Psalms 119:105 NKJV
105 Your word is a lamp to my feet (the next
step) And a light to my path (which path to take).
1. Light eliminates darkness.
We get hurt when we stumble in the darkness. We are walking in a dark world. How many Christians are
stumbling because they are not using their lamps? (God's Word) Light and darkness do not
fight against each other. Light eliminates darkness.
John
3:20 NKJV
20 For everyone practicing evil hates
the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
If you're caught in darkness, you need to read
the Bible to escape it. Film is developed in the darkness. It
ruins if exposed to the light. If there is dark images in your mind,
expose it to the light, and it will disappear.
Luke 11:33-36 NKJV
33 “No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a
secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may
see the light.
34 The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore,
when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye
is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
35 Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not
darkness.
36 If then your whole body is full of light,
having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright
shining of a lamp gives you light.”
What you look at gets into your body through the eye. Think about all the darkness our
eyes see everyday. Can you imagine if you exposed your eyes to that
amount of light?
Do you want to be healed? Do you want to be free
from lust? If you want to be free from lust, read the Bible thirty
minutes a day. Start in the book of Matthew, and watch the change in your
life.
2. Light recovers lost
things.
Luke 15:8-10 NKJV
8 “Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she
loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully
until she finds it?
9 And when she has found it, she calls her
friends and neighbors together, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the
piece which I lost!’
10 Likewise, I say to you, there is joy in the presence of the
angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
He's talking about losing
people. If you lose your job, read God's word. If you lose your
investment, read God's word. Whatever you lose, read God's word.
When a child grows up, you lose control of the child. You have to hope
the child will make all the right decisions on their own. Ask for
permission to speak into your adult children's life.
God will speak to you
through his word. You soul is the mind, will, and emotion. You make
decisions based up what you think and what you feel. The Bible divides
between what you think is right and what you know is right. Between the
spirit and the soul. (Hebrews 4:12)
3.
Light shows the way.
The Bible helps you to
make decisions. It talks about general and specific revelation.
General is what is marriage. Specific is who you should marry.
If God tells you to read a Scripture, read it in this order.
(1) Praise
(2) Prayer
(3) Proclamation
Psalms 100:4 NKJV
4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving,And into
His courts with praise.Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
1. Praise- Put praise worship
on.
2. Prayer - Pray about what you need to pray about. Write
out your prayers.
3. Proclaim - read God's Word about the subject
matter. It has to fit with the rest of the Bible.
The Old Testament
has Allegorical principles.
The New Testament has Applicable principles.
My daughter was given this
phrase about going to Oral Roberts University.
"I'm going to give you a revelation that
on the fourth (4)will be the first (1)of
many new things for you!"
Revelation +4+1=
Revelation 4:1 NKJV
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a
door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was
like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, “Come up here,
and I will show you things which must take place after this.”
Robert Morris, Gateway Church
http://gatewaypeople.com/ministries/life/events/more-than-words-a-gateway-series/session/2018/09/22/light
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