Vision
Imagination

The ability to dream—to have a vision and utilize our imagination—is critical to living a full life. God encourages us to embrace our imagination (and keeping it pure) while warning us of the danger of not possessing vision, especially His vision.

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PROV 29:18 [GNV] Where there is no vision, the people decay: but he that keepeth the law is blessed.

VISION (also REVELATION). Strongs 2377, from 2372. châzôwn; a mental sight, i.e. a dream, revelation, oracle. 2372: châzâh; to gaze at; mentally to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); to have a vision of...

IMAGINATION. Strongs 3336, from 3335. yêtser; a form, conception (purpose): frame, thing framed, imagination, mind, work. 3335/3334: yâtsar; to press (be narrow) through squeezing into a shape; to mould into a form; esp as a potter; to determine; fashion, form, frame, make (potter, purpose)

Read: Issue No. 9: Imagination
Book: Lifting The Veil: Imagination and Kingdom of God. By Malcom Guite
Book: The Power of Imagination. by Andrew Wommack
Poetry: Lyrical Ballads. by Wordsworth and Coleridge

DEUTERONOMY 31:20-21 [GNV] For I will bring them into the land (which I sware unto their fathers) that floweth with milk and honey: and they shall eat and fill themselves, and wax fat: then shall they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and contemn me, and break my covenant. And then when many adversities and tribulations shall come upon them, this song shall answer them to their faces as a witness: for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their posterity: for I know their imagination, which they go about even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

GENESIS 6:5 [AMPC] The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination and intention of all human thinking was only evil continually.

GENESIS 8:21 [AMPC] When the Lord smelled the pleasing odor [a scent of satisfaction to His heart], the Lord said to Himself, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination (the strong desire) of man’s heart is evil and wicked from his youth; neither will I ever again smite and destroy every living thing, as I have done.

1 CHRONICLES 29:18 [NASB] Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our fathers, keep this forever in the intentions of the hearts (imaginations) of Your people, and direct their hearts to You;

1 CHRONICLES 29:18 [KJV] O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

MARK 11:20-24 [GNV] Then Peter remembered, and said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst, is withered. And Jesus answered, and said unto them, Have the faith of God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken away, and cast into the sea, and shall not waver in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith, shall come to pass, whatsoever he saith, shall be done to him. Therefore I say unto you, Whatsoever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye shall have it, and it shall be done unto you.

ZEPHANIAH 1:12-13 [ESV] At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are complacent, those who say in their hearts, ‘The Lord will not do good, nor will he do ill.’ Their goods shall be plundered, and their houses laid waste. Though they build houses, they shall not inhabit them; though they plan vineyards, they shall not drink wine from them.

NUMBERS 24:4 [ESV]The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor, the oracle of the man whose eye is opened, the oracle of him who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered…

NUMBERS 24:16 [ESV] the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered…

JEREMIAH 3:33 [CJB] Call out to me, and I will answer you—I will tell you great things, hidden things of which you are unaware.

DANIEL 2:20-22 [ESV] Daniel answered and said, “Blessed be the name of god forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.”

DEUTERONOMY 29:18-19 [ESV] Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe whose heart is turning away today from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Beware lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit, one who, when he hears the words of this sworn covenant, blesses himself in his heart, saying, “I shall be safe, though I walk in the stubbornness (imagination) of my heart.” This will lead to the sweeping away of moist and dry alike.

1 CHRONICLES 29:18 [KJV21] O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people, and prepare their heart unto Thee.

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