TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF

THE IMAGE OF GOD IN YOU

A lot of the time we decide, I am going to turn over a new leaf in my life… Make some changes

You get geared up, excited, ready to shake those habits that have been haunting you. You want to step into Gods best. Then to often something happens.

Your determination weakens, your new leaf begins to look similar to your old leaf, then suddenly your back where you started.

Nothing has changed, and you start to doubt if it ever will change.

This has happened to all of us, more times than we would like to admit. But it doesn’t have to happen again.

God has given us the power to make permanent changes in our lives and in our circumstances.

But first you need to understand an important principal. It is the principal of inner image.

Read Eph 5:1-2... When God created the earth, he took the principal of His inner image, added faith and the power of His words.

If we are going to imitate our Heavenly father, we must put the principal of His inner image to work.

Don’t waste your time trying to dream up a inner image all on your own. That is nothing more than positive thinking.

What you need is to use as a basis for your inner image and for the words you speak is the word of God. The word has supernatural power.

And if you fill that word with faith and you speak it out, it will work to change your circumstances as surely as it did for God himself. (He himself spoke things into existence.

When God wanted light, he said, “let there be light”. the words he spoke were directly related to his inner image. He used his words to get that image from the inside to the outside.

Words are powerful, they are containers that carry faith, and love. Words can also carry fear and hate…Words are so important that they can determine our eternal destiny.

Read Roman 10:9-10

Read Proverb 18:21

Power of life and death are in the power of the tongue.

And we are the ones who will choose which of those ( life or death) we will speak into existence.

The power we have to speak words… no other creature on earth has that power. Words can destroy or they can create.

They take an inner image and project it to the outside world. Once you understand that you can put the inner image to work in your life…

You may be working to be a winner, while seeing your self as a loser. How do you change that? With the word of God.

Words not only release the creative forces of faith, they also produce images… when you hear the word cat, your mind forms a picture. Words paint pictures in our minds.

I am talking about getting your image lined up with the word of God.

Read John 1:1-4... All things were made by the word…

Read Heb 11:3... By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at Gods command. That what we see now, did not come from anything that can be seen.

Everything that is, or has been, or ever will be, was brought about, either directly or indirectly by the word of God. Words are packed with faith.

In fact that faith is the energy that is in the word that gives it the power to bring itself to pass.

Read Isa 55:11... Gods word is a living thing, it is alive with Gods own faith…By the power of the Holy Spirit, you have faith inside of you as a born again believer.

So when your inner image matches Gods word then your faith can produce the end result that God desires for it to produce.

But you must realize that when you put these principals to work in your life, you are going to run into some heavy resistance from Satan.

He is going to do everything he can to stop you because as a co-worker with God, you become satans greatest enemy.