CSN - LightWing Messages - Sunday - 1/29/2023
Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy
When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
“You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.
Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.” Matthew 17:14-21 (NIV)
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
“‘Keep my decrees.’” Luke 17:5-6 (NIV)
As a follow-up from last week’s message linking to Chinese New Year and regarding Confucius and Benjamin Franklin, we have posted a video link in our “Video Views” section that features various quotations from Confucius. There is much wisdom within his words.
The central messages today focus upon wisdom and faith. And if readers are truly attempting to increase either this year as a new year’s resolution, the two messages, from two men of God, should provide additional words of wisdom to consider as we proceed on our journey through this new year. There are some additional features in our aggregate sections that can provide supplement information regarding such a quest.
Today, our first message offered is a poem from Apostle Tim Taylor, who deals with the pursuit of wisdom in his message: “The Rare Beauty of Wisdom is Amplified by the Darkness of These Days!” The theme stands out in the title, and it is well worth the read, which is mainly references
to scripture verses that provide additional enlightenment. We last posted one of Apostle Taylor’s messages at the beginning of this year, but he is still offering relevant guidance as we get ready to proceed into the second month of 2023.
Our second message is from Dr. Robert Owens who has written a message about manifesting faith (even as small as a mustard seed). Especially in the past few years, Christians and others of faith have had their faith shaken in major ways. Dr. Owens’ message challenges us to look a bit more deeply at our level of faith and to reexamine the effectiveness of dealing with the major obstacles that are obstructing our development, and those obstructing the transformation of our nation as well as our culture.
As always, we hope our readers would consider all the messages in this edition relevant or meaningful, and if readers know others who might value the messages as well, please consider becoming one of our official LightWing messengers and please pass this newsletter on to those whom you feel would welcome it. Or simply, please receive it yourselves.
We also acknowledge that our LightWing Messages are now moving forward as discussed in our previous editions. Our Zoom calls are held each Wednesday evening. We leave it up to our readers; if you would like to discuss today’s message more fully and learn more readily how to apply the message of the increase of faith or the pursuit of wisdom to real life, please take the initiative and reach out. If readers are interested in receiving the Zoom link to the call, please send a brief email request to this address: d.jamzon@gmail.com
These words are being freely offered to you and are intended to shine light unto our paths, as it was written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
May God bless all of our readers and all of their loved ones. May God bless America!
May we seek humbly God’s Will for ourselves and our families, take responsibility for our lack of faith or wisdom to discern right from wrong, or when we begin to deviate from our Heavenly Father’s Ways. May we repent for our wrong thinking leading to wrong actions that have taken us off the path of seeking first His Kingdom and His righteousness. May we strive to get back upon the right path, if we’ve strayed.
The Rare Beauty of Wisdom is Amplified by the Darkness of These Days!
By Tim Taylor – January 18, 2023
I saw a post by PragerU with a quote from Thomas Sowell. To me, it was just common sense. However, with the growing waste and foolishness overseen and implemented by civil government who has been blinded by the gross darkness covering this earth, it was made beautiful. Even magnificent.
This reminded me of the following scriptures.
Proverbs 25:11 - A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold In settings of silver.
Proverbs 3:13 - Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain more than fine gold.
Without accountability there is little if any concern about the consequences of poor stewardship. Unfortunately our civil government has operated with principles like this for years. This is why there is so much fraud, waste and abuse. It is a major contributor to our national debt as politicians on both sides of the aisle have spent money that was not theirs to spend. This was applied on the world stage with COVID-19 as liability was removed from the pharmaceutical companies.
Demonic Wisdom Made Manifest
Consider the fruit or the results we see in the world today then look at James 3:13-18. I will underline parts of the scripture that are being manifested on the world stage today. It says,
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full
of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace by those who make peace."
Let us pray:
For an awakening that leads to real repentance.
For men and women to respond to the call to engage all 7 spheres of culture with the power, character and nature of Christ.
For a hunger for God's word, His presence, a relationship with Him and a people who would be like Jesus.
Isaiah prophetically speaks of Jesus. Here's the context.
Sound familiar?
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Isaiah 59:15-21
Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no justice. He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it sustained Him. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak. According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies; The coastlands He will fully repay. So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a flood,
The Spirit of the LORD will lift up a standard against him. "The Redeemer will come to Zion,
And to those who turn from transgression in Jacob," Says the LORD. "As for Me," says the LORD, "this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants' descendants," says the LORD, "from this time and forevermore."
Apostle Tim Taylor is the Founder, and overseer of Kingdom League International & the 1Church1Day strategy. His main message today is via a video presentation and it is quite powerful. We are grateful that we are able to share his messages on a somewhat regular basis with his blessing. His blog site: https://www.1church1day.org/blog
Jump!
By Dr. Robert Owens – January 17, 2023
Christ came to fulfill the Old Covenant. He paid the price for Adam’s sin and made a way back into fellowship with God. Sin was the problem and Jesus is the answer.
When he was offered up by the High Priest as a sinless sacrifice, He fulfilled all that had ever been required in the Old Covenant.
When He breathed His last on the cross and cried out, “It is finished,” the curtain in the temple was ripped in half. God left the Holy of Holies on earth signifying the end of the Old Covenant. When Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, He poured out his blood on the eternal altar of God in the heavenly temple of God. All the sacrifices of the Old Testament had been but a foreshadowing of this event.
When we confess Jesus as Lord and believe in our heart that God raised Him from the dead as it says in Romans 10:9-10 we shall be saved. It doesn’t say we might be saved. It doesn’t say we will be saved by and by. It says we shall be saved. The moment we do that we’re born again, recreated, and translated from the old world of sin caused separation from God and death to the new world of fellowship with God and life.
Once we’re saved from the curse of sin, we become the righteousness of God. This means we can stand in the presence of God without any guilt, shame, or fear for we’ve become His children. And as His children we have the right and the ability to come boldly into our Daddy’s throne room any time we want.
Think of it this way, if you or I walked up to the gate of Buckingham Palace and told the
guard, “Let me in I want to see the queen” we wouldn’t even get a smile from one of those guys. But if Prince Phillip walked up and said the same thing, they would immediately usher him into the royal presence.
It’s the same with us and the heavenly Holy of Holies. God is our Father. We can enter His presence any time we want. There’s no need to beg or plead. It’s our right as His child because we are one with Christ. He’s the head and we’re the body. We’re the very living stones built up into His eternal temple. We’re individually the tabernacles of His Holy Spirit who dwells in us.
Don’t accept less. Be all that God re-created you to be. We’re a new creation; the old has passed away and behold all has become new. We dwell this moment in God’s New Jerusalem and collectively we are His Holy Temple. God the Father is on His throne. Christ the Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world and yet lives is seated to His right hand. The Holy Spirit indwells the temple built of living stones.
There is nothing left to be done. It is finished. There is nothing we can add. We have been given the authority to act in the Name of Christ. We shouldn’t sit back waiting to get good enough. We shouldn’t expect some hireling to do what God has called us to do. We’ve been called to take the light of Christ into a world of darkness.
He never told us to build a lamp. He never told us to pay a lighthouse tender. He told us to take the light of His love to those sold under bondage to the king of this world. And we must always remember greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world.
Jesus told us that if we have faith, even if it’s as small as the smallest seed, and we tell the mountain to jump it’ll jump. Let’s quit waiting for some collective bulldozer to move the mountains and start living as what we are: children of the Most High God.
In the desert God told Moses to speak to the rock. He has told us to speak to the mountains. So now, all together on the count of three, let’s say to the mountains in our life, “Jump!”
One, two, three.
(This is an excerpt from the book Faith by Dr. Robert Owens. All his books are available from Amazon in paperback or kindle at Amazon.)
Dr. Owens has taught History, Political Science, Global Studies, and Religion. He is the Historian of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2020 Contact Dr. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com Follow Dr. Robert Owens on https://drrobertowens.com/ / Edited by Dr. Rosalie Owens.
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