THE CURSE HAS BEEN REVERSED - LET YOUR CREATIVITY SOAR AGAIN
We can create, and satan can’t. We are made in God’s image, satan was not. We are God’s very own children, His family, and satan was a servant of God created to serve man. Satan has no heart, and therefore no imagination. Satan resented man and inequity was found in him. He can only distort what has been created. Jealousy over man fueled satan’s hatred toward God and us.
2 Corinthians 10:5 "We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,"
satan felt cheated, and inequity was found in him. Consequently, he was removed from Heaven with zero chance of redemption or returning, ever.
Ephesians 6:12 "or our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the
heavenly places."
In hatred, satan attacked Adam and attempted to inflict pain on God by distorting THE truth IN Eve’s imagination. Satan corrupted man by deceiving His (her) imagination,
Genesis 3:6 "When the woman SAW that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate."
Because of the Blood of Jesus AND His finished work of the cross, satan is destroyed, forever stripped of vision and insight, and he HAS NO understanding, no discernment, and no prophecy; satan is blind.
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
Satan is THE LIE, but he can’t even create a lie. By God’s Grace, satan WAS destroyed, and we were SAVED in one swoop.
1 Peter 5:8 "Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
Through Adam and Eve, satan tricked man into exchanging ONENESS with God in God’s imagination (HIS IMAGE) to receive an imagination of their own, apart from God. It was a dirty trick, the ultimate deception, and worse, THE betrayal that God has had to endure on our behalf. God lost more in the fall of man than everyone else combined. His heart was broken and is now being healed IN CHRIST.
Galatians 5:4 "You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace."
In exchange for God’s imagination, we got an opinion and a conscience. That opinion killed our imagination, and as a consequence, we lost FAITH and then Peace; we fell from God’s Grace.
Romans 1:25 "For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."
Once we got our own opinion from our dead imagination, we got a viewpoint too - lots of them, and they’re endless. With it, we got a bunch of ideas of our own apart from God. Man became a judge in his own mind. We even judge God, our creator. Now we live in chaos, with billions of people who are gods in their own minds.
Matthew 7:1 “Do not judge so that you will not be judged."
Consequently, man began to judge God as if he could. Man’s self-righteous opinions reside in his mind, not in his heart.
Romans 10:3 "For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God."
Unfortunately, having ANY opinion other than God’s is how we got fear and every kind of disease, depression, and death. You gotta see this, the battle was for your heart and Jesus won. Now we fight to His finished works and FROM His absolute victory, which is in Christ; God’s heart, His imagination.
John 12:47 "If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world."
God created us in HIS image, and with that, He gave us His imagination. God is absolutely good, and He placed His whole goodness in us and then turned everything over to us and said, “enjoy and create.”
Psalms 23:6 "Surely goodness and lovingkindness will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
Ask anything in my name, and it shall be done. God is a rewarder of those who BELIEVE and walk in HIS FAITH.
1 Corinthians 12:3 "Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit."
Faith is even given to us as a GRACE GIFT
John 14:13-14 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it."
Satan tricked Eve’s heart, and in our fallen state (without Grace and a dead imagination), unfortunately, WE created every form of bad and evil that ever existed.
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 in HIS IMAGE, with an imagination TO CREATE. Apart from Christ, because of man’s dead imagination, there’s no Grace and only evil exists. Satan tried to get revenge by destroying us. Unfortunately for satan, Grace WAS before the foundation of the world, and as such Grace was given as a gift to destroy the works of the devil even before the devil was created.
John 15:5, 19 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing...Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner."
Therefore, Jesus came and took ALL sin, all deception, all disease, all sickness, EVERYTHING from the fall of man upon Himself on the cross. He took all BAD and all EVIL into hell and left it there when
God resurrected Him. He decided to do this feat before we did anything good or bad.
Hebrews 11:6 "And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him."
The Father did not resurrect Jesus until our EVERY sin was paid for and covered. Meaning there was no resurrection until we were fully justified by GRACE. If you believe these truths with all of your heart (imagination), you will be SAVED.
Ephesians 3:14-20 "For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,"
Essentially, by having ANY opinion apart from God, we died, became self-righteous, received a conscience, and began judging everything, starting with God. An opinion about God made us to be a god in
our own hearts, our own imagination. THIS IS SIN.
Philippians 3:9 "and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith,"
Jesus told us to guard our hearts and not let our hearts be troubled. What was He referring to? Our imagination, of course.
John 14:27 "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful."
REST is also found in the heart of man. We are to REST and TRUST in the finished work of Jesus Christ.
John 1:29 "The next day he *saw Jesus coming to him and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"
BEHOLD JESUS IN YOUR HEART
If we behold the RISEN Christ in our Heart, which is Jesus’ FINISHED work, and His works alone, then we are IN HIS REST.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
We SEE ourselves cleansed by the Blood of Christ and reckon yourselves dead to sin and ALIVE TO GOD IN CHRIST. This happens in our imagination.
Romans 6:11, 13 "Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God."
The HOPE in our hearts is faith in the absolute finished work of Jesus on the cross through resurrection. In salvation, when we are BORN AGAIN, we receive back the ONENESS with Christ. This all happens in our imagination.
Romans 10:17 "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.”
SEEING and HEARING come by Faith, and Faith comes by the Word of God! This all happens in our Heart which is ONE with God in Christ.
Galatians 3:2 "This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?"
Our talents and skills are Gifts of His Grace and manifest in the world through our imagination.
Galatians 3:5 "So then, does He who provides you with the Spirit and works miracles among you, do it by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?"
Your Grace Awakening will happen in your heart as you behold Jesus as your Lord, High Priest, Savior, Shepherd, Healer, King, Brother, Co-heir, Provider, Comforter, Wisdom, and Friend. God be blessed as you receive ALL of this by faith.
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Craig Rogers
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