We have learned that we have dominion and that faith, love and hope work together. And that we have been given the power to create since we are made in the image and likeness of God.
Now we have to learn that before we can release that power; before we can create by the creative power of the Spirit, motivated and indwelt and anointed by the Spirit of God; before you can release that anointing into the earth to go out and create in the Name of the Lord, you are going to have to start making some new memories. and some new visions.
Have a Picture/Imagination
How do you create? How does an artist create? He has to have a picture in his mind of what he is going to make. He has to have a picture. You as well have to have a vision.
If you do not have a picture in your mind of what it is that you are asking God for; of what it is that you are wanting to create by the power of the Spirit, then where will you even begin?
But we come to the Lord in prayer and say, "Lord, bless me."I can see the Lord saying, "Sure. What kind of blessing would you like?""Well Lord, that’s up to You. I just want to be blessed."
Unless you have a clear positive picture/vision in your mind, you cannot create anything but negative.You did not have a picture of what it is that your spirit was going to create.
Released Through The Soul
Your mind has to be involved. Do you know why? Because the power of your spirit has to be released through your soul and through your body into the earth. The power of the Spirit has to come upon the physical creation, and before it can do that it has to come out. And if it is going to come out, it is going to come out via your soul and via your body and into the earth. Then those forces of faith and hope and love are going to go forth into the earth and they are going to move upon the physical creation, and they are going to make something.
The Mind
If they are going to come out through your soul, there are three functions there – the mind, emotions and will. And if the forces of the Spirit are going to come out, they are going to come out through your mind, emotions and will. So you have to start with your mind. You must have a picture of what you are going to create when that energy goes forth.
The Emotions
Then your desires, your feelings, your emotions must be part of it. You must earnestly desire this thing.
Have an Earnest Desire
Your emotions have to be involved in this.I hear people say, "Well, I don’t really want anything. I’m happy with what I have. But if the Lord wants to bless me that’s up to Him."It is not going to happen for you, because what blessing God gives, He put into your spirit. Remember, we saw that in the beginning. "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us …" He put it in your spirit. And the energy and the force of your spirit has to be released out to bring about that creation in this world. If you do not earnestly desire it, God is not going to force it on you.
If you are happy with nothing then you can stay with nothing. God is not going to impose blessings on you that you do not want. He already gave them to you in spiritual essence. If you do not want to take that spiritual essence and use the recipe to make it into something that you can use, then you can just sit with the ingredients and die with them. It is entirely up to you.
God has given you a free will and free agency in the earth. And if you think that it is unspiritual for you to want things, and you would rather just serve the Lord in poverty, then you will stay a pauper. If you think that God is glorified in you walking about in pain all the time and that you want to remain that way, then you will die with that sickness and disease, because God has placed in you the spiritual essence to create your healing through Jesus the Healer, and to create your provision. And if you don’t want to use it, God is not going to impose it on you. You must earnestly desire. You must feel within that you want this thing to be manifested in your life.
The Will
Then your will has to be involved as well.
Released in Speech
How is your will involved? How is it involved in releasing the power that is in your spirit? Your will is involved in the faculty of speech. Remember we saw that spirit and words were linked together. We saw that when He created, the Spirit of God hovered over the creation, and He spoke forth words. We saw that God made man in His own image, and gave him the faculty of speech, which the animals do not have.
Speech and Spirit Linked
Speech and spirit are linked together. Your tongue is directly connected to your heart.And when you open your mouth to speak, what you speak is coming from your spirit within, did you know that? Did you know that every time you open your mouth to speak, those very words came not from your mind, but from your spirit?Try it. Try an experiment. Just say something and have a good look at where those words came from. Did you think in your mind, "I .. am .. going .. to …" just like a computer. No you didn’t. You got a concept in your mind. You had a thought, you had a picture, you had an idea and you opened your mouth and spoke your heart.
If you are one of those types that do not like to speak a lot and get very unemotional and intellectual, the chances are you are going to choose four or five words to say what needs to get said, and that is it, you are going to shut up. It is coming out of your spirit, coming straight out of your spirit, not out of your mind. Yes, your mind is involved, your emotions are involved, but when you open your mouth to speak by an act of your will, you release the power that is in your spirit.
Romans 4:17 says, "(as it is written, ‘I have made you a father of many nations’) before Him whom he believed, even God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things that are not as though they were."
Call It the Way It Will Be
What does God do? God calls. He speaks words. And the words that He speaks are not based on what you can see with your eyes. He calls it the way He wants it to be. Do you remember when Jesus was called to go and pray for His friend Lazarus and He stayed a couple more days and Lazarus died, and eventually He went?
Jesus said to His disciples, "Our friend Lazarus is asleep and we are going to go and wake him."
The disciples said, "Hey Lord, if the guy’s tired, let him sleep. What do you want to go and wake him up for?"
They did not know that Jesus was talking about the fact the guy was dead. And Jesus had to eventually come down to their level and say, "He’s dead man!"
Jesus would not see it that way. As far as He was concerned, he was asleep.
He did the same with Jairus’s daughter. When they were all weeping and wailing there at the house saying, "Oh, she’s died," Jesus said, "Stop your wailing man, she’s just asleep."
"How dare you say that! You know she’s dead."
Jesus refused to call it the way it was. He called it the way it was going to be. He spoke words that came straight up out of His spirit.
Paint Positiveness
You see, the way your soul is going to respond is going to determine what kind of power is going to come up out of your spirit. And if the picture in your mind is one of negativity, you get a pain in your chest and what is the first thing you think? "My heart! I’m going to die!" That is the picture in your mind. That is what you are creating.
Somebody says, "So how are you feeling?"
"Oh man, I’ve been suffering so. Oh, man you should know what it is like. Nothing helps. Oh, it’s terrible. I just don’t know how long I can go on this way. I hope I make it through the month."
You’ll probably die. You just created it! You felt it, you thought it, you saw it and you spoke it. That is the template you gave to your spirit.
You said, "Okay, spirit, this is what I want for you. Put me in hospital and let me die. Have them take away my house and my car and everything. Make sure that I get no money. Make sure that there is no provision. Make sure that my kids starve." That is what you told your spirit. That is the template that you offered to your spirit, and your spirit is quite obedient.
Your spirit says, "Well I can’t understand what you want to do this for, but hey, if that’s the template you are giving me, let’s go to work."
Do you understand what I am saying? You need to build decent memories and outlooks/visions. You need to build the kind of vision that the power of the Spirit can use to create something meaningful and something that is a blessing in your life.
Create According to His Will
Now you need to do a few things. Firstly you need to know that what you are wanting to create is the will of God. Because, after all, the Scripture says, "If we ask according to His will He hears us." So before we can even begin to release the power of our spirit, to let the Holy Spirit work through us to accomplish and to create in the earth, we had better know that He wants to do it. We better know that it is the will of God.How are we going to find out whether it is the will of God, "Because maybe God got out of bed on the wrong side this morning, and maybe He doesn’t feel like giving it to me huh."? I am just so glad God is not a man.
His Will is His Word
God has told us what His will is. He has been quite verbose about it too. It takes us a while to get through all of it. Most people never bother getting through all of it, that is why they do not know what His will is. They didn’t bother reading it. It is His ‘Last Will and Testament’ actually. He cannot change it, He has put it in writing. And when you put it in writing and sign on the dotted line it becomes a legal document, and you cannot take it back. You cannot change your mind afterwards and say, "Oops, made a mistake there. Can you just scratch that?" It is too late. It has been recorded.
God will never go back on His Word. If you want to find out the will of God, read His Will. And if God says in His Word, "My God shall provide your needs," He is planning to provide your needs. If God says in His Word, "By His stripes you were healed," He meant you were healed! If God says in His Word that, "You have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places," He means to back it up. He is not going to change His mind. He has given some promises, and when God gives a promise He will always keep it!
But I hear people say, "Well maybe it is the will of God that I don’t get healed right now."
Then God is a liar. (God cannot lie)
"Maybe the Lord wants me to battle in poverty."
Promises are Always Yes
Then He is a liar, (God cannot lie) because in terms of His Covenant (you can look way back there as He offered His Covenants to man all the way through) go and read Deuteronomy 28 and see what your blessings are.
(see Deut. 28:1, read the blessings)
That is your blessing.
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