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The Difference Between “Sight” and “Vision”

  • Sight “sees.” Vision “imagines.”
  • Sight is for “seeing” pictures. Vision is for “painting” pictures.
  • Sight is for “walking paths.” Vision is for “determining paths.”
  • Sight sees with the eyes in your “head.” Vision sees with the eyes in your “heart.”
  • Sight sees what “appears to be happening.” Vision sees what is “really happening.”
  • Sight is for seeing the “visible.”  Vision is for seeing the “invisible.
  • Sight is for “seeing.” Vision is for “dreaming.”

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  • Sight is for “gathering facts.” Vision is for “applying truth to facts.”
  • Sight is for “information.” Vision is for “revelation.”
  • Sight is for “the present.” Vision is for “the future.”
  • Sight is for determining the “question.” Vision is for determining “the answer.”
  • Sight is for seeing “the problem.” Vision is for seeing “the solution.”
  • Sight is for “today.” Vision is for “tomorrow.”
  • Sight is for seeing “what is.” Vision is for seeing “what could be.”

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The Power to Live in “Today” While Thinking Into “Tomorrow”

Not only should I be “thinking” ahead, but I should be “going” ahead. You see, you must go into the future on the “inside” before you’ll ever get there on the “outside.” The other night I was speaking to someone who was in Paris. It was Thursday night where I was at. I said, “What time is it there?” She said, “It’s 10 am.” She said, “I’m already in the future.” Wow! I was in Thursday evening and she was already in Friday morning…both at the same time.

That is why God gives you an imagination—to allow you to visit an amazing future ahead of time. He gives you an imagination to allow you to see pictures of an awesome future to motivate the actions necessary to get there. Imagine-nation. God allows you to go and get images from “another” nation and bring them to “your” nation to produce a “new” nation (a new personal world). What images are you capturing about your future?

You can do something significant “today” that will trigger something more amazing “tomorrow.” This moment is setting up the next moment. This moment is setting up a future moment. This moment is pregnant with power. This moment is pregnant with purpose.

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God has made us bi-dimensional. You can be in this moment and set something in motion for the next moment. In so doing, you are in both moments at the same time. Just because something appears to not be going right in the current moment doesn’t mean that trend will continue.

Your “heart” is more intelligent than your “circumstances.” What is your heart telling you? I’m not asking what your circumstances are saying. Have you listened to what your heart has to say? If not, break away from everything and get in a quiet place and just listen. Is your heart saying?…

  • Things are going to get better.
  • This situation IS going to turn around.
  • As long as you have time you have a chance for a turnaround.
  • Your destiny is ordering divine corrections.
  • You always come out on top.
  • Break away from the details.
  • Break away from a certain person.
  • Get away from a certain group of people.
  • Every storm that “starts” has a “finish.”
  • Even if it doesn’t turn out the way you think, it will still turn out in your favor.
  • The presence of difficulty does not mean the absence of God.
  • You made it through every difficulty up to this point and are still standing.
  • You’re “unkillable!”

What is your heart saying?

Although you are in your “present” you can still affect your “future.” You are so powerful that you can live in “today” while thinking into “tomorrow.”

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Birthing Results!

More often than not we try to produce significant “external results” without any meaningful “internal support.” In other words, in order to birth something significant you have to be pregnant with it first. We often focus on the result instead of focusing on what produces it.

When what you’re carrying becomes bigger than the womb that’s holding it, it is forced to be released to a world with enough capacity to hold it. All it takes is feeding what you’re pregnant with until it becomes too big to stay inside.

What is it that you want to birth? What results can you no longer live without? Who is it that you need to become? Get pregnant first. You have to get pregnant with what it is that you’re going after. Take it in. Plant it in your spirit. Then, start feeding that baby—and in nine (9) months, boom, you will have that “baby.” Now elephants are pregnant for 22 months before they give birth. The revelation is this, if you want to produce elephant size results, you must be willing to feed what you’re pregnant with for a longer period of time.

There are times when you realize that you are already pregnant with a dream or desire, and there are other times when you realize that you need to get pregnant with your desire. There has to come a moment in your life where you decide what is missing in your life “today” will not be allowed to be non-existent “tomorrow.”

Are you already pregnant with something great? If so, you better feed that baby. You become what you’re full of. What is it that you can no longer live without? Start feeding that thing. Give it a constant dose of 5 things:

  1. Visualization

You have to go there on the “inside” before you can go there on the “outside.” You must get an image on the inside of what it is that you’re trying to produce. You must keep images in front of your eyes of what you desire to see in your life. Get images of it—both internal images and actual pictures.

  1. Meditation

Biblical meditation is not the absence of thought. It’s not trying to rid your mind of thoughts. It is the deliberate repetition of God’s word in your mouth & mind. Meditation is to go over in your mind; to mutter (which is to speak with a low voice under your breath). God told Joshua that his success is tied to his ability to meditate (see Joshua 1:8).

3.   Revelation

Open your heart to the unveiling—the revealing of something specific about what it is that you’re trying to produce. What you entertain believes it has a chance to enter your life. Expect for your vision to be awakened to see and know things that you never knew before. Look for answers to suddenly appear.

4.  Expectation

Expectation is giving the future something to prepare for. That’s right—your expectation gives your future an assignment to obey. Expect to see in your “future” what you currently see in your “spirit.” Expectation is a form of releasing your faith. Faith has to be released in order for it to produce.

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  1. Declaration

A declaration is an emphatic statement backed by power and authority. The atmosphere has ears. The atmosphere is pre-coded to obey commands from those with authority. After Jesus effectively got the winds to obey him, people concluded, “Even the winds and waves obey Him.” When was the last time you even attempted to speak to an atmosphere?

It’s time for results. Period. Results!

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Why You Should Trust Your Destiny

God calls you something great and then gives you time to become it. Why does God do that? Because He never starts something until He finishes it first—including you. So what God does is He starts in the beginning and goes all the way to the ending, completes everything, and then goes back to the beginning and says, “Start from here.” He gets everything you need to be amazing, loads you down with it in your beginning, points you in the direction of the journey He just mapped out for you and tells you, “Now walk out the path that I just mapped out for you.” God “maps it out” but you have to “walk it out.”

He pre-codes everything in your life to guarantee the fulfillment of your divine destiny in the earth. Your destiny is so powerful that it pre-dates your time on the earth and post-dates your time in the earth. You came out of God. He reached inside of Himself to get you. Your parents didn’t “create” you, they “birthed” you. He puts greatness “in you” but requires you to bring it “out of you.”

The prophet Isaiah said, God declares the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10). He starts in the beginning and boldly declares how it’s going to end. He gives everything an ending at the beginning. The purpose and power behind your life is beyond what your mind can comprehend.

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God has told the earth to cooperate with the purposes for which you were sent to it. The more you act like who God made you, the more your destiny will honor you.

  1. Realize there’s a “you” that already exists on the inside of you that’s much greater than the “you” you’re currently familiar with.
  • God told the prophet Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations.
  • God was pre-loading Jeremiah before anyone ever knew he was going to be born.
  • You were created before you were born.
  • God put something amazing in you before you were born. What is lying dormant in you that is waiting for its revealing?
  • What passion burns on the inside of you that we don’t really see much of on the outside of you?
  • What’s hidden in you that’s great, that needs to come out?
  1. Begin to believe that every resource and person necessary for the fulfillment of your destiny will find its way to you.
  • God has never imagined Himself being without something that should be in His life. So why should you?
  • Everything prepared for you before the foundation of the world, that pertains to your life, your ministry, your calling, and your godliness, has been given to you.
  • The Apostle Peter said it this way, “As His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness… (II Peter 1:3).
  • Start believing that everything that belongs to you will find its way to you.

The more faith you have in the fact that God has pre-chartered an amazing course for your life, the more likely that course will chart its way to you.

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When Focus on Gaining Some “Thing” Turns to Focus on Gaining Some “One”

Great people are willing to do what they “hate” in order to gain what they “love.” In other words, what they are going to “gain” is more valuable than what they are going to “sacrifice” to get it.

When God wanted you, He sacrificed the greatest person He could find to purchase you. He sacrificed His son. The greater the product, the higher the cost. You were so great to God that you cost Him the best that He had (His son).

The Apostle Paul said, “…But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before (Philippians 3:13). In other words, I’m willing to “forget about” those things that I’m giving up in favor of “focusing on” those things that I’m gaining.

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Sometimes our focus is on gaining some “thing,” when it should be on gaining some “one.” Is that someone “you?” Have you lost “you?” The originally intended you? The “you” that’s fearless, vibrant, complete, full, and satisfied? What are you willing to forget about in order to gain “you?” The “you” you were always supposed to be.

Are you embracing the patterns that keep you separated from the best “you?” Patterns that keep you lost…patterns that keep you stuck? Are you frozen by the reality that you’ve got to do something, so you do what’s familiar…knowing all the while that it’s not going to produce anything?

Is it time to be willing to lose the familiar in order to gain what’s most important—the most important being ”you?”

Here’s What To Do:

Start searching for the “you” that He originally intended you to be.

You have an idea what that “you” looks like. The fearless “you.” The daring “you.” The bold “you.” The colorful and creative “you.” The carefree “you.” The positive “you.” Not the “you” that your series of losses produced. The “you” that your series of revelations is going to reveal. If a thought, word, or pattern doesn’t match the most amazing “you” that you’ve imagined yourself being, start rejecting it.

If you’ve lost “you,” what are you willing to forget about in order to gain “you?” The “you” you were always supposed to be. What you’re willing to get rid of reveals more of the beauty that was always there, but hidden behind what you refused to discard.

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Have You Lost Time That You Wish You Could Get Back?

If you are like most people you probably feel like you have lost time that you wish you could get back. Perhaps there have been seasons of your life where you were distracted, or you weren’t attentive. Maybe you lost focus and missed some opportunities that may never come again. It could be that you lost time due to ignorance or a season of foolishness.

If you miss a moment, it could cost you the loss of the experience that was made available (only) during that moment. But, all is not lost because there is something called “restored time!” Restored time is when God replaces time that you lost. The prophet Joel was eloquent when he said, “And I will restore to you the YEARS that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm…” (Joel 2:25). Notice that God will restore “years.” In other words, He will buy back large blocks of time that you lost.

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2-Ways He Will Restore Time:

  1.  He’ll give you more time.
  • God can literally extend your life and give you more time to accomplish what you thought was too late to accomplish.
  • Psalms 91:16 says, “With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation.”
  • Proverbs 3:2 says that His word will add length of days, and long life to you.
  1. He’ll accelerate your results.

The “Prophetic Acceleration of Time.” Here’s how the prophetic acceleration of time works:

  • If you were to break your ankle—it takes a minimum of 6 weeks for a broken bone to heal.
  • It takes 3-4 months for a person to resume normal functions.
  • So what God does in a prophetic moment is He goes out 4 months, gets your healing, and brings it into your present, and boom!—it instantly takes place.
  • He accelerates time triggered by your prophetic declaration. I believe therefore I have spoken (II Corinthians 4:13).

 Prophesying Your Future

  • When you prophesy your future what you’re doing is sending a word to your future.
  • But that’s not all that happens. …Your future sends a word to you and tells you, “You better say something, because 2 years from now I’m gonna’ need what you say to see me through.”
  • That’s why in a prophetic moment you must open up your mouth and speak.
  • It could be that your (unborn) great grandchildren are putting a demand on this moment.
  • The million dollars you’ve been prophesying may not even be for you. I could be for the generation after next.

If you feel like you have lost “time” don’t lose “hope.” God can either extend your years (so you can fulfill what you were destined to fulfill), or accelerate your results. Either way, He can (and will) restore time that you lost.

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What To Do If 2015 Is Not Giving You What You Expected

Is 2015 giving you what you expected it to? If not, could the reason be because you haven’t given 2015 what it was expecting of you? Actually 2015 is moving in the direction of 2016. It never stands still. The New Year has no feelings or concerns. It’s compassionless. It never adjusts itself for you and what’s happening in your life. It’s just there all the time—going at the same steady pace. So, it’s not so much what 2015 is bringing to you as it is what you’re bringing to 2015.

Have you brought a new mind to 2015, or are you using the mind you had in 2014? Have you brought a new process of thought to this year? What about seeing yourself as the reason why 2015 will be different than 2014? We expect the New Year to automatically bring change every January 1st. Everything changes when you do, not just because the calendar changes. The year will change when you change. If you don’t change, neither will the “new year.”

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When your disposition changes you start attracting everything that is associated with the new disposition that you brought to the table. Your disposition is your temperament, your nature, and your mentality. You must break into a whole new world of disposition. You have to get in the environment of worlds of thought that are beyond your current world of thinking, acting, and moving. Then, hang out there, and let it transform your world of thought.

When you hear new concepts of thought and embrace them, they start changing your disposition. When your disposition starts changing it has a built-in system that starts telling everything in your world to bring you new experiences and results that match your new disposition.

Two Quick Things:

  1.  What internal change are you going to make?
  • What thought pattern or self-view is slowing you down, or literally stopping you from making the moves that you need to make to move you to the next era of your life?
  • Identify one thing, make the funeral arrangements, and bury it.
  • What you “put to death” creates room for something new and amazing to “come to life.”
  1. Start making moves without waiting for validation first.
  • There are things that you have in your spirit to pursue that you have not pursued because you are waiting for validation from someone (other than you).
  • You’re one the greatest people in your life. That’s right. “You” are one of the greatest people in your life.
  • You are the only one that you need validation from to make the move you’ve been thinking of making.
  • Perhaps for the very first time, just do it without seeking permission from someone other than you.

If 2015 has not brought you the change you were expecting it to, perhaps it’s because you have not brought it the change it was waiting for from you.

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The Absence of “Visible” Results Does Not Mean the Lack of “Invisible” Activity

The past tries to convince you that anything that didn’t happen in its era is not going to happen in the next. The fact that it didn’t happen in the “past” is all the more reason for it to show up in your “future.” Your “negative” past is one of the worse predictors of your “positive” future.

Don’t judge your life by your current speed, but by the speed at which God can cause you to catch up (and pass) where you hoped to be by now.

Start sending as much as you possibly can into your future. Start sending power prayers, prophetic words, dreams, hope, visualization, declarations, and expectation. What you release “today” goes into your “tomorrow,” and will be there waiting for you when you get there in the form of a harvest.

God is already in next week. He’s not stuck in this present moment. He does not submit to time. Your current stagnation in the “natural” is not a sign of a stand-still in the “supernatural.” Spirituality is your realization of and connection to the “invisible world,” that controls everything that we see in the “visible world.” The absence of “visible” results does not mean the lack of “invisible” activity. The Apostle Paul said it this way, “So that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear” (Hebrews 11:3b). It’s what’s going on “behind the scenes” that’s controlling what we see “on the scene.”

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God Could Be Behind the Scenes…

  • Scheduling a series of events that will propel you into your destiny.
  • Preparing to make one bold, swift move in your life that will catapult you quantum leaps ahead.
  • Clearing everything from the path ahead of you so you can walk in your future with no hindrances or encumbrances.
  • Doing something “in” you that will cause nothing but amazing things to spring forth “from” you.
  • Training your future to never ignore you like your past did.

Just because it appears that nothing “good” is happening right now does not mean nothing “God” is happening right now. Leave room in the equation for God. He’s behind the scenes right now aligning things for your future.

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The Spirit of Acceleration!!

Do you need the progress of your life to speed up to catch you up with where you’re supposed to be at this point in your life? If so, you need the Spirit of acceleration to hit your life!

The Spirit of Acceleration is when God gives your life the ability to supersede times laws and break times speed limits. Its when God gives you a speedy turn-around. When things start happening quickly for you. Its when God causes you to bypass the process—where what normally takes 5 years to happen, God causes to happen in 5 months!!!

We are living in an era of compressed time, where time is condensed, squeezed together, and constricted. It’s almost like time is moving too fast. Sometimes it feels like there’s not enough time to accomplish all that God has placed inside of you. Let’s believe God to move the progress of our life at a speed that exceeds the speed of time!!

Anytime you have time compression, acceleration becomes the essence of the hour. You have to do things more quickly—you must make decisions more swiftly. If you are going to do something significant, now is the time!

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God never asks time for permission to do anything He desires to do. God does not obey time, time obeys Him. Time is something that God created. He told man to take dominion over things created (Gen 1:26), which means you can dominate time!!

Warped Time

Warped time is where the flow of time is interrupted or distorted. It’s also when time is suspended—where time appears to stand still.

The prophet Amos said, Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when the plowman (the guy who tills the soil before you even plant anything) shall overtake the reaper (the one who takes up the harvest), and the treader of grapes him who sows seed…(Amos 9:13).

2 Possible Speculative Meanings

  1. Before you can sow your seed good it will be producing a harvest.
  • God will cause you to bypass the process of time.
  • The moment the decision to sow is made, God has the UPS Guy (in the spirit) to put the package on the delivery truck to your door.
  1. Second speculative meaning. Your seed is going to produce a harvest so large that before you can gather it all up, it’s going to be time to prepare the ground for sowing again.
  • That’s the first kind of warped time. God causes you to bypass the normal process of time; God distorts the normal process.

The 2nd Type of Warped Time

  • God suspends time; He literally stops time. …
  • God erased about a whole day out of the history books of man for Joshua—He froze events to allow Joshua and his allies to get an advantage over their enemies (Joshua 10:12-13).

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It is likely that you feel like you should be further ahead than you currently are (in some areas of your life). It may not look like you can catch up. Stop the tape…God can supernaturally suspend time to allow you to catch up to where you’re supposed to be. Or, God can speed up the progress of your life such that it goes at a faster rate than time (where it looks like time stands still while you get caught up to where you were supposed to be).

Get acceleration on your “spiritual radar.” Begin to believe God for the Spirit of Acceleration!

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