You are Light pt. 5

Matthew 5:15
15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

The bushel in King James-era vocabulary, it referred to a business measurement.
Jesus was saying:

• “Don’t hide your shine to gain more in business.”
• “Don’t dim your light to stay socially acceptable.”
• “Don’t bury your glory to be palatable.”

WHEN WE HIDE OUR SHINE, IT IS BY CHOICE

The only way the radiance in our life fades is if you cover it!
Not because God withdraws it. Not because your fire burns out.
But because you decide to veil it.

“Don’t hide under a bushel…” means we opt out of visibility when we fear the consequences of our shine.
Here is what we sometimes hide behind:

• Shame from our past
• Disappointments in ministry
• Fear of man
• Business professionalism
• Wanting to be “relatable” more than radiant

Here is the truth:
The glory will carry you further than image ever will.
The shine will open more doors than strategy ever could.

A GLORY THAT DOES NOT FADE!

2 Corinthians 3:7 – 13
7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
13 And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:

When Moses came down from the mountain, his face radiated the afterglow of being with God; but it was a fading glory. A borrowed light. A temporary glimpse.
OUR GLORY IS NOT CALLED TO FADE!

• MOSES HAD A VISIT WITH GOD…
• OURS is HABITATION, NOT VISITATION

2 Corinthians 3:18
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

It means we were never meant to go from spiritual high to spiritual crash.

It means we were not meant to glow during Sunday worship and fade by Wednesday.
Glory was never supposed to be seasonal.
It is not a fading light — it is a dwelling, increasing, transforming flame.

Moses encountered a moment. You’ve been given a Man. He saw the backside of God’s glory—but in Christ, we behold Him face to face.

“Moses said, ‘Please show me your glory.’”
— Exodus 33:18
“You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
— Exodus 33:20

—** 2 Corinthians 4:6
6** “For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.”

The veil has been torn.
The glory that once killed now transforms.

The glory that was once terrifying is now testifying—declaring to every cell of your being: You were made for face-to-face fellowship.

You are not in a visitation era - you are in a habitation dimension.
WE NEED TO STOP LOOKING FOR MOMENTS - AND TRUST HIM

YOU ARE A TRANSLATION OF GLORY!

Every Bible you’ve ever read is a translation.
Even the most accurate version is still filtered through human language, personality, and culture….
EVEN IF YOU COULD READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL OF ANCIENT HEBREW… - the words written down still passed through the prophet’s heart.

Likewise, you and I are not the original Word—but we are living translations of it.
We are interpretations of the glory we’ve received!

We are living expressions of what Heaven sounds, feels, and moves like on earth.

A translation exists to make something distant accessible — to make something foreign familiar.

You were put on this earth to make Heaven make sense.

You exist to:

• Translate mercy in how you forgive.
• Translate grace in how you respond.
• Translate joy in how you endure.
• Translate glory in how you live, lead, and love.

Matthew 5:16
16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father…

So ask yourself:

• What kind of translation am I giving the world?
• Do I make God seem cold or kind?
• Distant or near? Conditional or overflowing?
• Grim or glorious?

You are not just a translation - you are a prism.

A prism simply receives and refracts it.
A prism takes one beam of light and releases it as a spectrum - color, texture, movement, brilliance.

God’s glory is the beam.
Your life is the prism.
You take what is pure and invisible and make it visible, vibrant, and expressed.
Your life reveals the glory of God in a way that no one else can.
Your lens - your personality, your past, your pain, your purpose—it all affects how the glory comes through.
And here’s the stunning part:
God designed your angles on purpose.

He doesn’t need you to be polished—He needs you to be transparent.
He doesn’t shine through the perfect—He shines through the clear.

“We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:7

NO TWO PRISMS ARE ALIKE

When you try to copy someone else’s expression of glory, you distort your own.
You do not need to imitate someone else’s translation - just be faithful to yours.

The Misunderstood Lordship of the Spirit

“Now the Lord is the Spirit…” (2 Corinthians 3:17).
Scripture says where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom—not just emotional freedom, but dominion freedom, authority freedom, recreated-being freedom.

1.

IN THE SOURCE

John 15:4
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

If you disconnect from the Source, your translation becomes distorted.

The vine does not need the branch to live—but the branch needs the vine to live right.
When you unplug from His Presence, you still speak… but your words lose weight.

If you do not abide, you will start performing.
If you do not stay in the Source, you will start striving in the flesh and calling it strategy.

John 15:5 NLT
5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

When you are in the Vine:

• Your discernment sharpens.
• Your desires shift.
• Your identity stabilizes.

The secret place is where your sight gets recalibrated.

2. LET THE SPIRIT BE THE

John 16:13a NLT
13a When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.

HE IS THE INTERPRETER.
You were not called to be impressive - you were called to be in tune.

You do not need to “sound spiritual.” - You just need to stay surrendered.

When the Spirit is your translator,

• You do not overexplain.
• You do not hype.
• You do not flex.

You just flow.

Revelation without the Spirit’s interpretation becomes manipulation.

He is the interpreter - You are the Echo

John 16:13b
13b…“He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears…”

You do not have to be the originator - you are the echo.
You are not the microphone - you are the wire.
Wires do not have to be flashy - they just have to stay plugged in.
Stop trying to craft the perfect word—just carry the living one.
The world needs people possessed by the voice of the Spirit.
Let Him speak.
Let Him interrupt.
Let Him define what is “deep.”
Sometimes the deepest thing you can do is shut up and listen.

Before you speak—ask.
Whether it is a meeting, a message, or a DM—say:
“Holy Spirit, translate this. Do not let me lead with my flesh. Lead me into truth.”

3.

WHAT YOU REFRACT

Corinthians 3:18
18 “We all, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed…”

There are two stages here ~ Beholding and being Transformed.

You are not the mirror… you BEHOLD as in a mirror
You are Not Just a Mirror - You are a Lens

You are not just called to reflect light - you are built to refract it.
Refracting means light enters, bends through your structure, and exits changed - projecting color, brilliance, dimension, and direction.

What is in you affects what comes through you.

If you are full of shame, the light bends toward performance.
If you are carrying offense, the light bends toward suspicion.
If you are drowning in fear, the light bends toward control.

You do not just pass on glory - you shape it.
You are not a passive mirror - you are an active vessel.
This is why holiness matters.
This is why heart posture matters.
This is why secret place matters.
You are not just reflecting glory - you are translating it through your own soul structure.

You will only reflect what you behold.
If you are staring at shame, fear, and offense - you will leak that instead.

What does a prism do?
It takes invisible light and bends it into a spectrum of color.

But what if the prism is cracked?
What if the surface is dirty?
What if the shape is distorted?

Then what was meant to display the beauty of heaven ends up misrepresenting it.
That is what happens when we minister light with unresolved bitterness.
That is what happens when we worship with fractured identity.
That is what happens when we teach truth through a twisted lens.

GOD IS STILL LIGHT!

People will experience what you refract.