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From: blindmen4christ-bounces at morales-family.lljfm.net
[mailto:blindmen4christ-bounces at morales-family.lljfm.net] On Behalf Of Stu
(by way of Curtis Delzer <curtis at calweb.com>)
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:00 PM
To: Blind men for Christ
Subject: [BlindMen4Christ] A Brighter Tomorrow


The Power of Imaging

    "Then he touched their eyes and said, "According to your faith will it
be done to you."

    Imaging--picturing in your  mind's eye--can help you achieve the seeming
impossible.

    One day when I was working  on our church building, I borrowed my boss's
heavy circular-saw bench. When returning it, it fell off the truck, right in
the middle of a major highway.  It had taken four of us to load the saw
bench onto the truck and here it was, lying in the middle of the road with
only two of us to re-load it!

    No problem ... all we  could see was getting it back on the truck. And,
with seemingly super-human strength, heaved it back onto the truck in a
flash. We fastened it securely,  and were on our way in no time at all. We
amazed ourselves with a strength we  didn't even know we had. This type of
thing is fairly common.

    Where did the extra  strength come from? I'd say that the picture in our
mind of getting the saw  bench back onto the truck as quickly as possible,
plus the urgency of the  situation, triggered an extra supply of adrenaline,
making it possible for us  to lift it.
Had we focused on the problem and our inability to lift it by  ourselves, we
never would have been able to achieve that task.

    Imaging can also help in  the healing of sicknesses.

    Dr. Norman Vincent Peal in  his book, Imaging, tells about Harry DeCamp
who was healed of cancer. He was  not a religious man, but was challenged to
believe in God when a friend sent  him a card which said, "With God all
things are possible."

    Harry chose to believe  that through faith and prayer, God could heal
him, and started to visualize in a dramatic way the healing process taking
place within his body.

"He began to imagine  armies of healing white blood cells in his body
cascading down from his  shoulders, sweeping through his veins, attacking
the malignant cells and  destroying them. A hundred times a day, two
hundred, three hundred, he went  through this imaging process. He worked at
it constantly, day and
night."2

Harry also kept on with  his chemotherapy and in six months he was healed.
What cured him? His faith,  the chemotherapy, or his powerful imaging?
Probably all three!

    For some unknown reason,  when the image we create in our mind is vivid
and clear, the desire to  achieve it, and the faith to believe it is
possible are strong enough, the  untapped powers of the mind come to our
rescue and help us achieve the very  thing we image and believe in.
Unfortunately, the same principle is effective  for those who wish to
perform dastardly acts of evil. Actually, all of us are  visualizing things
in our mind much of the time. Just think how temptation  works! We just need
to use this ability for good.

Suggested prayer:  "Dear God, help me to see what you want me to become and
do for your  glory, and picture these in my mind until, with your help, one
by one, they  are all achieved. Thank you for hearing and answering my
prayer. Gratefully,  in Jesus' name, amen."

Stu
<mailto:K5stu at sbcglobal.net>K5stu at sbcglobal.net
Reading your Bible today will help prepare you for A Brighter Tomorrow!
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