 My dear viewer, welcome again today to our 40 days of prayer series of messages and thank you so much for being part of this ministry every single day. I am here for you this morning one more time. The Lord has blessed us and I thank you for many of you calling me and texting me and telling me how this is blessing you and I also appreciate those of you who are seeing the past that we are praying for you. Thank you so much. May you pray for me. We need each other in this ministry. Now as I said yesterday, today we are introducing another series of messages that is centered on Christ and his righteousness. To start us off, we will be looking at a very beautiful text of the book of Revelation and Isaiah just to gather our thoughts and get our focus onto what we shall be discussing for the next one week. But before we get there, let's seek the Lord in prayer. Gracious Father in heaven, we thank you so much for this yet another week when we begin a new series in our 40 days of prayer, looking at the righteousness of Christ. Lord, I pray that you will be with us and bless us and speak to us through me. May I not be seen on the hard man. May you be heard as you speak to us all, reviving us. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. This is day 20, day 20, and we are glad to have this discussion this morning, and the title is Get Up and Glow, Get Up and Glow. Now the text of a book of Isaiah, chapter 57 and verse 15, I read, for thus is the high and lofty one that had inhabited eternity, whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of contrite and humble spirit. To revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite words. I read one more time. Isaiah, chapter 57 and verse 15, as we are looking at Christ of righteousness and that something Get Up and Glow, for thus is the high and lofty one that inhabited eternity, whose name is holy. I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of contrite and humble spirit. Revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite words. Of course we know chapter 60 of Isaiah is that beautiful passage in the Bible from verse number 1 says, a rise shine for thy light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Both these two texts, God is speaking about his own light, his own righteousness. Those who shall live righteous life, they won't be righteous because they invented the way of righteousness. They won't be righteous because they walked out their way of righteousness, but they have received, they have been imputed, they have been given, they have been dressed with the righteousness of Christ. His rise and shine, meaning the light is here, to look for the light. The light is here, it is you to just rise and shine because it is provided for you. And I want to read the book of, of course, Revelation chapter 18, verse number 1, then I'll wrap up the three texts and then we'll get time to pray. Now Revelation chapter 18 and verse number 1 says, and after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with his glory. The earth was lightened with his glory. Now when you look at this one, the angel appears and comes to speak to the earth and says the entire, you know, earth was lightened. This angel's coming from God is lightened with his glory. That the glory that we're talking about, the light we're talking about, rise and shine, or when he says in chapter 57 and verse number 15, for thus is the high and love to one that inhabit eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place. Now the righteousness is as a result of holiness of God. Now God, the Bible here in Isaiah chapter 57, 15 says he is holy and he inhabits holiness. He stays in, in, in dwells holiness. You know, his presence, his environment, his, his, his house, his room, his, his, his village, his, his community, his environment, his atmosphere, his holiness. And so when God speaks, he speaks holiness because he himself is holiness and he dwells in holiness. And so when we come to him, then this is what happens. When we go to God, then we automatically enter into the space of holiness. He says, come to me. Even though your sins are as red as blood, even though you are as, as frail and, and, as, as dirty and as ragged and as old as, as, as, as, you know, he says, come to me because it is so easy to understand. Once you step where he is, you step into the environment of righteousness. Now let me tell you. You know, you're not able to see exactly the environment I'm in. Let me, let me try to create a picture of where I am in. You know, this is my church and this is the pulpit where I preach from. But from both sides are lights that are shining on me. You are not able to see that light. But where I am, I'm lightened more than any other place in this sanctuary. Now if you come anywhere near where I am, you are lighted from both sides. The light that are coming, shining on me. You see, God says, He is, He is, He is holy. He, He inhibits the environment of holiness, the environment of righteousness. Now for you then to become this righteousness or for you to be seen to have righteousness, the only thing you need to do is just come into this space. Like if you'd come here where I am, you would be, you would be, you would receive the light I'm receiving. You'd be shone the way the lights are shining on me. So once you step into the environment of God, then you step into the environment of holiness. Then how do we become righteous? How do we work out our righteousness? It is by keeping the law? No. It is by accepting Christ and coming into His life and coming into His environment and coming into His presence once we come into the presence of God, once we come into the presence of Jesus Christ, then we receive His righteousness. We start to radiate in the righteousness of Christ. We start to emanate in the righteousness of Christ. And people around us, they will start feeling and seeing the glory of God in us because we have received, because we have stepped into the environment of righteousness of God. Remember when Moses stepped into the environment of God, God spoke to him and told him, Moses, remove your shoes for where you are standing is holy. Let me also remind you, when Moses climbed up the mountain and was with God, received the Ten Commandments, when he came down, he was shining the glory of God. Why? Not because Moses had become righteous, he had worked out his righteousness, but he spent time with the Lord. He was in the environment of God. He was in the presence of God. He had stepped into the environment of God. The words you get into the space of God, then you catch the glory of God to become righteous. This is very interesting that we, our righteousness reveals nothing. And if anything, it is the righteousness of Christ that it covers us, then we can be presented before the Lord, then we can have hope of eternity through the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Because as we pray today, beginning this series of the righteousness of Christ, I want you to start thinking critically, how can you be right with God? Will you be right with God because you keep the law? Or will you be right with God because you brought yourself to God? You see, this is very simple. God is inviting you to come to him because he knows it is only when you come to him that you can receive the light of glory. You can receive the righteousness of Christ. You can receive the transformation, the renewing, the empowerment, the transformation that ought to happen within the mind and the heart of a believer. So I'm inviting you this week to join with the Christ. Stay at the feet of Jesus. Stay with him that you can rediate his glory. You can rediate his love. You can rediate his righteousness. You can look like him. You can look like, you can look like Jesus because you stepped into his environment. It's my prayer, my very sincere prayer that God may teach me how to step into his environment and I may look like him. It's a prayer that you may step into the environment of Christ, the environment of God, and that you may rediate his glory. Then I want to let you know that it is not in vain. If you do that, allow me to read a quote from my best author, Ellen G. White, a testament to the church volume three, page 307 paragraph one, she says, I saw, says the prophet, that the strength of the children of God is in their humility. When they are little in their own eyes, Jesus will be to them their strength and their righteousness and God will prosper their labors. Let me read this quote one more time. Testament to the church volume three, page 307 paragraph one, I saw, says the prophet, that the strength of the children of God is in their humility. When they are little in their eyes, their own eyes, Jesus will be to them their strength and their righteousness and God will prosper their labors. Meaning if we are too much on our own eyes, if we are too much on our self, if we are too much glorying ourselves, our abilities, our influence and who we are and how much we know about Christ, then we diminish the presence of Christ in us. But as we diminish our presence, our self-worth and our self-import, then we trigger God to dominate in our lives and increase himself in us. And the text here from the spirit of inspiration says, Christ will then become our strength and our righteousness. And if that happens, she ends by saying, God will prosper our labor, powerful God. Come with me as we pray, gracious Father in heaven. We are seeking that we may receive the righteousness of Christ and as we turn on, we may prosper our labor. Here we are getting the secret that we need to allow our self to diminish, that we may dominate. That, Lord, we will have nothing to glory in apart from Christ and Him crucified. Lord, we are seeking this week to join on with the righteousness of Christ. We are seeking, Lord, that we may disappear and you may appear in our lives. We are seeking that we may not be seen, but you may be seen in our lives. Lord, we are seeking that we may preserve us with the knowledge that it is only when we step into a presence that we can be truly revived and we can be Christians and show the world that we are your sub-antuit disciples. Lord, I pray that this morning, this afternoon, this evening, you may speak to my dear viewer in ways that they can understand and appreciate that we are not worthy without Christ. We are seen as at our very best of trial. We behave like poor. We find ourselves being what is evil, but we say glory be to the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for what you are and what you've been and what you shall be forever in our lives. And we can lean on your righteousness. We can be clothed in your righteousness. We shall be received into eternity. Thank you, Lord, how we yearn to live and dwell in the eternity of your righteousness. From teachers that we can surrender to you in the humility of our hearts, our contrite heart and spirit that we will learn at the feet of Jesus and see Him and you as you are in the asha and eternal eternity. We pray in Jesus name, amen, amen. God bless you, media viewer, for waiting upon this program every day. And thank you. I want to invite you one more time to subscribe to our channel. If you have not, because it is when you subscribe, you are likely not to miss every day as we do this program. I also request you to share with as many as you can these messages in your contact, don't just share with as many as you can, that many may be blessed. Remember the seven member list. This is what I mean. We are choosing seven people you are praying for. Just put them under your list and you'll be praying for them as you journey through. See you tomorrow. God bless you.