you got to see yourself being joyful before you see yourself actually in real life being
joyful you got to see yourself being able to manage a lot before you see yourself
actually being able to do it somebody say see it before you see it
i don't live by instinct i live by the imagination that god has planted in me because i have lived
my life by the word of god and the saddest thing many of us are still living on instinct
something happens something comes that's why fear grips you they gave us a bad doctor report what do
we do instinct freak out instinct start calling everybody sowing fear into everybody you ain't
even heard what the doctor said they just called me they just called me and said death bed hospital
that's all you heard now you tell everybody else
and now instinct has seeped in now we all freaking out instead of living by the imagination of god
doctor calls before i call anybody father you said in your word
that i could speak to disease see y'all it's so crazy that we come to church every day and you
don't believe this stuff go somewhere else do like honestly like do something else because until you
start believing what god's word says you only live out of instinct but god's trying to give
you an anointed imagination that then moves into a vision that then goes into hope that then turns
into crazy faith and then you get to a level where it's just crazy your faith like i didn't
even believe for this and god knew that he could partner with me and we're about to do something
that didn't even come across my mind that's the scripture that says eyes haven't seen ears haven't
heard neither has it entered into the imagination of those who love i didn't even think it is
but god wanted to do something so then i started looking at hebrews chapter 11. i'm
just taking today i'm just teaching you i'm taking you on a bible study with me this is
what happened to me during the week god said just walk them through it hebrews 11 verse 3. it says
by faith we understand that the worlds were everybody say framed underline that circle
that in your bible it says by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god
so that the things which are seen now were not made of things which are visible that goes back to
what we talked about last week that god framed the whole world by words but he did it with invisible
how did he do it with things that weren't here things that weren't yet here he framed the whole
world and made it reality it took me back to the phrase that we said god's imagination created us
we are created in his image therefore we can create with imagination what are you saying
god saw it before he saw it you have to see it i don't know what it is for you but you
gotta see it before you see you gotta see yourself being joyful before you see yourself actually in
real life being joyful you've got to see yourself being able to manage a lot before you see yourself
actually being able to do it somebody say see it before you see it so when i looked at this
scripture and i realized everything that we're looking at right now god saw before we saw it
this word right here framed kept messing with me so i looked up y'all i love the bible i looked
up this world framed in different passages look at psalms 103 verse 14. it says for he knows our
everybody say frame and he remembers that we are dust so now i started doing a real pastorate thing
and i went to look this word up in the hebrew and the greek let me tell you y'all not gonna
believe this the word frame in the original hebrew is a word called yet sir y-e-t-s-e-r
yet sir ain't never heard of a yet sir in my life don't know where to find the
yetzer and this had to be god do you know what the word yetzer means imagination
if you look it up the word it says for god knows our imagination and he remembers that we are dust
you can see the same word in genesis chapter six verse five first chronicles 29 18. this is
for all the bible nerds that need to go study it which should be all y'all first chronicles
28-9 god knows my imagination let me say it like this to you your imagination frames your life
whatever you're imagining is the frame that god is building your whole life on
the life you have right now you framed it
stop blaming everybody else it's not your family no more you don't even live in that house no more
you are framing your life with the thoughts that you are thinking right now and god told
me to tell you it's time to change the frame what are you saying pastor michael let me give you an
example that kind of hits close to home this is a drum set that i want to show y'all from like
uh probably 1821. i don't even know this mug is old this drum set was top of the line
world-class drum set when it came out but it only has the frame for one symbol a cowbell and a snare
that's all the frame can hold this is our drummer tony's drum set
this mug is huge than a mug now i want everybody to see this real quick this drum set is huge
it has a frame that can hold all of these that come with me because they don't even know they
seeing it from the front i want y'all to see how crazy this little boy has gotten
with this drum set no no no come on back here i'm exposing it right now
there's symbols everywhere there's electronic pads there's all kinds of stuff there's electronic
double basses there's four pedals down here do you need all what's the difference between
this drum set and that drum set it's the frame it was built on
i'mma help him this is what the frame of that drum set looks like look at this this right
here is the frame i need somebody camera come on y'all somebody come over here so they can see this
this is big enough to be able for me to imagine
when i build my drum set on this frame there's all kind of options
there's all kinds of toms and symbols and everything that's the only reason that 1921
drum set doesn't have the frame to be able to build something great god said to me michael the
saddest part about this crazier faith message i'm trying to get to people is most of them do
not have the frame big enough for what i want to do in their life they don't have they've not
believed me they haven't taken the limit off of me and today when i looked at that word yetzer and it
said that the worlds were framed or imagined and that god knows our frame our imagination
god said michael the music i want to make in your life depends on the frame that you have see
many people don't know this but i've played drums since i was two the difference between
this drum set and that drum set on the screen is there's a lot more options here
um
stop let me stop let me stop let me stop i was able to do
and the sounds that came out and the expressions i was able to make
were based on something that was built on a frame that was big enough for me to hold
what i imagined pastor mike what are you trying to say could you imagine for more
i just i feel like it's the rest of the weeks for most of you are going to be futile
if you don't get this one point make the frame bigger
take the limit off of god
he will not go past your belief to bring you into a place and a space that he already ordained for
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