40-Day Fast from Wrong Thinking - DAY 5 "NEGATIVE IMAGINATIONS"

Revolution Day 5: Fast from Negative Imaginations

Today we're fasting from negative imaginations.

What we imagine within has the power to come to pass. Fear is simply a negative imagination. ‘Seeing’ something bad happen in your mind before it happens is how fear works. Job said, “What I have feared (imagining his children failing), has come upon me." (Job 3:25) Let's Change Negative Imaginations TODAY: 1. Recognize your imagination is a gift from God. You are a powerfully creative individual, made in the image of God. (Genesis 1:28) As you read and follow Jesus in scripture, you are discovering what you’re made of. 1 John 4:17 says, "As He is, so are you in this world." Amazing! 2. Cast down ‘images’, imaginations of fear, and past failures. (2 Corinthians 10:5) How? You flood your thoughts with the miracles of Jesus, the victories of God’s people, the vivid pictures that scripture paints. See yourself lying down beside green pastures, enjoying God’s presence. As you fill your mind with scripture images, peace comes. Isaiah 26:3 RSV says, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose imagination is stayed on thee.” 3. Imagination is a gateway to God’s power and ability. Ephesians 3:20 says, "Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us..."(NIV) Notice, God’s power works within us through our imagination. What you can imagine, God can do. 4. Our imagination is the eyes of our spirit. 2 Corinthians 4:18 says, “So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal and subject to change." As we LOOK at the promises of God with our inner eyes, even though they haven’t shown up yet, things will eventually change. 5. Fill your imagination with the unlimited possibilities of scripture. That’s why we must believe the highest promises of the Bible. They elevate our imagination. As they occupy your imagination, there will be no room for diseased fantasies or images, such as pornography, or past mistakes, or sinful ambitions, etc. Colossians 3:2 says to set your mind on things above. Mark 9:23 says, "All things are possible for those who believe (see it on the inside)." 6. Let yourself think imaginatively today. Expect a “nudge” from the Holy Spirit; a holy ‘hunch’; an idea that keeps coming to your mind, a vision, a godly dream. Act on those “images”, if they don’t contradict scripture. THINK IT & SAY IT: I have the creative power of God working in me to solve problems, to bring success, to bring answers to others. I cast down images in my mind—of fear, failure or the expectation of evil. I will allow the scriptures to paint images in my mind of victory and success. I set my mind on things above. I expect to see, by faith, what my natural eyes can’t yet see; and I expect those things to come to pass, in Jesus’ Name.