THE SOURCE OF ALL POTENTIAL

Genesis chapter 1






Today we are walking in: The Source of All Potential










Job 34:16


If now thou hast understanding, hear H8085 this: hearken to the voice of my words.









UNDERSTAND



Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)








The Torah testifies...............


Genesis 11:7


Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.








The prophets proclaim..................


Nehemiah 8:2


And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.









The writings bear witness...........................


1 Kings 3:9


Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?











The Source of All Potential


The potential of a thing is related to its source.
Everything in life was created with potential and possesses the potential principle. Creation abounds with potential because the Creator Himself is the potential principle.


When we describe Yah, we often say He is omnipotent. Omnipotent means that Yah is always potent. Made up of two words: omni, meaning “always,” and potent, meaning “full of power,” omnipotent means that Yah is potentially everything. He has within Him the potential for all that is, was, or ever will be. He is omni- potent or omnipotent.


EVERYTHING COMES FROM Yah


Everything that was, and everything that is, was in Yah. That’s a very important concept. Everything that was and is, was in Yah. We have to start with Yah. Before Yah made anything, before He created things, there was only Yah. So before anything was, Yah is. Yah is the root, or source, of all life.


Before anything was, Yah is.


Before there was time, time was—but it was in Yah. Before Yah cre- ated a galaxy or the Milky Way, they existed. Before there was a uni- verse or a planetary system with the third planet called earth revolving around the sun—before any of that was—they were.


I wonder what it must have been like when Yah was just by Himself. Let’s try to imagine that for a bit. Here’s Yah. He steps out on nothing to view nothing, for there was nothing except Yah. And so Yah is standing on top of nothing, looking at nothing because every- thing was in Him.


IN Yah WAS THE BEGINNING


The Bible tells us: “In the beginning, Yah...” That means before there was a beginning, there was Yah. Therefore, Yah began the begin- ning and verse 0 of the first chapter of Genesis might possibly read: In Yah was the beginning. Everything that is was in Yah. Everything that has ever been made was made by Yah.


When we connect Genesis 1:0—in Yah was the beginning—and John 1:1—in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yah...He was with Yah in the beginning—we see that the Word was with Yah in the beginning, not at the beginning.


Before there was a beginning, there was Yah. Everything that is was in Yah.


The Gospel of John also tells us that all things were made by the Word.


In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yah, and the Word was Yah. He was with Yah in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life... (John 1:1-4).


Nothing that was created was made without the Word. In the Word was life. Life came out of Yah. Therefore, before you knew life, life was. All things were made by Yah. Everything you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch was in Yah before they came to be. Even what you dis- cern first existed in Yah.


Now let me be a little ridiculous to prove my point. Yah had roach- es and mosquitoes and rats in Him. He had suns and clouds and plan- ets in Him. The cows to make shoe leather...the oil to run our cars...the ore from the mountains to make steel—all these things were in Yah. Everything on this earth is Yah’s property. If Yah would ever call in His property, we would be in big trouble. All things were in Yah and thus belong to Him. Yah, in the beginning when there was noth- ing, contained everything that man has seen. He also contained every- thing man will ever see.


Thus if you had talked to Yah on the highway of nothingness, you would have been talking to millions of cows and horses and mountains and trees and limousines and hotels and beaches. They all were in Yah. They were in Him, but no one saw them. That’s why we call Yah omnipotent. He’s always full of the potential to bring forth what you see. Yah is pregnant with the universe. In essence, if you met Yah on the highway of nothing, by the corner of nowhere, before there was anything, and you shook His hand, you would be shaking hands with everything, but would not know it. You would be with potential.


THE INVISIBLE BECAME VISIBLE


In the beginning, Yah was pregnant with the universe and all things were made by Him. But how did these things come out of Him? How was the universe formed? All things were formed at Yah’s com- mand. He spat them out—poof! From the invisible came the visible. Things that are seen came from things that were unseen.


By faith we understand that the universe was formed at Yah’s com- mand, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible (Hebrews 11:3).


Yah always had everything in Him, but we couldn’t see it. All we now see was once in an invisible state. Everything that man has ever seen first existed in an invisible state. (Please note that invisible does not mean nonexistent.)


All the buildings we see and the businesses we frequent—people making money and investing money—all that stuff began as ideas. We couldn’t see them because they were in somebody’s mind. The stores where we shop, also everything on the shelves and racks in those stores, began as ideas in someone’s mind. They didn’t exist before, yet they did. Although they weren’t present in their current form, they existed as lumber and concrete and nails, cotton and wool and flax, steel and pulleys and motors.


Someone had an idea. Through work they put their idea into things that are visible. Today they take your money. Everything starts in the invisible state. Everything we now see used to be unseen.


In the beginning there was only Yah. At creation the entire unseen universe became visible. Everything that has been created was made by the word of Yah. Although it already existed, Yah spoke so that what was invisible could become visible. You would never have known it existed, except Yah spat it out in faith.


By faith Yah spat out what was in Him. Everything in Him started to come forth. What we now see was birthed by Yah from what was invis- ibly within Him. Whatever you see came from the unseen—nothing exists that was not at some time in Yah. Thus, faith is not the evidence of things that do not exist. It is the evidence of things that are not yet seen. Everything we see has always been. It became visible when Yah spoke it into being. Yah is the source of life.


SPOKE WAS HARD WORK


What happened when Yah spoke at creation? How did He get the invisible to become visible? First let me broaden your idea of the word spoke.


Spoke was a process. What Yah spoke into visibility began as an idea in His mind. Yah first conceived in His mind what He wanted to create. He didn’t just say, “I want this.” The prophet Isaiah tells us that Yah created the earth by first planning its foundations (Isaiah 48:13). After the plans were in His mind, Yah spoke them into existence. When Yah was ready to speak, it was just a matter of taking what was in the plan and putting it on the site.


Spoke was a process.


Yah laid the groundwork for the earth and spread out the heavens. He created the sun to shine during the day and the moon and stars at night. He gave every star a name. He ordered clouds to fill the sky and breezes to blow. He made the waves to roar in the sea. He sent rain to water the earth and grass to cover the hillside. Thunder and lightning were created by His command; hail and sleet were formed by His word. A wool-like blanket of snow He produced for winter; frost and dew He designed.


Yah was full of imagination. He was pregnant with many thoughts. His thoughts became ideas, and the ideas became images. Everything that is came out of Yah as He spoke those images. The unseen became seen—the invisible became visible.


Yah’s speaking was much like the contractions of a woman in labor. With effort He pushed out each detailed creation. Then Yah began organizing the things that appeared. He was busy as He set them up, organizing and organizing and reorganizing. Finally Yah said, “This is good.”


Yah didn’t create the world by just thinking the whole thing into being. He worked it into being. After creating a plan in His mind, Yah spoke to make visible the invisible. (Speaking was one of the ways He worked.) All that was made came from Yah. Through work He creat- ed the world.


For six days Yah created the heavens and the earth. On the seventh day He rested.


By the seventh day Yah had finished the work He had been doing; so on the seventh day He rested from all His work. And Yah blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had done (Genesis 2:2-3).


Spoke must be a fairly serious thing. If Yah, who is almighty and all powerful, had to rest after creation, spoke it must have been very hard work.


When creation was completed, Yah rested. Yah was the first one to sabbat—He intended the Sabbath to be a blessing. He knows that life produces work, and work creates the need to rest.


THE WORK OF CREATION IS NOT YET COMPLETE


The work of Yah is not complete—He has not delivered all His babies. He will keep on delivering as long as you deliver, because you are the continuation of His deliveries. Yah can still create. When you ask for something in prayer, Yah doesn’t have to shift things around because He is going broke. If it doesn’t exist in a visible form, Yah will speak it. He’ll make whatever is necessary. He continues to be preg- nant with many things.


Because all things are in Yah, you can ask Yah for anything. An idea is around in Yah a long time before it comes out. Nothing we think or do is new (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Everything that has been done will be done again—what we think is new has already been here for a long time.


Nothing we think or do is new.


There’s a guy in China right now who is thinking about the idea you thought was yours. When the idea came out of Yah, many people got it. Because everything comes out of Yah, you all received the idea from the same Source. Until that idea is transformed by action, Yah will continue to leak that idea into men and women. Why? Because Yah is a Yah of potential. Although He is the source of all things, He shares His omnipotent powers with His creation. We, like Yah, are pregnant with many things. We are full of imagination, having the potential power to be more than we visibly are. There are dreams, visions, plans and ideas in us that need to be released. Yah wants us to tap His power and use it, because Yah made us with potential.


PRINCIPLES


Everything that was and is, was in Yah.


Yah is the Source of all potential.


All things were formed at Yah’s command so the invisible became visible.


Yah planned the world in His mind before speaking it into existence.