Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of today's post is The Matrix, Part 2.

Yesterday, we spoke of prayer that births or brings forth God's will and purposes. This prayer is sometimes

referred to in scripture as travail, not just because

it can be hard work, but also because of the birthing aspect. We mentioned Isaiah 66, 8, which speaks

of travail that produces sons and daughters, and Galatians 419, which refers to it in the

context of birthing maturity in believers. Today, I want to address another fascinating word

that connects our prayers to birthing God's will on the earth. It is first used in Genesis 1.

And the earth was without form and void,

darkness was upon the face of the deep,

and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Genesis 1.2.

The Hebrew word used for moved, Rakoff, is very interesting.

One of its primary meanings is to brood over.

The amplified translation actually uses the phrase was moving, hovering, brooding over.

The margin of the New American Standard Bible also uses the word hovering.

Rakoff is hovering or brooding over something. But there's more to this word's meaning. Webster's

dictionary defines brood as offspring, progeny, that which is bred or produced. It comes from the

root word breed, which we know means to procreate.

In using this term to describe Holy Spirit's work at creation, God uses the analogy of procreating

or birthing. He was creating, bringing forth life. A Hebrew scholar once confirmed this to me,

stating that Rakoff is indeed a reproductive term that can refer to the literal act of procreating. Pretty graphic,

but it confirms that Rakoff is literally a reproductive term. One lexicon defined the word as brooding

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