Posts Tagged "creation"

Genesis 1:1 (part two): Creation

The Mystery of Nothing In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth. Creation.  The next concept after time is creation.  We are here at the beginning, and now creation begins. We tend to associate the concept of creation with the physical realm.  We create things. The first few verses of the Bible make it clear that these words describe that what was being created was the physical world. Before this point in time (and we can...

A Prayer About Nature And God’s Creation

Loving Father and Creator of all, we come to you today deeply grateful for your creation. As we look around us we are amazed at the greatness and majesty of all that you have made. Nature around us speaks of your greatness—the vast expanse of the sky, the mountains, trees, lakes, and streams speak of your great design. You have given us such beauty in the colors of the rainbow, the beauty of flowers and fields. Words cannot adequately...

Thanksgiving For Beauty

We thank you, our Father, for the beauty that lies about us: this Earth, lovely in springtime, with its bursting buds and the riot of color in flowering gardens; the cool relief of the first heavy shower after a parched summer; the golden fruitfulness of autumn; and the bracing cold of the winter months. We thank you for the symphony of sight and sound in nature – deep blue skies and green, grassy lawns; moonlit nights and the first...

The Ground Of Healing

There are a few fundamentals about Christian healing prayer that have to be both established and accepted as fact.  Otherwise, healing prayer becomes something like a fairy tale or wishful thinking. So I guess this is the first fact: Christian healing prayer is real.  It is, itself, a fact. But how can this be?  Really.  We live on Earth.  We get up in the morning.  Our stomachs ache.  That’s just life. Isn’t it? Well,...

A Prayer Of Thanksgiving For Creation by George Appleton

O God, I thank thee for all the creatures thou hast made, so perfect in their kind— great animals like the elephant and the rhinoceros, humorous animals like the camel and the monkey, friendly ones like the dog and the cat, working ones like the horse and the ox, timid ones like the squirrel and the rabbit, majestic ones like the lion and the tiger, for birds with their songs. O Lord give us such love for thy creation, and all thy...