"LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE"

"Let Your Light so Shine before men, that they may see your Your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" 

MATTHEW 5:16 (KJV) 

Our source of strength is returning. The world has buried us as insignificant, but we want you to know, we are coming back. Spiritually, our hair is growing back, our source of strength is returning to us. Do you know why? Because, more and more, the church is beginning to realize it's not in principle, it's not in formulas, it's not in methology, but it's in relationship with Christ that true power flows.

  The Apostle Paul said it so well; he said  "above everything else, I might know whim." And that is where the source of our strength lies, in knowing the Savior. You know why we lost our strength? Because we've left our source. We started trusting in man and the super hero ministries he established.  And it is sad to say that some of them had to fall off their pedestals so we would wake up and realize that there is no person. That is infallible and no ministry that is as important as developing a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. And anything above that is idolatry.

   If you wouldn't miss a certain preacher on TV every week no matter what, but your devotion and prayer time is skipped on a regular basis, you need to repent of the sin of idolatry. You are elevating that ministries to a more import priority in your life than your personal relationship with God. You know what, every time thzt happens, you're getting a hair cut. We need a full head of spiritual strength.

  When it comes to preaching about character and  commitment, and what the Word of God had to say about these things, sometimes we view thes things as boring. They are Just foundational truths. Well, no house is stronger than its foundation. When the spiritual earthquakes come, that's when we find out whose house has been built earthquakes-proof.

  I want you to know, we need to shore-up ourselves so that when the earthquakes of life come our way, I didn't say IF they come, I said WHEN they come, we will be squarely build on THE Rock. For some of us, the aftershock alone are devastating. But if we'll start making ourselves earthquakes-proof by developing the character of Christ in us, we will realize that there are absolutes in this life, and one of those absolutes is that God is absolutes love and absolutes loves us all the time. By virtue of habing that fact intertwined as a central spring of strength around us, we can bounce-back from any circumstances or situation.

  "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us from them all.. What are these afflictions? They are only opportunities to realize that the power of God is more real than the problem. We must once again realize that the character of God will carry us through and over any crisis of life.