The World needs more of the Light!

Continue to walk in the “Light” reflecting Jesus and His Agape Love in all you say and do.
* “…for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness…But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love…”
1 Thessalonians 5:5-8

Sometimes the enemy whispers, “You don’t really love yourself, and that’s why you can’t love others”. This way of thinking only reinforces our root problem of self-centeredness, and Satan rejoices.
** “But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh…”
Romans 13:14

Jesus was speaking to a crowd of just ordinary folks. Yet Christ said to them, “You are the light of the world.” And today, you are the light of the world. That’s how God intends to get his work done on earth today: through you!
It’s not just pastors and missionaries who are the light; it’s everybody who loves the Lord.

You see, the world doesn’t understand. The world looks at Christians and thinks, “They don’t count.” God takes an ordinary person and uses them to share His message to people who needed Him.
When we share our faith, we spread His light.

Jesus describes what we are in this passage – the light of the world, not the light of the church.
That means we have to get beyond the church walls and take the light out to where it is dark.

We must not only be “hearers” of God’s Word, but “doers” also. When God brings someone to mind, be sure to follow through with whatever He tells you to do for that person.
“Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead…”James 2:17

You were saved to shine!
* Don’t hide your testimony or be ashamed to take your Bible to work, lunch or even Church.
*Don’t be afraid to pray over your lunch.
* Let others know that you love the Lord Jesus.

Jesus also talked of the strength of collective light. Each house in a city with its lights on cast a glow across the sky.
As Christians come together, there is a glow for the Lord that we cannot create individually. We shine brightest when we shine “together”.  UNITY

How can we shine for God?
Jesus says that we are to let our lights shine before men in such a way that they will see our good works and glorify God. That’s how we do it. We live for God.

Can you imagine how dark it is going to be ten years from now, should the Lord
abandoned us?   Romans 1: 24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. 25 They traded the truth about God for a lie.
Romans 1:18 But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who Suppress the Truth by their wickedness. 19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.

Romans 12:16 For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes.

Yet, I ask you: As you see the darkness deepening on all sides, do you believe
it will exceed the light of the gospel? Are you afraid the darkness is going to
squash it, snuff it out?

No—never! God’s people must never be intimidated by the darkness and fury
of the enemy. The Bible says Jesus is going to rise and shine in the darkness
no matter how dark the world becomes! “The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined” (Isaiah 9:2).

We live in a time of widespread death and darkness. But God says that in such
times He will shine His light the brightest: “I will bring the blind by a way they did not know; I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them” (Isaiah 42:16).
*If you let Him, God will guide you step-by-step on a path that He custom-designed for you.
****The Lord alone is the Light for our path, the sight for our blinded eyes, and the pathway to purpose and peace for our lives.

No darkness will ever stop God’s light! So get your eyes off the darkness,
off the sin, off the fury of violent people, and believe the Lord for the
bursting forth of His shining light!

“This is the message we heard from Jesus and now declare to you: God is light, and there is no darkness in him at all.  So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.  But if we are living in the light, as God is in the light, then we have fellowship with each other, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.(1John 1:5-7).

We cannot walk daily in victory if we do not get the Word in us daily. We won’t know how to respond when there is an attack against us.
Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. We are MORE than conquerors through Jesus.
Jesus has already overcome.
“More than conquerors” means having “Decisive Victory”.

To those of you who have fought the good fight, I tell you honestly that you have punched through hindrances and dispelled the darkness so that you are able to see with more clarity and walk in more freedom.
The battle has been fierce and your adversary has been tough, but you have risen up in faith, stayed the course, and overcome.  “Rejoice in victory”, says the Lord.
1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

* Only through the faith of God do we truly live.
* To put all my faith in God and to let him work in my life.
John 16: 33 I have told you all this so that you may have peace in me. Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have overcome the world.”

God, I am amazed at how much my life has changed by just putting all my faith in you. You have worked in my life and I see that. Thank you Jesus for all you have done. Lord Continue to brighten the lights of all us believers so others will come to You “THE ONLY TRUE LIGHT” for Your Glory and our joy! Amen
Read Romans 1:16-32 and see what happens if we surppress the TRUTH!