Lesson 1 Trusting In The Word

     Genesis 1:1 (Amplified) tells us that, "In the beginning God (prepared, formed, fashioned) and created the heaven and the earth."
     This one statement has caused more controversy than any other statement in all of the written history of the world.  We have all of Darwin's theories and all of those who refuse to believe.  We try the big bang theory and evolution.  We've tried to deny the existence of God and have dismissed Him from all our education.  But, He's still here.
     It seems like the more we try to dismiss Him, the more we ran out of answers.  If God didn't create all things, then where did all things come from?  Evolution seems to have stopped somewhere because things don't evolve anymore.  Skeptics claim that things once evolved, but we don't see any evidence in today's life that they still are evolving.
     When we watch the moon walk on television we run into the question of what holds the universe in place.  When we see the planet on which we now live standing in space with nothing holding it there, we wonder why.  There aren't any cables, pillars or support holding our earth, but it remains in place.  If it were close to the sun, then we would all perish and if the earth were farther from the sun then we would perish.  If the earth had no gravity, like on the moon, then we couldn't stay on it and yet... here we are.
     So far, there's been no evidence that any of the other planets in our solar system can sustain life, yet...here we are. Scientist and agnostics try to prove or disprove that we a Creator and so far they cannot find Him in their telescopes anywhere.  Most of mankind declares that "seeing is believing," and that "we can't believe in what we don't see." 
     Have you ever seen the wind?  We see the results of the wind like in Hurricane Katrina.  But, we didn't see the wind.  We saw the results of the wind, but not the wind itself.  Have you ever seen gravity?  If you jump from the top of a building, then you will come down.  You don't see gravity, but you see the results of it.  Have you ever seen oxygen?  No, but you continue to breathe it into your body and believe it to exist without ever seeing it.
     Most of the things we take for granted are things we don't see.  And, yet we refuse to believe in the invisible God Who created them.  Proverbs 21:30 (Amplified) tells us that, "There is no (human) wisdom or understanding or counsel (that can prevail) against the Lord."  All of our wisdom to disprove Him doesn't make God nonexistent.
     The world doesn't want to believe in God because if He is God, then there are things in our lives that have to change.  If there is no God, no judge, no Righteous One, then anything goes.  In order to live life as we see it and want it to be, we must disprove that God exists.
     There are so many things in this world that prove the very existence of a Great Creator.  You almost have to work harder at not believing.  Even though as believers who say we believe in God stumble at the things of the carnal minds and fleshly bodies can't see.  Yet, when it comes of the spiritual things (the things yet unseen), we deny that they exist in today's world.
     We deny the Holy Spirit because we can't see Him.  We deny healing because we feel things that are more real than the unseen.  We refute the gifts of the Spirit because they are supernatural and we can't see them.  We see the effects of the Holy Spirit around us all the time, but we don't see Him.  Just like the wind causes effects without being seen, so does the Holy Spirit.
     We sometimes forget that everything we see around us was created by Something, yet unseen.  Everything we see in this natural realm was created out of the Spirit realm that we cannot see.  We trust in the natural part of the earth walk of Jesus because He was in a human form.  And yet, we deny the supernatural things He did in order to exist in our world.
     As Christian people we are a supernatural people.  Miracles and supernatural things are a part of who you are now because of Jesus.  You can trust the Word of God in your life to do everything He said It would do.  When God commanded light to shine; it did.  When He commanded the earth and all of the universe to stand in place; it does.  When He said He is your Father, your Healer, your Provider, your Life; He is.  He is all those things if you will trust His Word.