THE POWER OF GODS IMAGE IN YOU
Cor 5:7 For we walk by faith and not by sight.
God has given you the principle, and the power to make permanent changes in your life, and in your circumstances. (Principle means: the basic way in which something works)
But first you have to understand an important principal… it is the principle of Inner image
Genesis1: 26
26 And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
When God created the earth, he had to first have an inner image or idea of what he wanted to create.
He took the principle of the inner image and added faith and the power of His words, and created.
For your inner image to work, you need to use words for your base… the word of God. The word of God has supernatural power.
And if you fill that word with faith and speak it out it will work for you. God said His word would not come back void.
You have to use words to get that image from the inside of you to the outside.
Words are powerful; they are containers that can carry faith and love.
Words are so important they can determine our eternal destiny.
Proverbs 18: 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
We are the only creature on the planet that has the power to speak words.
Satan chose his own words and was doomed forever: words can destroy or they can create.
Words can take an inner image and project it to the outside world.
Once you understand that… you can put the principle of the inner image to work in your life.
Words not only release the creative force of faith, they also produce images.
When you hear the word dog, you form a picture in your mind of a dog. that is an inner image; words paint pictures in our minds.
We have to get that inner image to line up with the word of God. God’s words are packed with faith.
That faith is the energy that is in the word that gives it power to bring itself to pass.
In other words, transfers it from inner image to a physical reality.
Isaiah 55: 11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
God’s word is a living thing. It is alive with Gods own faith.
Just as Gods faith energized the words he spoke, the faith he has given you, mixed with his words can create new realities in your life.
By the power of the Holy Spirit you have faith inside of you.
When your inner image matches Gods word, then your faith can produce the end result that God desires for it to produce.
You need to realize that when you start putting these principles and this power to work. You are going to run into some heavy resistance from Satan.
He is going to do everything he can to stop you because you have just become one of his greatest enemies.
And because he understands the power of the inner image, he will work hard to distort that image.
He will try to up root the word of God that has been planted inside you.
Matthew 13: 18-23 18 Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower.
19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
23 But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Jesus himself warned us of his devilish tactics in the parable of the sower. The word is the subject of this parable.
Not the ground in which the seed is sown… Satan has to stop the word from taking root in your heart.
He has to stop you from cultivating an inner image of the word.
Once you have an inner image, nothing can stop you from receiving from God.
You will be fully persuaded that what God has promised, he is able to perform.
Satan must try to stop you before you become fully persuaded.
Once you get in agreement with the word, Satan can’t stop it from coming to pass. It is the word in you that he is after, not just you.
Satan uses these five things to try and get your mind off the word, and onto natural things.
1. Persecution. 2. Affliction. 3. Care of this world.
4. Deceitfulness with riches. 5. The lust of other things. (the flesh)
Persecution = the infliction of pain or punishment.
Affliction = a state of continual distress or pain.
There is only one way to overcome Satins methods.
Paul says walk by faith and not by sight… when your body says I am sick, remind your body that you believe it is healed.
When you have the same image inside of you that is the same as Gods inner image of you, then you can be confident that your body is going to change.
It has no choice; it has to line up with Gods word.
When you have a clear image on the inside of you and you release your faith, that which is inside of you becomes a reality on the outside.
God has given you the faith, he has given you his word, and he has given you the Holy Spirit.
So, get into the word, let it begin to shape the images within you… then speak it out in power and faith in the name of Jesus.
If we want the supernatural promises and blessings of God to manifest in our lives, we must stop thinking in the natural realm.
We don’t live by the natural world’s way, so why would we make spiritual decisions using the ways of the world.
We are reborn into the supernatural things of God, by the renewing of our mind.
If you want your today and tomorrow to be different from your yesterday, stop thinking that God can’t, God won’t, and probably never will.
Start confessing, God can, God will and stop blaming God for everything that doesn’t go along with our small way of thinking.
Stay in the word,
Brother Andy
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