Change Your Image about Yourself and Change Your Life

Text: Matthew 6:22-23, 8:18, Colossians 3:2, Genesis 11:6

Our text says our eyes are the lamp of our bodies. Eye means spiritual or faith eye or vision. It means the eye of our understanding or imaginations (Ephesians 1:18). It means the type of image we focus on and that we keep in front of us. What images are we developing in our minds; we will move towards and ultimately produce.
Our imagination is the mirror of our soul, where our thoughts, attitudes and what we decide to focus on are arranged in order to form a coherent picture that is produced in our lives. Our imaginations can make or mar us in our lives.
The Bible warns us not to set up idols in our heart , which becomes a stumbling block of iniquity, because God will not hearken to our prayers, and also brings direct opposition and punishment from God (Ezekiel 14:3,8)
In Genesis 15:5, God told Abraham to look at the stars, what he had earlier declared to him. God was showing to us that it is the combination of imagination and word of faith that produces the result. When we can imagine the word of God through thinking and meditation, we conceive the picture in our hearts and mind ; and when the declaration of faith is made, the blessing is produced.
Therefore to have a changed life we need to improve our visioning. Paint a new picture of how you want to be. Externally you may not be so now, but internally you are great in your heart and mind, and you are changing your outward. What our natural eyes see are ultimately processed by our brains into 3-D picture in our minds drawn from our mental computer memory, whether negative or positive.We should place around us the pictures of the expected blessings. We should have scriptures that inspire us around our houses or our domicile: “I am more than a conqueror, I am blessed above all people, I can do all things through Christ, God’s favor is all around me like a shield, This is the day the Lord had made, My God has supplied all my needs”.
Then begin to expect the blessings from God. God says in Isaiah 43:19, I will do a new thing, can’t you perceive it? God is saying, are you making room for the blessings in your thinking? Are you expecting increase today? Are you planning for your next promotion? Are you planning to be an effective minister to the glory of God?
Whatever we desire will affect our prayers, worship, giving, and consecration, soul winning commitment, our attitudes, countenance and words.
A combination of information through reading the word of God, revelation through meditation, thinking and imagination and acting on the revelation that we have received is how faith is released to produce for us. All things are impossible to them that believe(Mark 9:23).This is the day to turn the corner of your life. Will you?