This morning, I picked up Rick Joyner’s 50 Days for a Firm Foundation. It’s been a while since I’ve read this devotional. It’s really powerful and simple. And just reading the intro, my heart began to come alive with revelation and a hunger for the Lord.
I want to share one sentence and one thought with you. This stood out to me because it mirrors a conversation I had with my wife last night about light and a recent family victory in spiritual warfare.
“The more light we have, the more we should be carriers of that light to those who are bound in darkness.” - Rick Joyner (from Fifty Days for a Firm Foundation, Copyright © 2000, 2003 by Rick Joyner. All rights reserved.)
God gives each of us a measure of light.
There are many ways we could describe the application of light. But for now, I’m going to refer to God’s light as revelation. More specifically, spiritual revelation – man’s spirit ability to see or perceive revelation from the Spirit of God.
Recently, the Lord revealed to my wife that some of the negative things my family was going through was a spiritual attack. Though everything we were going through had logical reasons behind the “why are these things happening to us?” question, the Lord gave my wife some dreams that initiated a series of revelations that allowed us to see what was spiritually happening behind the scenes. Sure enough, there were some spiritual “why these things are happening” reasons that our human mind could not have come up with. We could have made some guesses, but that would not have been revelation that our spirits could grab onto.
As we prayed over these dreams and what others from our church were sharing, the root of the cause of these problems was revealed. My wife and I agreed in Jesus’ name that this root be bound from having any further authority over our family. Things began to change that day and have snow-balled in a positive way ever since.
We were treating our circumstances with the natural understanding we had of the situation. But when the Lord came along and shed His “light” on what was happening, our spirits came alive and could see what needed to be done in terms of prayer. In fact, we had been praying all along. But once we could “see” how to pray, prayer had an immediate effect. We had to pray specifically with “light” from heaven.
Since then, and after reading the sentence above, there are two thoughts the Lord has given me regarding this scenario. I’m going to share them with you with very little commentary, because they are powerful in their simplicity.
1. We are called to abide in the light we receive.
The light doesn’t go away after we receive it as long as we abide in that revelation. We are responsible to continue in the light we receive.
2. We are called to give away the light we receive.
Gently with humility and love, just the way the Father shed the light into your life. If you see others around you bound in darkness after you have received light, it is for the purpose of sharing that light for their freedom’s sake. Religion is where people had once received light and then turned around and beat up those in darkness with judgment. Don’t judge those in darkness. Free them by giving away the light.
In fact, this one paragraph (just eight sentences) in Rick’s Intro to 50 Days to a Firm Foundation sums up the progression God is calling us to in terms of setting others free with His light.
“Our primary quest is to know the Lord and His ways. If we know Him, we will love Him. The more we know Him, the more we will be captured by the glory of who He is. We cannot help but to love His creation too, because His creation is a reflection of His nature. Our love will also grow for the crowning glory of His creation, man. Even though man’s glory is now marred because of sin and rebellion, God made man in His own image, and we can see Him in every person if we know where to look. Then we begin to love mankind with a deeper, more effective love. This is a love that calls the fallen back to their high destiny in His plan for their lives.” - Rick Joyner (from Fifty Days for a Firm Foundation, Copyright © 2000, 2003 by Rick Joyner. All rights reserved.)
