I am using the Ephesians 5 text today rather than the gospel text for my Sunday message.

All week long the Spirit has been stirring my heart. I am to BE light. Paul doesn’t say, “You were IN darkness, now you are IN light.” He says, “You WERE darkness, now you ARE light.”

The Kingdom has DNA. Darkness has DNA. I need the Kingdom DNA. If I am a child of God, I am to act like it.

There is a process of soaking that is going on in my life right now. The daily time in the Word gets my heart moving. The Word “massages” my heart. But it takes more. I’m stubborn. I have such hardness sometimes.

This week it was a couple of times where the Spirit used sermons and questions in a prophetic way. The messages were from Dr. Gordon Anderson, president of North Central University. I am an adjunct there and this week Dr. Anderson delivered two messages on revival in chapel that were stirring to my heart. This link will take you to the chapel page, but listen to March 31, then April 1. Those are from Dr. Anderson on revival.

Then, a couple of times I was asked a very simple question. No big fireworks. No loud “THUS SAITH THE LORD.” Both times the basic point was this: “Your soul is pale.” (That was what the Spirit spoke to me. Not the people asking the question.)

I knew exactly what that meant and I couldn’t get away from it. My soul has been anemic. I’ve been eating the junk food of this world and not feasting at the table of the Lord.

These things challenge me, but I want this challenge. If I am a child of the Kingdom, I need to act like it. Enough of trying to act “relevant.” Acting “relevant” only makes ME feel better. But, in the end, it doesn’t help! I need the DNA of the Kingdom.