Have you ever made up an offense in your mind, and played it out in your mind with you starring as the victim? Maybe you have been hurt by this person so many times that you entertain thoughts of personal crimes that they have never committed. Why do we do this? Where do these manufactured horror movies come from? DO we just love being victims?

Here again is a place where the enemy loves to operate because there is a lack of knowledge or understanding in this area, especially in the church. Ironically, other religions and belief systems all acknowledge the power and creativity of our imaginations.

Also, it is important to know that we are accountable for the knowledge that we possess, so you are now becoming accountable for your thought-life, just fair warning.

I would encourage you to spend some time studying the Hebrew word “yetser”, which means “imagination”. Essentially, our imagination is the birthing place of all that we do or say. It is a very powerful tool, and if it has not been renewed by the word of God, we will defeat ourselves with it consistently, even if we really have received a word from God about a situation. His word is seed, and our imagination is the soil for that seed. If we have bad soil, the seed won’t grow.

God will send His word as seed and give you the opportunity to partner with him by incubating and establishing what He has said. And the enemy comes to steal that seed immediately. (Mark 4) The enemy works diligently to cause you to think about every hurtful and negative thing your loved one has ever done to you. He will show you every bad memory, and even things that never happened. Now you are imagining situations that have not even happened yet, and literally stomping the life out of the word of God.

Do you feel like praying the perfect will of God while you’re mad at the person you are meant to pray for? No. The enemy has accomplished his mission. If you think about these negative and hurtful things long enough, it will begin to manifest the opposite of the life it was sent to create. You will begin to actually re-experience traumatic events and the effects all over again, all because of you using your imagination incorrectly.

James 1:6-7, “But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.”

Have you ever felt like you have been rolled and thrown and tossed and beat up by the ocean after you are finished with a marathon of awful thoughts and memories?

We are called to pray for the freedom and deliverance of people in our lives. Our thoughts must become aligned with those prayers. That is to say, we are to think the same thoughts towards these people as the thoughts that God thinks towards them. (Jerimiah 29:11) He thinks good thoughts towards them, so should we. And as we begin to align our thoughts with God’s thoughts, and pray consistent words with those thoughts, we will see chain’s break off of not only our minds, but the minds of our loved one’s as well.