YOUR GRACE AWAKENING Part 4

YOUR GRACE AWAKENING (Part 4 of 4)

GOD'S WAYS ARE ABOVE OUR WAYS!

There’s no way our fleshly minds can phantom God’s Grace. It’s just way too much, so we stand on His Word, which IS truth. We REST because Jesus is The Word and The Truth, and as such, we know He has already redeemed our hearts, which is our imaginations.

Hebrews 4:10 "For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His."

The Father IS RESTORING His good reputation and has invited us to co-labor with Jesus to reclaim His imagination as ours, a gift of His Grace.

1 Peter 1:18-19 "knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ."

Jesus taught in parables because He knew to engage our hearts through our imagination. Parables draw forth an image from your heart and if we receive it, it becomes our truth by faith.

Colossians 1:15 "He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation."

Man has always been fascinated and energized by stories. It’s what makes us extraordinary.

1 Corinthians 15:49 "Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly."

WE ARE GOD’S CHILDREN, UNIQUE, AND THERE’S NOTHING LIKE US

We are the only “created being” that recalls pleasures through memories. We have a movie theater in our imagination and we can replay memories. When we recall a story in our lives, we recall the event in our hearts and play it out in our imagination. If there are bad memories and get healed and restored whole, the healing comes through our imaginations.

Mark 4:33 "With many such parables He was speaking the word to them, so far as they were able to hear it; and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples."

We can visualize the future and picture all kinds of good and bad outcomes. We can go back in time and revisit memories that we change by envisioning past events brand new, changing the outcome to our favor. Remember, God is our Father and created us in HIS IMAGE. He has a heart and an imagination; therefore, He gave us one too.

Genesis 1:27 "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

God created us to find meaning, significance, and security through dreams and visions in our hearts. He also gave us a shared fondness of our history. Man has always loved folk songs, psalms, stories, books, and movies in the modern day. This is His gift of Grace, and He desires to restore our imaginations and heal our hearts, every one.

WALKING IN THE COOL OF THE DAY

When we walk with God, we talk with God, and it all happens in our hearts and in our imaginations.

Genesis 3:8 "They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden."

WHO TOLD YOU WERE NAKED?

An unsanctified heart experiences shame and guilt and condemnation. A sanctified heart and imagination are FREE from all three, and that’s just the beginning.

Genesis 3:11 "And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

The battle to defeat evil WAS FOR our imagination. The reason there was a battle in the first place was that satan didn’t get an imagination. He’s furious with jealousy.

First John 3:8 "the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil."