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There are four key steps to connecting to the creative flow of God: 1. Quiet yourself down both from outside distractions and your analytical mind. 2. Look for vision, possibly triggering this vision by visuallizing in your mind. 3. Hearing God’s voice and allowing the Holy Spirit to flow through you. 4. Writing down what you are receiving. It’s this last step that I want to focus on here. The greatest hinderance to the flow that comes from God is our own analytical thinking. When the left side of our brain starts analyzing what we are receiving from God, it necessarily inhibits the right side of the brain and cuts off the flow from God. It stops the process and cuts it short. So, we must find a way to prevent that, but at the same time be able to remember what we are receiving and test it to know that it came from God. The greatest tool to release this flow is probably to record it in some fashion as it is being received, for as one records in simple childlike faith that which is flowing within him, the flow continues unabated. I have found that without a pen in my hand, or my fingers on a computer keyboard, or on the strings of my autoharp, I often halt the flow by stopping to test and analyze while I am receiving it. Testing and analyzing cuts me off from flow, because flow is right-brain and testing is left-brain. So if I want to experience an hour in the presence of God and capture God’s creativity, then I must stay in flow for the hour. That means I must stay in the right hemisphere of my brain for an hour. Remember, intuition and vision (where my interaction with God is consciously registered) are right-brain, and reasoning is left-brain. If I start testing the flow I am receiving, I immediately cut off the river of God’s creativity within me, because I have shifted from the right brain to the left brain. One value of recording this flow is that it serves as a trigger which increases the flow, in that I may continue to write or paint or sculpture or whatever, in faith, knowing that when the flow has stopped, I will be able to come back and test it to see if it came from God or not. So journaling (recording the flow) becomes a tool that lets me stay in faith for an extended period of time, knowing I can test it later.
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The Best Way To Let God’s Creativity Flow
