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Light: A Tool for Navigating Into Divine Fulfillment
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Published: Tuesday, 30th January 2024

By: Apeh Francis Abah

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LIGHT: A TOOL FOR NAVIGATING INTO DIVINE FULFILLMENT



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In this article, we are going to be looking at light as a tool for navigating into divine fulfillment. So, in the course of reading this article, I just want to bring a caveat that even as I will be mentioning the word light, I will be using the word light in place of wisdom. So, I will be using the word interchangeably. So, I wouldn't like us to be confused, as we read. So, when I'm talking about light, I'm talking about wisdom, when I'm talking about wisdom, I'm also talking about light. And I pray that the Lord will grant us understanding.

 

The desire of God, for each and every one of us is that we get into that which He has prepared for us. But if that is going to be a possibility, and a reality in our lives, we need the tool called light, we need a tool called wisdom. And the Holy Spirit wants to unvail us into certain dimension of His knowledge so that He will help us to get into that which He has prepared for us, so that we'll be able to obtain that thing which God has prepared for us.

 

John chapter 16:12-13. The Bible says; I still have many things to say to you. But you cannot bear them now. The year has so much in stock for us, but we will not be able to see them without light. It says; ‘I still have many things to say to you. This was Jesus speaking to His disciples, He came to a point where He has trained them in the walk of discipleship. And He brought them to a point. And He was still acknowledging that there were so many things He wanted to say to them, but they couldn't bear them now. They cannot bear them now not because they were handicapped in that sense. It was because there was a limitation that needed to be taken out of the way. And what was that limitation? Jesus began by showing them the limitation. The Scripture says; “However, when He.” That was a possibility. Jesus began by showing a limitation. And then He began to show them the possibility and He brought them to a place of understanding; He was talking about ‘He’. And the question is; you and I know that ‘He was talking about the Holy Spirit. It says; However, when ‘He the spirit of truth has come, He will guide you into all truth. for He will not speak of His own authority for what ever He hears, He will speak and He will tell you the things to come.

 

Now, why is it that there are many things that Jesus wanted to tell them that they couldn't bear? It is because there is One who is to guide them into all truth. And One who will not speak of His own authority? He will speak according to what God speaks. Now, this is like, the responsibility that the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit was going to come to carry out on the face of the earth and He was preparing their minds as disciples that this is what they will be expecting, even when the Holy Ghost comes. And so, there are many things of Christ that are needed for a believer to be able to have access to but we will not be able to access them, except we begin to partner, or we come into fellowship with the Holy Ghost. And this was what Jesus Christ was telling His disciples.

 

Now in 1 Corinthians chapter 2:10, the Bible says, But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit's searches all things. It says, Yes, the deep things of God. The Spirit searches all things. He said, the things of God, the deep things of God.

 

So, when Jesus was speaking to His disciples, at that point, what Apostle Paul came to unveil later to us in 2 Corinthians chapter 2:10, was that when the Spirit comes, the Spirit will reveal to us. So what Jesus Christ was telling His disciples earlier in Matthew chapter 16, from verse 12 to 13, was that the things that were going to be unveiled to them that they couldn't bear, the Holy Ghost will come to accomplish that mission. And I want us to follow closely even as we delve into what the Holy Spirit has for us in this article. So, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, and when that Spirit comes, the Spirit will begin to teach, the Spirit will begin to guide, the Spirit will begin to speak to us, the Spirit will begin to unveil certain things to us, the Spirit is going to be opening us to certain dimensions, which are in God.

 

When you begin to read Genesis, chapter one, verse one, verse two, and verse three, the Bible describes how God created the earth, and how the earth, the shape of the Earth was, how the state of the earth was. And then the Bible says, The Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the deep, we might think what the Holy Spirit was doing at that point was just hovering over the surface of the waters. And later on, we will understand what the Holy Ghost was actually doing, when Moses was recording that, because what Moses was recording in Genesis chapter one, and verse one, and verse two and verse three was like a similitude, of what God was going to do with Jesus Christ in the New Testament.

 

So, whenever there is light, I want us to note that there is the Holy Spirit, which is a principal factor that plays a role for light to be birthed, then there is the word, and then there is the witness, this sequence must be complete, if there is going to be light. There is a place in Romans, that talked about, if the people will be able to understand, to be able to know, to hear, there must be a teacher, there must be a preacher. And if there is going to be a preacher, there must be one who is sent. So that brings us to a place where there must be a witness, where there is the word, and where there is the Holy Spirit.

 

So, the three plays a role for light to be birthed. So, when the Holy Spirit initiates the light, the Holy Spirit is at the other end, to be able to complete the cycle of the light. So, when the Holy Spirit begins the light, it fuses with the word, and then it is spoken through the witness or the preacher, even by the help of the same Holy Spirit. So, we can see that the ministry of the Holy Spirit cannot be cannot be overemphasized or cannot be swept under the carpet. I like us to note these things even as I build background into what the Holy Ghost is trying to teach us tonight. The Word, the Holy Spirit, and the witness.

 

So, let's move on. In Genesis, chapter one, I want us to read something, I just want to pick something out for us. Genesis chapter one, I'll read verse 1 to 3. And then we'll read John chapter one, from verse one to verse 11. The Bible says, In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light. This was the first mention of the word light that we saw. So, our topic talked about light, the tool for navigating into our fulfillment.

 

So, if we will ever enter into our God ordained fulfillment, if we will ever enter into the things that God has prepared aforetime for us, it is because the light of God has been revealed to us, or has shined upon our hearts. So, we are looking at here that God made a pronunciation and before God made the pronounciation, the Bible said, The Spirit of the Lord was already at work, the Spirit of the Lord began to brood over the face of the waters. And then God said, let there be light, and there was light. And I want us to note this even as we move on, let there be light; And there was light. We may want to begin to ask ourselves, why did God said let there be light? Why did God not just begin to create other things?

 

Why does it have to be light, I want to begin this Scripture with an analogy, a scenario was playing in my spirit, for those that drive, there is the windshield. And what the windshield does is that it helps you to see so that when you are moving and there is a wind, it helps to block the wind from affecting you, the impact of the wind coming to you directly. And then the Holy Spirit also said to me, He said there is also the headlight. And when you see the headlight of a car, it has two kinds of light, there is the light that is very dim, its not actually that it is dim, but because of the functioning of that light, it does not make the driver to see very far. And there is also the light, the headlight that makes the driver to see very far.

 

So, when it is not very dark, you can switch on that particular kind of headlight that makes you just to see at a very short distance. But there is also a light when it becomes very dark, you will have no other option, but to put on the light that makes you to look at a very far distance. And this was a similitude of what God was doing in this place. You know, there is a kind of light that shines in the darkness, the Bible made us to understand that the light shines in the darkness, It says and darkness could not comprehend it. So, what God did here, when God spoke the light was that God was beginning to condition certain things. And we will see it subsequently, what God was beginning to do was that God was beginning to condition the earth, there were many fractions, there were many compartments in that light that will we will get to see subsequently.  

 

So, God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And we might just think because it was a one statement kind of thing, that God said, Let there be light and the light just appeared, it was not so. The Bible says John 1:5 Amp; “The Light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].” So, there was a struggle between light and darkness. It means darkness wanted to overpower the light, darkness wanted to absorb the light, but it says it couldn’t. So, I want us to bear it at the back of our minds.

 

When it gets darker and darker, there is a kind of light that makes believers to see very bright, to see very clearly. When the world is getting darker and darker, there is a kind of light that will make the people of the world to see brighter, even in the midst of the darkness. That was what God was trying to show us that He was scripting through the hands of Moses. He said, Let there be light. And the Bible said, there was light. I want us to see John chapter one. I will read from verse one to verse 11.

 

The Bible says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. I want us not to forget how I began. I talked about the fact that for there to be light, there must be the word. There can't be light outside of the word. And I want us to note that. So, John began to tell us that “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All of things were made through Him. And without Him, there was nothing made that was made.

 

Now when I began, I was telling us that light is a fusion of both the ward and the Spirit. So, when we saw when Mary was asking the angel that how should these things be? The angel quickly made her to understand that light, which is Jesus Christ will come, the birthing which is the word, will come as a product of an intermingling of the Spirit, and the word. So, it says, All things were made through Him, and without Him, there was not in made that was made. Then it says; In Him was life, and that life became delight of men.

 

So, I want us to begin to picture what happened in Genesis chapter one, two, and verse three, and beginning to see what was happening in John chapter one. And as we are reading along, it says in verse five; “And the light shines the darkness. Are we're seeing that now. See, from verse one to verse three, we didn't know what happened before then. But we began to see in Genesis chapter one, verse three, when God said, Let there be light, and there was light, it was the spoken word of God, the spoken word of God began to shine light into the darkness. It says; The light shines into darkness, and darkness could not comprehend it.

 

So, when God was beginning to shape the earth, what He did was that He spoke the light into being, so when we saw that the earth lost it’s form, when it became dark, because of the sin of man, what God did was that He needed to, to birth light, which was Jesus Christ. So, when God was beginning to create the earth, what God did was that He had to bring light again into the scene. So, we saw that when the earth was without form, and the earth was void, what God did actually when He said, Let there be light was the introduction of Christ Jesus. Prior to this time, we saw that Jesus Christ, which was the word, He was with God. He had been with God from the beginning. And we began to see that all things were made through Him. And without Him, there was nothing that was made that was made.

 

So, with Jesus Christ, God began to create, and with Jesus Christ, God began to form things. And God began to repair the earth that was formless, that was void, and that was empty. So, when God said, Let there be light, it was not just that, He said, Let the light you know, this physical light that we see that is shining, although they were part of the things God created, but there was an introduction of Jesus Christ. So, when Jesus Christ manifested, Jesus Christ manifested, to begin to recreate all things, Jesus Christ manifested, to restore all things, He manifested so that He can bring man back to his original state of dominion.

 

So, we could see in Genesis chapter one and verse two, where the Bible says, darkness was on the face of the earth, it was because of the fall of man, we know that God is an omniscient God. God knows the end from the beginning. And so that structure that He had put in place, was a structure that will be able to address the situation that wanted to go out of hand, because the original intention of God in Genesis, in the creation was that the earth will maintain that form, but if the earth will not be in that form like the way that God had created it. It was because Jesus Christ was introduced into the scene. The Bible says He sustains all things by the word of His power. The Bible said, We are God's workmanship, we are God's craft machine, created in Christ, for good works. For good works, so there is no work, there is no creation, there is no good that is done out of Christ.

 

So, when God set up this structure, let there be light, it was so that the earth can begin to take its original form again. So, when Jesus came to the earth, Jesus said, I am the light of the world. And this was one of the problems that the Pharisees were having with Him, when he came to the world came to the aid. He said, I am the light of the world. It didn't just stop there, then He that made us to understand that we also are the light of the world. So, God is banking on you and I, because we are on the face of the earth, that we will shine that light on the earth so that the earth will not return to its fallen form, and its chaotic state. God needed men called witnesses. Although the assignment of the Holy Spirit is very much inactive, although the assignment of the word is very much in action, then we need witnesses, men who will partner, to be able to make that fulfilled on the face of the earth.

 

So, I want us to continue verse six, it says; There was a man sent from God, whose name was John, this man came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all through him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light, which gives light to every man that is coming into the world”. I would like to say this, the assignment and the responsibility of you and I is to partner with the Holy Spirit, so that the light of God will not just be a light that will stop with us, but also to make other men to also see light, and also to become light. Let me take that statement again; our primary responsibility on the earth as witnesses is so that we can partner with the Holy Spirit and the word, to make people to see light, and also that we can become light. So, it is not just enough that we are carriers of light, we must also make others to see light.

 

What are the truths that we must know about light?

#. Number one: Light is a function of reception. Light is a function of reception. And reception is a function of belief. Reception is a function of posture. Now when God so loved the world, and that He sent the light into the World, God gave a pre-condition in John chapter three, verse 16. And that caveat was the reception of that light. The Bible says; As many, in that John Chapter wanted to read, It says, as many as I received Him, it says to them, He gave power to become the children of God. That talks about reception. Because for you to be able to receive light, to become a beam of light. And also, to make others to begin to see light, you must first be able to receive the light of Christ. It is impossible to see light if you have not received Christ.

 

It is impossible to see light, if you have not received the word. And receiving that word is a function of belief. You don't just receive the Word, you receive the word by believing, and that is a function of faith. The Bible made us to understand that until you believe in your heart, and you confess with your mouth, that is how that light is received. So, light is a function of reception. Perhaps you might be saying, we see light every day, we are seeing light. It is not the kind of light. For you to be able to see the kind of light that the people of the world are not seeing, it is because you have received the word, you have received Christ which is the word and because you have allowed Him to indwelling you and that begins with a posture. What kind of posture is that? It is the posture of simplicity, is the posture of a humble heart.

 

The Bible made us to understand that we should not harden our heart when we hear the word of God. The Bible made us to understand that the entrance of His word, before the word can enter and bring light to us, it is because we take a posture that is simple. Our heart is receiving the word. So first of all, in order to be able to receive the light of Christ and be able to navigate into your god ordained destiny or to be able to walk in the light of Christ in the year 2024. It is because we have first of all received Christ. And the question is, how many of us have actually received Christ? How many of us have allowed the word of Christ to indwell in our hearts? How many of us have actually believed Christ? How many of us when we have heard this word, that we didn't deflect it, and we received it? The first key to walk in light, the first key to use light as a tool is that we have received light.

 

#. Number two: Light is a function of positioning. The second truth that we must know about light is that light is a function of positioning. And this is what I termed or I call the light of purpose. It is a function of positioning. In Genesis chapter one, and verse 17, we were made to understand that God made to great lights. And God didn't just make those lights because he wanted to make the light, the Bible said, is set the lights in the firmament of the heaven. Was it just to have fun? It was to give light to the earth. You can see that in verse 17, the Bible said, God set them in the firmament of the heavens, to give light to the earth.

 

So, the question is, if we also are lights, how, then has God positioned us to be able to give light to the earth. Because the reason why we on the face of the earth, at such a time as this, the reason why God has given us the privilege, to know Him, and to also have received Him is because there must be a light that we must show, it is talking about the light of purpose. So, God has created us, we must come to that consciousness that God has created us so that we can become light. The question is, how do we bring this light? How do we shine this light to the people of the earth?

 

When I talked about the light of purpose, we might be wondering, that was what is the relationship between, the positioning, and the purpose? Because the truth is, without a positioning, there will be a loss of touch with purpose. Myles Munroe once said when the purpose of a thing is not known abuse will be inevitable. So, what is the relationship between positioning and purpose? So Why has God created us that we could produce light, but we can't produce this light if we are not working in the consciousness of our own purpose.

 

So, to be able to know our own purpose, we must come to number one: Understand a light that brings liberty, freedom, or deliverance. We most come to grasp the light that brings liberty, freedom, and deliverance. Now I was making, reference to a particular word, and I was repeating that word, that you can't be a light if you have not received light. There is a place in Isaiah chapter 61, that was saying that the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and He has anointed me. That was talking about the light. You see that light didn't come upon Jesus Christ, for Him to have fun, that light came so that He can set free, so that it can deliver those that are oppressed, so that he can set the Liberty the captives free.

 

The reason why we must come to terms and to grasp the light of purpose is so that there are people that are in bondage, that are people that are in captivity, it is so that we can use that light to set them free. If there are people in bondage, there are people in captivity, and we have not been able to use the light that we have received to set them free, it is because we have not come to terms with the light of purpose.

 

The Bible in that tone that we read, is said to was a man sent from God. The question is, are you a man sent from God? The question is, when you are sent from God, what are you sent to go and do? It is to be a witness of a light, the light which is Christ Jesus, I know Jesus Christ, I know Him, He was the one that sent me. And He sent me to show you to Him, He sent me to point you to Him. If per adventure Jesus Christ, who has been shining as a beacon of light, and you have not been able to see that light, my responsibility is that I have been sent from God, to show you Jesus Christ.

 

So, the posture we must take, it's like the posture of a signboard showing men to Jesus Christ, that your purpose is in Jesus Christ, if per adventure you have deviated from that purpose, what Jesus Christ is saying At such a time as this, is that He has anointed us and given us the light of purpose, so that those that are in darkness will be able to see Jesus Christ, so that we will be able to point men and say See Jesus Christ, that is where your freedom is. The Light of Christ, it talks about the light of purpose, and until you are able to come to terms, to understand your purpose, you will not be able to walk in this light. It says, there was a man sent from God, his name was John, this man, when he came is witnessing was not about any other thing, His witnessing was about Jesus.

 

The Bible said, there was a voice, he said, I am the voice of the one crying in the wilderness, that we should do what? Prepare the way. The light of purpose. In Matthew chapter four, and verse 16. It says, “The people who sat in darkness, have seen a great light and upon those who sat in the region of shadow of death, light has dawned.” Liberty, freedom, and the light of deliverance. And so, when you appear, there is a light that you must shine that that light will make men to see not just to see any other kind of thing, but to see Jesus Christ as He is. You might be wondering, is it possible for people to see Jesus Christ and not be able to recognize Him, it is very possible, our responsibility that we have seen that light is so that men can also see that light.

Apostle to Paul saw that light on the way to Damascus, He saw that light. And he began to talk about that light, even when he was standing before Agrippa. That was a witness.

 

John the Baptist was also a witness. And several of them, we as we have seen in the Bible, they are witnesses, it is because there is a light of purpose. And the reason why it is message has come in at such a time as this is so that we can come to grasp our purpose, we can come to understand and begin to walk in our purpose, that one of the reasons why God has sent us on the face of the earth is so that we can be pointing men to Christ Jesus, the year 2024 has begun. The challenge the Holy Spirit is throwing to us is that will you point men to Jesus Christ, will I point men to Jesus Christ. If I have received this light, I've not received it to feel good. I have not received this light to keep it to myself, but to make men to also see this light.

 

The Bible said John the Baptist was in the wilderness, and he was crying. He was crying to the people. And he said, make way he wanted to fulfill his assignment on the face of the earth, because there is the consciousness of the one who has sent him. There was a light he saw and that men, will also see that light. So, number one, the light of purpose brings deliverance.   

 

Number two: It removes the veil of ignorance. The question is ignorance of what? The ignorance of your rule of life, ignorance of work, and ignorance of consecration. When the light of Christ comes, it makes you to know your rule of life, it makes you to know your work, it makes you to know what God wants you to do, and what God wants you to abstain from.

 

Any man that you see that carries the light, and begins to show that light to the world, is a man that have been able to understand his rule of life, have been able to understand his consecration, and has been able to understand his work. The question is, what is the work that you must do? What is the consecration that you must keep? And what is that rule of life? For some of us, the challenge is coming to us that do you actually know the rule of life of that child that God has given to you?

 

Do you know your own rule of life? Do you know the rule of life of that child that is coming your way? There is a rule of life. And if the light of purpose will be made manifest in our lives, it is because we have come to understand this. And what that light does is that it removes that veil and we begin to understand it. Number three What does the light of purpose do? The light of purpose birth’s conviction. Number one, It brings deliverance. Number two, it makes you to understand your rule of life.

 

#. Number three: It birth’s your conviction. When you see a man that is not convinced about the work of his life, or the rule of his life, or his purpose, or his assignment, is a man who has not encountered the light of purpose. The question is, are you convinced about the light that you have received? The Bible made us to understand in First John chapter one and verse one, it says; “That which was from the beginning, which was talking about Jesus Christ, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, and which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled of the word of life. This was talking from a place of conviction. If you encounter the light of purpose, it will birth a conviction in you. And this is the reason why we are following Jesus Christ. We are not just following Him because somebody just told us about Jesus Christ, we are following Him because there is a light about Jesus Christ that we have encountered.

 

When Philip went to Nathaniel, and was saying to Nathaniel that we have seen that one which it was written, and it was prophesied about, there was something that Philip saw. And he was telling Nathaniel, that we have seen, we have seen, that was a revelation of who Jesus Christ was. And that was the same thing that happened to Peter. While Jesus was asking the disciples, who do men say that I Am? And Peter said you are the Christ. There was something that was revealed. There was a light that Peter saw, there was a light that Philip saw. So, when Philip was speaking to Nathaniel, he was speaking to Nathaniel, concerning a light concerning a revelation that he had seen. He said, we have seen the one if you read that Scripture, it says the one who it has been prophesied, and the one who it has been written concerning.

 

So, when Jesus met them, or when Jesus was calling those disciples to Himself, they didn't just abandon the things they were doing. There was something they saw about Jesus Christ that prompted them to do so. It was the light of purpose. When Peter, James and the rest when they were fishing, when Jesus said, follow me, they followed immediately. It was because there was something they saw. It was the light of purpose and they followed Jesus Christ.

 

What is it about light? What is the second truth about light?

#. Light is a function of reflection. And reflection talks about a life. Reflection talks about an expression, reflection talks about life, reflection talks about an expression. There is no how you will see the light of Christ, and you will not be able to reflect the life of Christ. And that reflection of the life of Christ is what we what we refer to as life. The Bible says In Him was life, and that life became the light of men, there was a place Jesus was speaking. And he said, as long as I am in this world, he said, I am the light of the world. Did we say that? So, in His light, we were seeing light, in the light of Jesus Christ, we are supposed to be seeing light. And so, as we are seeing light in Christ, we are supposed to be reflecting that light to the dark world. And there was a posture, I came to understand in geography, that the moon actually does not have its own light, what the moon does is that reflects the light of the sun. And this is the posture that every believer must take. So, number two: Light is a function of reflection.

 

#. Number three: Light is a function of life. You express the life that you have received, you express the light that you have, and that light is the light which you have received from Christ. And finally;

 

#. Number Four: Light is a function of direction. Light is a function of direction, you can't give direction, when you do not have light. And until you have received the light- the light of purpose, until you have internalized that light, then you can begin to give direction to men.

 

So, when the light of Christ has been received, when you begin to follow the light, and you begin to express that light, then you can begin to reflect the light. This is the peak of the light that every believer must reach, that we will come to a point where our light must begin to give direction to men, where we have understood our purpose. And we are beginning to point men to the same purpose, where we have come to a point where we know what is in Christ, and we are beginning to show men, the same thing that is in Christ, the Bible says, we are a city that is set upon a hill, if Jesus Christ as lit us to shine as light, and has set us up on a hill, our responsibility is that we show that light to the world. And when we carry that light, The Bible says, Gentiles, will come to our light, it says, even kings, will come to the brightness of our rising. Because you have carried that light, your light begins to attract. And before you are able to give direction, you must be able to attract. So, what makes you to attract is because there is a light that you must have. There is a light that you must have to be able to give direction.

 

So, what is the direction? If I've been able to receive this light, if I've received Christ, and I be able to express this life of Christ, and I want to begin to give direction, what then is the direction that men must receive? That direction, at such a time as this is that you trade wisely, and trading wisely is a function of sowing wisely. An example of that was what, happened when Jesus gave a parable. And He was speaking to the fact that a man was going on a journey, and he gave talents to his servants.

 

So, what is the thing that we ought to be doing at such a time as this? It is that we trade wisely with the talents that we have. The light that we have received in this article is that the talents that we have received, we must trade with it, and bring returns, returns to Him, we must trade with it so that we'll be able to add more to the kingdom, we must trade wisely.

 

Number two, we must carry extra oil. This is the direction that we need at such a time as this. And what is that extra oil, that extra oil talks about Partnering with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the edge and the advantage that we are what we began with our Scripture. In John chapter 16, Jesus Christ was telling His disciples, he said, when spirit comes in, we guide you into all truth. And one of the guidance the Holy Spirit is giving us is that number one, you must trade wisely, and trading wisely is a function of sowing wisely. Number two is that we must carry an extra oil, carrying that extra oil is a function of partnering with the Holy Ghost.

 

When you partner with the Holy Ghost, you will not walk in darkness. And as you are not walking in darkness, you will be able to show other people the light, I pray the Holy Spirit gives us an understanding into what He has shown to us in this article.

 

Number three, the direction we need at such a time as this is walking in faith. So, as you are trading wisely, as you are also carrying an extra oil, you must also be walking in faith. And when we are talking about walking in faith, it means you must be focused. You must keep the Word of God in your heart; and that talks about meditation, and you must continue to pray. So that when He comes, He will find faith. When He comes, He will find us walking in faith. When He comes, He will find us with extra oil. When He comes it is not that when he gets dark, our oil becomes exhausted, when He comes let Him find us partnering with the Holy Spirit.

 

When he comes, let him find us trading wisely so that the investment of the kingdom will not be wasted. This is what the Holy Spirit has laid in my heart to share with us so that when the bridegroom comes, it will not be as if he came unexpectedly. And we are not expecting, it is because we are walking in faith. We are holding the word to our hearts. We are meditating on it. We are praying, this is the light and the direction that the Holy Spirit has laid in my heart. And in the spirit of this, I want us to begin to speak to the Lord.

 

There is the direction that is needed at such a time as this. There is a light, there is a wisdom that we require to walk in this season. There is a wisdom that is required to usher us into our God ordained destiny and that wisdom talks about the fact that we will trade wisely at such a time as this so that the investment of the kingdom would not be wasted in the mighty name of Jesus, that when He comes, He will find us in faith, He will find us prayfull, He will find us walking in faith, He will find us meditating on the word in the mighty name of Jesus. Can you pray and say father, I asked that you give me the grace, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.

 


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Lord Jesus, I confess to you that I have sinned against the LORD God - in the rebellion of my heart, I have disappointed your expectations on my life. I have fallen from Your grace and followed wrong influences around me. Today, I retrace my steps back to you - and I ask that in your mercy you accept me as your son and give to me (again) the promise of the Father - the Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus, please, come and make my heart your home, and from there rule in the affairs of all men. In Jesus Name I have prayed.






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Do you know who you are? You are a light; shine bright, you are a salt; the earth requires your flavor. Be meek but don’t be timid. Don’t feel apologetic when you walk in the glory, power and dominion you received from the Father. It is for this course you have been strategically positioned in the kingdom at such a time as this.


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