Colossians 3:15 "Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful."
Sleep terrors originate from our imagination. PTSD is an injury of the imagination. This is why we declare, Jesus is the only answer!
Romans 16:20 "The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you."
CLEANSED BY THE BLOOD - SEE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS CLEANED
Your GRACE Awakening is to realize your heart and imagination have been cleansed by the Blood of Jesus and you are sanctified. You now have full freedom and peace IN CHRIST forever! You have God’s unmerited favor too! You didn’t do anything to earn it, but you can receive all of it and more by receiving it into your heart, your imagination by faith. In other words, BELIEVE!
Hebrews 12:24 "and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel."
Ephesians 2:13 "But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ."
Hebrews 10:2 "Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?"
OUR HEART, OUR IMAGINATION
According to the Word of God, OUR Imagination is OUR heart, and our heart is also our imagination. As such, Jesus taught by parables, and many of His teachings were designed to be SEEN IN OUR HEARTS first and then only understood in our imagination by FAITH.
Mark 4:33 "With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it;"
Matthew 13:13 "Therefore I speak to them in parables; because while seeing they do not see, and while hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand."
Luke 8:10 "And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand."
Now, from this point on, when you read the Bible and come across the word “heart,” translate it as “imagination.” Then watch the Word come alive and manifest in your heart.
Hebrews 11:3 "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible."
We call “what is not” as if “it were” daily without thinking. We dream and visualize in our imaginations every day, all day long; it’s natural to do so. In fact, without thinking, we love to dwell on what we dream about. We do that in our imaginations freely; it’s called daydreaming.
“It will come about after this That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind, And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old men will dream dreams, Your young men will see visions."
GOD’s DREAM IS ALL VISUAL AND CREATIVE
God’s dream is us, His Son, His Bride, His church, and His family. God has a rebellious child (us), but in His imagination (his intentions) we are perfect by Jesus’ blood. Having put sin away forever, in peace and confidence, God wants to conform us INTO His very image; we believe and see. God has imagined us wholly restored and redeemed from before the foundation of the world, so can we. He imagines us, His Son, and the marriage has already happened; it’s DONE.
Luke 9:35 "Then a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My Son, My Chosen One; listen to Him!”
The psalms and proverbs originated from the imagination of God as given to us by the Holy Spirit. The Bible gives us a beautiful picture of God’s imagination. Creation and all of the universe gives us a good look at our Father’s imagination. We, you, and I are made in His image, and we are His children. He imagined all of us as His family before He created us.
Revelation 19:7, 9 "Then he *said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’ ” And he *said to me, “These are true words of God. Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.”
We can only imagine heaven. We can’t see Heaven from our brain, mind, or physical eyes. We see through our imagination. God communes and talks with us in our imagination. God visualized His Son's birth, suffering, death, and resurrection in His imagination before He made man. He imagined us and all our needs before we were made. This means we are convinced we already have everything we could ever need or want, and it’s ours as a free gift of His Grace.
Revelation 13:8 "All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been slain."
TRUST AND FAITH ARE ALL VISUAL AND IMAGINED
Trust comes from our imagination. Jesus had to trust His Father to raise Him from the dead. Jesus imagined His Father would do it long before He went to the cross. We trust (imagine) God will save us upon Jesus' return because we trust Him to do so, just like Jesus did.
Revelation 1:1-3 "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants, the things which must soon take place; and He sent and communicated it by His angel to His bond-servant John, who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it; for the time is near."
Whenever we receive good news or bad news we push the “news” through our imagination and whatever resides in our hearts filters the news, making it “good” or “bad.” People filter the news
based on how they see God and their future, good or bad. That all happens in our imagination.
Mark 11:23 “Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and DOES NOT DOUBT IN HIS HEART, BUT BELIEVES that what he says is going to happen, IT WILL BE GRANTED TO HIM.”
What do you see in your heart? Is your vision coming from your heart and your imagination? Is your imagination consecrated to God? It’s vital that you know. Jesus said, “whatever you desire in your heart it will be given to us.” He actually said, “WHATEVER YOU ASK it will be given.”
John 15:16 "You did not choose Me BUT I CHOSE YOU, and appointed you that YOU WOULD GO AND BEAR FRUIT, and that your fruit would remain, so that WHATEVER YOU ASK OF THE FATHERS IN MY NAME HE MAY GIVE IT TO YOU."
So where does YOUR hope come from? How bout your desires, where do do they reside? Where do you visualize your hopes and desires? Your heart? What about wisdom? Where does YOUR wisdom reside once you get it? Where do you meditate on wisdom? Is it in your heart and played out in your imagination?
What about your wishes? Do you realize that you can't “WISH” for things from your mind; you can only “WISH” for things from your heart, and YOUR WISHES are what YOU see in YOUR imagination. We call them dreams, purpose, mission, ministry, and calling.
John 15:7 “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ASK WHATEVER YOU WISH AND IT WILL BE DONE FOR YOU."
CREATIVITY SETS MAN APART
Where does your creativity come from? How about “the wonder” in your heart? Where does it originate from? What about “mystery” or “intrigue”?
Wait, what about LOVE, where does love come from? And, once we are IN LOVE, where does the love emit from, and where does it reside? Is it in your heart?
What if God the Father, and the Son of God, and the HOLY SPIRIT came and permanently made their HOME IN YOUR HEART? Would that change things for you, and if so, what?
Matthew 15:28 “Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, YOUR FAITH IS GREAT; IT SHALL BE DONE FOR YOU AS YOU WISH.” And her daughter was healed at once.”
We SEE DESIRE in our heart (imagination) before we want it, right? We see desire with our imagination. For example, we SEE the things we are praying for in our hearts before we pray for them; otherwise, how could we pray? We can imagine being healed, and we can SEE ourselves healed before we ask for prayer to be healed, right?
Mark 10:52 "And Jesus said to him, “Go; YOUR FAITH HAS MADE YOU WELL.” Immediately he REGAINED HIS SIGHT and began following Him on the road."
EVERYTHING we receive IN FAITH from God our Father originates from our heart, and then resides in our heart, and can be accessed by our body, mind, and soul when needed.
Ephesians 3:19 "and TO KNOW THE LOVE OF CHRIST which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God."
SATAN WANTS TO ATTACK US IN OUR HEARTS - BELIEVE JESUS INSTEAD
Genesis 6:5 "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every INTENTION OF THE THOUGHTS OF HIS HEART was only evil continually."
Our TRUTH resides in our hearts, good or bad.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 "May the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the steadfastness of Christ."
Jesus' TRUTH resides in my heart because I asked Him to reside in my heart by Faith; when I asked Jesus to be my eternal Lord and Savior, I believed in my heart. Before I asked Jesus into my heart, I saw Him there.
2 Corinthians 13:14 "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all."
Having BELIEVED in my heart that Jesus died on the cross to take on my sins and God resurrected Him from the dead BECAUSE His work fully satisfied my debt, I asked Jesus into my heart and I
BELIEVED.
1 Peter 3:15 "but SANCTIFY CHRIST AS LORD IN YOUR HEARTS, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account FOR THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU, yet with gentleness and reverence;"
At that time, The Father, Jesus, and Holy Spirit came to RESIDE in my sanctified heart so I could KNOW HIS love for me. That experiential knowledge transformed my heart from the inside out, without my efforts.
Romans 5:5 "and hope does not disappoint, because THE LOVE OF GOD HAS BEEN POURED OUT WITHIN OUR HEARTS through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
We KNOW God’s love BECAUSE HE RESIDES IN our hearts as our Heavenly Father, and we now KNOW HOPE too, and so much more. Where do we know it? In our hearts!
Matthew 8:13 “And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you AS YOU HAVE BELIEVED.” And the servant was healed that very moment.”
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Craig Rogers
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