Creation Realities
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There are fundamental truths which can only be understood through faith. Today I want to share three foundational realities with you and then give you some simple steps to working with God.
1. God created the universe.
Why is it important to believe that God created the universe? One reason is due to the fact that if God can create the universe, then He should be able to help me with my marriage, money, children, job, loss and/or future. I bet He is even smart enough to tell me who to vote for.
God wants us all to know that He is able!
2. God created mankind to have dominion over all His works.
I thought God created man to have fellowship with Him? He would have been best served to have made you a heavenly being for that purpose, wouldn’t He? Nope, God made you to be in earthly charge of all His creations. He put them under your care.
3. God gives us something to work with.
Why something to work with? Because He does not expect us to make something out of nothing and God is a working God with designs on a working family. God has a work ethic. When He first created Adam and Eve, He gave them a task to complete. You be fruitful and multiply. I created you partly to carry on and oversee this project of populating the earth and managing it for My Glory.
4. Then, There Are Steps To Working With God
We will get to the first steps in a moment. Right now, let’s use God as our pattern example and go to the beginning …
I. Turn to page one … Genesis 1:1 The Process Of Creation
1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 ¶ Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
A. After Seeing The Need, God Took Steps
Step #1. God Imagines - (Creative Inspiration - Envisioning)
Step #2. God Broods - Ponders - Hovers - Meditates
Step #3. God Speaks - Commands - Orders - Charges - Directs
God plays His trump card and dominates the scene with His Word!
B. Psalms 33:6 By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
C. Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
This world and the material fabric of the universe were created by the word of God and ordered into the arrangement that suited God’s purpose. He did not like what He saw and so He changed it!
This world was created to be the theater in which the Glory of God would be apparent, on stage, in your face. Romans 1:20 No Excuse!
Since creation, trees have come from trees, birds, fish and animals from others like them, man from man and all things which now appear from that which is seen, known and able to be understood by man, however …
In the beginning it was not so.
God created all we see from that which was non existent.
Then He arranged it in orderly form to speak of His Glory.
Then He filled it with the treasures and pleasures of His own imagination.
God creates things from nothing, but He does not expect that from us. He placed us in a world and gave us substance to work with.
II. Man Was Conceived By God To Have Dominion - Created To Rule
Psalms 8
1 ¶ O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
3 ¶ When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained,
4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
7 All sheep and oxen—Even the beasts of the field,
8 The birds of the air, And the fish of the sea That pass through the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!
III. The Kingdom Plan - Man Working With God
Matthew 25
14 ¶ "For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them.
15 "And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey.
God expects us to do something with what He gives us.
What you do with what you have shows who you are and what you believe.
IV. The First Steps To Exercising Dominion or - Taking back control of your life …
A. Just Like God
1. After He saw the need
2. He unleashed His imagination to envision a remedy
3. He sat on it and considered it like a hen sits on an egg, meditating on the best way to accomplish His dream
4. Then He spoke
B. You, Let Me Encourage You, First -
Take Inventory - Let God show you the need
* In your life, marriage, family, finances
* In your world
* Then take -
Step #1. Dare To Dream - Put your imagination in the hands of God - Let Him inspire you, envision you, give you creative inspiration
* Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
Step #2. Pause To Ponder - Deeply consider the dream and let God put it all together in your spirit. - I am talking about Meditation
* This will help you discover the pitfalls before you begin
* This will divide your body, soul and spirit, and help you discern between your thoughts and God’s thoughts in you.
* This will guarantee success
Joshua 1:8 "This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Step #3. ? Tomorrow Morning --- be there!
The next step, (tomorrow morning - 7am, live, here, in the parking lot @ 96.7 on your FM Radio, or on the world wide web through church online @ www.cotr.com)
* Call those things which be not as though they were.
* Speak to the mountain
* Hold fast your profession of faith
You are now ready for your next step!
