Blog Post 35// hāyâ

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. Genesis 1:1-3

This week we are talking 4 words of Jesus. In fact, in their original languages, they are each one word. But translated for us, each of them is a 3-word sentence. I think we should memorize them and re-use them. Over and over again.

Here’s the first:
hāyâ
Let there be…

Let there be.

God looked over the darkness and said, this will not do…

So He said straight to the darkness:

light, substance, matter, purpose, beauty, goodness, a people marked by God, made in our image.

Are you following me?

Where there is darkness, God creates. Darkness doesn’t reign long when God is around.

Why? John tells us in 1 John 1:5.

God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all.

He beats the darkness. Every. Time.

God always wins, doesn’t He? If you’re smart, you pick God first for your team in PE class.

Because He always wins. He wins in weird ways too:

//He’ll take shepherd boys and defeat warrior giants.

//He’ll send the church choir into a war without any weapons.

//If Moses’ arms stay in the air, you’ll win.

//Once He struck an entire enemy army with blindness. Elisha then led them out of the city into Samaria. Told them, Hey come this way! Then the army regains its sight. They were given a meal and then everyone decided to just go home.

What?!? What was in that meal???

Chick-fil-a sauce was probably involved.

//One night when it was the darkest of the dark. There was war all around. God’s people were completely outnumbered. And then one Angel strikes down 185,000 men.

God always wins. He just does it in different ways.

Let me give you one more that you may not know about, and then will get back to

Let There Be

Zechariah 1
 summed up for you:

There was a strong oppressive force that captured and scattered the people of God. There was darkness. Oppression. Fear. God what’s the plan?

Vs 20-21 
Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen. I asked, “What are these coming to do?” He answered, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise their head, but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations who lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter its people.”

The plan? Send in the creative people. Wait what!?? Yes. The craftsman, the builders. Those who create. Those who are good at what they do.

If the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, we will counter him with those who give, restore and build.

It’s as if God is saying, when it’s dark, create.

When you are in a battle, build.

Let there be a getting back to building up others—developing our gifts.

The question to tie to this first word is this:

Looking around you, What needs life?

What needs to be created? The Lord’s answer for this oppressive movement,where people had no courage, their heads hanging low...

His answer was 4 craftsmen.

I wonder what would happen as believers, if in whatever we do, we do it well?

Let there be: life in my words, hope for the hurting, wisdom, joy in the midst of sadness. Let there be the people of God building the house of God.

Start creating.

I’m not just talking about painting or singing.

-The way you intentionally raise your kids.

-The something you're excellent at, do it for God.

-Writing notes that are thoughtful and caring and hope-filled.

Whatever is lacking around you, what if you started declaring:

Let There Be!

I don’t know. There is something significant in that the first recorded word of God is this one.

Let’s start saying it with Him. One down, three to go.