According to Isaiah 14:24, God’s thoughts precede manifestation—“The Lord of hosts hath sworn saying, surely as I have thought so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed so shall it stand”—and your thoughts precede your manifestation.

Whatever you have been thinking on is what will manifest in your life. In other words, your life is the outcome of what you have been thinking.

For example, you live in the house that you thought about, but now, you may want a bigger house. The problem is that you are limited because you don’t know how you can get it. Your thinking is: I don’t have any way of getting a bigger house. Your thinking has put a limit on God.

Everything—the clothes you wear, the job you have, the house you live in and the car you drive—is the result of your thoughts.
Consider the manifestation of debt freedom. It may seem physically impossible for you to achieve, but God will give you the strategy to fulfill that manifestation if that is what you have believed Him for and are thinking about. As you will think on the reality of debt freedom, God’s Word begins to build an image of hope in you.

Maybe you never went to college, so you think, I can’t do that. I don’t have a degree. You are the one limiting yourself. Maybe you don’t have a high school diploma and you have limited yourself to that. Or, maybe you served time, so you say, Well, I can’t ever make it because I have a record.

Whatever your story is, you are the one limiting yourself to the past by focusing your thoughts on it. You have to get beyond the past, and get it completely out of your thinking because it will hang on you and tell you that you can’t make it.

God has a different success plan.

When you allow the uncompromising Word of God into your life, you can reach a place of such hope, and faith that you will begin to see a different image of yourself. You will no longer be like you thought you were. Your past will fade away and all you will see is what God sees—the image of God in you.

If you will allow that hope to build an image of who you really are, instead of who you presently think you are, God will make you succeed, He’ll make you look good—but you will have to trust Him.

So, allow Him to build His hope in you. If you want a different outcome, allow the images of how God wants your life to fill your thinking. The Word of God will reveal those new images to you.

God wants the best for you. He does not want you working two jobs trying to bring your dream to pass. That is the way the world does things. God’s given us a better way, a better plan, a better strategy and He’ll build His image in you, if you allow Him to by thinking His thoughts—the kind of thoughts that bring the manifestations you really want in your life.

If you’ll think the thoughts of God, then you’ll have the things that God desires you to have, because you’ll be who He says you are.