EPISODE 679 – HEARING GOD’S VOICE 26 – THE VOICE OF GOD Versus YOUR IMAGINATION 3

HEARING GOD’S VOICE 26 –

THE VOICE OF GOD Versus YOUR IMAGINATION 3

“I will hear what God the LORD will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; But let them not turn back to folly” 

Psalm 85:8 (NKJV)

From the point I have made through this discussion, you will understand that a person’s imagination can be a channel or conduit of the Voice of God or it can also be a limitation of the voice of the Lord.

When a person is born again, submits his mind to the training of the word of God, and is continuously renewed in the mind, his imagination becomes consistent with God’s thoughts.

When your imagination is fully influenced and developed by the word of God, it can perfectly transmit divine thoughts.

Such a mind does not reject the thoughts of God but rather rejects the thoughts of deception.

“Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him, throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.“ Ephesians 4:22-23 (NLT)

The more you spend time daily to have intimate communion with the Lord, your mind is cultured and programmed to acknowledge the rhythm of God’s speaking. Within the frame of your imagination, you are able to determine which frequency of thoughts or portraits of ideas are of God and the ones that are not of God, because of the richness of the Word of God in you.

The point basically is this, God speaks to you through several proven mediums, but primarily through His word. One of these other proven mediums is your shaped mind, which is your imagination.

When your mind is renewed you can rightly discern the voice of the flesh from the voice of the Lord through your imagination.

The voice of the flesh is the communication of your selfish desires or physical feelings. The voice of the flesh makes you do what pleases or fulfill your gratification.

Your wrong actions come from the imagination of your heart.

God doesn’t put any wrong desire in a person’s heart.

“Don’t let anyone under pressure to give in to evil say, “God is trying to trip me up.” God is impervious to evil, and puts evil in no one’s way. The temptation to give in to evil comes from us and only us. We have no one to blame but the leering, seducing flare-up of our own lust. Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.” James 1:13-15 (Message Bible).

Through your thoughts, you conceive evil desires before it manifests as sin.

Read the verse in the Easy English Bible:

“It is our own thoughts that make us do bad things. When we want to do something wrong, our thoughts lead us in a bad way. We may agree to do what our bad thoughts tell us to do. When we do that, it becomes a sin. Then, we may not stop doing those bad things. If we continue to live like that, the result of our sins is death” James 1:14-15.

Now when your mind is renewed such thoughts can be pulled down by the revelation of the word of God.

“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” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (KJV)

The word for imagination in Greek is, “logismos” which means the computation of reason or a conceit. Any reasoning of the mind which is not consistent with the knowledge of God must be cast down or pulled down. This is not done gently but violently. The Greek word is “katheireō”, which means to demolish something violently.

Your imagination must be the pathway for God’s thoughts and communication. Don’t give room for any wrong imagery to have a pass in your imagination. You have to crush those thoughts before they take root.

Let your imagination mirror inspirations transmitted to your heart through the speaking of the Holy Spirit in your heart, and the communication of the Word of God.

This is a beautiful thing about your renewed mind through the Word:

You are transformed into the image of God in Christ and you are able to discern the perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)

Selah.