12 Visualizing The Will Of God

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Visualizing the Will of God O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee (1 Chronicles 29:18, KJV, emphasis added). The Holy Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, is three persons yet one God. They are exalted above all things and yet they find joy and fulfillment in their infinite love for one another, serving one another in gentleness and lowliness of heart. It was the Father’s joyous pleasure to assign His Son, Creator of all things and appoint Him Head over all that He has created. Because God is filled with freedom in His wondrous love He left all creative initiative in the hands of His beloved Son. Because the Son loves the Father and Holy Spirit so much He fashioned all things according to their liking and pleasure that He may bring His Family infinite joy and total fulfillment. The Word of God created all things that are in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, thrones, dominions, principalities or powers were created by Him, and for Him (Colossians 1:16-17). He called those things, which do not exist as though they did. The Lord in the imagination of His heart visualized beforehand the things, which He called into existence. God in His omniscience imagined the worlds before He framed them by His word. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things, which are seen, were not made of things, which are visible (Hebrews 11:3, emphasis added). When the Creator visualized His purposes He sensed the immeasurable joy it would bring His Father and the Holy

Spirit and the joy and fulfillment the Godhead would bring to creation. He also sensed the pain and destruction that sin would bring to the earth and all of creation. Then Christ the Creator set aside, at the beginning of creation, an appointed time for Him to redeem His own creation. It would only be appropriate for Him, that created and uphold all things by the word of His power and who were appointed Head over all things, to redeem it. When God created man He created him in His image and according to His likeness. God gave man His imagination and creativity. As the heirs of salvation, joint heirs with Christ, God gave man also the eternal vision of His own heart. To Abraham and his Seed, who is Creator and Christ, the promises were made. God gave it to Abraham by promise. These promises are the vision of God for the heirs of salvation and thus their vision. It is the responsibility of men to find the plan of God for their lives within this eternal vision according to the power of God or anointing that is working in each individual. Each member in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ must follow the anointing in him or her, which is the calling of God on that individual’s life. When you pursue the anointing in your life you bring forth the kingdom of God. In doing so man brings joy and fulfillment to God’s heart and he will find joy and fulfillment in God, just like when Adam cultivated his garden. As the Holy Spirit leads and guides you into all truth He renews the spirit of your mind. He is the faithful One that reveals to you the calling of God on your life. When you have a powerful intimate relationship with God your sight grows strong because it works humility in you. Humility brings wisdom but arrogance blinds you. You first believe God then your believing eyes start to see the vision for your life. As you meditate on it and visualize it over and

over then understanding follows. The more intense your fellowship with the Lord the easier it becomes to discover the road of truth. When you start to see the vision God has put in your heart concerning His will for your life you start to visualize it. Visualization is the process beyond meditation. It is to visualize the answer from the Lord. Without an answer, which is your vision from God, you wonder around in the futility of your mind, for without a vision you will perish. When you see the will of God you start calling it into existence. You must use the force of your spirit, and not emotion, to speak it into existence. Because Christ is one Spirit with you, it is His life-force that flows when you use your spirit. You must practice it. This is also an exercise of faith. You continue to visualize your vision and start to move in it by faith. Normally it is an unfolding picture that you speak into existence, one step at a time, one day at a time. Visualization and prophetic speech is part of your creative nature. Everything on which God blows the breath of life lives. Whatever He turns His face from, dies. His brothers and sisters that follow Him have His nature. As He is, so are you and as He is doing, the same you do. If you speak your vision long enough into existence you will start walking in it because you will believe it. When you are born again you become one Spirit with Christ. As you are one spirit with Him you share eternity with Him, which is in Him. God has placed an eternal vision in your spirit, which will never stop growing. The eternal vision in you will change many times throughout eternity because eternal life, that fills every member of the body of Christ, is purposeful, explosively powerful, is vibrant and is growing and productive all the time. This eternal life is the power of God or the anointing of the Holy Spirit that is unceasingly at work in you. God has given you a vision with a command to fashion that vision

into a creation according to the anointing that is working in you and to uphold it by the word of His power. Just as God has commanded His firstborn Son to create the heavens and the earth and to finish His work, so He commanded His other offspring to do likewise. The imagination of man is the eyes of his heart. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. The thought patterns and imagination of man’s heart makes man who he is. Man must imagine the vision of God’s will for his life by meditating on it. If he unites that vision with faith that word or vision will become flesh and God will blesses him in all his ways. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things; give yourself entirely to them, that your progress may be evident to all (1 Timothy 4:14-15, emphasis added). When you visualize the word of God long enough it will take root in your heart and become your own until it has grown very deep into your heart. If the word is united with faith it will benefit you. So visualization is about you imagine yourself in a practical way to walk in the word of God. These are dress rehearsals for a faith-walk in the Spirit. You need to spend time with the Word to become the Word. Those who believe the word of God do enter into the rest of God. For God swore in His wrath that the disobedient, the unfaithful to Christ, shall not enter into His rest. For he who has entered His rest has himself ceased from his own works and by faith entered into the complete work of Christ. The rest of God is obedience to Christ through faith, but those to whom the word first was preached did not enter in because of their disobedience that were rooted in an evil unbelieving heart of stone. You cannot enter into the realm of Spirit without faith. Without faith you cannot please God.

To stay with the word is to continuously visualize the unfolding vision, which is the spirit of the word, in your meditation. He that stays with the Word, who is Christ, until the end, shall be saved. The word of God is summed up in loving the Lord your God with everything within you and your neighbor as yourself. You live not your life unto yourself but you live it to the benefit of all who hear and see you. If you love God you will keep His word. If the word of the Lord is written in your heart, Christ within you is revealed in your soul and members of your body. If you live according to the Spirit you set the imagination of your heart on the things of the Spirit and you will be renewed in the spirit of your mind. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit where the substance of His eternal life, rest and peace dwells. There is no difference between the hearts of unredeemed man and carnal Christians. A man of flesh is born in sin and shaped by the evil imaginations of his wicked heart, which brings forth sin that leads to death. The carnal heart is evil from birth and deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can understand or perceive the depth of its evil? He looks at a woman with lust in his heart and by doing it commits adultery with her in his imagination. He hates his neighbor and murders him in his thoughts. By deceitful scheming he lays snares for the righteous and robs the houses of the widow, orphan and the poor. All these evil starts in the imagination of his darkened heart. There are some good non-Christians in the world that live better moral lives then most Christians. It helps them nothing because the blood of Jesus is not sprinkled on their hearts to atone for their imperfect lives. The integrity of

their own hearts and their pure thoughts is still twisted with the imperfection of their fallen natures. How can imperfect creatures think they can please the all-perfect God on account of their own insufficient merits? How can the dead think they can please the Living? How can darkness prevail in the dazzling Light of His presence? The fleshly nature of self-righteous holiness is an abomination to God. In fact the whole existence of carnal man is an abomination to God because he is alienated from the life of His Son. The blindness of his heart causes the ignorance that is in him. The god of this world, Satan, has blinded man’s heart with his deceptive self-righteous lies. When a man turns to Christ the veil that blinds his mind is taken away. Unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God. When you are raised with Christ you should seek and visualizes the things of the Spirit and not of the flesh. First seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness and God will take care of your natural needs. When your have developed a heart for God you will move into the one world of Christ where spiritual and natural things blend into the one kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. For all the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ. All things must be subjected to His lordship. Man can stumble in visualizing erroneous visions. They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment (Isaiah 28:7b). Intoxicating drink often symbolizes in Scripture foreign influences. You err by visualizing visions, which is not the will of God for your life. This often happens when you do not know the Scriptures or the leading of the Holy Spirit. Jesus answered and said to them, “You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God” (Matthew 22:29). All of us sooner or later make mistakes. If you do not seek God in this way

you will never learn His voice. I made big mistakes in my life. The only short cut that exists is to seek God with all of your heart. The more time you spend with Him in His presence the faster your eyes will open up. Remember humility causes your vision to open up and it will bring wisdom but arrogance causes blindness. I know a prophet of God that is mightily used in the healing and signs and wonders ministry. He has even raised the dead. He emphasizes that every thought must be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Of cause it is not a legalistic exercise. It is about pleasing God with the meditation of your heart and to grow strong in faith. He says that he and his mind are friends. When he visualizes church services he preach sermons and heal the sick. Occasionally, the actual services and the visualization in the meditation of his heart turned out to be identical. It is the same people he saw with the same sicknesses and the same revelation he received concerning the sick. So, the Holy Spirit does anoint sanctified visualization and the revelation gifts and other gifts of the Holy Spirit can function in these situations. I know a man that is a great lover of classical music. He is also a songwriter and musician. He told me that sometimes he will sit down, relaxes himself and close his eyes and start listening to unheard symphonies that is still to be composed by master musicians. When I was young I thought this man was weird until I started to understand what it was all about. I could never understand why this talented man, in music, not composing these symphonies that he was hearing in his imagination. I think it is because he does not see himself as a composer of this music. He is waiting for some master musician that he believes is qualified to write it. I know he is able to do it, but because of unbelief he is wasting his talent.

To visualize the vision of your heart is easy. Everybody is doing it many times during his or her life. True visualization is just like daydreaming but it is based on the word of God. If it is not based of the word of God for your life it is a vain vision that accounts for nothing. The word of the Lord includes all areas of your life. Do not think the vision of your life applies only to spiritual areas; it applies to all areas of your life. World-class athletes all visualize their events many times before it actually happens. I ran a marathon (26,2 mile/42,2 km), achieving my best ever time, in which I was three seconds within the time of my visualization. You need to do the same with the race of your life and run it with endurance. A man of God, which lives in China, went abroad by invitation to minister to other saints. While he was absent from his home he received a message that his son died. He instructed the people at home not to remove his son’s body. He went back home. At his arrival he immediately went to his son’s dead body with the intention to raise him from the dead. He prayed and prayed and prayed but nothing happened. Then the Holy Spirit told him that he kept on looking at the dead body of his son. Then the Holy Spirit instructed him to go and stand at the window and look outside at the lawn. The Holy Spirit told him that when he can see his son running and playing on the lawn his son would return to life. He walked to the window and started to gaze at the lawn, looking to see his son running and playing. Initially he saw nothing. The moment he saw his son running and playing on the lawn he called him back to life and he was resurrected from the dead. The imagination can be used either to stimulate faith in God or to make you tremble in unbelief. Consider the incident with Israel when the twelve spies were send out to bring report about the land that God had promised to

Abraham by oath. Moses instructed the twelve spies as follows: “Go up this way into the South, and go up into the mountains, and see what the land is like: whether the people who dwell in it are strong or weak, few or many; whether the land they dwell in is good or bad; whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or strongholds; whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not. Be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land” (Numbers 13:17b-20a). Ten of the twelve spies did not remember the covenant that God has made to Abraham. These ten spies used as input into their imaginations the facts that they saw. They imagined visions of horror that was void of the promises God made to Abraham. They imparted their vain vision of fear to the people of Israel. They were a cause of stumbling. Their evil report caused the people to sin against God. Fear stimulates unbelief, which is sin, and deception. Joshua and Caleb were of a different spirit and witnessed the same things with their physical eyes that the other ten spies saw. Their report differed from the ten other spies. The picture that they brought back to the people of Israel were filled with faith in God: “The land we passed through to spy out is exceedingly good land. If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them” (Numbers 14:7b-9). Joshua and Caleb brought the focus every time back to the Lord. It was not what they have seen but that which God has spoken. They saw giants but God said they were destroyed. They were feeling like grasshoppers in their own sight and in the sight of the people of the land but

God said they were mighty men of valor, the army of the Lord. They saw fortified cities in the land but they believed God for the victory. They saw people stronger then themselves but God said the enemy will come in one way but they will flee in seven ways. It was not what they have seen with the natural eye that they regard as reality but they confessed the will of God as the only source of authority. It was not what they have seen but that which God has promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It was not what they have seen but that which God has spoken. They behold the word of the Lord with the eyes of their hearts and kept it in their memories lest they sin against God in unbelief. Because of unbelief a whole generation, except for Joshua and Caleb, perished in the desert. The Promised Land was given to the next generation and their descendents to possess. When God commissioned Joshua to take the Promised Land, He gave him the following instruction: This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success (Joshua 1:8). Let the meditation of your heart be acceptable to God. Put on the mind of Christ. Take time when visualizing the answer from God in your meditation. Regard it the same as waiting on the Lord, meditating on the Scriptures or prayer. We should give the Lord the first fruit and best of our lives and in this manner honor and respect Him. Sometime ago the Spirit of the Lord took me in a dream into the future into the kingdom of Christ on earth. I experienced much peace and tranquility of spirit and heart. Peace will be so great that you will look at someone

and understand the person’s heart. Verbal talk will be much less. It is the time when the Spirit of God will flow, as this earth has never experienced. In waiting on the Lord, meditating and visualizing His will and practicing His presence the greatest works of art, music and inventions will be released in future. Clothing design will take on shapes that the world never has seen. The fashion I have seen is similar to that which was worn in the ancient Near East times but much more glorious. Houses will be built from soil products, some of it different from modern day bricks, and forest and lands will be restored. Schools of the prophets will functioned like in the times of Samuel and Elisha but in much more glory. In training your spirit to live in the heavens is what it will be in the kingdom of God on earth. So train your spirit for what is coming. I promise you it will not happen by itself. See the end from the beginning and start walking in it right now and start growing into its fulfillment. Enoch and Elijah saw this day and through faith defied time and space. They did it and their bodies were clothed with immortality long before the appointed time.