The Rand Inn

DAY 14

For this is what the Lord says -He who created the heavens, He is God; He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it; He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He says: "I am the Lord, and there is no other" (Isaiah 45:18).

A sculptor works in a very interesting way. I'm an artist of sorts, so I have a bit of an understanding how artists work. One thing I know is that you never argue with an artist during the process. An artist can be very rude if disturbed before the project is completed.
An artist may stop by your house and beg you for a stone you have walked past many times without noticing. Dogs may have been doing stuff on it. But the artist sees something beautiful in that stone beyond what you can imagine.
Months later the artist invites you to his workshop and says, "Do you see that?"
And you would say, "Do you mean...? "
"Yes. Five hundred dollars, please."
You were sitting on $500.Dogs were doing stuff on $500. You didn't see the potential in that stone.

DAY 13

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

The work of God is not complete, He has not delivered all His babies. He will keep on delivering as long as you deliver, because you are the continuation of His deliveries. God can still create. If it does not exist in a visible form, God will speak it. He continues to be pregnant with many things.
There's someone in China right now who is thinking about the idea you thought was yours. Because everything comes out of God, each of you with the same idea all received it from the same Source. Until that idea is transformed by action, God will continue to leak that idea into men and women. Why? Because God is a God of potential. Although He is the source of all things, He shares His omnipotent powers with His creation. We, like God are pregnant with many things. We are full of imagination, having the potential power to be more than we visibly are. There are dreams, visions, plans, and ideas in us that need to be released. God wants us to tap into His power and use it, because God made us with potential.

DAY 12

By the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done (Genesis 2:2-3).

God was full of imagination. He was pregnant with many thoughts. His thoughts became ideas, and the ideas became images. Everything that is came out of God as He spoke those images. The unseen became seen, the invisible became visible. God didn't create the world by just thinking the whole thing into being. He worked it into being. After creating a plan in His mind, God spoke to make visible the invisible. (Speaking was one of the ways He worked.) Through work He created the world.
For six days God created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day He rested.
Spoke must be a fairly serious thing. If God, who is Almighty and all powerful, had to rest after creation, spoke must have been hard work.
God was the first one to Sabbath, He intended the Sabbath to be a blessing. He knows that life produces work, and work creates the need to rest.

DAY 10

By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:3).

God always had everything in Him, but we could not see it. All we now see was once in an invisible state. (Please note invisible does not mean nonexistent.)
All the buildings we see with businesses and people frequently making money, investing. All that stuff began as ideas. We couldn't see them because they were in somebody's mind. Although they weren't present in their current form, they existed as lumber and concrete, cotton and wool, steel and motors. Someone had an idea.
Through work they put their idea into things that are now visible.
By faith God spat out what was in Him. Whatever you see came from the unseen. Thus, faith is not the evidence of things that do not exist. It is the evidence of things that are not yet seen.
Everything that we see has always been. It became seen when God spoke it into being. God is the source of life.