The Secret Power of Imagination Part 3
Imagination as Hope
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
I.The Secret Power of Imagination
A. The Secret Power of Imagination
1. Imagination – the faculty or ability to picture things or concepts in your mind not present to the senses. Imagination is a function of the soul and spiritual conception occurs there. (Jas. 1:14-15 TPT)
a. yeser – (yaytser) imagination, conception, mind, to frame or to form, thoughts, framework.
b. hagah – meditate, imagine, study, ponder, speak, mutter.
2. Let’s review some scripture about the imagination.
a. (Gen. 11:6 AMP) power of imagination
b. (Ps. 103:14) Your spiritual frame is your imagination.
c. (Isa. 26:3) “Whose mind is stayed on You…”
d. (Josh. 1:8) “…meditate in it day and night…”
~(Ps. 1:1-3 NKJV; 2:1 KJV)
e. (Gen. 6:5; 8:21 both KJV) man’s unrenewed imagination naturally defaults to evil.
~(Eph. 4:17-18) “futility of their mind”
~(2 Cor. 10:3-5 KJV) spiritual warfare is really a matter of taking control of your imagination.
B. Imagination as Hope
1. (Rom. 8:20-22, 24-25) hope (elpis) joyful, confident, expectation of good. Hope has to do with seeing the unseen and the future.
a.(Heb. 11:1) without hope there is no faith!
~Hope is the thermostat to the furnace.
~(1 Cor. 13:13) faith, hope and love.
2. Let’s see some scripture about hope.
a.(Rom. 4:17-21) Abraham in hope believed.
b.(Rom. 5:2-5) hope does not disappoint
c.(Rom. 12:9-12) rejoice in hope
d.(Rom. 15:4, 13) God of hope
[Pastor Lee Stokes]