Author Darlene J. Conard

You are holding the reflections of someone who once walked with a stone for a heart—someone who found an eerie comfort in death, in shadows, in the dim corners where hope rarely visits. For years, that darkness felt like home. It wrapped around me like a familiar cloak, whispering lies that felt like truth. But everything shifted the moment a handful of faithful warriors slipped into their prayer closets and lifted my name to heaven with a fierce, unrelenting love.

I was a soul seated in thick darkness, yet by the mercy of God, a great and blinding Light broke through. That encounter didn’t just warm me—it awakened me. And now there is a holy urgency rising in my spirit, a call echoing through my bones: believers, return to your prayer closets. Step back into the secret place. Draw so close to God that His presence rearranges your heart, your home, and the very air around you.

I’ve always been mesmerized by glow‑in‑the‑dark things. They are a fascination —objects that only shine after they’ve been saturated in a greater light. Their glow is never their own. It is borrowed. Absorbed. Then quietly released into the darkness around them. Their brilliance depends entirely on the strength of the light they’ve been exposed to.

So it is with us. We become what we behold. Stay near the shadows, and your soul will dim. Stay near the Light, and you will radiate with a brilliance that cannot be smothered. When we linger in the presence of the One who is Light, we begin to glow with a holy luminescence—one that darkness cannot comprehend, cannot extinguish, and cannot hide.

“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”  — Hebrews 10:22 KJV

Feel free to forward it to anyone you wish.  My mission is to encourage everyone to follow our Lord Jesus Christ with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. ©Darlene J. Conard Vision Ministries 2024.   This may not be republished or used without the author’s written consent. The photograph is AI-generated. Darlene J. Conard is also affiliated with Glory Carrier Ministries. If you have a prayer request, please email it to darlene.conard@hotmail.com, and my intercessors and I will pray.

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