OVERCOMING DARK

IMAGINATIONS

by Jonas Clark

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OVERCOMING DARK IMAGINATIONS

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IMAGINATIONS

With your spirit you connect to the

unseen spirit world, with your body the

natural world, and with your soul the

magnificent world of imagination.

an you see yourself with sword in hand

Cwinning the war against your mind? To

succeed you will need to discover how God

created you, a champion that is "fearfully and

wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). God

created you spirit, soul and body. Just like

God, you are a triune being. With your spirit

you connect to the unseen spirit world, with

your body the natural world, and with your

soul the magnificent world of imagination.

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When you were born again, your spirit

became a "new creature in Christ Jesus.” Your

body and soul, however, remained unchanged.

They need some help. You understand that

exercise and diet is good for your physical

health but what about the health of your soul?

The Apostle John said,

Beloved I pray above all things that

you might prosper and be in health even

as your soul prospers. (3 John 1:2)

A person can be born again, physically fit,

and yet suffer tremendous warfare within

their mind. Throughout this material you will

learn battle tactics that will help you

overcome the warfare against your mind. Let’s

start with the soul.

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Vain imaginations are those

corrupted negative images and

possibilities that form within the

spirit of your mind when you linger

on negative thoughts.

Your soul hosts your mind, emotion,

imagination, reasoning and intellect. The

warfare that attacks your mind operates

within your soul, particularly your thought

life and within your imagination. When God

created you He gave you the ability to “see all

things as possible" within your imagination.

Satan understands how God created you and

will use your imagination and ignorance of

God’s Word against you. That’s why it is

important to:

Study to show thyself approved unto

God a workman that needeth not to be

ashamed rightly dividing the word of

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truth. (2 Timothy 2:15)

Imagination is your seeing gift from God.

With it you can envision great things, dream

great things and achieve great things. All

outstanding achievement in life is birthed

within someone’s imagination. Before you can

benefit from positive imaginations, however,

you need to win the war against vain

imaginations. Vain imaginations are those

corrupted negative images and possibilities

that form within the spirit of your mind when

you linger on negative thoughts.

Vain imaginations defeat many Christians

and take them out of successful Christian

living. Our imaginations, like military forts in

the old American West, need to be fortified

with Gospel truth. That’s why Paul taught

believers to renew their minds with the Word

of God. The devil is a strategist. He uses

imaginations to gain access into your life to

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steal, kill and destroy. The Apostle Paul passed

on a tremendous truth that you can use for

victory. Throughout this essay we will use it

as foundational truth to help you win every

battle that attacks your mind.

For though we walk in the flesh, we

do not war after the flesh: For the

weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but

mighty through God to the pulling down

of strong holds; Casting down

imaginations, and every high thing that

exalteth itself against the knowledge of

God, and bringing into captivity every

thought to the obedience of Christ. (2

Corinthians 10:3-5)

From this verse you will learn how to

overcome every vain imagination and every

thought that tries to take you out of the

generous life that Christ provides. One of

humanity’s greatest struggles is the spiritual

warfare in the mind caused by corrupted

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thoughts and imaginations.

WARFARE WITHIN

All men have eyes but few can really see.

It’s amazing how much is written in the Bible

about imagination. The realm of imagination

is the realm of images. It is the place of seeing

and visualizing, scripture says, “Thou shall

have no graven images (imaginations) before

me” (Exodus 20:4). Our Lord never wanted

His sons and daughters to worship him

through graven images but with their heart

and through their imaginations. With your

imagination and only with your imagination

can you image the greatness of God.

“So what is an imagination?” you ask. An

imagination is a mental vista or picture seen

within the spirit of your mind. It’s a picture of

something created in the mind of man, or said

another way, in the spirit of man’s mind. It is

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an image of something you see and suppose

might happen. It is seeing yourself in a place

you’re not. It is a real place called the spirit of

your mind, the world of the unseen within.

The spirit of your mind has nothing to do

with your born-again spirit. The spirit of your

mind is within your soul or psuche man

(pronounced psoo-khay, Greek for soul). An

imagination forms a mental picture of things

unseen or things only seen within.

Your imagination can only incubate

what you linger on, good or bad.

Something that exists only within the

imagination is a virtual world that is not real

until acted on.

Imaginations create reality, even evil

reality. There are over 400,000 registered sex

offenders in the United States. The

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pornography industry, fueled by carnal lust

and sexual fantasy, is larger than the

combined revenues of Microsoft, Google,

Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and Apple. Driven by

debased images, this blackened smut is a $1

billion industry in North America alone.

Engineered by wicked masterminds,

pornography is the creation and distribution

of sexually illicit images that have no literary

or artistic value.

Through the contagion of erotica, Satan

uses the imagination of man to sin against

God, himself and society. Unrestrained

sensuous pingere have a dark side that leads to

wickedness, debauchery and destruction. The

infamous serial killer Ted Bundy, murderer of

12-year old Kimberly Leach, was interviewed

by Dr. James Dobson before his execution in

the Florida State electric chair on January 24,

1989. Bundy murdered 28 young girls and

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women. He grew up in a Christian home,

went to church and had loving parents. He

describes pornography as the genesis of his fall

into the abyss.

In the interview just hours before his

electrocution, he tells of finding, as a 12- to

13-year-old boy, a pornographic magazine in

the trash near his home. In time he became

more and more addicted to pornography,

especially violent images of tortured women.

When that no longer satisfied his lust, he

fantasized of sexually assaulting and

murdering women himself. He said, "The most

damaging kind of pornography—and I’m

talking from hard, real, personal experience—

is that that involves violence and sexual

violence. The wedding of those two forces—as

I know only too well—brings about behavior

that is too terrible to describe."

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Refuse to let Satan introduce

demonic imaginary into your

imagination. Bind every image and

cast them down. You can choose

how you respond. Bundy didn't,

you can.

In “The Road to Xanadu” Professor John

Livingston Lowes wrote, "Fantasy and

imagination are not two powers at all but

one.” Bundy brought life to his perverted

sexual fantasies. Commenting on the dangers

of pornography he said, "I’ve lived in prison

for a long time now, and I’ve met a lot of men

who were motivated to commit violence.

Without exception, every one of them was

deeply involved in pornography—deeply

consumed by the addiction. The FBI’s own

study on serial homicide shows that the most

common interest among serial killers is

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pornographers.’’

Bundy is an example of the dark side of

unfettered and incubated evil imaginations.

He leaves us with a fagged warning, “There

are those loose in their towns and

communities, like me, whose dangerous

impulses are being fueled, day in and day out,

by violence in the media in its various forms—

particularly sexualized violence.”

The good news is that Christ gave you

authority to bind and loose every thought and

imagination. Refuse to let Satan introduce

demonic imaginary into your imagination.

Bind every image and cast them down. You

can choose how you respond. Bundy didn’t,

you can.

RESPONSE ABILITY

Everyday we are bombarded by secular

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television reminding us that we are in a

spiritual battle against our minds. There is

much concern about the economy, jobs, and

housing prices, mortgage foreclosures,

declining morals, attacks against family values,

wars and rumors of wars, sickness, disease,

terrorism and natural disasters of all kinds. It

seems like the perpetual hostilities against our

minds offers much opportunity to leave the

realm of faith in Christ and enter the

quagmire of doubt, unbelief and worry.

Once again I am assisted by the Apostle

Paul’s statement: “Casting down imaginations

and every high thing that exalts itself against

the knowledge of God.” I love the power to

imagine "all things possible to him that

believeth.” Don’t you? Frequently, however,

we have to battle the negative thoughts that

war against our minds first. This brings me to

the testimony of Viktor Frankl, a survivor of

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the Nazi prison camps. In his autobiography,

“Man’s Search for Meaning,” he pens an

inspirational testimony of humanity’s

potential for greatness whatever the

circumstances. He wrote:

Our generation is realistic, for we

have come to know man as he really is.

After all, man is that being who invented

the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however,

he is also that being who entered those gas

chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer

or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Frankl stated that no matter the

mistreatment by his demonic oppressors, they

could never take away his choice of how he

responded to them.

BUILDING STRONGHOLDS

Vain imaginations pondered will build

damaging strongholds in your life. They war

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against your mind and keep you from walking

in God’s perfect plan and purpose. Remember

the degenerate progression. First the enemy

challenges God’s Word in your life by

introducing such things as doubt and unbelief.

Next you have opportunity to ponder the

thought and image it or cast it down. Further,

you have the ability to linger on that

imagination and speak it out or take it captive

to the Word of God and cast it down. See the

progression? The ability to give freedom to

your imaginations belongs entirely to you.

The result of habitual negative thoughts

and imaginations can send you spiraling into a

state of depression. When we think something

often enough, we begin to believe it’s true and

our feelings match what we are thinking. To

conquer depression, psychiatrist Aaron T.

Beck developed "cognitive therapy” in the

1960s to stop negative thoughts by replacing

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them with more positive ones. He believed

that depression could be stopped before it ever

started. The Apostle Paul developed the

therapy long before Beck. He said,

Be careful (anxious) for nothing; but

in every thing by prayer and supplication

with thanksgiving let your requests be

made known unto God. And the peace of

God, which passeth all understanding,

shall keep your hearts and minds through

Christ Jesus. Finally, brethren, whatsoever

things are true, whatsoever things are

honest, whatsoever things are just,

whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever

things are lovely, whatsoever things are of

good report; if there be any virtue, and if

there be any praise, think on these things.

Those things, which ye have both learned,

and received, and heard, and seen in me,

do: and the God of peace shall be with

you. (Philippians 4:6-9)

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God gave you freedom to choose how you

respond to every circumstance in life, every

thought that attacks your mind and every bad

report that contradicts God’s plan. Like Frankl

you have complete control over your thought

life. All of us have thoughts. They can be good

or bad but thoughts are only ingredients we

use to make decisions. If your thoughts are

carnal, then cast them down. If they are

positive, feed them. Your imagination can

only incubate what you linger on, good or

bad.

You have control over your thought life

and nobody can ever take away your freedom

to choose how you respond to thoughts and

imaginations. The Word teaches of a demon

possessed man with an unclean spirit that

lived in a cemetery. When he saw Jesus he ran

to Him, bowed and worshipped (Mark 5). If a

legion of devils could not stop him from

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coming to Christ then no devil, demonic

thought or evil imagination can stop you from

the abundant life in Christ Jesus.

Take control of your life and choose

to respond to every circumstance of

life, thought and imagination

according to the truth found in the

Word of God.

Again, scripture declares, “For though we

walk in the flesh we do not war after the

flesh’’ (2 Corinthians 10:3). The warfare theme

is consistent throughout the Bible. All of us

are in a spiritual war for dominion. Dominion

in our lives, and yes dominion within our

minds. As said before, when you were saved,

your spirit man was born again. You became a

“new creature" in Christ Jesus (2 Corinthians

5:17). Your mind, however, didn’t change. It

was not born again and needs renewal. After

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salvation you still had, for example, carnal

thinking, bad information and troubling life

experiences and memories that affect your

judgment. Even so God has given you mighty

weapons to stop every damaging thought and

corrupted imagination. With these weapons

you have authority and power to cast down

every imagination and “high thing that exalts

itself against the knowledge of God” in your

life.

The world has always been filled with

doubt, unbelief and evil goings-on. The good

news is that you, the born-again believer, are

no longer part of that kingdom. You can

escape the dark side. Christ has redeemed you

and given you great and precious promises.

Take control of your life and choose to

respond to every circumstance of life, thought

and imagination according to the truth found

in the Word of God. He has given you the

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ability to bring into captivity every vain

thought and imagination every time they

attack your mind. You can do it! Start today.

MEDITATION AND REFLECTION

With your spirit you connect to the

unseen spirit world, with your body the

natural world, and with your soul the

magnificent world of imagination.

Your soul hosts your mind, emotion,

imagination, reasoning and intellect. The

warfare that attacks your mind operates

within your soul, particularly your thought

life and within your imagination.

Vain imaginations are those corrupted

negative images and possibilities that form

within the spirit of your mind when you

linger on negative thoughts.

Imaginations create reality, even evil

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reality.

All of us have thoughts. They can be good

or bad, but thoughts are only ingredients we

use to make decisions.

If your thoughts are carnal, then cast them

down. If they are positive, feed them.

Your imagination can only incubate what

you linger on, good or bad.

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Document Outline

- Overcoming Dark Imaginations

- 1 Overcoming Dark Imaginations

- Warfare Within

- Response Ability

- Building Strongholds

- Meditation and Reflection

Table of Contents

Overcoming Dark Imaginations

1 Overcoming Dark Imaginations

Warfare Within

Response Ability

Building Strongholds

Meditation and Reflection