Hi, and welcome to Jesus Over Everything, a five-day-a-week variety show that mixes encouragement,

the Bible, practical how-toes, and fantastic guests for the listener on the go.

I'm Lisa Whittle, and I welcome you to just five minutes with me, which I trust and pray will be five minutes well spent.

I really like this week on Joe, and I love the way we're starting out this Monday.

If you need some brightening up today, you're dragging already, or struggling to face this week on Joe, and I love the way we're starting out this Monday. If you need

some brightening up today, you're dragging already or struggling to face this week, I believe

this show might be the perfect show for you. Okay, so it's Monday. The weekend is over. It's hard

to get up and going. I get it. Trust me,

I'm not a morning person. And one of the things besides a comfortable bed that I am committed to in order to enhance my sleep at night is a completely dark room.

I cannot have any light on or it bugs me all night. And then especially some mornings, I struggle when it starts getting light outside because

I'm still wanting to sleep. But when it comes to people in my life I love and appreciate more than

probably anyone else, it's the bright, sunny, light bearing folks. I have friends, both in-person

friends and online friends that I call sunshine, but just really a few, and I always look forward to seeing

them because they truly brighten my spirits and my life. So I wonder today if that could be said

about me. And then I'm turning to you and asking the same, could that be said about you that you

like the world you live in by your presence, your demeanor, your life. Now look, all of us have different personalities,

and some of us are naturally sunnier than others. Lighting the world I live in won't look bubbly

and smiley. It will look more like passion and genuine joy for Jesus, because that's much more of

who I am as a person. You may actually be that bubbly, smiley person, and I love you for it. But all of us, no matter our personalities, are called to be a person. You may actually be that bubbly, smiley person, and I love you for it. But all of us,

no matter our personalities, are called to be light bearers, light bringers. Matthew 514 says it very

plain, you are the light of the world. And our purpose in that is to bring glory to God that people

may know and want him. I think this manifests in a few ways especially. Friday,

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