
Speaker 1: never fulfilled. But God says he will give you beauty
Speaker 1: for those ashes, that he will pay you back double
Speaker 1: for what was unfair, That he will take what was
Speaker 1: meant for your harm and use it to your advantage.
Speaker 1: Those pictures that are showing you defeated, rejected, lonely, they
Speaker 1: are exalting themselves above what God said about you. Don't
Speaker 1: let them stay up, bring them down. They are not
Speaker 1: a reality. See, the enemy will show you the ashes.
Speaker 1: What he won't show you is the beauty that's coming.
Speaker 1: He'll show you the loss. What he wants show you
Speaker 1: is the new beginning that's on the way. He'll show
Speaker 1: you that it's all downhill from here. What he wants
Speaker 1: show you is the double that's coming, double the joy,
Speaker 1: double the peace, the fulfillment. Now do your part, protect
Speaker 1: your imagination, protect what you're seeing when those images come
Speaker 1: that show you going downhill. They are not from God
Speaker 1: and they are not a reality. Don't waste thirty years
Speaker 1: living worried, stressed out. Switch over into faith. The mistake
Speaker 1: many people make is they only watch one channel whatever
Speaker 1: comes up in their imagination. They think that's all there is,
Speaker 1: so they watch it. You need to get cable in
Speaker 1: your mind. I have five hundred stations at home. When
Speaker 1: I'm watching something I don't like, I don't sit there
Speaker 1: and endure it. I simply change the channel. It's the
Speaker 1: same way in your mind. You can have a lot
Speaker 1: of different channels. On one channel, I see myself happy, fulfilled,
Speaker 1: enjoying life. On another channel, I see myself healthy, hold strong.
Speaker 1: On another channel. I see my self prosperous, blessed out
Speaker 1: of death. On another channel. I see Victoria loving me
Speaker 1: with her whole heart. On another channel, I see Victoria
Speaker 1: loving me with her whole heart. I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of those channels. On another channel, I see my children
Speaker 1: doing amazing things, fulfilling their purpose, leaving their mark. On
Speaker 1: another channel, I see our ministry growing, helping more people.
Speaker 1: In another channel, I see myself living into my nineties, healthy, strong,
Speaker 1: finishing my course with joy. So when I switch on
Speaker 1: one of those channels that showed me going downhill, losing
Speaker 1: my health, family falling apart, business drying up, I'm smart
Speaker 1: enough to say, no thanks, I'm not watching that channel.
Speaker 1: I don't watch the defeat channel. I don't watch the
Speaker 1: things are going downhill channel. I don't watch the bad
Speaker 1: memories channel. I stay on the victory channel, the favor channel,
Speaker 1: the more than enough chane channel, the overcoming channel. In
Speaker 1: your mind, when these negative imaginations come up, it's real simple.
Speaker 1: Change the channel. Quit watching things that are depressing you,
Speaker 1: making you worried, causing you to live in fear, not
Speaker 1: pursue your dreams. Cast down those imaginations. You control what
Speaker 1: plays in your mind. You can't stop all the negative
Speaker 1: images from coming, but you can stop them from staying.
Speaker 1: You have the remote control. Don't get stuck on that
Speaker 1: one channel. There was a young lady that came down
Speaker 1: for prayer. She and her husband wanted to have a
Speaker 1: baby in They'd been trying for many years with no success,
Speaker 1: and she'd gone through all the fertility treatments. She said, Joel,
Speaker 1: I've been worried since I was in my early teens
Speaker 1: that i wouldn't be able to have a baby. Because
Speaker 1: if my mother had a terrible time getting pregnant with me,
Speaker 1: my grandmother had the same problem. Other family members have
Speaker 1: struggled with infertility. I always knew this was going to
Speaker 1: happen to me. What you constantly dwell on is creating
Speaker 1: a picture in your imagination. Many times, the enemy doesn't
Speaker 1: have to put negative images in our mind. We're creating
Speaker 1: them with their own thoughts. Now I told her what
Speaker 1: I'm telling you. You have to change the channel. Quit
Speaker 1: seeing yourself bearing, not able to have a child, disappointed,
Speaker 1: cast down that imagination. God says, the fruit of your
Speaker 1: womb is blessed. He says, your seed will be mighty
Speaker 1: in the land. He said in Psalms, you will be
Speaker 1: the happy mother of children. That means that infertility is
Speaker 1: exalting itself above what God says about you. You have
Speaker 1: to bring that down. She changed the chad. She started
Speaker 1: seeing herself with a baby. She switched off that station
Speaker 1: of all of her relatives bearing disappointed. She started seeing
Speaker 1: her and her husband playing with this baby, having fun,
Speaker 1: going around as a family. Three years later, she came
Speaker 1: back with a beautiful baby girl. Medically speaking, she wasn't
Speaker 1: supposed to have a child, but God has the final say.
Speaker 1: God controls the whole universe. Are negative pictures keeping you
Speaker 1: from your dreams? Do you see yourself overcoming that addiction,
Speaker 1: happily married, accomplishing what God put in your heart? Or
Speaker 1: you watching the wrong channel? The scripture tells us in
Speaker 1: Timothy to have a disciplined mind. You can't watch every
Speaker 1: imagination that comes up. Your mind will naturally gravitate toward
Speaker 1: the negative. If your business starts to slow down, don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if in your imagine nation you start seeing
Speaker 1: the creditors coming. You see you having to lay people off,
Speaker 1: You see the doors closing. If you're not disciplined and
Speaker 1: you let that play, you'll go around worried, stressed out.
Speaker 1: What's the answer? Change the channel. You can create new
Speaker 1: pictures in your mind. Start seeing your business taking off,
Speaker 1: seeing new customers finding you, seeing opportunities chasing you down.
Speaker 1: If you're struggling with an illness like my mom, those
Speaker 1: negative imaginations will come. You'll see yourself going downhill, not
Speaker 1: able to go back to work. Be disciplined in your
Speaker 1: thought life. When you're facing a physical battle, you need
Speaker 1: all of your energy to go toward you getting well.
Speaker 1: When you're watching negative imaginations, that's taking your strength, draining
Speaker 1: your energy, making you weaker. Put up some new pictures.
Speaker 1: Start seeing yourself strong and healthy. See yourself out exercising,
Speaker 1: full of energy. See yourself living a long, blessed life.
Speaker 1: If you'll use your imagination the right way, it will
Speaker 1: help you stay hopeful and to believe that God can
Speaker 1: turn it around. When God promised Abraham that he was
Speaker 1: going to be the father of many nations, he was
Speaker 1: in his eighties, too old to have a baby, and
Speaker 1: God told him to go outside his tent, look up
Speaker 1: into the nighttime sky, and as many stars as he
Speaker 1: could see. That's how many descendants he would have. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a coincidence that God wanted him to have a
Speaker 1: picture of it, something that he could see. God knew
Speaker 1: these negative images would come. He knew Abraham would start
Speaker 1: seeing himself as being too old, thinking about how impossible
Speaker 1: it was. So God gave him this picture. And every
Speaker 1: time Abraham was tempted to get worried and talk himself
Speaker 1: out of it, he would go out and look up
Speaker 1: at the sky. He'd imagine how those stars represented what
Speaker 1: God promised him. What's playing on the picture screen of
Speaker 1: your mind, what God has spoken over you, how you'll
Speaker 1: accomplish your dreams, break the addiction, see your health restored.
Speaker 1: Or are you letting discouraging pictures play. If the only
Speaker 1: images you're seeing are negative, it's going to limit you.
Speaker 1: God wants to use your imagination to create fresh vision,
Speaker 1: to make you hopeful, to help you stay filled with faith.
Speaker 1: There was a gentleman diagnosed with cancer of the bladder.
Speaker 1: The doctors told him that it was inoperable. He took chemotherapy,
Speaker 1: but it didn't do any good, and all they could
Speaker 1: do was give him some pain medicine and send him home.
Speaker 1: They told him he had less than a year to live.
Speaker 1: But instead of being depressed giving up on life, he
Speaker 1: did something interesting. All through they he imagined armies of
Speaker 1: healing white blood cells flowing through his body. He pictured
Speaker 1: them coming down from his head, going through his veins
Speaker 1: into his organs, attacking those cantrist cells. He said, these
Speaker 1: images were as clear in my mind as if I
Speaker 1: was watching them on television. Hundreds of times throughout the
Speaker 1: day he saw life, healing, wholeness flowing back into him.
Speaker 1: The whole time thanking God that he was restoring health,
Speaker 1: that he could do the impossible. He went back a
Speaker 1: year later for a checkup. The doctor said, we can't
Speaker 1: explain it. We don't know how this has happened, but
Speaker 1: we can't find any sign of cancer in your body.
Speaker 1: You may be struggling with an illness. The medical report
Speaker 1: doesn't look good. But instead of dwelling on these negative images,
Speaker 1: why don't you start imagining right now, these healing cells
Speaker 1: flow and through you. Picture these cells that are full
Speaker 1: of the life of the Most High God, attacking and
Speaker 1: devouring every sick and disease. Sell in you. See yourself
Speaker 1: getting healthier, See yourself coming out of that sick bed.
Speaker 1: Cancer is no match for our God. What's trying to
Speaker 1: stop you is no match for the creator of the universe.
Speaker 1: Keep the right pictures playing in your mind. Don't let
Speaker 1: your imagination be used to worry you, to defeat you.
Speaker 1: Turn it around and use it to encourage you, to
Speaker 1: strengthen you, to inspire you. God said in Jeremiah, I
Speaker 1: have set you over the nations, to rule over kingdoms,
Speaker 1: to pull down and root out, to build and plant.
Speaker 1: Notice the order before you can build and plant, before
Speaker 1: the situation will turn around before you see increase. You
Speaker 1: have to pull down and root out. Like Jeremiah, God
Speaker 1: has a place of victory for you where you will
Speaker 1: rule over everything that's holding you back. But you have
Speaker 1: to first pull down these wrong imaginations. You have to
Speaker 1: root out any negative pictures. If you're going to a
Speaker 1: job interview, don't imagine that you're not going to get it.
Speaker 1: Don't imagine that they're not going to like you. You're
Speaker 1: defeating yourself before you get there. Pull down that imagination
Speaker 1: and imagine them choosing you. Imagine you standing out. Imagine
Speaker 1: you working there, excelling at that position. If you let
Speaker 1: these negative imaginations play, they'll cause you to be weak, timid,
Speaker 1: feel unqualified. Change the channel, Joel. What if I do
Speaker 1: that and it doesn't work. What if you do it
Speaker 1: and it does work. If you do it and you
Speaker 1: don't get the position, that just means God has something
Speaker 1: better in store. But if you're always letting these negative
Speaker 1: images play you, you will never know what you could
Speaker 1: have become. If you feel a pain in your side,
Speaker 1: thoughts will tell you, oh man, that's serious. That's the
Speaker 1: same thing that took your uncle's life. He didn't make
Speaker 1: it that long. Neither will you. If you're not disciplined
Speaker 1: in your mind, you'll get all paniced. You'll start thinking
Speaker 1: of all the worst case scenarios. By the time you
Speaker 1: get home, you'll be righting out your will, making your
Speaker 1: final arrangements. All it was was you had too much
Speaker 1: pizza for lunch. You just needed some pepto bismo. Even
Speaker 1: if it is something serious, what's going to help you
Speaker 1: to stay in peace is to keep the right images
Speaker 1: in your mind. Most of the things that come against
Speaker 1: us are not what we think they are. We let
Speaker 1: our imaginations run wild and show us all the worst
Speaker 1: case possibilities. If you hear a siren at night your
Speaker 1: children are not home, thoughts will tell you that's your child.
Speaker 1: Your son's been in an accident. He's headed to the
Speaker 1: hospital right now, So get up, do something about it.
Speaker 1: If you let that plane before long, you'll see the ambulance,
Speaker 1: you'll see the accident, You'll see it all taking place.
Speaker 1: Those are wrong imaginations that you have to cast down
Speaker 1: instead of believing those lies, worrying, imagining the worst. Turn
Speaker 1: it around. Father, Thank you that my children are in
Speaker 1: the palm of your hand. Thank you that no weapon
Speaker 1: formed against them will prosper. Thank you that your angels
Speaker 1: are watching over them, keeping them from accident and harm.
Speaker 1: What am I saying, be disciplined in your mind. Don't
Speaker 1: let your imagination run wild and show you all the
Speaker 1: negative possibilities. There was a twenty three year old young
Speaker 1: lady named Sarah. She went to the grocery store to
Speaker 1: pick up a few items. When she got back in
Speaker 1: her car, she heard a loud noise and felt something
Speaker 1: hit her in the back of the head. She thought
Speaker 1: she'd been shocked. She reached up and felt what she
Speaker 1: thought were her brains coming out. She initially passed out.
Speaker 1: When she woke up, she sat in the car motionless
Speaker 1: for over an hour, holding the back of her head,
Speaker 1: trying to keep her brains in. A man walked by
Speaker 1: and noticed something was wrong called the police. The police
Speaker 1: came and asked her to open the car door. She
Speaker 1: said she couldn't she had been shot and she was
Speaker 1: holding her brains in. The police broke open the back window.
Speaker 1: They discovered a can of Pillsbury biscuits had exploded. The
Speaker 1: dough had shot out and hit her in the back
Speaker 1: of the head. Maybe what you're imagining is not what
Speaker 1: you think it is. Maybe that's not your brains after all.
Speaker 1: Here's my point. Maybe you're not stuck. Maybe the addiction
Speaker 1: is not permanent. Maybe your health isn't going downhill. Maybe
Speaker 1: your dream is achievable. Perhaps all those pictures that had
Speaker 1: been playing in your imagination are not your true reality.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're just a bunch of dough trying to keep
Speaker 1: you from moving forward. Do yourself a favor, open up
Speaker 1: the car door, let go of your brains, and get gold.
Speaker 1: About a year after I began ministering, the church was
Speaker 1: really growing and we decided to start a second Sunday
Speaker 1: morning service. Now, I announced that on the first Sunday
Speaker 1: of the year two thousand, we were going to have
Speaker 1: this new early morning service. This was in October, so
Speaker 1: I had several months to think about it. During that time,
Speaker 1: all kinds of negative thoughts told me, Joel, this is
Speaker 1: a big mistake. Nobody's going to calme. You're going to
Speaker 1: look like a fool. I tried to stay in faith,
Speaker 1: but one night I had a dream, A better description
Speaker 1: was a nightmare. It was that first Sunday of our
Speaker 1: new service. When I went out to minister, not one
Speaker 1: person was in the auditorium, not Victoria, not my mother,
Speaker 1: not a musician, not an usher, nobody. I woke up
Speaker 1: in a cold sweat. Thoughts told me you better cancel it.
Speaker 1: There's still time to call it off. You can halfway
Speaker 1: save face. All through the day, that image of that
Speaker 1: empty auditorium would come up. I had to do what
Speaker 1: I'm asking you to do, change the channel. Sometimes I'd
Speaker 1: change it and the same picture would be on the
Speaker 1: next station, kind of like watching the presidential debates. They
Speaker 1: are everywhere. I had to keep flipping and flipping till
Speaker 1: I found something encouraging. The week of that first service
Speaker 1: rolled around and I was talking to my mom. I
Speaker 1: kind of nonchalantly said, are you coming to the new
Speaker 1: service this Sunday? She looked at me puzzled and said, Joel,
Speaker 1: does it start this weekend? Thought, dear Lord, we've announced
Speaker 1: at four hundred and thirty seven times my old mother's
Speaker 1: not coming. That dream might have been a prophecy, but
Speaker 1: I said, yes, it starts this weekend. You need to come.
Speaker 1: Bring all your friends, enemy, neighbors, cousins, relatives, ancestors. It
Speaker 1: wasn't easy, but I kept changing the channel. I made
Speaker 1: up my mind. I am not watching the empty auditorium channel.
Speaker 1: I'm not watching that nobody's coming channel. I'm going to
Speaker 1: stay on the victory channel. In my imagination, through my
Speaker 1: eyes of faith, I saw thousands of people coming on
Speaker 1: that first Sunday of two thousand. I was so nervous
Speaker 1: I left the house an hour early. When I pulled
Speaker 1: up to the property, one parking lot was already full.
Speaker 1: We had over six thousand people that day, and they've
Speaker 1: been coming ever since. What am I saying? Cast down
Speaker 1: these wrong imaginations? They are not a reality. They are
Speaker 1: trying to deceive you into living worried, afraid, so you
Speaker 1: will give up on your dreams. Why is it that
Speaker 1: we let our imagination run wild only in the negative direction.
Speaker 1: We imagine the worst, Imagine what's not going to work out.
Speaker 1: Why don't you start letting your imagination run wild in
Speaker 1: the right direction. Imagine living a supersized life. Imagine accomplishing
Speaker 1: your dream, Imagine your children doing amazing things. Let's keep
Speaker 1: the right pictures in our minds. When those negative images
Speaker 1: come up, be quick to change the channel. Remember they
Speaker 1: are not a reality. If you will protect your imagination,
Speaker 1: I believe and declare, like Abraham, God is going to
Speaker 1: bring promises to pass. You're going to overcome obstacles, accomplish
Speaker 1: your dreams, and reach the fullness of your destiny. In
Speaker 1: Jesus's name. If you receive it, can you say it? Men? Today,
Speaker 1: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus
Speaker 1: the lord of your life. Would you pray with me?
Speaker 1: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come
Speaker 1: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior.
Speaker 1: If you pray that that simple prayer, we believe you
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Speaker 1: Keep God first place. He's going to take your places
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