Believers have faith in God. But to manifest a greater degree of our God-given abilities, we must have the faith of God! This increased measure of the faith of God working in us has the power to change our current, personal identity. When we operate in the God kind of faith, we will discover that our new, Christ-centered identity also transforms our destiny.
By embracing the necessary process of change, we bring the present realization of our vision into our now. When these changes are incorporated into our imagination, and subsequently mixed into our waking life, we act differently and become a new creature in Christ, clothed in the power of His righteousness. Without encouraging, supporting and consistently sustaining this new image as true, our destiny will not come to pass. That to which we hold as true will become fact in our life. Imaginative prayer and meditation on God's Word ignite the vision of our higher self that is still hidden and waiting on us to believe and agree with it. Therefore, its image and personality can come forth and manifest.
God, who at various times in history and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son Jesus, whom He has appointed heir of 'All Things.' For through Christ Jesus, God created the panorama of 'All Things,' and all time in the worlds. Jesus the Son being the brightness of God's splendor and radiant glory and the exact express image of His person, and upholding His mirror image. He holds 'All Things' together in the universe and expands it by the mighty power of His spoken Word, when He had by Himself purged all of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they (Hebrews 1:1-4).
The Word of God is living truth and spirit life. It has the power to save the lost, resurrect the dead, heal the broken and free the captive from mental and emotional prisons. The Word of God opens the eyes of the blind and impoverished to see how to prosper, advance and even create wealth. All transformational changes take place when we agree with the suggestions, inspiring influences and commands of it is written!
When we are able to maintain our focused attention (and focused faith) upon our God-given purposes, creative power is released to accomplish 'All Things.' To gain a greater measure or vision of God's power working in us, we need to focus our attention on seeking first the Kingdom of God. When we seek God first, His wisdom and provision will always follow. Perseverance is an essential key to successfully obtaining and maintaining what we desire or imagine.
The Creative Spirit of Christ
Believe and receive that the imaginative, creative Spirit of Christ dwells within your imagination. With the awakening of your imagination, you will discover 'All Things' that are possible. You are fully able to understand the mysteries of God, realize and embody what you dream about, prophesy it into existence and manifest the prophetic words spoken, which will allow you to fully achieve your destiny!
God, the master weaver, has woven together every detail of our lives to fit into His perfect plan. This weaving brings All Things good into the lives of those who love Him so that they can fulfill His designed purposes on the earth. God has decreed the following over each one of us:
You are My favored Son or Daughter, and with My favor I have crowned you as a king or queen. Today I become your heavenly Father. “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, 'You are My Son, today I have become your Father and begotten You!’” (Psalm 2:7)
I have released and saturated you with the depths of My mighty power to work My layered purposes into everything you do. How great are Your works, Lord, how profound and very deep Your thoughts! (Psalms 92:5) I promise that IAM the holy, splendorous One who speaks from My triumphant sanctuary to measure out the abundant portions of your inheritance. I will secure the land as I promised you, for they are all still Mine! Judah will continue to produce My kings and lawgivers of justice and righteousness, and Ephraim will produce dread champions, warriors who are great and mighty in the Lord. Moab will become My lowly servant, and Edom will also serve My purposes on the earth. IAM lifting up a shout over the land of Philistia (see Psalm 108:7-9). Know that I AM has chosen Jacob for My own special purpose, and Israel is My delightful treasure. For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be His own, Israel to be His treasured possession. (Psalms 135:4).
All Things that I have made will praise Me to fulfill their purposes. All of My godly lovers will bow before Me in worship for All the Things I have done for them. All your works praise you, Lord; Your faithful people extol you. (Psalm 145:10) Now set your eyes on the straight and narrow path I have set before you. Be fixed in your kingdom purposes. Do not let the things of life distract you from your high calling. Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you. (Proverbs 4:25) For I AM the Lord who works All Things together to accomplish My purposes. Even the wicked have to conform to accomplish My plans; they are set aside for the day of disaster. The Lord works out everything to its proper end –even the wicked for a day of disaster. (Proverbs 16:4) Know that people may have many ideas concerning My plans for their lives, but only My designs for their purposes will succeed in the end. Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. (Proverbs 19:21)
There are those who will choose to remain blind, those who remain wedged in the religious or carnal mindset. There may be times when we have to fly solo as we advance in the Kingdom of God. We must continue when others choose to remain blind and in a religious mindset. We must always resist shrinking back into what the world commands as truth, even when others direct us otherwise.
The Image and Likeness of Christ
When we seek God with all of our heart, He will be found by us. To change our circumstances and the state of our existence, we must become a new living being. To bring about these changes, we must choose creative visions and positive, productive words to speak within our heart's imagination.
When we take on the image and likeness of the Christ who dwells within us, we will manifest that same likeness to the world. After we have transformed into the image of Christ, the people we knew before our transformation will notice the positive changes in us when they meet us again, and they will want to know God too! Having a pure heart means that we have a clean, clear Christ consciousness.
Every creative idea or positive image of our new identity begins within the Spirit of Christ that is dwelling within our imagination. A positive, fruitful imagination will increase the dimensional scope and authority of our influence.
The creative Word of God is living, quick and powerful. When our imagination is trained to prophesy and draw on the Word of God, our thoughts, conversations and actions will develop an unshakable faith.
Our inner speech always mirrors our mental state of being. Our imagination is continually attracting to itself what we are currently. Believers cannot separate themselves from the Christ that is within their imagination. While our positive words create a prosperous life, our negative words call forth disease, death, despair and depression that form dark, destructive actions within our being. Positive inner speech creates the radiant light of life and prosperity. It opens many doors of opportunity.
The wise person will always create more opportunity than is offered. The proceeding Word of God manifests the positive energy that is needed to generate what we want by producing the person who we desire to be. Success comes from discovering opportunities in difficulties. If opportunity does not come knocking, learn how to construct a double door.
Determine what you want, then decide and act like it is impossible to fail.
Morbid words form an environment of poverty; they construct lack and disease. Therefore, lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21)
By taking on a higher state of being, God is able to pour out more spiritual insights, enlightening us to His eternal love, unlimited power, wisdom and revelation knowledge. His higher ways are unfolded to us as we are given more understanding of His great salvation (see Psalms 50:23).
Breaking Destructive Habits
Learn how to break destructive, bad habits. Begin to invest your time in the Bible. Invest your money in resources that will feed your spirit to produce positive beliefs, beautiful images and life-giving thoughts in order to prosper. God wants to cause you to increase! I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors. (John 4:38)
Discipline your thought life to think exclusively on Christlike things that are of a true reality. Think on things that are magnificent, impartial and unprejudiced, whatever things are pure and lovely, whatever things are of a good report. If there is any virtue and anything praiseworthy—meditate, 'meletao' imagine, on these things (see Philippians 4:8).
Practice using the wisdom found in a positive, creative and powerful manner of expression in order to change the way you think about and act toward the difficult people in your life.
Know exactly what you desire in life. Do not sell yourself short or compromise your God-given desires in anyway. Nothing is impossible with God. Faithfully speak life-giving words that are fruitful, words that build up and edify yourself and others. Focus on a positive state of being, even if it means denying what your natural senses are currently telling you. The imagination is only limited by your level of determined and forward motivation to believe and have faith to see how to create and obtain your future.
Doing this will draw that higher future state of prosperity into your now circumstances. Let yourself feel and experience what it would be like to have already obtained that desire. Begin to explore success. Let those feelings of joy into your imagination. Continue to envision them until they become a now reality to you.
When we are able to align the thoughts of our mind with the spirit of our heart, our conversation will come into agreement with the higher thoughts and fuse with the better ways of God. Again, I say to you that if two of you agree (two separate people agreeing or both the subconscious and conscious or spirit and soul within one person aligning with God's truth) on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. (Matthew 18:19)
A person of dignity will stand up and fight for what is right, just and good, especially if it is for the rights of the innocent unborn. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; mercy and truth go before Your face. (Psalm 89:14)
God's law and commandments are the divine principles of the universe. He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness. (2 Chronicles 9:8)
God's justice is the substance upon which all things are built and settled. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. (Psalm 33:5)
God's righteousness frames and shapes the structure of our spiritual government and the very fibers of our being. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. (Psalm 37:6)
Walking with God
When we walk with God, He clothes us in the light of His righteousness, power and presence. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me; my justice was like a robe and a turban. (Job 29:14)
Faith comes by hearing, believing and empowering our imagination to act upon the Word of God.
If you remain in Me and My Words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to My Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be My disciples. (John 15:7-8)
After our soul hears the Word or dreams a dream, we must allow a positive image to form. Therefore, we can actively yield in obedience to formulate and shape a correct response. Instead of believing you are sick, poor, inadequate, alone or weak, say the truth of what God says about you and your situation: "I AM healed in Christ. IAM rich in Christ. IAM adequate in Christ. IAM strong in the power of His might!"
The opinion you hold about yourself will determine the measure of success you experience in life. Repent of all sin, negative confessions, fear, doubt and unbelief. Living out of our bright imagination, not our dark fears, will create an amazing, new world of beauty and fulfilled opportunities. Ask for a new vision to move you into a greater measure of faith. Stop postponing the arrival of your answers to prayer with statements that begin with I will be instead of IAM. The profession of I will be indicates that you are currently not. It indicates that you do not currently have the faith to believe that you are; therefore, you are not.
To experience positive change, we must move our faith into the now, present moment and assume a different state of being or higher belief. Then we must maintain that new image, thought or identity. Your new identity is waiting to be embodied by you. We are to pray always believing and not faint.
Stop blaming outside circumstances and others for your current state of being. The Christ in you has the answers that you need. Look to your inner mountain range, ascend to the north, and seek the face of God. For it is from your internal hills that God, your hope, will spring. I will lift up my eyes to the hills—from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth. (Psalm 121:1-2)
Taking Personal Responsibility
Take personal responsibility, and repent for your own doubt-filled actions, for the wrong things you have thought, said and believed. When you stand praying, claim, confess and believe that you are who you desire to be. Consciously assume the part of God's divine nature that you need for your very own new nature.
God's divine nature will manifest in the people who have repented, have cleaned their hands from wrong and have a godly, righteous imagination (a pure, faith-filled heart). Grace and peace will be multiplied to us in and through the knowledge of God and His ways.
To obtain the divine nature, we must diligently apply our faith to provide moral excellence in the knowledge of God, to exercise self-control, perseverance and godliness.
The level of power and authority we possess, manifest and exercise, in the realms of both the natural world and in the spiritual influences, are determined by the degree that our new man has been renewed by the Word of God. We must be transformed by the Spirit, and then we must be conformed to the image of Christ Jesus' divine, holy nature. The presence of Christ in us empowers us to obtain God's glory so that we can arise and shine forth with His presence.
Agreeing with God's divine plans for your life quickly moves you from one level of thought into a higher dimension of God's presence and thought. When you agree with God, you are given spiritual sight to see your reflection mirroring Christ. The manifest presence of Christ causes you to feel and experience the changes that have taken place in you, knowing that you have become your new, desired reality. So shall My Word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11)
God has placed the power of His Word near us for our continual access. His Word is in our mouth, so we can always speak forth life. The internal words that we speak frame and create the outer world that manifests around us.
When we hear the still, small voice of Christ resounding within us, we will also hear it loudly proclaimed by us into our outer world. God's Word is written upon the tablets of our hearts so that we can choose to believe and decree God's Word from the roof and mountain tops. The Word of God creates a good life, so we have the power and dominion to overcome sin, lack, death and evil.
If we refuse to embrace the image of a higher concept of ourself, we will continue to remain the same, unchanged, common and ordinary person who is always struggling to obtain the promise of a better future.
Being Transformed into His Likeness
Christ performs His will, words and good pleasure toward us by causing us to be transformed into His likeness. When we return to a prosperous place in God, we are able to dwell in a new mansion or state of consciousness as a new being that has taken on and now reflects God's image.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. I will be found by you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back from your captivity; I will gather you from all the nations and from all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you to the place from which I cause you to be carried away captive. (Jeremiah 29:11-13)
We must develop the mind of Christ within our renewed spirit. If you can? All things are possible to him who believes. (Mark 9:23) This verse confirms that our part is to believe God. If we can believe God, all things become possible. In Christ, our faith always begins with the end result in mind. Every time God speaks, the power of His words instantly creates the manifestation of His desire.
The Holy Spirit's movements have intensified. The Spirit comes to break the power of every evil occult cycle in our lives. He easily destroys the strongholds that these lies have formed in our mind. Christians are living in the best of times for the Kingdom of Light. Yet it is the worst of times for the sinful kingdom of darkness! God has rent the heavens to come down to judge lying, deceptive spirits (see Isaiah 64:1). The Spirit of God does terrible, mighty, unexpected things that will shake up the mountains of liberal resistance. The Spirit of God brings their rebellious acts down in order to rock their foundations, so that they can repent and be saved.
The fire of the Holy Spirit has come to burn up the wood, hay and stubble of His adversaries. Nations will tremble and quake at God's presence.
God is showing Himself strong and active on behalf of the Believers who have been prayerfully waiting in His presence.
To be continued....
Dr. Barbie L. Breathitt
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