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deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (Genesis 1:1–3). The Bible Is Always Right In one translation, Genesis 1:3 reads like this: "God said, Light be! And light was." In recent years, scientists have concluded that the one perfect word that describes all matter is light. They spent centuries, and no telling how much money, finding that out. But they could have known it all along! They could have gone to the bookstore, spent a few dollars on a Bible, started out with that truth, and gone on from there. This is an unchanging principle: If you start out on The WORD, you start out where everyone else hopes to arrive someday. You start out on the truth. "But Brother Copeland, what's in the Bible doesn't always look like the truth." That doesn't mean it's wrong. It just means you don't understand it. When Christopher Columbus told Spain's Queen Isabella that the world was round, people thought that was wrong too. Back in the 1400s everybody thought the world was flat. But Columbus saw in the Bible that when God was preparing to create the earth, He "set a compass" upon the face of the deep (Proverbs 8:27). A compass is round! So, when Columbus read that, it led him to believe he could sail around the world. And because Queen Isabella knew his belief was based on the Bible, she financed the trip. Don't ever be ashamed of your Bible when it appears to disagree with science. The Bible is always right. Science just hasn't totally caught up with it yet. The Bible talks in Deuteronomy 32:13, for instance, about God's people getting "oil out of the flinty rock." Nobody knew thousands of years ago when that was written in the Bible that there was oil in flint rock. But God did. He was just waiting for somebody to believe it and come to Him in faith so He could show them what to do about it! The same is true of the revelation He laid out for us in Genesis 1. He's waiting for His people to believe and act on what He showed us there. For years much of the Church has been complaining to Him about the circumstances in Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen…. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear (verses 1, 3). Some people have the idea that God created the world out of nothing. But faith is not nothing. It can't be seen; it's not visible, but it's a very real and powerful spiritual force. It's the parent force to everything in this planet. Every material thing you see around you right now is composed of elements that can be traced all the way back to the words of faith recorded in Genesis 1. By speaking those words, as Hebrews 11:3 said, God "framed" the worlds. So, to follow His example, we too must learn to frame what we want to create in our lives. Think about the word frame for a moment. What do you do with a frame? You put it around a picture. Words create pictures. If I say the word dog, for example, you don't think of the letters d-o-g. You envision a dog. If I say it's a "big, black, ugly, three-legged dog," the picture in your mind changes with every word that's added. The additional words framed for you the picture of a particular dog I had in mind. But my inner picture of the dog came first…then the words followed. The same was true when God framed the world with His WORD. Proverbs 3:19 says, "The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens." In other words, in His wisdom The LORD envisioned what He desired to create. Then, through His understanding of how to use faith and words to their fullest extent and power, He brought what He envisioned into manifestation. Now it's our turn to follow in His footsteps. Now, we're to take the revelation of His faith-framing process and use it to bring into manifestation everything He has promised us in the Bible. That's one of the reasons He laid out the process for us so clearly in His WORD. It's why the very first thing the Spirit of God tells us in the very first chapter of the Bible is: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the As soon as we realized God's creative power is in His WORD, we committed to put it first place and make it final authority in our lives." " 6 : B V O V