Vision Has the Greatest Impact on a Person's Life
Greetings, everyone! We are going to discuss the second part of Genesis chapter 1. The first part was about "God's Good Will." But have you noticed, when you look around, someone has cancer, then another has cancer, and soon, yet another has cancer? It's not just in the world, but also in the church. I thank God! To this day, in our church, people come here with cancer and get healed. We really don't have such cases among us, and if we do, we'll eliminate them. So, what's the problem? The problem lies entirely in people's vision.
It's hard to correct people's way of seeing things! Sometimes, while trying to correct them, my own faith becomes weak. I really want to tell them: forget it, let it be! But sometimes, the words reach my lips, and I swallow them back. Isn't it tiring to minister to such people? You pull them back, and they go back; you pull them back again, and they go back again. In the end, I have to develop a habit: I have to see that it is good.
Some people say: how can you see it as good? Actually, it really tests my patience. I must tell you, I have a bad habit that I haven't overcome well to this day. I get angry easily, and I hate foolish people. When I see foolish people, I frown and quickly think: see that all is good! Sometimes, it's like eating a cockroach, and you still have to see it as good. Sometimes, I say: God! Have mercy on me; God! Remember me; God! Be gracious to me! But, I know my vision needs to be transformed, and it's still being transformed to this day.
I ministered to a sister, year after year, and it exhausted me. One day, this sister got angry and said I was spraying her. Sometimes, I really can't stand it and try hard to control myself. As I spoke, the demon began to speak. The demon said: don't pretend, I know you also hate her inside and don't want to minister to her. It turns out, this demon is quite clever; the demon also knows what I'm thinking. It's really interesting!
According to my fleshly thoughts, I really hate it and want to stay as far away from her as possible. But, I don't follow my own will, I follow God's word; I don't follow my own will, I follow God's will. I also know that there is no good in my flesh, and I have to deal with my own bad habits. When the demon heard this, it said: oh no, I've met this guy, there's really no way to deal with him. As a result, the demon retreated. Later, this sister was delivered better and better. Although there were still some small problems, the major problems had been dealt with almost completely. To this day, I have never retreated once; it's always the demon that retreats. Why? Because I don't follow my own view, I follow God's view. This is possessing God-like vision!
The first part of Genesis chapter 1 is: God has good intentions for us, may God's will be done. But today, we must possess God-like vision. No matter what the environment, no matter what the difficulties, no matter what the troublesome things, we must possess God-like vision.
In fact, vision has the greatest impact on a person's life. Do you know that how our eyes see things is very important? What you see is what you get! Today, you live out this miserable life, which is upsetting to even look at: cancer, anal fistula, urinary incontinence, leaking urine, excrement, blood... and then this doesn't work, that doesn't work. Blurred vision, can't see things; dizziness; back pain, neck pain, headache, buttock pain, foot pain... I tell you, this is closely related to your vision.
Genesis chapter 1 talks about four things: the first thing is: God said! You will find that there are many constantly repeated words in the first chapter. The first repetition is: God said! As soon as He opens His mouth, God said: let there be light, and there was light! Whatever He wants, there is. The second thing is: it was so! The third thing is: God saw that it was good! The fourth thing is: each according to its kind!
Why talk about seeing that it is good? It's just another way of saying: possessing God-like vision. Because this sentence has the greatest impact on you, I put it first, and we'll talk about the other things later. If you let me talk about Genesis chapter 1, I can talk for about two or three days, or two or three hours, or I can finish it in two or three minutes, but this matter is very important. So, what are these four things related to? They are related to God's creation. In fact, it's not just related to God, it's also related to us. Because God means: I do it this way, and you should do it this way too. Don't go your own way, because you are made in my image.**
Today, the situation you live out is entirely based on your way of seeing things. Vision has the greatest impact on people. Although some people's vision is crooked, some are slanted, some are dark, some have no light in their eyes, and some only see the bad things, seeing nothing as good. No matter what your vision is like, that's not important. What's important is whether you want to possess God-like vision. If you don't want to possess God-like vision, then I wish you good luck. Wishing you good luck sounds good, but it's actually not good. Why? It means do whatever you want; I can't stop you from running to your death; no matter how I persuade you, it's no use, your eyes just see it that way.
Today, you must have your own vision. If your vision is not good, and then you develop cancer, ankylosing spondylitis, arthritis, leaking stool, leaking urine, leaking pus, then it's troublesome. If you are still stubborn and insist on your own thing, then I can only wish you good luck. So, people must know that they are not doing things right, and don't say those evil words. Why? Because it sounds like they are always right, and they have a lot of reasons. I think you might as well open a reason station!
Brothers and sisters, don't make excuses. Even if you open a reason station, it's useless. You'll still get cancer if you're going to get cancer, you'll still get inflammation if you're going to get inflammation, and you'll still leak stool and urine if you're going to leak, and sometimes you can't even leak it out. People must know that their vision is not good, don't be so stubborn, know that their way of seeing things is crooked and slanted. It's not that things are crooked and slanted, but that people's own vision has problems. To this day, I find that I have to face such things every day. Sometimes, I also have moments of seeing things crookedly. As soon as such thoughts come up, I will suppress them. Actually, in my heart, I just hope that our brothers and sisters can change their vision.
Once, I asked someone to minister to another person. After this person was prayed for and delivered, the two of them talked about vision. But the content of their conversation was not mutually edifying, but mutually corrupting, because they talked about health care and what to eat and what not to eat. As soon as they talked, their voices changed and their energy increased, sounding like they were talking about something more important than God's word. Later, I found out that it was a salesperson who came to sell their products, saying: my eye drops are made from elixir refined in a furnace, and the medicinal effect is very strong, even the blind can be healed. He talked about the medicine as if it were divine, and even believed it himself!
But when can people come out of such a corrupt vision and trust in God? Do people feel that they haven't corrupted themselves enough? If they don't think so, then continue to corrupt themselves! Two women in their thirties were sitting together and saying: how is your mother-in-law, how is my mother-in-law. I really don't understand why people do this? Don't people know that doing this will cause them to develop a whole body of diseases?
I'll tell you a typical example. A classmate who used to go to seminary with me, she clearly pastored many people in the church, but she developed a whole body of diseases. She knew that I was passionate about healing and deliverance, so she came to me because she felt that I had the gift of healing and deliverance. But as far as I'm concerned, this is Mingding Destiny. I know why I'm alive. I said to her: I can help you, let's start with a simple matter of praying for deliverance. Because every part of her body had problems, her liver, kidneys, lumbar spine, and shoulders and neck all had big problems.
Because her back hurt so much, I prayed for her back first. As a result, God's word came to me, saying: her problem is related to her brother and her husband. As soon as I heard this, I knew it was a problem of discerning good and evil. She definitely didn't have a good view of her husband and her brother, so I said this to her. She asked me: is that because you are not a woman? If you were a woman, could you really see everything as good?
What will happen if such a preacher ministers to others? It will definitely be fatal. As a result, this preacher told everyone about her husband's faults, saying: her husband is sorry for her. What's the point of doing this? The essence of this matter is that if people don't live by relying on their husbands, but only live by relying on God, there is no problem; if you don't live by relying on your husband, then he can do whatever he wants, you can live together or not, there is no need to develop a whole body of diseases.
She couldn't argue with me, because I have the Tao! Her husband had many affairs with many women outside, and then she discerned good and evil again and again, causing herself to develop a whole body of diseases. Many people are like this, not seeing what they have gained by doing this. Many people live like this, all because their vision has problems. For example, as long as it's the exam season, it's really a time of joy and sorrow, because of the exam, they put their whole vision into getting into college. Later, I found that people's vision determines their destiny in life. People's vision is really amazing.
For example, our colleagues didn't go to top-tier universities, but her siblings studied at 985, top-tier famous universities. Her siblings don't seem to have achieved much now, and they are not living very well. If you take a look around and study the past data carefully, you will find that these people don't live very well later. Today, if you investigate, you will find that people's achievements really don't have much to do with whether they studied at 985, a top-tier famous university. Some people say: people who have great achievements later usually have a higher percentage of people who studied at 985. But I find that what determines a person's destiny in life is really related to their vision.
Some time ago, an artist died in his 50s. I was wondering if he was very rich? He probably had cancer and said: doctor, buy me the best and most expensive medicine. But it's useless to do so, the person still died, no matter how good the medicine is, it can't save him. It can be seen how important a person's vision is to their life. If a person's vision has problems, they will get sick. I can give many similar examples, whether you want fresh ones or old ones, there are plenty.
There are also many people in the world who only see the bad things. If I tell you that this is a good thing, how do you see it? You say it's too difficult to see it as a good thing, having hated your parents for a lifetime. You must know that it's a good thing that your parents raised you. Many abandoned children, when they grow up, if they don't see it as a good thing, they will cry a lot when they think about it! An abandoned child grew up to become an internet celebrity and went back to find his parents. His parents didn't recognize him, and he committed suicide as a result. What's the point of that? Today we begin to know that your future is in your vision. If your vision is crooked and evil, there can be no future. If there is no future, then what are you doing now?
Most importantly, can you become a person who creates a bright future, and your future is in your vision. The past cannot change your destiny, but vision can determine your future destiny. If we have the ability to corrupt our future, then we also have the ability to create our future. Put all our strength into useful things, and let go of those useless things, seeing God's good will for you through a vision. Why did your adoptive parents happen to see you and raise you? Originally an abandoned child, today your adoptive parents raised you. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. How good it is to have this vision!
Everyone must change our vision. No matter how difficult it is, the things you see after bone-scraping treatment are all good. If everything you see is bad, that's attracting ghosts. That's how ghosts deceive you. Working hard is a good thing, but some people think that working hard is not good, they are losing out. Working more is actually practice, so how can it not be good?
We must become a person who creates the future, a creative person, a person who is one with God, who possesses God's vision, who receives power from God, and who sees God's good will. From now on, everything we see is good. If you see that this is not good and that is not good, that's all discerning good and evil. We must wake up and repent!
God's Vision
You will find that God sees that everything is good throughout the entire creation process. Some people say, why don't we see it as so good? Light and darkness are separated. What does the Bible say?
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:9-10)
It's bare and empty, like the surface of Mars, not good at all. Before this, when the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, God didn't say it was good, but He didn't say it was bad either. But why did God start seeing that it was good every day from the beginning of the formless and void state, until the sixth day when He saw that it was very good?
If you don't see the little things in front of you as good, for example, our family smashed the house into a shell. Before it was smashed, the house was very smelly from the previous owner, but fortunately the price was cheap. If you see the house as formless and void, and have to renovate it from scratch, how can you see it as good? The floor height is very suitable, the balcony is also good, and you have a new renovated look of the bedroom and bathroom in your mind. You smashed things to make the future good.
Everyone must know that God chose us from the formless and void state, before the creation of the world. All the great men of faith throughout the ages were chosen at the beginning of God's creation. That is to say, this is not something that was done on a whim. In God's eyes, He sees Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob at a glance. In fact, God knew when Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil when He created them, but He still saw that it was good, because He sifted out these treasures of ours.
Fortunately, this is a dirty world, so that we can be refined into treasures in God's eyes. God saw in eternity before creating the universe that all things will be united in Jesus Christ in the end. The formless and void state is an opportunity, the beginning of creation. How precious it is that we were chosen before the creation of the world. God really sees us. Don't stop at the level of explanation. When you see the formless and void state, you must start to become orderly, and then start to create. The formless and void state is a problem, but when there is a problem, solve it.
Chinese Mingding Destiny is not about explaining problems. For example, someone is sick and not healed after praying for them. Christians like to explain that this is God's sovereignty. Is not being healed God's sovereignty? This is shirking responsibility. It's supposed to be ineffective for me to pray for you, what nonsense is this? Chinese Mingding Destiny is not about explaining why you are not healed. We are not explaining problems, but solving problems. A business owner who speaks English was very excited after listening to my English version of the Genesis Bible study and said that he liked the sentence I said very much, Do not explain, but solve the problem!
You need ability to solve problems, and the Spirit of God has already given you this ability, so what you lack is not ability, but inspiration by relying on yourself, but you will definitely have inspiration by relying on God. Let's all come out of explaining problems. For example, it doesn't matter if it doesn't work for me to lead you in prayer. I will persist one minute longer than the devil. God's sovereignty is to heal us! Since God wants to heal us, but it doesn't work here, it's because we didn't do it right. Solving problems is God's ability and God's will. Seeing that everything is good is God's vision.
God's creation starts from the formless and void state. If you don't see far enough, you won't see well enough. People who only focus on the little things in front of them are short-sighted; if you see far enough, you won't deny that it's good when you encounter a specific thing today. Let's put it this way, God created animals, including elephants and dinosaurs. They eat several tons in one meal, so how much excrement do they have? If a huge dinosaur happens to be excreting, and the excrement hits a little mouse on the ground. This matter itself is not good at all, and it is indeed created by God. It would be troublesome if we stayed at the level of the thing itself.
People should have a long-term vision in their lives and see into eternity. God's vision is not for a day or a moment, but to see into eternity, clearly seeing a large group of God's people united in Jesus Christ in eternity. So today, take your vision away from yourself. If you only see yourself, and only see the scars left by surgery when you open your clothes, and worry about the tumors or cancer in your stomach, you're done. If you only have these in your eyes, you will only get these.
You have to see far enough, just like God saw far enough to see a group of treasures. God chose a large group of treasures that God wanted to choose before the creation of the world. God used clay to make a pile of vessels that manifest God's glory or provoke God's wrath, and which one are you? It depends on your creation and your own choice. If a person's vision only sees the little things in front of them, and doesn't see God's will, and doesn't see into eternity, then they are vessels that provoke God's wrath.
We must know that our God had a great plan before the creation of the world. Our Lord Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, and we humans are just in the beginning and the end of Jesus Christ. We will enter into God's plan for us in the future, which is called Mingding Destiny. These things in front of us are nothing, just a brief moment in the eternal plan.
If you want to have God's vision, you have to see far enough. The Chinese often say to seek short-sightedness, which is suicide, which is death. Although we haven't died today, and haven't sought short-sightedness, seeking short-sightedness will really seek short-sightedness one day. We have to see further. So every time I am very tired, exhausted, and uncomfortable, when I think of the eternal crown of glory that God has prepared for us in eternity, I will pack up my broken faith and continue to run forward. I don't want to seek short-sightedness, I want to have a long-term vision, to see the crown of glory in eternity, to see my God waiting for me there, where there will be no tears and sorrow in the future.
Serving God, the effects of our labor in this world will be brought into eternity. Every time I think of the rewards and glory in eternity, I will persevere for another mile. Although I hope to leave this world and be with the Lord every day, as long as I am in this world for one day, I will walk in God's will for one day, because what I do today will be brought into eternity, and the rewards God gives us are far beyond what we can imagine. So solving one problem after another, driving out wave after wave of demons, it doesn't matter if I'm tired, that's my Mingding Destiny, this is God's vision.
Possessing God-like Vision
Just now we talked about short-sightedness, which is only seeing today, such as the boss's face, business, the turnover of the small shop. There is still a distance from death. If you seek short-sightedness, wouldn't today be directly marked with a period? Seeing through life and death is the key! Remember, why does a person get Mingding Destiny? Because they understand that the things in this world are all vanity. However, it is not that after vanity is over, you lie down and give up, but after seeing through life and death, you value the crown in eternity very much, so the labor in this world is nothing.
Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph lived in this world with the hope of eternity, and looked at all things with God's vision. Sometimes they don't know how they saw it, but if a person doesn't see through that living is vanity of vanities, they cannot value the crown in eternity. Look at some people who still say nonsense even when they have cancer. They don't even know it themselves, thinking they are speaking human words. In fact, human words are ghost words, because there is no hope in eternity. We must know that there is no difference between a person living to ten years old and ninety years old, eighty years old or twenty years old is the same. People just want to live one more day, and all they see in their eyes is the matter of living in front of them.
So I often advise people to see through life and death. One day someone is about to die, and they ask me what to do? I said: just let them see through life and death, what else can you do? People ask again: teacher, can you let him live? I said: there is no point in living in this world. If you don't understand, you still live according to your own logic and vision. A long time ago, I knew that living is vanity. Sometimes I might forget when I am confused, but when I wake up, I pull myself back. Many things are vanity. God told Abraham to go to Canaan, but he encountered famine there. It doesn't seem like a good thing, but Abraham doesn't live in this life, he lives in eternal life, pursuing the blessings of eternity.
If you don't have Abraham's faith, you can't inherit his logical system, and you can't see through life and death, it's useless. Sometimes you can see through, sometimes you can't, so slowly adjust to completely see through. Why is our church called Mingding Destiny theology? Because we all see through life and death in our lives, and we yearn for the Mingding Destiny in eternity, which is God's good will for us. We don't live for the things in this world, but for God. Some time ago, a pastor gave a sermon, saying: God created each person to be a unique self. Later, I didn't find this statement in the Bible. Instead, I found that it's a trouble for people to always want to live out their uniqueness in this world. The Bible says:
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
It doesn't matter whether people live uniquely or not. Jesus and Paul are not concerned about whether we live uniquely, but whether we can live out God's glorious image, and let Jesus Christ live in us. The way and angle we see things are all according to the vision of Jesus Christ. If you use a worldly vision: when you encounter a boss who is not good, you think the other person has no ability; when you encounter a very good boss who does all the work, and doesn't need us, you also think it's not good, always seeing the bad things. You must know that creating and being able to solve problems is a good job, and repetitive things are not very good.
Our vision sees some things as good and some things as bad, which is all discerning good and evil. We must imitate Abraham, who encountered famine when he arrived in Canaan; Jacob, who had his salary deducted ten times when he arrived at his uncle Laban's house, still felt it didn't matter. If God wants to help us, who can resist us? What can separate us from God's love? Is it tribulation? Is it persecution? Is it nakedness? These cannot separate us from God's love. A person who possesses God-like vision doesn't care about these persecutions, because we have seen through life and death. In this world, as the Apostle Paul said: in this world, being with the Lord is far better. No matter what job you have in this world, do it well and live out God's image.
Summary
God raised us up and chose us before the creation of the world, so that we have the opportunity today to proclaim possessing God-like vision. The church today is still in a desolate state, but this is precisely why God wants to raise us up. God is raising up Chinese Mingding Destiny, and solving problems is the norm. Someone left a message online asking: Why is it that when their church pastor prays for people with lumbar disc pain, it doesn't work? Because even though they are pastors, they do not have God-like vision. There are still some people who pray and ask God to heal them, as if our God is unwilling to heal.
There are still such people today, they must change! Can our vision see healing through the problem? We know clearly in our hearts that by the stripes of Jesus Christ we are healed, healing is the norm, it is God's will, so why still ask the Lord for help? To become a creative person, seeing problems is hard, having problems is the norm, but solving problems is the destiny of Chinese Mingding Destiny. What should Christians be like? What should the church be like? This is a problem of vision that must be solved.
There was a man named Bern, who believed in the Lord for ten years and then stopped believing, because what he saw in some traditional churches was not God's vision, but a lot of hypocrisy. Some churches indeed never solve problems, they only emphasize worship and hospitality. Those who are sick remain sick, and some who were not sick even became sick. They believe in the Lord and become like this, yet they do not know how to reflect. There is also a video of a person who was a pastor for ten years and encountered similar problems, and stopped being a pastor. The problems they raised, we have solved this year. The church must change, Chinese Mingding Destiny must see the desolation of this generation, must see the desolation of this theological system, must rise up to serve this generation, so that this generation can once again possess God's vision, see God's glory, and see God's beautiful will for us.
Start to rise up little by little, to become vessels used by God. The most important thing is to possess God-like vision. When looking at problems, use God's vision, in God's will, even if this person has cancer, they can be healed, but they must repent, we must enlighten them, so that they can possess a Godly vision. Instead of having only medical treatment, doctors, and medicine in their eyes, and no God.
In this generation, even if thousands upon thousands of churches like Chinese Mingding Destiny are raised up, they still cannot fully serve. I thank God for raising us up to be vessels that manifest His glory. We have established a complete system of healing and deliverance, a complete system of how to build a church; and we have also established a complete system of how to train disciples of Jesus Christ, all based on the Bible, the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Apostle Paul, thank God! We must open our eyes wide and know that we are just a drop in the ocean, a hair of nine oxen, and know that the path to knowing God is far from complete.
May God bless everyone!
Genesis Chapter 1 Scripture
1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
1:2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
1:3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
1:4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
1:5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
1:6 And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
1:7 So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
1:8 God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
1:9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
1:10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
1:11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
1:12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
1:15 and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
1:16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night—and he also made the stars.
1:17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
1:18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
1:19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
1:20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
1:21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
1:22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
1:23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
1:24 And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
1:25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
1:28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
1:29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
1:30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
1:31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.