Lee M. Cummings is the founding and senior pastor of Radiant Church, a multisite church reaching the globe via Radiant Church campuses and online at radiant.church In addition to his role at Radiant, he serves as an overseer and mentor to many nextgeneration leaders and church planters. It was this role that led to the launch of the Radiant Network in which Lee M. Cummings is founder and President. Since that launch in June of 2016, churches across the United States and North America call themselves Radiant Church and many more have joined the Radiant Network family of churches. Lee and his wife Jane started Radiant Church in 1996 in a high school gymnasium in Richland, MI, a rural community on the outskirts of Kalamazoo. Since then, Radiant Church has grown to reach thousands of people in several locations with the same mission: To lead people to become radiant disciples of Jesus Christ. As a highly respected leader in the Church, Lee speaks frequently at leadership events, conferences, and churches worldwide. He is the author of the highly acclaimed books “Be Radiant”, “Flourish: Planting Your Life Where God Designed it to Grow”, “ School of the Spirit- Living A Spirit Empowered Life and Give No Rest! A Renewed Commitment to Pursue God’s Presence in Prayer and Worship in the American Church. Lee and his wife Jane were married in 1992 and have three grown children, two son-inlaws, and two grandchildren. They reside in Kalamazoo, MI where Radiant Church began.
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Mark 13:32-36 NKJV
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. 34 It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming—in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning— 36 lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. 37 And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”
The LAST DAYS
- The Last Days Begin On the Day of Pentecost and Conclude When Jesus Returns
- The Last Days Grow More Intense As The Return of Christ Draws Closer
- Jesus’ Greatest Concern For His Followers Was Not External Events, but Internal Preparation
- A. ONE COMMAND- “STAY AWAKE!”
- B. Jesus says it 4 times in 5 verses
- C. Greatest threat in the Last Days is “SPIRITUAL SLUMBER”
Circadian Rhythms - “Physical, mental and behavioral changes that follow a cycle, responding primarily to light and darkness in a persons direct environment” — “controlled by nerve clustered just about the optic nerves behind the eyes.”
STAYING AWAKE IN THE LAST DAYS
1. Don’t Relax
A. “Compromise is a bacteria that breeds in comfort”
B. There’s a difference between “resting in God” and “relaxing in this world”
2 Peter 2:7-8 NKJV and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)
2. Stay In the Light
1 John 1:7 “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin”
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path”
3. Keep Your Focus
Romans 13:11-14 “Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. the night is far gone and the day is at hand. so then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on he Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”
4. Stay Fueled
Matthew 25:1-13 The Parable of the Ten Virgins
A. There is no “second hand anointing of the Holy Spirit. You must go and pursue it yourself.”
5. Never Travel Alone
Hebrews 10:25 NKJV not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
6. Don’t Lay Down (keep moving)
A. STAND! “when you’ve done all to stand, STAND!”
Ephesians 6:10-19