***Hey it's Mark Lanier with your video thought for the day so this week which is Thanksgiving
week so we'll certainly have a Thanksgiving a video thought for the day but in the main this
week I’m talking about movement of God and with God and so yesterday I talked about him
riding in the desert and writing in the heavens I thought today would go back to the beginning
literally the the beginning as in Genesis 1 verse 2. there's a passage so Genesis begins it's the
beginning of the Bible and it begins within the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
and that's Genesis 1 1. and then it says and the earth was void and without form and darkness was
over the face of the deep now you've got the scene here the earth is is void uh
doesn't exist it's without form it's not filled in um and darkness hovers over the face of the deep
then it says and the spirit of God was hovering
over the waters or over the face paneer of the waters um this is a cool word now Hebrew verbs are
expressed in different forms and this is in what's called the pl form and it doesn't happen a lot in
the old testament but this word Rachael which is translated hovering over the water for what God's
spirit was doing this word Rachael means to to kind of to to quiver um to shake uh to flutter
it it's um it's it's got the idea of stirring in in in motion uh it's it's it's not still
it's not inactive and it's in and it it's it's it's like doing something it's
it's it's about to do something it's it's getting warmed up if you will in a sense
and and this this quivering fluttering spirit of God over the face of the deep
is pregnant in that verse and pregnant in the moment because need has been expressed
this is this is the the earth is void and without form and all it consists of is the deep and the
waters and and God is hovering over the face of the waters and then damn he says let there
be light and there's light it's this explosion of activity that comes through the spirit of God as
God speaks into existence all that there is God if you read the genesis carefully the story carefully
he spends three days filling the void and then he spends three days forming that which he's
filled so he will take the emptiness in this existence and in this world and in a macrocosm
create everything but it's no different I would suggest in the lives of you and me
our God may find emptiness in our life we may be walking in emptiness in our life
you may feel totally depleted you may feel without form without substance you may feel empty
and hollow you may not have purpose you may not have the the strength to make it through the day
any kind of emptiness you have you can know with confidence that the spirit of God
just quivers hovers above your emptiness ready to speak into your life
the creation of something so magnificent
the world itself can't contain it he creates the heavens and the earth so I’m thinking about this
today because I know the spirit of God is hovering over me getting ready to make his
move and I’m calling it calling out for it lord fill form make in me
what you would through my emptiness through my need and through my want create in me your
painting for for the world I hope you'll join me in that prayer that's your video thought
for the day we'll look at God moving again tomorrow so join me again please God bless you