Keep Your Light On

Remember it is your responsibility to keep your light on, whether you choose to walk in darkness instead for the particular day it is also entirely up to you. Shining your light is about making your mark, making a difference, ignoring the negative opinion of others and being a positive influencer.

Your light is the most wonderful part of your life that reflects your special character and the way you will influence the world. Share the love of Jesus, by shining your light.

What Does Jesus Say About Light?

Jesus describes Himself as “the light of the world.” In John 1:4-5, John calls Him ,the life that is in the light of men,” “the light that shines in the darkness.” The light in us represents the light of Jesus.

Once we give our life to Jesus, we have the light shining through our lives and our action will begin to reflect the nature of Christ, His love, compassion, kindness, peace, and forgiveness among others. The light will begin ti shine through our attitude, words, deeds and our character.

Light always reveals what’s hidden in the darkness, as well as showing a way out. The light that shines from a child of God can show others their Inadequacies and let them know that the only was is Jesus.

So how do we shine? By edifying with words. In James 3:8, the Bible describes the tongue as a “restless evil, full of deadly poison.” Our words can either speak life or death into people life’s. Proverbs 18:21, says our tongues can either build others up or tear someone down. We are encouraged to ensure that our words are edifying, fit for a purpose that brings grace to others.

We also, shine our light by our actions. How we act and the example we set. Be the salt of the earth. To be salt means to deliberately seek to influence the people in your life by showing them the unconditional love of Christ thought you actions. Light is a symbol that is used to mean awareness, knowledge, and understanding.

There are people out in the world who are in the business of destroying others with their poisonous words and negative actions. As believers we must stop letting their darkness to poison our day with their words or opinions as well as their actions. Stand strong in the Lord and in the truth of our beauty and journey in Christ and live each day without any attachment to the validation of other people’s opinion.

Only appreciate God for the good things we see in them and pray for any inadequacies we identify in people that does not line up with the word of God. We should also pray and ask God to put a guard over our mouth.

Set a guard over my mouth, O’ Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips. Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil, to take part in wicked deed with men (people) who are evil do; let me not eat of their delicacies, their rulers will be thrown down from the cliffs, and the wicked will learn that my words are well spoken,

Psalm 141

We need to be a positive influencer For God If We Want Our Light To Shine.

Being A Soldier For Christ

God’s Plan

Let’s start by looking at the Centurion Soldier in Matthew 8:5-8. “When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him asking for help. ‘ Lord,’ he said my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly. Jesus said to him, Shall I come and heal him?’ The centurion replied, Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.”

A Soldier knows how to take orders under authority. In Matthew 8:10 Jesus told the centurion that he had the greatest faith that He had ever saw.

We are in a fight right now, it’s time to act like it. 1 Timothy 6:11-12 tells us, “But you, man of God, flee from this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of faith.

Don’t get sidetracked by the world, we have orders from the commander in chief -God. There is grace that comes from being in God’s Army.

Our vote doesn’t count in God’s Army. Pay attention, follow orders and watch for good fruit coming your way.

2 Timothy 2:5-7 like athletes, “If anyone competes in athletics, he isn’t crowned unless he has competed by the rules.

There’s a saying about” kicking over the sacred cow, It’s Satan’s lie that says “I don’t have to that because, I’m under the blood of Jesus. I believe it’s one of the biggest lies of today.

Follow the Commander and Chief (God), and you will see grace and peace

No Strife and Quarreling. 2:Timothy 2: 14-16, “Remind them of these things, charging them in the sight of the Lord, that they don’t argue about words, to no profit, to the subverting of those who hear.” Basically God is telling us don’t get in stupid fights about words,

In a disagreement we either follow God or we follow Satan. 2 Timothy 2:15, “Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth. If I am wrong I want God to show, me I’m wrong. And I pray He will do the same for others.

If we are in God’s Army, if doesn’t matter what social media, the news stations do to try and suck you into their agenda’s or opinions. They what us to be involved in their stupid fights.

God’s Plan For You As Soldiers For Christ

Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of pure heart. Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

2 Timothy 2:22-26

The Sting Of Death

“Shall I ransom them from the power of Sheol? Shall I redeem them from death? Death, where are your thorns? Sheol, where is your sting? Compassion will be hidden from My sight” (Hosea 13:14).

Hundreds of years before Jesus’s earthly ministry, the prophet Hosea realized that all people live in the shadow of death. Because it is inevitable and final, death creates a sense of hopelessness. It’s impact has a “sting” that no one can escape.

Through prophecy, Hosea foretold that a time would come when death would be defeated, and it’s sting would disappear.

Paul quoted Hosea when he wrote. “Where, O’ Death, is victory? Where O’ Death, is your sting? The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law” (1 Corinthians 15:55-56).

We can still be plagued by this sting. We feel its impact through sin whenever we say or do the wrong thing or think wrong thoughts. Our lives can be pricked just like a bee sting. We experience this sting through disease, pain, anger aging, fear, and worry. Words we wish we hadn’t spoken sting, as do words others have spoken to or about us.

But as Paul wrote, Jesus changed everything. God has given us victory through Jesus. He came to free us from this sting. We become free by believing in Him, thanking Him for dying for our sins, looking forward to eternal life with eeternal life with Him, and trusting Him as our Savior and Lord.

We can celebrate! Jesus died for us, and He rose again. Through Him, we are free from the sting of death. Through Him, we can live in victory.

We need to be celebrating Jesus’s resurrection all year long.

Ghosts: Are They Real?

What Does The Bible Say About Ghosts?

In the King James Version of the Bible, the word ghost appears 108 times. Of these, the word is never used in the sense of the disembodied spirit of someone who has died. It is used in only two ways. First it appears in the phrase “to give up the ghost,” meaning to die.” Second, it occurs as the title, “the Holy Ghost,” meaning the third person of the Godhead or Trinity. The Bible refers to ghosts or spirits of the dead as “familiar spirits” and warns us against having anything to do with them. (Leviticus 19:31; Deuteronomy 18:11; 2 Kings 21:6; Isaiah 8:19).

Can The Dead Haunt Houses?

In Job 7:9-10 it says, “As the cloud disappears and vanishes away, so he who goes down into the grave does not come up. He shall never return to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.”

If people die with unfinished business to care for, do they become ghosts and haunt places and Pythagorean knew in life? Psalm 146:4 tells us “When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Can The Dead Talk With The Living?

For the living know that they will die; but the dead know nothing, and they have no more rewards, for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, their hatred, and their envy have now perished; nevermore will they have a share in anything done under the sun.”

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6

What does the Bible say about communicating with “familiar spirits,” or ghosts” Isaiah 8:19 states that. “And when they say to you, “Consult the mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter. Should they not consult their God? Should the consult the dead on behalf of the living? In Isaiah 8:20 the bib says “To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.”

What does the Bible say about those who communicate with familiar spirits? Leviticus 19:31, says “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”

Are Ghosts Real?

Ghosts are real, but they are not angels from God or our dear loved ones. They are fallen angels trying to deceive us. Ephesians 6:11-12 says, “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, againest spiritual wickedness in high places,”

2 Corinthians 11:14-15 tells us, “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servant of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.”

Do good people become angels when they die? God’s angels are heavenly beings, not spirits of dead humans. Angels have existed before humans were created. It is the Bible in Psalm 8:4-5.” “What is a man that the Lord is mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor.”

There are evil spin this world that are fallen angels who followed satan in rebellion against God. It says in the Bible in Revelation 12:9. “So the great dragon was cast out, the serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who received the whole world; he was cast down to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.”

Should W Be Afraid of ghosts?

We do not have to be afraid of Satan and his impersonations of the living and the dead, if we give our hearts to Jesus and stay away from all satanic activities such as seances, ouija boards, and other activities of spiritism. It is in the Bible in. 1 John 4:1-4. Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits, whether they are of God…You are of God little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.” It is written in the Bible in James 4:7-8, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to Gof and He will draw near to you.”

God’s angels guide us and protect us; they do not hurt us, play tricks on us, or lie to us. Psalm 91:9-11 lets us know “For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.”

If you are true to Jesus and obey Him by faith, we do not need to be afraid of Satan’s power. Luke 10: 19, says “Behold, I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If God is for us who can be against us?’

Romans 8::31

Romans 8:38-39 says, “For I am convinced that neither death not life, neither angels not demons, neither the present or the future, not any powers, neither height not depth, not anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ your Lord.