Eyes of Faith: Our God Given Imagination to Create

As I was reading through Genesis 1 last week, I felt the Father again take me back to the question he had asked me a couple of weeks ago, “How did I create?” (See Special Edition: What Atmosphere are You Creating? Life or Death). This time however, rather than asking me questions, he began to tell me how he created. He began to show me insights into the creative process Father, Son, and Holy Spirit went through to create the world in the beginning. He said, “I saw it and I spoke it.”  

He then showed me that for us to create life with our words, the eyes of our faith must become engaged in the process of agreement with God’s Word. When an artist sets out to paint a masterpiece, he/she begins with preparation. They see in their minds eye (imagination) what the end result will be before they even pick up a paintbrush. 

Once they put brush to canvas, they begin the process of bringing what they saw in their mind to fruition. They make the vision they saw with the eyes of their faith or their imagination come to life before their eyes of flesh.

This is how God created the earth. He saw what he wanted before he spoke his first word. He then spoke exactly what he wanted to see created. He was specific and clear in his communication with Holy Spirit. What he saw he spoke. What the Father spoke Holy Spirit then created. 

This is still how creation works today. As I continued to listen, I felt the Father say, “As my people seek me, I am opening the eyes of their faith (imagination) to see my plans, desires, and purposes. I am inviting them to come into partnership and agreement with me to see those plans and purpose fulfilled. He then took me to the book of Habakkuk. 

In Habakkuk 1:1-3 we read, I will climb up to my watchtower and stand at my guardpost. There I will wait to see what the Lord says and how he will answer my complaint. Then the Lord said to me, “Write my answer plainly on tablets, so that a runner can carry the correct message to others. This vision is for a future time. It describes the end, and it will be fulfilled. If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.” (NLT)

Here we see God’s interaction with the prophet Habakkuk. God told Habakkuk to write the vision (what he saw with his eyes of faith). To make it clear (plain), so the at a runner could carry the message to others. 

God is giving his people vision. We are to write it – make a written record of it and then declare it specifically and clearly. Our words are the runner that carries the vision to Holy Spirit. 

The Father went on to tell me that when He created the heavens and earth, he faced no opposition. When He spoke it immediately happened. Holy Spirit did exactly as God said right after he said it. 

Today, we need to remember that the enemy is out to thwart all God’s plans here on earth. Once we see the vision and write it, standing on the Word, and then declare it with our faith words, Holy Spirit acts upon our words at once, however, so does the enemy. His goal is to hinder the angelic hosts assigned to our vision as well as to discourage us before we see the fulfillment, so that we will recant/cancel the assignments Holy Spirit has decreed, by our negative/contrary words, to stop all work on the fulfillment of the vision. 

Daniel 10:1-21 gives us an account of Daniel fasting and praying for 21 days, waiting for the answer to his prayer. Verse 12-14 says, Then he [the angel] said, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel. Since the first day you began to pray for understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your request has been heard in heaven. I have come in answer to your prayer. But for twenty-one days the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia blocked my way. Then Michael, one of the archangels, came to help me, and I left him there with the spirit prince of the kingdom of Persia. Now I am here to explain what will happen to your people in the future, for this vision concerns a time yet to come.” [Added by me for clarification)

Just as Holy Spirit dispatched the angel to bring the answer the moment the prayer left Daniel’s lips, so he does for us today. When we speak out the message of the vision, declaring what we have seen into the spirit realm (atmosphere), Holy Spirit moves into action dispatching the hosts of Heaven (Hebrews 1:14) to bring it to fulfillment. 

Conversely, as we see in Daniel, the enemy also sends his forces to block, hinder, kill, steal, and destroy, if possible, the answer before it reaches fulfillment. 

There is no evidence in the Word that Daniel ever changed his request or that he stopped believing for the answer. In fact, scripture tells us that he not only prayed but fasted for 21 days until the angel appeared to him with the answer.

This is the key: holding onto our confession, the vision, and the Word we are standing on, until we see the answer. Just as God told Habakkuk, “if it seems slow in coming, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed.” Bear in mind, time was created for man, and God is outside of time. Our sense of delay and God’s sense of delay are not usually the same, but we must keep holding fast.

Galatians 6:9 tells us not to grow weary (tired) in doing what is good (standing on the Word and our faith confession) for at the right time (when the answer reaches us) we will reap a harvest (the fulfillment of our vision), if we do not give up (change our confession to agree with the enemy rather than Holy Spirit). 

I felt the Father telling me he has plans for his people, but we must partner with him through our thoughts, words, and actions to see those things come to pass. 

Just as our words can set things in motion, so our words can stop things from happening. We have been given the authority of Jesus to rule and reign upon the earth. Our words carry the authority of heaven. When a king issues a decree, whether it is a positive decree (I.e., “I release you from your debt”) or a negative decree (I.e., “I sentence you to death”) his words will be carried out. The only difference is who does the “carrying out.” 

When we partner with God and the Word, Holy Spirit and the hosts of Heaven carry out our decrees and declarations. On the other hand, when we choose to speak contrary to the TRUTH of the word, our words are carried out by the host of hell. 

I know that is heavy, but do not despair, unlike the laws of the Medes and Persians in the Bible (see Esther), our words are not irrevocable. If we find that we have come into agreement with the enemy through our words, we can repent and get our words back into alignment and agreement with God. God can redeem, restore, heal, and deliver us when we realign our confession and declarations with his Word. 

A note of warning here: There may still be consequences we must face for our misspoken words of doubt, fear, and unbelief. For example, if we feel a sense of lack in our finances, because we have desires that are unfulfilled, and choose to declare that we never have enough and rack up a huge credit card debt rather than declaring the Word (Phil. 4:19, 2 Cor. 9:8, Matt. 6:33, Psalm 37:25-26, Phil. 4:11-12, John 10:10…) and waiting on the Lord’s provision, we will still have to repay that debt after we course correct and begin standing on the TRUTH again.  But thanks be to God, he is faithful and even in this he can and will provide as we stand on the Word, confess the TRUTH, and do not waiver in doubt, fear, and unbelief. 

Words have power. When we are facing a situation or struggle, we must ask God for a vision of what he wants to do in it and then agree with him in declaring the answer and standing on the Word. As we do, Holy Spirit will set to work bringing the vision to life. 

Whether we are facing a struggle and need guidance, or whether God is revealing his vision for our next move or the one 10 steps down the road, we must align ourselves with the Word. Write down the vision plainly and clearly, in specific detail, then begin declaring it through our words of faith, standing on the Word, and then keep declaring it until we see, with our eyes of flesh, what the eyes of our spirit/faith (our imagination) has already seen!!