It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is in the image of God.
God's first thing on the "to do" list was to create. His first title is Creator. He made something from nothing.
Adam looked at the something God made and was invited by God to join in the creation process and create names.
Inspire means "to breathe in". The word spirit and the word breath are the same in many languages, including Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin, and Greek. The Latin root for both spirit and inspire is the word spiritus, meaning "breath". Inspiration is God's breath taken into ourselves. We need simply to accept the gift.
If we don't breathe in, we can only duplicate what others are doing.
We have to reprogram our minds to believe that the work of our creative selves is at least as important as the work of our housekeeper selves, our yard maintenance selve, our parenting selves, etc.
Serving the creativity is not serving self, it is serving God!
It is ironic that when we adopt a servant attitude, which seems to imply bondage, we are actually set free to create something greater than ourselves, something that results from a collaboration between God and us. We are partnering. We don not have to make it up ourselves!
Breathing out, serving the work, becoming the creative person you were born to be is ethereal, heavenly work. Banish the critic that would keep you earthbound.
In order to create, you must face your inner critics and steal their power. Begin by trying to identify them.
In the New Testament, Jesus invited the disciples to leave their sensible, responsible lives for the chance to participate in the creation of something entirely new in the world.
We are here to do God's will, not gratify our own egos. Once we understand that, the creative flow we are hoping to generate will begin to course through us.
You don't have to become world renowned to influence other people through your creativity.
Our creativity, our art, has purpose and it is not important that we understand that purpose before we become productive creators.
We must simply begin!
Confessions of the Creative
By Lori Vafiades
I was created to create.
I am co-creator.
The Lord finds pleasure in my creation.
Creativity is of the Heavenly Order.
What I create is of the New Wine and of the New Song that God is releasing in the Earth today.
It is safe to open myself up to more creativity and I can trust God in this journey.
The refusal to be creative is self-will and is against my true nature as a Child of God.
I will seek an alliance - artist to artist - with the Creator.
When I open myself up to creativity, I am agreeing with God's destiny for me...
His destiny to give me prosperity, hope, and a future.
There is nothing new under the sun; the ideas are God's, the obedience is mine.
When I create...I worship.
When I create...I pray.
When I create...I please God.
When I create...I obey.
My creativity will show forth the Truth and the Truth will set men free.
I was created to create.
- Lori Vafiades
www.greatcompany.org
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