WORDS

Follow God`s Direction

Your life will shine with God

30/11/2017

By: Bishop Amaury de Farias

Your life must shine. “Shine” in a family means to have your house at Lord`s feet. “Shine” financially means to always be on top. “Shine” in your professional life is to succeed. The brightness must be in all of our lives and that twinkle will always be on top. Photographers match pictures with flash that shines on and off, but it won't be like that in our lives, it will be continuous brightness, we will always shine. The Bible says that we'd be on top not the bottom. God called us to shine. Open your mind and remove all the smallness of your mind, stop limiting the work of God. The one who has the vision of God, who believes and acknowledges that, will shine in every area of his life. That`s the promise of God. This message of encouragement is given by the word of God. When the Bible says God`s eyes and ears will be open, it speaks about Lord`s attention at the temple, the place to receive prayer, cry of a great nation. So we gather and congregate, for God`s attention. The Bible makes it clear that the effectual fervent prayer in the Church is different from the prayer performed anywhere else. The attention is always directed to a special place, that is the place dedicated to meeting people in his name. We have the assurance that, where two or more gather in the name of Jesus, He is in our midst. When God sought Abraham, he just went there, he walked up to where God asked. When a person is God's servant, that`s the way he or she reacts. The House of God, the temple is the special place, you need to walk towards where God guides you. Going out at night, these days of Christmas, bright light is what we see the most, Christmas decoration, which fills buildings, but they are meaningless lights, just lights. We have seen many points of lights like that, but they haven`t made any difference in our lives. We don`t invite to the Night of Abraham to see the lights on the ceiling, but to receive the word of God that gives you victory and illuminates your life. Don't just look at the stars, Abraham also saw them many times, but only when he was called under a basis, he had the sight and his life changed. God's word in your heart and practice it will change your life. Everything is a matter of purpose. Peter spent the whole night throwing the net into the sea and nothing happened, but after serving Jesus, hearing from the Master where he should launch the net, he finally succeeded in his life, God honored him like the word promises. If you serve Jesus, God will honor you as well.

The secret is not in a complicated condition or in drawing up, on the prepared or in the details and present, improved things. The key is in doing or in not doing, acting or fail to act, walking or riding, according to the will of God. That's not what we do that works, but what we do under the guidance of God.

What you see today will open your eyes because it will be under the guidance of God. Naaman was dying when his heart got filled with hope to hear from an employee that he would be cured if he were before the Prophet Elisha. He left immediately after the Prophet, in Jerusalem. When he arrive, the Prophet didn`t even receive him, and sent his assistant to receive Naaman and give him instruction to plunge into the Jordan River. How many times did Naaman jump in the waters?. He was outraged because he thought he needed something designed to be healed, something complicated. And that's not how things work, God`s sight is simple, what makes it work in our lives is not the complexity; it is from where the direction comes. The waters didn`t heal Naaman. Naaman didn't believe it because he was used to bathing in rivers and despised what he received from God. He barely knew the secret were not the waters, but the one who said. It came from God, and if it came from God, never ignore, go ahead and take possession. The secret is not what we do here, but from where the order comes to what we do here. Leaving, despising the simplicity of the order that came from God, a captain arrived in Naaman and said that if it were something complex, he would have done, why don't you make it simple? Never look at what you get, look at where you receive. You decide what you receive for your life. Naaman heard, dived, and was cured. Your life will shine and the secret is the word that you receive in your heart. Hear what God gives you, do whatever comes from the Lord, it is repetitive, be simple whatever it is, live toward God.