Imagination!

I've been boiling this down and down and following a theme I haven't intentionally followed, but God keeps laying stuff in my path that is the next thought in the line! And I mean God is doing it, because I'm not coming up with this stuff. I turn on the TV and there's the next bit, I open a book and there's the next bit! (OK I don't open books, but you get the point! I am just taking the seeds I see in different places, and those seeds are bursting into fruit in me!)

Imagination, boy is this getting simple!! Let me ask you a few questions:

Do you have an imagination?

Can you use your imagination to imagine really good things like if you had loads of money?

Does your imagination sometimes create black pictures all by itself?

Those black pictures are worry, fear, anxiety and so on. Jesus said don't be anxious for anything. The bible tells us to fear not and to cast our cares onto Him.

Now, you've just agreed that you control your imagination to think good things, so this is what the Bible is saying, take control. Now, it doesn't say, "Don't think of pink elephants!" You know what that means, the more you try not to think of pink elephants the more you think of them!

The bible tells us what to imagine. It tells us to imagine picking up our junk and throwing it at God's feet. I tells us to imagine that God is taking care of it. It tells us to imagine that we are free of it.

But what if it gets up and comes back? Then we imagine we pick it up and throw it down, again and again until it doesn't get up anymore!

It is almost impossible to throw a thought our of your mind, you have to create a new thought to replace it. We can do it. If you can imagine what it would be like to have lots of money when you haven't got lots of money then you have already seen yourself doing that very thing! You cheer yourself up with dreams. Over here we dream about winning the lottery, even though we personally don't do it, but for the unbeliever say, it is vanity, completely empty and void of any reality. Yet, even though there is no hope attached to what they imagine, or a hope of 1 in 14,000,000. Then how much more can we imagine ourselves happy when we has an absolute odds on certainty that God is taking care of our problems, because His word says so!

So, my advice to you is - start day dreaming!!! Obviously, not day dreams we naturally dream but dreams and imaginations connected with the promises of God! I have heard people try and do the "Well in the Greek!" on the "In my Father's house are many mansions!" Hey, dream about that mansion!

So, when you are in a place of negative imagination, imagine your way out of it. There is no reality, only perception, and God's perception is the only reality! So, change your perception to match His.

Imagine!