Dear Bros in Christ,

Proverbs 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Brothers in Christ, this monthly devotional is sent and meant to be an encouragement to all and to build up and edify in the Lord Jesus Christ. Oikodome means "Builder". The Lord has put this on my heart to send out a monthly Iron Man Oikodome {oy-kod-om-ay'} to build up and encourage the men who love and follow Jesus Christ in their walk with Him. Hebrews 3:13 "But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness." PRAYER REQUESTS: If you have any prayer requests please send them and I will send them out to the bros for prayer, if privacy is needed I will send in a discreet way.

IRON MAN OIKODOME BOX TOP 031 No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts [it] in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light (Luke 11:33NKJV). FULL OF LIGHT Bros you ever notice that maybe it seems like sometimes our light might not shine as it should depending on where we are at or who we are with at any given moment It is almost as if when we come into those situations where maybe people dont take kindly to our witness of Christ at work or wherever or there is an intense ungodly environment we find ourselves in or we get taken up in the moment of ungodly course jesting. I dont know why we fade back or why we shrink away its like we have a power outage or like we have a dimmer switch that turns down the light (our witness) maybe on auto pilot or something close to that when we are stowing away the light that is in us and suppose to shine brightly. Jesus put His light in us-If His light is in us it cant be hidden away or shelved or dimmed down but is to shine brightly for Him. As we read on to the next verses we can see something that maybe we need to consider and heed; "The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when [your eye] is bad, your body also [is] full of darkness (Luke 11:34 NKJV). If an eye is healthy then all can see the light in it, but if the eye is unhealthy or blind or without the truth the light cannot be there and be seen in the physical sense. But in the spiritual sense could we be a bad lamp, eyes that dont have the light of Christ in them, maybe there is a darkness that exist in our heart or walk, we are not walking in the truth or being led by Gods Holy Spirit and as a result causes us to not have His light in other words His light is not shining bright because of some dark cloud or spot hanging over our walk or witness, it has been turned off... "Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness (Luke 11:35 NKJV). We dont want to have a tinted shade on sort of like sun glasses on over His light that causes it to appear hidden and not shine brightly. We need to look and see if we have been using the dimmer switch to fade our witness back into darkness and why we would turn off the light that is in us "If then your whole body [is] full of light, having no part dark, [the] whole [body] will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light (Luke 11:36 NKJV)." If a lamp is dirty you clean it so it will emit bright light, you clean the lamp! Let Jesus shine His light brightly in your heart and repent ask Him to reveal and remove any darkness that may exist so you will be Full Of Light. So there will be nothing blocking your witness, no dark spots, pure light, and a bright shining lamp to the whole world that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all- and all will know you have been with Jesus amen! Agape,
Daniel Wright Iron Man Oikodome Proverbs 27:17

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