It is God Which Has Made Us
Psalms 100:3 says “know you that the Lord Yahweh, He is God, it is He that has
made us, and not we ourselves, we are His people, and the sheep of His
pasture”. As we look in Genesis, we see that You have made us, and You made
us in Your own image (Genesis 1:26-28,31) “and God said, let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His
own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He
them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful, multiply and
replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the
earth. And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day”.
In Psalms 8:4-6 the Psalmist ask God a question “what is man, that You are
mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visit him? for You have made him a
little lower that Elohim, and have crowned him with glory and honor. You have
made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things
under his feet”. In Ecclesiastes 7:29 the Bible says “lo, this only have I found, that
God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions”.
God called Abram out from his kindred and from his fathers house, and God told
Abram that his seed would be as the sand of the sea shore, this He told him when
Abram was 75 years old and had no children. After 10 years Sari, Abram’s wife
believed that she was barren, and so gave her maid to Abram, trying to fulfill God’
s word, but even though Ishmael was born from Abram, he was not the promised
child. When Abram was 99 the Lord Yahweh appeared unto Abram and said to
him “no longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham, for a father of many nations have I made you”. And even though
Abraham and Sarah laughed, Romans 4
:18-20 Abraham “ who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to that which was spoken; so shall your seed
be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when
he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith,
giving glory to God”; and Isaac was born within that year.
Gideon was hiding out trying to harvest his wheat, and the angel of the Lord
appeared to him, calling him “a mighty man of valor”; after Gideon realized that he
had seen God and was not destroyed, he yielded to the word of God and became
that mighty man of valor (Judges 6). Like Gideon we have to let go and let God.
Remembering that God uses ordinary people to do His will.
God told Jeremiah I have made you a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5)
“before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came forth out of the
womb, I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet to the nations”. In Roman 4:
17 it tells us that “God makes alive the dead, and calls those things which be not
as though they were”. Meaning that because God knows the end from the
beginning, when He calls things, even though they don’t seem to be, they become.
Jesus said to those He called, “follow Me and I will make you fishers of men”.
Looking back, we see that His disciples caused a multitude to come into the
kingdom. Remember that Jesus is the author and the finisher of your faith
(Hebrews 12:2).
The leper believed that Jesus could make him clean (Matthew 8:1-3) “when He
(Jesus) was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And
behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can
make me clean. And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will be
you clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed”.
The Bible tells us many times what God has made us: {Proverbs 10:22) says “the
blessings of the Lord Yahweh, it makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it”;
Psalms 18:35,43 says “You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and
Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great. You
have delivered me from the striving of the people, and You have made me the
head of the heathen”. Psalms 92:4 says “for You Lord Yahweh, have made me
glad through Your works; I will triumph in the works of Your hands”. Remember
that God says “it is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord
Yahweh (Zechariah 4:6). Psalms 119:73 says “Your hand have made me and
fashioned me, give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments”.
Psalms 139:14 says “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows right well”.
I Corinthians 1:29-31 says “that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him
are you in Christ Jesus, who God is made to us wisdom, righteousness, and
sanctification, and redemption. That according as it is written, he that glories, let
him glory in the Lord”. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus (II Corinthians 5:21). We have been made justified, just as if we had never
sinned (Romans 3:24), and Acts 13:39 which says “and by Him (Jesus) all that
believes are justified from all things; from which you could not be justified by the
law of Moses”.
We have made to draw near (Ephesians 2:12-14) “that at that time you were
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from
the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now
in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of
Christ. For He is our peace, who had made both one, and has broken down the
middle wall of partition between us”. II Corinthians 9:8 says “and God is able to
make al grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all
things, may abound to every good work”.
We have to remember that all things are possible to them that believe. Our part is
to yield ourselves to God and become fully persuaded that what God has
promised, He is able also to perform it (Philippians 1:6).
Paul remembers his Damascus road experience (Acts 26:13-16) “at midday, O
king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun shining
round about me, and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen
to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue,
Saul, Saul, why persecute you Me, it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
And I said, who are You, Lord, and He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. But
rise, and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for that purpose, to
make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and
of those things in the which I will appear to you”.
To walk in what God has made you, you have to get into His plan for your life. Be
attentive to hear the Spirit of God; for we are told to walk in the Spirit.
Jesus tells His disciples in John 8:31-32,36 “then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on Him. If you continue in My word, then are you My disciple indeed.
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. If the Son
therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed”. You see we are washed
by the water of the word of God.
Paul tells Timothy “but continue you in the things which you have learned and
have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them. And that from a
child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise to
salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus”.
People can limit God by their doubt and unbelief, remember the 10 spies that
came back with an evil report about the land that God said that He had given
them. They died in the wilderness and caused all that were 20 years old and up
to die with them, because they did not believe God, however Joshua and Caleb
got to go in. We are warned in the book of Hebrews, to be careful less we fail to
enter in (Hebrews 4:1-3) “let us therefore fear less, a promise being left us of
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For to us was
the gospel preached, as well as to them; but the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith I them that heard it. For we which have believed
do enter into rest, as He said, as I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into
My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world”
Remember that when God calls you, in the natural, it seems impossible, but as we
yield yourselves to God, He is able to bring it about (Proverbs 3:5-6) “trust in the
Lord Yahweh with all your heart ad lean not to your own understanding. In all
your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths”.
We should want more and more to hear “well done My good and faithful servant”
(Matthew 25:21); so let’s hear what God says about us and believe and enter into
His rest. And if you have need of wisdom about it, let us ask God for wisdom, who
gives to them that ask.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: January 20, 2009
Psalms 100:3 says “know you that the Lord Yahweh, He is God, it is He that has
made us, and not we ourselves, we are His people, and the sheep of His
pasture”. As we look in Genesis, we see that You have made us, and You made
us in Your own image (Genesis 1:26-28,31) “and God said, let Us make man in
Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and
over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His
own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female created He
them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful, multiply and
replenish the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the
earth. And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold, it was very
good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day”.
In Psalms 8:4-6 the Psalmist ask God a question “what is man, that You are
mindful of him? and the son of man, that You visit him? for You have made him a
little lower that Elohim, and have crowned him with glory and honor. You have
made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things
under his feet”. In Ecclesiastes 7:29 the Bible says “lo, this only have I found, that
God has made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions”.
God called Abram out from his kindred and from his fathers house, and God told
Abram that his seed would be as the sand of the sea shore, this He told him when
Abram was 75 years old and had no children. After 10 years Sari, Abram’s wife
believed that she was barren, and so gave her maid to Abram, trying to fulfill God’
s word, but even though Ishmael was born from Abram, he was not the promised
child. When Abram was 99 the Lord Yahweh appeared unto Abram and said to
him “no longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be
Abraham, for a father of many nations have I made you”. And even though
Abraham and Sarah laughed, Romans 4
:18-20 Abraham “ who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the
father of many nations; according to that which was spoken; so shall your seed
be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when
he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb.
He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith,
giving glory to God”; and Isaac was born within that year.
Gideon was hiding out trying to harvest his wheat, and the angel of the Lord
appeared to him, calling him “a mighty man of valor”; after Gideon realized that he
had seen God and was not destroyed, he yielded to the word of God and became
that mighty man of valor (Judges 6). Like Gideon we have to let go and let God.
Remembering that God uses ordinary people to do His will.
God told Jeremiah I have made you a prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:5)
“before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, and before you came forth out of the
womb, I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet to the nations”. In Roman 4:
17 it tells us that “God makes alive the dead, and calls those things which be not
as though they were”. Meaning that because God knows the end from the
beginning, when He calls things, even though they don’t seem to be, they become.
Jesus said to those He called, “follow Me and I will make you fishers of men”.
Looking back, we see that His disciples caused a multitude to come into the
kingdom. Remember that Jesus is the author and the finisher of your faith
(Hebrews 12:2).
The leper believed that Jesus could make him clean (Matthew 8:1-3) “when He
(Jesus) was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed Him. And
behold, there came a leper and worshipped Him, saying, Lord, if You will, You can
make me clean. And Jesus put forth His hand, and touched him, saying, I will be
you clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed”.
The Bible tells us many times what God has made us: {Proverbs 10:22) says “the
blessings of the Lord Yahweh, it makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it”;
Psalms 18:35,43 says “You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, and
Your right hand has held me up, and Your gentleness has made me great. You
have delivered me from the striving of the people, and You have made me the
head of the heathen”. Psalms 92:4 says “for You Lord Yahweh, have made me
glad through Your works; I will triumph in the works of Your hands”. Remember
that God says “it is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord
Yahweh (Zechariah 4:6). Psalms 119:73 says “Your hand have made me and
fashioned me, give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments”.
Psalms 139:14 says “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows right well”.
I Corinthians 1:29-31 says “that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him
are you in Christ Jesus, who God is made to us wisdom, righteousness, and
sanctification, and redemption. That according as it is written, he that glories, let
him glory in the Lord”. We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ
Jesus (II Corinthians 5:21). We have been made justified, just as if we had never
sinned (Romans 3:24), and Acts 13:39 which says “and by Him (Jesus) all that
believes are justified from all things; from which you could not be justified by the
law of Moses”.
We have made to draw near (Ephesians 2:12-14) “that at that time you were
without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from
the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now
in Christ Jesus you who sometimes were far off are made near by the blood of
Christ. For He is our peace, who had made both one, and has broken down the
middle wall of partition between us”. II Corinthians 9:8 says “and God is able to
make al grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all
things, may abound to every good work”.
We have to remember that all things are possible to them that believe. Our part is
to yield ourselves to God and become fully persuaded that what God has
promised, He is able also to perform it (Philippians 1:6).
Paul remembers his Damascus road experience (Acts 26:13-16) “at midday, O
king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun shining
round about me, and them which journeyed with me. And when we were all fallen
to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue,
Saul, Saul, why persecute you Me, it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.
And I said, who are You, Lord, and He said, I am Jesus whom you persecute. But
rise, and stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for that purpose, to
make you a minister and a witness both of these things which you have seen, and
of those things in the which I will appear to you”.
To walk in what God has made you, you have to get into His plan for your life. Be
attentive to hear the Spirit of God; for we are told to walk in the Spirit.
Jesus tells His disciples in John 8:31-32,36 “then said Jesus to those Jews which
believed on Him. If you continue in My word, then are you My disciple indeed.
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. If the Son
therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed”. You see we are washed
by the water of the word of God.
Paul tells Timothy “but continue you in the things which you have learned and
have been assured of, knowing of whom you have learned them. And that from a
child you have known the holy scriptures, which are able to make you wise to
salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus”.
People can limit God by their doubt and unbelief, remember the 10 spies that
came back with an evil report about the land that God said that He had given
them. They died in the wilderness and caused all that were 20 years old and up
to die with them, because they did not believe God, however Joshua and Caleb
got to go in. We are warned in the book of Hebrews, to be careful less we fail to
enter in (Hebrews 4:1-3) “let us therefore fear less, a promise being left us of
entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For to us was
the gospel preached, as well as to them; but the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith I them that heard it. For we which have believed
do enter into rest, as He said, as I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into
My rest, although the works were finished from the foundation of the world”
Remember that when God calls you, in the natural, it seems impossible, but as we
yield yourselves to God, He is able to bring it about (Proverbs 3:5-6) “trust in the
Lord Yahweh with all your heart ad lean not to your own understanding. In all
your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths”.
We should want more and more to hear “well done My good and faithful servant”
(Matthew 25:21); so let’s hear what God says about us and believe and enter into
His rest. And if you have need of wisdom about it, let us ask God for wisdom, who
gives to them that ask.
Study by: Harriet Bond
Date: January 20, 2009
