Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

And the title of today's post is,

Order into Chaos, Light, Into Darkness.

We're told that when God began creating in Genesis,

the earth was formless, toe hue, is the Hebrew word, an empty bohue, and darkness covered the earth was formless, toe hue is the Hebrew word, and empty bohue, and darkness covered the earth.

As well as formless and empty, these two words have a broad range of meanings, including desolation, desert, barren, confusion, and even chaos.

How did God transform the chaos, confusion, barrenness, etc?

With his words, then God said, Genesis 1.30.

The word said is Amar in Hebrew and can mean more than just saying or announcing.

It can also mean to say in one's heart, to think or imagine. Zodiatis used the phrase internal speech as one of its meanings.

God began by seeing or imagining what he wanted, internal speech, then created with his words, external speech.

As simple as it sounds, the first step in dealing with spiritual darkness and

chaos is to determine or discern what God is thinking. What is His will in this situation? What does

he intend to do? Laws of sowing and reaping, the free will of man, God's wisdom regarding timing, these can all play a part in determining his actions. The answers to these questions always begin with scripture, biblical principles, but also must include being led

by Holy Spirit, Romans 8, 14, His revelation, if you will. Once God's thoughts, or will, is known,

his strategy can be received and implemented.

This may be fasting, agreement and prayer, prolonged intercession,

spirit-led declarations, etc., even prophetic acts,

like, go wash your eyes in the pool of Siloam.

Jesus told a blind man.

The sons of Issaqar demonstrated this. They understood the times with knowledge of what Israel should do.

Understood is being, B-I-Y-N, the Hebrew word, which includes both wisdom, understanding, gained from learning

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