Daily writing prompt

What cities do you want to visit?

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Here’s the city that I am eager to visit. The truth is, I try to spend all my time there every day. “The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.” (See Revelation 22:23.)

God’s light has dawned in my heart, and I can’t not see it. I behold the invisible Lamb of God with the eyes of my heart as I look at the things that are unseen and stand in awe of His presence and power working within me day after day. “Christ in me, the hope of glory,” is the ever-expanding light that continues to find the darkness hidden deep inside of me and to drive it out.

Although at times I am tempted to quench (shut down) the light of the Holy Spirit, I do my best to continually surrender and submit my will to the great light of His inner shinning. Focusing on God’s inner light fills me with His hope thoughts and produces the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit within me. Always search for hopethoughts.

Biblical Christianity isn’t a pattern, a form, or a program. It’s “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” I believe that the three most important tools people need to use in order to mature and to grow strong in the light of Christ are:
1) Obey the Holy Spirit,
2) Devour, savor, and absorb the Bible, and
3) Open their heart up to one another.

The wind blows where it will. It doesn’t follow a human-led program. Neither does the Holy Spirit. Follow the light of Jesus, not a program. Christians can put on impressive religious programs, but we are called to put on Christ “and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” (See Ephesians 4:24 and Romans 13:14.)

When you read the 50-something one another commands in the New Testament, it seems rather obvious that Christians need to meet more as a support group than as an audience. Corporate worship in the Bible is a simple gathering where Christians meet up with one another and with the Holy Spirit. It’s not an institution or a program. I meet weekly with some other Spanish learners that way. We gather without an organization in order to teach and encourage one another as we practice communicating with each other. I also meet regularly with various groups of Christ-followers to do the same.

Discipleship

This is the essence
And the evidence
Of discipleship.
Open up your heart
Until you can sense
Christ’ inner presence.
Then do what He says.
Let Jesus convince
You that He is real.

Christians are called to seek
The kingdom of God first,
Not religious programs
That happen every week.

The Holy Spirit
Doesn’t need to follow
A religious program.
He is the great I AM.
Let Him be your Leader,
The light of your life.