Tuesday, December 26th
St. Stephen
Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into Heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on God's right hand…….As they were stoning him Stephen said in invocation,. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit"
Acts 7: 7

The heart of each of My committed ones is linked in Me to the Father, the mind and will, too, are visited, enlightened and strengthened as each requires and seeks the right way. And the centre of My committed ones becomes the place from which the word of salvation and joy goes forth into the world, the work of healing and making whole and liberation and consolation in the way.

So it was with Stephen, the first on earth to witness My risen life before the court of My people and among the people of Jerusalem. Those in judgment stopped their ears and closed their minds to that which the Father was presenting to them through the faithfulness of His faithful follower. They turned from the light and destroyed the living witness to the word he had spoken as they had obscured for themselves the light which had lightened their presence in form and substance.

But although there was a turning from the light for those who chose to do so, and all are free so to do, and all are free in the Father's world, the deeds of darkness were made an opportunity of light and life by the loving Heavenly Father through My saving love and the power of our Holy Spirit. For by My death man's salvation was secured, by Stephen's death Our Spirit was released into the world.