God the Father upon completing creation at the end of the six-day scripture says  “and God saw everything that he had made and behold it was good, it was very good.  And the evening and the morning were the sixth day”.

      “Good, very good”  is what we have in Christ in understanding the redemption of the world to our selves “for God sent His Son not into the world to condemn the world but that through him the world would be saved” and “we have seen and testify that God has sent His Son savior of the world “. So in the faith it is saved and it is these verses we refer to now that are true for us that “creation is good very good” for those redeemed in Christ. This is our current theme and it is another important principle for us to understand in the work of God in us.

      In Genesis it is also says that “God made every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth for there was no man to to the ground”.

      Meaning creation in the way that we know it was pre-designed to serve the purpose of man. It is for the man that is imaged in God. You see for “the Lord God had not cause it to rain upon the earth for there was no man to till the ground” That without man there was no need for provisions. That it is necessary for the provision to come forth when man needed and God for – ordained the provision before you recognized that you needed it.

      So this is what we need to understand little flock. That our provisions are there for us at the time that we need them. Think of the manna. “Gather ever day as much as you need, and hold none over for the next day”. That God being our supplier and provider has given us everything that we need at the time that we need it as confirmed in 2 Peter saying that “God has given us everything that pertains to life and god-like-ness”. That if we wait for the provision first, we may not accomplish anything by faith. This is “walking in the spirit” and “following the spirit”.  For seeing the provision is a fact and not of faith. Like Abraham was “called out not knowing where he was going”.

        It is the carnal mind that needs a fact but faith in God is believing the invisible as being more relevant then the visible. For we understand all things are made out of the things that are not so that the things we see come from the invisible (Heb 11)  and this is done how? By word. By every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. So if God said something? That should be sufficient enough for us to take a step forward into the invisible for isn’t that where everything came from anyway? “Let there be light” and it was so?

      This concept of the provision being there by faith when you need, can be compared to the proverbial “hand in the cookie jar”. You have to let go of the cookie to get your hand out of the jar to get something better. You cannot have the cookie anyway but we still hold on to the old things of the old life and wait for the transition to physically appear. This is un-faith for “it is a wicked and adulterous generation that seeks after a sign.  so then what do we do now?

      Well it was Abraham the father of faith who was told by God to go forth into the land saying “as far as you can see from the east to the west and the north and the south see I have given it to you”. Of this Abraham is described by Paul in Romans of being heir of the world, and if Abraham is our Father of faith that we pattern ourselves after, as he should be, then we do the works of our fathers, then we too are heirs of the world as Abraham. (Romans 4.13)

       We talked about this too of Moses who having passed through the Red Sea, being found in the desert, had the opportunity to paint a portrait in the desert with living waters. And of Joshua the Lord said to Joshua “every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you as I said to Moses”. This is the same thing he meant with Abraham and it’s the same thing he means to us for those are heirs “in Christ” from whom are all things and to whom are all things. As Christ said “I have come into the world not to condemn the world but that through Me the world would be saved. And since He was sent the world is saved, restored and redeemed to its original purpose and intent and design for the redeemed, God saying “it is good, very good” for the curse is reversed in Christ. And it’s not that the curse is removed or just neutralized. It is reversed. A curse to a blessing. We are the blessed.

      So it is “in Christ”  through him that we “live and dwell and have our being” that the world is saved to. This is why Paul was able to say “all things have become new old things have passed away”. That now we are the new creation meaning that creation was restored to its original purpose intent and design of serving the redeemed man re-imaged like Christ. That “through Him the world would be saved”, and for us it is and it is perfectly functional in the way as it was designed to be from the beginning of being “good very good”.

  So we can know and understand that it is not only that the trees having been made during the six days of creation that did not grow because there was no man to need them. This is the rule for all of our provisions. We will get what we ask for like James says “you have not because you ask not.

     Now this is where faith comes in. If we understand that creation is redeemed to its original intent and that we are redeemed in Christ to our original intent of blessings and no curse, then we can understand that the original intent is that creation serves us. That we no longer work the earth with the curse as evident by thorns and sweating on our face. You see fallen man was cursed with the working in sweat, but not the earth. So now the redeemed man does the works of Christ who did the works of the Heavenly Father, our Father of glories who begat us to share in His glory which is for us the very character and the essence of who he is having access to the resources of which he is given the abilities of which he has which is speaking word and the word becoming the thing that is said. Wow! Did you get that? To Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly more than all we could think or ask according to the power that works in us? Amen, for “all the promises of God are yes and amen”. And this is true when? Now!Today! This is what it means that today is the day of salvation”. Being the redemption and restoration of God for us in the here and now and not at a second coming as some suppose.

     What an awesome gift and reward to the one that has this kind of faith, for the words of Christ to be fulfilled in you that says “ask anything in my name and it shall be done”. And” it is to the father’s glory that you bear much fruit”. His Glory is our glory.  Our fruit is not measured by the works of our hand but measured by the words of our mouth for it is said that; we should be judged by every word that we speak? And why would this be so?  It is said that “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” meaning that all have fallen from their purpose of displaying the glory and the likeness of God.  Were we not made him is in His image? As he said; he made man in His image male and female made he them? And it is in this way that the glory is revealed that Him being the Father of glory, that we the redeemed share in the glory, that we participate in his likeness by being word too. That our words being redeemed and restored, that our mind and our thoughts being transformed and that by being given the resurrection by receiving the habitation of His Holy Spirit this is the original intention of creation and this  is the gospel. Any other gospel any other message any other saving any other Savior that stopped short of restoring to you the glory of God being made in His likeness by us being “a kind of first fruit of his creation” in the here and now is incomplete. I Repeat, Any other gospel is only a stop gap measure and a retainer to keep you from the greater gift of God being God himself in the here and now.

     Like as it says in Romans that “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God”. We were created to reflect His glory. If not we could not be judged for falling short. The second coming gospel keeps you short of the glory for it “seeks another”. But we are redeemed from the fall of man and restored for the glory to work in us. Of us it is said that “God is glorified in that you bear much fruit that the world may know and believe”. Why?  “That the world (unbelieving) may know that you have sent Me”. And Christ said :Father the glory you have given Me I have given them that they may be with Us that the world may know”. Do you believe that word?

      It is for you to  learn to have faith and be restored in purpose and whole soul and body and to the Creator and His creation. Who rules your world? Satan like the 2nd coming gospel says? Or God? My scripture says “the whole earth is filled with the glory of God”. How about you? Do you see your original intent like before the fall, that is reinstated through the gospel?

   The Kingdom of God, as always, is at your fingertips. Being the restoration to full glory, fully glorified for “as He is so are we in this world”. And He is ??? Glorified, seated in full power. All things being subject to Him..  And Us?. For “He who overcomes, I will allow to rule and reign with a rod of iron”. So we do. This is the purpose of the gospel. To bring us “ to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;”. Just like. A duplicate. The second coming doesn’t do this. As Paul said”I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God for salvation”. From start to finish. You can’t add to that. Not even a 2nd coming. “It is finished”. Can you receive this? “To the degree that you have attained, so walk ye in it”.

   Blessings