Thunder In The Bay Pt. 2 of 3

This is a very powerful message given by Pastor Paula White titled 'Thunder in the Bay'. Each segment is 10 minutes long. I have typed a transcript for my international readers who need to use Babel Fish to translate.

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There has to be a generation to walk in the fullness of what God has for them. God is saying I'm getting ready to pour out my Glory upon the earth and in the last days I'll breathe upon my sons and my daughters. He'll pour out His spirit on ALL flesh. There are some old men that are going to dream some dreams. There are some young men that are going to have some visions. God is going to pour out His spirit and even use some handmaidens in the last day. You better get ready to be used by God! God is going to do something so significant that you're going to realize that the life God put you in is bigger than the life you're living right now. Slap somebody and say 'I'm going somewhere, I'm going somewhere'.

Can I build it? Because I feel like getting you there. And so you say how? How do I walk out and live in the bigger life God has for me? The first thing you need to know is realize there is more to life than you have experienced so far. There is MORE to life than you have experienced so far. God wants you to live a BIG life and live TRIUMPHANTLY! You know Psalm 35:27 says 'Let the Lord be MAGNIFIED'. It means God swells up. He takes pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. And prosperity is soooo much greater than just finances. It's a wholeness word that means nothing missing and nothing broken, having everything functioning fully in your life. God is not Glorified with you falling apart. God is not Glorified with you bringing forth contaminated fruit that rots. God wants to bring something so significant in you and through you that establishes His Glory. That people look and say 'I want to serve the God that you're serving'.

And in order to live big, you MUST get rid of tunnel vision and have a peripheral view. What do you mean by that Paula? Tunnel vision is where they put blinders on those race horses. And those race horses can only see the next step that is in front of them. They cannot see the people in the stands. They cannot see the other horses behind them. They can only see directly in front of them. And it's okay to have tunnel vision for a season when you first get saved. Because people need a straight forward vision. So they don't get tied to their past and can break off some things in their life. But there is a time that you grow up. When I was a child, I thought like a child, I acted like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became a mame, you go through a process that brings you to a place of maturity. You start reasoning, thinking and doing like an adult. And that time is when you get rid of tunnel vision and you have a peripheral vision that enables you to see opportunities that other people cannot see. It enables you to have eyes in the back of your head. God wants to enlarge your vision that you can see everything. Where you can see ALL around you.

It reminds me of Abraham. Abraham, as long as he had Lot in his life, Lot represented disobedience. And as long as he had Lot, he was limited in his vision. Because Lot which was disobedience brought strife, because disobedience always brings strife and stife always brings division. Where they had a falling out between their herdsmen and Abraham says take whatever you want. Lot picks Jordan because it seems like the best and Abraham is sitting in his tent crying because sometimes we cry when we think we've lost the best in our life. And he's sitting there and he's crying, feeling sorry for himself and God starts to speak to him and God says 'Lift up now mine eyes'. You see there are some things God cannot show you with certain people in your life because they're disobedience. There's some things that God cannot reveal to you as long as there is Lot around you. And so God said 'NOW lift up your eyes and look to the north, the south, the east, the west. He said there is blessing ALL around you. But you couldn't see it because you were looking at the wrong thing.

God is going to cause you to be repositioned tonight that is going to enlarge your vision to see what you could not see before. So you can taste what you haven't tasted before. God wants you to have perpheral vision so you can take advantage of opportunities that you could not have when you walked in tunnel vision. If you can see it, you can receive it! I feel somebody getting pregnant in the spirit tonight. I feel somebody who has twins is getting ready to have quadruplettes. Somebody is getting ready to have an enlarged vision. You are going to see what you could not see. Therefore, you can walk in what you could not walk in. Because you can only do what you can see. Therefore, you NEED God to show you some things. You NEED God to take some blinders off of your eyes. You see revelationi is a special unveiling for you to see what you were blinded to before. Lift up your hands and say 'Show me God, show me'.

Radical change comes from radical revelation. In other words, if I want a higher living I have to have a higher way of thinking. I have to see myself for what God says I AM! And NOT what man says. And when I begin to know who I AM in God, then I can do what God says I can do. I can have what God says I can have. I can be what God says I can be. And the only limitations on my life are the ones that I place there. There is NOTHING to difficult unless I put the limitation. The ONLY limitations are your own. NOTHING in life can stop you. NOTHING in life can limit you because God doesn't consult your past to determined your future! He says how BIG do you BELIEVE me to be in your life. And so if you've ever met somebody that says I'll see it or I'll believe it when I see it. What they're really saying is they don't believe things are possible unless they can see it in the natural. And sensory driven people are carnally minded. They must see it in order to believe it.

And this is what God has to say about that, turn to Romans 8:6-8; 'To be carnally minded is dead. To be spiritually minded is LIFE and PEACE.' Watch this... everything that is dying in your life you can trace back to a decision made with a carnal mind. Everything that has LIFE and PEACE you can trace back to a decision made with a spiritual mind. My decisions determine my destiny. God sets before me LIFE and He sets before me death. So therefore I must have a spiritual mind in order to live out a life full of LIFE and PEACE. And he says those that are carnally minded cannot please God because the flesh is an enmity to God. And we've been so dysfunctional we think that word please means that we get God's acceptance or approval. Kind of like Hebrews 11:6 'Without faith it is impossible to please God'. But the word pleased does NOT mean God are you happy with me, do you love me, do you accept me. Because God LOVES YOU unconditionally! God LOVED the unlovable you. God LOVED the unlikable you. The Bible says in Romans 5:8 'He LOVED you while you were still a sinner'.

And by the way, if God LOVES you and accepts you unconditionally, why do you go where you are tolerated INSTEAD of where you are CELEBRATED? Don't hang around fools who don't have enough discernment to see the value in your vessel. And so what that means in Hebrews 11:6 without faith operating a word activated in your life it is impossible, now watch this Greek word please, to come in alignment or agreement with God. In other words, without the WORD activated in my life, it is IMPOSSIBLE to think like God, to see like God and ultimately to do like God. Somebody say 'Show me Lord, show me'.

In other words if I am going to walk out the life and live the bigger life that God has for me. I must see it in the spirit. To be in faith a person MUST be spiritually minded. Able to believe in what they cannot see because God's word says it's true. You will need the fruit of the spirit to go along with that. Stuff like long suffering, long suffering does not mean ooohhh I'm barely makin' it through, I'm dragging. Long suffering means to ENDURE with an ASSURANCE that God's promises WILL come to pass.