DAY STAR

           Awake at 3:00, then 4:00 a.m., and finally able to come to myself by 5:00 a.m. It was so dark outside. I tossed and turned and battled my old desire for my husband. I considered the many people in the world who felt hopeless, in pain, in confusion. Despair almost overtook me. When would it turn light?
         Then I looked at the small lamp on the table at my left. “Thank You, Lord for electricity.”, I said. “A Light in a Dark Place.”, I thought. How could people ever survive attacks from the enemy if they lived in total darkness…before candles, lanterns, or electricity?
         God said, “Let there be light…and it was so.” Thank You, Lord. We are children of Light and we cannot live without it. You gave us the sun by day and the moon by night. But right now, I see neither of these. Just total darkness.

TRAVAILING PRAYER

         I had heard about “travailing prayer”, but didn’t understand how people got into it. Did they just say, “Okay, Lord, I’m going to start crying and whaling, and praying?”
         Perhaps others can just step into it, but our dear Holy Spirit had to allow me to experience it before I could understand.
         It began this morning as I was crying for myself. It expanded as I cried for the many others God has asked me to pray for. Darkness… everywhere. How could I break through?
         Depression…a common malady for prophets as I’ve heard. If I couldn’t have my husband’s arms around me, I was ready to go on to Heaven because I knew Jesus would be glad to put His arms around me.
         So I travailed and travailed, wept and travailed some more. Soon, I knew I was travailing for my Lord. I was travailing for His Bride, His desire to have her come home. I was praying for all of God’s children who were walking in darkness, blinded by Satan and couldn’t find their way home to God.
         The words, “A Light in a Dark place”, had already come to me. I knew this meant Jesus. And the old song, “When the battle’s over, we shall wear a crown…in the New Jerusalem.” By this song, the Holy Spirit was reminding me that we are in a battle. But it won’t last forever. Jesus is coming soon.
         And He says, “Those who endure to the end shall be saved.” (Matthew 10:22). We must endure until Jesus comes. But, Praise God… not every day is a battle like this. Since He woke me up so early, I sensed there were battles going on in the heavenlies and He needed me to pray. I just didn’t know specifically who He wanted me to pray for. So I prayed in the Spirit and with understanding.
         Once, through prayer, I broke through the darkness in the spirit, I looked out my window and His natural light filled the earth. Praise God!

“DAY STAR”

           “Day Star” has meant to me for a long time, that spiritual light that comes to me each morning after I have read God’s Word and visited with Him in prayer. All is well. My world has returned to order.
         It’s a lot like remembering that “Joy cometh in the Morning.” (Psalms 30:5). I can count on it. So does His “Day Star” arise in my heart each morning if I will wait for it. No matter how dark things look in the natural…His Day Star (wholeness) will come.
         Yes, I was prompted to look up the scripture and this is what I read:
         “We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a Light that shineth in a dark place, until the Day Dawn, and the Day Star arise in your hearts.” (2 Peter 1:19). Also, please read verses 20 and 21. 

ACTION: If you feel God is calling you to serve Him with all your heart, you do not need to be deceived.  In Matthew 10, Jesus tells you in Red Letters…your mission, persecutions that will come on you for the sake of the Gospel, instructions on HOW to deliver His Word, and Hallelujah…the Rewards. 

WAIT FOR THE
“DAY STAR”
HE’S WORTH IT