Prayer Works Morning Devotion: April 29, 2025

"Waiting On The Holy Spirit - Getting Our Hearts Ready for Pentecost"

"In The Beginning God's Spirit Hovered Over The Earth"

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A very good morning to you everybody. I hope you had a wonderful night and you were arrested. Ready for another exciting day and ready to encounter God today in everything that we do in people we meet in the work that we do.  

You know, just being attentive to what he is doing because he's always doing something. God is always doing something. So let us pray, dear Heavenly Father we come before you today with thank you for your goodness and your mercy towards us.  

We thank you for all that you have in store and what, you're still going to do and all that you've done in our lives. As we look into your word we know your love is always at the core of it. We have so much in store for us that our minds really cannot comprehend or fathom.  

What you have that we actually have to rely on hearing in order to understand that which we have for us. So we are grateful that as your children, you prepare a way before us. And that you have stuff that is in store for us. 

As long as we continue exercising our faith, so we honor you our Father and as is your children. So as we gathered this morning on this prayer call it's our belief that you are with us that your spirit is with us.  

So illuminate these scriptures to us as we look at them together and as we commit this time in fellowship with you and the Holy Spirit and with us as brothers and sisters who bless you and honor you in Jesus name, Amen.  

Well, today we are right at the beginning of the Bible. Right at the beginning. Genesis  1, verse 1 and 2, I will read. In the beginning, in the beginning. God created the heavens and the earth.  

First thing, the heavens and the earth was created in the beginning and verse 2 we get the condition of what it looked like now, now the earth was formless and empty. The interesting thing, as well as looking at this is that.  

We get the condition of the earth but we don't get the conditions of the heavens. In the description of what's being said, and I would like to suggest that the reason we don't get the descriptions of the heavens in the same conditions because we get in the beginning heaven and Earth puts together. 

But the description only tells us about what it looked like. And in that description, it tells us how bad it was. The reason we don't get heaven because heaven was probably finished already. So there was no need to include it in how bad it was.  

So it says the earth was formless and empty. Formless and empty darkness was over the surface of the deep in the spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Now when you look at the word formless and void.  

It cannot describes things that don't have a shape. Structure or no order implying that there's this condition that's still undefinable. There is nothing to it. So the language used here is showing us the existence of anything when there is no spirit behind it.  

Our whole entire earth without spirit was formless and was void. And this tells us that anything right, this is a definition of things that don't have spirit, that if something does not have spirit in it, it is going to be formless and void.  

There is nothing in it you can't utilize it. So the reason why the earth cannot be useless or inhabited at this point in time is because there is nothing to it. It's is there's an emptiness that is not conducive for existence. And if you ever study these two words in Hebrew.  

You have Toho and Boho, which is translated formless and void. Right in those words tells us that the stakes of the Earth varying was that it was inhabitable. It was not conducive for life. It was nothing could grow in it.  

There was this darkness and that darkness was caused because there was no light. And without light nor life. In order to plant or to grow plants food there has to be the existence of light.  

So that does not exist. There's just darkness. I'm talking about thick darkness where you can't see. That's the condition of is inhabitable at this point in time. But then the spirit of God was hoovering over the earth. In other words, it covered the earth. Spirit of God was covering the Earth and the waters.  

And what we get from Genesis 1 verse 1 and 2 is that the Spirit, we get the essence of what happens when the speed of God is involved in anything. I want you to think about how vast and massive the earth is.  

It's an incredible, phenomenal structure, unbelievable how vast our earth is. It takes you just six hours to fly from here to California, to go to Zimbabwe 18. New Zealand the whole entire day.  

Now I want you to imagine this whole entire place that we call home. From the North Pole to the South Pole. When you think about how big our world is and it just being dark and there's deep waters. And then God spirit covers the whole entire earth. I mean, we are seeing how incredibly massive God is. His spirit covered the whole entire earth.  

I mean that's I want to pause a little bit. We really just think about I want you to imagine God's spirit is just covering your city. That's one thing then covering this nation. That's another thing when covering this continent that's another thing.  

Now covering the whole entire world at once. Hovering over the waters. So which means that every space in the earth was covered by his spirit as it hovers over everything. Why is this happening?  

Because there's a process that's about to take place. Which is the process of creation. Now let's break it down to just simple little things. Now if you are planning anything and if you are doing anything, we are seeing the methodology of how God creates things which is the spirit has to cover.  

Whatever it is that you are trying to do. That's how you create nothing from nothing. God's spirit covering over nothing in order to have something.

Now, if you just kind of think about how everything takes place that we do. From salvation from belief from agreeing with another person. How do we how do we do these things that we do?

How do we, how do I want you to think about how do we come together on this prayer call every morning without anybody waking anyone up and say, hey, there's a prayer call coming, there's a prayer call that you need to get on, get on.  

How do we, how do we all do this? Unless the State of God is hovering over our ideas and things that we desire to do. Because only then will this same spirit that wakes me up also wakes you up in order to prepare for this prayer call.  

And in order for all of us to come together in this moment we are doing this because there is the spirit of God that's hovering over our ideas over everything that we are trying to do in him.

That God's process, we're seeing God's process of doing things, of creating things. That his spirit has to hover over ideas. His spirit has to hover over intent.  

If you are to do anything in him. Again, we are preparing for Pentecost. So we are seeing how the process of creation had not happened without God's spirit being present. In other words, you can't start anything godly without God's spirit being present or hovering over the idea.  

At least the things that are for him. This is how we get something out of nothing. Because his spirit is incredibly powerful that it does not need another thing to couple with it to create something.  

You know, I'm just thinking, you know think about our highways, the roads that we travel on. If we stop travelling, or if we share a section of the highway for maybe two years. We created the highway. We put you think about the process of just creating a highway.  

And what they have to do to the debt and the hammer it down and make sure it's really compact in order to create a lasting structure, right? And they put a highway and then we shut that highway for about maybe two years and we don't drive on it.  

Isn't it amazing how if you come two years later, you'll see a tree growing, right or grass growing right in the middle of that highway? I mean, you have seen areas where they, you know, make another road on the side and then they close this one and we end up using this other section. 

And then they just shut this one completely and you come a few years later you won't even recognize that there was a road that used to go through here because there would be trees, grass.  

And then you think about that process, right, how does grass or trees invade something that is made Not to be penetrated by trees and grass. The reason that happens is because there is a force and the power that’s in creation.  

That you and I can never understand. Because that's force is the force of who God is. That through his spirit that is capable of penetrating anything. No matter how indestructible it looks like.  

Take the same highway, it could rain over and over again and pretty much destroy that highway. Just rain, water. We have seen water, we have seen water right wash away roads and bridges. That looks indestructible.  

Why? Because the force behind God's creative power is unbelievable unmatched and we can’t comprehend it. Because when something is formless and void and as massive as the earth was and then his whole spirit covers this incredible place that we call home. All humanity goes home. 

From Yellowstone to the mountains of Kathmandu in India over there. That his spirit is so massive that he could cover this whole entire earth. In order for the creative process to begin. That force is what we use when we need to do something in him that he has directed us to do.  

That's how we can create things, not because we are geniuses, because God's spirit is hovering over our ideas. The proverb from Zimbabwe and it says if you plan anything for God without the spirit.  

You're going to have to come back and do it again. Because the spirit of God is the creative force that establishes anything and everything that he will ever do in the world. For the church and for those who are in him. 

I mean, it was just sitting and just thinking about that I mean, you think about somebody sitting at home with an idea. That hey, the Lord sent me over here to start church. You know, I was talking to Calvin a few weeks ago.  

We're talking about Times Square Church. How it started? I mean, just a few people not just a few people and an idea from God. And if you ask the same people when they started that, did you ever imagine that it could be like this?  

Almost everybody always has the same answer that no, there's no way. I've talked to my father in law dad. When you started, when you came to Boston did you ever imagine that this is how things would turn out to be and his answer is always a big resounding no.  

Because what he had in mind is not what God had in mind. But when the spirit of God hovered over what he God wanted to do in New England when the spirit of God happened over there.  

He started this incredible, phenomenal journey. That now over 7 if not 20,000 people have come through this church and found salvation in a place that was called the city of the Chosen Frozen. That shows you how incredible and powerful the Spirit of God is. When we allow it to be over our ideas, over our families.  

Over anything that we believe God has given us. That's how this creative force is. So Genesis 1:1-2. We are seeing the process in which everything sits on the spirit of God hovering over everything.  

That's how we get what we have so when Genesis 3 comes along is because the foundation, which is the spirit of God hovering over everything, was said and the reason we are talking and putting it this way is for all of us to understand.  

That when we are doing anything for God this is why we pray. This is why people fast. This is why people pray for things.

This is why people write ideas and pray over ideas, because this is the creative process in which God wants to do everything that he desires to do for mankind, especially if it’s Godly.  

There is not any other way. This is the way. This is the methodology you have to allow the spirit of God to hover over ideas, over your families. This is why we get educate children. This is why, at the inception of anything, we go to the Lord in prayer.  

This is why we pray before meetings because we are saying, Lord, let your spirit hope hover over our ideas. So that the creative process and that methodology you have in place to create something out of nothing.

Isn't it amazing how God gives us these methods of doing things. And sometimes we dismiss this. 

You know, even you can read Genesis 1:1-2 and just breeze through it. On to the good stuff until you realize that hey everything that this world became and it will ever be seats on Genesis 1:1-2.  

Everything 5hat you ever see in our world starts in Genesis 1:1-2, formless and void. Chaotic, darkness, no light, no nothing, inhabitable. Only for God's spirit to hover it and create everything that we now see.  

That's the force of God's creative power and that force is still evident today in the things that we do and the ideas that we come up with. 

A professor will rise up and say I want to start a business and you don't know what that is. You have an idea of what that is until you start it and you allow God spirit to hover over the idea. 

 And then next off it's something that you're like, Oh my God. Now others have to hire 10,000 people. That when you started, you never saw 10,000 people. You just hit an idea so I'm seeing with families. Oh, I'm going to get married.  

It's just an idea until God hovers over that idea, and then the next thing here, four or five kids and grandkids that you never saw. Caused the creative process of God in it possesses the future.  

So I want us to remember this in our journey as we as we try to do what God has called us to do. In anything, be it at work, be it at home, beat with kids, beats children, be it even dinner being even, hey, we're going to have thanksgiving dinner at my house.  

It's an idea but it's only until God spirit hovers that idea that it becomes something phenomenal. But we are so used to doing things that we dismiss the spirit of God and until you read Thessalonians 2.  

Because that book tells us that there's a time that's coming when the Holy Spirit will be removed out of the Earth. And we see it in Thessalonians 2 how the Holy Spirit is holding at bay the spirit of Antichrist.  

The Holy Spirit, the speed of God is in the earth holding at bay the spirit of the Antichrist until the time shows up. Where he is to allow him to be who he is and then doomed for destruction. 

I mean, that's powerful when you think about it. So in everything that we will do in everything that you will do. Let's engage this spirit first that's the methodology. That's what God wanted to happen, and that's how God's process of doing things.  

Spirit first, then action second. So whatever God is going to call you to do. No matter how simple it looks like. Whether be it a work meeting, be it whatever it is remember this spirit of God first.  

That's why the scripture says, seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness then all these other things will be added unto you.

How do the other things be added unto you? Because all those other things that will be added unto you, they were created through God's spirit too.  

So these sensory that senses all things, even the things of God, and reveals them to us. It's showing us how he is involved in everything, everything that we will ever do.

He is involved in it. Whether people know it or they don't know it, the earth is the loss and the fullness there of it and they are in it.  

We all belong to God. How are we all belonging to God? How is humanity sustained? Through the spirit of God that Harvard over the deeds of the waters and the darknesses, and made it formless.  

It was formless and void and made it form to where it is no longer void, it's become it is in a habitable place. Why? Because the spirit of God is present.  

So let's do ourselves a favor that we will never do anything for the Lord or in our lives that we don't recognize that the spirit of God. Is the aid we need to create something out of nothing, Amen. Let us pray. Heavenly Father you are incredibly amazing. You have given us this spirit without measure.  

We can’t define it, we quantify it. We would try but our minds cannot comprehend the vastness of the force and power of the Holy Spirit. The mind of God and we rested today and recognize that in everything that we do.  

We need your spirit to guide us, to challenges, to direct us, to inspire us so that what you have called us to do in these human existence we would do it because you are guiding us. I pray Lord, that may we never forget or take for granted the Holy Spirit. 

Help us in our quest to seek knowledge advancements whatever it is, Lord our minds desire and our hearts desire to do. Help us, Lord to remember that it is the spirit of God that we need.  

I pray for every single person here and those who are involved with us that are not here and our children, our grandchildren, our nephews, our nieces. May they get the wisdom to engage this creative force called the Spirit of God.  

We pray for wisdom to always include the Holy Spirit in everything that we do. Reminder us of how fundamentally important this is if we are to ever do anything in you. May we never take him for granted.  

May we be so quick to listen and quick to do what he says. We know that's why the whole entire scriptures talks about if whoever has an ear let him hear what the spirit of the Lord says. Thank you for showing us your creative process.  

And I pray Lord that may that rest in us as your creation. So that we know what to do when to do it and how to do it. I pray for ideas, Godly ideas that will enhance the standard of our faith.  

The standard of our beliefs. Pray for ideas that are futuristic, that have incredible revolution. So that we can anticipate things that are coming five years, 10 years from now, so that today what we do will set a foundation for that which is coming.  

We know Lord that as long as we have faith something is coming. But Father as always the creative process that we need. So I pray, Lord, that let this mind that was in Christ be in us to open our eyes. Open our ears because we still want to see you and we want to hear you.  

I thank you, Lord that you have allowed us to gather every morning and we thank you for your spirit that have made it possible for this prayer call and everything that we will do and we have ever done. And I pray, Lord, that may you continue, Lord, to grow us, speak to us, illuminate the word.  

So that it becomes so real in us all for one cause so that somebody somewhere get to ask the question what must I do to be saved? Father, we bless you and we honor you. We now look to you for our future and we are trusting you for all that you do for us.  

Now as we go into this day, we are going with the full understanding and knowledge that your spirit is with us in everything that we're going to do.

We bless you and honor you. Now lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one, for thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever, Amen and Amen.  

May the Lord bless you. May the Lord bless this day. May the Lord bless your ideas. May the Lord bless your hands and what you build. And may the Lord bless your feet where you walk and those you interact with.  

May the Lord bless your family and children and everything that belongs to you. We pray for multiplication of your resources.

That your money, your food whatever it is that you have in us will stretch because we have seen what the spirit of God does. That can turn a little bit of fish and a little bit of loaves to feed a multitude.  

I pray for the same spirit to rest in your homes. That everything that you possess will stretch and multiply because we understand the creative force that the spirit of God is. Go in peace and have an awesome wonderful day in Jesus name, Amen.