Send Forth...

Send forth Your light and Your truth;They will lead me;They will bring me to Your holy mountainAnd to Your tabernacles.And I will go to the altar of God,To God my exceeding joy;And I will praise You with the harp,O God, my God. Psalms 43:3-4

As I attended the FTTA Spring 2016 Graduation meeting, the speaking of the Lord  touched me so much. It had a such an impact on me that I took these verses to pray over and over again. To me, it was the need of the time and also the need for many other brothers and sisters I am shepherding.

There is a need for opening up to the Lord and cry out to Him, "Lord, send forth..." Without the Lord's mercy there can be no sending forth. The Lord must send forth:

The Divine Light

The divine light is the the shining forth, the expression, of God Himself who is Light. Without the Lord' divine light, all that is there, is the natural light, which is equivalent to darkness. Even in spiritual life, without the light of God, everything is darkness. Most of the times, when not in the Spirit, all that one has, at best, is the natural light, and at worst, is man made light. There is an urgent need for the Lord's shining, to be delivered from all natural man-made light.

I need such shining upon me of the divine light. It has been my prayer that the Lord would shine upon me and preserve me in His light. Apart from His divine light, everything is darkness. Sometimes, I was also in such situation of darkness. I only pray that the Lord would not allow me to be in darkness. Lord, shine upon me day by day!

The manifestation of darkness is death. And such deadness issues in opinion, fault finding, finger-pointing, backbiting, confusion and division with all kinds of negativism. I have been witnessing some cases as such. My only reaction is to pray for these brothers and sisters who are engulfed in darkness. Only the Lord's shining can deliver them from the darkness.

Besides praying for myself to be shined upon all the time, I also try to help the brothers and sisters who need the Lord's shining. To one such, I sent these verses and he replied back thanking for this little help of showing him that he needed deliverance.

The Divine Truth

Truth is the source of light and the reality of light. Truth is as important as light, for they are two sides of the same coin. Without one, there cannot be the other; for the two co-exist and go hand in hand. Therefore, as one is seeking for light, one must come to the word of God, the truth. The Lord uses the truth in the Bible as a channel to shine forth. In coming to the word of God, one receives the divine light shining.

If one is thirsty, he will be willing to be saturated with God and be constituted with the divine light. And the issue will be the leading of the Lord. In light and in truth, one is one with God and lives out God to carry out God's desires.

The leading of the Lord is to "His holy mountain." God's holy mountain signifies the resurrected and ascended Christ. When one is shined upon and constituted with the truth, the result is the experience of the resurrected and ascended Christ as the life-giving Spirit. This further leads to "Your tabernacle," the local church. A normal experience of God in Christ as light and truth is the Spirit that ushers into the church-life in the Body of Christ, the tabernacle of God. Which further leads to a deeper dealing of the cross, "the altar of God" where all the requirements of God's righteousness, holiness and glory are met positively, and negatively, anything natural still is dealt with- of the flesh, the self, sin and the world. So that one can be fully be one with God, in life, in nature, but not in the Godhead.

Then, one can declare:

To God my exceeding joy;

And I will praise You with the harp,O God, my God.

Hallelujah! God is my God! To God is our exceeding joy! And we will praise God forever!

Lord, send forth Your light and Your truth...