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Today, Sunday, March 20, is the second Sunday of the Lenten season. Lent is the period of time during which we can prepare ourselves for the Easter experience.
 
Here is the message for the second Sunday in Lent:
 

Imagination
 
Man creates and brings forth in the inner realm of mind, in the same manner that a child is conceived and brought forth. Man is a creator with thought and feeling. These are the two witnesses as man and woman are the two witnesses to every human conception.
 
Our imagination in its truest form is thinking in detail with joy and happiness. Imagination is conception. The love and joy of conceiving holds firmly the new form until it is manifest. This is an individual process, an immaculate conception. When an object is formed in mind only the mind can conceive it; projected in the world of form it becomes a manifestation.
 
The creative power is constant, always at work, with or without discipline and control. We must always have imagination – one with the Spirit of Truth within. We have the power to image and to bring forth the likeness of whatever we image – good or seeming evil. All power has been given us in the choice of what we shall image.
 
Herein lies the greatness of creation, but herein also lie the forming of the unreal, the fantasies, and untrue beliefs, unsupported by Spirit. They cannot last for they are not created of Divine Substance, Truth!
 
But these impermanent figments of the mind are accepted as real by man the creator, and cause him untold suffering and actual lack both in spiritual and in material ways. We have the power to re-think, re-direct our imagination and to choose a new form, thus producing a new heaven and a new earth.
 
Ordinarily we think of imagination in relationship to things we have no hope of attaining. But anything we can connect with ourselves and accept as possible can be conceived by imagination and brought forth in the world of affairs. Do not underestimate your power as a human being, for you are moved by God!
 
Keep your imagination firmly entrenched in the pattern of God. The pattern of God is revealed by the movement of your heart. God is the Soul of man, sees Himself as man, gives Himself in man. Man in his highest expression, is God manifest on earth!
 
(This series of Lenten messages was first developed by Unity minister Dr. Sue Sikking, founder of Unity-by-the-Sea, Santa Monica, California, author of God Always Says Yes and Seed of the New Age.)
 
 
God is Blessing You, Right Now!
 
Rev. Alan A. Rowbotham
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IMAGINATION

2nd Sunday. Read Acts 10:9-35.

The imagination is that faculty of mind which images and forms. Everything that is manifest was first a mental picture and was brought into expression by this forming power. Man accumulates a mass of ideas about substance and life, and with his imagination he molds them into shape.

Those who look to the Holy Spirit for guidance find that its instruction is given to all who believe in Christ, and the command is to make all things after the pattern shown Moses on the Mount as found in Exodus 25:40.

The Spirit of truth projects into the chamber of imagery pictures that, rightly understood, will be a sure guide for all people who believe in the omnipresence of mind. The imagination will carry out any idea or set of ideas that the I AM reflects into it, hence theories are not to be trusted. There must be evidence in works. This is accomplished by the working power of the world.

With my imagination I lay hold of perfect ideas and clothe them with substance. My body is the product of my mind. In my communication with God, the imagining power of my mind is playing an important part. It receives divine ideas, and in dreams and visions reflects their character in the consciousness. According to the Scriptures this is the opening of the heavens and the seeing the “angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.”

With my imagination fixed on Spirit, I affirm: “In the quietness and confidence of Spirit, I see myself as God sees me, His perfect image and likeness.”

Questions:

1. Define “imagination.”

2. How was everything that exists brought into expression?

3. How do we lay hold of ideas?

4. What part does the imagining power of the mind play in our communication with God?

I allow my mind to run to positive imagery. I see my life as it is meant to be–good and beautiful.

Remember, God is Blessing You, Right Now!

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