Faith and imagination
Intelligent faith is not a shot in the dark.
We believe in the invisible to make the impossible possible. But, it is necessary to associate faith with imagination.
Faith is conviction. However, it is impossible to have a conviction of something you cannot imagine.
To dream, to have a vision, to prophesy (confess) or to imagine something you want is the work of the Spirit of God in His servants and it’s part of the conquering faith.
And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Joel 2.28
The faith of the Spirit imagines the future materialized in the present. And it remains with this objective until it’s realized.
For this reason, faith is the certainty of things hoped for (things imagined), and the evidence of things not seen (things seen in dreams). Hebrews 11.1
There is no way to separate faith from imagination.
A smart person with a very difficult attitude wants to change his behavior. He no longer wants to be temperamental.
By learning that faith in Jesus is capable of making everything new, even becoming a new man, the desire to change is born.
So, he imagines himself as a docile, humble, joyful man that is filled with peace.
Then, by faith, he seeks through the following resources: meditation on the Word of God, prayer, fasting and, above all, the abandonment of sins.
This act of faith provokes a reaction from the Holy Spirit to produce within him the new man he dreamed of being.
But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life. John 4.14
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