Live LIGHT

Want to plan for the new year under God's blessing? I've found 4 blessings in 2 Thessalonians and have come up with 6 questions to help myself align with them. I saw someone creating their vision board and I was asking them about their inspirational images, wondering if was something I should do. Then we started talking about goals and how they relate to our life's purpose and I sort of blurted out... My goal is to Live LIGHT and to help others Live LIGHT too. I want to Live Loved. I want to Live Intentional. I want to Live Generous. I want to Live Hopeful. I want to Live Today. Then I remembered I already had a vision board...without the inspirational images, so I went home and added the images that are usually on my desktop and viola! You can see that roadmap at https://revtrev.com/roadmap I do very little that's not public knowledge. It's up to me to make the plans and up to me to keep in step with what the Spirit is leading me to do TODAY. I don't have due

It is essential you live intentional. What does that mean in the Live LIGHT Manifesto ? To live intentional means we intentionally live like Jesus. We only do what we see the Father do. We only say what we hear the Father say. Here’s some tips how to do that. I Live Intentional fearlessly. Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. 1 John 4:18 To live intentional fearlessly, we look at what John wrote about perfect love. In context perfect love is complete love. Perfect love is complete I need to take the love I’ve received and give it to others for it to cast out fear. It’s only love that’s been given away that casts out fear. What are you doing pertaining to the issue of fear? This scripture compels us to serve some body. Stop waiting for another conference or prophetic word or for another stroking of your ego. At some point we need to stop being im

Live loved radically. In this next section of the Live LIGHT Manifesto you'll learn what it means to live loved and how you can live loved in the day to day of your everyday. I Live Loved radically. There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. John 15:13 What does it mean to live like this? 5 Steps To live loved 1. Know you’re loved by God… John 16:27, Romans 5:8, 1 John 3:1; 4:10;19, Revelation 1:5, Ephesians 3:17-19, Romans 8:35-39, 1 John 4:7-8;16, Hebrews 12:6; Revelation 3:19 2. Know how to show you love God… Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27, Matthew 10:37, Luke 14:25, Matthew 6:24,Luke 16:13, 1 John 2:15, John 14:15, John 14:21, John 14:23, John 15:10, 1 John 4:18-22, 1 John 2:3-5, 1 John 3:10 , 1 John 3:23, 1 John 5:2-3, 2 John 1:6 , Hebrews 6:10, 1 John 3:11,17-18, Matthew 25:32-40, Matthew 6:33, James 1:12 3. Know how to love… 1 Corinthians 16:14, 2 Corinthians 5:14, Galatians 5:6, Colossians 3: 17, 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 2 Corinthians 8:7-

Did you know to Live LIGHT is choice? It’s a daily choice, an hourly choice, sometimes a minute by minute choice. In this next section of the Live LIGHT Manifesto we look at how we live because of what we know and what we know Jesus told us about how we should live. I choose to live LIGHT. I choose to Live Loved, knowing nothing can separate me from His love. Jesus said, “Make yourselves at home in my love.”  I choose to Live Intentional, the way Jesus only said and did what came from the Father. Jesus said, “I only do what I see the Father doing.” I choose to Live Generous, the way God lives towards everyone. Jesus said, “Give away your life.” I choose to Live Hopeful, knowing I can trust my good Father. Jesus said, “Don’t get lost in despair…” I choose to Live Today, knowing faithfulness to God is multiplication. Jesus said, “As you go...” No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 I

Learn how to be interrupted and not get offended. Jesus was able to be interrupted and since you're following him, you should be able to be interrupted too. In this section of the Live LIGHT Manifesto we'll look at how you can do that. I choose to be interruptible. A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding, and she could find no cure. Coming up behind Jesus, she touched the fringe of his robe. Immediately, the bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. Everyone denied it, and Peter said, “Master, this whole crowd is pressing up against you.” But Jesus said, “Someone deliberately touched me, for I felt healing power go out from me.”  When the woman realized that she could not stay hidden, she began to tremble and fell to her knees in front of him. The whole crowd heard her explain why she had touched him and that she had been immediately healed. “Daughter,” he said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace.” Luke 8:43-48  8 times

Do you know the rhythm of Jesus? Do you know the rhythm he followed that will help you Live LIGHT? In this next section of the Live LIGHT Manifesto we look at some important ones and how we can practically live them out. I follow His rhythms of abiding, margin, pause and rest But despite Jesus’ instructions, the report of his power spread even faster, and vast crowds came to hear him preach and to be healed of their diseases.  But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.  One day while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. (It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all Galilee and Judea, as well as from Jerusalem.) And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus. Luke 5:15-17 and Jesus’ brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, where your followers can see your miracles! You can’t become famous if you hide like this! If you can do such wonderful things, show yourself to the world!”  For even his br

Merry Christmas from my family to yours...and all the best in 2020. Merry Christmas from the Lunds May God enable you to live a life worthy of His call . May he give you the power to accomplish all the good things your faith prompts you to do .

Have you ever celebrated what John tells us about Christmas? It's amazing! Let's celebrate what John tells us about Christmas Can you guess what my favourite Christmas account is? Can you guess what my favourite Christmas story is? Is it Matthew that tells us Jesus came as our King? I love Matthew’s interest in how prophecy is fulfilled – I don’t understand it all, but I enjoy seeing how he saw prophecy fulfilled. But it’s not my favourite narrative. Is it the lack of a story in Mark? When I was a kid, Dad started a tradition of reading a Christmas narrative before we opened our presents. When we read from Luke it seemed like forever. Matthew was quicker, but lacked the angels in the field. I never could get Dad to read the Mark account, even though I’d ask him for it every year… I mean really, those gifts just don’t open themselves. I love remembering Jesus came with a purpose – He came to die, but the lack of an account in Mark is not my favourite account. Besides now I take

Mark - can it tell us anything about Christmas? I wonder how many people came to this section with no idea that Mark says nothing about Christmas. I’m sure I snagged a few theologians who think I’m either unschooled or a heretic and are reading to find which it is. Christmas According to Mark If Luke places Jesus in world history and Matthew places Jesus in Jewish history, we can say Mark places God in Soteriological History . Don’t worry that’s just a big word for “salvation”. Mark’s conspicuous absence of a nativity account speaks volumes to us and that’s what I want us to consider. Why would Mark leave Christmas out? Why would Mark leave Christmas out? Why would Mark – that in many ways is so close to its synoptic brothers (Matthew and Luke) – leave out any mention of the coming of Jesus as a baby? The book starts with a quick mention of John the Baptist and then right into Jesus’ baptism and ministry. He doesn’t seem to care about the prophecies Jesus fulfilled like Matthew . He c

Matthew - the video explanation This video was done in 2013 The background of Matthew Matthew was written to Jewish believers, possibly Jewish people as an apologetic. His genealogy places Jesus in Jewish history. He continually points out how Jesus fulfills the prophecy for the Messiah – including, but not limited to the fact that the Messiah: Prophecy about Messiah Would come from a descendant of Shem named Abraham ( Genesis 22:18; 12; 17; 22). Fulfilled: See Christ’s genealogy in Matthew 1. Would be a descendant of Abraham’s son, Isaac, not Ishmael (Gen. 17; 21). Fulfilled: See Christ’s genealogy in Matthew 1. Would be a descendant of Isaac’s son, Jacob, not Esau (Gen. 28; 35:10-12; Num. 24:17). Fulfilled: See Christ’s genealogy in Matthew 1. Would be a descendant of Judah, not of the other eleven brothers of Jacob. Fulfilled: See Christ’s genealogy in Matthew 1. Would be a descendant of the family of Jesse in the tribe of Benjamin (Isaiah 11:1-5). Fulfilled: See Christ’s genea