What are some of those things that come between us and the Saviour? What keeps us from having a pure, unhindered relationship with Him and reflecting His light to our world? In my own life, there are several things that most commonly obstruct my view of the Lord Jesus and threaten to keep the light of His presence from shining in and through me.ġ. And whereas a lunar eclipse happens only infrequently, it seems that our lives are prone to "spiritual eclipses." Therefore, we must continually be alert to anything which might come between our soul and the Saviour. However, when the things of this earth come between us and the Lord Jesus, our view of Him is obscured and our light is diminished. We have no light of our own-any light that shines from our lives is merely that which we reflect from Him. Jesus is the Sun of Righteousness, the Light of the world. Nothing preventing the least of His favor, Only then are we able to reflect His light to our world. "Revival" may be pictured as that state in which our lives, our homes, and our churches are aligned with the Lord Jesus in such a way that nothing stands between us and Him. The event caused me to reflect in a fresh way on revival and its hindrances. The sun's light was eclipsed by the earth, making it impossible for the moon to shine. The "problem" was that the earth had come between the sun and the moon, causing the moon to become dark. But when the moon ceased to shine, it wasn't because the sun's light was no longer shining. The moon has no light of its own it merely reflects the light of the sun. Of course, we know that the moon didn't really disappear. “If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.Late one evening last spring, along with millions of other stargazers around the globe, I watched as, in a matter of minutes, a brilliant full moon "disappeared" behind a dark shadow. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.” “The early church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. This is what- this is the King of kings, and He’s the Judge of judges, and it’s the Tribunal of tribunals, and there’s no court of appeal after it. We’re all going to stand one day, can you imagine it- at the judgment seat of Christ to give an account for the deeds done in the body. I believe that the church of Jesus Christ needs a new revelation of the majesty of God. We're supposed to be a different breed of people. We invest our time as the world invests it. We see as other men see, we think as other men think. We live too much in time, we’re too earth bound. “But you know if God should stamp eternity or even judgment on our eyeballs, or if you’d like on the fleshy table of our hearts I am quite convinced we’d be a very, very different tribe of people, God’s people, in the world today. “The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.” We have many organizers, but few agonizers many players and payers, few pray-ers many singers, few clingers lots of pastors, few wrestlers many fears, few tears much fashion, little passion many interferers, few intercessors many writers, but few fighters. The pastor who is not praying is playing the people who are not praying are straying.
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