Lesson 2 | Effective Visualization
What You See is What You Get
By Dr. Frederick Eikerenkoetter
January 31, 2009
“In the previous lesson, I showed you that the Bible instructs us to visualize. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Now let me give you another scripture verse concerning visualization and affirmation...”
One of the prophets speaks of Almighty God and how he creates situations, circumstances, and conditions, and says, “He calls those things which are not as though they were.” This is what visualization and affirmation do.
Affirmation: Speaking Your Visualization
You may not have a nickel in your pocket, but in your mind, when you see yourself with the money you need and want and desire, you are actually calling those things which are not as though they were.
When the Lord God Almighty created this world, the Bible says that “the Earth was void.” But the divine mind visualized the world it wanted to create and spoke it into existence.
You must do the same thing. You have that same creative power of God within your own being, within your very mind. You are a creator in the one created power.
At 17 years of age, I walked down Fifth Avenue in New York City, a poor, Black country boy. I didn’t know what a Rolls Royce was, but I saw them, and I knew that’s what I wanted. That was a decision.
And I saw those elegant, rich ladies and gentlemen going in and out of those grand hotels and restaurants, getting in and out of their elegant Rolls Royces, and I decided that’s what I wanted, standing there as a poor, country boy.
My world was void and without form, and my pockets were E-M-P-T-Y. But I went into the theater of my mind and looked upon the stage of my imagination, and I formed the vision.
This is what you have to do.
The first thing that you do is form a vision. Creation is forever taking place. Don’t think creation begins and ends in the first chapter of Genesis. It does not.
You Are Creating Day and Night, and What You See is What You Get
Back to the curb of Fifth Avenue, and that poor country boy. I saw myself in those elegant people and as those elegant people. I loved them; I blessed them; I was delighted to see them enjoying themselves and their riches and wealth.
I did not curse the rich. For again, the Bible tells us, “Curse not the rich.” And as I always say, if you condemn the rich, you will never become one of them.
I formed a vision of myself as a wealthy person, when in fact I had nothing. The world was void, without form.
In my mind, with my visualization, I called those things which were not as though they were by seeing them, by feeling them.
Most of the time nowadays, when I go down Fifth Avenue, the only Rolls Royce I see is the one I happen to be riding in that day.
So don’t tell me this stuff doesn’t work or give me a hard luck story. I can tell you what it’s all about because I’ve been there, and I’m glad I’m out, and I’m trying to help you get out so that where I am, there you may be also.
I am not teaching you something I read in all these wonderful books we have on the bookstands—those are lovely books—I’m not telling you something that I simply heard someone else saying. God knows I’ve listened to a lot of wonderful people say a lot of wonderful things and I still go to hear many wonderful people say many wonderful things. But everything that I tell you and share with you is stuff that I am working and is working.
“(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” (Rom. 4:17)
The only way you will ever become that which you are not is by calling yourself that which you are not.
Again, and I quote this time and time again, the mystic words of the prophet, “Let the weak say I am strong.”
You have to call those qualities forth which are not yet expressing in your world, and they will express. You call them using many different techniques, but visualization is the chief technique.
In the next five lessons, you’ll learn more about how and why visualization works and specific techniques for using your mind power to get what you want!
Love, Peace, and Prosperity,
Dr. Frederick Eikerenkoetter,
Better Known as Rev. Ike.
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