Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
¹¹ So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

I was driving the other day when the Lord caught my attention to a couple of few words that He deeply voiced in my spirit, "Void and without form." As I meditated on this, things began to escalate to a much broader meaning within me as the Lord revealed these words in connection to other Scriptures which evolved into the title of this teaching. Therefore, our dissertation will look into the depth of what has been revealed of God's creative ability to produce that something, that wasn't there until He spoke it into being. In an addition, this study is intended to help us answer the many questions that surface when it appears that God's Word is not manifesting in the thing to which it speaks exists. I pray you will open up your heart to receive a revelation that I'm sure will unlock the mystery of what it means to have God's creative Word dwelling in you richly with performance.

Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)
¹ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
² And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Hebrews 11:3 (KJV)
³ Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Our Scripture above over in Genesis speaks that from the beginning of time God created the heaven and the earth. Notice, that He described it as having no form and it was void of any distinction other than it was dark and formless. Obviously, if we continued to read on with the rest of this chapter in Genesis we will find God speaking things into existence out of the void. What materials did God use to make all these things? According to the book of Hebrews 11:3 that we just read, we find that God framed everything with His Words. It also reveals that what is seen in the "now" was not made with things which do appear. What is this saying? It means that God did not create things out of what it already had been at one time. For example, God did not make an ox out of a former ox that He had messed up on when He was making it in the beginning. Let me reinforce a truth here, God has never messed up anything that He created, including man. Therefore, God made the first oxen in the order of its original design to which He had made it; and it would reproduce more oxen through its created counterpart. This point we are hitting on will be very important as we continue on to what I am about to share with you within this teaching.

I realize that we could easily conclude that God messed up when He made man in the beginning due to man's apparent fall and how things have evolved since. On the contrary, this is the uniqueness of God's original design for man that He would make him in the very likeness and image of Himself. In other words, man would have a creative "will" to which he could use any way he chooses. Sadly, we witness far more of this "will" being used for all the wrong things than the way it was intended to operate from the beginning. We have all found ourselves doing things that we would later on regret because we ignored some inner voice that was telling us to stay clear of that bad choice. In addition, the more we do this, the more we will become dull in our hearing to this would be "Guide" in our life. We are told in the Scriptures not to grieve the Holy Spirit, yet we do it more times than we are willing to admit. Therefore, the inevitable unfolds around us due to our own stubbornness. It is never God's intention that we learn things the hard way. He would rather we learn through His Word and avoid the hardships of life that come upon us through our own disobedience.

Now, as we continue to look at this subject of God's creative word, I want us to grasp some things that I believe were revealed in order to share them with you for your benefit within this article. I sought the Lord to explain more about these words that He spoke unto my spirit relating to, void and being without form. Here is what He revealed to my heart. The Spirit of God moves in creative power where there is absence of design, shape, or form. In other words, it is the things that are empty and void that best suit the creative nature of God to create something anew. What do I mean by this? The Spirit of God was simply saying that He never reuses something again once He has created the intents and purposes of its original design in the beginning. I thought for a moment that this couldn't be right, so I tested this line of thought within the Word.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

I then posed this question concerning the passage just read. If God does not reuse what He has already made than how does this Scripture fit into that line of thinking? From here the Holy Spirit began to reveal some things that I will never forget for the rest of my life. The first thing that we need to understand is that man was not recreated from his original design once a man partook of the born again experience. Man had lost his way due to his disobedience to the command of the Lord in the beginning. And through that disobedience to his Creator he lost his identity and would continue to go down that spiral road to eventual death as God declared he would because of his sin. The death, to which God spoke of in its original meaning in Scripture, is that the day you eat of that tree which I commanded you to refrain from, you shall surely die. What God was saying, is when you die in that event through your disobedience, you will truly die. We know the Scripture teaches that every man has an appointment with physical death. This is because of the fall and it will not change due to the flesh that is corruptible in its evolved nature. Whose fault is this? Did God mess up when He made man? Of course not! Man chose to disobey his Creator, and he continues to do so even today. We were not created with a sinful nature in the beginning. We were made to be like God, and that was His idea from the beginning. However, without wasting a lot of time discussing the details of the fall that should already be known by the average Christian; I will spare the time it will take to rehash what should be apparent to all that believe.

Look at this again: God spoke things into being which are now seen from the things that did not appear before He created them. With this thought in mind let us now proceed to the meat of this revelation. Every believer has struggled at some point trying to get the Word to activate in their life in some area. However, all of us have arrived periodically where we just seemed to always wrestle trying to release a particular promise into our life or someone else without any results other than just our profession to that truth. It's incredibly disheartening to read a promise in the Bible and than fail to see its manifestation show up in our life. This is a common struggle found among believers. It leaves the idea that has cleared much of the way for false teachings to evolve because when it does not work according to what the Bible says, then there needs to be a logical answer to satisfy our belief. So what does the religious man do? He excuses the Word from standing on its own merit in the manner to which it speaks, and offers a way out for God to save face with His followers and for church leadership to save face with their group when that Word does not appear to work. The Holy Spirit prompted me that this is the reason that God's Word appears to come back void in the lives of many people. It is not a failure on the part of His Word, but rather it is a cumulative of other things to which the believer hangs onto that occupies his heart and mind.

In other words, the Holy Spirit was saying that whenever something contrary to His Word is present; it occupies the residence at the request or belief of that individual; and God, therefore, cannot violate their "will." What is this saying to us, it is saying that whenever we are seeking God's Word about a promise that He has given in His Word, but we hold onto doubt, excuses, provision for the flesh, or some other provision then it consumes the volume of our heart and mind where we cannot receive the promise though it is written in God's Word. Why? Well, according to the Word it tells us over in the book of James that if a man is double-minded; let him not think that he will receive anything from God. Remember God speaks to emptiness in order to create something new. We cannot be born-again unless we are willing to empty ourselves and allow Him to fill our hearts. We are instructed not to be filled with wine, but rather be filled with the Spirit. Again, we are told that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. As the Holy Spirit took my thoughts throughout the Word of God I kept seeing this repeated theme which supported what He was showing me in this revelatory teaching today.

Think about it. People who refuse to believe in the baptism of the Holy Ghost have filled their heart with something that consumes the volume of their heart and mind leaving no room for God's promise to manifest. When someone is deathly sick and they have been raised all their life in a church that taught faithfully that God does not always heal everyone; that person has filled the resident of their heart and mind with the very things that keep God's promise out. God said His Word would not come back to Him void; yet because His Word will not manifest in some people's lives, God will be faulted as not having a reliable Word that can be trusted. This is what is happening today. We are so full of humanistic views and ideas that it preoccupies our hearts and minds to the point that though we say we are believers, God's Word has no room to enter and accomplish its work in us. When I looked over the Scriptures I discovered that every person who received a miracle, it was because they emptied themselves of whatever they had been trusting in and reached for what God was offering in exchange. In example: the woman with the issue of blood who spent all her wealth on doctors who could not heal her, but were sure willing to take her money. She finally came to the end of her self-preservation, and reached out to Jesus and touched the helm of His garment and became whole.

Paul looks at a cripple and perceives that he has faith to receive his healing (Acts 14:9). This cripple obviously had room in his heart and mind to receive a Word from God, or Paul wouldn't have seen it. No matter where you look in the Scriptures the same thing appears; wherever God released His Word and there was nothing occupying through contradiction to that Word it always manifested results. If we look at Scripture we find that it is impossible to please God without faith. What is faith? It is the things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Where do we get faith? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. It is ridiculous to want something so bad that you desperately need which is written in the Word of God, but you keep filling yourself with everything other than that Word. I tell you, I have witnessed this self-sabotaging characteristic being demonstrated many times over the years from folks even though they come up for prayer seeking help. What they are most generally doing is wishing that something would take place. But unfortunately, the Bible is not a wish book; it is truth and life to those that find it. Another observation that we could make here is that "wishing" is more perfectly described as being nothing more than how people approach the promises of God to which they may have heard or read about, and attribute it to being some form of luck or roll of the dice. Wishing does not produce anything, just as dreams do nothing if they are never acted on.

We must become the disciples of Christ, and that means that we abide in His Word and His Word abides in us. I've mentioned this before, but there is a big difference between believing and being a disciple. A disciple will follow the teachings of the One he is pursuing and will not be distracted from that course. Whereas, a believer receives the Savior, but He never becomes Lord of their life. The story of the prodigal son reveals a young man who was immature and full of himself, and wanted his inheritance now instead of waiting for its proper disbursement. After receiving it, he left home and ends up wasting his entire inheritance on riotous living. The truth I wish to make from this story is that once the prodigal son realized that what he trusted as his identification was no longer accessible, he came to his senses. It was here that he came back home to where he belonged. He had become empty and it was here that he could be filled with something new. On the other hand, the elder brother who hung around his father's house working and serving became jealous when his brother came home, and their father threw a big party on behalf of his son who had been lost, but now was found. This elder brother had his own problem which went undetected. He was full from all of his serving and taking care of the family business that he was unable to receive what was always available to him anytime. The elder brother found his identity in his own self-works. In either one of these cases, when these brothers were full of something other than what was proper for a son, they could not receive of the father what was truly theirs by inheritance, as being sons.   

Galatians 4:1-7 (KJV)
¹ Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all;
² But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father.
³ Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
⁴ But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
⁵ To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
⁶ And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
⁷ Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

When I was looking this over I remembered how the Bible spoke of many kings that were very young in age, some as young as 8 years old. I thought of how important it was for them growing up to be groomed to what a king looks like. He would also have to learn of how a king talks and what a king does to run a kingdom. The point I'm trying to make here is that if we do not understand who we are, and what we should be identifying with in Christ; it is here that we will be filling our lives with all the wrong things which can be stolen by our adversary the devil very easily. Remember the Bible teaches it's the treasures stored up in heaven that the enemy can't touch or spoil. Therefore, this becomes more problematic down the road when we develop a heart and mind that remains rooted in temporal things rather than on spirituals. We can't even begin to detect that we are opposing the spiritual when we are concentrated on the earthly. If according to the Word of God it says that the heart and mind that stays on the Lord shall know perfect peace; how much more shall it have the opposite affect when we fill our lives with carnal means through our own self-preservation, while refusing God's promises from having entrance into our hearts.

I was teaching in our Bible School here at the ministry and made this statement to our second year students. Depending on what you are loading your heart and mind with right now will determine how you will handle the next obstacle that your adversary the devil will place in your path up the road. In other words, whatever the devil has in his arsenal to use against you will only be as affective as your carelessness to protect yourself with God's armor and the knowledge of His Word. Too many folks that call themselves Christian's today are ill prepared to stand against their enemy with any consistency. If you fail to see the importance of having your existence in Christ alone; than you will have a date with the thief who promises to show you no mercy when he comes to steal, kill and destroy. The Word of God creates in us the divine miracles to which it declares belongs to each of us; however, if we are full of other forms of identity than we will not be able to merge the promises of God into our lives affectively. Why is this? We are told in Scriptures to exchange the old nature for a new one. Again the Word tells us over in 1 Corinthians 10:21, "you cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the Lord's Table and of the table of devils." Therefore, this once again reinforces how that double-mindedness is the deterrent to having God's design in you. There has to be an alignment of your "will" and God's Word for your life. It's called agreement, otherwise, there can be no joyful walking together.  

Romans 12:2 (KJV)
² And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

As I close this teaching I hope you understand the spiritual logic behind the revelation that has been revealed. God heals a person when that person is empty of all other forms of belief within them that is in opposition to His Word. God brings wealth to the life that trusts Him completely for all things, and refuses to worry and make their own way of provision when desperate times pressure them to do so without Him. God's Word never comes back void to Him. The apostle Paul said it is not I that lives, but rather Christ in me that lives. If we are His then we claim nothing but Him, and with that we will have all things that He has declared in His Word. If God and you are one, than when you speak, it is the same as Him speaking, if it is in fact, His Words that you are speaking. They cannot come back to Him void from where they were sent. And it makes no difference what the doubters argue when you hold to His Word for your answer. God's Word cannot fail where it finds emptiness and is void of all obstruction in the life that truly belongs to Him. The importance of becoming empty is to immediately become filled with the divine nature of the Word. Otherwise, if we remain empty the enemy will come again with more occupants to fill that house and you will be worse off than before. The results will be catastrophic and full of ruin. Note: If any part of the old nature remains in order to identify itself with that old, then the new nature becomes flawed by the lumps of the old. Again, the Word of God tells us that a little leaven, leavens the whole lump. We discover over in the book of Matthew 15:18-20, that it is the things which proceed out of the mouth that comes forth from the heart; and these defile the man. Remember, it is from the abundance of the heart that the mouth speaks. 

Conclusion: Empty yourselves today of everything that opposes the nature of God in you, and reach for the everlasting Arm of the Lord! There is a Word for every season; will you make room for it? (Isaiah 54:2-3) If you do, it promises to bring a creative force of transformation to your life.