The Family House: VISION III 25/02/2015

Gen 30:37-43
Heb 11:1-3

You know, Laban thought he is a wise man.

Laban thought he was a wise man when he said to Jacob. "If the cattle give birth to plain that becomes mine because the plain cattle was becoming much then he later said it’s yours. And Jacob, I don't know who taught him.

Be careful what you see when you are pregnant. I'm not just talking about physical pregnancy; I'm also talking about spiritual pregnancy. When you are carrying something inside you.

That was the first time that Jacob was expressing unproved scientific experiment. He places spotted stalks before the flock as they mate while they eat, everything they do they are looking at it.

Whatever you take out time to look at, consciously, for some time, you become. Consciously look at Pastor Cosfinney for a while; you will do better than I'm doing. Consciously look at Bill Gates after a while you will become like him.
In the realm of the spirit, there is no hindrance no blockage or police.

Heb 11:1-3
By faith, when they lined up to testify, they found that of the elders to be better testimony than the ones that did it by strength.
Things you can see came out of things you cannot see. If what you can see came out of what you can't see, it means the supernatural realm where you can't see things controls the realm where you can see things. Everything you can see was produced in the realm where you can't see things.

A song sang by a little blind boy, about 11-13yrs old. So his uncle took him and started taking care of him and he was brought to an arena of a musical concerts where he was given a song to sing and the song he sang was Open the Eyes of my heart Lord.

If you are blind, you are not disadvantaged. If any situation puts you in a position of disadvantage, it means God us not fair.
Whether you are vertically or horizontally challenged, you are not disadvantaged. You are as advantageous as advantage. Otherwise, God is not fair. And we come in different forms and formats. In the realm of the physical
But in the realm of the spiritual, God gives us an unlimited access to everything your mind can conceive.
In the realm of the spirit, one thing that is given to all is unlimited access.

In 1998, I travelled by sea to a village in Port Harcourt. I regretted the journey half way because that was my first time on the sea the only thing that gave me guys and confidence was that there were Shell workers in the boat and I was travelling with them. They were going to work, I was going to preach. We did 1hr 30mins on the sea. I looked all around me and didn't see anything. I said God, if you save me from this journey...when we landed I was preaching but my mind wasn't there. All I was thinking about was the return journey.

My point is, when you are on the ocean, looking all around you, and seeing nothing but sea; it’s like a man standing with eyes in the realm of the spirit. It’s so vast and open. As far as your eyes can see. It's only in the physical that I can't see the car park from here physically speaking; I am hindered by the wall. In the realm of the spirit, I can see not just the car park, but I can see the car park of T. D. Jake's in the United States. Standing on this pulpit because in the realm of the spirit, no hindrance. Being born again is a journey into eye opening. Born again means simply to open the eyes of the spirit. We all can see but there are some people who cannot see into the realm of the spirit. If you must achieve anything this year and in life, you must activate the eyes of the spirit.

There are 3 components in your physical body that control your life
1. Your brain: your mind
2. Your Mouth

3. Your Body

See the way the bible put it, as a man thinketh in his heart so will his body be. With the heart, a man believes; with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. When the heart or mind conceives, the mouth confesses, the body experiences. Your mind conceives, your mouth confesses and your body experiences it.

So until your mind begins to work the way it should work and your mouth begins to speak as it should speak, in line with what your brain is saying you will keep suffering in the body. Some of the things we are going through in the physical are as a result of the way we thought last year, last week, decades ago.

As a little boy, I went through some level of humiliation, at a point I decided to be a man and start doing manly things in the negative and joined a cult, I was a quiet guy, I began to feel as if I was physically disadvantaged because I was not doing some physical things. I was always working with my mind. No wonder when I got converted, it wasn't difficult for me to continue in the journey with my mind.

John 3 is one of the few places where Jesus talked about being born again. Jesus answered and said to him, except a man be born again, he cannot see...
Jesus answered and said to him, assuredly i say to you. Except one is born of water and the spirit, he cannot enter.

The first is to see, the next is to enter. So what you can't see, you can't enter it.
Except a man be born again. So when you have an encounter with God, the first thing He would do to you us to open your eyes. To adjust the way you see. To remove your frame and give you another one. That's why some of us are finding it hard to practice what the bible said. The bible said when they say there is a casting down, you will say.there is a lifting up. It's not a confession of the mouth, it’s an experience your mind must have. Because you have confessed like that before and nothing happened.
True/False?

If your car is flying towards the river and you hurriedly start saying, ‘though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death'...with tears...
No!

You will start seeing it before it occurs. It's not accidental. It starts from the first day you have an encounter with God. Your eyes are opened. You begin to see where you are going to from where you are. You are not yet there but you are not intimidated by the people who are already there because you know you will get there because if you have seen it, you will experience it. One of the things the devil will do to you or has done to a lot of us is that the devil will enter into your mind which is the key instrument in the hands of the Lord and thwart it and make you think negatively about yourself and when you think negatively about yourself, it doesn't matter how often you confess positively.

What you will see will be negative; because the pregnancy took place on your mind.
You can't be pregnant, knowing the person who impregnated you is a baboon and you are confessing that you will give birth to a half caste.
No! It will not happen.

In the realm of the spirit, God is not unjust. What God will do is to step into eternity past and see what your mind conceived and if your mind conceived baboon, the doctor will congratulate you while you are busy confessing, here is your baby baboon; because that's what your mind has been conceiving.

For some of us, in your subconscious, you have been thinking, ‘I will never get married' even though when we declare from the pulpit you will get married, you respond AMEN!!!
God is not as emotional as you think, he works by principles. That you start crying doesn't move him.
There are some things you have cried about for years, has He answered?
The bible says He has exalted his word above his name. Start seeing right. That is what we call vision. We have enough hindrances in the realm of the physical.

One of the hindrances we have as a church is that the property where we are now is not ours, but in the realm of the spirit, from the moment we paid for this place, I secured it as our own. So while you come here and say, pastor this thing we are doing here is too much oh, how can you do such in another man's property, that is how much you see. But I do it because I see differently from you. Until your behaviour begins to go differently from your partners or friends behaviour, you are not seeing well. This is how people lose originality. You want to follow the crowd. What is reigning now us singing in alto. So everyone is doing so.

It's time to see differently. God does not play with Meditation. One of the things he told Joshua was do not let this book of the law depart from your eyes. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be able to do. When your mind meditates, to see, to regurgitate, to intermingle with God. Allow God to have sex with you. When God impregnates you in the place of meditation, what will happen is that you will be careful to do. There are some things you do after you have seen. So please people of God, I need your life to be ten times better than it was last year.
God told me by revelation that this year, he is going to hand wealth over to the members of this church. And I announced, if you have any project, anything to want to do, please go ahead and engage in it. Any business you want to start, start it. You must create a platform for God to visit you.

That's why I'm floating my label. In the next couple of weeks, it will be open. I took that step of faith because of what I have been seeing over a while. But when the pregnancy was full, I sold a car and decided to start.

When you are due, no one can stop you. A pregnant woman can move anywhere 2/3 months to her EDD. But a couple of days to, she can't go just anywhere because you are conscious that something is about to happen. So when you keep getting this impregnation from the realm of the spirit in your mind, when it is due, no man can stop you. No government no economy; because you will be too full for them. There was no place in the inn, but Mary gave birth anyhow; because the pregnancy is due.

It is not easy to release a word to a woman and she starts running with it. Mary carried Christ by faith for 9months. There was no close range. She had never been smooched, no backyard kissing. She hadn't gone to Joseph's house, she was still in her mother's house and suddenly the word of God came through an angel. You will conceive and bear a son and you will call him Emmanuel, Jesus. She said how these things can be? The power of the most high will come and tabernacle upon you.

The only thing you have to do is agree with what I have said because the pregnancy can only take place when there is an agreement. On the platform of releasing what I'm saying, if you open up in agreement the seed will enter. Mary then said I agree. Let it be so to your maiden servant. It entered. And Mary paraded it for 9months in the streets of Palestine. Some asked her how the baby was faring not because they cared, but because they wanted to mock her. The bold ones might have even asked how the child of the spirit is. Mary will answer He's fine.

You know why some people cannot conceive anything, because of critics around them.
Until you conceive it, confess it, it will not come to pass. May God open your eyes. Whether or not you like it, the devil is working on your mind on a daily basis. Making you see what you are not supposed to see.

Making you see the negativity of your life. My father was born in a manger, my mother came from a poor family. When the devil is done packaging all these for you and you decide to put 2 and 2 together that means my life will not amount to anything. Anything life offers to you, you will take because in the first place, you didn't even qualify to get. But there are a few of us, we came from very poor background with poor fathers and mothers but in our mind we were able to step into the realm of the spirit to see no inheritance,. But we saw the blessing and we were able to tap into and tell ourselves; father and mother may be poor, but I see myself very rich.

My life is a living example. I was discussing with my friend and one of the things he said was I am not surprised at what I'm seeing because even then, I saw the signs. 90% of my friends will say the same.

If people are surprised by what is happening around you, we should be careful of you. You have accidental miracles. They shouldn't be surprised. By the God you serve, by the way you think, the things you say. If your friends are surprised, that means these 3 things are not in place. They should say I know. Some of my wife's friends will say I've always known you will marry a pastor. People should know.

What are you thinking about yourself at the moment, people should know.
Where do you see yourself at the end of this year? It will be amazing how some of us see ourselves now. Some of us still see ourselves in our parent’s houses.
Anyway, let the will of the Lord be done, that is a prayer of a lazy person.
Let the will of the Lord be done.

For every time that statement was made in the bible, the people that made them knew what the will was they are not as confused as you are. Christ came for the will, to die on the cross. But when the heaviness of sin came on him, he said Lord; let this cup pass over, but never the less, let your will be done. The will of God is not fantasy. The will of God is not accidental. The will of God is visible. You know. It is the will of God that by the end of this year, you may not have become the Dangote you desire to become but you will be too sure that you are already in the line to becoming it. The one bedroom self-contained, that where you are now; you are seeing that by the end of the year, you are living in at least a 4 bedroom bungalow. You are already becoming it.

Success starts from the mind poverty starts from the mind. So why don't we focus on the mind.

Christianity is religion of the mind. But the devil has perverted it, giving it to the Hare Krishna's and Hindu temples.

A young man in India sat down by a tree in meditation for 4 years. How did they learn, they borrowed it from the scriptures but they perverted it and we are beginning to think that working with your mind is of the devil.

Do not conform to this world. But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Transformation is more spiritual than physical. If it takes place in the spirit it must manifest in the physical. So once the mind is transformed nothing will stop your life from being transformed. A traffic warder that should be controlling traffic that should be telling cars how to move is now standing and saying, the way cars are moving, I'm sure anything can happen to me now. And something will happen.

In the realm of the spirit, you should be in charge. And you are risking your life saying the way things are going. You should be controlling the goings of the things. Control things...
Things in your life, your business your family should not be going automatically you should be controlling it, the way they are going.
Rather say, the way I am going, I will be a millionaire by the end of the year.
Or the way I am going, no company will be able to pay me by the end of the year.

To share a testimony with you
I finished my post graduate studies at UniZik I was distracted when I had some challenges 3 years ago I abandoned then later restarted the program. So I have been on my project for 3 years now. You know when your supervisor is a sadist; it was a test of faith for me. I became everything to the man all to no avail. 3 years...
I got angry and said to myself I want this supervisor changed, I will change him. The normal time to change supervisor is when he is first allocated to you. I called fellow students to ask about the change, they all said I should have done it much earlier. Yesterday I went to school prepared and said, today this thing must end. On getting to his office, locked as usual. He is a well-known man. I went to another lecturer’s office, sat, and presented my case to her and demanded a change now. She tried to calm me down and state how afraid of him they all were. I insisted and said Ma, this thing must change today. I told her I wished she will be my supervisor. She initially objected then later agreed saying I should substitute her name for his wherever it appeared and submit. I wanted a change. I got it.

Whatever you can't see in your mind you can't experience in your body. Do not be deceived by your physical eyes. From the beginning God will always give man options. The first option we have is the physical eyes the second option is the spiritual eyes. God says decide which option will control which. Unfortunately many have chosen to walk with the physical eyes. Any man that walks with the physical eyes is like one that walks in the flesh. Weather, Economy controls you. Anything controls you. But any man that walks with the mind, the eyes of the spirit, in fact it's when it is worse you go into that thing. When God had an encounter with Abraham in Genesis, when lot left him, he was so down. Bible says His met him the first thing God said to him was lift up your eyes. And see north, south, east and west. As far as your eyes can see, I will give to you for an inheritance.

So I told myself if Abraham used the eyes of the physical to look north south east and west, today, we will not be called the children of Abraham because he didn't use the eyes of the physical he saw into the eyes of faith and saw far. Today I'm in Africa claiming child of Abraham because he saw me from that day. When he looked north and south, he saw people in the north and south poles. When he looked east, he saw everyone and today, we share in the covenant of Abraham. The first thing you can do for yourself to survive this year is work on your sight. Work on what and how you see.

For example, a bottle of olive oil in church is known as anointing oil. While to some other set of people, it is the best oil used to fry meat.eg in the Middle East. If you were to use olive oil in your house to cook, it won't be a sin but you probably can't because of the way you see it. Have you seen how what we see controls our life?

You have seen poverty so much you see it as an abomination to be rich. So when they prophesy, you wear a bullet proof. It reaches you and falls off. By the end of the year, you are still the way you used to be. You even tell your friends, I told you so, I know myself. But there are some that have seen differently where prophecy is going like missiles, they open up. When a woman who is at the peak of her life at ovulation meets the right man, her husband, you don't need to pray for the baby to come.

Have the ground set for the seed. There are some things you get by prayer and some other things you will never ever get by prayer. No matter how long or well you pray or how synchronized your tongues. It's not in the sound. It's in what backs your tongues.
What are you seeing?
As actors and actresses we plan our lives, the kind of job to get after school, your pay, when you get your promotion...

Planning has nothing to do with Visualization. The power of the mind is stronger than any planning
If it’s by planning, I won't be standing here. Planning is not wrong. But plan based on what the mind has seen. Not based on economy or studies. The richest men in the world are not practicing what they studied at all. They are all following their passion and passion is birthed on the platform of meditation.

Open the eyes of my heart.
If I'm able to see you, God, nobody can hinder me.
Anybody can block you in the realm of the physical.
But in the realm of the spirit no man can hinder you.

That's why a little boy can kneel down when punished by his Dad but can go on to say though I'm kneeling down, in my heart, I'm standing up.
Why?
There is no hindrance in the realm of the spirit.
Life may kneel you down, but you may choose to kneel in the spirit or stand
I may be going on my knees, but in my spirit in flying.
Any one that works with the power of the mind is not intimidated by anybody
You see a brand new car bought by your mate and your heart skips, you are not walking by your mind.

Or you meet a friend's fiancé, tall dark and handsome and your heart sinks, you are not walking by your mind.
But when you can rejoice with the person, then you are not intimidated. What you see in the spirit is even more than what is presented to you.

There was a friend I lived within Enugu, when he relocated to Nsuka, he bought a car. Audi 80, 2001/2002 model. I left Enugu, went to Nsuka 11/2 hr journey. And bought him a bottle of wine,.Gave him N5000 to fuel the car, spent the night and went back the next day. As we speak, he is still driving that Audi 80.

You know the number of cars I have changed. I was not intimidated I celebrated the good news

because I know I'm going somewhere when you refuse to see beyond your environment, you are telling God, I don't want to grow beyond my environment. Leave me in my comfort zone.
Christ walked by the eyes of the spirit not by what he saw.

Who for the Joy set before him endured the cross and despised the shame
So even when he was on the cross he saw glory.
So he didn't cry out of regret or pain
3 people on the cross, all were crying. But for different reasons
2 went to the bosom of the Lord, one went to hell
The intention of every cry differentiates it
Be careful how you see
Sit down and paint a beautiful picture of your life
Allow it to consume you
Speak about it
And you will begin to see yourself manifest.

As a child I was mocked when I talked about my future; having no visible means of bringing to pass. Sometimes I behave like a mad man; if you see what I saw, I would tell my friends I saw myself in a very large auditorium preaching to a very large crowd. Meanwhile at that time I was just a teacher in the fellowship.
I saw this church, the members in the 90s and God brought you all here today.

In months to come, you will sign a check of millions and the person behind you will be in disbelief as you drop it.
The strength of a man lies in his ability to use his inner eyes. The world is trying to kill and quench our inner eyes but let's not allow it. We watch the occult world make use of the inner eyes there is no limitation to a man of vision.

Don't underestimate the power of your mind. Start seeing things
See beyond the physical. That thing you have seen in the realm of the spirit, keep seeing it. You will become it for others to see.

Rev. Cosfinney Udoka N.

Senior Pastor

House on the Rock, Asaba