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Today’s Devotional Scripture: 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. - Genesis 1:7-9 KJV
The Message For Today (May 8, 2026):
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When we see the creation story, we often see the story of God creating the earth with his voice. We see Him speaking life into existence over a six-day period, telling the oceans where to stop, creating heaven, and separating the waters above from the waters below.
We see him operating as the Creator, and in our minds and in our hearts, we know that He is able to do what He says He’s able to do because we’re standing in the reality of it. But when we look at our lives and when we look at the issues of life and all of the obstacles, we don’t often see ourselves and our lives in the same way. We inherently know that God created the earth, and He created Adam and Eve. But we don’t see how this life, this moment, is made in God.
We don’t often see how we are made in God.
This inherently causes many of us to feel overwhelmed, depressed, oppressed, frustrated with life, wondering if we’re doing the right thing, the wrong thing, if we’re walking in season, and if we’re doing what pleases God. We begin to wander. And because we begin to wonder about what we should do and how we should show up, we get further and further away from being made in God. We get further away from being present in God. We get further and further away from our Creator.
This is a trick of the enemy to cause us to feel as if our lives are arbitrary, as if we’re just walking out our lives, struggling the best way we can, and trying to figure it out on our own. That is a lie here and now. You are made in God. You were made through Him, the one who was there in the beginning. The first thing to consider is that in the beginning, Jesus was there in creation.
And in John 1:1-3, it says:
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 The same was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. - John 1:1-3 KJV
Meaning without God, without Jesus, in the beginning with God, none of what happened in Genesis happened.
Jesus wasn’t just a bystander who maybe was there, maybe wasn’t. No. It says that in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and through the Word everything was made. Through Jesus, everything was made, including you and me.
In the Amplified Version, that same scripture reads:
1 In the beginning [before all time] was the Word ([a]Christ), and the Word was with God, and [b]the Word was God Himself. 2 He was [continually existing] in the beginning [co-eternally] with God. 3 All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him not even one thing was made that has come into being. - John 1:1-3 AMP
So we see here in this scripture that we were made in Jesus. We were made in the fullness of His being. We were made in the Word. To further solidify that, John 1:14 states:
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. - John 1:14 KJV
So the Word was made flesh. So Jesus came to redeem what was made through Jesus. He came to redeem what was made through Him. The Son of God and the Son of Man, fully God and fully man. And we were made through Him in the image of the Word. And then the Word made flesh came to reconcile us back to the God that we fell away from.
So redemption is not just the start. It’s actually the restructuring. It is the redeeming of the one through whom we were formed.
Everything in your life is just a result.
And everything in your life can change. What does not change is right here in this moment: that you were made through Jesus. And Jesus came, endured the cross, died, went to the grave, and was resurrected so that we can have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us.
You are made in God. And we have the Spirit of God in each one of us who believes, each one of us who receives, each one of us who’s a follower of Christ and has been baptized by His Spirit. You are made in God. Your children are made in God. Your husband is made in God.
People who haven’t accepted God, people who love God but they have issues in their hearts, people who literally give their all to God but can’t seem to find their footing: we were all made in God. And because we’re made in God, we know that this world is not our home. We’re just walking through it.
We were made in God.
And how we walk this day cannot be from a place of feeling as if God is far from us, or wondering if He hears us, and wondering how to walk out this day. No. The way that we can walk, being ambassadors of Christ in the earth, is to know that here and now we are made in Him, and His Spirit is in us. We are covered, and we are filled. We have what we need to be complete.
Regardless of the circumstances, we can be content, whether abased or abounding, because God is with us and His grace is sufficient and His strength is made perfect in our weakness (Philippians 4:12, 2 Corinthians 12:9 KJV). We are not far from God. We simply need to sit and remember who we are in Christ Jesus. We need to remember that we came through Jesus and that Jesus came to deliver us. The Messiah and our Source. In the beginning was the Word, and man was made in the image of Jesus.
In Genesis, it says, Let us make man in our image (Genesis 1:26-28 KJV). We have all that we need right here, right now. We bear the image of Christ here and now. And being image bearers, we have the authority and the dominion to change everything by faith, not by might nor by power, but by His Spirit that is at rest within us.
This is how we approach the day. Full of glory, full of hope, full of peace, and full of love. Because perfect love casts out fear. Perfect love covers us and casts out everything that’s not like God. And it’s the love of God which has paid the cost. And it’s our reminder that we are no longer lost. We are no longer overwhelmed. We don’t have to be afraid.
We can be at rest in his presence. We can trust God in Jesus’ name.
Closing Devotional Prayer
My Prayer for You:
Father, in the name of Jesus, thank you. Thank you for the grace and the glory of God. Thank you for being Alpha and Omega, God, the beginning and the end. Thank you for breaking everything that’s not like you. Thank you for the healing. Thank you for the joy.
Thank you, Lord God, for you are the Sovereign God, the Holy One, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Thank you for covering this mighty woman of God. Thank you for breaking everything that’s not like you. Thank you for restoring the joy of our salvation. Thank you. Thank you for lifting this mighty woman of God right where she is.
And I pray in the name of Jesus that the Spirit of the Lord go forth in a mighty way. For Lord God, you are able to do what you said that you would do. And there is nothing in this world that can stand against you. Lord God, if you be for us, who can be against us? I thank you for the mighty woman of God.
I thank you for her family being blessed. I thank you for her home being blessed. I thank you for her finances being blessed. I thank you for her marriage being blessed. I thank you that her soundness of mind and purpose is going forth in an unusual way. I thank you, Lord, and I pray in Jesus’ mighty name. Amen.
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