Chapter
12.5
Imagination
The Mind
The
Battle Ground – God’s Curse – Satan’s Curse
Evil
Thoughts - Secret Thoughts - Flirting - Winking
Double
Entendre – Smoke and Mirrors – The Gateway
First Word
Our thought life and imagination is the GATEWAY to our spirit
which results in the doors that WE open and close
in our life. You would think that this
study would be about rationalizing Right from Wrong;
but could our thoughts also affect our health and our
Smoke and Mirrors
The
Godless man is described as one that is arrogant, prideful, wicked,
boastful, scheming and divisive with no room in his heart for thoughts of God. When we make a thought decision there is a MOTIVE connected with it; there may be smoke and mirrors
that deceives the on-Looker, but God looks on the heart and sees the actual
motives for our actions.[1]
Double entendre is
often a smoke screen for our actual spoken words; conveying secondary
thoughts and meanings. The things that
we say “in jest”
are most often something that really BUGS us.
In Genesis, the
first book of the Bible, God addressed the Imagination; the thoughts of man and was grieved
with the degeneration of man.[2] We often speak about man progressing, but the
truth is, we are regressing.[3]
Evil Thoughts
Evil thoughts and vain imaginations
lead a man into ruin and destruction. The
Lord God detests evil thoughts[4]
and wants us to renew our mind and forsake our vain imaginations,[5] if
we repent, He will have mercy on us and abundantly pardon.
A Wink
There is NO hope for men
who are wise in their own eyes;[6] they
know nothing, understand
nothing and can see nothing of
God, their minds are closed.[7]
Jealousy and confusion
reigns in their hearts;[8]
gathering more and more information, but understanding less and less,[9]
turning their heart more and more toward The World View. They Wink with a
deceiving eye;[10]
saying one thing, but planning another; their bribes alter
their decision making.
Double Entendre
Wikipedia A double entendre is a figure of speech in which a
spoken phrase is devised to
be understood in either of two ways. Typically
one of the interpretations is rather obvious whereas the
other is more subtle. It
may also convey a message that would
be socially awkward, or even offensive, to state directly. A double entendre may exploit puns to convey the second meaning.[11]
Double
entendres generally rely on multiple meanings of words, or different
interpretations of the same primary meaning. They often exploit ambiguity and
may be used to introduce it deliberately in a text. Double entendres are Words that are smooth as butter,
accompanied by a drawn sword.[12]
Example;
Lisa makes an awesome salad; boy she can really “Cut the Cheese”. David was once the Fastest Worker; now he’s
just “Half Fast”.
Mike
loves flowers especially “Tulips” in the dark. For Christmas Alice wants to surprise Paul
with an “”Electric
Chair.” Pastor Karl really enjoys his food; you should just “Hear”
him eat.
Another Example. “I have read the Word and I’m now “Armed and Dangerous.” [13]
“The Word is sharper
than a Two Edged Sword”.[14]
God’s Curse
There are blessing
that God “pronounced”
on the believer which I will not cover here, but there is also a bunch of curses
too if you wander away; I want to cover just one curse.[15]
Despising and Casting off God; refusing to
listen to His voice and refusing to do His commandments is the highest contempt
possible bringing on the FLIP
THE
CURSE on the
This is where the mind is tormented; filled with darkness, anxiousness,[16] dread,
despair, suspense, confusion[17] and madness,
paranoia
sets in and you run when there’s no one chasing.[18] The mind cannot rest even at night;[19] you
go insane;[20] you become your own destroyer.
Satan’s Curse
I must mention here
that Satan has more of a hand in messing with our mind than God does. We have
stuff that happens that is not caused by God, but is Satan in his effort to
stop the
promises of God from reaching us. Man is the crowning achievement of God and Satan is set out to destroy him,[21]
stealing not only the promises of God, but stealing
his mind which causes man to
destroy himself.
The
“
The biggest gateway for Satan into our mind is UNFORGIVENESS[23] of an issue
whether it’s real or perceived; this is a cancer
that eats up our body; our heath and certainly our mind.
The Imagination
STANDING ON THE CORNER is an old song
with the lyrics that go like this;
“Well you can’t go to jail for what you’re a thinkin’ or for the look
in your eye;
Just standing on the Corner watchin’ all the girls; watchin’ all
the girls; go by.”
God says you WILL be judged for what you’re a
thinkin’ and for the look in your
eye.[24] The deceitful heart that plots evil and stirs
up dissension[25]
with the wink
of the eye; with the signals of the feet
and with the motions of the fingers;[26] God will destroy “without remedy”.
The
Mind
Our experience says we can’t know the mind of God, much
less His Devine WILL.
Our experience says; although we have heard about God
healing others, we have not personally witnessed the miracle of healing in our
own lives, and we probably won’t.
Our experience says that God wants some people sick to
be used in His Devine plan.
Our experience says that the “Gifts of Healing” in the
Bibles concluded with the end of the apostolic age of Christ. But does scripture support this?
Our experience says sometimes God afflicts us to teach us
something. Well,
what did you learn?
We believe in the power of prayer for healing “If it is God’s Will”. Sometimes He says YES, sometime He says NO,
and sometimes He says WAIT. But does scripture support this? Are we correctly applying the scripture; “If it’s the
Lord’s will”? Can we know His Will?
Is what you believe found in the
scriptures or is it just what you have always heard?
The question is; what does God say?
Thoughts
Physical sickness, mental disorders; Dementia, Alzheimer’s, and attacks
on the Mind. Is there a connection
between long term life thoughts and
our mind? Does what you think affect
your health?
Dr. Marytn Lloyd-Jones, a Medical
Doctor and Pastor shares from a Doctor’s point of view that man is created with
a pair of “WELLNESS
SCALES” build inside of him. Our
bodies have “bad”
cloistral and “good”
cloistral; we have germs and we have antibodies. When the scale tips to the “sick side”,
the “well
side” seeks to balance the scales by producing the antibodies
needed to fight; this is going on 24/7 and we have no clue.
Vaccinations are a TINY INVASION of germs that the body sees trying to tip the scales
to the sick side and this produces the needed antibodies to tip it back. Antibiotics do the same thing, they tip the scales
back to the wellness
side. Lots of things can tip
the scales and cause us to get sick. Accidents,
germs, infections, stress, fatigue, depression, hurt, guilt, fear,
malnutrition, alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.
What you see and think also activates
the “wellness
center” to balance the scales.
If
you believe you will get better, your mechanism works overtime to
balance the scales. If you think you won’t, the mechanism
just takes a break. My friend Ginger,
because of her prayers of faith, beat cancer three times; bladder,
abdomen and mandible. I have another
friend who got cancer and ask people in church to pray that he would go ahead
and die; He did.
I can remember praying for a “Brain Dead” friend to LIVE; her family was
in the next room praying she would go ahead and die.
She
lived; is normal, got married and has a family today; unbelief
and doubt
can steal our health.
Our responsibility is to pray in FAITH the prayer of
life, for both the body and the soul.[27] We are NOT responsible for
the outcome; that is the work of the Holy Spirit and the Father God
So here’s where we
are: The man who
doesn’t believe he will receive healing and the man who does are BOTH
RIGHT.
[28]
We walk by faith, not by our experience.
There is a battle raging over our minds; Satan tricks us into giving up
on our prayer life.[29] The
promises of God are there for the believer, but there is a war going on to stop
them from coming. We must keep believing
and keep praying. Help IS
on the way!
Give Thanks and Praise IN all circumstances; not FOR all circumstances.[30]
God hears our prayer before we start to pray, and sends the answer before we
finish and the battle continues in our favor as long as we continue to pray. Sometime you need a partner to pray in agreement with you,
YES;
there is ten
times the power when
two agree in prayer.[31]
Mark
40 IF YOU WANT
TO, you can make me well
41 and Jesus
moved with compassion touched him and said,
I WANT TO!
The gift of healing is given as the Spirit wills and is irrevocable.[32]
It is the Will of God that you be healed.[33]
The Searching Man
Search me; Test me; Lead me away from
offensive ways into everlasting. The
searching man seeks God through His written Word.[34] God deals with
you as with sons; endure His chastening; for what son is there whom a father
does not chasten?[35] Respond to God’s rebuke and He will pour out
His heart and make His thoughts known to you. [36]
Let the unrighteous man forsake his evil thoughts,[37]
God will have mercy and abundantly pardon.[38] Renew your mind, fix your thoughts on Jesus, and
put your mind on things of God.[39] Think on things that are True, Honest, Just, Pure, Lovely and
of Good
Report; think on things that have Virtue and things of Praise.[40]
Spiritual Thoughts
Seek the Higher thoughts of
God; anchor your thoughts in BELIEF[41] and you will
receive the
1 Corenthians
16 We have the
mind of Christ. NIV
Secret Thoughts
Satan
only “knows” what we speak out of our mouth and knows only by our actions what we are going
to do; God knows what we are going to say before we say it and knows our plans
before we do them.[44] Our imagination and our Secret Thoughts are not hidden from God.
Battle Ground
Our mind is a battle ground literally an invisible
war between
Isaiah 30:20-21 – God gives ADVERSITY & AFFLICTION to teach
20 Although the Lord gives you
the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your TEACHERS will be hidden no more; with your own
eyes you will see them.
21 Whether you
turn to the right or the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."
NIV
The Take Away
The
term
[2] Genesis 6:5-6 – The heart
of the natural man is full of evil
[3] Jeremiah
[4] Isaiah 59:6-7- Evil
thoughts leads a man into ruin and destruction -- Jeremiah
[5] Genesis 6:5 – We are born
with a deceitful heart and imagination -- Ephesians 2:3 – Our desires and
thoughts arise from our sinful nature we were born with -- Genesis
[6] Proverbs 26:12 – No hope
for a man who thinks himself wise
[7] Isaiah 44:18 – The
unredeemed know nothing of God
[8] 1 Samuel 18:9 – Saul had
a jealous eye -- Proverbs
[9] Ecclesiastes 1:8 –
Thoughts, thoughts and more thoughts; never enough -- Deuteronomy
[10] Proverbs
[11] Jeremiah 9:8 – The tongue is a deadly arrow of deceit -- Proverbs 26:24 – The lips disguises the heart of deceit
[12] Psalms 55:20-21 – Words smooth as butter; but with a drawn sword
[13] Hebrews
[14] Hebrews
[15] Romans 1:28-31 – God gave
them over to a depraved mind
[16] Deuteronomy 28:65-67 – Anxious mind;
dread, despair, suspense "If
only it were evening!" and in the evening, "If only it were
morning!"
[17] Deuteronomy 28:28-29 –
The mind is filled with confusion and madness
-- Proverbs
[18] Proverbs 28:1 – The wicked runs although no one pursues
[19] Ecclesiastes
[20] Daniel
[21] John 10:10 – Satan’s plan is to steal, kill and destroy man.
[22] Luke
[23] Matthew 18:21-22 – Forgive so many time that you lose count. -- Matthew
[24] Matthew
[25] Proverbs 6:12-15 – Plots, evil and deceit come from the imagination
[26] 1 Corenthians
[27] James 4:3 – Pray
according to the promises in the Bible
[28] Proverbs 23:7 – You are what you think
[29] Ephesians
[30] 1 Thessalonians
[31] Exodus
[32] 1 Corinthians
[33] Romans
[34] Psalms 94:11 – The
thoughts of man is futile without God. -- Psalm 139:23-24 – Search my thoughts
O God for offensive ways and lead me in the way everlasting -- Mark 12:30 –
Love God with all your heart, soul and
[35] Hebrews 12:7 - Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined
by its father? -- Romans
[36] Proverbs 1:23-26 –
Respond to God’s rebuke and know His thoughts -- Romans 12:2 – Be transformed by the renewing of your
[37] Proverbs
[38] Isaiah 55:7 – Forsake
evil thoughts and God will abundantly pardon
[39] Romans 12:2 – RENEW YOUR
[40] Philippians 4:8-9 – THINK on things that are true, honest, pure, and worthy of praise
[41] Mark 11:23-24 – Our
thoughts must be anchored in BELIEF; not doubt -- Matthew
[42] Isaiah 55:8-9 – God’s
thoughts are higher than our thoughts -- 1 Kings
[43] Amos 4:13 – God will
reveal His thoughts to YOU
[44] Psalm 139:1-4 – Before
you speak, God already knows it. -- Daniel
[45] Matthew 5:29 – What you
see and your thoughts dwell on can SAVE you from Hell
-- Proverbs 27:12 – God’s precepts in your mind alert you to danger -- Matthew 6:22-23 – Your very thought is the
lamp that “leads” into actions
[46] Jeremiah 21:8 – There is
a road set before us of Life
[47] Job 34:32 – Ask God to teach you what you cannot understand --
2 Kings
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