I’ve completed another chapter in video format, this time the eighth chapter, “Unshade My Light.”

Also, as a supplement, you can find the text version, along with some accompanying Bible verses to read, here. Or, if you want to download the video file directly, click here.

Rainy Days

Do not let the clouds of yesterday obscure the sunshine of today, nor let the sunshine of today give a false hope of tomorrow. For the rainy days of the soul are brought for nourishment,¹ and the sunshine for health. To dwell in one or the other for all of life is to be in a false balance, and an unjust weight.² I bring both.

You need not pray for rain, (and who could bear to), nor seek sunshine. They will each come as I see fit. For lo, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons…³ Yet, in all things, give thanks - “for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” -1 Thessalonians 5:18

Oh Beloved, you cannot see how your life will turn out from where you are now. You ought to give thanks in faith and trust Me, regardless. What is a month, a year, a decade of sorrow; or a long detour from what you believe to be My will? Child, you cannot see the forest for the trees. When you come forth from the trial - as a dark forest - you will understand.⁴

In the meantime, do not be discouraged. Do not rebel. Give thanks to your God for His care and His activity in your life. Give thanks for His real-life training that He gives each day. Much more can be accomplished in one day from one of God’s refined instruments than could be produced in a lifetime from a stubborn instrument.⁵

Again, beloved, I say, think not your life wasted, nor your time squandered. For I chasten those that I love.⁶ Let a man only ask this: Do I love God with my whole heart? Do I love others as myself? If a man has this love, he can have God’s grace, no matter where it takes him. He can rest in God’s will, no matter how it breaks him.

1. Ecclesiastes 7:3-4
2. Proverbs 11:1
3. Acts 1:6-7
4. 1 Peter 4:12-13
5. 1 Samuel 15:22-23
6. Revelation 3:19

This video took longer to finish than I had expected, but I finally got it done! (With God’s help.)

Also, as a supplement, you can find the text version, along with some accompanying Bible verses to read, here. If you want to download the video file directly, click here.

Don’t Look Down

Look.
Look at Me.
My child, look to Me.

Look into My eyes, and know this: I am your salvation.¹ I am your healing.

You need not understand all of what is happening, but simply that I am the answer.² Don’t look down to your own ways, but rather, look up to Mine.³ Do not look to your mire, but look to My rainbow. Do not focus on your own faults, but know the power of God. Do not look to the entanglements of sin, but rather the goodness of God.⁴

Beloved, you have crossed from death unto life. You have run off a steep cliff, and you have not fallen. You are afloat on My grace. Don’t look down.

You have run off a steep cliff; and, how can this be!? It is My salvation. Just as Peter walked out onto the water to Jesus,⁵ so too have I called you unto Myself. Don’t look down. Do not see the difficulties below, but the boundless power above.

Look at My countenance. I am your health. I am your purity. I am your strength. You need not sift them out from the hay and stubble of the world. Look unto Me, and you will have peace.⁶

1. Psalm 40:1-3
2. Acts 1:6-8
3. Isaiah 55:8-9
4. Hebrews 12:1-2
5. Matthew 14:28-29
6. Isaiah 26:3-4

Here is my latest offering:

Also, as a supplement, you can find the text version, along with some Bible verses to read, here. If you want to download the video file directly, click here.

I’ve just completed a video slideshow of chapter number 15 of TFALG - entitled “Armor of Light.”

Take a look:

Also, as a supplement, you can find the text version, along with some Bible verses to read, here. If you want to download the video file directly, click here.

Once again, I’ve been sick for the past week, this time with a bad cough. But at the very least, it has forced me to sit still, and in my downtime I was able to work on another TFALG video.

The chapter that I made into a video this time was the 7th chapter - “Wings of My Grace.” For those interested, the text version can be found here, or you can also download a .wmv file too. Otherwise, here’s the streaming version:

Here’s another video I’ve finished: the 25th chapter from TFALG, entitled: “Sands of the Soul.” You may have noticed that I have chosen to slow things down for the video, as only a few pages of text is now displayed as over 15 minutes of video. I’ve also gone back and slowed down the other video too - “Seek My Face” - to make it easier to read. If you are a speed reader and can’t stand the pace, you can read the text at your own pace in html format here. (But I think it helps things sink in and lets you ponder things.)

One interesting thing about this video is that when I was initially gathering all the pictures to be used in the videos, (I’m limited to using royalty-free images), I stumbled across a somewhat unusual picture of a shoreline of sand with some deep channels and grooves in it - just the thing that would fit perfectly with what I was describing in this chapter. (You can see the picture in the second scene in the video.)

This past week I have been sick with the flu. I haven’t been able to do much physical work, but I believe that the Lord has used my weakness as a blessing. Let me explain:

I’ve had an idea to take the words of “Tears from a Lonely God” and combine them with music and photos to make a slideshow. I’d been putting it off for some time, but this past week, when I was sick, it really was an opportunity to give this idea a try.

And, to make a long story short, I was amazed at how (relatively) easy this was, and how much more dramatic the words became. Here’s a look at the first chapter: (Music is by Kevin MacLeod)

Also, I’ve added a new section to the main TFALG site, entitled Video Slideshows.