Sometimes in your life you feel like you are surounded by darkness suddenly. It could be your circumstance or just the way you feel. How do you overcome this darkness that the enemy tried to bring around you?
You need to fight the darkness. Today I am going to show you the only way to fight it, by shining the light.
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Does it feel like you are surrounded by darkness? Perhaps you are trying to fight as hard as you can, but it feels like there’s just darkness all around you. Well, today I want to show you how to shine the light.
Welcome back to the ministry corner.
Does it feel like you’re surrounded by darkness? I want to talk to you today about how you can shine the light because sometimes in your life as a believer, it’s going to feel like you’re surrounded by darkness. Is that how you feel right now?
Perhaps you feel like you’re fighting as hard as you can. You feel like the enemy is attacking you, and you’re trying really hard to fight it, but you know the problem is you can’t fight the darkness. You can’t fight it because it surrounds you. There is only one way to get rid of darkness and that is to shine the light.
Now, you have a light inside of you. You have a shining light that God gave you the day you became one of his children. You have a light that could shine and make the darkness go away automatically but the problem is maybe it feels like your light isn’t working right now.
You see, when the darkness overwhelms and surrounds you, it feels like nothing is going to get rid of it, but the truth is you have a bright shining light in you that can get rid of it. That can dispel the darkness right now, but it doesn’t feel like it’s working does it?
You have already overcome
You have already have the victory in Christ. You don’t have to fight anymore. All you have to do is shine the light and you know that is the truth that you need to know that you need to realize in order to have victory.
The problem is that when the darkness is around you you don’t believe it. You know, the enemy has a way of sneaking up on you and surrounding you when you least expect it. Like in real life sometimes I don’t know if you’ve noticed sometimes it gets dark really quick.
Perhaps it’s the end of the day maybe you’re still working or you’re busy you see the sun starting to go down and you think ah it’s nearing the end of the day it’s starting to get dark and so you carry on doing what you’re doing and suddenly you look up and you realize that it’s dark. You’re surrounded by darkness and you don’t know when that happened it just happened suddenly.
The Darkness Sneaks in
See that’s how the enemy likes to work in your life. He likes to bring it around when you least expect it. Perhaps you’re going along just serving the Lord and suddenly you feel like everything’s gone wrong in your life just overnight like that.
But it doesn’t happen overnight, the enemy likes to slowly creep in. You see, it’s easy to see the attack of the enemy when he attacks you straight away when something goes wrong in your life when something bad happens, but sometimes you wake up one day and you find that you just feel like everything is surrounded in darkness.
How do you shine the light and overcome that? How do you get victory when you feel that way? Because it’s really hard to see the light when you feel like you’re surrounded like this. You need to know the truth for starters. Firstly you need to know what God has promised you.
The Promises of God
You need to know what his word says.
The scripture says,
1 John 4:4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. [GBMV]
The scripture says,
John 8:32 And you will come to know the truth [real thing], and that truth [ or reality] will set you free. [GBMV]
You have to realize the promises that you have. The enemy makes your makes it feel like your light is dim. He makes you think your light is not going to work.
You’re not bright enough to shine through this darkness. He gets rid of your hope and in the promises of what God has given you. So you need to build your faith again.
You need to build your hope and you need to get to the place where your light starts to shine. That could take some time. It could take a little bit of time of shining the light until that darkness begins to dispel.
You need to build your faith. The best way to do that is to start to speak words. Confess the scripture.
Speaking Words
Confess the promises that God has given you. The scripture says that you have overcome greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. The scripture says that for this reason the son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil and he’s living in you and you have a shining light and you already have the victory.
You see but when you don’t believe it, it’s not going to work. Your light is dim and you’re surrounded. So how do you begin to grow that light and shine it?
Well, like I said, for starters you need to speak the words and confess it. But there are other things you can do to begin to build up your hope again and your faith.
You know, I shared recently in my last ministry corner how I went through a bit of a tough time physically and I realized how important my relationship with the Lord was.
But you know, I went through that kind of time where I felt like I was surrounded by darkness, where it felt like there was no hope anymore. And just when there was a glimmer of, hope it felt like I just fell back into darkness again, and there was no way to overcome.
You know one thing that I did is I continued to stand on the word and I continued to wait on the Lord.
Ways to Shine The Light
But there’s another thing you can do that’s really powerful. You can listen to music or to confessions. We have a library of music on our music website and I’ve been listening to those and we here at GBM have been listening to those to build our faith and our hope.
And you know music is a powerful way to build your faith and your hope when you’re feeling surrounded when you’re feeling overwhelmed. It’ll build your hope it’ll get your spirit alive again and get that light shining. So I recommend you go and listen to some of our music.
You can find free albums here: https://gbm-music.com/current-albums/
Go and listen to some of the albums. They’re really powerful, You can just play them in the background.
Another thing we have is a thing called Wordplay where Apostle Les spoke scriptures and he’s played some music with them, and you can just listen to him confessing scriptures.
Find Wordplay here: https://www.gbm-bookshop.com/product-detail/?product=191
These things build your faith. They begin to build your hope inside and the ultimate goal is you need to get to the place where you know without a doubt that you have overcome and you have the victory.
Even though you see the darkness, you know that you have a shining light and you have the victory. That’s what we call getting a rhema word, where you know in your spirit without a doubt that you have the victory. That God has given you the victory.
No matter how bleak it looks how dark it looks doesn’t matter because you’re going to make it through.
I want to encourage you today to not give up hope. Don’t give up hope because even if it feels like you’re surrounded no matter how dark it is the Lord is there with you and he has that light inside of you and you need to shine that light.
Do not give up hope today. Keep pushing forward and persevering until that darkness begins to fade and you will realize that that darkness didn’t mean anything. It was just hiding what was there.
It was just hiding the truth. The enemy likes to hide the truth from you. He likes to hide what God has for you.
Perhaps God has something good in your life right now. Perhaps there’s something amazing that the Lord is doing in your life right now and this is a good sign that the enemy doesn’t want you to see it. So keep pushing through.
Time to Shine
Do not lose hope. Go listen to the music because it is a powerful faith builder. It has built my faith and I encourage you to listen to it as well.
Don’t give up. Keep persevering and perhaps it might take some time. It might take a little bit of time until you feel that darkness begin to fade.
Perhaps you might need to persevere a little. I want to speak more about that in my next ministry corner but for now I want to tell you do not give up hope because God has a plan for you and you are going to make it through and when that darkness fades you will rise up in victory and you will carry on with what God has for you in your life.
I hope this ministry corner has been a blessing to you and I’ll see you in the next video.