Today’s devotion is from 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

There is such a thing as a carnal, fleshly, vain imagination. The Lord gave every person a imagination… the ability to visualize something that does not exist in the natural realm. Your imagination is one of your greatest spiritual assets, but the devil also tries to access your imagination with corrupt visual deception. 

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Visualization, or seeing something with the eyes of our imagination is a key in receiving from the Lord by faith…

Ephesians 1:17-18 says, ‘I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know Him through your deepening intimacy with Him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling — that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that He finds in us, His holy ones! - Ephesians 1:17-18 (TPT) 

When our imagination is made alive by the Lord, we are able to visualize God’s promises to us, we are able to visualize ourselves healing the sick, raising the dead and doing mighty exploits for the Lord, and we are able to visualize future events that are prophetically revealed to us. Faith is the substance of things not seen with the natural eyes, yet revealed and seen through the eyes of our imagination. This is the progression… You speak the Word - you hear the Word, then you see the promise of the Word with the eyes of your imagination, then you say what you see, then your promise manifests in the natural realm. 

Now, vain imagination works the same way, only through deception and fear…

It may start with a thought, or a negative word spoken to a person, then, if that person speaks out the negative, unscriptural thing, they give life to it by speaking it… then they hear it, then before long, they see it with their imagination, then they say what they see and then that evil thing manifests according to their fear. That is how a vain imagination works. We have to cast down EVERY vain imagination before we speak it forth.

Use your imagination to your advantage and to the advantage of the kingdom of God…

I pray that the Father of glory, the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, would impart to you the riches of the Spirit of wisdom and the Spirit of revelation to know him through your deepening intimacy with him. I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of His calling— that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that He finds in us, His holy ones! I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of this immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power - Ephesians 1:17-19 (TPT)