"The earth was without form and
an empty waste,
and darkness was upon the face of the
very great deep.
The Spirit of God was
moving (hovering, brooding)
over the face of the waters."
Genesis 1:2, 3 Amplified Bible1
The Nothingness was a seething mass of Utter Chaos.
Disorder and vacuous emptiness.
The darkness was never-ending.
The Spirit of God . . .
seeing, considering, pondering
the Great Vacancy.
Waiting, ever waiting
for the Voice to break into the void
and shatter the awful face
of the Nothing.
The precious first mention of
the Spirit of God exposes all
His Hidden Dynamic.
His ways of serving God, revealed.
His ...
read remainder of article"The earth was without form and
an empty waste,
and darkness was upon the face of the
very great deep.
The Spirit of God was
moving (hovering, brooding)
over the face of the waters."
Genesis 1:2, 3 Amplified Bible1
The Nothingness was a seething mass of Utter Chaos.
Disorder and vacuous emptiness.
The darkness was never-ending.
The Spirit of God . . .
seeing, considering, pondering
the Great Vacancy.
Waiting, ever waiting
for the Voice to break into the void
and shatter the awful face
of the Nothing.
The precious first mention of
the Spirit of God exposes all
His Hidden Dynamic.
His ways of serving God, revealed.
His role as Pray-er, described
and the secrets laid before us in
stark simplicity.
Praying . . . in the Holy Spirit.
Jude 1:20
Prayer is first watching.
Moving over the face of the turbulence,
merely observing and quietly watching.
Moving above it, not in it,
seeing, simply seeing from all sides.
A continuous pondering watch.
Prayer next is quiet.
No sound except God.
No opinion, no imagination.
No pompous counseling of God.
Only a patient standstill till His Voice
cracks the Silence
upon the dismal waste.
Prayer is waiting.
There must be a "void on the face of the deep"
in order to hear Creation resonate.
There must be someone to observe
the vast darkness of human disorder . . .
someone who will withdraw above
where dwells the Spirit Who is God
and there sit with Him
calmly brooding over the deep . . . .
Prayer is hearing.
By the silencing of all other words,
by a fierce hold onto
absolute quiet and simple loyalty to
God's Voice alone . . .
the Holy Spirit listens and we submit to
His timeless hearing.
We merely listen with Him.
The Spirit moves to prepare for the Word.
Always He is the unseen movement that
shimmers over the
"surface of the waters"
before the Father's Voice
invades the desolation.
1 The Spirit of God MOVED
Hebrew word: Rachah; a primitive root: to brood
by impl. to be relaxed
flutter, move, shake
Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary:
Brood: to sit quietly and thoughtfully
American Dictionary of the English Language - Webster 1828
Brood: to remain a long time in anxiety or solicitous thought;
to have the mind uninterruptedly dwell a long time on a subject.
To mature anything with care: to sit over, cover and cherish as a hen broods her chickens.
Copyright © 2001 Martha Kilpatrick
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