Glow-In-the-Dark

Voice of Prayer

Psalm 45 Message Bible
My heart burst its banks, spilling beauty
and goodness.
I pour it out in a poem to the king,
shaping the river into words;
You're the handsomest of men; every
word from your lips is sheer grace,
and God has blessed you, blessed you so much.
Strap your sword to your side, warrior!
Accept Praise! Accept due honor!
Ride majestically! Ride triumphantly!
Ride on the side of truth!

Ride for the righteous meek!

Your instructions are to glow-in-the-dark, you shoot sharp arrows.                                                            
Into enemy hearts; the king's foes lie down in the dust, beaten. Your throne is God's throne; ever and always; The scepter of your royal rule measures right living. You love the right and hate the wrong. And that is why God, your very own God, poured fragrant oil on your head, Marking you out as king from among your dear companions.

Our hearts should burst forth with praise to the beauty of the King, our King Jesus Christ. In speaking out, our praise speaks the same as Jesus Himself spoke. Speaking what Jesus heard from the Father and spoke should be a confirmation to our hearts of His intent to bring light to us.

Now those glow-in-the-dark sticks are awesome. They can put out some light for a short time, but in the long run of our lives, God's word does and will light the way for us no matter the day, hour, rain, or shine, God 's word is working.

In this psalm, is a song of love. Psalm 18:1 in the Living Bible speaks this: Lord, how I love you! For you have done such tremendous things for me. Are we thinking in terms of love for God our Creator and God our Savior?

In our loving our spouse, our children, grand-children or other relatives, those special moments is revealed to greater depths of love when our love is found in God and when it is extended to others who can not possibly repay with the same kind of love.
Our lives can contain some things that help us light a dark way: like candles or that great Dorcy Flashlight. Yeah, now that is a flash light a dark room and is great help when the power goes off at your house!

In writing this, I refer back to Psalm 31 in the New King James Version. In verse 1-5, it reads this way: " In You, O LORD, I put my trust; Let me never be shamed; deliver me in Your righteousness. 2 Bow down Your ear to me, deliver me speedily; Be my rock of refuge and a fortress of defense to save me. 3 "For You are my rock and my fortress; therefore, for Your name's sake; lead me and guide me, 4 Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For you are my strength. 5 Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD God of truth."

Light leads us especially when you cannot see where you are going. Thinking of when the power goes off and one walks through the dark room, "now where is that light switch"..?????......bump.....crash...!
"Oh yeah, I moved that lamp and it's table to a different place."
Having God active in our lives, points to the dangers, and gives us the needed support when things are out of order in our lives.


But in these specific verses, they are referring back or pointing to the utmost trust in God!

One has to learn to trust.
A baby is dependent on the mother and then the father. If they do not exist in his or her life, then they, the baby will most likely not learn to trust, especially adults.
You have an older child or children who may trust and they most likely have both parents active in showing them examples of trusting another person. When "kids" have both parents active, the seeds are sown in teaching them what "trust" actually looks like.

The husband/wife team deliver to their child/children, strong lessons vital for life to protect them and guide them. With God as the "standard", truth is revealed, commitment to another is seen, and a steadiness to continue in a steadfast instructions are like that glow-in-the-dark stick or bracelet. His instructions teach us to rely on His strength and reside in His peace.
God will always act in according to His character of holiness and His Word. He never changes. What He spoke to you, He will do it!  But it is you who chooses! And what will you choose?

King Jesus spoke what He heard the Father speak. And we are called to live and endure by faith in Romans 1:17. We are to come to God and required to believe not only that He is, but He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6)

If we had no previous training in relying on Him, seen no examples through parents, God can show us what it looks like. When we read through those passages of Abram leaving Haran ( Genesis 12:1-3) and going to the place God told him to go, we Abram become Abraham and how he trusted in the One True God. ( Genesis 17:5....a covenant and he became Abraham)
Taking us into His bosom, God keeps us, protects us, loves us and without restraint. His love never comes to an end. People may exit our lives, a spouse may choose greener grass on the other side to find out that the other side comprises only artificial turf, and best friends might become the next likely enemy, but our faith is to be in God, our trust is to be the utmost, and our next  breath must be about speaking of Him.

The world has its issues! But God is still God and knows all.
For both of us,  my husband and myself, our parents did not stay married to their first spouse. Whatever issues though, we have worked for our marriage. Not always an easy thing, marriage takes hard work and endurance. Just like Jesus had a walk before Him to the Cross, He never waivered in His walk with God...... "not my will but Yours be done" when He prayed to the Father.
May our hearts choose to burst its banks, spilling beauty and goodness to our KING! May our river flow into words for Him, and may those lips be sheer grace. For it is God Who has blessed us, and given us His best. Our King rides majestically and He is coming again. It is on the side of truth and of the meek who shall inherit the earth.

If we spend time looking back at those people who had their trust in God, we learn not to rely on the fleshy man. And our future and prosperity is not to rest upon our own ability.

Confidence in God is going to run long, the way of life in placing our whole being on the promises of God and His faithfulness knowing He will never leave us and He will never forsake us!
God responds to our choices and what choices are we making?
There is a war out there in this world for the children and grand-children, will we fight back in prayer, will we speak right things that align with God, will we be that glow-in-the-dark light that will show people our trust is to be in God only? 
Dear Lord, excite and quicken us to be men and women of prayer. We desire to be ever speaking praise like a river for Your glory and honor. And may we be that light in that dark place, knowing what to speak and that our total trust is in You.....and that we cannot fail for we have Heaven backing us up. For all that is required of us today Lord, may we speak in that moment that will dispel the darkness and light the way for someone to know You and love You forever, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Ready, Set, Glow!

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Luke 11:34-41   nkjv   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 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."
37 And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went in and sat down to eat. 38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that He had not first washed before dinner. 39 Then the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees, make the outside of the cut and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.40 "Foolish ones! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also? 41 "But rather give alms of such things you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.


In the above reading, the lamp is useful for light. With regard to the eye having light, our lives are to be useful providing light to others. Letting our light shine is " that which produces words of life" to another. We are to have a positive affect. Serving God is about serving the needs of others. Washing can make you clean on the outside, but what do we hold inside our hearts that prevents us from helping a neighbor, giving time, or counsel that is of compassion revealed?


Matthew 6:22-24    nkjv  22 "The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 "But if your eye is dark, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness." 24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

As mammon represents the materialistic of a system, that which is considered the "bad eye" is one of being selfish, covetous and miserly. It looks like looking out for number one!
Being loyal to God counts for everything. Making a commitment for some is hard to make. We see from the rise of divorces among Christian couples, that work is hard and communication is greatly needed. It is commitment and hard work to raise children together. So if two people within one house cannot get along, how can a whole family get along?


Being sensible about what is right and wrong, means looking toward God always, making the adjustments, learning not to make the same mistakes, and be led in peace without any compromise anywhere in our lives. We can find at times the need to lose weight. We implement some workout time, but fail to cut out the sweets.  Eating healthy can be expensive, too, and take some time of learning what is best for any age group. Even healthy eating desired for a young child takes a lot of work and much planning. Ask a parent with a young baby and what it takes to get the child to try new foods! In truth, ask an older couple when one or both must change their eating habits!

Being responsible is looking how to care for those around you with a compassionate love that speaks words to edify, yes correct  some, too. If a child is not corrected, and goes on with their own desires they can end up, well, "like front page news". (for those who still like to read a newspaper that you can hold in your hand)

Are we glowing with light to guide others? Are we illuminating truth? Or are we like the Pharisees' and caught up with ceremony and not really taking care to see our heart is right?

In writing this about glowing, I think of when a woman finds out she is pregnant. And many take notice as to the woman's look of vitality and brightness. The woman's face appears to exude healthiness out of her pores. I remember that of our daughter when she and her husband were expecting our grand-child. She was already planning to have one of those pillows that had a cassette or some type CD player in it, so she could have the word of God played in our grand-baby's hearing before she was born. In our daughter's rest time, that pillow was centered on her abdomen, and that baby heard Johnny Cash read the Bible.

Then after her birth, her room was wired with the Word of God that sounded a lot like Johnny Cash. (I can only imagine that day she meets Mr. Cash for the first time in heaven, and wondering what she will say to him.)
Our giving to others starts well before conception of a child. Our giving begins in our hearts and grows. But if we choose to believe that other's owe us because of whatever reason, then we lose the truth that God can and will bring to us a wonderful life that is filled with many diverse people and who all love God. He desires us to be open-handed to receive all the good He has to give us.



When our grandchild started to read a couple of years ago, she really like the picture books. She would point to those pictures when 2 or 3 years old and we would read to her. That was so much fun. And we loved when she spent the night with us, as we could read her many, many bedtime stories. But now she reads to us! And she does not read books with lots of pictures anymore. Her reading has certainly changed in these few years.

If we are a picture book to someone lost, without hope, without Jesus, could they read us, that is read our hearts and know that we have something that they need within their heart as well?

Finding light should give us light!

When giving that light, we should be bringing others to the light of the Lord. God sowed His Son for a family.

Luke 6:30-36   nkjv  30 "Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. 31 And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. 32 "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. 33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. 34 "And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. 35 "But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great; and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. 36 "Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. 37 "Judge not, and you shall not be judge. Condemn not and you shall not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. 38 "Give and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you."

Yeah, heard that one taught as "offering message" at church.

But in truth, it has to do with every area of our lives, not just money.

Too many hold on tightly to "things" when God is wanting to release into their lives an abundance of  blessing to them. Yielding all to God, means yielding all to HIM!
Being tight-fisted does not allow God to get anything into our hands.

Are we giving out of every area of our life: spiritually, physically, financially, socially, and mentally? Yeah an area or two needs some work, right? But if our giving is to be pressed down and running over........remember the measure God uses....does ours come up to His standard?
How much needs to be sowed into other people and their children? How much needs to be sown into our kids and grand-kids? What about that weight loss program?

 In the essence of these verses we are to sow our lives into others. OUR Light is to glow and give a direction of where to meet Jesus. Do our lives do that?

Is any persuaded by what I write or what I teach? Is anyone directed to maybe changing something......and focus on Jesus........and then see if any "can read us like a picture book"?

Could we be a light shining out of the dark, with no chains, and give a loud voice that expresses glory to God? In this day and hour, let your light shine! 

READY, SET, GLOW!

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