Arise, Shine!

"It was for this He called you through our gospel, that you may gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ." - 2 Thessalonians 2:14

The Word of commands those alive at the end of the age to be fearless in the face of darkness! Speaking through the prophet Isaiah, the Spirit of the Lord orders His people:

Arise, shine; for your light has come,

And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

For behold,...

"Do not earnestly remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold I am doing a new thing! Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." - Isaiah 43:18-19

The Lord is taking us higher and into new places. Those new places are places of birthing, are places of reaping and are places of fulfillment. But the "way" He is leading...

"I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as My prophet to the nations." - Jeremiah 1:5

God does not place a desire in you to fulfill His will so that you can simply put it aside out of concern that you are incapable in the eyes of others. He places that burning desire there so that nothing except doing exactly what He has asked you to do will satisfy your spirit. You long to please Him and Him alone....

The lover of nature is the true worshipper of God

Bowl of Saki, August 13, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

A true worshipper of God sees His presence in all forms, and thus in respecting others he respects God. It may even develop to such an extent that the true worshipper of God, the Omnipresent, walks gently on the earth, bowing in his heart even to every tree and plant, and it is then that the worshipper forms a communion with...

Luke 10:22 - “All things have been committed to me by my Father.”

As the Holy Spirit reveals Jesus. He is real – the living Word, effective, acting, speaking, thinking praying, singing. It is a wonderful life, the substance of the Word of God, which includes possibility, and opening, which confronts us, bringing us to a place undaunted.

Jesus has given us power over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:19). All must be subject to His power. What should we do to “work...