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You Light Up My Life

  • When you were a child, were you ever scared of the dark?
  • What did you do to help bring peace in the darkness?
  • Check for monsters under your bed? Pray? Sing, perhaps?
  • Did you ever brighten the room with this song?
  • This little light of mine
  • I’m gonna let it shine.
  • This little light of mine
  • I’m gonna let it shine.
  • This little light of mine
  • I’m gonna let it shine;
  • Let it shine,
  • Let it shine,
  • Let it shine.
  • Have you ever wondered about the significance that tiny little tune [those words] could have on you and your profound impact on the world?

“And God said, ‘Let there be light’: and there was light.” Genesis 1:3 (KJV)

  • “Let there be light.”
  • Four simple words.
  • Let. There. Be. Light.
  • The first four words recorded to have ever been spoken.
  • Possibly the greatest four words ever spoken.
  • Dare I say – the most powerful words ever spoken.
  • The first four words of creation.
  • Without these four words, we would not exist.
  • Think about that for a minute.
  • What exactly is light?
  • Light is the emission of energy [the ability to do work; it is how things change & move] detectable by the human eye.
  • God is Light.

“This is the life-giving message we heard him share and it’s still ringing in our ears. We now repeat his words to you: God is pure light. You will never find even a trace of darkness in him. If we claim that we share life with him, but keep walking in the realm of darkness, we’re fooling ourselves and not living the truth. But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin.” -I John 1:5-7 (TPT)

  • God established himself as the Word of Life.
  • The Word of Life manifested in order to be seen = LIGHT!
  • John 1:1 (KJV) says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  • Light was formed out of darkness by the Word of Life – the SPOKEN WORD!
  • Speak Life.
  • Speaking Life will bring Light into the darkness.
  • Life is Light to live by.
  • “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
  • And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not [could not diminish].
  • There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
  • The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
  • He [John] was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness [be a messenger] of the Light.
  • That was the true Light, which lighteth [shines upon] every man that cometh into the world.
  • He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
  • He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
  • But as many as received him, to them gave he power [authority] to become the sons [children] of God, even to them that believe on his name.
  • Which were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
  • And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
    • -John 1:4-14 (KJV)

Walk in the Light. The Word is a lamp unto our feet and a Light unto our path.

“Truth’s shining light guides me in my choices and decisisions; the revelation of your word makes my pathway clear.” Psalms 119:105 (TPT)

Everything the Light touches is our Kingdom. Let YOUR light shine!!!

By Pam Elders

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Is Your Heart Healthy?

The heart is an amazing thing, from the moment that God flashes light into the womb it starts to beat. The engine that drives our magnificent bodies doing what it’s made to do without instruction. Our heart leads us more than we think.

The human body is a perfect example of how great God is, the complexities of it are still a mystery to those in science. One example is how the eyes transmit color to the brain, I will let you research that on your own but it is very fascinating! So if we are magnificently made why are many people struggling with “unhealthy lifestyles?”

I laugh when I’m in the grocery store and I see “heart healthy” on packages of food. It’s so easy to focus on what goes in the mouth but Matthew 15:11 says “It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you; you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth.” (NLT)

The Treasure In You

Scripture is constantly telling us to diagnose the heart because it truly determines our spiritual condition of health. Matthew 6:21 says, “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” So let’s think about that, if your heart is where your treasure is and what defiles you comes out of your mouth that can get pretty serious.

What do you talk about the most? “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” (Matthew 12:34)

What gets you excited and passionate to carry on conversations? I am guilty of speaking about temporal worldly things. The world has done a great job of trying to program us, but we don’t have to let it happen. I’ve asked myself how can I remember the words of a song I listened to in high school yet struggle to recall scripture? Scripture says “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.” (Psalms19:14)

Most of us have put our “treasure” in the world and not the only thing that matters, our relationship with God. Proverbs 4;23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” Now that’s plain as day! Another word for keep is reserve, now it can get tricky because in order to love you have to give some of your heart, most of us don’t do that. Our feelings and emotions cause us to go “all in” with whatever it is we feel will make us happy. The only thing we should ever go “all in” with is knowing and pursuing the heart of God.

Diligence is a learned skill, in every circumstance we undertake we experience outcomes. Those outcomes may not be what we want or expect and could possibly create a felling called “hurt.” Notice it says “out of it are the issues of life.” So many of us have issues that are deep, I mean deep in our hearts. We may say we forgive but that scar tissue that remains from the hurts of life still remain. Many of you know all it takes is one thought of that moment and it all comes back. This will affect the heart, raising blood pressure, trouble breathing, anxiety and depression.

The thought created it but the fact that it was in the heart is what made the body react with such devastating effects. The heart is the doorway to the mind, the eyes are to a certain extent but they don’t have the memory that we allow the heart of man to have, notice i said we allow the heart to have memory. GOD HAS NO MEMORY!! He is all about moving forward constantly! So we need to diligently keep our heart focused on the treasures of God and not of this world.

The Worst Heart Attack Of All

Our desires need to be for God, I know in many churches across America for hundreds of years worship has been willed when the hearts desires are elsewhere. We have all been in church before holding on to that hurt not letting God remove that scar tissue. The problem is you cant hide. Jesus knew the hearts of everyone he came in contact with. Just think how disappointed he has been when you hold on to a hurt “acting” like you are worshipping. That hurts him way more than what someone did or said to you twenty years ago. Let it go!

A heart attack occurs when one or more of your arteries become blocked. The blood cannot flow through the body. When your spiritual heart becomes unhealthy the “Blood of Jesus” cannot flow through your body. Many of us need a quadruple bypass from the Lord due to a hardened heart and clogged arteries. You can live with a very high blockage rate in the body. Today many of us are doing that with our spiritual life and a “Unhealthy Heart.”

But, hey there’s good news. The Lord is waiting and always ready to perform the operation. Removing the scar tissue, performing the bypass, getting you back to a “Healthy Heart.” I don’t know about you but Im thankful for a physician and surgeon like him that has a 100% success rate.

There Is Hope

You don’t even have to worry about the recovery time because there is none. His results are instant, effective and permanent. All you have to do is let Him in, no secrets, guilt or shame. He already knows the inner depths of your heart and soul. Just be honest with Him and say, Lord, I’ve held on to hurts, guilt and shame, I’ve said I forgive them but I haven’t. When I do forgive I still remember and I know You have no memory, so no-longer do I. Please operate on my heart Lord, and I promise to diligently keep my heart on Your commandments, making You my treasure, so that the mediation of my heart may be acceptable in Your sight, In JESUS name AMEN!

By Jason Thomas