The Lightroom

The Lightroom

By Pastor Kingsley ManuelReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
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The Lightroom episodes

  • Mr Flesh
    Temptation is not an event, it is a process.
    Sin overcomes a person gradually. A little slack in not guarding your eyes, watching certain movies, reading certain books, listening to certain songs, walking with certain people, seeing certain images and these things strengthens your flesh and amplifies the voice of the flesh through its desires.
    The flesh communicates its cravings through lies. The flesh would lie to you so it could fulfill its desires.
    Never postpone repentance, it must be right here, right now and for the rest of your life.
    ‭‭Romans‬ ‭13:13‭-‬14‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬
    [13] Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. [14] But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its lusts.
    5 min
  • Pleasure
    To the sinful nature of man, freedom at the beginning looks like bondage and bondage at the beginning looks like freedom.
    You may be in control of the journey, but the end is surely out of your control.
    Freedom without righteous and necessary boundaries is wickedness and it ends in destruction.
    Whenever Satan discredits God's standard, it is only because he wants to introduce a sinful alternative that enslaves you.
    God doesn't want you to want things in place of Him or want things more than you want Him.
    The true meaning of life is only experienced when Christ is in His rightful place in the heart of a man and in the life of a man. You're created for God's pleasure, God didn't create you for pleasure. He created you for His pleasure and He created pleasure for you.
    Anytime outside this is sin and it's perversion. When a man is not satisfied with God, He begins to look for sinful alternatives and that leads to the destruction of the man.
    6 min
  • A New Religion
    This episode deals with one of the easiest things to stumble on that can make you stumble in your heart.
    Pleasure has become an access that the devil uses to afflict men.
    Satan is recruiting and you must take a stand with God as a believer and don't shift grounds. Don't wear God's uniform and yet perform satan's bidding.
    Do you realize that the tiny little act and culture of dressing decently is an act of worship?
    Your heart is a throne and not a couch, don't let just anything sit there.
    Have a blessed day!
    6 min
  • Airborne
    The new covenant is about receiving the Spirit and yielding to the Spirit in communion with Him where He's able to change your inward desires to place in you a new nature for in Him, we have been given everything required for a life of godliness.
    The new covenant is about new desires, a new mind, a new heart where Jesus is unto us, wisdom and righteousness.
    He is all things to those who will yield to Him in this new covenant.
    4 min
  • It all begins with a LIE
    Spiritual warfare is the inner battle to believe the truth of God's word over the daring lies of the enemy.
    It is the lie that you believe that brings you under the power of deception.
    Truth is an absolute standard by which reality is measured and a lie is anything that contradicts the truth.
    Strongholds are mindsets of deception that comes from constantly believing lies.
    You will never know the lies the enemy is selling to you if you don't know the truth God has communicated in His word already to you.
    4 min
  • Birds and the Christian Community
    What kind of a bird are you?
    Listen, learn and reflect on the characteristics of the various birds and if you're not yet operating at the level of an eagle, you can choose to receive and believe the revelation of your God-given identity of an eagle and start living up to your covenant capacity today.
    God bless you.
    12 min
  • The ABCs
    Listen to discover how mastering the fundamentals of the gospel destroys the power of the devil over your life.
    Knowing the gospel, fellowshipping with Jesus, looking into the Word of God, obeying what it says and preaching it to others. That's really all it takes. Never leave the ABCs, we'll spend all our lives building on it!
    4 min
  • A Little More Light

    Friends, God is our salvation and He has saved us from a life without him.

    God has given himself to us for constant use and enjoyment. He's the river of life and He gives us cleansing, refreshing, and satisfying.

    The sweetness of the streams of God will cleanse us, will refresh us, and will satisfy us.

    So allow God to save you daily.


    Enjoy the riches of divine life through fellowship with Him.

    Live for him and by him through the enjoyment of him.

    Burn with a jealous desire that rejects the smallest distraction from him. And learn to stay a little longer.

    Don't be in a hurry to be heard. He knows your words and the stream of your thoughts, including the hidden waves you can't interpret with words or articulate.


    Be satisfied by his presence, much more than you seek explanations. I mean, ridiculously depend on God.

    Be one with the one who does nothing of himself. Jesus speaking and says the son does nothing of himself. Only what He sees the Father do.

    So the Lord deals with us in levels of light. And so He gives us a little more light so that he can transform us.


    Because as you steward one level of light in receiving it and living by it, God transforms you into more by giving you a little more light.

    So never judge your life by your past. Judge your life by the light that He shines on you.


    Friends, in John chapter 13, you'll find an interesting scenario. Jesus was washing the feet of his disciples.

    And at some point, Peter refused and almost didn't allow Jesus to wash his feet. And Jesus says, look. If I don't wash your feet, if I don't do this for you, you will not have a part in me. You will not have a place in me.

    And Peter says, hey master, why not wash my hands? Wash more than my feet, wash my head, wash my hands.

    Interesting. Jesus did this to show his character. He says, you call me teacher, you call me Lord. It means that you're aware that I'm here to inform you of what you don't know. I show you my nature by kneeling to wash your feet.

    And this is more than a trade. It's the manifestation of His heart in a way that is so stunning and extravagant that it will remain in their minds for the rest of their life.

    They will never forget His service out of love or much more than that, it shows His work. Peter says, no, don't wash my feet. And Jesus says, if you don't let me do this for you, there is no way that you can be with me.

    I'm the only one who can get this off you. If you don't let me cleanse you, you will never be with me because friends, it is impossible to live your life without letting Jesus wash you.


    So we come to Jesus daily to be washed and to be kept by him. Is it not interesting that Jesus chose to wash their feet in the middle of a feast with him? Because Jesus cleanses us through communion with him. A man who runs from communion runs from cleansing.

    But much more than this, Jesus communicated his desire for us, what he expects from us.

    He says that as I've done this to you, So do this to others.

    I just wash your feet. I just washed your feet. Do that to others.

    I just became a slave to serve you. Do that for others.

    Because this is the principle of ministry.

    You can only do for others what Christ has done for you.

    You can only do unto others what you have experienced of Christ.


    You cannot minister to others what Christ has not first ministered to you.

    You cannot reflect a light greater than the light that you have seen.

    Jesus did all of this to show them His character, His work, and His desire.

    Friends, He transforms us by showing us a little more light.

    Have a blessed day, friends.

    7 min
  • The Perfect Chaotic Christmas
    If you passed by a cabin in Kentucky on February 12th, 1809, and you heard a baby crying, Little would you know that that would be the sound of the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.
    Or if you passed by a farmhouse in North Carolina on November 7th, 1918 and heard the whimper of a child. Little would you know that that would be the cry of the greatest evangelist of the 20th century, Billy Graham.
    If you simply looked at where they were born and how they entered into the world, they would have been written off as insignificant. But as they grew, the world surely knew that they were made for greatness.
    Over 2, 000 years ago, in Bethlehem, in a barn, if you had passed by and heard a baby crying, you wouldn't have thought much of it. But friends, over the years, you realize that man belittles the divine.
    Who would have thought that a lamb would rescue the souls of men?
    To think that a holy God would make legal entry into the world, respecting his own precedence and coming born of a virgin.
    Eternity touched time, the celestial touched the terrestrial, the word became incarnate in flesh.
    Friends, this once in a lifetime event would resound throughout history. It was all perfect from heaven's perspective. But from our flawed perspective, it was chaotic. Chaotic because Mary and Joseph had no precedence.
    God had done something with them that had no reference, no point of reference.
    Chaotic because it was unorthodox. It didn't make sense to anyone. Much more, they had received a word, a promise, and now they had no place for it.
    A business without a company,
    a vision without a platform to express it,
    a writer without
    a publisher,
    no human plan.
    Joseph and Mary simply made a quick trip to pay homage,
    to pay taxes, and then this baby arrives.
    They simply took a trip to Bethlehem.
    And for me, this triggers memories.
    I mean, in Genesis, Rachel dies while giving birth on the road to Bethlehem.
    What do you do when what you're carrying breaks forth before you're ready?
    What do you do when what you're expecting to happen in 2025 happens in 2024?
    What do you do when you lose control of the manifestation of the promise and it happens at a time when you're not expecting it?
    No street lights,
    no electricity,
    and every door they knocked on didn't open to accommodate
    them.
    God brings the light of the world in the thickness of the night.
    The one who is eternal chose to be part of our story.
    No crown on his head identified with the same dust that man was made from.
    One of the lessons of Christmas is that God meets us where we are.
    The prophecy couldn't wait for man's arrangement.
    He was born in a barn.
    Shepherds were in the field at that time of the day and not in the sheepfold.
    That's interesting.
    Why are the shepherds still in the field,
    abiding in the field,
    not in the pasture of
    sheepfold?
    Mary is in labor,
    but the angels go to the shepherds in the field and give them a message.
    Leave your sheep and go to the barn in Bethlehem.
    We have moved from the true meaning of Christmas to X-mas and happy holidays.
    We have kept the symbolisms and taken our attention off the sun.
    This Christmas is about the sun of righteousness and let him shine on you.
    Merry Christmas.
    God meets us where we are.
    Merry Christmas.
    6 min
  • Stolen Devotion

    Luke chapter 22 verse 3, Then Satan entered the heart of Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve apostles.

    Now remember that Judas had made an arrangement to betray Jesus Christ for money. And it's almost as if Satan followed the trail of stolen coins into Judas's heart because he knew that the money was in his heart and that's the means by which he got into his heart.

    He knew that money had a hold of his heart and that's the means by which he got into Judas's heart.

    Whatever you allow into your heart apart from Christ, Satan will follow the trail of your lust to win your heart. I mean, Satan will use anything that your heart pines after, anything that your heart lusts after to steal your devotion to Christ, to tamper with the simplicity and sincerity of your devotion to Christ.

    And I know that we often think that Satan is only capable of using bad things to destroy us. But no! The bad guy will use good things if he has to, to accomplish bad things.

    And so if wealth is what it takes to corrupt your devotion to Christ, then Satan is willing to use it. And if fame is what it takes, then he will give it.

    Friends, as you read further in Luke chapter 22, you'll find that while Jesus was still speaking, Judas interrupted him and it dawned on me that sometimes before you betray Christ, you will lose respect for his word.

    So here's what I want you to remember. Be careful in the moment of your life when you sense that God's word is without authority in your heart. It's a sign that your devotion to Christ is already being stolen.

    Have blessed the friend.

    4 min

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