Power Outage/Blackout!!

What do you think of when you hear the news report about a blackout in a large city somewhere? You probably think like me, total darkness.

Well, today while reading my devotional Kenneth Copeland was talking about the power we have in the Holy Spirit, and how we sometimes pray for more power. But, he made a good point about how can we have any more power? Who has more power than GOD? And God Himself gave us His power in the form of the Holy Spirit. WOW! Let that sink in a minute. How much power is stored up inside of you just waiting to be released. I hope you don't short circuit yourself by not using the power God gave you.

Yesterday we talked about 1 Thes. 5 about Jesus coming as a theif in the night, but how being children of the light we will not be caught in the dark.
Well, today lets look at the middle of those passages vs. 4-11.....But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night, but let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith, and love, and as a helmet the hope of our salvation through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore, comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.....

You see, just because we are children of the light does not give us the OK to live recklessly or not walk in love. In other words we need to be living in that Light every day all day so that when the Day comes we are not caught by surprise like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar.

And then that brings us back to the power of the Holy Spirit being in us. We need to use that power so that our lights are shining so brightly everyday that there can not be darkness even in the time of the day the sun goes down.

Acts 1 vs 8...."But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth"....

He didn't just say in your hometown. He said to the ends of the earth. His light will shine throughout all the earth when He comes again. It will be blinding, but beautiful.

Can you just stop and think a minute about how bright this world would be, if all the Christians used the power that God has given them to shine. The planet earth would be so bright that the other planets would have to back off, just as if we were the sun in the sky that heats the day. But we as Christians have a brighter light even, we have the SON of GOD in us a Son that never goes down.

Don't get caught in a blackout. Use the power God gave you every day all day by reading His word and soaking in the rays of the SON into your very core so that you may shine even in a blackout.(in your times of trials)

Let your Light shine brightly today and everyday!

Neta