Entering Into God’s Presence

Knowing God Through His Roles & Titles

Creator  (Sphere of Family)

To Study and Ponder

• The first thing God chooses to tell us about himself is that he is a creator. The Bible begins,
  “In the beginning God created...” (Gen 1:1). Right from the start God wanted us to understand that he is a masterful artist, a brilliant innovator, a cutting-edge change-maker. He is not – and never has been – a dull, monotonous, colorless maintainer of the status quo, but an exciting doer of new things, an avant-garde designer of the future, shaping life-giving realities. His great and powerful creativity sustains the universe. “Let every created thing give praise to the LORD, for he issued his command, and they came into being” (Psalm 148:5)

• Read full meditation by David Joel Hamilton

• He is the totally incomparable Creator, always was, always will be, the only God, uncreated, nothing like the ‘gods’ others make and worship

• To create is to bring something into existence (online Dictionary)

• Our God is infinitely creative, THE inventor! His imagination and ingenuity is displayed all around us in the incredible variety, complexity, fun and beauty of the things He has created.

• God created dry land & vegetation out of nothing. He spoke & it was done. Genesis 1:9-13

• Matthew 14:13-21,15:29-39 Jesus, son of God, has the same power as His Father to make something out of nothing. he fed 5,000, then 4,000 people with very small supplies of food.

• The Old Testament describes the power of God as a creator:-

• But God made the earth by his power, and he preserves it by his wisdom. With his own understanding he stretched out the heavens.Jeremiah 10:12

• With my great strength and powerful arm I made the earth and all its people and every animal. I can give these things of mine to anyone I choose. Jeremiah 27:5

• Psalm 29:1-9 describes a storm which displays God’s power

• He is a powerful Creator, but as our Maker He understands us and listens to us.

• Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of his great power and incomparable strength,not a single one is missing. ....The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding. He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Is 40:26, 28b-29

• What joy for those you choose to bring near....You faithfully answer our prayers with awesome deeds, O God our savior. You are the hope of everyone on earth, even those who sail on distant seas.You formed the mountains by your power and armed yourself with mighty strength. Psalm 65:4a,5-6

• God created the earth and all that is on it with great wisdom, every part fitting together

• O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. Psalm 104: 24-25

• You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Ps 139:13

• By wisdom the Lord founded the earth; by understanding he created the heavens. Prov. 3:19

• Psalms 147 and 104 give a picture of our creative God totally able to provide for and take care of His people and all He has made.

• Because we are created in His image, we too are designed to be creative, resourceful, imaginative, inventive ...

• See Wiley, “God is the Creator” – “He made all that exists, visible and invisible. He alone is uncreated.”

Meditation/Memory:

Lower Grades: Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God. Psalm 90:2  (NLT)

O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you! Jeremiah 32:17 (NLT)

The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it. The world and all its people belong to him. For he laid the earth’s foundation on the seas and built it on the ocean depths.  Psalm 24:1-2  (NLT)

Middle Grades: He holds in his hands the depths of the earth and the mightiest mountains. The sea belongs to him, for he made it. His hands formed the dry land, too. Come, let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord our maker…   Psalm 95:4-6 (NLT)

O Lord, what a variety of things you have made! In wisdom you have made them all. The earth is full of your creatures. Here is the ocean, vast and wide, teeming with life of every kind, both large and small. Psalm 104:24-25  (NLT)

Upper Grades: Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.  Colossians 1:15-16 

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.  Romans 1:20 (NLT)

O Sovereign Lord! You made the heavens and earth by your strong hand and powerful arm. Nothing is too hard for you! You show unfailing love to thousands, but you also bring the consequences of one generation’s sin upon the next. You are the great and powerful God, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.You have all wisdom and do great and mighty miracles. You see the conduct of all people, and you give them what they deserve. Jeremiah 32:17-19 (NLT)