The Cross dispels the darkness

Notes of meeting on 24 June 2014

Picture of Jesus full of light.
Many people are in darkness and the Cross with the Lamb on it is thrown into the darkness and the light from the Cross dispels the darkness and bathes the people in light.

Psalm 8

1Yahweh our Lord, how majestic is your name throughout the world! Whoever keeps singing of your majesty higher than the heavens,
² even through the mouths of children, or of babes in arms, you make him a fortress, firm against your foes, to subdue the enemy and the rebel.
³ I look up at your heavens, shaped by your fingers, at the moon and the stars you set firm-
⁴ what are human beings that you spare a thought for them, or the child of Adam that you care for him?
⁵ Yet you have made him little less than a god, you have crowned him with glory and beauty,
⁶ made him lord of the works of your hands, put all things under his feet,
⁷ sheep and cattle, all of them, and even the wild beasts,
⁸ birds in the sky, fish in the sea, when he makes his way across the ocean.
⁹ Yahweh our Lord, how majestic your name throughout the world!

2 Corinthians 4 v 7-15

⁷ But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.
⁸ We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;
⁹ we are pursued but never cut off; knocked down, but still have some life in us;
¹⁰ always we carry with us in our body the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our body.
¹¹ Indeed, while we are still alive, we are continually being handed over to death, for the sake of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus, too, may be visible in our mortal flesh.
¹² In us, then, death is at work; in you, life.
¹³ But as we have the same spirit of faith as is described in scripture -- I believed and therefore I spoke -we, too, believe and therefore we, too, speak,
¹⁴ realising that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will raise us up with Jesus in our turn, and bring us to himself -- and you as well.
¹⁵ You see, everything is for your benefit, so that as grace spreads, so, to the glory of God, thanksgiving may also overflow among more and more people.

Put aside your old self

Notes of Praise & Intercession Night 17 June 2014

Iam with you.
Believe in Me.
Believe that I will Heal you.

Ephesians 4 v 22- 25
²² You were to put aside your old self, which belongs to your old way of life and is corrupted by following illusory desires.
²³ Your mind was to be renewed in spirit
²⁴ so that you could put on the New Man that has been created on God's principles, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.
²⁵ So from now on, there must be no more lies. Speak the truth to one another, since we are all parts of one another.

Revelation 21 v 10 - 27
 ¹⁰ In the spirit, he carried me to the top of a very high mountain, and showed me Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down out of heaven from God.
¹¹ It had all the glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond.
¹² Its wall was of a great height and had twelve gates; at each of the twelve gates there was an angel, and over the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel;
¹³ on the east there were three gates, on the north three gates, on the south three gates, and on the west three gates.
¹⁴ The city walls stood on twelve foundation stones, each one of which bore the name of one of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
¹⁵ The angel that was speaking to me was carrying a gold measuring rod to measure the city and its gates and wall.
¹⁶ The plan of the city is perfectly square, its length the same as its breadth. He measured the city with his rod and it was twelve thousand furlongs, equal in length and in breadth, and equal in height.
¹⁷ He measured its wall, and this was a hundred and forty-four cubits high -- by human measurements.
¹⁸ The wall was built of diamond, and the city of pure gold, like clear glass.
¹⁹ The foundations of the city wall were faced with all kinds of precious stone: the first with diamond, the second lapis lazuli, the third turquoise, the fourth crystal,
²⁰ the fifth agate, the sixth ruby, the seventh gold quartz, the eighth malachite, the ninth topaz, the tenth emerald, the eleventh sapphire and the twelfth amethyst.
²¹ The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate being made of a single pearl, and the main street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.
²² I could not see any temple in the city since the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple,
²³ and the city did not need the sun or the moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God, and the Lamb was a lighted torch for it.
²⁴ The nations will come to its light and the kings of the earth will bring it their treasures.
²⁵ Its gates will never be closed by day -- and there will be no night there-
²⁶ and the nations will come, bringing their treasure and their wealth.
²⁷ Nothing unclean may come into it: no one who does what is loathsome or false, but only those who are listed in the Lamb's book of life.