REDEEMING THROUGH IMAGINATION 2

Part Two

                    The first part of this article began with a quote; "Imagination is the redemptive power of the world." I am including it to impress upon you, you posses the answers within yourself the world is searching for. You embody a very powerful and creative force, and that force is your imagination!

                    It was an imagination, separated from the Oneness with its source, which created all the maladies we experience in the world today. It stand to reason the solution is to re-deemed this imagination. To bring vain image-nation back to alignment with truth, beauty, harmony, and love.

                    Let me make a bold statement. You are the image, or imagination of God! You have no limits to what you are able to create! Matthew 5:16 tells us; "Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven." You have the power to glorify the God within your heaven, by bringing forth light! Light is the illumination of your true being. Good works are what you are to manifest through your image-nation. God looked at all He created, or imaged, and said, "It was very good."

                    We are all either creating unconsciously or consciously, but we are creating all the time! Can you look at the screen of your life, seeing what you have created and say; "It is very good?" This is where a redemptive imagination is taking us. We are here to learn to control and bring into subjection the greatest power we possess....creative imagination!

                    In the last article I spoke about sin. Many of us are so over the religious jargon and the way sin has been presented, we don't even like hearing the word. Sin is only false thoughts! Thinking from less than perfection. Thinking thoughts which are less than all love, all power, and all possibilities! Sin is nothing more than false belief!

                    Do you know in the mind of God there is no right or wrong? This concept came from a mind embracing duality as it began eating from false beliefs of good and evil! Christ came to overcome sin and that is exactly what He did. He redeemed the imagination of mankind. He overcame a false belief system (I have overcome the world!) with a redemptive imagination.

                    "Agree with your adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison." Matthew 5:25. The only adversary you have is within yourself!   The whole Bible is about two ways of thinking, two minds. One is the mind of God, creating all good, peace, joy, and harmony. The other a mind separated. which creates from vain imaginatioin.

                    The word Agree in this verse means; "to recognize quickly." Your adversary is a corrupt thought, or a false belief such as; "I'm not able to accomplish great things." or "I can't afford to go there." "I"m sneezing, so I must be getting sick." These are just thoughts, not truth!

                    Recognize them quickly while you are in the way, (The way of right thinking: as it is in the mind of God) before it gains control of your mind and manifests! These wrong thoughts, if not recognized quickly, will deliver you to the judge. The judge being, wrong judgments. "Since I am sneezing and getting sick, I probably will miss a week of work, maybe two. I might even end up in the hospital. A bad flu is going around and now I've caught it...." On and on goes your judgment of the situation. Then the judge (the thoughts contray to truth) delivers you to the officer, who puts you in prison. The officer is the keeper of wrong thoughts, which hold them in place until you end up in bondage. The bondage you have created through wrong judgments! Through the power of your imagination you are able to manifest lack, sickness and all kinds of bondage which imprisons you to false conditions! Your thoughts are the judge, the officer and the prison. You have sentenced yourself!

                    Look at Verse 26; "Verily, verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." Until you encounter the cost of wrong thoughts, you will pay the price of erroneous beliefs!

                    On the other hand, if you agree or recognize quickly wrong thoughts, you have the power to change them before they manifest.   Remember in Deuteronomy God said to Israel. "I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life that both thou and they seed may live." We have always had the power to choose!
We have been given the choice to choose life. Life is liberty! Life is thoughts from the mind of God. Each of us has the power to replace wrong thoughts with the law of life.

                    I say to myself daily, "The law of life flows thought me and through all my affairs." "I declare the image-nation of limitation has no power in my life." And so it is for me and my seed! I choose life!

                    The Bible also says; "Give the devil (de-evil) no place." Evil are all thoughts opposing the mind of God. Limitation has no true presence to support it. The law of sin and death has been overcome and replace with the law of life.

                    Here are some keys I use to manifest from the imagination of the God within me:

1. Fill your thoughts with ideas of faith (right belief), the expectation of all good, and the realization of plenty. Replace thoughts of limitation with thoughts of unlimited good and make the impossible, possible within your imagination.

2. See it mentally in your imagination and emotionally feel how it is to live with no limitation. Feel how it is to have a healthy body, a limitless existence, and great and loving relationships. See the universe as all good, with its divine purpose to manifest the upmost best in your life. Put your trust in the law of God.....the Law of Life.....the abundant life Christ came and opened to you.

3. It must become real in your imagination. When it is, begin to speak it forth. Speak it into being just as God did when He said; "Let there be light." Believe and begin practicing the principle which says; God spoke those things that weren't as tho they were and they came into being! You are the creator in your life...chose this day to image, feel, and speak only life!

                    You have the power to change your life and world through your Redeemed Imagination!

                    Loving Life and You, Mary Lou

PS. We just had a wonderful experience of having something we visioned come into manifestation. I would like to share it with you.

My son plays football for a major Florida college. He is on the defensive team and captain this year. We decided to start visioning him get an interception during the game. He set his intention and began visioning. My daughters and I also joined with him. It came to the point I could see it so plainly in my mind's eye. I knew beyond any doubt, it would happen. I could even feel the emotions I would experience as he caught the ball.

A few games went by with no interception. I kept encouraging my son not to give up, keep visioning! This particular day I was standing with my two daughter in the stands during a game, and I had this overwhelming feeling. I turned to one of my daughter and asked her, " If he intercepts the ball on this play, which way will he run?"   My daughter replied, "Straight down the feild in front of us mom." The moment she got the words out of her mouth, the crowd began to scream because he had made this amazing jump, and had intercepted the ball! We were ecstatic, jumping and cheering as we saw exactly what we had been visioning appear before our eyes!

After the game as I spoke to my son he said, " Mom, that is exactly where I saw myself intercepting the ball, right in front of the parents section so you and dad could see it." In the next days newspaper, was a half page picture of his interception. The height of his jumps as he caught the ball almost look surreal!

This lesson far transcends football...it was a life lesson of the power of our imagination to create our reality! I won't forget that day, and now we are believing for even great things and know the power is within us to bring them forth! The power to create a world of love, peace and joy lies within each of us! We are the change we have been looking for all along!

                        Mary Lou Houllis
                        Pastor