I know many Christians teach this story. How God changed Abs name. That He added the letter Hey and in essence, He added Himself and forced good ole AB to call himself the father of many nations and boom he became a dad.
But here’s the thing. Manifesting begins with in. It’s what you see in your imagination. You are in your own imagination. You have formed an image of you. Here’s how AB saw himself. In Gen 15:2
New King James Version
But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, seeing I go childless…….
He couldn’t see himself as a father because he didn’t see any children. As if the children were the evidence of him being a father. He continues his conversation with the Lord and then asks this in Gen 15:8
King James Bible
And he said, Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?
The English translates I know from the Hebrew word yada. Essentially the word yada means: to ascertain by seeing. AB was asking to have assurance by seeing it. So God took him outside to look at the stars. AB’s imagination couldn’t conjure up an image, a picture of the children. Or how many, he asked for an image. (There have been some fascinating reads on which constellation 🌌 AB was actually looking at. Check them out sometime. )
We’re the same. Some won’t believe till we see it. But that’s not how believing works. Also it’s not the things hoped for that make you. God said I shall make you a father. His state of ‘being’ a father is the existence that produces the offspring child. Not the other way around and it’s all created in the inner ‘eye’ imagination. I.
God basically forced AB to conceptualize this by giving him this New Name. He repeatedly had to hear someone call him this and then the image in imagination goes to work. The repetition creates the subconscious program. The subconscious program runs on repeat all by its self.
Practice purposely using your imagination to your advantage because it’s the center of all creation. Your focal point. Pay attention to your thoughts because what are thoughts anyways? Where do you see them? Hear them? Feel them? What are they for? Who put them there?
What are you seeing inside of you? It’s where the Kingdom is.
God Bless
The House Of Manifesting 