Revealing Jesus Everywhere

“Revealing Jesus Everywhere”

I believe with all my heart that we have only just begun to influence this community and our worlds with the amazing Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I love the global church and I love Amazing Life Church.

The plan of God has never been that complicated. Most often He tells us what He wants before we even start. His Word reveals a clear destiny for God’s people and the Church. It’s simple. We are the light of the world. The salt of the earth.

(We Reveal Jesus)

What complicates this is the way we deviate from the Gospel and taint it with our own opinions. Our religious traditions and rules will dim the light. Those who are yet to follow Christ find us hard to understand.

As I say this I am giving God all the glory. When I look into our communities I see churches beginning to talk of awakening. Sharing a more inclusive message of Christ and His love for everyone.

I said prophetically years ago that we, at ALC, were plowing a path. Tearing down walls that have imprisoned people. People who needed Jesus, but were rejected because of the way they looked or the lives they lived.

The tears came at this point as I thought on our sacrifices and our faithfulness to His Gospel and His plan for ALC.

We have only begun to see the Glory of God in this church, this community, and the surrounding areas. God is big in His promise. He has much more in store for us as we follow Him.

The Lost Sheep Are Coming Home!!!

Psalms 139:7-12 NASB

7 Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there.

9 If I take the wings of the dawn, If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,

10 Even there Your hand will lead me, And Your right hand will lay hold of me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,”

12 Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.

If we really understood the value He places on us. The relevance to His amazing plans for the world. The enormous wealth of power and dominion He has transferred to us. All the while, with us as we follow Him, and even as we run from Him. There is nothing that we could not accomplish in the name of Jesus.

Let me unfold a few of these passages and endeavor to make them relevant to everyone.

Psalms 139:7 NLT

I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence!

Jeremiah 23:24 NASB

“Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the LORD . “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD .

I suspect there are times that many of us wish we could hide ourselves from the Lord. Maybe, maybe not, but there were those in the Bible that did.

The most notable that came to my mind was Jonah.

Jonah 1:3 NASB

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD . So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD .

Jonah 1:3 Amplified

But Jonah ran away to Tarshish to escape from the presence of the LORD [and his duty as His prophet]. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish [the most remote of the Phoenician trading cities]. So he paid the fare and went down into the ship to go with them to Tarshish away from the presence of the LORD .

Psalms 139:11-12 NLT

11 I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night—

12 but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you.

The word light has a different meaning in each verse. In verse 11 it is translated from a Hebrew word which means literally, light of day, but figuratively, the light of instruction. In verse 12 the Hebrew word has no literal meaning. Figuratively it means, the light of joy and happiness.

There are two very important statements made by Jesus regarding light.

John 8:12 NASB

Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

The Greek word for light in this passage has all the literal meanings you would expect. Light from a lamp, heavenly lights, light from a fire. In this passage it is used metaphorically and the meaning is this.

(God is light because light has the extremely delicate, subtle, pure, brilliant quality of truth and its knowledge, together with the spiritual purity associated with it that which is exposed to the view of all, openly, publicly reason, mind the power of understanding especially moral and spiritual truth.)

The second statement from Jesus is this.

Matthew 5:14 NASB

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden

The same Greek word with the same meaning. If God is with us. If He is everywhere, knowing everything, how can there be darkness when a Christian

is there.

Go back to the first statement from Jesus.

(he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.)

That word follow from the Greek means this, “to follow one who precedes, join him as his attendant, accompany him to join one as a disciple, become or be his disciple”

You can narrow our Christian responsibility down to two principles. First. Believe, believe that God is with us and that we are His children. Born not of man but by the Spirit.

Second. Reveal. Reveal Jesus Christ to our family friends and in our world. Everywhere we go being the light of Christ.

Hebrews 2:3-4

(how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? After it was at the first spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us by those who heard, God also testifying with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.)

Tel the story of Jesus. Be the light to someone in your world. It will change your life and theirs.

Praying always for God to reveal Himself in your life.

Be blessed as you walk with Him.