Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.” Mark 9:23 NKJV

As a child I played, and one day I was a pirate, one day a king, one day I was Willie Mays jacking home runs out of Candlestick Park. As my imagination sparked the spirit of adventure, I was more than a conqueror, and nothing was impossible. As we renew our minds our natural faculties begin to demonstrate their unique redemptive purposes that enable us to be a more complete son or daughter of God, with more wholeness in every category of our lives. We want to look at imagination, reason and memory to see how they work with faith, love and revelation.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Rom 12:2 NKJV

I sat in the doorway of our first school in Ndele, Central African Republic, and I watched as young girls with tears in their eyes carried five-gallon jerricans on their heads filled with water from the village well. I thought about the water that flows so easily from my tap at home. I said, “Lord, how long until these people live the way I live?” He said, “How long does it take for My Spirit to move, to accomplish anything? I’m waiting for them!” Just a few days ago I was in a conference where the preacher was calling our prophecies and speaking RHEMA words, and people were getting healed. I think people were astonished, but I wasn’t. I was thankful, but I wasn’t astonished. I’ve been teaching this truth for thirty years and practicing it for longer. God is waiting for us to believe!

But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matt 19:26 NKJV

The human brain is such a marvel, such a wonder, that it silently testifies to the greatness of a Creator like almost nothing else in all creation. Weighing less than two kilos, it has computing power greater than all the super computers in existence. It is alive, growing, changing and adapting all of the time. If its physically damaged the brain can rewire itself around the damaged areas to begin to function again. Imagination develops neural pathways that allow the physical brain to process revelation. As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

One of the great reasons we don’t get revelation in certain areas of our lives is because we have never allowed imagination to prepare the way for revelation. If you think something is impossible, you’ll never receive revelation about it. If you can imagine yourself doing something, like that preacher giving RHEMA words and healing people, or turning on a tap and having water come out of it, then God can give you revelation about that and your mind and heart can receive it. If you want a new car, go sit in one and imagine yourself driving and owning it. If you want to get married, imagine your wedding day. If you want to bear children, buy baby clothes, put them in bags and sleep with your ‘babies.’ If you want to be a king, a president, a pirate, or jack home runs, imagine yourself there. Revelation faith runs down the neural pathways that imagination plows and builds!

Reason is a good servant. In northern Kentucky there is a structure that is a full-scale adaptation of the biblical record of Noah’s Ark. It’s really cool! The designers of it did a good job engineering a boat that met all the biblical specifics and handled the problems that would be involved if eight people and all the animals were on it for months at a time. How would you supply ventilation, using three-thousand-year-old technology to keep everyone alive in an enclosed space? What about food? Human and animal waste? They worked it all out. Personally, I think the animals went into hibernation in the dark space and needed neither food, nor water and had very little waste. Hibernation is amazing! There is a bird in the Arctic that freezes solid every year and comes back to life in the spring thaw. Believe it or not!

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. John 14:26 NKJV

Revelation can pull all the disparate pieces of your reason together and we call it inspiration. This is the truth behind all the great breakthroughs of mankind. You may say, But these guys were unbelievers! HELLO! Who makes you and I so superior? Does God work with unbelievers? (don’t even answer that!) The problem comes when we don’t glorify God who in grace and mercy works with every man. Reason, intellect, ‘smarts’ if you will, anointed with the oil of revelation can produce what we call the genius anointing, solving any problem and bringing Heaven to earth (Mt.6:10). Hallelujah!

…because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, Rom 1:19-21 NKJV

I’m told that our brains record everything, every sensation, even from when we were in the womb of our mothers, but the challenge comes in the recall of those thoughts. The brain acts like a physical muscle in that the more exercise it properly receives the more it can function well, and in the case of memory, recall more easily. Holy Spirit works with our memories to bring up the right word at the right time to release faith and do the works of God. Right works come from right words, and HS can bring up those right words from scripture and even from what you or others have spoken. One time, a dear friend died. When I heard about it, HS immediately brought up a conversation he and I had had thirty years previously where we promised to take care of the other’s families if something happened to us. I had no thought about it in thirty years, but there it was. I took care the brother’s spouse until she passed as well!

Therefore You delivered them into the hand of their enemies, who oppressed them; and in the time of their trouble, when they cried to You, You heard from heaven; And according to Your abundant mercies You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hand of their enemies. Neh 9:27 NKJV

How do you redeem bad memories? The mercy of God has been on us every day since before we were born. The evidence that we are still alive testifies to the fact of His daily mercy. Just yesterday I avoided a car accident through no fault of my own that would have destroyed my car with me in it. Mercy! The key to redeeming bad memories – and I know people have gone through awful things – is to ask the Lord to reveal what He was doing during those bad incidents. Yes, you got hurt, but you didn’t die. Yes perhaps someone else died, but God was being merciful to the greatest possible extent that people allowed Him. Ask Him to show you what He was doing. Be quiet, close your eyes, watch and listen, and realize the mercy of God in your time of greatest need. Bad memories will lose their sting and get healed as you rejoice in His mercy…

Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. John 11:5-6 NKJV

Love empowers your imagination, reason and memory. This is why we are called to lives of constant service to God and others regardless of our age. Service gives us purpose and draws focus to our love. People get old only when they stop dreaming. Our youth is renewed like the eagles in imagination, love, joy and faith. Do happy mental exercises when you drive down the road! When you see old, broken-down buildings, imagine them to be rebuilt, beautiful, clean and prosperous. Look at the tired, sad unbelieving crowds and imagine potential saints full of life, joy and victory. Imagine people that hate you becoming people that respect, love and value you. Love sees the end even before the first step in the journey…

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly… Col 3:16 NKJV

Our redeemed natural faculties are given to us to help us walk by the Spirit. We must use them faithfully and fervently for His glory and the blessing of everyone. There is so much joy as we walk with the Lord with our minds and hearts renewed to His truth, and invested in faith, love and revelation! Love you!

Remember dear one, we must be about our Father’s business…