Vibrance Ministries: Then Came The Morning

Then Came The MORNING. This is a message of hope when the shadows of night are overwhelming.

We are in the Easter season, which is an absolutely beautiful time for today’s message. It was inspired by a truly incredible song, which speaks of the darkness and glumness after Jesus’ crucifixion and the certainty that all was lost.

Then came the morning, night turned into day, the stone was rolled away, hope rose with the dawn. Then came the morning, shadows vanished before the sun. Death had lost and life had won for morning had come.*

I’m in prayer, Spirit drops this song into my mind and I resist. Mornings have not been my friend, I've been sick for seventeen years. Each night I go to bed with the prayer that I will wake healthy, morning comes and I have to deal with another day in a body that has not shifted in concert with my prayers. Quite frankly I really don’t like mornings.

Today my relationship with morning received a dollop of healing as Spirit opened this inspired song to me in a new way. Morning is no time for despondency, morning is a time for celebration because morning is a promise.

Everything in this world, every aspect of our universe is designed to be a conversation between God and us. Another song says ‘In the stars His handiwork I see, on the wind He speaks with majesty’. If only we understood how absolutely true that is.

God tells us His heart for us every day in a million different ways, including mornings. God designed morning to speak to us daily. Morning speaks to us of His glory, it speaks of His constancy, it speaks of The radiance of His beloved son, and the battles he already won.

Death has lost. Life has won. Morning has come.

Morning came two thousand years ago. Like the sun, the son yielded to death and slept in the grave. Then like the sun, the son arose and took his rightful place in the sky, that the world may know, morning is come.

Let the glimmer of the morning sun always remind you of the radiance of the son. Let the rising of the sun remind you that death has its part to play in life, but death is a servant to life. Old things pass away, that new things may be born.

"Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains only one grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit". - John 12:24

Death of a loved one, death of a dream, death of a relationship or a business or a standard of life that you once knew. All death serves life. Do not fear death, do not resist death. Grieve your losses, treasure your memories and let your heart open once more to life.

When you rise up to meet the morning, raise your hands to the sky and celebrate the rising. Take note of the slightest blush of pink, as the greys lighten and darkness begins to transform into light. Morning inevitably comes.

Most of us get to witness the heart of our God play out day after day after day. The sun rises and reigns in the sky, then it fades and night takes over. Then the sun rises again.

Beloved child of God do you not see the promise for your life? In some places within the Arctic and Antarctic Circles the sun does not rise for months, but it rises.

So too dear one, your night may seem so long, your desolation complete and your trials feel impossible to beat, but morning does come. It is a promise so important to our God that he built our universe around it.

There is a spiritual law that underlies the message of morning. It is particularly important for you to get this, as you doggedly press through your journey of faith.

That miracle you are praying for, that manifestation, that breakthrough is established in spirit before it is realized in your physical experience. What you do while you wait for morning makes a difference to how quickly morning comes.

Greet your mornings with song. Let the rising of a new day be a reminder of the inevitability of your morning. It is no coincidence that God paints the sky with the colors of the rainbow as a new day comes into being. God chose the rainbow as His symbol of promise, He made a promise to Noah and gave him a rainbow. God gives us a rainbow each day as a reminder of His promise to us. Morning must come.

"For His anger is but for a moment, in His favor is life; weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." - Psalm 30:5

The sun may not rise every morning, yet morning inevitably comes. Before it rises in the physical it rises in the spiritual. God tells us the intention of His heart long before it comes into your experience, allow your heart to hear Him. Allow your heart to catch the faintest hint of color as the darkness begins to shift. Allow your heart to engage with the hope of morning. Celebrate the first light of morning and submit to its glorious rising.

Thank you Father that morning rises in my life, my circumstance and my situation. Thank you that in the darkness I can focus on the light of your beloved son, who is my beloved sun.

Thank you that morning rises in my heart, inevitably and inexorably, because it must come. Thank you for hope which has carried me through the darkness of night and bears me up on the wings of morning.

Thank you Father that my shadows vanish before the son. Death has lost. Loss has lost. Setbacks have lost. Pain has lost. Life has won. I welcome hope with this new dawn, knowing that I have already won. Because of Jesus, morning must come.

Birds flying high you know how I feel, sun in the sky you know how I feel, breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel. It's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life for me and I'm feeling good.**

Morning is a promise. Receive it in the name of the beloved son.

I invite you to play these beautiful songs and let your spirit absorb every word. Then even before the heat of your fire has subsided, allow yourself to greet your mornings with joyous anticipation of your new day. ‘And I’m feeling goo-ood!’

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Author: Max Patrick @VibranceMinistries

* Song Credit : Gloria Gaither, William J. Gaither and Chris Christian, “Then Came The Morning”

** Song Credit : "Feeling Good" Nina Simone, (written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse).

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