Jesus said I only do what I see the Father doing. Do we ever consider how Jesus saw the Father? What faculty did Jesus use to see the Father, since He was in an invisible heavenly realm?
Jesus as Son of Man lived in seamless union with His Father, fully aware that Father worked through Him. How did Jesus heal the blind, feed the multitudes, raise the dead? Did He simply see what is in the unseen realm, His Father’s kingdom, as being more real than the physical appearance—and it manifested into the material world?
I think so.
Did Jesus imagine a picture of the desired end fulfilled; the answer to the prayer realized, and it birthed into the physical?
Something to ponder…
Jesus came to show us the true nature of His Father and our Father as well as our own nature. We are His offspring. We are in Father’s image and likeness. “Imagine” and “imagination” come from the same root word — image.
Father God imagined every detail of our lives, and from within Himself—His womb—He birthed or pushed you out of Himself, bringing forth your own individual uniqueness and personality.
Jesus (God’s salvation) Christ (the Anointed) came to redeem our way of thinking back to our original heavenly identity and perspective—to see ourselves as God sees us and to run the Family Business. We have His royal rule and reign!
Our imagination is made in the image and likeness of God. It’s where we see God. Jesus came to show us we are one with the Father just as He is. “In that day (when the light dawns in your heart) you will know that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you” (John 14:20). How do we know? With our rationale? Our reason? Our intellect?
No. There is a much deeper place inside of us—our spirit!
You are spirit. You are 99.9999% non-physical matter. In other words, spirit! Jesus told us the kingdom does not come with observation. (Observable to the natural eye). The kingdom is within you.
From the Left to the Right
Think about how your minds works. If I say don’t think of a pink elephant dancing in your living room, what is the first image that pops into your head? A picture of that exact image, correct?
We think in pictures.
Let’s talk about language for a moment. The Hebrew language lines up with the way our minds work way more than our modern English does. This is because Hebrew is a pictorial language, engaging the right hemisphere of the brain and the use of the imagination as an integral part of learning.
In English we recognize line-shapes that stand for sounds. Connecting the shapes (letters) together produces sounds which create words. With those sounds we create words, sentences, stories, or facts, and we create images in our mind. So, we do use our imagination as we think, read, communicate, etc. My point is, as westerners, our primary foundation in education begins with logic rather than image. Children are taught to memorize shapes and make a connecting sound.
This is my observation. From our early childhood, our culture emphasizes rationale over imaging. As children we learn to devalue our imagination. Not everyone though. Inventors, and anyone who has accomplished great feats first imagined their invention, creation, or success. And if persisted, it manifested.
All children freely engage their imagination. Our culture stresses the use of reason and rationality as a basis of validity. As an example, take the Scientific Method based on Newton’s laws of physics. For every action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. Although there is truth in this theory, it is limited. Quantum Science throws Newtonian Physics on its head proving that what we think has greater influence on our lives than we’ve ever realized. In other words, the spirit world controls the natural world. “God spoke and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen” (Hebrews 11:3 TPT).
Are we trying to make things happen—or, since we are one with Father, are we choosing to employ our God-like faculty of imagination to bring heaven to earth?
We must learn to submit our reasoning (left hemisphere) to the right side— the mind of Christ! Our inner self, our in-Christed self, brings forth into the earth, or our outer world, through seeing as the Father sees, by use of our imagination.
Again, Jesus said, “I only do what He I see the Father doing.” How did He see the Father? The eyes of His spirit.
As Christians we are comfortable and familiar with that term, for it is in the Bible. Other cultures might use the term “the third eye,” which many believe is connected to the pineal gland. (Interestingly, the root word behind this scientific term is “epiphany,” which involves God encounters where we see Him face to face). Studies of heart-mind connection show that the heart (and its beliefs) has a strong magnetic field which influences our lives to a much greater degree than our mind, which has a less powerful electrical field. Therefore, the heart’s beliefs will always win! And so, coherence must take place between heart and mind for our prayers (our desire) to manifest. We are thinking and imagining all the time. It is important to pay attention to our thoughts, for as a man thinks in his heart so is he (Proverbs 23:7).
As image-bearers of the Father, our imagination is the key to bringing forth the good treasures from the kingdom within. We can imagine the good that Father sees in ourselves and others and watch it manifest. Or we can choose the opposite. But God tells us to choose life. Good choice!
The Father created everything through visualizing and speaking forth His Word. This is how He pushed you out—and you are exactly all He imagined! Therefore, as the mystery of Union is unveiled and we realize we are one with the Father, so our world is our own thoughts pushed out. We are joint-heirs with Christ and so we co-create according to the image and likeness of our Heavenly Father.
Glory on your imaginations!