{"id":559,"date":"2025-07-08T09:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/?p=559"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:51:02","slug":"arise-and-shine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/?p=559","title":{"rendered":"15. 8-Jul 2025: Arise and Shine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.<\/strong> Isaiah 60:1<\/strong><\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hello Friends, I pray you are now encouraged, following our journey with the Lord. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I received the fire of Holy Spirit baptism, there was an internal shift that changed me forever. The only way I can describe it, is a fire was ignited within me, like an intense inferno. Of Course it is the trinity of God within me. My inward man blazing with the light and life of Jesus within me. All I did was invite Jesus into my heart, and accept him as my Lord and Saviour, and this is what happened to me. Suddenly His light shone through me, my spirit was made alive, born again, once I was blind, but now I see. In such a divine encounter, the Kingdom of Heaven entered within me. Jesus healed me, and drove out the darkness, setting me free of all the sins I was a slave too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now with His wonderful presence, power and light flooding my, spirit, mind and soul. It is impossible for me not to share Jesus with the world, it would be a great injustice, if I did not. All I see now are the billions of suffering lost souls that need Jesus. My heart burns for them, because my desires are from God, that all will come to receive the ultimate gift of eternal life through Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know by the word of my testimony, what the blood of Jesus has done for me. He has healed me, delivered me from the evil one, paid the penalty of my sins at the cross, and given me eternal life in Heaven, right here and now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I encourage you all, time is short here and the hour late. Share the goodness of God with all around you. Pick up your cross, put away the flesh, fear, doubt and selfishness. Focus on Jesus and the calling He has given you. God commands us to love God with all our heart, mind and soul, and to love our neighbour as we love ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we really did love God and our neighbours, wouldn’t we go out to share our Saviour with great enthusiasm and urgency to the spiritually lost, with great fear for their perishing souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we have any love or compassion for others, would we just stand and watch a blind man walk off a cliff. Wouldn’t we run to that man to pull him away from danger. So it is for the spiritually blind, without Christ our only Saviour. Without receiving the atonement of sin by Christ at the cross, repenting and turning from sin, the bible says, the wages of sin is eternal death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we abide in Him, and He in us, the fruit of His love will be on full display, for all to see. The veil is lifted, His light radiant cutting through the darkness of this world. Dust off your lamp stand, put it centre of your house, and let His glorious light shine into those precious, hurting souls, so Jesus might heal and save them too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathew 3:11 <\/strong> I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John 12:36<\/strong>. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.\u201d These things Jesus spoke, and departed, and was hidden from them.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Corinthians 4:16<\/strong> Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. <\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proverbs 20:27<\/strong> The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the inner depths of his heart.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 Corinthians 3:18<\/strong> But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Philippians 2:3-4<\/strong>. Let\u00a0nothing\u00a0be done\u00a0through selfish ambition or conceit, but\u00a0in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.\u00a0Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of\u00a0others.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jude 1:23<\/strong>. but\u00a0others save\u00a0with fear,\u00a0pulling\u00a0them\u00a0out of the\u00a0fire, hating even\u00a0the garment defiled by the flesh.<\/mark><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Revelation 12:11<\/strong>. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deuteronomy 31:8<\/strong>. And the Lord, He is the One who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John 3:17<\/strong>. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mathew 5:15<\/strong> Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romans 10:15<\/strong>. And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,
Who bring glad tidings of good things!<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May God bless you with all His richness and fullness in Christ Jesus. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With love from Paul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Isaiah 60:1 Hello Friends, I pray you are now encouraged, following our journey with the Lord. When I received the fire of Holy Spirit baptism, there was an internal shift that changed me forever. The only way I can describe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encouragingourreaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsforchrist.co.nz\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}