God made each of us unique and with abilities to influence some people that others can’t. He equips each of us with talents that allow our actions and our words to influence certain people who may not listen to anyone else .
God knows what you can do but with the Holy Spirit helping you, your job for Him will be a walk in the park.
Jesus promised. The apostle wrote of His return to take His Bride to the Father’s house. Yes! We have been waiting for two thousand years, but God is trying to get as many people as possible to come to Jesus. When that call comes it will be in an instant and the church, the real believers will be taken to Heaven. There is no time to become ready, if you know of Jesus and go to church then you know the Truth. Don’t wait! He is working through dreams in the Middle East and bringing as many as possible to the saving grace of Jesus.
In America we can freely go to church or have a Bible at home to read and learn about salvation, but in the Middle East particularly in Muslim controlled areas, you can’t have a Bible nor can you convert to Christianity without some severe consequences. So…Jesus is coming to many in dreams and talking to them and explaining Who He is and where they need to go to find out more about the way to know Him and be saved. Jesus is going to each person that He knows will come to Him and He sends them to another person who can explain the salvation that they need, in other words He sends them to a Christian.
God loves us and the time is short. Don’t wait because not one of us is promised tomorrow, but the taking up of the church will be in an instant and we don’t know when this will happen. Nothing has to happen prophetically prior to His coming for His Bride. Life will be more than we can imagine when we arrive in Heaven. The best thing that I’m looking forward to is no more pain or cell phones and I won’t need glasses to read! My body will be free of any and all diseases and I will be more alive then than I am now! Please make sure that you will be included in the group that is taken up!
From the beginning of Creation, God has had a plan in place to redeem mankind. Even before Adam and Eve decided to taste the fruit of a tree that was forbidden to them, God knew it was going to happen. We don’t know how long they enjoyed life in the Garden of Eden, it could’ve been a century or more. Since they were created perfect in God’s sight, they could’ve lived forever if they had not listened to the serpent.
God’s plan was set into motion when they did go against His directions. Nothing catches God by surprise and their rebellion didn’t either. We sometimes believe that we can hide things from God but in our hearts we know better. We don’t want to listen to that small voice telling us not to do whatever it may be that we are considering, but it is there.
During my lifetime and likely in yours as well, there have been times that we want to do something but we get a little “voice” inside that says “you shouldn’t do that”. Sometimes we listen to that voice and other times we don’t and we may pay a price for not listening. Then again, we may enjoy our sin for a time. But…in the long run it is going to bite you on the butt. Learning the hard way is not the best way to learn lessons in life but these lessons do tend to stick with you because you do remember the outcome and the consequences.
God has been with every person during their good days and their bad days and the people that He calls to be useful to Him know when they are being called. If you are like me, you may try to run from those calls, but like Jonah, God can move things so that you will get the call and answer it. He doesn’t force you to do His will but He will bring you to a point where you will agree to it either now or in the future. Many people don’t like hearing this because we are taught in the West that we are our own ruler. The problem with this thinking is that we place ourselves on a throne that should be occupied by God alone.
I’ve read that God doesn’t have a plan for our lives but I disagree. His plan is that all would come to know Jesus as their Savior and it is offered to us without cost. All we have to do is believe that Jesus died for our sins and give our life to Him as a daily sacrifice to do whatever He calls us to do. For some people that may mean that you may be a missionary somewhere. But your mission field could be in your hometown or your community. He can call you to be a witness for Him in your workplace or even to a family member. The point is that God will equip you to do whatever He is calling you to do, regardless of the circumstances.
We are living in the part of history that has been referred to as the “last days”. If one thousand years is like a day to God, then we are in the early morning hours of the third day. Many things have happened on the third day in the Bible so I encourage you to make sure of your salvation in Jesus Christ. When the Trumpet of God sounds and the dead in Christ rise to meet Him, those of us who know Him and are still alive will follow them “in the twinkling of an eye”. When that happens the entire world will know it but for those who see it on TV it will be too late. Don’t be one who finds out that the church is gone on the evening news, be with us on that day.
In late 2022 there was something called chatGPT that came out. The AI part of it was shown to have promise and in just over a year AI has gotten to be just as smart as Albert Einstein. What will it do in the next year or even the next? Nobody knows for sure. This past year has seen so much happen. There have been so many people giving their lives to Jesus in America and around the world until it is…not scary but heartwarming. This is something that I have prayed about for many years.
Then there are the violence issues with people using whatever they have at hand to inflict harm on other people. They usually use guns, of course, but if they have to use cars or knives they will use them too. Of course, we can’t forget the conflicts going on all over the world about one thing or another, specifically in Israel and Ukraine. Life seems to have lost any meaning to people whether they are young or old or in between.
I am praying that this year will see a new and wider revival of people coming to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. I don’t want to even go into the “political” arenas because it seems that the different “sides” will never really agree on anything and they will just keep bashing each other in one way or another. Lord Jesus, please come soon.
Happy New Year everyone!
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