Live LIGHT

There are three powerful keys to Live LIGHT. Each make a huge difference in our life. Gratitude, grace and generosity are game changing decisions to make daily. Three Power Keys - Gratitude, Grace and Generosity are choices I make today. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness. Colossians 2:7 Rather, you must grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. All glory to him, both now and forever! Amen. 2 Peter 3:18 Yes, you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous. And when we take your gifts to those who need them, they will thank God. 2 Corinthians 9:11 But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favouritism and is always sincere. James 3:17 Why three powerful keys

Here’s why loving right matters the most and why we keep in step with the Spirit in the day to day of everyday. Loving right matters the most. We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. 1 John 3:16 Life is short. Forever is real. Loving right matters the most. What is loving right? John tells us what real love is. In 1 John 4:7-19 he writes: “Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. God showed how much he loved us by sending his one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each

Is doing right better than simply knowing right? Knowledge can puff us up, but love will build us up. Doing right is better than simply knowing right. Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them. John 13:17 Is it more important for us to be doing right than to simply know what right? I think the statement “You know more than you do” is sadly ironic in a couple of stages in Christian journey. New people on the journey often think they don’t know enough. It’s those of us further ahead in the journey’s fault they think that way. We’ve failed to impress on them that it is Holy Spirit who teaches them all things and will remind them of what Jesus taught His disciples. Holy Spirit is God and God is enough. I’ve often said if I can teach someone to hear God and obey God, I know they’ll go far in their Christian walk. That tool and that decision will protect them, empower them, and transform them. Sadly too many people - who have been Christians for a lot longer - never

Can someone live whole hearted? Do you know what it’s like to live whole hearted? Most of experience it in different seasons of our life. Maybe when you were in school and had to get a certain grade? Perhaps it was when you were pursuing your spouse or awaiting the birth of a child? Maybe when something happened in life and all you could do was put one foot in front of the other? Do you know we can live our whole life whole hearted? It’s best when our heats align wholeheartedly with God’s heart. The Manifesto has the statement- It’s amazing what happens when I align my whole heart - my emotion, my intellect and my action - with the Father’s heart. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. And always be thankful. Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful heart

Are you mindful of what God is doing in the day-to-day of your everyday? We can call it abiding in Christ or keeping in step with the Spirit, but it also means we are mindful in the moment and aware of what God wants to do in it. I live today mindfully I Live Today mindfully. Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honour at God’s right hand. Colossians 3:1 I choose to Live Today Matthew 6:34, knowing faithfulness to God is multiplication. Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus said, “As you go…” Matthew 10:7-8 I Live Today mindfully. Colossians 3:1 It's Oliver Wendell Holmes who said, "Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good." I'm convinced the truer statement today is "Too many of us are so earthly minded we're no heavenly good." We don't think enough about heavenly realities so we don't expect heaven to come to earth. What I mean by that is thi

Live hopeful? Life without hope is not living at all. Especially during this time of self-imposed exile for the good of the realm. In this part of the Live LIGHT Manifesto we look at how we can and must live hopeful at all times and in any outbreak. I Live Hopeful Trustfully.  Not that I was ever in need, for I have learned how to be content with whatever I have.  I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation, whether it is with a full stomach or empty, with plenty or little. For I can do everything through Christ, who gives me strength.Philippians 4:11-13 I live hopeful trustfully. I choose to Live Hopeful Romans 12:12, knowing I can trust my good Father 1 Thessalonians 5:24. Jesus said, “Don’t get lost in despair…” John 14:1 I Live Hopeful trustfully. Romans 15:13 Hope is only as valuable as what it’s been placed into. We all know what it’s like to misplace hope...we’ve all experienced disappointment. But hope that