{"id":1116,"date":"2013-07-29T07:48:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2016-12-14T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T21:59:00","slug":"gods-blueprint-for-life-2-creating-shaping-forming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/gods-blueprint-for-life-2-creating-shaping-forming\/","title":{"rendered":"God&#8217;s Blueprint for Life #2: Creating, Shaping, Forming"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">If you are just diving into this blog for the first time, Welcome!<\/span><\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This particular blog is part of a series called\u00a0<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/category\/in-gods-image\/\" target=\"_blank\">In God&#8217;s Image<\/a><\/span><\/em>. I am going through some ideas about what it means, and why it matters, that we are made in God&#8217;s Image. <\/span><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"padding-left: 60px; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s where we&#8217;ve been so far:<\/span><\/h6>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000;\">(1)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"The Source of Wisdom\" href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/the-source-of-wisdom\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Source of Wisdom<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000;\">(2)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"Made in God\u2019s Image\" href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/made-in-gods-image\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in God&#8217;s Image<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; color: #000000;\">(3)\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"God\u2019s Blueprint for Life #1 \u2013 Vision\" href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/gods-blueprint-for-life-1-vision\/\" target=\"_blank\">God&#8217;s Blueprint for Life #1: Vision<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 29px; color: #800000;\">In the beginning God: Creates, Shapes, Forms<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I woke up this morning with such excitement to write about the creative capacity that God has placed inside of us! In the <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a title=\"God\u2019s Blueprint for Life #1 \u2013 Vision\" href=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/gods-blueprint-for-life-1-vision\/\">last blog<\/a><\/span>\u00a0we saw that God&#8217;s pattern begins with seeing what is possible, getting the vision of what could be. Just\u00a0<em>seeing<\/em>\u00a0God&#8217;s heart and desire for our lives, families, and communities is so exciting!\u00a0Yet, there is more!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You, not animals, were created to represent God&#8217;s character and nature to this world. You were <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1162 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/creativity.jpg\" alt=\"creativity\" width=\"448\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/creativity.jpg 640w, https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/creativity-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>designed to uniquely carry God&#8217;s image as you walk this earth, no other created thing was designed with the specific purpose God placed on humanity!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>How<\/em> you manifest God&#8217;s image in this world is completely unique to you!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the beginning God <em>created<\/em>&#8230; (Genesis 1:1)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So God <em>created<\/em> man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8230; the Lord God <em>formed<\/em> the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">God CREATES<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This word,\u00a0<em>create<\/em>, is the Hebrew word\u00a0<em>bara&#8217;<\/em> which is a word unique to describing how God\u00a0<em>creates<\/em><em> &#8211;<\/em> making something from nothing. Objects of\u00a0<em>bara&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>are: heavens and earth, man, Israel, a new thing, cloud and smoke, north and south, salvation and righteousness, speech, darkness, wind, and a new heart. <em>(Vines Expository Dictionary)\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God s<em>aid &#8220;Let there be&#8221;:\u00a0<\/em>light,\u00a0&#8216;sky&#8217;,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">dry ground,\u00a0vegetation,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sun, moon and stars,\u00a0water creatures, birds, and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">land animals. Our pattern is to take what we see in God&#8217;s kingdom, already <em>created<\/em>, yet not manifest in our reality, and say, &#8220;let there be&#8221; <em>a new thing<\/em>, <em>salvation, \u00a0righteousness<\/em>, and <em>new hearts<\/em>, to every heart walking the earth.\u00a0When God\u00a0said &#8220;<em>let there be,&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0he was proclaiming: &#8220;Light! Be Revealed! Become! Exist! Be known to this world the way you exist and are known to me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To bring God&#8217;s reality to our world we must first\u00a0<em>see<\/em> what that reality is (vision) then <em>speak\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that reality to our world.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">&#8220;God SAID&#8221;<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The word we translate as\u00a0<em>said<\/em>\u00a0means: to say, speak or utter. It also means to think in one&#8217;s heart. \u00a0We start by <strong>seeing the vision<\/strong>, then we\u00a0<strong>meditate on God&#8217;s promise<\/strong> to build faith in our hearts, and finally we must <strong>speak out<\/strong>\u00a0the vision. This word also means to\u00a0<em>say, to answer, to command, to promise<\/em>. There are problems in this world, and God wants you to speak out the answer and promises of God that he has placed in your heart! Finally, this word\u00a0<em>said<\/em> carries the meaning of\u00a0<em>intentionality<\/em>. God always calls things intentionally, and so must we. We must work within the framework of God&#8217;s design and purposes, not our own.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What creativity and purpose has God placed in you? I would love to hear!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Much love,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1038\" src=\"https:\/\/anniecallahan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/signature-1-small.tiff\" alt=\"signature 1 small\" width=\"180\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are just diving into this blog for the first time, Welcome! This particular blog is part of a series called\u00a0In God&#8217;s Image. I am going through some ideas about what it means, and why it matters, that we are made in God&#8217;s Image. 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