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The Creative Mandate

Hello, and welcome to Day 1 of the Create & Activate plan! Over the course of the next seven days, I hope to equip you with the biblical principles you need to fully embrace and activate your God-given creativity. Today let’s start off by looking at the creative mandate!

Did you know God created YOU to be creative? That statement alone declares God’s desire for us to be like Him. Ephesians 5:1 (NLT) says, “Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.” If we are to be our Creator’s image bearers, we must embrace a lifestyle of creating. Let’s call this the “Creative Mandate.”

When we read “God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1), we naturally assume that only Father God was involved in the creation process. However, we see from scripture that all members of the Trinity were active and present. Genesis 1:16 says, “Let us” create man in “our image,” according to “our likeness” (NIV). If our Creative Mandate is to create like the Father created and if He partnered with Jesus and the Holy Spirit during His creative process, don’t you think we should too? We have to take this creative model and apply it to our own creativity.

The reality is creativity can be found in every single activity of our daily lives. It doesn’t matter if you’re a musician, clothes designer, computer engineer, stay-at-home parent, doctor, or plumber, you exercise your creative muscle every day just by solving problems with solutions and bringing things back to their original design.

Every single person on this earth has a skill set for something. Over the course of this plan, I want to help you take your God-given abilities and expand them to greater heights by cultivating anointing through the partnership of the Trinity.