How can you position yourself to dream and receive vision from God? Bill Johnson teaches on the renewed mind, and how renewing your mind positions you to be one that receives creative solutions to the problems around you.

a yielded imagination becomes the

sanctified imagination a sanctified

imagination is positioned for vision and

dreams

it’s the sanctified imagination it

becomes postured to hear and to see from

god

i believe that there’s a whole new

release of creativity

that’s about to take place

through the church uh for the sake of

the world for the nations

if the mind wasn’t important it wouldn’t

be worth renewing

god values the the mind the intellect of

the individual

so profoundly so that jesus went through

great extent of suffering to protect

that mind

knowing that

the unrenewed mind is hostile towards

him and is at war with god according to

romans 8. so he takes the risk to

to protect something

to keep people independent in their

thinking

so that they can

be instruments if you will instruments

of god of hearing what he’s saying doing

what he’s doing to illustrate heaven on

earth to illustrate the actual will of

god through their uh yielded imagination

a yielded imagination becomes the

sanctified imagination a sanctified

imagination is positioned for vision and

dreams

it’s the sanctified imagination it

becomes postured to hear and to see from

god

i believe that there’s a whole new

release of creativity

that’s about to take place

through the church

uh for the sake of the world for the

nations for

uh in medicine science technology all

these areas i i believe very strongly

let me also insert here

it wouldn’t be good for us

for all the creative ideas to come from

the church

we’ve become way too proud and arrogant

and independent and think we’re

something so thankfully the lord knows

what measure but i do think if we

reposition ourselves in our thinking

he will he will release ideas

uh to us all right

um

so the the renewed mind

the renewed mind

is the target of the lord

in your life every single day of your

life

he’s constantly

speaking to us

leading us into experience encounters

that will reposition us for thinking not

just creatively but thinking like christ

the renewed mind is able

to create a context for faith

it’s important you understand this faith

doesn’t come from the mind the bible

says it’s with the heart man believes

under righteousness so faith is not an

intellectual matter

but the renewed mind creates the context

for faith

much like the banks of a river

create a context for the river to flow

in

so the renewed mind it was the centurion

who understood the ways of god and the

nature of the kingdom that caused jesus

to respond

so impressed with his understanding

and he called it faith

so unimpressive his understanding he

called it faith he said go your way your

servant lives

so faith will often demonstrate itself

in kingdom understanding

it is not the product of discipline

self-discipline i believe discipline is

important and i i play it down some so

forgive me for that

somebody else will balance it out

but it won’t be me

i i believe in discipline i really do

but it creates the context for something

to happen

faith comes

from surrender not striving

it’s the product of yielding

to the spirit of god and the word of god

and the encounters or experiences that

he takes us into to think and to see

differently

there are enemies to the renewed mind

obviously everything that the enemy

would want to do

in our life is to disengage us from

the renewed mind the reason is he wants

people that think in ways

that

even though they appear

logical and reasonable they’re actually

hostile towards god and the ways of god

the mindset on the flesh romans 8 is

hostile towards god

it’s not neutral

it’s not like the mindset of the flesh

is just having a bad day no it’s at war

with the things of god

it’s important to understand that the

mindset on the flesh but the mindset on

the spirit is life and peace the mind

set on the spirit is capable of moving

in great faith

uh a couple more comments saying well

we’ll read that did i tell you where to

go james 3

no

how many of you were there i just want

to see how many discerning people there

are in the room

none all right well

i’ll give you another chance james

chapter 3 turn there in your bibles

we’ll we’ll read out of there in just a

moment

i think

now i

i’m i’m perceiving something

like you remember the phrase looking

through a glass darkly that’s where i’m

standing right now is i’m i’m peering

through a glass and this is i can’t see

it clearly but i’ll tell you what i do

see

the scripture says by faith we

understand the worlds were made out of

nothing by faith we understand the

worlds were made

i have nothing by faith we understand

by faith

we understand

i believe that the lord is

is

introducing us

to an understanding

that will benefit humanity

an understanding that doesn’t elevate

you or elevate me is some

christian smarty pants

i said i see a t-shirt no i don’t

do not make that t-shirt for me i will

not wear it

christian smarty pants

it just came to me i’m not sure it was

the lord though all right

yeah yeah probably not

he’s not interested in elevating

the believer to a place of

applause and worship

what he is

wanting to do

is to elevate the fact that he has the

entire world in his heart

and there are practical solutions for

every problem

and he understands what they are

and surrendered yielded people will come

into those so i do believe that as we

expand and grow in our own faith in

these areas i think that there’s going

to be more dreams more visions more

just simple

sometimes you get a dream and a vision

and it seems supernatural sometimes you

just work hard and come to a right

conclusion and that also is the work of

god

sometimes i i know our teams that write

songs they’ll have these uh i know from

uh from talking with brian there’s these

moments where songs just seem to come

and and you know two-thirds of the song

is written but the last third is is

grinded it’s ground out over a period of

time and and both are necessary does

that make sense to you so so i i i

believe that the lord is going to

release understanding for us

to for creative uh creative solutions

expressions etc all right

by faith we understand yeah i’m so glad

that you uh watched this video i do pray

that it’s a great great strength and

encouragement to you and i’ve got a

verse that it really is my cry for all

of us and it’s psalms 20 it’s verse 4

may he grant you your heart’s desire and

fulfill all your plans

that’s my prayer that’s my prayers that

this would be the season of rich rich

fulfillment

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