I thought my readers would appreciate this entry from TheMoneyPoems.com and Denise Allen. Enjoy!
Once upon a time, a Master was talking to a crowd of people, and his message was so wonderful that everyone felt touched by his words of love. In the crowd there was a man who had listened to every word the Master said. This man was very humble, and he had a great heart. He was so touched by the Master’s words that he felt the need to invite the Master to his home.
When the Master finished speaking, the man walked through the crowd, looked into the eyes of the Master, and told him, “I know you are busy and everyone wants your attention. I know you hardly have time to even listen to my words. But my heart is so open and I feel so much love for you that I have the need to invite you to my home. I want to prepare the best meal for yoyu. I don’t expect you will accept, but I just had to let you know.”
The Master looked into the man’s eyes, and with the most beautiful smile he said, “Prepare everything. I will be there.” Then the Master walked away.
We started the month by saying that the imagination is the forming power of the mind. What you imagine today, will become your tomorrow. You can think of your imagination as the hands of your mind. With these hands, you can create any type of life you want.
Last week, we talked about protecting your imagination. We said we must keep our minds in a place where the impossible is possible for us.
This week, I want to talk about catching God’s vision for your life. God has a plan for you. As a spiritual being, your responsibility is to “catch the vision” of that plan. To catch the vision, we must figure out what makes us different and then nurture those differences until they draw to us the magnificent life that each of us was born to live.
I want you to imagine a ball – a big rubber ball. If I toss the ball to you, what must you use to catch it? Your hands. You catch the ball with your hands. Now, think of God’s vision for your life as that ball. Spirit “tosses” the ball to you and through the hands of your mind – your imagination – you catch it. It is through your imagination that you catch God’s vision for your life.
Sunday, June 14th, UP Teacher Sherri James continues to break down imagination. Here is the text from her lesson:
Last week, I shared with you that the imagination is the forming power of the mind. Through this faculty the formless takes form – the invisible becomes visible. We said that your imagination functions as the hands of your mind. It takes the ideas that God gives you and shapes them.
This week I want to talk about protecting your imagination. There are no limits to your imagination. Imagination is a gift from God. Any gift from God is like God.
God is limitless. Your imagination is limitless. God is perfect. Your imagination is perfect. God has no beginning and no end. Your imagination has no beginning and no end. Whatever you imagine you can do, you can do.
As a child, you believed anything was possible. Raise your hand if you remember what it was like to believe in the impossible. You had no concept of what you could not do. So, you believed you could do anything. You felt like you’d live forever and that everything would always be good. Anyone remember that feeling?
All of us are born believing we can do anything. We believe we can fly. Over time different experiences clip our wings. Sometimes life clips our wings.
This following is an excerpt from a talk given Sunday, June 7th at Understanding Principles for Better Living Church in Inglewood, California. Please enjoy and feel free to leave comments.
Understanding Principles is a Bible-based New Thought church. At our core, we are a teaching ministry. We believe that in order for you to live the abundant life that Jesus demonstrated, you need to understand the principles that support that life. Every class we offer teaches you principles for living the life Jesus intended.
Another way that we teach these principles is through our 12 Powers of the Mind program. The Creator has endowed each of us with 12 spiritual powers (or faculties of the mind) and each month during the Sunday service a teacher shares some helpful information about one of those 12 faculties. This month we study the spiritual power of imagination, and we use the color light blue as a visual reminder that God has given us imagination.
The imagination is the forming power of the mind. Through this faculty the formless takes form – the invisible becomes visible. With our imagination we lay hold of ideas and clothe them with substance. We grasp them and dress them up.
As you grow in spiritual power and understanding you will find that many outer regulations will become unnecessary; but this will be because you have really risen above them. This point in your development, where your understanding of Truth enables you to dispense with certain outer props and regulations, is the spiritual coming of age.
However, this spiritual coming of age cannot be hurried or forced, but must appear when the consciousness is ready, exactly as the flowering of a bulb can only be the result of natural growth. You have to demonstrate where you are. To seek to demonstrate beyond your understanding is not spiritual. Fix your attention upon spiritual things, and without consciously trying to make haste you will be amazed to discover the pace at which your soul has hastened.
To take a simple example: Suppose that in a street accident you find that a man has severed an artery and the blood is spurting out. The normal course is that unless this bleeding is stopped the victim will die. Now, what is the spiritual attitude to take in such a case? Claim the ability of God to heal. If your faith is strong enough the severed artery will immediately be healed. But if your faith fails, you must take the usual steps to save the man’s life by immediately improvising a tourniquet, or whatever the proper procedure may be, still claiming divine aid.
“Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised)…” Hebrews 10:23
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