God created the universe with speaking . . . “Let there be . . . ”
Today, through Jesus Christ, He lives in you. How do you learn to hear Him speaking into your heart, and really know it’s Him?
Kingdom Faith Ministries International is devoted to helping God’s people learn to hear and obey His still small voice. Deuteronomy 8 declares that God’s purpose in having His people wander in the wilderness for 40 years was to learn to hear and live by every word that proceeded from His mouth.
God is still speaking, and like the Israelites, we must learn how to hear Him with confidence and precision. Are you eager to hear what the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking today to those who have discovered how to find Him in the secret place and drink from His fountain of Living Water? He will invite you to sit on His throne if you overcome in the pursuit of hearing His voice (Revelation 3:21).
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Have you ever wondered what light God created when He moved upon the face of the waters (Genesis 1:1-3) and said, “Let there be light”?
On day one our Heavenly Father created a light which was different than the physical lights. Those physical lights were created four days later to light the earth and rule over the day and night (the sun, moon, and stars v14-19). So what was this first light that God created?
We begin to see the answer in Psalms.
Thy word (dabar) is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)
The Hebrew word dabar (or dhavar) means a speaking, an utterance out of the mouth. Take a moment and re-read those two verses above. The entrance of God speaking is what creates spiritual light. It is a “thing,” an operative force of power. In Psalm 138:2 a second Hebrew word, which also only refers to a spoken utterance, is used to declare what He magnified above His name:
…for thou hast magnified thy word (emrah = speaking) above all thy name. (Psalm 138:2b)
Notice in Psalm 103:20 that it is words spoken from above as light that prompt angels to go to work:
Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments (dabar = speaking), hearkening unto the voice of his word (dabar).
From these verses we can realize that when God said “Let there be light” He was establishing that the operative power and authority of the creation would be words, His words. Revelation words from the throne room of God are the foundational power over all creation.
As we study “light” in Scripture, it becomes obvious that there are three types of light which were created: revelation light, the light of God’s presence, and physical light that we see with our eyes.
Let’s examine them in reverse order.
Physical Light was created on day 4. It also lit the homes of God’s people in Goshen in Egypt, guided Moses as a pillar of fire at the Red Sea, and lit the oil lamps of the tabernacle. The Apostle Paul was surrounded by visible light from above on the road to Damascus as was Peter in in prison. And in Deuteronomy 4:19 we are enjoined not to worship the lights in the sky. These references and many others all refer to physical, visible light.
The Light Of God’s Presence is prominent in several verses as “the light of his countenance.” For example, Psalms 4:6b, 89:15, and 90:8 declare:
…LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
Revelation Light is the speaking that comes from God. In letting Him speak into our hearts, we are letting in His light to operate through us. Nearly every mention of light in the New Testament, from Jesus’ words declaring us to be the light of the world, and urging us to abide in the light, to the exhortation in Romans for us to put on the armor of light, and to not let the god of this world keep us from the glorious light of the Gospel of Christ – all these refer to our privilege to hear and obey what God speaks as light from above. Transmitting this light is how we can shine as lights in a crooked and perverse world (Philippians 2:15).
Over thirty references in the New Testament alone encourage believers to walk by light, meaning by revelation, hearing and obeying His voice. Matthew 4:4 urges us to live by every word (rhema = speaking) that is proceeding out of His mouth, and His speaking is the voice into our inner man that we are to hear as sheep who hear their Master’s voice. Hearing and obeying His words constitute the reason why we may be invited to sit on the throne with Jesus as He does with the Father (Revelation 3:20-21)!
The Greatest Revelation Light of All is the Lamb
Several times in the Gospels Jesus declared that He is the light of the world, that He came to bring light to those sitting in darkness, to lighten the Gentiles, and to so let your light (from Him) shine that men may see your (resulting) good works. Darkness flees from this light. The revelation light we receive from hearing His voice into our spirit is a monumental, and often is a meant-to-be transmitted thing. But it is even more powerful as we see from the final chapters in Revelation:
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. (Revelation 21:22-23)
How glorious is the light from our Father and the Lamb of God, the One who leads us as our Shepherd, the same Who is head of the church! How awesome it is to have a conversation with Him each day at His feet! We can walk by faith and not by sight from the revelation He gives us as we find Him in the secret place. Revelation 22:1-5 declares that there is no night at the throne. No physical light is needed because of the revelation light of the Father and the Lamb!
May your days be full of revelation light from above as we learn more and more how to live by every word that is streaming out of His mouth to us, His light bearers. May the exhortation of Peter ring true in our hearts as we enjoy the light of God’s presence in seeking to fellowship with our Master, Jesus Christ.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. (1Peter 2:9)
One day, the Lord spoke to Jeremiah and told him to go to the potter’s house. What a lesson he learned!
Jeremiah watched as the potter made a vessel that had defects. Stopping the project, he reused the same clay to start over again. Then God began to teach Jeremiah how He supernaturally works with nations.
We pick up the story in Jeremiah 18:6-10 followed by a lesson that is global and breathtaking:
The world is at such a turning point in exposing evil. Nations have done wickedly in the sight of the Lord. America, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, China - these and more have prevailed in wickedness. Pedophilia, human trafficking, corporate medical greed, satanic ritual abuse, land-grabbing weather warfare, corrupt politicians, wars and rumors of wars, sodomy and moral gender dysfunction… Can wickedness be any more center stage? Yet much of this evil abhorrence is coming to light, and whole nations are beginning to seek change from wickedness.
God is saying to Jeremiah that if the nation repents of their evil, He will repent of His thought to destroy them. He is so willing to change His heart when He sees such change. He so looks for righteousness that even for ten righteous residents God would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:32).
Christians everywhere are yearning for righteousness to overcome evil. We touch the heart of God with our prayers and worship, even in the midst of wickedness all around us. Intercessors play a vital frontline roll in repentance that staves off what God could easily do to destroy nations.
Our loving Heavenly Father looks for those who will stand in the gap and pray. He looks for reasons to heal and deliver. Despite the overwhelming magnitude of sin in our land, there is hope as we pray. God is willing to change His mind to deliver those who repent. While idolatry corrupts nations and ties God’s hands from protecting nations, prayer and supplication unties them.
Will you be one of those who touch the heart God as Solomon did when God told him how to heal the land?
God is ready to heal our land, and BRING REVIVAL as He sees the heart of nations change. He wants to love and prosper nations whose God is the Lord.
In this new year as we praise and worship our Lord Jesus Christ, pray for more intercessors to arise, for more laborers in the harvest, and for more righteous leaders to rise up with ears to hear and obey the Lord’s still small voice!
Like the potter in Jeremiah, God is ready to remake our nation as we arise in repentance and prayer. Let God arise as we daily minister to His heart in prayer!