Who said anything about safe?

Last night, we had our usual staff dinner. We’ve been sharing Tuesday night meals for about a month now, telling our stories. Anna Welte shared her story of life and death, ultimately choosing this glorious life and Joe from southern California who is a part of the Refuge, followed with his testimony of living as light.

I love how each and every one of us are becoming intimately united for God’s army. The Spirit is moving and revealing things that are to be used to encourage one another. Glenn Ousley shared his specific verse to Anna that God was revealing to him earlier that day, and the Spirit kept leading me to share Ephesians 5:14 with Joe.

I started reading out of verse 8:

“For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord.  Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible. This is why it is said:
“Wake up, O sleeper,
rise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”

I mentioned how verse 14 became a meditation for me recently because I was struggling with fighting the wrong end of the fight, giving more power to sin than the name of Jesus. I went on to say that my struggle was very similar to the programmers because they continue to ask me how they can change and stop obsessing about their former ways.

God allowed the timing of when I listened to this sermon (Mike Bickle & the life of a praying believer) to touch & transform hearts. Oh the power of indestructible life!

Tim Ulrich was also excited about that particular verse because he mentioned that it was to be the theme of this inner-city area- to become light. to WAKE UP… and Christ will shine on you. What a precious promise!