Yesterday, you were reminded of the light that you carry. You were reminded of the dunamis power deposited within you. At the start of this year, you set out with a purpose, and now it seems like everything feels more important and overwhelming than the word that you received at the start of the year. But you have been called to fan that flame, to go back to what God declared over you. To be that light that stands out, spreads and transforms every space.

Today, we go one step further, and the question God is pressing into your heart is not just whether you are shining, but on what your light is resting.

For a few seconds, imagine someone using a candle outside on a windy night, and the wind keeps blowing the fire and almost puts it out. The person notices that if they cup their hand around the flame, it remains stable and won’t go out, unlike the moment they drop their hand. At this point, you realise that the flame does not need an additional candle to keep burning. It needs something to shield it from what is trying to put it out. In this instance, that shield is your faith anchored in God. 

When you study the people who truly stood out in Scripture, the ones who thrived in impossible conditions and left a mark, you find that what set them apart was always the same thing. Their lives were built in a deep faith in God.

Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:7 
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7 For we walk by faith, not by sight.

This should be your daily way of moving through the world. That every word you are acting on or every plan you are aligning with is done through faith in God.

For a man like Noah, every step he took while building the ark was a step taken by faith and not by sight. Think about what Noah actually faced. God gave him an instruction that had no natural precedent at that time. He was told to build a specific type of ark because of a flood. But Noah had never seen that kind of thing happen before. He was being asked to prepare for something that the entire world around him had not witnessed before. And he did it anyway!

Genesis 6:22 says
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22 Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Every single day, he picked up his tools and kept going, even though there was nothing in his natural environment that helped him confirm that he was doing the right thing. Just the word God had spoken to him. He had faith in it, and that faith kept him going.

A second sample of a man of faith is the centurion. When the centurion came to Jesus in Matthew 8, what he said reflected the level of trust and faith he had in Christ:

Matthew 8:8,10
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8 The centurion answered and said, “Lord, I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word, and my servant will be healed.”
10 When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to those who followed, “Assuredly, I say to you, I have not found such great faith, not even in Israel!”

The centurion was a man who understood who he was talking to. His faith was rooted in the authority and the goodness of God. He knew that the word of Jesus was enough. He did not need to see it happen first. He did not need signs to confirm it. 

This should be the same for you, a genuine settled trust in the God who gave you the word for this year. When you know who you are trusting, an unchanged situation does not shake you because your light is coming from your confidence in Him.

Another man who stood out in Scripture, even despite different challenges, is Joseph.  At a young age, God was already speaking to him through dreams, showing him that his life was going to count for something far beyond what he could see. But his brothers threw him into a pit and sold him to traders. He was a slave in a foreign land with no reputation or connections; in fact, he had no reason to believe that anything God had shown him would ever come to pass. And yet look at what the scripture says about him:

Genesis 39:2-3 
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2 The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 
3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him and that the Lord made all he did to prosper in his hand.

Joseph kept serving with excellence. He kept his integrity when Potiphar’s wife tried to compromise him. He kept trusting God even when doing the right thing landed him in prison.
And in prison, the same thing happened.

Genesis 39:21-23 
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21 But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. 
22 And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners who were in the prison; whatever they did there, it was his doing. 
23 The keeper of the prison did not look into anything that was under Joseph’s authority, because the Lord was with him; and whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper.

Joseph did not dim in prison. He shone there too. And eventually that carried him all the way to the palace, where Pharaoh himself said of him in Genesis 41:38, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?” The king, who was considered a very powerful man, listened to Joseph and saw God in him!

Men like Joseph and Noah thrived because their lives were built on something their eyes could not see, but their faith was rooted in. And that is the picture God is holding up in front of you today. To effectively shine as light, He is pointing you back to faith in Him and His word.

These men did not receive daily confirmations that they were doing the right things. What they had was their total dependence and faith in God, and that was enough for them. This is what it means to carry light in a dark place: your light stays burning because it is anchored in something deeper than your surroundings.

Today, when God looks at your year, at the spaces you occupy, at the word He spoke over you, what will He find? 

Your light is still there. The word is still standing, and the God who spoke it has not changed. It is time to stop trying to balance everything on your own and actually lean on God?
Can you keep your faith anchored in who He is, because that is what will keep your light burning through everything this year still holds.

Go back to the word today. Let your faith rest in Him.

Prayer Point
Father, I declare that my faith is rooted in you. I no longer depend on my own strength. In this year of light, I am reminded of your will for my life, and I position myself in alignment with your word.