"The Light" and "The Spirit of the Living God" go hand in hand"
Let us pray "Father in the name of Jesus thank you for your words "let there be light" so long ago which still applies "forever and ever" amen and we "receive" the entrance of your light and your word in to our hearts "which will stand" forevermore.......In Jesus' name. Amen.
Did you ever go to one of those "home-made" haunted house type things when you were a kid? I did. Now my children did not have that experience because I did not allow them to celebrate "Halloween" but "as a kid" I can still remmeber when I went into one of those things and how it was all "dimly lit' and in the semi-darkness you could "see" say "a coffin" and as you walked by this "arm" would "reach out and grab you" and make me "Jump" and "Scream" and then as we would run to get out (of this spooky place) a "rubber spider" would brush across the top of our hair causing even more "fear" (and screaming) and all the kids would "scream" and "get out of there" and say "that was fun" or "that was scary" and tell everyone "you should go in there!"
Well my point is this: The only reason we were "scared" is because the room was so dimly lit (just enough light to see your way through this "place") and so had there been "a fully illuminated room" we would have seen that the "monsters" in there were "not dead" (because their eye lids were moving) or that it was "fake blood" or just a "rubber spider" and just all the tell-tale signs of this being one big "staged set up" would have been shown quite clearly 'had there been" "more light".
How many areas of your life (or others) are "dimly lit" do you suppose? I know people even "light candles" in a darkened room to have "romance" which is really "concealing" what we really "look like?" or how things "really are?" "oh I love you" she says as he looks so "handsome" by "candle light.' Yes, some "really do this" and sometimes even "call it God" !!oh we do "know better" but sometimes we think it's fun to "deceive ourselves" just like those kids "in the haunted house" scenario? Well "being a kid" is not forever unless you would like to always just "be a child" but then "you can never do grown up responsibilities then" Right?
Now believe it or not this sermon began just from reading Acts Chapter 22 and Romans Chapter 8! It just "jumped out at me" that when Paul was testifying about his experience with "Jesus Christ' it was "LIGHT" that was the biggest part of his testimony! In that LIGHT he "saw" that Jesus Christ was who he was persecuting (not just "persons" who were not obeying God "according to the Pharisees") and "In that Light" he saw HIMSELF as he really was...... and he SAW that he had stood by and allowed and innocent man to be stoned to death (Stephen). At the same time he saw the horror of his own flesh and sins he also "saw" that he was no longer condemned by God! And we know this because he wrote in Romans 8:1 "there is therefore now no condemnation to those who........" (read it please Yes please get out your bibles and read it "again"). Read it like Jesus and the Holy Spirit are there with you because if you invite them "they are!" So please, from now on do not underestimate "the Power of Light!". (Amen).
So you see my friends as we talk about "God Spot" that place where you allow "the light of God" to just "shine" into your hearts and minds "yes" you will have to take a harder look at yourself in the "reality" of "what" you really are or that "your mind" is not always "the mind of Christ" as it should be "BUT" it is a very good thing! In that light God's love is so powerful that it "matters not" and the Holy Spirit IS where the Light of God IS because the things of God go hand in hand "with each other" (amen) and God cannot seperate himself "from himself" (nor would we wish him to!) so then when Paul talked about "Walking by and in the Spirit' and THESE shall be called the Sons of God (Romans 8) there is much to be said here about "Walking in the Spirit' and if we are not well then "we should be".
There are absolutely "volumes" that could be preached about the Holy Spirit as well- So Father I pray: "LET THERE BE LIGHT" in all the hearts and minds of those reading these pages and may the Holy Spirit "grant us' the power to receive revelation of your word Father, which causes us to go forward and grow up "in Him" which is Jesus Christ our Lord. "Let Christ be formed in us'. Thank you Father with all my heart". Amen.
Author, minister, and his servant,
Laura Grace
Author of Grace to the Rescue, Grace to Grow and Grace to Grow "more"
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