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Game Changer
I want to review some thoughts from the message I preached on Sunday. The bottom line to what I brought Sunday was the passing from darkness to light – and when you can effectively do this, it is a GAME CHANGER. When you can switch playing fields, it can also change the boundaries. For instance… when you take the football game inside to a gymnasium it is impossible to play the same game that you played on the turf outside. The boundaries have changed.
The boundaries of the natural realm are unlike the boundaries of the supernatural realm. I began with II Corinthians 4:18 and talked about the ability to “see” the things which are “not seen”. In other words, having the ability to see in the dark with illumination… or, turning darkness to light.
If you have the ability to turn darkness to light, you can maneuver through the path you are traversing. Now. Biblical example. I used a well familiar point of scripture that was an “accurate” and “historical” account of an event. It was the account of the storm on Galilee and Peter walking on the water to Jesus. It amazes me that so many people think that’s a dream or something that was created as a cool story. It was a historical fact. Just as the Civil War happened and was recorded, this happened. Though we didn’t witness it or have relatives that were witnesses, we have a historical recording.
How many people think that the Civil War never happened? Nobody. So why do we puzzle over scripture that is fact, and was, IN fact recorded not only Biblically, but in the writings of the historians of the time.
That being said, this is an evidence and a historical fact of two men who entered into a different realm and changed the boundaries. In this case, boundaries kept them safe. The realm of the natural had the boundaries of the boat. If they stayed within the boundaries of the port and starboard, they could have a good chance of surviving.
Jesus, on the other hand invited Peter into the vessel of the supernatural. If he stayed between the port and starboard there, he could walk there with the savior. The boundaries to walk there are made up of faith. Peter left the boundaries of the faith that protected him and sustained him, and he fell into the sea.
When we choose to follow Christ, many times it involves the journey through natural storm. It is there where He teaches us to change our boundaries and change our realm.
This life can be a dangerous journey if we don’t choose to change our boundaries. How can this be done? With following the same steps as Peter. 1.) Through any storm that HE sends us through, we must KNOW that we can make it or He wouldn’t have sent us. (Remember it was Christ who gave them a directive to GO TO THE OTHER SIDE – Matthew 14:22). 2.) When the battle rages and engages which it will to a Christian that is being obedient, you must not give up. Stay Your Course. 3.) Christ will come and the thing you must do is not only recognize His presence, but acknowledge His presence. 4.) Ask Him for confirmation in the course of the battle. (Jesus, if it is you, invite me to where you are) 5.) BOOM. Break through into the safety (that’s right… I said SAFETY) of FAITH. 6.) Keep your focus on your destination and not the circumstances of your journey. Or, to put it a different way, stay focused on the light.
I am going to go into a bit more on light this week. Light illuminates and allows you to navigate through darkness and storm. One of the things light doesn’t do is change the circumstance or the storm, but allows you to walk THROUGH it.
For instance. You wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. You realize that you shouldn’t have drunk that entire “big gulp” of Pepsi before bedtime. And… now the journey begins. You begin to navigate your journey to the bathroom in the dark. (Because it is your house and you know it by heart) You learn many things here. You learn that your “big toe” was given to you by God to find furniture in the dark. You find that your voice was provided to curse furniture in the dark after your big toe finds and locates the furniture. You find out that your spouse was provided for “just that moment” to rebuke you for waking up everyone in the house because “nobody is interested in hearing about your discovery of furniture” at 3 AM.
But… if you turn on the light. You find that navigation is a snap. What changes when light comes? Does the furniture all go scurrying back and forth out of your way? Does your bladder miraculously empty? Are you instantly transported to the bathroom? Does the toilet seat miraculously go up or down depending upon your gender? NO. No. no. Light doesn’t change circumstance. It causes you to be able to navigate through it.
You still have the winds and the waves. You still experience the tiredness of fighting the storm. You still have a distance to your destination. These externals didn’t change for Peter… but the impressive thing was… Peter for just a moment learned how important it was to turn the light on. To “shed some light” on the situation. To focus on the LIGHT OF THE WORLD. (John 9:5)
Peter for a moment changed the boundaries. Peter for a moment found a game changer. Faith is not the denial of storms or even at times the elimination of them. It is the safety and focus that brings you through them.
And… oh, yeah… Jesus not only tells us that HE is the light of the world, but in Matthew 5:14, He tells us: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. We can also look at this in a new way… the dark city, like powers and principalities, that is risen above you can not overtake you or surprise you or ambush you if there is light there.
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
It is a “good work” to walk into the supernatural realm where the things of the natural can not devour you! So… let your light shine… and let your light SO shine.
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