“Arise my people! Let
your light shine for all the nations to see! For the glory of the Lord is
streaming from you. Darkness as black as night shall cover all the peoples of
the earth but the glory of the Lord will shine from you. All nations will come
to your light; mighty kings will come to see the glory of the Lord upon you.”
Isa.60:1-3 TLB.
“You are the world’s
light – a city on a hill, glowing in the night for all to see. Don’t hide your
light! Let it shine for all; let your good deeds glow for all to see, so that
they may praise your heavenly Father.” Mt.5:14-16 TLB.
Welcome to the month of November in our year of divine
visitation; 2013. All through this year, God has visited us month after month
with a new prophetic direction and has kept us on the cutting edge in our walk
with Him. This month, He is capping it all with this great news that it is time
for us to arise and shine. He spoke to me from the above texts of scripture and
I chose to use The Living Bible translation because it is a translation that clarifies
the truth of what God wants to do with us this month. Every one of us is born
for something great! The challenge of man has been the ignorance of this truth.
The few who have discovered that they are made in the image and likeness of God
have come to a point of realizing that they are born for a special purpose.
However, knowing yourself from God’s perspective does not guarantee you will
shine except you take the extra step to discovering the reason why you are.
When you discover why you are, you automatically know what you have to
accomplish why you are. This is how you become a blessing to your world because
those who know their purpose and pursue it passionately are people of destiny
and the proof is in the value they add to others. When you add value to others,
you are doing good works. When this is happening, you can be described as one
glowing with light in this dark world providing direction for others. This will
result in eliminating confusion in others to the point that because of the solution
you are providing, others will praise God.
You can never truly glorify God unless you do the good works
for which He placed you in this world. In John 17:4, the Lord Jesus Christ
praying to the father said that He has glorified the Father by finishing the
work He was sent to do. When you take that text together with the prophecy of
Isaiah quoted above and what the Lord said in Matthew 5:14-16 it would be very
clear that doing good works with the intention of glorifying God is the means
by which we arise and shine. However, this is purpose determined and the only
one who can tell you what your purpose is on earth, is God your manufacturer;
you cannot create a purpose for yourself; that could best be described as
ambition and can destroy you if you do not stop. Awareness of your purpose is a
function of divine revelation.
Once you discover your purpose, you arise and shine by taking
action in the direction of the fulfillment of your purpose. When you do this,
you are arising and shinning by the good works you do adding value to your
world and if you are diligent about it, kings will come to the light of your
rising because Prov.22:29 says: “Do you
know a hardworking man? He shall be successful and stand before kings!”
In light of the above therefore, this month, we shall be
looking at a series on fulfilling destiny. You may have stumbled on this
article and you are not yet born again. I have good news for you; you can be
born again now because the new birth experience is the foundation for shinning.
Our texts were given to a people in covenant with God and for you to enter into
covenant with God in the times we are in; the new birth experience is required
of you. This happens when you believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for
you on Calvary’s Cross, and confess with your month that you acknowledge Him as
your savior and Lord because God raised Him from the dead for your
justification. See Romans 10:8-11 – if you want to make that decision now, do
so at once by saying the prayer below:
Heavenly Father,
Have mercy on me a sinner. Today, I believe that Jesus died
for me and you raised Him from the dead for my Justification. I therefore
declare that Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Lord and from today, I renounce the
fatherhood of Satan and embrace Jesus Christ as my Saviour and Lord. Thank you
for this father in Jesus’ name!
Amen.
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