Vision and Behavior

The human brain primarily operates through vision—whether it’s what your eyes see, what your mind remembers, or what your imagination envisions.

Give your brain an image, and it will use all its power to pursue it. For example, when your stomach signals that it’s hungry, your brain brings up images of the food you want or what’s available.

You then begin searching for that food, preparing it, eating it, and finally, your hunger subsides.

Without the images stored in your mind— the database of all the food you’ve seen and tasted—you wouldn’t know how to satisfy your hunger. This also explains why you don’t crave food you’ve never seen.

This is how faith works; it follows a similar process. Faith “sees” what it desires through the eyes of imagination, fueled by the Word of God.

Whether it’s a cure for cancer, debt paid in full, forgiveness from sins, a transformed life, or freedom, faith begins with a vision.

Once this vision of faith is planted in the mind, the person unites their strength to bring it to life. Prayer, boldness, sacrifice, behavior changes—all of this is driven by the power of that vision.

For example, the cancer patient begins to declare that they’re healed. The incarcerated person starts to believe they’ll be home soon.

They no longer see themselves trapped in chemotherapy or prison; through the eyes of faith, they envision a clean medical report or a productive life outside prison walls.

And their behavior follows that belief.

The person in debt begins to see themselves debt-free. They take steps to pay it off, practice financial discipline, negotiate with creditors, give their tithes, and test God’s promises. Eventually, the vision turns into reality.

Everything in life first requires a vision before a solution can come. When your vision changes, your behavior naturally follows because vision dictates your actions.

So, where have you been looking with your physical eyes? What have you been recalling through your memory? And how are you using your imagination?