May 7, 2015 | Shining Brightly on the Day of Prayer

  “No one after lighting a lamp puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is bad, your body is full of darkness. Therefore be careful lest the light in you be darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly bright, as when a lamp with its rays gives you light.”

(Luke 11:33-36 ESV)
Wholly bright prayers

On this National Day of Prayer in America, please pray for each of us who are believers in Jesus. Along with all the officials, systems, and powers for whom God commands us to pray, please remember to pray for wholly bright believers in Jesus. As I wrote in a recent note to our church Elders:

The Triune God, knowing our desperate need for courage, grants us the most important tool possible – His very presence. The great encouragement passages of the Bible are dominated by the truth that the Father, Son, and Spirit are present and engaged with believers. This grants courage for the battles of life; for conquering self; for engaging the world; and for imparting strength to others.

With you, I thank God for His presence and pray that we shine as lights in the darkness.
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