Harnessing Your Imagination for Blessings Podcast

By Tom Shanklin Do you see yourself the way God sees you or is the image inside of you something that you received from past experiences or the traditions of man. Your imagination can be a great tool for good or evil, blessings or curses. God has a blessing plan for your life. When you receive Jesus Christ He delivers you from the power of every curse. But if you continue to have the wrong picture on the inside, it will greatly hinder God's work in your life. The image you have on the inside can either help or hinder you from cooperating with God's blessing plan. Only the Word of God can paint the appropriate picture on the tablet of your heart, so that you can flow with God's plan for your life. Listen to this encouraging podcast to ignite your imagination to release the great power of God in your life. Notes: HARNESSING YOUR IMAGINATION FOR BLESSINGS Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. (Galatians 3:13-14, KJV). TEXT: O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee: And give unto Solomon my son a perfect heart, to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies, and thy statutes, and to do all these things, and to build the palace, for the which I have made provision. (1 Chronicles 29:18-19, KJV). MAIN THOUGHT: Both in our individual lives, and corporately, we can harness our imaginations for bring forth blessings in the earth. THE POWER OF IMAGINATION Imagination—def) the formation of a mental image of something that is neither perceived as real nor present to the senses. People speak disparagingly, “Oh that’s just your imagination.” However, imagination is a powerful tool when properly harnessed. Imagination created the light bulb, the United States, great buildings, great organizations, etc. And “the imagination of the heart” is key to moving in the things of God. Gal 3:14 . . . that we might receive the promise of the spirit through faith. This goes beyond mental imaging. Consider Heb. 11:1: (Amp) Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title-deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality—faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17, KJV). HARNESSING THE IMAGINATION OF A GROUP And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. (Genesis 11:6-7, KJV). Through the united vision of the people of Babylon, God saw that they would accomplish that which they had set them to do. In order to stop this ungodly project, it was necessary for him to confound their languages. If people could unite, so powerfully, for an ungodly purpose, and not be restrained except by an act of God, how much potential could be unleashed by God’s people operating in the direction of the Holy Spirit and according to the expressed will of God in the scriptures, uniting and harnessing their imaginations. Our church is like a canvass, waiting to be painted. EVIL IMAGINATION And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. (Genesis 6:5-6, KJV). A continual evil imagination is sure to bring forth continual evil. O generation of vipers,