Feb 6
God calls us to make a difference with the life He gave us. How do we create an environment where we can flourish under God?
Ben Stuart explains to us how God creates structure in Genesis so that life can flourish, and then shows us different ways that we can cultivate healthy structure in our lives to allow our relationship with God to flourish as well.
Scripture References
15.The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
1.In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2.Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.3.And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4.God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5.God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
26.Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,1:26 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text (see Syriac); Masoretic Text the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”27.So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.28.God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
1.Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.2.By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3.Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.4.This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.5.Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth2:5 Or land; also in verse 6 and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6.but streams2:6 Or mist came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7.Then the Lord God formed a man2:7 The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah); it is also the name Adam (see verse 20). from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Ben Stuart
Ben Stuart is the pastor of Passion City Church D.C. Prior to joining Passion City Church, Ben served as the executive director of Breakaway Ministries on the campus of Texas A&M. He also earned a master’s degree in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Donna, live to inspire and equip people to walk with God for a lifetime.