YOU ARE NOW--NOT SHALL BE 10-13-17 VIDEO THOUGHTS ON LIGHT
Prov 13:9 The light of the [uncompromisingly] righteous [is within him it grows brighter and] rejoices, but the lamp of the wicked [furnishes only a derived, temporary light and] shall be put out shortly. AMP
John 11:43 When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, Lazarus, come out!
44 And out walked the man who had been dead, his hands and feet wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] napkin bound around his face. Jesus said to them, Free him of the burial wrappings and let him go. AMP
Matt 27:53 (After Jesus' resurrection, they left the tombs, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.) MSG
Rom 8:11 Yes God raised Jesus to life! And since God's Spirit of Resurrection lives in you, he will raise your dying body to life by the same Spirit that breathes life into you. Passion
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Rom 8:11 It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! MSG
Rom 6:4 Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entomed with Him, so that when the Father's glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with Him, so we could be empowered walk in the freshness of new life.
5 For since we are permanently grafted into Him to experience a death like His, then we are permanently grafted into Him to experience a resurrection like His and the new life it imparts. Passion
Rom 8:15 And you did not receive the "spirit of religious duty," leading you back into the fear of never being good enough. But you have received the "Spirit of Full Acceptance," enfolding you into the family of God. And you will never feel orphaned, for as he rises up within us, our spirits join Him in saying the words of tender affection, to us as He whispers into our innermost being, "You are God's beloved child!'. Passion
Col 1:13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, AMP
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Col 1:13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, MSG
1 Thess 5:4 But friends, you're not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this?
5 You're sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. MSG
John 3:19 "This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God.
20 Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure.
21 But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is." MSG
Ps 27:1 THE LORD is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear or dread? The Lord is the Refuge and Stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid? AMP
Ps 27:1 Light, space, zest that's God! So, with him on my side I'm fearless,
afraid of no one and nothing. MSG
Eph 5:8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].
9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.
10 And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].
11 Take no part in and have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds and enterprises of darkness, but instead [let your lives be so in contrast as to] expose and reprove and convict them. AMP
Eph 5:8 You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You're out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So no more stumbling around. Get on with it!
9 The good, the right, the true these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours.
10 Figure out what will please Christ, and then do it.
11 Don't waste your time on useless work, mere busywork, the barren pursuits of darkness. Expose these things for the sham they are. MSG
2 Cor 4:6 For God, who said "let brilliant light shine out of darkness," is the one has cascaded his light into us--the brilliant dawning light of the glorious knowledge of God as we gaze into the face of Jesus Christ.
7 We are like common clay jars that carry this glorious treasure within, so that the extraordinary overflowed of power will be seen as God's not ours.
2 Cor 4:6 It started when God said, "Light up the darkness!" and our lives filled up with light as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful.
7 If you only look at us, you might well miss the brightness. We carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pots of our ordinary lives. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with us. MSG
1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. AMP
Isa 49:6 He says, "But that's not a big enough job for my servant just to recover the tribes of Jacob, merely to round up the strays of Israel. I'm setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!"MSG
Matt 11:27 Jesus resumed talking to the people, but now tenderly. "The Father has given me all these things to do and say. This is a unique Father-Son operation, coming out of Father and Son intimacies and knowledge. No one knows the Son the way the Father does, nor the Father the way the Son does. But I'm not keeping it to myself; I'm ready to go over it line by line with anyone willing to listen.
28 "Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest.
29 Walk with me and work with me watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
30 Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." MSG
Rom 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]. AMP
TEMPTATION Luke 4:5 For the second test he led him up and spread out all the kingdoms of the earth on display at once.
6 Then the Devil said, "They're yours in all their splendor to serve your pleasure. I'm in charge of them all and can turn them over to whomever I wish.
7 Worship me and they're yours, the whole works." MSG
Luke 9:25 What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you? MSG
Luke 12:30 People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.
31 Steep yourself in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
32 Don't be afraid of missing out. You're my dearest friends! The Father wants to give you the very kingdom itself. MSG
Luke 18:29 "Yes," said Jesus, "and you won't regret it. No one who has sacrificed home, spouse, brothers and sisters, parents, children whatever 30 will lose out. It will all come back multiplied many times over in your lifetime. And then the bonus of eternal life!" MSG
John 14:18 I promise that I will never leave you helpless or abandon you as orphans--I will come back to you!
19 Soon I will leave this world and they will see me no longer, but you will see me, because I will live again, and you will come alive too.
20 So when that day comes, you will know that I am living in the Father and that you are one with me, for I will be living in you.
21Thoes who truly love me are those who obey my commandments. Whoever passionately loves me will be passionately loved by my Father. And I will passionately love you in return and will manifest my life within you. Passion
John 14:27 Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled.] AMP
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John 14:27 I'm leaving you well and whole. That's my parting gift to you. Peace. I don't leave you the way you're used to being left feeling abandoned, bereft. So don't be upset. Don't be distraught. MSG
John 15:19 If you were to give your allegiance to the world, they would love and welcome you as one of their own. But because you won't align yourself with the values of this world, they will hate you. I have chosen you and taken you out of the world to be mine. Passion
John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.] AMP
John 17:14 I gave them your word; The godless world hated them because of it,
Because they didn't join the world's ways,
15 Just as I didn't join the world's ways. I'm not asking that you take them out of the world But that you guard them from the Evil One.
16 They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world.
17 Make them holy consecrated with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth.
18 In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world. MSG
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John 17:19 And now I dedicate myself to them as a holy sacrifice so that they will live as fully dedicated to God and be made holy by your truth,Passion
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John 17:20 Neither for these alone do I pray [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for all those who will ever come to believe in (trust in, cling to, rely on) Me through their word and teaching,
21 That they all may be one, [just] as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.
22 I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one:
23 I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. AMP
Eph 5:16 Make the most of every chance you get. These are desperate times! MSG
Col 4:5 Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don't miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. MSG
Ezek 12:22 "Son of man, what is this proverb that you people have about the land of Israel, which says, 'The days are prolonged, and every vision fails'?:
23 Tell them therefore, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "I will lay this proverb to rest, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel." But say to them, "The days are at hand, and the fulfillment of every vision.
Job 22:28 You'll decide what you want and it will happen; your life will be bathed in light. MSG