Moments We Spotlight For Jesus

 In the depths of the whole wide world, we see different things around us. 

We see God's creation. We see the beauty of the skies and seas. 

We see what He has done. 

Now, have you ever thought of those around you who are struggling, maybe not even be able to speak, hear, and even see? 

Well, when you think of those who are struggling in that way, have you ever thought of what are some moments we as children of God can spotlight for Jesus and the love that Jesus has for us? 

You know tonight's study, was inspired by Joseph Neal who was describing in a comment that he made on the Christian Media Spotlight Community Group where he described why the word Spotlight was in the show's name and what the purpose of that was and is. 

Which is how I came up with that title which is Moments We Spotlight For Jesus, cause  if you think about it, we are not putting ourselves in the spotlight but we are taking the moments of Faith, Hope and Love to use those moments that we spotlight for Jesus and talking to others about what it means to follow Him and how we as disciples who are His children advocate for Him in the Spotlight to know that His one and only Son died on that cross in that moment for our sins to be forgiven so that we didn’t have to pay the price. 

Which brings me to the scriptures I want to look at with all of you tonight. 

Matthew 16 verse 24, 1 Peter 2 verse 21, Matthew 4 verse 19, John 15 verse 16-17, John 14 verse 16, John 3:16-17, John 14 verse 6, Leviticus 19 verse 2, 1 John 3 verse 18, Proverbs 22 verse 6, Matthew 6 verse 33. 

In the scriptures we see how we can Advocate while we follow Jesus but how we can use that Advocacy to follow Him to share the moments in the spotlight for Him as He is our way, truth, and life. We know that He makes all things new and that He makes all things well in every image that is in our scrapbooks. 

As I heard a Lauren Daigle cover song on Friday night, I realized it's the one my heart needed as I know God is holding onto me and loves me for me and I don't have to change for anyone. 

Which brings me to why this is how you see the moments in the spotlight for Him come to what is Truth and what is Life. 

I've heard a host that has aired on the Christian Media Spotlight Radio Network host his radio show on there too when that has has aired on the network and His program is called Christian Music Spotlight and one of the things He has said that I've heard with announcing songs too is with God in The Spotlight which brings me to the Moments We Spotlight For Jesus cause Joe who hosts His Ministry Christian Media Spotlight has done Moments In The Spotlight of giving an encouraging word that people who have become family have needed. 

Now a friend of mine Cassie Clayton did the Lauren Daigle cover on Friday night and an original song and my response to the original song was this, wow, this original speaks to the heart of a little bit in what I chose for my study topic because it's not about what we've accomplished but it's about taking those accomplishments further into the heart of God's calling. 

You see these moments we take from song, the memories of our Heart's Design, the encouraging words people say, all of these things are Moments We Spotlight For Jesus daily. Have you ever noticed how we don't have to be in a spotlight for ourselves but we can be in the spotlight for Jesus? 

It's an interesting thing isn't it, how we can take all those things and be a light and as I think about it, there's a song by Francesca Battistelli that says, I don't need my name in lights, I'm famous in my Father's eyes, Make no mistake, He knows my name, I'm not living for applause, I'm already so adored, It's all His stage, He knows my name oh, oh, He knows my name oh, oh. 

Then there's another song by someone I know Sam Day called Spotlight and verse one of that song says, I got up on the stage and it did not feel a thing like it was supposed to, Still had to engage, even with no atmosphere, Was I just faking a show, and was all this noise the same as what they were hearing, Well, I didn't know And I could not trust their face, Well we all know that a great white moment can still feel like nothing at all, Can't go by those things. The chorus says: I can't trust the feelings that are screaming for the spotlight, Cause if I had, would not have made it here, You can say that everything is crashing for a moment, Or shut your mouth and then say something clear. 

When I think of these two lyrics, I think of and think back on why I chose this study and why I titled it the way I did because we are living in God's Spotlight and we take those moments from that Spotlight the Spotlight Of Jesus in which we live as Beloved Children Of God and as Disciples for Christ that follow Him, and we advocate the moments of the Living Truth of God, the beauty, the treasure, the moments we seek His Will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. 

We let His Kingdom Come in these moments. 

''The more I focus on You, The more fully You live in me and work through me.'' Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His Grace. 

When I Received Jesus Christ As My Lord And Savior I Found The Secret Of Life. 

Come you weary heart now to Jesus, Come you anxious soul now and see, There is perfect love and comfort in your tears, Rest here in His wondrous peace, Oh the goodness, the goodness of Jesus, Satisfied, He is all that I need, May it be, come what may, that I rest all my days, In the goodness of Jesus, Come find what this world cannot offer, Come and find your joy here complete, Taste the living water, never thirst again, Rest here in His wondrous peace. 

In all these things you see how we can take the smallest of blessings, the bigger blessings, the small moments, and even in the biggest moments we can see how God loves His Children, but we can see how we take all of these things and turn those things into humbled blessed moments to Spotlight the Word Of God, the way to spotlight moments for Him daily. 

Let us take time, let us take time to pray and remember all the things we have learned tonight as well.

This is the last thing I would like to end with all of you tonight as it is always a hope that people like us as children of God can continue to share the moments that we spotlight for Jesus and with His Word.

So, here is the last thing I am now going to share with everyone and that is this: 

Saved 

Praising 

Onward 

Living 

Inspire 

Grace 

Hope 

Trust

I wanted to end on this acronym that I came up with cause I wanted us to remember that as we go Onward In Faith we are Saved while we are Praising Him and Living In His Word as a Living and Breathing Testimony to where we will inspire people by His Grace in which we have been Saved. That we can put all our Trust in Jesus and share those moments we Spotlight For Jesus in Hope which we see that His Love will never Fail, and that we are Living on this Earth as if it were our last, but holding onto that ray of Hope to Inspire others by God's Grace and going onward with praising Him every single day and every single night, to know that we don't have to lose that Hope and Trust in our Savior who reigns because we know that we are Saved, it's just that matter of Hope to know we are Living In Christ too.