Sonlight Devotional

Vacancies in Our Lives

January 9, 2025 by Admin

Scripture reading: John 6:63

In John, chapter 6, Jesus Christ made a revelation to us. This revelation is far-reaching because we do not seem to understand what is happening when we are doing certain things.

In verse 63, Jesus said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you are spirit, but not just spirit, they are also life.” In other words, there are words that are “spirit” but they are not “life.” Take your Bible, turn it in the converse, and you will begin to understand a lot of things that you did not understand before. You will notice that in everything you do, you are issuing out spirits; spirits are coming from you to another person.

I remember in my young days, I was addicted to violence and would get mad very easily. I would just want to do destruction. When I came to Jesus, and He delivered me, I was so glad because I thought that now all that madness was gone out of my soul. Little did I know that certain compartments in my soul still retained some of the old man.

At that time, I was working on a farm. One day, two men started to fight. I could not stand to see one person beating up on another who was helpless; I could not stand the “bully” spirit. This man knocked the other man down, then picked him up and knocked him down again and again. I rushed in and called, “Hey, you are going to kill him! Stop this!” Instead of obeying me, the man turned against me and began to shove against me. Suddenly, a spirit from that man came into me. In other words, I had a door open; I had a vacancy and he ministered the spirit of violence to me, which I had no desire or reason for. I was not vexed with anybody, I was not mad with anybody, but I began to manifest the same madness, the same shortness of breath. I began to manifest vexation without being vexed. Furthermore, what I did was worse, because I acted just like I would if I were out in the street again fighting. But now I was a Christian, I was preaching the word of God; yet all of a sudden, I used a tactic that came down from my street fighting days, a tactic that was from the other life. I got the man over my shoulder, ran with him, and slammed him down on the wall. I thought to myself, “Why am I doing this? I am not mad. I am not vexed with anybody.” I realized that a spirit of violence was ministered to me.

I tell you all this because God is doing something special for us. We all have vacancies in our lives, but God is closing them up by putting us into circumstances in which we can submit to the words of life.

(Excerpt from The Omega Message, December 2002)

Thought for today: Jesus said, “The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

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“He Will Lead You into All Truth”

January 8, 2025 by Admin

Scripture reading: John 16:13

John 14:26, “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”

When we read in John, we realize that there is no reason for us to have false doctrines. You should be able to listen to the worst and most powerful preacher of falsehood and not be taken by him because your insides cannot accept his doctrine; you will vomit it up. This should be the condition of the children of God because the Holy Spirit is in us and He will reject the things that are not of Him; unless you especially want it and put Him aside to take it.

Where did Jesus say that the Holy Spirit was going to lead us? “He will lead you into all truth.” (John 16:13) Lord have mercy upon us! If the Holy Spirit came into us to lead us into all truth, then what is wrong with us? Why do so many people have the Holy Spirit but are not being led into truth? It is because they are all going after lies and errors.

Let us look at the following situation: Here is a human being having a desire inside of him – he wants to preach. It is a righteous desire, a good thing. He wants to bless others. He wants to see people lifted up and praising the Lord. But lo and behold, the desire to preach becomes number one in his life and God loses His place to the desire to preach. So who takes over? The man takes over, but let me tell you, a religious spirit will never allow him to be the boss. The religious spirit is going to take over because that is his territory. The man becomes a preacher, and a lot of people get blessed. But while he opens his mouth, one little piece of the religious spirit gets into it. If you continue to listen to him, you will find yourself more and more having the same desires. You might not want to preach, you might want to do something else, but it will all be a religious exercise.

Do you see the danger? Lift up your eyes. Look around. Where are the people growing in the Spirit? If the Holy Spirit came to lead us into all truth, we are going to get better and better for God every day, no matter how dumb we are, because the Holy Spirit is setting little traps here and there for us to go into truth. You may get your head bashed in and you may think something bad is happening, but it turns out to be the Holy Spirit Who has set a little trap for you to bring you the words of truth. We have to remember that the Holy Spirit is always working little things to get us into the truth.

(Excerpt from “Led of the Spirit”, Foundational Teachings #077)

Thought for today: The Holy Spirit came in order to lead us into all truth.

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The Travailing Church

January 7, 2025 by Admin

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Scripture reading: Revelation 12:2

Revelation 12:2, “And she (the church; see our previous post) being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.”

This church is a pregnant church because she is going to bring forth the final church, the thing which God had in His heart and His mind when He looked upon Adam and saw that it was good. She was going to bring forth the final church that would please God. We read so much about this church and we hear so much about this church, but none of us have ever seen it. It is about to appear in the human realm. It is this great called-out people. This church is called-out from the called-out; the assembly that shall come out of the assembly of saints that God is preparing for this hour. As a matter of fact, the only thing that is going to save the world is the coming forth of THIS CHURCH in great power and authority.

Let us look into “travailing.” Why is she travailing? Should she not have the child easily since she has the glory of God upon her? It is the travail that is going to bring the church into the place where she will please God. Isaiah 13:6-10, “Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty. Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt: And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames. Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.”

This verse is associated with the great tribulation that shall come. It will also be the time of the travail of the church. For if the church does not bring forth that glorious man child church to save the world, then the world would be completely lost. The church will bring forth the man child.

Isaiah 26:17-18, “Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD. We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.” Verse 20, “Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.” We see the travail of this church is going to be at a time of great trouble and a time of destruction and distress. The church, in the midst of this pain and suffering, will receive a glorious coming forth in the likeness of Jesus Christ.

(Excerpt from The Book of Revelation, Volume 2, pages 25-26)

Thought for today: It is the travail that is going to bring the church into the place where she will please God.

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The Woman, the Sun, and the Moon

January 6, 2025 by Admin

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Scripture reading: Revelation 12:1

“There appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet…” If the “woman” is the church, then “the sun” would be Christ and the clothing would be the glory of Christ, or of God, upon this church. This church has the approval of God. Some naive brethren say that this woman is Mary. Revelation 1:1 tells us that we are going to hear of things “which must shortly come to pass.” Therefore, Revelation 12:1 could not be written about Mary as that would be writing about things in the past. Revelation is about the church which is in the future, which future is very much upon us at this time. We see the “woman (the church) clothed with the sun (Christ), and the moon (the church) under her feet.”

We will establish scriptures where the word “WOMAN” refers to church, where “MOON” refers to church, and where “SUN” refers to Christ. I am determined that everything in this study must be backed up by the Word of God.

Psalm 84 speaks of God as the sun. Verse 11, “For the LORD GOD IS A SUN and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” Malachi 4:2, “But unto you that fear my name shall the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS arise with healing in HIS wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.” This verse refers to Jesus Christ as “the sun of righteousness.” Another beautiful scripture is found in 2 Peter 1:19, “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.” The DAY STAR in the natural is THE SUN. The SUN arising IN THE HEARTS OF THE BELIEVER IS JESUS CHRIST.

Let us look at the word “WOMAN.” Every reference to every church in the Bible, except one reference to one church, is feminine. There is one scripture we will come to that speaks of a masculine church, the final church. Every other reference to the church is as a woman; every pronoun used is a feminine pronoun.

Let us look at just two of these references. 2 Corinthians 11:2, “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” This verse does not need any explanation. Ephesians 5:23-24, “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” This verse is as clear as it can be. The church is always feminine, always referred to as a woman.

The next word of consideration is the “MOON.” There is a story found in Genesis 37:9-10, “And he (speaking of Joseph) dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, THE SUN and THE MOON and THE ELEVEN STARS made obeisance to me. And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?” Jacob interpreted the dream correctly. “Shall I (Jacob, the sun) and thy mother (the moon) and thy brethren (eleven stars)…?” We see this type of analogy all throughout the Scripture. These are basic thoughts of the Bible to bring us into the understanding that “the sun” is God or Christ, “the moon” is the church, and “the stars” are the sons of God.

In Revelation 12 we can put these words in perspective. Here we have the “woman clothed with the sun.” This is the church clothed with the righteousness of God. This church, whomever she is, is the one that is approved of God when this vision is coming to pass. She had “the moon under her feet.” She was a church standing on a church. She had gained ascendancy over the church which might have been her birth. She came out of the moon and is standing on top of the moon church. The glory of God has been moved from one church to another.

This truth is not so strange. We see in history wherein God would move in one church, and when that church failed and became worldly, God would pull some of the people out of that church. Those pulled out would move in the light of God in great revival and God would be with them. When they would fall into complacency and somehow lose their candlestick, God would move on to another church. This has been the way of God through the ages.

The natural phenomenon is that the sun shines on the moon. The moon has no light of its own. Moonlight comes from the sun. The moon reflects the light of the sun. Here the light from the sun has been removed from the moon and is concentrated on the woman.

There is a church amongst us that is not approved of God, and there is a church THAT IS approved of God. The light of God is upon a specific church. I am not talking about a denomination. No! No! I am speaking in regards to the people of God, the Body of Christ, which is not an organization. They are scattered all over the world, but they are the people upon whom the Lord God has put His approval. The approval of God is upon a specific church and these people have been called out, or sometimes kicked out, of other churches.

(Excerpt from The Book of Revelation, Volume 2, pages 22-24)

Thought for today: Let us be amongst the church THAT IS approved by God!

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