Imagination is God

Speaking in a parable, Matthew likens the kingdom of heaven to a sower who sows his seeds on different types of soil. The sower spoken of here is not a being external to yourself, for you are the sower and the seed. Your own wonderful human imagination is God, the sower who said, “Let us make man in our image,” then fell asleep and annexed the brain of the outer man as the seed for his redemption.

I know the story is truer than I ever knew it to be (the story of the birth of Christ Jesus), but it is not something that took place; but it is taking place. I can make no pretense of holiness. I have done everything; I have lived life fully, and I think, richly. Everything I have done I have done to excess; that is the way I am. So I cannot be proud that I gave birth to that son, nor can I be as

I tell you that your Imagination is God. Believe it. Exercise it. It is keyed low, but as you lift it up you intensify it and then vision after vision will be yours as you begin to awake. Do not think you are greedy because you are demanding things or the changing of things. You are here to create as your Father creates. Want what you want and yield to it and create it. Then you will want higher a

You can look at someone with deep concern and want a change. You do not voice it, but lock it in, and then forty-eight hours later there is initiated what you set in motion. And they wonder: “Could my problem be traced to so-and-so?” Just the very thing you had been thinking! You entertained their problem with deep concern, and then you will ask: “Did you influence me or did I influence you? When

Isaiah 40:6-8 – it seems so strange that the book that forms the foundation of the play should make this statement: “All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades but the word of our God will stand forever.” And the “Word” is the play from Genesis to Revelation. If you took all the Bibles and burned them, the play remains in spite of th

I could pick out a dozen people in this audience tonight who have written me about controlling their day dreams. Here is a man whose property was going to pot, his tenants were behind in their payments, the stepfather was drinking and the children were shabby and neglected. Instead of taking legal action the owner took an imaginary ride past his property and saw it in the well-kept state in which

But tonight, in the practical world in which we live here, which will still be with you when you go through the gate called death – it will be the practical world – you will find this Principle still operating. Everyone who is not “born from above” will still be looking for this principle to find out how to make things come into his world that he wants. It’s a simple, simple principle. You start k

And the Word cannot return void – but must accomplish that which He purposed. For, in every child born of woman the Word of God has been planted, and that Word, in the fullness of time, will erupt and the story of God will unfold in the man in whom He has planted it. Then that man will know he is the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s the most glorious thing in the world. If you suffer now because of your

One day I found him, I accepted him, and then came the unfolding of all this wonderful symbolism as recorded in scripture, all the imagery, and it’s all imagery. Who would have thought on reading that that you were in conflict in the depths of your own soul and really encounter the symbol of the stone? But who saw it? I saw it. Well, where did it come from? It came out of my Imagination. For if al

Did you read last week’s Life Magazine of MacArthur? I did. I’m very interested in the man and I read the story of Gen. MacArthur. But the very end, the very last paragraph, when he was leaving West Point, he quoted what the general who addressed this fine body of men said. He said: “Before you take off that uniform, you will be at war. It is always so, it’s part of the tradition of our country. Y

Now we are told, when man really discovers it, it is the blood of Christ Jesus that must be shed. Well, how could I shed the blood of Christ Jesus? Yet I am told, without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin; therefore, what is sin now? Sin is “missing the mark.” If I have a goal in life and I do not realize it, I am sinning. I don’t care what the world will tell me, it’s the one s

For she didn’t have the virtue of mercy when she actually aided in the destruction and death of her husband, through a passion that she wanted to, I would say, appease. And so, she certainly was not merciful, she was not one of pity, she was not one of love, and so, he asked her to assume a virtue if she had it not. What virtue? Well, he didn’t name it for her. He allowed her to select the virtue

Undoubtedly, she’s not a lady of means and maybe she never wore one before, and may never wear one again, but Tom, knowing the law, he can always keep her clothed in Don Loper dresses. Doesn’t take any couturier in the world, they could all be used. That’s what they’re there for, to sell dresses. And if you want to clothe your sister-in-law better than she has been clothed, you can do it, without

But, may I tell you, in the end, all will be forgiven, in the end all is forgiven…all. You could make lame people in this world, blind people, all kinds of people. In the end, you will confront them and in the twinkle of an eye all will be made perfect. Every one of them will be transformed into the beauty that they should have been in the beginning, that you disfigured them by your arguments and

Well, I know from my own personal experience that I have assumed, when reason denied it, when my senses denied it, that I was the man that I wanted to be. I assumed it. I had no reason in this world to believe I could ever become it; I simply assumed it. I believed it. Then I rested in my assumption just as though it were true. Then things happened. And I can’t tell you how they happened. On refle

Well, the years went on—it’s been seven years now—and this is what happened this past week. She got a job. She’s a nurse and so the job moves around, she goes from home to home where the need is there. So she found herself in the environment or the neighborhood of a friend she had not seen or contacted in a year. She exchanged a birthday card and a Christmas greeting, with a little note on the car

So let no one tell you you’re going to meet him coming from the outside. You will never in eternity meet him coming from the outside. You’re going to meet him in yourself, in the symbolism as described in scripture. You will be the one you meet; you are he. When you meet infinite love, yes, that’s the one being where we all are gathered one by one, into this one man who is God. But you are gathere

So he’s called a drunkard and you think a man who simply imbibes heavily. Hasn’t a thing to do with that. The word winebibber is the root of the word dove. It is taken from the word Jonah. So here is the Holy Spirit who walks the earth and scatters his Word to everyone who will listen. Some hear and throw it out. Some get it eagerly…it may work over night and they think “I’ve got a little secret n

We’re closing tonight for just a little while. We’ll be back on the 19th of October. If you’re on the mailing list, you’ll receive a notice. We’ll have a small ad in the paper, but not everyone gets the paper…but if you are on the list you’ll receive a notice. If you are not on the list and you would like to be on the list for the purpose of receiving a notice, may we have your name and address? I

So Ann said to me and this is her question, she said, “Neville, tell me, why didn’t God give me the money to buy the hat? Why did he give it to me in the way he gave it? Why didn’t he give me the money?” I said, Ann, I know you well enough to ask a few very pertinent, personal questions. Do you owe any rent? She said, “You’re so nosey!” I said, alright, I’m nosey. I want to ask a few questions, yo

So everyone in this world contains within himself all that it takes to become what he wants to be in this world; for all things are contained in the human Imagination, and that is God. So God actually became man that man may become God. Don’t think of him on the outside; he can’t be even near. If God actually became me, he cannot be near, for nearness implies separation…can’t even be near. So list

I think we’re all familiar with the theme here. And may I tell you, we must make daring experiments in Jesus Christ, we must. Brood upon it, put it to the extreme test, that’s what we’re called upon to do, and I promise you that you’ll pass on to your friends and to your successors what you discovered in Jesus Christ. You will one day discover the true Jesus Christ, the Jesus Christ of history, in

If I could only take the little child, Lynn, and have her, in her own childlike manner, explain to the adults just what she does when she’s reminded of God…for she forgets him all of the time. It’s so easy to look into the face of a father, a mother, who has the authority to impose their will on a minor. She’s nine, dependent on her parents for every morsel she eats, every stitch of clothes, where

Now let me tell you from my own personal experience, God is your own wonderful human Imagination, that’s God, and God and Christ are one. He speaks of a rock, “Of the Rock that begot you you are unmindful, and have forgotten the God who gave you birth” (Deut. 32:18). He equates the Rock with God. In the letters of Paul, the 10th chapter of 1st Corinthians, he speaks of this Rock, “And we all drank

In the second chapter of the Book of Luke the story is told of Jesus’s parents, worried and seeking him for three days, finding him and complaining, to which Jesus said: “How is it that you sought me? Know you not that I must be about my Father’s business?” I ask you not to put yourself in that frame of mind. Your earthly parents seek you and, at the tender age of twelve, you dare to say to them: