THINK BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION

 











 THINK BEYOND YOUR IMAGINATION Though these four words were not original with him. . .they exploded in my spirit and I’ve been meditating and provoking close friends with them ever since.
Let’s start by establishing a very basic fact.  There are only two ways you can see something.
First, with your natural eyes.
Second, with your imagination.
The word imagination is defined in the Merriam Webster Intercollegiate Dictionary as:
“the act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality.”
Your imagination is the thing that allows you to see the future before it happens.
Here are seven things, reasons, ways and keys to think beyond your imagination.
# 1       Imagination is not bad, evil or unproductive. . .but we may be.
Your imagination is neither good nor bad or evil. . .it becomes whatever you decide it to be.
If God created your imagination. . .He meant it for good not evil.
Many Christians have been talked out of using their imaginations because it has been used in unhealthy ways outside Christian circles.  Heresy is simply truth taken to an extreme.
The enemy has used new-age gurus and the worldly mindsets to pervert and prevent believers from taping into their imaginations. . .merely by taking a scriptural truth to an extreme.
The best place. . .actually. . .the only place to find the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is the Word of God.
In Genesis chapter one God used His imagination to make something out of nothing.  He created the earth by the words that He spoke.  “And God said” is found ten times in the first chapter.
Genesis 1:26 the scripture says we were made in the image of God and in His likeness.
In Genesis 15:5 God told Abraham to "count the stars . . . So shall your descendants be."  God was clearly telling Abraham to use his imagination to see his future generations. . .why else would He have told Abraham what He did.
Here’s the bottom line. . .once you READ YOUR BIBLE. . .DO WHAT IT SAYS. . .then you need to take what God says in His Word and imagine it manifesting in your life.
Now I realize there are a number of scriptures that talk about vain imaginations.  The problem is not using your imagination. . .but it’s about using your imagination to think on wrong, negative or sinful things.
Romans 1:21 says:
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.”
If we focus on God. . .in all things … praising Him. . .thanking Him for what He’s done. . .then we will not open our imaginations to evil thoughts.  It’s only when we open our hearts to things we know are not right before Him that we invite all sorts of evil thoughts.
God’s WORD Translation of Romans 1:21 says:
“They knew God but did not praise and thank him for being God. Instead, their thoughts were total nonsense, and their misguided minds were plunged into darkness.”
God obviously knew this was a possibility among His children. . .so He provided a way of escape.
2 Corinthians 10:5 says:
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”
The key word in this passage is “that.”  When the imagination focuses on things that are wrong “that” is the problem.  Anything “that” exalts itself against the knowledge of God “that” is the scriptural problem being addressed in this verse.