Kenneth W Hagin - Create the World You Want to See

Create the World You Want to See

Kenneth W. Hagin

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Create the World You Want to See

ISBN-13: 978-1-60616-798-4

ISBN-10: 1-60616-798-7

Copyright 2011 RHEMA Bible Church

AKA Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc.

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Electronic Edition Published 2011.

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Chapter 1

Raising the Bars

Did you know that God wants you to walk in victory in every area of your life? Have you tried to break through to the next level of victory, but it seems to be just beyond your grasp?

As I travel all over the world, I see people searching for victory. I also see people living defeated lives. They know that God wants them to have victory over every circumstance, but they dont understand how to win. They dont quitthey keep on strugglingbut their battles are ongoing. Others have given up. Theyve decided, Well, I guess this is the way its going to be.

Rising Above the Average

Its so important for us not to accept an average, routine life as the norm. God does not intend for our lives to be routine or average!

When we think of an average life, we probably think of someone who is enduring the daily grind. Living an average life is like talking on a cell phone when it only has a couple of bars on the screen. It isnt receiving a very strong signal. The phone is operating, but it keeps cutting in and out or even drops the calls completely.

God wants all of us to raise the bar in our lives. He wants us to come up higher. He wants us to know that He has a way for us to live with full bars, spiritually, as well as physically.

You see, we are living two lives at the same timethe spiritual life and the natural life. To operate on full bars, we need to know how to let the spiritual life dominate the natural life.

If we want to operate from the spiritual side, we must allow the supernatural power of Gods Word to become the dominant force in our natural lives. You see, God has given those of us who are born again authority to rule over the circumstances we encounter here on this earth. He never intended for us to be defeated by our circumstances. He doesnt intend for us to be changed by our world. He intends for us to change our world.

God wants to do some wondrous things in our lives. He wants to take us to the place of victory where He has planned for us to be. He wants us to have everything that His Word says belongs to us. And His Word tells us that Jesus came to give us an extraordinary life of abundance!

JOHN 10:10 (AMPLIFIED) 10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).

Actually, the Gospel teaches a simple message of faith. But we live in a world that is controlled by our enemy, the devil. And one of his primary goals is to complicate our lives and confuse our thinking so he can keep us focused on the circumstances around us instead of on Gods Word. But the key to our victory is staying focused on the promises God has for us.

Now Im not denying that people have problems, and the problems of life can be complicated. Mountains of difficulties are inevitable and they come to all of us. The devil will try to raise everything he can against us, to limit us and keep us from rising to the next level of victory the Lord has for us. But God has a plan to empower us to rise to a new level!

Life Unlimited

God wants all of His children to experience life unlimited, but there are many obstacles we encounter in our physical lives that try to limit us. The circumstances of life try to limit us. The economic problems in the world today try to limit us. The more we talk about those natural circumstances, the more we will keep our eyes on them. When we begin to focus on the natural circumstances, we take our eyes off Gods promises. And His promises tell us He will keep us, take care of us, and meet all of our needs!

To walk by faith, we must focus on the promises of God. The more we do this, the more we can change the circumstances and situations in the natural realm. We no longer have to conform to the natural world that we see around us. Romans 12:2 says that we can be transformed by the renewing of our minds to Gods Word. That means we can change. But in order to do so, we must stay focused on Gods Word.

The Bible tells us that God wants us to prosper in every area of our lives, just as our souls prosper.

3 JOHN 2 2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.

Another translation gives us a little different insight into the meaning of this verse.

3 JOHN 2 (NIV) 2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well.

This verse is a promise God has given us as believers. But even under the Old Covenant, God had only good plans for His people. If you remember when the Israelites were living in captivity in a foreign land, if they focused on their condition in the natural world around them, they had no hope. But God assured them through the prophet Jeremiah that He had good plans for them.

JEREMIAH 29:11 (KJV) 11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

God told them he had an expected end for thema future and a hope! He was saying, I havent forgotten you, and I want you to know that you have a future. Praise God, He is saying the same thing to us today in His Wordwe have a future and a hope!

God wants us to live in the Promised Land while were here on earth. The Promised Land is a land of more than enough. It represents security, provision, safety, and a better life. It means that were operating on full bars!

Sometimes people think of Heaven as a type of Promised Land. They sing songs about the sweet by-and-by, the happy day when we reach Canaan Land and all of our struggles will be over. They are actually deferring the promises of God to sometime in the future!

If we look at the characteristics of the Promised Land and of Heaven, we see that the Promised Land couldnt be a type of Heaven. The Israelites had enemies in Canaan Land. They had to fight battles. Thank God, we wont have to do any fighting in Heaven! The fighting we do is here on this earth. We fight faith battles to obtain the promises of God. The Bible teaches us that the Promised Land is a type of life thats available to us here on earth. Its a life of victory and blessinga life of operating on full bars!

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