In the past months, the Holy Spirit, our teacher has brought messages such as:
- The Greater Works.
- The Christ resurrected in you.
- The Light Bearer.
- Training for Christian Life – Pastor Edith. 5. I surrender all – Pastor Robert.
All of this to give you a vision and a hope, an understanding of who you are IN CHRIST, to get rid of the containment that the devil has birthed in your soul realm, to remove the boxed thinking…and to arise and live an extraordinary life that bears evidence that He lives.
Generation after generation, His plans were carefully laid out, step by step, until this moment – your moment – the time of the New Creation.
It’s your turn…what will you do? Allow a defeated enemy to stop you? OR will you surrender to the Master planner and designer?
You are a Light bearer…a Light bearer. Wherever you go, you are a carrier of the Light. Jesus said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Remember the bride – the Lamb’s wife?
Revelations 21:9-11 & 22-23 – Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Lamb’s wife. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God having the glory of God.
V22 -23 But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or of the moon, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light.
She had the Light of the Lamb emanating forth from her being…evidence of His glory revealed through her.
The theme for this year seems to be about producing, by the power of the Holy Spirit (the fire that ignites the Light) evidence of His might and majesty…evidence by which the Father will be glorified.
There are too many wounded, disappointed Christians, going through the motions, but their Christian experience lies dead…
Time to arise and shine! Time for resurrection of dreams, faith, courage and true purpose. The world NEEDS the Light!!!
Time to live an extraordinary life!
If Christ is living in you and can come through you unhindered then you will live an extraordinary life.
The fact of the matter – if we can do what He requires, all by our self, what room does it leave for us to be a witness (a bearer of revealed evidence) of Him?
Judges 7: 1-24 The Lord wanted Gideon to get rid of most of his army. God cut down his army from 30000 to 300. Read V12. V12-22
The result? Only God!
David was a shepherd boy and had not trained as a soldier. By him defeating Goliath and the Philistine army – proof (evidence) of their mighty God was made known.
1 Samuel 17:43-45 Take note… David says to Goliath, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.
David does not say, “But I come to you with my slingshot and 5 stones, I’ve been practicing.” He does not say, “I have killed a lion and a bear.” No, his confidence is in this weapon, a weapon that will assure him the victory… I am coming to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, whom you have defied!” Your fight is not against me, but against Him.
Basically what David is saying, is I am the weapon that God will use to annihilate you. Little ole me and by this He will make known to you who He really is!
1 Corinthians 1:27 – But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty.
Even the victories that David had against the lion and the bear, he accredited to the Lord of Hosts.
The anointing of God reveals who He is and the anointing delivered David, again and again!
It is the anointing, the power of the Spirit that reveals the Light.
Peter.
Consider the life of Peter, ordinary, down to earth Peter, a fisherman by trade. He blundered his way through his new life, as a disciple of our Lord. A follower and a friend and companion of our Lord and Saviour.
By contrast, we have hindsight now. We understand the baptism of Jesus, the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, the miracles and finally, we understand the rejection of the religious leaders and the horror of the cross. We rejoice at the resurrection and our justification.
However, have you ever wondered what it was like from Peter’s perspective?
Not being spirit filled, all information was gleaned from the natural world. He and his companions were waiting for the Messiah, the one who would come and deliver them from Rome. They were expecting this all to happen, ‘any day now’, as they travelled around with Jesus. When Jesus spoke about the Son of Man sitting upon His throne in glory and that those who had followed Him would sit upon 12 thrones, they thought it was going to happen there in Jerusalem.
Finally, Jesus would set all things right.
He was after all, Jesus, the Christ of God. He was able to do anything, the religious leaders feared Him. Even if they came against Him they would not prevail.
The disciples had witnessed Him overcome everything.
In Peter’s understanding the Messiah had come and he had just witnessed Jesus triumphant entry into Jerusalem…everything must have seemed to be on track…it was just a matter of time before He sat upon the throne of David. Peter and the rest of the disciples would take their place next to Him as leaders.
He did not expect anything to go wrong… BUT then what happened next was just wrong!!! The arrest of Jesus was wrong, Jesus submitting to the arrest was wrong, the brutalization of his friend, the Messiah was not understandable.
This was not supposed to happen.
As for Peter, when he was put under pressure – it revealed what was really in his soul and coming face to face with his own weakness and cowardice was devastating for him when he heard the cock crow the third time. His dreams and expectations crumbled and fell and Peter could not deal with what was happening. Dejected and heartbroken he left…
He had no way of understanding that all of this had to happen so that we all could be reconciled to the Father and be restored to our position in God’s great plan of creation. All of this horror had to happen so that Peter and all of us could be the image bearers.
He did not know that he was to become one of the first Light bearers. He did not understand that Jesus, the Light of the world, would be revealed through his own body, him – Peter – the Light bearer.
Having been restored by Jesus and having watched Jesus ascend into heaven, for Peter, everything changed the day that the Holy Spirit came. Through Peter’s life, by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the evidence that Jesus was alive and seated upon the throne in heaven was witnessed again and again. Healings abounded and Peter was still Peter, ordinary… but he had become a Light bearer, a carrier of the anointing of the Holy Spirit who revealed the Light that is Christ.
By the power of the Holy Spirit, the anointing, the Light…is now resurrected in you and I. The game has changed, and the victory already won…it’s why we were created.
The only way that we will find the greatest personal satisfaction is by fulfilling what He has called us to do, what He has created us for.
So, if we are to be Light bearers, what does that mean exactly? We already know the result of being a Light bearer as witnessed through Peter’s life, Paul’s life and the life of countless others. Yet, if every born again Christian is a Light bearer, then where is the accompanying evidence? Therefore, it must go beyond just being born again…
We are the receptacle that carries the Light, our surrendered lives provide the oil but it requires the Holy Spirit in us to bring forth the Light.
We have received the Holy Spirit…we have everything that we need…
What then is the only thing that can hinder us?
Fear, a lack of understanding and revelation either about the might and the majesty of God or who you are in Christ.
Fear will rob you of everything…if you allow it!
It is revelation that will help you to break the power of fear.
Remember. The presence of fear reveals two things:
There is evidence that Christ is about to be revealed – a miracle is about to glorify God and the devil does not want that to happen.
You need to shift your focus, take your thoughts captive and meditate on the Word.
The minute you believe that you’re a victim, you cancel the anointing and you tie God’s hands. The minute you believe it’s up to you to battle the enemy, you’re on your own.
We must get our mind, our heart and mouth lined up with the Word of God!
If you have fear – it’s because you are elevating a defeated, created being INSTEAD OF acknowledging the greatness of an ALMIGHTY GOD, UNDEFEATED, UNRIVALLED, UNEQUALLED, THE BEGINNING AND THE END, THE LOVER OF YOUR SOUL, THE PROVIDER OF EVERY VICTORY, THE SOURCE OF ALL LIFE…THE ONE WHO FOR ALL ETERNITY, HAS CRUSHED THE WORKS OF THE ENEMY!!!
It’s time to break free from the constraints that the enemy has built into our lives! At this point I want to say to you just as the Lord spoke to Joshua:
Joshua 1:2-8 – “Moses, My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them – the children of Israel. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.
V5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, as I was with Moses, so shall I be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage. V7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you.
V8 This Book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it, day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and you will have good success.
How is this relatable to you and I?
Jesus, My servant has fulfilled all, He has defeated every enemy and destroyed their works. He has broken the power of sin and redeemed you from the curse. He has all power and all authority. The footsteps of the righteous are ordered of the Lord. Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you. No enemy shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life because I never leave you nor forsake you. Only be strong and very courageous!
This Book of the Law and the New Covenant, the gospel of peace, shall NOT depart from your mouth but you shall meditate therein day and night that you may observe to do all that is written in it. For then you will make you way prosperous. The more you meditate, the bolder you will become!
Father God, give us understanding, the revelation and let it live in the forefront of ALL our thinking in Jesus name we pray! Let our lives become proof of Your might and Your majesty!
We surrender ALL…