The Light Rock!
(Revelation Rock)

Direct revelation
From God
Is:
A flash of inner light
Full of God’s insight
That gives a blind heart
Supernatural sight.
It’s the rock foundation
The risen Jesus uses
To build His assembly
Of living stones
As a bright light
To every nation.

The Light Rock is more than “easy listening.” It’s listening that releases awe! Sometimes it’s delightful; sometimes it’s deeply convicting!

Direct revelation from God is the reception of His gift of truth and light that empowers us to perceive with His perception instead of with our own. It is to see and to understand something from God’s perspective.

There are two sides to God’s direct, personal revelation. 1) Conviction of sin, and 2) Astonishment about Jesus. You see them both in Peter’s interactions with Jesus, but that didn’t make Him the rock that Jesus uses to assemble His people together as living stones.

Peter, after fishing all night and catching nothing was both astonished and convicted when Jesus directed him to a huge catch of fish. He fell at Jesus’ feet and said: ““Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!” Peter had encountered the light rock — supernatural revelation of the awesomeness of Jesus and of his own sinfulness.

Jesus once asked His disciples: “Who do you say I am?” Peter declared, “You are the Christ (the Messiah) the Son of the Living God!” Jesus replied, “This was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in Heaven.” Jesus then goes on to say that on this rock I will build My assembly (mistranslated as church in English Bibles–it was the proper name of the interactive town hall meeting in ancient Greek cities).” So, what is “this rock”? The largest institutional church in the world claims that the rock was Peter. However, from the context, I believe that the rock is what “flesh and blood” can’t reveal. I believe that the rock that the living Jesus is using to build His assembly of living stones today is the rock of direct, personal revelation from God that the Holy Spirit uses to call Christ-followers into deep, open, and honest relationship with Jesus and with each other. That is God’s Light Rock!

Christ builds His body on the rock of direct, personal revelation from God, not on religion or on preachers’ quotations! The purpose of preaching should be to lead people to receive direct revelation from God and personally encounter and surrender to the risen Jesus, not just to teach religious lessons. Sermons and studies without direct personal revelation from Jesus can educate Christians, but they aren’t very good at empowering them to continually listen to and obey the risen Jesus.

Although Jesus taught that He would build the members of His body together on the rock of direct personal revelation from God, you almost never hear that mentioned in church. See Matthew 16. What the living Jesus is telling you today is infinitely more powerful than any preacher’s quote that you post or read. Dare to listen to Jesus and to share what He tells you.

What the living Jesus is telling you today is infinitely more powerful than any preacher’s quote that you post or read. Dare to listen to Jesus and to share what He tells you. What have you allowed God to reveal to you in the last 24 hours? He has been giving me revelation about revelation.