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And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Principles That Never Fail

We live our lives on this earth according to certain laws. In fact we grow up in this life being familiar with a certain number of natural laws. We call them the laws of nature.

In the world and in science they use terms like 'Mother Nature', and they are indicating that certain principles and events take place continuously in specific patterns.

At school you have to learn some of those boring things in Science, like 'Newton's Laws of Motion'. And you are taught that there are certain laws which have been there all along that you have never really thought about.

But some brilliant men like Newton decided they would write them down and make them official. So you have laws like, "To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

These are natural laws. I am not talking here about laws like, "Thou shalt, and thou shalt not..."

I am talking about principles; laws like the law of gravity and things that always work. They always work. And unless you have another law that is working against that law, you can always count on it operating exactly the same way every time.

So for example with the law of gravity, that law always applies. If you drop something it will fall. Any object that is within the atmosphere of the earth is drawn by the force of gravity and heads towards the center of the earth.

But the law of gravity can be overcome by other laws, like the laws of aerodynamics.

Man has learned to harness the laws of aerodynamics to get an airplane to fly in the sky and to defy gravity. Of course the birds have been doing that since the beginning of creation, so those laws have been in motion all along.

They have always been there. They are not something that man suddenly created when he made the airplane.

All that man did was to discover the laws that were already there, and use them to his advantage to overcome gravity and to fly above the earth.

We trust in these natural laws. We depend on them. When you wake up in the morning you expect to see the sun coming up. At night you expect to see it going down. After summer you expect winter. The seasons are there. They are all natural cycles and natural laws.

God has set up everything in this earth to work according to specific principles. If you are ignorant of the law it does not mean that the law does not work anymore. If you drop a glass by accident it still breaks.

You may say, "Well, I don't believe in the law of gravity."

It still breaks. I don't care if you do not believe in the law. Try dropping something, or try pushing a car down a hill and see if it stops. The law still operates whether you believe in it or not.

The Spiritual Laws

There are other laws apart from the laws of nature. They are the laws of the Spirit. These are laws that we are often not aware of, even though we may use them.

You can say that you do not even believe in them. But they exist nevertheless, and they function and operate in exactly the same way as the natural laws.

I want to show you some of the laws of the Spirit. I will show you from the Word, how God applied the laws of the Spirit and how He intends us to apply them. This is going to be an introduction into this whole subject of the Way of Blessing.

As we continue, you will learn how to take those spiritual laws that God has given and instituted in the earth. I will show you how to use them to move into what God has for you. If you do not use them then you will not obtain any results.

I want to show you firstly how God applied the spiritual laws. If you go back to the passage we have just looked at, you will see four things that took place as God performed the creation on the earth.

The Original Creation

Genesis 1:1 says: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

The creation that took place there was when God created everything out of nothing. It was the original work of creation that took place before time began. The Bible does not give us any insight into that. The curtain is closed.

Then suddenly in verse 2 of Genesis 1 we read of another creation. It is not the original creation. God did not create the earth 'without form and void.'

I am not going to go into that now, but it seems that the earth was not created that way originally. Somewhere in time something happened that the earth became a wasteland, covered with water, in darkness, and without form and void - the expression that was used there.

At the beginning of verse 2 the earth was already created. It was already there, but it was a shapeless mass and in darkness. This was the material that God started with in His creation.

You could rather call it a recreation or a reformation of what was already in the earth. God began the creation with materials in His hands. I want you to take note of this because it is important.

Then the Scripture says that the Spirit of God hovered over, or brooded over the waters. The Spirit of God was involved in bringing about this creation.

So before a creation or a reformation of the materials could take place, the Spirit of God came into close contact with those materials.

He started with materials and He caused spiritual power to come upon those materials. That was the first stage that took place in the creation.

God Spoke

Then the Scripture says that God spoke.Genesis 1:3 says: And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

If you read throughout Genesis 1, you will see it happening again and again. And God said, "Let there be lights in the heavens. Let the vegetation come forth."

Again and again you see God saying, "Let there be ..." And as He spoke, the Holy Spirit that was brooding over the materials, moved in on the materials and shaped them into what God had spoken.

Then finally, after God had spoken His Word of creation, He looked down upon what had been created. He checked it out to see that it was correct and gave it a name. And so we have some laws of the Spirit that God applied.

Four Basic Spiritual Laws

The first law of the Spirit is that the spiritual realm is greater than the physical realm.

The spiritual realm - the area, the realm, the power, the force of Spirit - is greater than the physical world. And Spirit, moving upon the physical creation, can cause a change to take place in that creation.

The second law is that the power of the Spirit to bring about a change in the physical realm, is released when words are spoken.

The power of the Spirit of God to create the earth was released when God spoke words into the earth; when He said. As He spoke, the power of the Spirit was released to bring about a change in the creation.

Then thirdly, there has to be a blueprint. God had a picture in His mind, if you wish, of what He wanted to create.

When God said, "Let there be.." He knew what He was speaking into existence.

He did not just throw it together like the evolutionists want to tell us, and it all just went along by itself and decided how it was going to create itself. No, God had a very clear picture in His mind of what each stage of creation was going to be.

So after God had spoken, He looked down to make sure that it looked like He had planned it to look. Then He could look upon it and say, "Yes, that's good."

He called everything good. It matched the blueprint. It matched the pattern.

The fourth spiritual law is that the person who creates has the power to control the creation that was made. Here in the Bible you will see the first evidence of copyright. God put His copyright on His creation when He named it.

I used to think that copyright was one of those things that man had created. I thought it was very selfish of people to try and keep to themselves some of the things that they had created and to obtain the benefits from it.

But I want you to know that copyright is scriptural. It started right back at the beginning of creation.

Actually, when God created He did not keep all the copyright. He gave some of it to Adam. In fact if you look at Genesis 1, you will see that only in the first three days of creation did God actually name the things that He created.

After that He did not name them, until He came to His final day of creation when He made man, and then again He named His man Adam. But between the third and the sixth days of creation God did not give a name to anything.

Do you know why? It was because He gave the copyright to Adam. Later on when the animals were brought to Adam, God did not bring them and say to him, "Okay, Adam, this one over here with the big mane is a lion, and that tall one with the tusks and the big ears, that's an elephant."

No, He said, "Adam, I've made them, but you have the copyright. Call them whatever you like. The choice is yours."

God gave to Adam, to man, a certain degree of control over the creation that He had made. We will look at that more as we go on.

The Creation of Man

Now, let's get to the creation of man. You will see it in Genesis 1:26 to 28.

The Scripture says there that God formed man's body from the dust of the earth. And God breathed into him the breath (the Hebrew is in the plural 'the breaths') of life. And man became a living soul.

This creation was different to the other parts of the creation. In all the rest of the creation God's Spirit moved upon the materials and He spoke. And when He spoke the Spirit moved upon the materials of the creation and formed them into what God had spoken forth.

But when God created man it was very different. The only part that He created that way was the body. So God spoke forth and formed the body from the elements of the earth.

But then He did something more, in order to complete the creation. He actually caused His Spirit to move down upon that body, and He breathed into Adam the breath of life.

The Hebrew word 'breath' there can also mean 'wind or spirit'. God actually imparted to that body, part of His very own essence. He imparted to man, spirit. Man was the first creation to become a partaker of the very nature of God.

God gave to Adam something that He did not give to the animals. The Scripture says that God, when He made man said this in Genesis 1:26 : And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:

Man was made in the image of God. What does that mean? It is something that theologians and Bible scholars have debated over a long period of time.

What is the image of God in man?

Well firstly, quite simply, it was the fact that God placed in man a spirit, which has the same nature or essence as the Spirit of God. But God gave to man something else that only man has, and none of the rest of the creation has.

Ability to Speak Words

Animals have sounds that they make. They can communicate with each other. You can even make recordings of each species, and you can identify them from the sounds that they make.

But you cannot learn the language of an animal, contrary to the story of Dr. Doolittle who talked to the animals. You cannot learn wolf or ape language, contrary to the story of Mowgli, who grew up with the wolves, and Tarzan who grew up with the apes.

Only man, apart from God, has the ability to speak words. That makes me think that somehow there is a connection between spirit and words.

God's Spirit moved upon the creation and He spoke words. And when He spoke words the Spirit moved. Spirit and words are always linked together. So when God made man in His image He made him so that he could speak words, just like God.

God made man so that he could release the power of his spirit in the same way that God released the power of His Spirit in creation.

He gave to man the ability, through words, to release the power that was in his spirit. And so when a man speaks, what he is actually doing is releasing a spiritual force into the earth.

We will be developing that and looking at it in a lot of detail. As we do so you will see how that power can and should be used, by all believers to accomplish what God does in the earth.

You need to know also that the amount of power that God has given to man is limited. Man does not have the same power in his spirit that God has in His Spirit.

God has given to man a little piece, if you like, of His power; a little piece of His Spirit. And God gave man sufficient power in that spirit to enable him to function within the parameters that He has given to him on the earth.

Let's get back to what we saw about the copyright.

On the first three days of creation God made certain things such as the planets and the stars, the earth and the sea. And God retains that power. But He gave to Adam the ability to control what took place in the earth that had now been created.

The power was limited to that sphere alone. But God came down every day to fellowship with Adam and Eve.

He made available to them the fullness of His power, should they need to go beyond those parameters; should they need a greater creation than that.

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