Fuel Your Imagination With His Word
Bishop Henry Fernandez Preached on 8/18/2022Ephesians 3:20, 2 Corinthians 10:4-5
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Summary
Bishop Henry Fernandez teaches that our imaginations are God-given tools for greatness that must be fueled by Scripture to overcome spiritual strongholds and mental arguments. By filtering our thoughts through the Word of God, we can move from a dormant life to fulfilling our highest potential in Christ.
Key points
- •Every human is created by God with the ability to imagine, but these imaginations must be filtered to reflect God's desires rather than personal whims or worldly opinions.
- •Believers are engaged in a spiritual war of the mind where arguments and thoughts often exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.
- •Hidden within God-given imaginations are the seeds of your potential; failing to act on these divine prompts can lead to a dormant life and missed opportunities.
- •You must take every thought captive, acting like a police officer to arrest thoughts that do not align with Scripture and replace them with God's truth.
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Spiritual Warfare
Scripture
Faith
Wisdom
Life application
This week, when you feel discouraged or confused by internal 'arguments,' stop and identify if the thought aligns with Scripture. Actively 'arrest' negative thoughts of failure or past trauma and replace them with a specific promise from the Word, such as Jeremiah 29:11.
Reflection questions
- What divine ideas or dreams have you allowed to become dormant because of fear or procrastination?
- Which voices (social media, society, past experiences) are currently fueling your imagination more than the Word of God?
- In what areas of your life are you fighting a physical battle that actually requires a spiritual, mind-centered approach?
- What would it look like for you to 'dream again' despite the setbacks you have experienced?
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0:00[Applause]
0:01amen god bless you
0:03you may be seated
0:05in the presence of the lord
0:07[Music]
0:11there's something that's happening to a
0:13lot of us today
0:16and
0:18so many of you don't know how to handle
0:20it
0:21how to deal with it
0:23it is something that you cannot avoid
0:26it happens to every one of us
0:29so therefore
0:31don't try to ignore it don't try to
0:33avoid it you have to do it
0:36you have to pay attention to it
0:39and therefore if that's the case you
0:41need to know how to handle it you need
0:43to know
0:44how
0:45to deal with
0:48what
0:48is a must that's something that's
0:51constantly happening
0:53to
0:54you want to talk to you about your
0:57imaginations
0:59and how you ought to fuel your
1:01imaginations
1:03with
1:04his word
1:07your imaginations you ought to fuel that
1:10with his word so let me begin by saying
1:13that we are all
1:15creatures who have been created with the
1:19ability to imagine
1:22we all have
1:24imaginations we all have it we have
1:28imaginations
1:30and we ought to filter our imaginations
1:33if you will
1:34to reflect our desires
1:37if your desire is to be in the will of
1:40god if your desire is to max out your
1:43full potential in the earth if your
1:46desire
1:47is to
1:48achieve greatness the greatness that god
1:51wants you to achieve
1:53then you have to filter your
1:55imaginations to make sure
1:58that the ones you embrace are a
2:00reflection of your heart's desire
2:04if you're not imagining things then your
2:07life is dormant
2:10if you're not
2:11a person that's imagining things then
2:13your life is on hold
2:16and you're missing out on a lot of
2:18possibilities that are hidden in the
2:21unknown
2:24so if you you know if you examine
2:25yourself right now and you're not
2:27dreaming at all you're not imagining
2:29things
2:31something is wrong
2:33maybe you've lost your zeal you've lost
2:35your desires to go on with the life
2:37because without imagination
2:40there
2:41are no need to dream without
2:44imaginations there's no need to dream if
2:46you don't imagine things then you won't
2:48develop the desire to dream to see
2:51something come to pass
2:54see god has wired each of us with the
2:57unlimited potential to form new ideas in
3:01our minds ideas that will ultimately
3:04manifest themselves in the natural
3:10once you believe that god is doing the
3:13work of bringing to pass those
3:16imaginations your imaginations can
3:19become a reality
3:21i can tell you how many people are
3:23streaming right now in this room
3:26you fail to understand that your
3:28imaginations can become a reality
3:32so be careful what you're dreaming
3:35be careful what you're thinking
3:37because they are seeds
3:40that have the potential to manifest
3:44and to become
3:47you be shocked at what you give
3:49attention to when it comes to what's
3:51flowing through your mind
3:54when you imagine things and you really
3:56believe it and you pursue it i'm telling
3:59you man
4:00things can happen in your life because
4:02the bible tells us in ephesians 3 20 now
4:06to him who is able to do far more
4:09abundantly than all that we ask or think
4:13according to the power at work it in us
4:17the power that is at work in us the
4:20power that's working in us there's a
4:23power that's working in all of us
4:26and that's the power of god
4:29and with that power he brings things to
4:32our attention he brings things to our
4:35imagination
4:37so that we can conceptualize the will of
4:40god in our minds and therefore develop a
4:44passion to go for it
4:47every day you and i are inundated with
4:50thoughts
4:51that fuel our imaginations
4:55and ultimately
4:57we are forced
4:58to have to choose which
5:01of those thoughts we will give serious
5:04attention to
5:07which of those thoughts will focus on
5:10because we recognize
5:13and we have to recognize that they're of
5:15god
5:16and which one we should immediately
5:18dismiss
5:20because we know they come from satan
5:24we have to have the ability
5:26to be able to say
5:28that imagination is of god
5:31because i know it's of god how do i know
5:33that because
5:34i have the word to back it up
5:38i have the word to back it up i know
5:40this is the will of god for my life and
5:42there are certain things that you and i
5:44are thinking that it's not the will of
5:45god for us and yes it is the will of god
5:49there are some imaginations that's
5:50making us think like that's not possible
5:52that's crazy that's far-fetched that's
5:54not that's i shouldn't be thinking that
5:56you know i'm presumptuous and so forth
5:58there are some imaginations that if you
6:01open your spirit to it it can manifest
6:06it can come to pass
6:09but then there are some
6:10you're going to be have to be strong
6:12enough to know that that's not the will
6:14of god for my life
6:17you see the thing is we all are guilty
6:20of allowing our imaginations to run
6:23wild and unchecked
6:27how many are guilty of that
6:29it goes wild
6:31unchecked and unfortunately
6:33that has caused many of us to suffer
6:37or pay
6:38daily for it
6:41an unchecked imagination
6:44will ruin us
6:45[Music]
6:46will cause us to be
6:48out of the will of god and according to
6:51the bible in second
6:54uh corinthians chapter 10 4
6:57and 5 it says that we have the ability
7:00to turn our backs against bad
7:03imaginations
7:04and look at what it says it says now i
7:07love this
7:08i love this you need to pay attention to
7:10this now
7:11for the weapon of our warfare are not of
7:14the flesh but have divine power
7:18to destroy strongholds
7:22did you get that
7:24for the weapon of our warfare are not of
7:27the flesh
7:29but have divine power have divine power
7:33to destroy stronghold strongholds he's
7:36talking about things that tends to grab
7:40a hold of you and it starts with the
7:42mind things that will grab a hold of
7:45your thinking
7:49you
7:50the struggle we have in life is really
7:52not with people
7:55it is what we allow to capture our minds
7:59[Music]
8:00it's what we allow to filter through our
8:03minds that ultimately manifest
8:06themselves
8:07and then verse 5 says we destroy
8:10arguments and i love that i love the
8:13phrase paul is saying we destroy
8:14arguments because the truth is every day
8:18there's an argument going on in your
8:20head
8:23one voice is telling you one thing the
8:25other voice is telling you something and
8:27you've got to sit there and try to
8:29figure out which voice you listen to
8:33which voice you pay attention to one
8:35voice is saying you're blessed you're
8:37anointed you're gifted god's going to
8:39take care of it don't worry you know
8:42just put your trust in god god has
8:44already declared the end from the
8:46beginning god has already moved that
8:48situation and god's going to do this
8:49god's going to do this but then there's
8:51another voice that's telling you all
8:53kinds of stuff god's not going to do it
8:55how long you've been praying don't
8:56listen to that don't read your bible i
8:58mean there's an argument
9:03and the argument if you're not careful
9:05it can confuse you
9:08because you don't know what to do and
9:10for some of us
9:11because we're confused you know we're
9:13confused we hear one voice saying
9:15something and the other voice is saying
9:17something so we become dormant i i i
9:23i give up
9:27we
9:28don't make decisions
9:30because we are totally confused
9:33so in these verses the apostle paul
9:36makes it very clear that our faith
9:39journey must be seen as a war we're
9:42fighting as a war we're fighting so
9:44hello those of you who believe you're on
9:46this faith journey it's listen it's not
9:49a vacation
9:55it is not some trip that you're taking
9:58where it's a pie in the sky kind of trip
10:01you know you're enjoying you know just
10:03all happily ever after it's just fun no
10:06drama it's just peace it is not like
10:09getting on a plane and saying to
10:11yourself that you're going to the
10:13caribbean
10:15and you're going to go to a five-star
10:17resort hotel it's not like getting on an
10:20airplane and going to dubai that's not
10:22what your faith journey is all about
10:25your faith journey is war
10:33you got to fight every day
10:38to fight those arguments in your head
10:43he says
10:45you must arm yourself now that you know
10:47it's a fight
10:48paul says you arm yourself with the
10:50weapons given to you by god
10:54so here's what paul is saying
10:56in these two verses he says our war is
10:59not physical it's spiritual one our war
11:03is not physical it's spiritual so i have
11:06an announcement to make for those of you
11:08are streaming and those of you are in
11:10the building that you are fighting a
11:13physical fight you're fighting people
11:15there listen to me there are some people
11:17you're fighting right now you need to
11:19stop fighting them because i'm telling
11:21you they are controlled by the devil
11:25and if you fight them physically
11:28they are going to ruin your character
11:30your reputation they're going to ruin
11:33your spirit that some of you have
11:35changed who you are because you've let
11:37the spirit of somebody else change you
11:44some of you have lost yourself
11:48because you've allowed others
11:50to do it
11:54i want you to make a decision from the
11:56day that you're going to stop physically
11:59fighting those people when i say
12:00physical i'm not saying maybe you're you
12:02know going fist to fist with them i'm
12:04talking about stop handling in a
12:06physical way
12:11you're in an altercation or in some
12:14disagreement with a person you've got to
12:16get to the point where one day you just
12:18got to let it go some people will never
12:21see your point
12:24never
12:27they will never get your side
12:29they will never understand why they are
12:32not willing to understand that they are
12:36just thinking like a racehorse they are
12:39blind to the truth
12:41they will not deviate from it
12:44and while you are wasting your time
12:46trying to change them they are changing
12:50you
12:56so he said that your war is not it's a
12:58spiritual so sometimes you got to look
13:00at the person saying uh uh i know i know
13:02what you're dealing with there's a
13:03stronghold on your life
13:10he says it's spiritual so that means we
13:12ought to walk around discerning things
13:16as a believer you got to learn to choose
13:18your fight
13:21stop fighting everything that comes at
13:23you
13:25if somebody come
13:29come here son elijah come here
13:31come here come here
13:34we got to stop this madness man we're
13:36losing we're losing the war
13:39because of our attitude do me a favor i
13:41want you to like you'll be fighting
13:42daddy you know you know you could be
13:44fighting yeah all right just come on
13:45let's keep punching at me keep punching
13:47at me keep punching at me all right now
13:50now you can stop stand right there and
13:52you can argue with somebody that that
13:55that has a spiritual stronghold over
13:58them keep fighting son a spiritual
14:00stronghold over them and you're going to
14:02lose because you're not equipped to
14:04fight them that way you're not equipped
14:06to fight them with cussing you're not
14:08equipped to fight them with with with
14:10bad vibes and so forth you just got to
14:12learn to walk away
14:15from a fight
14:17that you know you have no business
14:19to be engaged in
14:23thank you sir thank you
14:25you got to walk away
14:28because ain't nothing more stupid
14:33than somebody keep fighting at you and
14:35arguing at you and you left the scene
14:39[Applause]
14:42look at your neighbor and say you need
14:44to leave the scene of the accident
14:50go missing
14:52go missing
14:55the accident happened
14:57leave
14:59anyway did not get in it lord
15:05paul then said our battle starts in the
15:08mind
15:10that's where it starts
15:12and then he says
15:14it is the arguments the imaginations
15:17that flow through our minds every day
15:20that seek to exalt themselves above the
15:22knowledge of god don't you understand
15:24that those imaginations that comes into
15:27your head
15:29the purpose for some of them
15:31is to exalt themselves above but the
15:35knowledge the knowledge the revelation
15:38of god
15:39god is revealing to you you're not at
15:41your best self yet there's more to come
15:44your best days are ahead of you you're
15:46healed you're blessed i got something
15:49for you in the next five years trouble
15:51don't last always every problem's got an
15:54expiration date that boy don't worry
15:56about your son he's blessed he's
15:58anointed he's gonna turn around don't
16:00worry about your daughter don't give up
16:02on her i've got my hands on her you
16:04prayed many years for her she ain't
16:07going nowhere i got her covered glory to
16:09god you see what the enemy is going to
16:11do is to bring thoughts to exalt himself
16:16above what you're hearing what you know
16:18deep in your spirit that god's got you
16:20covered at the end of the day you may be
16:22panicking about something you may be
16:24concerned god why is these things not
16:26manifest in the way i want it why are my
16:28dreams not coming to pass and why don't
16:30i have the things that i desire to have
16:33now why is it taking so long and the
16:36enemy will come to tell you well the
16:38reason why it's taking so long is
16:39because of this is because of that and
16:41if you're not careful you give in to the
16:44voice
16:45that is exalting itself above what god's
16:49already declared
16:55and four
16:58we must
16:59take
17:00such
17:01thoughts
17:02captive
17:04that's what paul said
17:06we must take them captive
17:08arrest them
17:12arrest them
17:14grab them
17:16and for those of you in law enforcement
17:18you know what that means arrest them put
17:20them under subjection
17:23arrest them
17:25and god sent me here today to tell many
17:27of you
17:28you need to go around in your life and
17:31you must have the ability to make sure
17:34the word of god is fueling your
17:36imaginations and every thought that's
17:38not in his will you need to be like a
17:41police officer know your authority and
17:45go grab that stuff and arrest it and say
17:48not so in my life
17:54not in my life
17:56not in my life
17:58not while i'm alive and i've got god's
18:01back in me
18:02no sir no man i'm going to trust god so
18:05every thought i'm going to hold it
18:07captive i'm going to rest it meaning you
18:10have the right to remain silent but
18:12every time you open your mouth i got
18:14another word to counteract what you're
18:16telling me i believe i'm blessed and i
18:19know who i am in jesus christ
18:27gotta rest the thoughts
18:29it doesn't align itself up to the word
18:31of god
18:33you gotta see that god's got much more
18:34for you
18:36are you hearing me
18:38i want you and i don't understand this
18:40my friends that according to the word of
18:43god if you are not
18:45fueling your thoughts
18:47on his word
18:49and if you're not fueling them
18:52by the leading of the spirit then
18:55you're doing so by the opinions that are
18:57contrary to what god wants for you
19:01and this
19:03just may be the reason just may be the
19:05reason
19:07why some of you are not performing
19:10at
19:12your fullest potential
19:16it's really sad
19:19it's really sad that
19:21you're built to be greater
19:25it's really unfortunate that
19:28you have been wired
19:31to do so much
19:34yet
19:36you're doing nothing
19:39it's unfortunate
19:42that the god who knows all things and
19:45before you were formed in your mother's
19:46womb he put in you creativity he put in
19:51you the ability to excel and to be great
19:56and he sent imaginations he sent ideas
20:00and thoughts
20:02into your life into your atmosphere all
20:04through your teenage years and your
20:07adult life god's been dropping nuggets
20:10about who you are and who you should
20:12become
20:16but it's so unfortunate
20:20that the thoughts you're holding on to
20:23are the thoughts
20:25that are breaking you down
20:29the thoughts that are robbing you
20:33of the ability
20:35to see your best self
20:37oh don't give me that don't give me that
20:40don't tell me well
20:42pastor you don't understand how i grew
20:43up
20:45i came from a broken home
20:47i didn't know my father
20:49i was molested
20:51well i'm still struggling with some
20:53stuff
20:55well pastor you just don't understand i
20:56never went to college
20:59oh i dropped out of school
21:01pastor don't understand i was in a
21:04beauty in many abusive relationships
21:07a pastor you just don't understand i had
21:10a divorce
21:12pastor don't understand well
21:14there's just so many evil things that
21:15have happened to me i i've lost my pride
21:18my dignity i've lost everything i've
21:21lost everything i
21:24don't give don't give me that
21:27and i'm trying to be insensitive here
21:29i'm really not trying to be insensitive
21:32to your need my only problem is you have
21:35arrested the thoughts that were meant to
21:38push you further
21:40and you have allowed the thoughts that
21:43are there to rob you of your best self
21:45to run wild
21:50and i'm sorry
21:52i am not the guy
21:54who's going to be dancing with you
21:59over stuff that doesn't benefit you
22:05i'm not the one
22:06look at your neighbor and say i'm not
22:08the one
22:10i
22:11am sent
22:12to push you
22:14to become your best self
22:21and it doesn't matter who likes it or
22:23not
22:25you have to leave this earth empty
22:29you have to take all those imaginations
22:32and feed on them
22:33and say god the ones that you have for
22:35me i'm going to be my best self before i
22:39die
22:40i'm going to be the best man the best
22:43woman i'm not going to try to change
22:45what you have ordained for me i'm going
22:48to be the best father i'm going to be
22:50the best mother the best wife the best
22:53husband i'm going to be the best child
22:56i'm going to be the best businessman
22:58businesswoman i'm going to be the best
23:00worker on that job i'm going to be the
23:02best person in the body of christ doing
23:05what god has called me to do best church
23:07member best giver best whatever god i'm
23:10going to make sure that i'm at my best
23:13because that's what you've called me to
23:15be you have put into my spirit that i
23:19can be great i can do all things through
23:22christ who gives me the strength can you
23:25imagine can you imagine that god is
23:28saying you can do all things all things
23:32so that means if he wants you to sit an
23:34exam that mean you can pass the test why
23:38because the ability to pass is in you
23:40already
23:45if you don't know how to be whomever god
23:48has called you to be check his word
23:51he'll teach you how to become a man
23:54society is not going to do that
23:57he'll teach you how to become a woman
23:59society is not going to do that and i
24:01know this is about to just mess some of
24:04you up now
24:06listen the word of god will teach you
24:07how to be a wife
24:09not society
24:12the word of god will teach you how to be
24:14a husband not society
24:20you can never be the best wife if you're
24:24watching housewife of atlanta in fort
24:26lauderdale
24:29you can't do
24:30that
24:32you can't be watching housewives or fort
24:34lauderdale in atlanta
24:36and think that's gonna make you be a
24:38good wife you're gonna be a down
24:40outright
24:44[Applause]
24:50with attitude
24:52[Laughter]
24:55boy they don't like me now
25:00and many relationships are suffering
25:02because people are not of their best
25:04self
25:06instead of serving one another
25:08reassuring each other
25:11the arguments that comes we don't know
25:14how to filter them so
25:16we lean to stuff that feed us
25:20makes us feel good one of the things i
25:22learned
25:23there are thoughts that comes into my
25:24head that really makes me feel
25:26uncomfortable
25:29but when there are godly thoughts
25:31i have the ability to perform
25:37it is impossible for you to function at
25:39your fullest potential when your
25:41imaginations are not filtered by the
25:42word of god
25:45at this very moment
25:48many
25:49of you are not at your best self because
25:51your actions your actions
25:55are direct result of your inability to
25:58filter your imaginations
26:00by the word of god
26:03decisions you have made
26:05have caused you to have huge regrets
26:11because
26:12there were thoughts there
26:16i hate to be the bearer of this there
26:18were thoughts god gave you 10 years ago
26:23thoughts
26:25you were imagining
26:27doing certain things
26:29imagining opening up that business
26:33imagining
26:35you know preparing yourself
26:36to probably sit that exam and to acquire
26:39that degree
26:40if you imagine yourself with it
26:43but you procrastinated
26:46and you allow the wrong people to speak
26:49into your ears
26:52and you wasted 10 years
26:5510 years later
26:57you're paying daily for it
27:01still because you're not at your best
27:03self
27:05because ten years ago
27:07there were some thoughts god put into
27:09your head
27:12ten years ago
27:14the thought was
27:15i could afford a house you know
27:19i could afford a house
27:21because i'm i'm paying rent
27:24rent
27:26rent simply means
27:27you're giving money away
27:31for those of us who are landlord we
27:32don't like that it's true
27:35i'm fine and i'm not telling you now not
27:37to pay your rent for september
27:41[Laughter]
27:44but 10 years ago
27:45in south florida across the united
27:47states of america 10 years ago
27:50there was for some of you you know maybe
27:52maybe i need to go get the condo maybe i
27:55need to go get the townhouse maybe i
27:57just need to go get the house because
27:58honestly if i could afford rent i could
28:00afford a mortgage maybe i just need to
28:02do that you heard that and you imagine
28:05yourself having the key to your own
28:07place
28:09but you procrastinated
28:11you could afford that property for two
28:13hundred thousand dollars
28:15you could
28:18but now
28:22but now
28:24what god was giving you for two hundred
28:27thousand
28:28you not have to pay 500 000 for it
28:33what a burden
28:36because
28:37delayed reaction
28:40and we get so spiritualized all we want
28:42to hear from a pulpit he's a pastor
28:44speaking to us and laying hands on us
28:46and we foam coming out of our mouths and
28:48we pass down on the ground and and we
28:50live in church and we're happy and we're
28:52happy and we're happy and we we're we
28:54are not at our best self in society
28:57we're not at our best self in the world
28:59because i'm telling you god wants us to
29:01be blessed
29:03do not let anybody lie to you
29:10because we don't feed into imaginations
29:13you know it because
29:15of the unfiltered imaginations
29:18imaginations that are not fueled by
29:22the word of god
29:26so right now
29:28it is a natural thing
29:31to be inundated with
29:33imaginations those ideas that are
29:37searching to find their way into every
29:40area of your life
29:42every air of your life every day
29:45god will allow ideas to flow through
29:48your mind i wonder what's going through
29:50your mind now
29:53i wonder what will go through your mind
29:54all week
29:56you just need to make sure that those
30:00ideas are
30:01fueled by
30:04god's word
30:06before you choose to act upon them
30:09so don't allow
30:11every idea
30:14to find its way into your life
30:18because not all of them
30:20belong there
30:21don't
30:23and don't trust and follow everything
30:25your mind tells you
30:27only a fool will do that
30:31because i'm telling you
30:34your mind is dangerous
30:38don't follow everything your mind tells
30:40you to do
30:42the bible tells us not to do that in
30:44proverbs 28 26 the bible says
30:49this this is also bad look at what the
30:51bible says in proverbs 28 26 whoever
30:54trusts in his own mind
30:59is a fool
31:02i didn't say it it's the bible
31:05it's a fool
31:06but he who walks in what
31:10and what
31:11in wisdom
31:13the person who walks in wisdom will be
31:16delivered
31:18from the confusion you know the
31:20arguments that's taken place
31:23but here's what you must understand as i
31:24close
31:26hidden inside of our imaginations are
31:28opportunities for you to become
31:31your best
31:32self
31:33become your best self
31:35hidden
31:36in your imaginations
31:39is for you to become
31:40your best self
31:42your best self
31:45god wants to carve a great woman out of
31:48you a great man out of you so here's
31:50what he will do he'll put ideas in your
31:52head
31:53for you to grab a hold of them
31:57for you then
31:58to become
32:00the greatness
32:02that he has placed in you
32:04the man or a woman god has created you
32:07to be must first be conceptualized
32:11in your mind
32:13before it can
32:15manifest or before
32:17you can passionately pursue it
32:21if you don't know who you are
32:23if you don't know who you would become
32:26then you won't pursue it
32:28you will pursue what you think people
32:31are telling you that you will be
32:33unfortunately can i be honest most of us
32:37are pursuing
32:38what society is pursuing
32:44oh
32:46here's what you do
32:48you scroll through social media
32:51oh
32:54i like that
32:56therefore you buy it
32:59you buy it and you put it on and you try
33:01to look like her
33:06you try to look like him
33:09or you scroll oh that's a nice crib
33:12that's a nice this that's a nice stat
33:15that's a
33:16so your mind now is oh i want one like
33:20that
33:21i want
33:22not knowing
33:24you are
33:26trying to birth
33:29somebody else's idea
33:34no wonder
33:36we have such a thing as called
33:39lost identity
33:42we don't even know who we are
33:44so we are living
33:46somebody else's dream
33:51because we we have yet to discover
33:54our own
33:56you see god will put thoughts
33:58into the atmosphere for you to embrace
34:02so that you can
34:04work them
34:05and see them become a reality
34:08in every area
34:10of your life
34:12so don't ignore the thoughts
34:14don't please
34:16the thoughts that are flowing through
34:17your mind
34:18[Music]
34:19would not be wise for you to do that
34:22but as you acknowledge them
34:24assess them
34:26and trust god's word to confirm which
34:28ones you should meditate on
34:31and be compassionate about and which
34:33ones you should immediately dismiss
34:37because god has a plan for you
34:39he has a plan for you
34:41and he will not
34:43put those plans
34:45into your mind and imaginations if he
34:48didn't want you to give birth
34:50to them
34:51satan also got a plan for you
34:54but i want you to listen jeremiah 29 11
34:56for i know the plans that i have for you
34:58declares
34:59declares the lord plans for welfare not
35:02for evil plans for welfare not for evil
35:07to give you a future i love this
35:10a future
35:13and
35:14a good hope
35:18your success in life
35:21is completely based on
35:24who
35:25is fueling your dreams
35:28and your passions
35:35are you able to become your best self
35:37absolutely
35:40are you able to grab a hold of the
35:43imaginations
35:45that were meant
35:47to bring the best out of you
35:50absolutely
35:53but where it begins
35:54[Music]
35:56it is through your incredible
36:00ability
36:02to imagine
36:06we are creatures
36:09to imagine
36:11and leave the rest up to god as the
36:12scripture says now unto him
36:17who is able
36:19if god put it in the atmosphere in your
36:21life
36:23you're able to do it
36:26so god sent me here today to talk to you
36:28as you're streaming in the house
36:31dream again
36:34imagine yourself
36:36being exactly
36:38who
36:39god has called you to be
36:42dream again
36:43even though you're broken
36:45even though you've had a lot of losses
36:48dream again
36:49even though you don't understand how
36:51it's going to manifest
36:54dream again why because that's how
36:56you're built
37:00you can dream again
37:03wounded
37:05bleeding
37:07dream
37:09dream
37:12maybe your
37:13your whole character's been tarnished
37:17dream
37:20don't let society
37:22restrict you
37:24from bringing out
37:26your best self
37:29we all fall down
37:34we can get back up
37:37the choice is yours
37:41just
37:42imagine
37:44yourself
37:46i want you to bow your heads with me
37:50i want you to imagine yourself
37:53being in the perfect will of god
37:55having everything that god has ordained
37:57for you come on those of you streaming
38:00dream again
38:03i don't know who this word was for
38:06but i believe that god is
38:08talking to some people
38:10here those of you streaming man those of
38:12you streaming i wish you were in the
38:13building
38:16i wish you were in the building because
38:19i don't know about you there's nothing
38:20like being physically in the building i
38:22know streaming is great keep streaming
38:24but there's just something about being
38:25in the presence of god in the house
38:29because what i am feeling right now i
38:31feel that a weight
38:34has just been taken off somebody's
38:35shoulder
38:37i i felt like somebody was losing oxygen
38:41and god just put a mask on their mouth
38:44and nose right now and he's breathing
38:46life into them
38:48that this message
38:50has given hope to somebody this morning
38:54that you can imagine
38:57that while you're on this earth i can
39:00only imagine
39:02that the things that god has for me i
39:03can do it
39:05i can also imagine that even when i die
39:08i'll stand before a god
39:12who would look me in the eye and say
39:15well done
39:17good
39:19and faithful
39:21servant
39:24which woman
39:26screaming in this house which man
39:29streaming in this house
39:32that somehow
39:34you felt that god gave you a kick today
39:38you felt like
39:39you got a dream again
39:41[Applause]
39:42you got to give life to your imagination
39:45[Music]
39:46if that's you
39:48i desperately want to pray for you
39:52and i ask the worship team while you're
39:54coming to do this song
39:56that will somehow push you
39:59into imagine
40:01what god can do in your life if that's
40:03you
40:04please i ask of you join me here
40:08and let's imagine great possibilities
40:11for our future come let's do it let's do
40:14it
40:15wherever you are
40:17wherever you are
40:20let's do it
40:22let's do it
40:24sing it sing it
40:26[Music]
40:28wherever you are
40:29[Music]
40:32come dream with me
40:35come imagine with me
40:39come on
40:40come dream with me
40:42come closer come closer
40:45[Music]
40:58[Music]
41:05are there any dreamers streaming in the
41:07house
41:13[Applause]
41:14[Music]
41:20foreign
41:40imagine
41:41[Music]
41:48imagine
41:52to be surrounded
42:05foreign
42:20hallelujah
42:30oh
42:44thank you
43:06oh
43:30[Music]
43:31imagine
43:41[Music]
43:44i'm going to ask the rest of you out
43:46there in the audience would you please
43:48stand would you please stand
43:51and for those of you who have came down
43:53to the altar
43:56please hear me today
43:59you can dream again
44:02you can imagine
44:03again
44:05you lose the ability
44:07to have imagination
44:10you've lost your passion for life
44:14you've got to believe that there's more
44:16to your life
44:18than the events of your life
44:22and that your dreams can come through
44:26don't you let people's system
44:29put restrictions on you
44:32got a dream again
44:34like the song says i can only imagine
44:38i can only imagine what would happen if
44:40you just do right
44:42if you just do what god has empowered
44:44you to do
44:46just imagine
44:49just imagine things
44:51i had someone who recently
44:54told me that they were
44:55from a little child that would imagine
44:57things and
45:00maybe they thought something was wrong
45:01with them and so forth
45:03and to say nothing is wrong with you
45:06we're creatures built
45:09to imagine
45:11there's nothing crazy about it
45:13and the day you lose that ability
45:16your life becomes dormant nothing is
45:18moving stagnant
45:21every wind of doctrine will blow you
45:22away
45:24but you got to dream
45:27life will hit you in the knee and cause
45:30you to get down when you're down pray
45:34but you've got to believe that you can
45:36pick yourself back up
45:38and you can be everything that god has
45:40ordained you to be by the way by the way
45:42i don't know if you're reading your
45:43bible
45:45maybe that's the problem
45:47maybe you're reading everything else and
45:49you're in tune with everything else in
45:50society and you don't even know what the
45:53bible says which by the way it's your
45:55fuel
45:58are you reading your bible to understand
46:00every person that god has used in the
46:04bible to do great things
46:10had issues
46:14moses
46:16great leader
46:19led the children of israel
46:22through
46:24exiting slavery
46:27but you know moses
46:29was left in a basket
46:33kind of like with our parents
46:36kind of being abandoned if you will
46:38his very life was going to be threatened
46:41and by the way hey
46:44moses was a murderer
46:48you are reading a bible and following
46:51people who kill people
46:57paul that i quoted today paul was a
47:01murderer of believers
47:03he wrote 13 books of the bible that you
47:05so love
47:07but god used them
47:09can't god use you
47:10[Music]
47:13[Applause]
47:18lift your hands all over the building
47:20those of you are screaming come on in
47:21that room where you are
47:24wherever you are come on lift your
47:26antennas now
47:27i'm going to pray with you so you can
47:29imagine and please get rid of every
47:31spirit of doubt right now
47:34and believe father in the name of jesus
47:38i am so excited
47:41about
47:42where you're taking these your people
47:43today
47:45those in the building those were
47:46streaming
47:48many have lost their desire to dream
47:50again many have gotten confused with the
47:53arguments that they're hearing every
47:55single day in their head
47:57and today in the name of jesus for every
47:59man standing every woman wherever they
48:01are
48:02lifting their hands as they stream in
48:05jesus name i ask you today that this
48:08message today would really penetrate
48:10their hearts and when they leave and
48:13exit this service
48:14they'll make a decision
48:17that they're going to give life
48:19to the imaginations that you put in them
48:23that they're going to be their best self
48:26that they're going to max out to their
48:28full potential
48:30that they're going to walk in their
48:31divine
48:32calling they're going to fulfill their
48:35purpose
48:36and father help them to forget those
48:38things which are behind them and reach
48:40forth for the things that are in front
48:43of them
48:45as they go out into the world into the
48:47marketplace this week
48:50help them to be men and women of purpose
48:53men and women who would dream
48:55and can constantly dream i pray for the
48:57young people
48:59that they would keep dreaming they keep
49:02believing i pray for the seniors
49:05who feel
49:06as if
49:08there's no recovery time
49:10god help them to understand scripture
49:13teaches us
49:14that nobody can put a time limit on you
49:17that you can even do it for the seniors
49:20that their imaginations can come through
49:23bless them now i pray all over this
49:26world people are trusting you and
49:28believe in you now that person who is
49:30sitting and laying in that bed right now
49:33in the name of jesus with tears coming
49:35down her eyes
49:39comfort her
49:41and help her not to see herself as a
49:43failure
49:44but to see herself as a woman that has
49:47been empowered by you and her dreams can
49:50come through her dreams can become a
49:52possibility she just needs to fuel them
49:55by the word of god
49:58so bless your children today
50:00and i thank you for the word that we
50:02have received
50:03in jesus mighty name amen come on let's
50:07give god a big praise come on let's give
50:09him a praise today
50:14did you get anything from that word
50:15today
50:18fuel your imaginations
50:20by the word of god quickly take your
50:22seat the dancers are going to come and
50:24they're going to end the thank you
50:26worship team thank you
50:28i want to encourage those of you
50:30who didn't get a chance to show dancers
50:32are going to come cue the song and
50:34that's how we're going to go out today i
50:36want you to continue to help us to
50:38fulfill the will of god man
50:41continue to sow into the ministry if you
50:44didn't get a chance to do that
50:46and then we'll see you tomorrow night
50:48virtually for our prayer service and
50:51wednesday service this week all right
50:53put your hands together and welcome
50:55these wonderful children
50:58as they minister to us