Possibility Consciousness

A new season requires more than a desire for change it requires the ability to see differently. In this episode, we explore how your vision, mindset, and focus can either prepare you for what God is doing or limit your ability to recognise it. Listen now and learn how to stretch your mind, guard what you see, and position yourself to embrace the new things God is doing in your life.

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of the Lord praise God forevermore like I say every week you will not regret giving your time to God over time I found that the more time I spend with God the more he opens up my mind to possibility. He makes me possibility conscious we're gonna go on to the second part of discerning new seasons. Praise God so these are topics and teachings that you can refer to and listen to in your time when you may feel a little puzzled or you you you believe you need some direction.

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Praise Goding from Isaiah the book of Isaiah chapter forty three from verse eighteen thank you sir Isaiah chapter forty three from verse eighteen says do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old continue.

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Thank you sir verse nineteen Behold I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth shall you not know it I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert continue take the the next one one more thank you sir verse twenty the beast of the field will honor me the jackals and the ostriches because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people my chosen read twenty one as well please sorry twenty one this people I have formed for myself they shall declare my praise Amen it says remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old see and some of your versions will say behold but see I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth praise God so I want to start off by saying it's very good to desire a new thing amen it's very good to desire a new thing you're desiring for God to do a new thing that's that's what you that's where you should be you should be mentally in a place where you are constantly desiring for God to do a new thing in your personal life that will spill over into your ministry life praise God now there's not one way of doing ministry all right if you study in the testament of old you found that many did ministry and the word ministry is to serve okay many served in politics praise God so you find that God will raise them to becoming prime ministers raise them into becoming kings and they will serve and do ministry through politics so I think what we see now consistently is ministry being done in the church. So it's it gives us this idea that we can only serve in the church but you can serve in the marketplace as well you understand that yeah you can be a professional football player and serve and do ministry there you can be a boxer yeah you can be a boxer and do ministry there you can even be a rapper and do ministry there praise God yeah so if you're if you feel called into fashion or media all right it doesn't have to be a thing where you only do it in the church that ministry may start in the church but it's not to stay in the church because your ministry has to be a conduit that God uses to win more souls so the question is how can God use your ministry to win souls if it's not outside the church your ministry is refined in the church but is useful outside the church so in case you don't know what refined means or in this context which you you may not know what I mean I mean your ministry is tested proven strengthened equipped in the house of God so you may say alright I'm a rapper why don't you start rapping in the house of God first let your raps be tested put through the fire put through the word you understand and we equip you more and then you find that as your ministry is being refined it now spills over into outside of the house of God and you'll be shocked as you put out your music people start sending you messages that that song blessed me I was to commit suicide but I didn't when I heard your song the purpose of your music is saving lives now some will say but Pastor I would I would want to make money too that will come it will come but you serve people first amen so whatever your ministry is whatever you feel called to you have to desire for God to do a new thing we have many singers in the church are you how can you be so comfortable just being a singer in the church he said stop looking back desire a new thing safe the Lord desire for God to do a new thing let this desire burn so much in your heart amen look in your family and say God you have to do a new thing I have to be the first I have to be the first God can only work with you as far as your mind can stretch so you may you know a lot of people have these this question they say if God is with us all right if God is with us then why our results are not as big as those over there the people in the world the answer is very simple they think bigger that's it their God works with them according to their mind and so does ours that's why if you look at that scripture he said see can we can we look at that okay so he says in verse 19 he said see I will do a new thing and it shall spring forth see so in some of your versions it says behold he said see open the eyes of your mind and see that I'm gonna do a new thing can you see yourself on the billboards or is it you you've only seen it for one day just one day and in that one day it was for one minute and in that one minute another thought came to distract you how aggressive are your desires for God to do a new fresh thing in your life and if you don't want God to do a new fresh thing in your life I apologize in advance but you are being selfish you are why should he not do a new thing that new thing in your life will impact so many you understand God will shout about you it's nice God loves promoting us because he makes noise about it everyone must know that God is with you. Thank you Lord Jesus a couple of years ago I was studying David King David and I was just reading reading reading and I found that you know I said last week that David wasn't just king over Israel and some look shocked at that amen the Bible says he went to war with the Philistines or the Philistines subdued them and they became his servants not just the Philistines but the Moabites too he smote them so so terribly that they began to serve him the Bible doesn't stop there. The Bible even said he smote them so hard and so terribly that they brought gifts to him what level of warfare was that and it didn't stop there. He went on others heard about it and said wow they sent him gifts they sent him gifts and said we heard what you did with them thank you because they were our enemies too the Bible says you know the Bible talks about Goliath of Gath did you know that David took Gath from them read your Bible he took Gath from them Gath became a part of Israel what a mighty man he did a new thing never been done before God did a new thing you know how God did a new thing with David David could see it David could see it what is it that you can see about your life how far does your mind stretch how far is your mind stretching when you serve God remove limitation remove limitation let people marvel at your thoughts when you speak to them let them think why are you always thinking so big why do you want to do everything so massive and large you know why because I serve God if I'm gonna do something I have to be the best and I'll prepare to be the best why why would you go into fashion and be normal why go into tech and be normal why go into ministry and be normal he said forget what I did before for in fact let me tell you what the actual scripture says forget what happened past lesson can you read that again please he tells us to forget yeah thank you sir Isaiah chapter 43 from verse 18 says do not remember the former things nor consider the things of old you hear that do not remember the former things don't remember them don't remember them oh Lord uh my mother I saw her go through this God says shh says it's okay it's alright don't remember that but God um I haven't even studied he says shh it's alright it's okay it's okay but God my wife doesn't listen to me shh it's okay it's okay I applied for univers Yeah tell your neighbor keep quiet God doesn't want to hear that because he has new plans you should be happier he has new plans he has plants oh yes do you understand he has supernatural plans for you powerful plans for you he said I alone know the plans I have for you I alone know the plans I have for you how will those plans come to pass if God is working with somebody who keeps arguing with him every minute God says listen don't be like Gideon God came with an affirmation he said mighty man of valor Gideon was polite you you know you know you'll meet people who are politely foolish yeah yeah yes yeah yes and especially in business you see if you run companies you'll meet you go through managing directors and CEOs you'll find organized people that will do things very organized but they do foolish things in an organized way so it looks good so you have to be very wise when you're picking your leaders even in ministry very well dressed very well spoken very organized in the mind everything is sharp but there's foolishness sharp foolishness you have to be wise as a leader anyway I don't want to digress Gideon alright he uh he was called a mighty man he was very polite he said sir I'm sorry but if I'm mighty and we are a great people as you said then why are we going through what we're going through I will entreat you with the response next week because we're gonna go through that very aggressively God wasn't interested in that but what interests me is how God approached him knowing what they were going through seeing their circumstance it's like he didn't see it God said mighty man how do you see yourself how do you view yourself in this time praise God how do you see yourself in your mind you may be your biggest limitation praise God forevermore so the Bible says remember ye not the former things neither consider the things of old see I will do a new thing now it shall spring forth say it shall spring forth in my life in my life this new thing that God is doing is springing forth in my life I will see it consistently nothing shall deter me from seeing it I will see it I will see it I will believe it I will believe it to God sit down for a second hallelujah what is it maybe you have a a tiny kiosk and you're selling bread and it's a tiny kiosk all you're selling is bread and you always look across the street and see a massive supermarket you think God can you do that with me I'm telling you he can and he will he can and he will you understand that but he can and he will can change to he has is that too deep for you that's a deeper one he can he will he has now I want to bring you into that place that he has that's where you should be that's where you should be living praise god but it can only you know turn into he has depending on how you see things it all depends on how you see things don't limit our God he's so versatile don't limit him and God is so kind and polite that he will not push the boundaries of your mind until you submit your mind to him he won't push the boundaries of your mind he's too kind to do that you you have to make a conscious decision that I will put my mind down and I'll take up yours. Praise God I've not seen a person who God worked with in the scripture that God did not encourage to be number one He said to Joshua, Everywhere you go, your feet tread upon, I'll give it to you. Listen to that. That was uncalled for. It was unprovoked. Joshua just someone died. Moses died. Joshua took the leadership, and God says, Joshua, I want to have a chat with you. He said, You know, everywhere you go. So, what that tells me is Joshua could have gone the wrong direction. And now he owns the place he's gonna. That's the God you're serving. So, effectively, what that means is even if you find yourself doing something God didn't ask you to do, you're supposed to be the best. So, God has ministered to you that He wants you to be a preacher and you start rapping. That's cool. You better be the best, though. Yeah, so you're doing the wrong thing, but because his hand is on you, I'm talking to the wrong ass. Say, I'll bring upon me a new season.

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I'll bring upon me a new season.

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Praise God. Sit down. It says, Behold, I will do a new thing, it shall spring forth. And I love what it says here. Now, some other versions say something different, which I will try to interpret, but it says here, shall ye not, shall ye not know it? Okay, now in your version, it may say, Have you not discerned it? He said, I'll see, I will do a new thing. Have you not discerned it? Have you not discerned it? Uh maybe we should read uh the Amplified or the New Living Translation if you have access to it. Let's read it.

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Thank you, sir. Isaiah chapter 43 from verse 18, the Amplified Version says, Do not remember the former things or ponder the things of the past. Verse 19. Listen carefully, I am about to do a new thing, now it will spring forth. Will you not be aware of it? I will even put a road in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. Verse 20. The beasts of the field will honor me, jackals and ostriches, because I have given waters in the wilderness and rivers in the world.

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He says, For I'm about to do something new. This is the new living translation. Alright? I'm about to do something new. See, I have already begun. See that I've already begun. See, see that I've already started. So stop behaving like God has done a new thing. You understand what I'm saying? Start behaving like you're already walking in the promises. What is it that is new that God wants to do in your life? First, you have to discern what that new thing is, and then He's asking you to see it, then He's asking you to behave like it. So God gave you a promise that you're gonna get a new job. Okay, that's nice. See it first in your spirit, see the new job, and you gotta get good at seeing. I was speaking to a specific person not long ago, and I was counseling him. Alright, and he said to me, Uh I'm struggling with the pictures in my mind. I said, I said to him, let me ask you a question. I said, Why do you think that Satan has inspired a lot of rich non-believers to invest trillions of dollars in pornography? Trillions of dollars in pornography. Trillions. The pornographic industry is one of the biggest markets in the world. They've invested so much in pornography. Amen. And so I asked him this question. He said, I I don't know. And I said, they pour even more money in marketing it than the actual industry itself. And I said to him, You're struggling with the pictures in your mind because you don't know what your mind is. So he asked, So, what is my mind? I said, brother, your mind is a printer. A lot of believers don't know that. Your mind is a printer, it prints whatever it sees. Where does it print it to? Into your actions. So if you're if you have a partner and you're watching pornography, you'll find that whatever it is you're seeing there, you now start imprinting it on your partner. And it's what I would call an unrealistic expectation. Church has gone real quiet in this segment. It's okay. Amen. God has called us to uproot and deal with this stuff. Yeah, if you came in struggling with this stuff, you have to leave different. Yeah, you have to leave different. So you have these images in your mind. Yeah, and your mind is printing them. So what you find is what you once you lay your eyes on this stuff, it affects the materials that are coming out of you. So instead of the materials being the word, because that's what you're laying your eyes on, the material coming out of you is associated with pornography. So I've mentioned mentioned this before. If you're a guy, all of a sudden, most of the women you come across are now sexual objects. It's partly not your fault because you're being influenced. Just like a printer, whatever you tell the printer to print, it will print. Praise God. Let me ask you a question. Does a printer have its own will? The printer takes the will of the man. Likewise, the mind takes the will of what? No. What it sees. So the person in charge of the printer at that time is what the printer will respond to. So what you set your eyes on is what's in charge of your mind at that time. So as you're listening to me right now, through me, the Holy Spirit is in charge of your mind right now. So as I'm ministering to you, your mind is already printing what I'm telling you. So you may leave here and you find that you're more spiritual because I've imparted to you the scripture. You understand that? But once you get home, alright, and you turn on those indecent images and you start meditating on those images, you've turned away from the author and finisher, and you've given someone else charge of your mind. Are you listening? And so some may associate you with a split personality disorder because one minute you're so holy and you're so nice and you're so spiritual to be around, and another minute you're just a nasty person. What's going on, brother? We know what's going on. You keep giving too many different, you know, uh things, you keep giving different things authority over your mind. You're not disciplined enough. So God is aggressively asking you purposely, okay. Intentionally asking you to see. He says, be aggressive and be intentional about seeing. See the right things. This thing I'm asking of you now, if you practice it for three months, it has changed your life. It has changed your life.

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Yeah.

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I'm telling you, in our kingdom, it's about what you're printing out. Praise God. A young lady says, my husband to be is very kind and very nice, but sometimes he becomes overly sexual. And around that time, it's like he can't control himself. Praise God. But Pastor, he has a nice heart. But also he it's like he can't control himself. I know what's going on. If you take his phone away from him for a week, praise God forevermore. Yeah, just you know, take his phone away from him for a week, you know. You'll be you'll be shocked at how kind he is and consistent he is. Amen. I didn't want to go into the other direction. We're called to be kind, amen. So, you know, it's the problem is is his conditioning, what's consistently being put in front of him. Alright? And so they've poured so much money into this industry, that's why everything is associated with it now. You you you can simply walk into a shop and want to buy water, and there's a an a half-naked lady waving at you on the beach on the water bottles. Why are you here? I just wanted my, you know, I just wanted water. I want water, and that's all I want. And she's there smiling and waving at you, unprovoked. The worst part is that you we we have been so conditioned that that's not alarming to you. You walk in, you pick up the bottle, it doesn't even occur to you that there's a naked lady on that bottle. You know, that naked lady appears to you a couple of days later. Yeah, she does, she does because remember, everything you cite, you print. Everything it could sit at the back of your spirit in four or five days' time when things have calmed down, you start printing. You start printing them, the pictures start coming out in your behavior, in your speech. You finish prayer with your fiance. You start talking dirty. Why are you talking dirty? You are talking dirty, yeah, because those are the materials that have been deposited in your spirit. Instead of asking, what's your favorite scripture? You're asking about other favorite things. Amen. Praise God. Yeah. You know, if you find yourself consistently under the influence of those uh spirits, because let me let me maybe give you like a an introduction into the spirit realm from this perspective. Yeah, you know, when you give your life to the Lord Jesus and you say, I believe the finished works of Christ, and you receive Him, it's by faith, isn't it? And He's He comes into your heart by faith. Now, when that happens, there's no angels don't come down, there's a massive celebration, people are dancing, spirits are dancing around you, and all that. That doesn't happen. Amen. But what does happen is the spirit of God immediately, within a blink of an eye, lives inside of you. So you must know that that happens, likewise, though, on the other side, the moment you open those images and you've sighted them, Mephestian spirits within a blink of an eye, make home inside your heart. Do you understand? And then they start to recommend, it's it's subtle. They start recommending, you start this their recommendations run deep into your dreams. So effectively, they're doing to you what God asked you to do to yourself because He told you to see, and you've allowed them in. So what they're doing now is they're seeing on your behalf. So in your dreams, you're seeing sexual images. You can't go two hours at work without thinking about pornographic, indecent materials. Praise God. And this thing I'm teaching you now, the Lord wants you to have total sovereignty over it. That's why He's asking me to give you this information. Because just like you invited these things into your heart, you can reinvite the active power in of God into your heart and make a decision today that you will not cleave unto these things. Amen. The terrible part about all of this is their suggestions. It's their suggestions. Some of you are so fatigued of fighting them. At this point, you just sit down and listen. Yeah, some sometimes I cite some believers, they look so beaten up. Say, I've tried everything, so I'll just sit and listen. They just sitting and listening. The suggestions are becoming more nasty, more aggressive. You have power over them. Yeah, you do. Listen, they have to listen to you. The word tells them to, they have to listen to you. Praise God.

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Amen.

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Don't let the suggestions of the enemy take over what God wants to do in your in your life, this new time. You understand? God wants to do a beautiful thing in your life at this time. Don't allow the suggestions of the enemy to take over. It's a coup. It is a coup. They want to take you off your seat, your seat of glory. Will you allow that? Will you allow that? Look what he says. He says, Uh, shall you not discern it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. And then he says, And the beasts of the field shall honor me. So this is uh this is very nice and beautiful because he says, The dragons and the owls and the beasts will honor me because I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my people and my chosen. The people have I formed for myself, they shall show forth my praise. God will do all of these things He's saying He will do, but it all starts with you being intentional about what you see. Can I advise you quickly? I am a seasonal media and social media user. So for three months I may not be on there, I'll vanish. You know why? I'm controlled about what pictures come into my mind. Because I know how powerful the pictures in my mind have been in the past. Whereas if I think about something, I'll get it. That's been my life since I was 16. If I focus on something, it's mine.

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Yeah.

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If I put my mind on a thing, that thing, even if that thing itself has petitioned God to not be a part of my vision, you are not a part of my vision. That's how powerful God has made the mind. You understand that? So, because I have been a recipient of the power of God in such a manner, I um I'm seasonal on social media because social media will land you in places you have no business being. You would ask yourself, why am I here? How did I get here? And they mask it as a suggestion. It's a suggestion. Do you like this video? And if and if you stay longer than three seconds, you you automatically like the video. Yeah, because your your algorithm has changed. That's the rule. Praise God. In case you didn't know, if you stay longer than three seconds, the algorithm interprets that as you're interested. So from then moving forward, it starts to recommend that type of content to you, my brothers and sisters. Social media is a dark place because they don't censor for Christ, they don't censor for Christ, there's no censorship for Christ, so people can dress anyhow, say anything. impart on you anything someone can video themselves in their room with a charm and an altar and show you how they serve their god and you can watch it not knowing that you're being imparted on close up and if you watch long enough that's it's it's a possible initiation yeah praise god so I'm seasonal on social media praise god very seasonal very very seasonal so I'm on there then I'm not that is every single social media app on my phone gone not one left got everything gone and I can stay that way for months why because I know at this time of course it's discernment but at this time I have to focus so God asked me to see all right now this is where I will adjourn okay if God is asking you to see pictures create pictures in your mind he wants you to see these things and you're on social media whatever it is social media suggests to you will clash and collide with the pictures that you keep creating so you are affecting the birth process because we give birth in the spirit through meditation but you can't meditate on the word of God effectively if suggestions are coming from the left the right north south and it's very challenging to block them out if they keep coming so what do you do cut off the source the source is social media come off that thing brother like are you addicted praise god and I I I tell you something I tell you something once you come off it you feel free the beginning may feel awkward because you pick up your phone you start looking for it you know you you're looking for the apps then you land on your bank account you say I can't I'm not even gonna check I'm gonna check I'm gonna check that one I'm gonna check my bank account and I'm gonna check that so so now you're looking for something to do you're looking for something to do praise god but I would advise you in that time take up reading take up reading brother we wonder how the fathers were so great how God could use them so mightily that's because they would read a lot and they're reading God one of the sons of a great man of God yeah I watched his uh interview six years ago he said my dad I would wake up at 6 a.m to go to school my dad is in the office reading the Bible 6 a.m I leave and come back from school at four my dad is reading the Bible and people wonder how he became known all over the country for six to seven hours of the day his head was in the scripture so the moment he takes his head out the scripture and he looks at you there's glory because the Bible is a mirror amen it mirrors the power of God on you but let's now balance his practice versus yours how long are you on social media and how long are you taking other people suggestions into your mind no sir no sir so how do you expect for God to do great things with you be intentional praise god be intentional be intentional if you have to take it off your phone take it off your phone do it today take it off your phone fast from it it will bless you praise god can we bless the Lord thank you for listening for more information find us at Christ Congress Global