Some Christians fail to have their
prayers answered because of their wrong imaginations.
Even though you’re a good
prayer warrior but once the imagination in your heart is negative, your prayers
will not be answered. For instance if you are praying asking for the best, yet
when you close your eyes what you see is the worst in your life. A man from my
village found himself reduced to the highest level of penury by the Biafra war.
So in 1973, three years after the civil war ended he was broke to the extent
that he can not afford to pay his house rent. The man was staying at Enugu at
that time. And the worst to him is that his children were sent out of school
and they were whiling away time at home while their mates were in school. This
state of affairs began to eat at the man and he began to imagine in his heart
his children would never be able to go to school and be educated. At a time he
asked his wife to take their children to the village that he would send for
them when his situation changes. Two days after his wife travelled to the
village with his children, he used knife to cut his throat and he died. His
negative imaginations lead him to hold a picture of a bleak future for his
children and since he could not bear to see them as failures, Satan lied to him
to commit suicide. Years later the children became successful, some obtained
degrees in their chosen fields. At a point they built house for their mother,
bought a car for her and gave a driver to her. The man would have been enjoyed
all these, but because of his wrong and negative imaginations killed himself.
The same wrong imagination that
hindered the original Israelites that left Egypt to the promise land. Though
their desire is to enter the land flowing with milk and honey, but the
imagination of their heart were negative that was why they died in the
wilderness except Joshua and Caleb (numbers 13:26-33). In this bible account,
twelve spies were sent to spy the promise land and when they returned after
forty days, ten out of the twelve reported that though the land is a land
flowing with milk and honey that they would not be able to take it because they
were like grasshoppers compared to the people living in the land. I want you to
understand that when they said they were like grasshoppers they were relaying
the mental picture their imagination.
In other words, they had a picture
in their imaginations but that picture was contrary to the promises of God for
them. In their own imagination, they saw themselves not as great men and women
empowered and backed by God’s promises that can possess what God had promised. They
saw themselves as weak, insignificant and powerless so they died like
grasshoppers.
In summary, I want you to
understand that your life goes in the direction of your thinking for you are
the character of your thoughts. Note that nothing will be restrained from that
which you have imagined to do. So it does not matter what has happened to you
or in what unpleasant situation you find yourself, there is hope. You can
either decide to remain there or come out of it by provoking your imagination
to see a better future. Always appraise the situation from the standpoint of
GOD’S word, for nothing in this life can make you permanently disadvantaged if
you are willing to dream.
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