Living in the Light when it '!i Dark Out !i ide
Author : Dr . Warren Jackson , D . Min ., D . D . Founder / Senior Pastor : Rise Above It Family Church Email : risefamilychurch @ aol . com Website : risefamilychurch . org
Christ Jesus , our Lord , Savior , and Deliverer , constantly throughout the scriptures gives His people hope , He states in one passage , " in this world you will have tribulation , but to be of good cheer , for he has overcome the world ." He also states that we are not let our hearts be trouble ( John 14 : 1 ). He tells us in Jeremiah 29 : 11 what His thoughts are toward us , to give us an EXPECTED END . So in those words alone , we have hope , and can rejoice because the Lord is on our side . The scripture tells us the Worlds are held together by the Word of His power . We can trust the Word of God . It ' s undaunted , and infallible , the Word , cannot lie , and won ' t fail . The Word of God is the Light that we already possess in our hearts through Christ Jesus . No darkness can cover that light .
I want to encourage you so that you might know that the Lord Jesus Christ , and His Kingdom , and God ' s people on the earth can and will always be a beacon of hope , light salt , and security when things are out of kilter . We have to remember what Jesus said to us in the Light , through his Rhema and Logos Word . When dark times come , the Holy Spirit on our insides will began to bring all things back to our remembrance . God has not forsaken His people as some believe , He has never changed His mind regarding the Church that He is
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building , He made it very plain in the scriptures that He is building His church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it .
Jesus is so wonderful in that He said that he would never leave us and never forsake us . We have placed our focus on something else when we began to run in panic like frighten children . And the old saying is Whatever we focus on , is the thing that is increasing in our lives . Rather faith in Our God , or in fear , that leads us to worry , panic , and more worry . Let ' s focus on the author and the finisher of our faith . Our hope , our advocate , our physician , our provider , the one who loves us , the one who never changes , and always keeps His word , isn ' t that good news for a crazy world . Hey , Jesus has not lost his place on the throne , I believe as we really seek the face of God and stop just talking about seeking Him and do it , we will began to see a major change in our surroundings because we will see it like He sees it , and not through the lenses that we are viewing things from .
During this Thanksgiving and Christmas Season , let us not forget that Jesus is the Light of the World and he has made us salt and light in the earth to preserve and light the way , no matter how dark it gets .
Living in the Light when it ' s Dark Outside Dr . Warren Jackson Rise Above It Family Church Daytona Beach , Florida New Year ' s 2015