Day 2 Light in the Darkness

 

1/2/2026

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your 

good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:16, NKJV

 

This is a new day and a brighter morning. Brighter hopes for the morning! Yesterday began and ended on a happy note. I felt as if progress had been made, and I prayed that today would continue as such, and it did. Once again the spiritual warfare darkens the skies, but we must focus on the LORD and on the things we can do. How I wish I could change things in this world, pray one powerful prayer, standing on God's written and spoken Word, and evil would take flight and leave. But it's not that simple, and we have to learn to stand and wait on the LORD. The battle is His, and He leads the way!

 

An insane amount of emails flood my inbox daily, and I receive quite a bit of snail mail during the week. At the first of year we join together as the body of Christ and as individual ministries fasting and praying for our nation, Israel and world events. There never seems to be an end to the needs of the world. Today on my prayer calendar was written the following encouragement:

 

"Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't." (God Came Near by Max Lucado)

 

Jesus told His disciples in Luke 18:1 that they should always pray and not give up. James 5:16, "Confess to one another therefore your faults - your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins; and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored - to a spiritual tone of mind and heart. The earnest (heart-felt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available - dynamic in its working." Amplified Bible 

 

Prayer is a privilege, and we can come before God, approaching His throne of grace in reverent fear in humility making our requests known to Him. It is only through the blood of Jesus that we have been granted this privilege, as a child of God. When Christ died, the veil in the temple was rent, torn in two, removing the separation between God and man for those who in faith accept the free gift of salvation through Jesus Christ. Only through Jesus. We must never forget. 

 

Anne Graham Lotz's devotional for today was entitled "Putting Holes in the Darkness," and she shared the following story:

 

"One night when Robert Louis Stevenson was a small boy, his nanny called him to come to bed. Oblivious to her summons, he was staring at something outside his nursery window. The nanny walked over, stood at his shoulder, and inquired patiently, 'Robert, what are you looking at?'  The little boy, without taking his eyes away from the window, exclaimed in wonder as he pointed to the lamplighter who was lighting the streetlamps, 'Look, Nanny! That man is putting holes in the darkness!'” 

 

This is an excellent illustration of how our prayers, our lives, are lights in the darkness, and one by one we poke holes into the dark, shining the light of God's glory to a world lost in sin and spiritual darkness. Jesus tells us to be a light, shine as lights, cities set on a hill that cannot be hidden. Today more than ever this is our mandate as the body of Christ to carry the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a hurting world. We begin in our homes, extend into our spheres of influence such as our neighborhoods, places of employment, stores, and wherever we go each day. We must serve boldly and courageously, seeking the guidance of Holy Spirit to open the doors that God wants opened and close those He does not. These are exciting times as the return of Jesus becomes more obvious by day.

 

As children of the most High God we all have a work to do. Let us work while there is still light!