The Power of our Imaginations

Our ideas and imaginations steer our lives.
We sometimes know what is true but still have anxiety. Because our brains don't think with information. We think with visualization and imagination. We think by replicating our physical experiences on the inside. (They now have neurological studies that prove this.) When we think of what color car we drive we don't just think of a word we visualize the car and see the color.
We don't just remember the things from the past, such abusive past and tragedies, by seeing information about them, that wouldn't effect us, we re-enter the experience.
We go through it all over again with the emotional component included. The story we run in our head is ran with color and sound and emotion. The story we believe we are in shapes the way we view ourselves and what we believe our identity is.
Our imagination determines how we will anticipate the future and helps to steer the direction we will take. We can know all the truth in the world but if the story we are running in our head is full of lies we have believed from the world and from negative experiences than what we will experience is that.
This is where illustration powerfulness comes from. They are vivid.
Spend time as a spiritual discipline imagining it, seeing it, experiencing it. Ask what do I look like when I am living out the truth that I am filled with the Spirit of God. Imagine yourself in the situation that is most scary and gives you the most anxiety responding, responding not as you always have done in the past with fear, but responding in a way that manifests the kingdom.
These vivid visualizations and the ability to do this is a gift from God. We can have our inner sanctuary there and meet with God. God can take spiritual truths and impact our lives with it.
What story are we living in? We can have idea and not live by those ideas but instead live in another story. Or we can embrace those ideas and breathe life into them with meditation of what they might look like. We can live out those ideas.