THE WORD AND
THE IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU
Sometimes we think, I am going to turn over a new leaf in
my life. I am going to make some changes.
We get all excited, ready to shake off those bad habits
that have been haunting us. We want to step into Gods best. Then something
happens to change it all.
Our determination weakens, our new leaf begins to look
similar to our old leaf, suddenly we are right back where we started.
Nothing has changed and I’m starting to doubt if things
will ever change.
This has happened to all of us more times than we would
like to admit. It doesn’t need to happen again.
God has given us the power to make permanent changes in
our lives and in our circumstances. If we understand an important principal. It
is the principal of inner image.
Ephesians
5:1-2 5 Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear
children;
2 And walk in love, as
Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a
sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
When God created the earth, he took the principal of His inner
image and added faith and the power of His words.
If we are going to imitate our heavenly Father we must put the
principal of His inner image to work.
Don’t waste your time trying to dream up an inner image all on
your own. That is nothing more than positive thinking.
What you need is to use a basis for your inner image and for the
words you speak to be the word of God. The word has supernatural power.
Proverbs 18:21 21 Death
and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the
fruit thereof.
When you make Jesus the Lord of your life, you receive not
power but authority in his name. the words you speak are so powerful that you
can speak life or death to both your physical body, your soul, and your
spiritual life.
We must understand what this verse is representing before you
speak. God hears you; Satan hears you and every demon hears you. never speak
negative. This will cause demonic forces to take action in your life.
Fill your words with faith and speak it out. It will work to
change your circumstances as surely as it did for God himself.
Romans 4:17
17 (As it is written, I have made thee a father of
many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead,
and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
Which means your words can change things which don’t exist
in the natural realm by transferring those things from the supernatural into
existence by faith. We as Christians should be living on the fact of what God
says we can do, not on what we think we cannot change.
When God wanted light He said, let there be light. The words
he spoke were directly related to his inner image.
He used his words to get that image from the inside of
himself to the outside.
Words are powerful, they are containers that carry faith,
and love. Words can also carry fear and hate. Words are so important that they
can determine our eternal destiny.
The authority we have to speak words is not had by any
other creature on earth. Words can destroy or they can create.
They take an inner image and project it to the outside world.
Once you understand this principal you can put your inner image to work in your
life.
You may be working to be a winner while seeing yourself
as a loser. You may want to know how you can change that. You change it with
the word of God.
Our words not only release the creative forces of faith,
they also produce images in our heads. When you hear the word cat your mind
forms a picture of a cat.
What we are talking about here is getting your inner
image lined up with the word of God.
John
1:1-4 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the
beginning with God.
3 All things were made by
him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the
life was the light of men.
All things were made by the word.
Hebrews 11:3
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of
things which do appear.
By faith we understand that
the entire universe was formed at Gods command. That what we see now did not come
from anything that can be seen.
Everything that is, or has been,
or ever will be, was brought about either directly or indirectly by the word of
God. Words are packed with faith.
In fact, that faith is the
energy that is in the word that gives it the power to bring itself to pass.
Isaiah
55:11 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.
Gods word is a living thing.
It is alive with Gods own faith. By the power of the Holy Spirit, you have
faith inside of you as a born-again believer.
When your inner image
matches Gods word then your faith can produce the end result that God desires
for it to produce.
But you must realize that
when you put these principals to work in your life, you are going to run into
some heavy resistance from Satan.
He will do all he can to
stop you because as a co-worker with God you become Satan’s enemy.
For us to become image
minded we must first become word minded. Then we must believe by faith that
Gods word is truth.
It’s the truth of Gods word
that becomes effective when we believe by faith. Faith is the substance that
moves things from your image on the inside of you to the physical outside of
you.
It moves things that are not,
to the things that are.
Hebrews 11:1 Now
faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For all this to happen you
must always be righteous conscious. “Standing in righteousness”
