Daily writing prompt

If you could host a dinner and anyone you invite was sure to come, who would you invite?

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Allow Jesus to raise you up into His light.

Jesus wants to lift you out of the valley of darkness and deception and raise you up into His light. He wants to train you to be ever led by His Spirit so that you can continually live in His bright inner presence. Then you will reflect His glory and be a witness who testifies about and demonstrates the supernatural power and love of the resurrected Jesus to the people who are discouraged and defeated by this dark world.

Trials and troubles, pain and suffering, when embraced with grace, grind down the hardness of the human heart and expose its spiritual poverty so that it mourns, becomes meek, and hungers and thirsts for righteousness until it becomes merciful and pure and begins to make such amazing peace with God that it becomes a threat to those in rebellion against Him. Then in the face of the world’s persecution, that transformed heart aligns with the kingdom of God, is comforted, inherits great gratitude for life on earth, is filled with the fruit of God’s Spirit, is shown mercy, beholds the Lamb of God, and is called a child of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness. How their light shines!

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, a whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:2-4.)

The witness, the verbal testimony and supernaturally transformed lifestyle, of people who have been dramatically changed and purified by the living Jesus will impact the world for good more than anything else. Yet multitudes of people have never heard a Spirit-empowered testimony. If Christ has worked and is working in your life, go show and tell what Jesus is doing. Turn up the dimmer and let your light brightly shine all the time.

Be courageous. Fully surrender to Christ’s purifying presence. Open your heart and allow the supernatural power of the risen Jesus Christ to continually touch, refine, and renew you from deep within.