MESSAGE

WRITE YOUR FUTURE #4/5

1. INTRODUCTION / SUMMARY OF LAST WEEK’S LESSON
Many people want a religion, whether through “little prayers” or even sacrifices.

But the solution is to change course and learn to live according to God’s system.

We started this series called “Write Your Future” and the homework was:

– Stop and think about your goals (seeking God)
– Write your goals for this year on a blank sheet of paper, prioritizing them;

– Write down the wrong images that bind you so they can be broken.

2. PAINTING CORRECT IMAGES – EXAMPLE OF JACOB – Genesis 30:25-28; 33, 37-39;

God created the world from scratch with creative power.

This power is already within us.

The power to imagine, dream, and idealize is a giant force = the power of God.

Let’s see how to use God’s power to create goals/the future.

Jacob had a master who didn’t pay him, but God taught him a secret.

Jacob did what God said:

1st – Arrange rods and let them rest so they would become speckled;

2nd – Put the sheep to look at the speckled rods;

3rd – He himself looked at the speckled rods;

3. GOD’S CREATIVE POWER
Human beings are the only beings who can:

-idealize;

-dream;

-imagine;

-create things;

Imagination can be used for good or evil. Imagining makes things happen. a) Painting Correct Images
Now that you have been freed from the wrong images, you must create good images and paint them on the canvas of your heart = our heart is like a canvas.

We have to paint new images / targets that we want to achieve.

We have to imagine ourselves within the target.

b) Making Speckled Rods
We have to build / make speckled rods and then look at these speckled rods, just like Jacob.

4. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE BUILDER
God works like an architect:

1st – God – Idealizes things;

2nd – Jesus – Provides the material;

3rd – Holy Spirit – Builds;

God’s power to create things that do not exist serves to:

1st – erase the wrong images;

2nd – paint new images;

3rd – speak the targets.

The Holy Spirit is the one who will make your target happen.

5. EXAMPLE OF ABRAHAM – IMAGINING + SPEAKING – Genesis 18-21

God wanted to give Abraham a son.

But He wasn’t succeeding because Abraham had the wrong image in his heart.

To help Abraham, God:

-made Abraham look at the stars and imagine that he would have children;

-made him speak of things that are not, as if they already were (changed his name and his wife’s name so that they would sow what they wanted to reap);

6. THE WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD – Mark 5:25-34

This woman had been ill for 12 years. The image in her heart was wrong.

But she heard about Jesus:

-changed the wrong image;

-began to believe;

-imagined herself healed;

-said she would be healed.

Result: she was healed.