IMAGINATION

The message for you today is short but clear:  I want you to start imagining your life the way GOD intended you to live, and stop dwelling on all the things that are wrong or the things you wish you could change.  What better time to start doing this than right now.  We, including myself, get so caught up living a life where everything seems to always go wrong that we forget how to live.  I have had some pretty good advice a time or two in my life, and I mean the kind of advice that "struck a chord," and it has stayed with me over the course of my life.  One thing that comes to mind in particular is I remember someone saying to me, "Tracy, the devil can only defeat you if you give him permission to do so."  I would like for you to take a moment and think about this.  I want you to take a moment and simply--JUST IMAGINE.  Can you give yourself permission to just imagine things going exactly how you want them too?  Can you imagine seeing yourself happy every single day?  Can you imagine spending time with every single person that you want to spend quality time with?  Can you imagine just plain ole being happy for no particular reason?  Good--now that you have imagined that I bet you feel a sense of freedom?  All the restraints and restrictions that you put on yourself vanished.  You know why that is... because you have an innate ability to believe in the goodness of God---to believe you deserve the best.  You know that God is greater in you, and I mean the core of who you really are.  I mean that person who you are before you start to pile on all the wrong reasons why good things can't or won't happen for you.  Listen, I want you to feel the freedom to imagine.  Not just to plainly imagine, but to imagine with expectancy that God can make the right things happen for you and He is able to do it.  At some point or another in this short life that we all live on this earth before we meet Jesus face to face, you have to give yourself permission to live, to imagine, and to be happy.  If you are with me, then give yourself that permission TODAY!