My mission is to bring people out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light, which is the kingdom of God.
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Today, I was blessed by a sermon that I listened to from Pastor Stephanie Ike Okafor, titled: Out of Darkness. You can find it on YouTube. I do encourage you to listen to it/watch it, especially if your mission/God's call on your life, is to bring people into the Kingdom of God.
Pastor Stephanie said,
"You have to position yourself in spaces to represent light. And when you are light, light itself will expel darkness, and it will draw people to come into the kingdom of light, which is the kingdom of God."
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She also said,
"When you hear of people coming from darkness into the kingdom of light, you would think that this only applies to people who don't know God... those that are far from Him, but actually it [is] not only people that are far from God. It [is] also the people who believe to be in the will of God but [are] in darkness."
That is why we see scriptures when people would come to Jesus and Jesus said, " many will come to Him saying, "Lord, Lord, we did all these things in your name; [we] healed in your name, [and] we had all these activities in your name, and He will say to them, 'Get away from me. I never knew you.' (Mathew 7:21-23)
They were the people who had the idea/who had the belief that they were doing things for the Lord, but He never recognized them.
They were people who thought they were operating in light, but actually, they were operating in darkness."
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There are so many Christians today who believe that they are operating in light, but are actually, like Pastor Okafor said, operating in darkness.
It could even be you. And so, I invite you today, to do what Pastor Okafor encouraged the congregation to do, and that is:
"Ask the Lord to reveal to you any area in your life that you are walking in deception."
If you posture yourself in a way to receive from the Lord, which is by making time for Him and spending time in prayer, He will reveal those areas in your life to you.
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Be encouraged. God loves you.
Love and peace,
Yolanda Billingslea (Ms. B)
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