THE INNER IMAGE
OF GOD IN YOU
Read 2nd 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
Genesis 1:26 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 has supernatural power. If you fill that word with faith
and speak it out it will work for you.
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.
Sometimes we decide, I am going to turn over a new
leaf in my life, I am going to make some changes. You get geared up, excited,
ready to shake those old habits that have been haunting you. then something
happens, your determination weakens your new leaf begins to look similar to your
old leaf, suddenly you find yourself back where you started.
Nothing has changed, you begin to doubt if things
will ever change.
This has happened to all of us more times than we
would like to admit.
God has given us the power to make permanent changes
in our lives. First you need to understand the principal of inner image.
Ephesians 5:1-2 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 sweet-smelling savor.
When God created the earth, he took the principal of His
inner image, added faith and 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 of
your own.
What you need is to use as a basis for your inner image and
for the words you speak is the word of God. The word of God has supernatural
power.
If you fill that word with faith and speak it out, it will
work to change your circumstances as surely as it did for God himself.
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 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.
Romans 10:9-10 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and
shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness;
and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Proverbs 18:21 21 Death and life are
in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Power of life and death are in the power
of the tongue. We are the ones who will choose which of those, life or death,
we will speak into existence.
We have the power to speak words, no
other creature on earth has that power. Words can destroy or they can create.
They take an inner image and project
it to the outside world. Once you understand that you can your inner image to
work in your life.
You may be working to be a winner
while seeing yourself as a loser. How do you change that? With the word of God.
Words not only release the creative
forces of faith; they also produce images. When you hear the word cat, your
mind forms a picture. Words paint pictures in your mind.
I am talking about getting your 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
anything made that was made.
4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
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.
Everything that
is or has been, or will ever be was brought about either directly or indirectly
by the word of God. Words are packed with faith and power.
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 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. Our desires and faith must match up to the plan God has for
our lives.
Putting these
principals to work in your life will run into some resistance from Satan. He is
going to do everything he can to stop you because as a co-worker with God you
become Satan’s greatest enemy. Satan wants to stop the word of God from taking
root in your heart.
Satan is working
to stop you from cultivating an inner image of the Word in yourself. He knows once
you have that inner image of God in you that nothing can stop you from receiving
power, knowledge, and wisdom from God.
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.
He will use these
five things to get your mind off Gods word and onto natural things: 1. Persecution,
2. Affliction, 3. Cares of this world. 4. Deceitfulness with riches. And 5.
Lust of the flesh and things.
Paul says, walk
by faith, 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 the word of God.
Your mind is like
a camera, the picture it takes is just an image of what it sees. Likeness is an
image of the real thing. You can’t give an image that is not from God dominion over
you.
Once you have a clear
image on the inside of you and you release your faith, that which is inside of
you becomes reality on the outside.
Get into the word
and let it begin to shape images within you, then speak it out in power and
faith in the name of Jesus.
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