THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

IMAGINATION: WHAT IS IT?“The act of creating mental images of what has never been actually experienced” - Webster

IMAGINATION: WHAT IS IT?The source and center of all man's creative power. . . is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.ROBERT COLLIER

IMAGINATION: WHAT IS IT?The empires of the future are empires of the mind.WINSTON CHURCHILL

First comes thought, then organization of that thought into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination. NAPOLEON HILL

IMAGINATION: WHAT IS IT?When our power to “see” is united with God’s power to create, we see miracles!

You will become as small as your controlling desire; or as great as your dominant aspiration. JAMES ALLEN

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONGenesis 6:5 (KJV)

5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONGenesis 8:21 (KJV) for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth;

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONProverbs 6:16 (KJV)

16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

Proverbs 6:18 (KJV) 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONGenesis 11:6 (KJV)

6 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONGenesis 11:7 (NKJV)

7 Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."

1. ALL EVIL BEGIN WITH EVIL IMAGINATIONWhen God took such drastic action, He was saying that man’s imagination had the capacity to accomplish things he was no longer permitted to do.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONGenesis 1:26 (NKJV)

26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONPsalms 37:4 (NIV)

4 Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONJohn 15:7-8 (NIV)

7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you. 8

This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONPsalms 1:1-3 (NIV)

1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATION2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONPhil 4:8 (NIV) Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

2. ALL GOOD BEGIN WITH GOD’S IMAGINATIONRomans 8:6 (NKJV)

6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS SELF2 Cor 10:5 (MontgomeryNT) 5 For I pull down imaginations and every crag that lifts itself against the knowledge of God. And I carry every thought away into captivity and subjection to Christ;

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS SELF

1 Cor 13:11-12 (NIV) When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face.

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS SELFPhilippians 2:5 (NKJV)

5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 2:12 (NKJV) …work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS GODPsalms 139:23-24 (KJV)

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: 24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS GODRomans 8:7 (NKJV)

7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God;

Romans 14:12 (NIV) 12 So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS OTHERSEzekiel 11:5 (TLB) …for I know everything you think—every thought that comes into your minds. 6 You have murdered endlessly…12 …you who have not obeyed me but rather have copied the nations all around you."

3. ALL VICTORY BEGIN WITH A CHOICE – TOWARDS OTHERS1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV)

33 Do not be misled: "Bad company corrupts good character."