Limitless creative potential exists in the human heart filled with the Holy Ghost. His infinite indwelling lifts the lid on our little lives and makes them expansive in ways that defy natural reason.

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Continuing to draw from the rich soil of the early chapters of Genesis. I want to share with you five creative prompts for a peaceful and productive life. Nothing like a bit of alliteration to get the day started. I really honestly believe that limitless creative potential exists in the human heart when it’s filled with the Holy Ghost. The fact that his infinite indwelling is a reality in our life lifts the lid on what otherwise would be pretty small lives if we’re honest God’s presence, God’s power, God’s equipping make us more than we would be without.

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In fact, the Bible goes as far as to say, you can do nothing without me. It really is that dramatic. The change and the distance between what a mere man or woman can accomplish and what can be done in and through a man or a woman yielded to the presence of God and to the Holy Spirit. It really does take our little lives and makes them like endlessly expansive in ways that go beyond and defy natural reason. Creative life in Christ is also one that brings together peace and production flowing from this foundation of faithful rest in God’s ability to work in and through us as we yield to Him.

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It’s not just that kind of endless hamster wheel of energetic productivity that’s going to produce the richest fruits. Number one, God is endlessly and infinitely creative. Now. The reckless creative imagination of the Godhead is quite mind boggling. Everything from the Shia beautiful to the incredibly bizarre found its Genesis in his infinite mind inside the mind of God.

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It really is quite an interesting place. I would imagine some of the things that we even see now on some of the nature programmes in the depths of the ocean out there. You wonder, really, what was God thinking when he was concocting those experiments? The invisible and invisible words are the work of his genius. And it seems to me that when we read about some of the creatures in heaven that actually his imagination went ramped up like about ten more gears to create these invisible beings that we will one day experience and look upon.

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Yeah, there’s no limit to what God wants to do in Genesis. It says God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that has life, the foul that fly above the Earth in the open firmament of heaven. And so he created great whales, every living creature that moves with which waters brought forth abundantly after their kind and every winged foul after its kind. And then later it talks about how he created every creature, the living creatures after they’re kind cattle, creeping things, beasts of the Earth.

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God did not just create one kind of dog or one kind of creeping thing or one fish or one bird, one kind of bird. He created such a multitude, such a rich variety, such an endlessly creative because it’s an expression of his heart and I think that the same creative spirit lives in us. There is a craving for creative expression that will show up in a multitude of ways. There is not one right way or wrong way to do things. When we speak of God’s creativity, we are talking about something that is boundless.

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The sheer abundance and diversity of the natural world are quite beyond that comprehension and science discovers new wonders every day and really is still just scratching the surface of the infinite mind behind their inception. Everything that’s made was made through Him by Him and for His pleasure. God takes great pleasure in his creative work. And so should we both take pleasure in his creative work and the creative work that he allows us to do and that he does through us. Now.

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I think that modern education and society try and crush the Jews out of kids to seek to conform them to conform their supernatural creative nature into a safe box that can be channelled into some useful servitude to a system that is often designed to limit individual expression. In the coming years, there is coming a deluge of divinely inspired ideas and inventions that will flood the world, each one of them pointing to the great mind, the infinite mind who conceived the universe behind those ideas and placed all of the laws of the natural world in motion.

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Is it not like incredible to remember that the question is asked in Scripture, who was known in the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him. But we God’s people have the mind of Christmas. We as the people of God.

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The Christian creatives on the planet right now be open and willing to act as conduits for this creative Renaissance. May the Church become the magnificent hub for heaven’s solutions to a broken world and may wonder come again to and from the house of God. Number two, be fruitful and multiply. Genesis 128 fruitful multiplication. God is a multiplier.

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There’s a synergy that occurs when man and his maker connect. That really blows the lid on expected metrics. Add Infinity to any equation and all things become possible. While we may scratch around trying to add things to our life, accumulate things. God awaits devoted attention so he can accomplish something far more remarkable.

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Yeah. I love this. Matthew 13:23. He received seed in good ground. You see that he is a word, understands it, and then goes forth and bears fruit.

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30 61 hundred fold. Now the deep, abiding connection to God is the source of all that we make. He is the inspirer, breathing brilliance into the hearts and minds of his people. Like Isaac. In the Old Testament, we can receive supernatural abundance even in times of drought and famine.

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Genesis 26 relates how there was a famine in the land, and the Lord appeared to Isaac and said, Go not down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of. Then Isaac Sewed in that land and received the same year 100 fold. And the Lord blessed him. I want to encourage you to dwell and serve. And sow in the place that God has planted, you allow him to bring the increase that you seek.

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This is not always going to be easy, and sometimes it’s going to take all of the faith and inner resource that you could muster to resist running down to Egypt and doing things the world’s way servitude to a system that is designed to create slaves is not a great strategy. I think that that has to be the tweet of the week. Man servitude to a system that’s designed to create slaves is not a great strategy. I love this verse from Isaiah chapter 30, verse 15 in quietness and confidence is your strength.

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God wants to do something far beyond anything we can do in our own power.

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Supernatural gifts, insights and directions is the norm in the streets of heaven, and we as Kingdom people bring that Kingdom to Earth. Number three, dust and dignity. And this is so amazing. What a verse we find in Genesis two, verse seven, the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils. The breath of life and man became a living soul.

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This wig frame, this dusty frame that we walk around in is dignified by the life and the breath of God working within us. The Christian creative life is, on the one hand, one of deep humility knowing who we are and brilliance boundless brilliance on the other. We know that we’re dust, but we’re dignified by the humility of God’s Spirit choosing to dwell in us. This out of frame is just a temporary residence, but it’s one that’s been sanctified for magnificence by the King of the universe. It really is a mystery and a balance that only God can bring into being and bring to fullness the fact that we are made from dust, weak in so many ways.

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And yet we have become the temple of the Holy Ghost. The members of your body are the creative weapons that he wields to bring his brilliance to the world and show forth his good, perfect and acceptable will in the realm of humanity. There’s so much we could say about the wonder of the human body, but for now let’s just focus on its proper use as an instrument of worship and worship turns up in every aspect of life, not just when we stand in rose singing songs of the overhead projector or whatever in Romans twelve, verse one and two in the amplified it says, I appeal to you, therefore, brethren and bear view in view of all the mercies of God to make a decisive dedication of your bodies, presenting all your members and faculties as a living sacrifice, Holy, devoted and consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is your reasonable, rational, intelligence, service and spiritual worship.

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Do not be conformed to this world and this age fashioned after and adapted to its external superficial customs elsewhere. Romans 613 says, Use your whole body as an instrument to do what is right for the glory of God.

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And as an aside, thinking about slowing and living more present to the moment. He is a great place to start your worship service. A good, healthy breakfast after adequate sleep, washed down with water. Self care is. I know this is such a kind of trendy thing right now, isn’t it?

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But honestly, self care is not a sacrifice or selfishness. It is part of your reasonable service to ensure that your body will serve the purposes of God for many, many years to come. Number Four Hallelujah, God breathed brilliance again. Genesis Two verse seven, God breezed into Adam’s nostrils. The breath of life and man became a living soul.

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This lifeless husk, this empty frame became a vibrant living being when it was filled with the breath of heaven. In a soul dry. Living in the desert is the norm for many today traps in heavy footed seeking rest in the parched valleys of the world that has really forsaken the living waters. God has a better way for you, a way infused with his breath and his life. And it’s not the way of the world.

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Heather Cook, two verse four in the message says, look at that man bloated by self importance, full of himself, but soul empty.

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But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive now. The creative life of Christ is one of utter dependence on the inbreathing of the Holy Ghost, and as such it’s one of yielding, not striving learning. The rested ways of faith is counterintuitive and certainly countercultural but cannot be beaten. Loyal and steady. Believing is the way of the master and the pathway to becoming fully alive.

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And then finally, number five flourish where you are planted. The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. God plants us where we will flourish. For some, this may be in the cities for others, in some backwater village, or even a hidden life dedicated fully to the purpose of prayer. The idea that the grass is greener on the other side is a lie that prevails in many lives.

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Flourish where you are planted. Put down your roots to recognise God at work in your own garden of influence rather than pining for what others have or where they have been planted. I’m planted here in this season of life to encourage Christian creatives to take hold of God in prayer and production and bring their best to the world. What is your sphere of influence? What garden has he planted you in?

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Knowing what you are formed for will kill this FOMO that we all get so caught up in this fear of missing out and allow you to flourish where God has planted you in the garden of his making for your life.

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Well, thanks for listening. Hopefully, it’s been an encouragement to you today. If you want to kick next any further, you can do so through my website davidleemartin.com have a great day.