GOD BLESS AMERICA 7-5-26 BY MARY DORIAN
Luke 11:33 “No one lights a lamp, then hides it in a drawer. It’s put on a lamp stand so those entering the room have light to see where they’re going.
34 Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. Mess

John 8:12 And Jesus continued to say, “I am the light of the world – whoever journeys with me shall not walk in darkness but will 1radiate the light of life!”
13 The Pharisees took offence at this and responded with, “You assume things about yourself; how can you expect us to believe your record to be true?”
14 Jesus answered, “Whatever I declare concerning myself is absolutely true because I know where I am from and where I am going. You have no clue where I come from and therefore cannot discern my destiny. Mirror

Psalm 119:13 I’ll transfer to my lips all the counsel that comes from your mouth; Mess

Isa 9: 2-4 Those who walked in darkness have seen a radiant light shining upon them.
They once lived in the shadows of death, but now a glorious light has dawned!
3 Lord, you have multiplied the nation and given them overwhelming joy! They are ecstatic in your presence and rejoice like those who bring in a great harvest and those who divide up the spoils of victory!
4 For you have broken the chains that have bound your people and lifted off the heavy bar across their shoulders, the rod the oppressor used against them. You have shattered all their bondage, TPT

Matthew 5:14-18 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.
If I make you light-bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand.
Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand – shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.
“Don’t suppose for a minute that I have come to demolish the Scriptures – either God’s Law or the Prophets. I’m not here to demolish but to complete. I am going to put it all together, pull it all together in a vast panorama.
God’s Law is more real and lasting than the stars in the sky and the ground at your feet. Long after stars burn out and earth wears out, God’s Law will be alive and working. mess

Matthew 6:22 “Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. Mess

John1:8 His ministry was not to distract from the light, as if he himself was the light but rather to point out the light Source.
9 A new day for mankind has come. The authentic light of life that illuminates everyone was about to dawn in the world! Mirror

John 12:36 So long as you have the light, live persuaded in the conclusion of light; oh that you might realize your authentic origin as the sons of light! Mirror

Acts 13:47 following orders, doing what God commanded when he said, I’ve set you up as light to all nations. You’ll proclaim salvation to the four winds and seven seas!” Mess

2 Cor4:6 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. Mess

Eph 5:14 Wake up from your sleep, Climb out of your coffins; Christ will show you the light! Mess

1thess5:5 You’re sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. Mess

2Tim1:10 But we know it now. Since the appearance of our Savior, nothing could be plainer: death defeated, life vindicated in a steady blaze of light, all through the work of Jesus. Mess

1 John 5:4 Whatever is born of God is destined to triumph over the world system. Our faith celebrates a victory that is already accomplished!
5 This is the ultimate victory: the certainty that the human Jesus is the divine Son of God; Mirror

1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin. Mess

Rev 3:6-8 Now listen up with your inner ears! Hear with understanding what the Spirit is saying to the ekklesias!
3:7 And to the messenger of the ekklesia of 1Philadelphia write: I am the Holy and True One! I hold the key of David as prophesied. Yes, I unlock the mysteries of the heavenly dimension and no one can shut the door! And I lock the entrance and none can access it!
3:8 I am fully aware of your efforts in doing the work of the ministry! I want you to see something, I have given you a doorway right in front of you that has been fully opened into the heavenly dimension! Nothing can possibly close it again! Even when you had very little strength you have treasured my word and have not contradicted my name! Mirror

Rev 3:11 Do not let tough times make me seem distant from you! I am at hand – see my nearness, not my absence. And don’t let temporal setbacks diminish your own authority either! Remember that you call the shots; you wear the crown. My crown endorses your crown. mirror

Hebrews 12:1-3 Do you see what this means – all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running – and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins.
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed – that exhilarating finish in and with God – he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.
When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls! Mess