Wednesday, November 4, 2009

To catch a ray of sunlight.

I Love that summer is here. The sun shining down making us warm, giving us longer days, it's Beautiful. Laying down in the shade of trees, it happens to be the perfect place to reminisce of past experiences been...


When I was in primary school I remember splitting light through prisms. The one thing I’ll never forget was that 'light is actually made up of many colours'. And now, as the sun shines down, I think to myself, "to catch a ray of light would be a mystical thing, to put it in a jar and hold it for a moment, looking deep within to capture the beauty of it."

Imagine the different colours you would see, as one ray of light shone through the crystal clear glass.

But now imagine that jar is you, and the spirit of God which lives within you is that Light.

WHAT GLORIOUS LIVES WE SHOULD LEAD, that Heaven should shine out from within us.

So let me ask you this, “Are the things you are living for, worth Christ dying for?”



The Holy Spirit, the same power that created the universe, resides in you!

I get frustrated when people think they can put God in a box because they have placed their spirit inside a box named their lives.




The Bible says “…let your light shine before men…”(Matthew 5:16, NIV)

and as light is made up of many colours, we have to ask ourselves, “What aspects of light are there in our Christian walk?”


This verse is talking about 'letting your good deeds be seen by all men, that they may see and know the goodness of God.' Faith and works make steady paths for amazing testimonies. But are there other aspects to letting your light shine?


What do you think about words? I believe we take them for granted. After all the bible states that they “Have the power of life and death” (Proverbs 18:21)

I believe that it’s the little things we say through life that have an extremely large impact on people. We may not notice it but “God’s word never comes back void” (Isaiah 55:11). When we speak life into someone or when the Holy Spirit guides us to speak to someone, it all has an impact far beyond what we see in the here and now. When teaching primary students, I have the power to guide each students passions with the words I say. If i say to a student, "you cant draw, don't even try!" then that student is likely to never become an artist. But If i say, "Far out, that's an amazing painting... Do you paint in space? coz your art is out of this world." then Painting is going to be something they will probably continue with after they leave school, and that student would carry that encouragement through their entire life.


I believe we can be a light in other ways also. As we walk in light, becoming more like Christ within who he created us to be, the Anointing begins to be seen on us. I was in town one day and a lady said to me, "you're a christian, I can see it all over your face, you love Jesus, YOU LOVE JESUS." I have heard stories of people on trains and buses, just minding there own business, having strangers coming up to them asking for prayer and help because they see the Holy Spirit in and on them


When the Holy Spirit consumes you and when Light is in you and pouring out of you, do you not think that he has the power to be seen in the physical? I'm still waiting until light literally is seen coming from me, having no darkness around me at all, as "God is light, and in him there is NO darkness at all." (1 john 1:5) A friend once told me that when he was staying at a mates house, he looked over at his friend and noticed that he was glowing. I thought cool, and then I thought about Simon-Peter and his shadow.


Bill Johnson put it into good words"your shadow only releases what overshadows you" Simon-Peter's shadow would heal people. It got me thinking. If light and Love are overshadowing me, then that should be seen in my life. I don't have to try to live as a light. I have to walk in the knowledge that the light is in me, it covers me, it consumes and envelops me, now the world will see that "the spirit of the Lord is upon me to..."(Isaiah 61 - read what happens when the spirit of the lord is upon you! fascinating stuff!)


Light, It's something I will grow to understand. Light; the miraculous, testimonies, actions, words spoken, God!


"Let me walk in this light Lord! Teach me to let the light shine through me before all men! I want to know more of you, more of the ways you move, that i to may walk, co-laboring with You, for your names sake.

I love you

Amen"

1 comment:

  1. Wow Joe! Yay for blogs! Good on ya! Look forward to reading more of your revelations on here :D

    Ilana

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