WHATEVER HAS YOUR IMAGINATION HAS YOUR FAITH 10-10-25 VIDEO STEVE
Imagination is the power to for mental pictures, ideas, and concepts, not present to your senses at this time. If persuaded, the imagination can show you new possibilities or how to understand the world in different ways. The devil tempted Eve into the hope of changing her imagination When she saw the tree instead of seeing the reality of it, she saw it in her imagination. She forgot who she was. We can use our imagination to see our self in Christ. Jesus set us free from imagining the wrong things. Worry is imagining something that is in conflict with our faith. God used his imagination to create mankind. Use your imagination to believe you have received what you have asked for.
HEB 11:1 Persuasion confirms confident expectation and proves the unseen world to be more real than the seen. Faith celebrates as certain what hope visualizes as future. MIRROR
GEN 3:6 When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it - she'd know everything! - she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
7 Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on" - saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.
8 When they heard the sound of God strolling in the garden in the evening breeze, the Man and his Wife hid in the trees of the garden, hid from God. MSG
2 COR 11:3 I am concerned for you that you might pine away through the illusion of separation from Christ and that, just like Eve, you might become blurry-eyed and deceived into believing a lie about yourselves. The temptation was to exchange the truth about our completeness (I am) with the idea of incompleteness (I am not) and shame; thinking that perfection required your toil and all manner of wearisome labor!
4 You will know by the echo within you whether the Jesus someone else preaches is the same Jesus we proclaim to you. You will recognize the same spirit; if it is a different spirit, it is not the same gospel! Why would you politely put up with deception, even if it comes packaged in prominent names and titles!
5 I am not inferior by any calculation to those Apostles so highly ranked in your estimate!
6 I am not here to entertain you with my public speaking skills, or to impress you with me, but to impress you with you! It is not in the plausible sounding words of my conversation, it is in what I know to be true about you. This is clearly evident in all of our dealings with you. MIRROR
2 COR 10:4 The dynamic of our strategy is revealed in Gods ability to disengage mindsets and perceptions that have held people captive in pseudo fortresses for centuries!
5 Every lofty idea and argument positioned against God's knowledge of us, is cast down and exposed to be a mere invention of our own imagination. We 1arrest every thought at spear point - anything that could possibly trigger an opposing threat to our redeemed identity and innocence is taken captive. The caliber of our weapon is empowered by the revelation of the ultimate consequence of the obedience of Christ. MIRRO
PROV 3:24 You'll take afternoon naps without a worry, you'll enjoy a good night's sleep.
25 No need to panic over alarms or surprises, or predictions that doomsday's just around the corner,
26 Because God will be right there with you; he'll keep you safe and sound. MSG
JER 17:8 He is like a tree planted on the riverbank, extending its roots into streams of water. It does not fear when scorching heat comes, for its leaves remain fresh and never fading even in a year of drought. It has no anxieties but continues to bear luscious fruit. TPT
MATT 6:33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
34 "Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. MSG
MATT 13:22 "The seed cast in the weeds is the person who hears the kingdom news, but weeds of worry and illusions about getting more and wanting everything under the sun strangle what was heard, and nothing comes of it.
23 "The seed cast on good earth is the person who hears and takes in the News, and then produces a harvest beyond his wildest dreams." MSG
NUM 13:32 They spread scary rumors among the People of Israel. They said, " We scouted out the land from one end to the other - it's a land that swallows people whole. Everybody we saw was huge.
33 Why, we even saw the Nephilim giants (the Anak giants come from the Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like grasshoppers. And they looked down on us as if we were grasshoppers." MSG
PHIL 4:6 Let no anxiety about anything distract you! Rather translate moments into prayerful worship, and soak your requests in gratitude before God!
7 And in this place of worship and gratitude you will witness how the peace of God within you 1echoes the awareness of your oneness in Christ Jesus beyond the reach of any thought that could possibly unsettle you. Just like the sentry guard secures a city, watching out in advance for the first signs of any possible threat, your deepest feelings and the tranquillity of your thoughts are fully guarded there. MIRROR
COL 3:1 See yourselves co-raised with Christ! Now ponder with persuasion the consequence of your co-inclusion in him. Relocate yourselves mentally! Engage your thoughts with throne room realities where you are co-seated with Christ in the executive authority of Gods right hand.
2 Becoming affectionately acquainted with throne room thoughts will keep you from being distracted again by the earthly [soul-ruled] realm.
3 Your union with his death broke the association with that world; see yourselves located in a fortress where your life is hidden with Christ in God!
4 The unveiling of Christ, as defining our lives, immediately implies that, what is evident in him, is equally mirrored in you! The exact life on exhibit in Christ is now repeated in us. We are included in the same bliss and joined-oneness with him; just as his life reveals you, your life reveals him. MIRROR
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COL 3:1 So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides.
2 Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ - that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.
3 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life - even though invisible to spectators - is with Christ in God. He is your life.
4 When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too - the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ. MSG
MARK 11:24 That's why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you'll get God's everything. MSG
PHIL 4:8 Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious - the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.
9 Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies. MSG
EPH 1:17 I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him.
18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling that is, the wealth of Gods glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones! TPT
ROM 12:1 Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to Gods marvelous mercies? To surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship.
2 Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern Gods will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. TPT
LUKE 2:19 Mary treasured all these sayings, pondering them in her heart; and so forming, as in a mental mosaic, her picture of the Christ, who was to be. MIRROR
1 JN 3:2 But friends, that's exactly who we are: children of God. And that's only the beginning. Who knows how we'll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we'll see him - and in seeing him, become like him.
3 All of us who look forward to his Coming stay ready, with the glistening purity of Jesus' life as a model for our own. MSG
ROM 5:17 If death got the upper hand through one man's wrongdoing, can you imagine the breathtaking recovery life makes, sovereign life, in those who grasp with both hands this wildly extravagant life-gift, this grand setting-everything-right, that the one man Jesus Christ provides? MSG
ACTS 2:28 You have acquainted me with the paths of life; there is nowhere on this road, where you are absent! I am in such a happy frame of mind - I am satisfied with joy in this face to face place! MIRROR
LUKE 14:33 So, unless you can walk away from whatever it was that defined you before, under your old, paradigm of performance based, law-ruled living, you cannot be my disciple! MIRROR
LUKE 9:47 Jesus was aware of the reasonings in their hearts and took a little child to him and said,
48 To embrace a little child is to embrace me - for a moment, forget about the great things youve witnessed and done - imagine me as this little child - to see the significance of life hiding in a little one, is to see what my Father sees in everyone - the Fathers honor is vested in the little child - your greatness is not in how famous you can be in your own, or someone else's estimate, but in discovering your individual value in your Fathers embrace. MIRROR
LUKE 12:33 From now on, do life from a different perspective! Stuff does not define you! Exchange whatever it was that you've been doing all along under the old system of performance, for this new life of adventure! Get it over and done with! Be compassion driven in your sharing and giving; this takes hoarding out of the equation. Get rid of your antique purses, which typically are your old, worn-out, performance-based ideas. Instead, become creative in the adventure of trading with a new kind of purse - one that is loaded with heaven's currency - a treasure which cannot be exhausted, since it cannot be broken into or stolen, neither can it be ruined by moths! The stuff you've been hoarding before, are clearly targets for thieves and they get moth eaten anyway! MIRROR
JN 5:14 Then a little later Jesus found him in the synagogue and said, See! You have become whole! Do not continue in your old distorted mindset; then nothing worse can happen to you! MIRROR