Imagination forms thoughts which produce Emotions that motivate deeds.
"That person has no imagination " is a derogatory comment. why? Because imagination is a powerful thing.
Imagination is mental conception. To conceive is to bring into existence.
Christ commanded us to repent - change our way of thinking.
We are not to have vain imaginations.
Vain means impotent, worthless, empty.
Our imagination is the power to create which God gave only to man. Animals do not have imagination.
We were created in the image of God. His plan has always been for us to be His children.
Children have the potential of their parents. But they must learn from their parents how to develop that potential.
So, Christ told us to repent so that we may manifest as His children.
Our Creator imagined the universe before He created it. He saw it before it existed.
What He conceived in His imagination, He spoke into existence.
This is what Christ was talking about when He told us to repent.
We have to see it in our minds before we can speak it into existence.
The Natural, carnal mind Sees with physical Eyes and Believes only what it Sees.
The Carnal Mind is in constant conflict with the Lord.
We must have the Mind Of Christ who did not consider it inappropriate to be equal (manifest the same power) as His Father.
Christ Jesus had to see Himself as the son of the Holy Spirit in order to manifest the as the son of the Holy Spirit!
When we meditate on the Word Of The Lord and fellowship with Him in the Spirit we will be given fruitful imaginations.
The fruitful imagination will be of the work that He has for us to do.
We will spiritually see what we will then speak into existence.
The Holy Spirit will quicken (make alive) our mortal (weak) bodies and we will be able to accomplish great things.
You must see it to be it!
Ramp up your investment in the New Spirit being that you became when you received Christ Jesus as Lord and Saviour.
That investment is your time in the Word (reading, studying and meditating), your time in prayer (especially praying in the Spirit) and your time allowing the Holy Spirit to show you things.
The Lord wants you to dream dreams and see visions.
The dreams and visions the Lord wants us to see are fruitful imaginations of things that we will see manfested.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward. - |
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: - |
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. - |