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Luke 11:34 NLT Your eye is like a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is filled with light. But when it is unhealthy, your body is filled with darkness.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. (Blind)
John 8:12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”
Psalms 119:18 ESV Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Hebrews 11:6 And without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
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Faith + Imagination = Miracles
#1. Visualize what you read in the Bible.
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#2. Personalize God’s promises.
Proverbs 3:24 When you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
Hebrews 11:6 And without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. -Albert Einstein
#3. Use creative expressions.
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Hebrews 12:1-2a …We are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us fixing our eyes on Jesus. (Edited)
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Hebrews 12:3 ESV Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Look full in his wonderful face and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.