Mindset of Creativity

Date: 12 October 2008
Speaker: Pastor Kong Hee
Venue: City Harvest Church

Exodus 3:13-14
Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?”
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

"I AM" speaks of a God who is without a beginning and an ending, and who is always constant.
"I AM" in hebrews = "Yahweh" = Redeemer

Exodus 6:1-3
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them.

"God Almighty" in hebrews = "El Shaddai"
"Jehovah Jireh" = God of provision
"Jehovah Rapha" = God of healing
God went from El Shaddai to Yahweh to Jesus (Yeshua).

Matthew 19:1-8
Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.
The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?”
And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

In any problem, always go back to the beginning to seek the solution. The purpose for our redemption was to bring us back to the beginning.

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

In the beginning, God revealed himself as Elohim (God the Creator). God is a God of creativity, and so we are to be creative like He is. Tap into His creativity and bring it into your Marketplace to redeem it.

Stop having the mindset of scarcity. God is a God of abundance. With so many new millionaires coming up every moment, why can't it be you?

So long as you stay in the land of promise, God promises that you will not be destroyed.

Genesis 26:1
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

Do not move into fear.

Genesis 26:2
Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you.

Through you, your whole community will be blessed.

Genesis 26:3-6
Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”
So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

Genesis 26:12-14
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

Isaac had his priorities right, and that led to his success in life. God > Family > Ministry/Business.

Genesis 26:25
So he built an altar there and called on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.