PREPARE YOURSELF FOR WHAT LIES AHEAD

CLARITY ON THE BELIEVER AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD

Know the truth and be prepared, this world is not your home. We are to occupy till Jesus returns not sit in comforts.
Remember that every believer goes through some kind of persecution and is tried on some level and at the point God determines he intervenes. But we are meant to be dwelling on his intervention but being faithful in all things even in afflictions, to endure till the end. running the race and so on.

When the trial is over and you have endured and have been faithful God will keep his word to never leave you nor forsake you. We were never told to look for signs, we were told to Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. 2 Timothy 4:2 Not to be so comfortable that we'r just not concerned except with our own deliverance and comfortable we get.

Romans 12:2
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
We were told that when we see these things to look up our redemption draws nigh. That is a comfort to know that you had believed the truth that as these things begin to happen you must remain on the stand you took in Christ. Continue to live Godly in Christ.

Read Noah's account
Remember that Noah in spite the fact that God rescued him, he had to live among the wicked for 120 years while he was building the ark, while he obeyed God, while he was grieved with the ungodliness of the people around him. Lot had the same experience, it is said that Lot was a just man and it grieved him because of the life style of the people. Job went through his grief of loosing everything as he was tried in the tribulations Satan brought upon him.

The heroes of faith talked about in the book of Hebrews chapter 12, all went through tribulation/trials and testing. Jesus Christ was crucified and rose again. All that will live Godly in Christ shall suffer persecution. It's our portion.
So that we will reign with him, we must go through the straight gate and walk the narrow way. So let us no be deceived and so that day catch us unawares. It should not matter to the believer weather there is a Pre-Trib or post-Trip, because our eyes should be on Christ no matter what!

God has promised to keep us in perfect peace, even in the midst of tribulation, trials, persecution, testing, hardships, hurts and pains. Romans 8:32-39 speaks to you and reassures you that you are in God's hands and your salvation is sure, that non of these things will diminish and separate us from God's love.

TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE

ARE WE PREACHING A HELL FIRE MESSAGE?

The deeper a nation sinks into sexual depravity the greater the onset of pending destruction and judgement looms. It may not come all at once because God is long suffering but if the people refuse to turn from their detestable ways, there will be judgement. And you can look at judgement in 2 ways. You can see it as correction and you can see it as mercy in chastisement.

The defining moments that set Noah's day in contrast to ours is the blatant disregard for the sanctity of marriage and sex. When it has become a kind of god in of itself and is idolized and worshiped as it is today in every facet society, we can expect only the worse. Because when men's hearts are set on sin it takes a whipping to bring it around.  The truth is out.

GATHER YE ALL INTO THE ARK
Beloved and friends, Adam & Eve have long been dead and are laid to rest, and our brother Noah has also passed away, still there remains the remnants of his time long past. Like as in Adam all die so in Christ shall all be made alive, all who receive the son of God. If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things are passed away behold all things are become new. For has said, come unto me all you who are weary and are heavy laden and i will give you rest. This world was once Judged severely due to the rampant sinful ways of ungodly men. The resulting collapse of morality and the ever increasing decay of social life mixed with violence.

Beloved it is everywhere and there remains no more sacrifice than that which has been already made. The Lord Jesus Christ suffered once, the godly for the ungodly. He did take upon himself the form of a man and being found in the form of a man he humbled himself. He has become our mediator between God and man, and God calls man ever where to repent. Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand!! there was once one who cried in the wilderness, one who was moved by the spirit of God to make straight paths for the Messiah. The anointed one and his anointing. Because the father has set a time in which he will judge the world. He will judge in righteousness. So there remains only but a glimmer of time and soon it will be no more, no more time, only weeping as Rachel did for her children and couldn't be comforted. I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. Alas the time is indeed short and the day is far spent, let us draw nearer that we may obtain strength and find help in time of need. For if you will draw near to God he will draw near to you.

NOTHING WITHOUT THE SPIRIT

HE THAT BEGUN A GOOD WORK IN YOU 

Philippians 1:6
In first Corinthians 13 we read about the fundamental truth about what love really is. By the end of the chapter there is no doubt in our minds that we need this kind of love, not the soap opera kind or the action hero kind but the perfect kind. The God kind. Just as we need love we also need someone else, the one who makes it all possible.

Some Call it LifeToday if you will hear his voice, do not harden your heart. Nor faint at the Lord's rebuke, because he chastens those he loves and scourges every son in whom he receives.
I have a message for those of you who are right at this moment attempting to do something in your life but you find it's so much harder than you could have ever imagined. Your called to perform a task that in spite of your qualifications, your not able from withing to accomplish it. Your confident and determined but deep inside you know that it's not enough. The Fails of the past haunt you every single day, and it's like the devil is on a rampage ripping up every tile you placed down to keep your mind and thoughts on a even scale. 

Your praying but on top of it all, your also extremely busy and as the weeks go by, it feel like there is less time to do and get started on those things. The internal struggle seems to drown out the voice of God and it's like you cant hear God properly not clearly. Your distracted and severely so and you can't seem to turn it around. I could go on here but the truth to answering this dilemma is in this simple fact. You need the Holy Spirit. You need wisdom, you need understanding. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge that leads to the fear of the Lord is in his word. Faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of God.

Now for the Holy spirit.
John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Phillipians 3:17-20
Your belly is symbolic of the weakest part of you, it effects your will and determines many of the choices you make, as it's directly linked to your self gratification. The moment you step out of that comfort zone your belly tells you to satisfy it, to satisfy yourself. To take leave of the situation and indulge for a moment. Those moments are always most likely carnal and sinful. Our belly causes our mind to take a leave of absence and then your acting in self destruct mode. It can be your god too, but it's also the place from which the birthing process starts and culminates. The moment you get into the flesh your outside of the Will of God, your in the danger zone . Who is the one who keeps you out of danger and warns you of the danger? Yes you got it, it's The Holy Spirit, your absolute best friend. The one that sticks closer to you than any brother. When we neglect the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our bodies, we are endangering our eternal security. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8:8

Ephesians 4:29-32
And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
You can look up the scripture and read the rest.
Here is another one. 1 Corinthians 3:16-19
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

Paul goes on to talk about envying, strife and the wisdom of man etc, but his message is meant to open your eyes to the fundamental truth of the word of God. The word of God is alive and living, the you allow the Holy Spirit to dwell in you fully.
That you will acknowledge that it is the work of the holy spirit to bring you to perfection. That you must desire him in your life because God has promised to give him to those who ask. The work that's being done in you is a work of perfection. Jesus said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. He chose the weakest part of you to show you that he is able to work in you through your weakness. That his grace is really all you need, and that it can only be done by his Holy Spirit dwelling in you. End of message.

Come Let us go over to the other side.

CALLED TO REST

Waiting speaks of being prepared.

Some things to consider while waiting on the Lord.
Are you anxious, are desperate, are you in turmoil?
Are you restless, thoughts flying left to right in your mind, lack of concentration and focus? Is there always something that takes away your primary focus? And is there distractions that just seem to come out of no where?

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Psalm 37:7

Dreams
Psalm 37 begins by telling us not to fret, i have a tendency to fret myself and more so when i see or hear of injustice, so i was really receiving what i believe God was about to reveal to me.

The word Made flesh
Awakened from a dream this morning, and as i was making my journey from the land of sleep, I heard a repeating voice saying to me: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God.' Upon hearing this word and knowing it's from scripture, thought i would get my bible and look into this. Here is what i discovered.

1. Fret not yourself
2. Justice will be met
3. Trust in the Lord & Do Good.
4. Delight yourself in the Lord
5. Commit your way unto the Lord
6. God will vindicate you
7. Rest in the Lord

In Matthew 11:28-39 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.The Hebrew word for rest is nuach. Nachah is a another word related nuach, which means to guide or to lead another into place of or a state of rest. When one has come to a place of rest, the desire is to also lead someone else to that place of rest. That is perhaps the desire in most Christians to give testimony to the unsaved. To invite them to the way of salvation. Jesus is giving the invitation to us to come to him in order to enter into his rest. he say that he will give you rest or that you will find rest in him. This is key because Jesus Christ who is the word become flesh is offering us rest. When God called Moses to go and lead the children of Israel to the promised land, God was giving him the task of being a leader, to lead the people to a place of rest. Moses had to first come to a place of rest himself seeing that he was a fugitive of Egypt. he had fled from the land of Egypt because of his guilt and crime. So he himself needed to come to rest in his own life first, before he could lead. So what is the rest that is being talked about here? this is the rest that can only be found in learning to trust. Learning to follow and learning to obey. Rest comes when we allow ourselves to be yoked to Jesus Christ. He says to learn of him, to take his example of how to bear up under stress and trouble.

Rest in Torah By Jeff A. Benner
Yeshua begins to identify this rest when he says; "take my yoke upon you and learn from me". Here Yeshua is referring to the Hebrews understanding of "learning" which can be seen as two oxen yoked together for plowing. An older, stronger more experienced ox is placed in a yoke next to a younger less experienced ox. The young then learns his responsibilities from the older through the yoke. The rest Yeshua offers is the yoke with which we are bound to him. What is the yoke? How do we, as the younger ox, learn from Yeshua, the older ox? The yoke is the Torah, the teachings of God. As Yeshua walked the Torah, we who are yoked to him learn the ways of Yeshua through the yoke, the Torah.

God is For You
I was beginning to understand that resting in the Lord was not passive but active. that i must actively submit, that i have to simply obey. From there i went to Deuteronomy chapter 8, it was not my intention to read Deuteronomy 8, the page fell there. It accounts of the journey and how the Lord God lead the children of Israel, you will do well to read it and to follow this journey with me. Remember that the reason that i started this study was because of the word that came to me in the morning telling me that i shall love the Lord my God. Then i went on from there to read Deuteronomy 30:11, but i continued from there inn the same chapter to and found the reason why i was there in the first place, i was being lead by the Holy spirit. Deuteronomy 30:11, God is telling the people that his word is not far from them that they couldn't find it. That he was not hiding his truth from them or withholding the benefits of obeying his word. They could not claim that they did not know what God was saying. If they failed to be all God wanted for them, it was not on the part of God's word being out of their reach or it being to hard to follow. It was because of their own hearts, because they wanted to live like the pagans who knew not God while yet still receiving God's favor and blessing. So being able to live in rest and all that comes with it was not going to be apart of God's perfect picture for them nor us.

The word of God cannot be changed, and neither can does God.
Malachi 3:6
God wants all his children to live in peace and to have rest in every area of their lives. So whats the big hindrance then your asking?
Here it is, verses 16 & 17. Deuteronomy 30:16,17 You will see that the continuing verses also expand on this.
Deuteronomy 30:17,18.......17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

God is talking about our hearts, where does your love lie? Who has first place in your heart?
If you love me, keep my commandments. keep my word, obey it, follow it, know it and know me. I am the Lord your God.
Let the Lord God speak to your heart as you read and obey his word and enter into his rest.


Deuteronomy 30
Deuteronomy 8
Psalm 37:7
Matthew 11:28-39
Malachi 3:6
Rest in Torah

SANCTIFY THEM

Sanctification.
To set apart as Holy. God has you in mind.

The Urgency
A prayer for sanctification by Jesus Christ for his disciple. As he was praying then he is praying now. It is written that he he, meaning Christ Jesus ever lives to make intercession for the saints, he is praying for you you and I. Jesus Christ is not against you, he is for you. he came to seek and to save that which was lost, that's us. For those who come to him through the sanctifying power of the word of God. His word will bring about sanctification in you if you let him.

Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart: Instead, open up your heart and life to his word, it is able to save you and make you free. Today is your day for a change of direction, change of kingdom. Time is running out and soon the world will know in an instant what has been told for decades. It is true, it was actually true all along! I imagine that's the reaction to countless millions of earth dwellers in that day. Jesus Christ said that he will come again and receive his own unto himself. He has left an invitation for you to be one with him and the father. The word of God is a written testament made in blood, an ever true gospel that doesn't change nor deceive lead you.

The Invitation
His truth stands sure today as when it was spoken back then. Give your heart God today, give your life to Jesus Christ today. You don't have time in your pocket that you can put it off as you wish. One day you may never get up from that bed of anguish, you may never see new-years day 2015. The truth is, you just don't know when your time will come, so take stock now and look at the truth of what God's word says and compare it to the voices in the world. It wont take long for you to realize that God really does love you. And he is not willing to leave you behind, God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. That means that God is willing for you to make a change, to choose him and go his way, to follow him and have eternal life with him when this life expires, and that can be at any moment. There is life to be had in Christ Jesus, abundant life. life filled with peace, joy and love. Yes you will have troubles here and there like everyone else, but you will have his grace to keep you in any situation, and when others are buckling you will be overcoming. It wont be easy but it will be worth it.

Sanctify Them
In John 17 Jesus Christ is praying for the disciples and as he prays, he comes to the verse 17. 'Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.' To sanctify something is to set it apart, to set apart for special use or for a purpose. To make holy, or set apart as holy. It is also linked to being in a state of perfection. If the believer can ever reach perfection before he is translated, it would be in the state of sanctification. Jesus is asking Father God to sanctify them, to sanctify them through his truth, and he says, 'Thy word is truth.'

1 Peter 1: 15,16 is greatly urging us the believer to be Holy. To set yourself apart, in mind and in body. Indeed God has set us apart and he is working in us the process of sanctification. It remains that you and i must be willing to keep on being sanctified, keep on being Holy, keep on being set apart. We often say to people that God has a spacial purpose for them: Yes indeed god has a special purpose for them, it starts with sanctification. Set apart for special use, holiness unto the Lord. How can i expect God to use me if i am not Holy, if i am not living a sanctified life? The sanctity of marriage is in it's fidelity. Set apart for only one person's use. Holiness unto the Lord. Without it we wont see him and he wont recognize us.




Truth

But how are we sanctified? the answer is through God's word. 1 Peter 1:25 concludes as it draws our attention the Gospel, the word which has been preached unto us. The word which we have received. By which we are saved in the first place, that word which keeps us in him and makes us one in him.

John 17

1 Peter 1

Christmas

It's funny that we were never told or required to celebrate Christ with a day called Christmas or Christmas day.  But there are many things we celebrate that we were never asked to, but we do it anyway.  Is it a bad thing though that we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on a particular day? Well i don't think so.  The birth of Christ and his coming into the world is a worthy celebration, and should be encouraged in view of the fact that he will be returning again.  The world ain't gonna want to see his appearing as much as the baby in a manger version though.  why is that? well because this world is in darkness and love to have it so.  Everyone loves a good party and the sweeter it is the longer it's desired to be.  No one loves a party pooper. Some of us don't want to be told to repent and get right with God.  While some will welcome his appearing with longing open arms, others will hate it extremely.  Because men love darkness rather than light.  It is the sin nature within us that drives us away from the light of God. But if you make a choice to turn to God, he will give you the grace to walk right before him.

God will help you to overcome that situation that seems to control you.  As if you have no power at all to say no.  Instead of resigning to that thing, resign to God that thing whatsoever it is.  God will turn it around for you he will save and restore your strength, he stands poised ready to show himself great on your behalf.  But you have to submit to him and let God do it in you. Your problem, your sin your lust, your lying. stealing, hypocrisy, whatever that thing is in your life that gets the better of you, will have to bow to a greater power.  Let God in your heart and life today and let him take your burdens away off of you.

Jesus told the disciples that they will be hated by all nations for his names sake.  Christians will be the most hated people on planet earth in the years to come, when The new world leader takes his position.  He will be given the power to overcome the elect, the saints of God.  Yes that's you if you if your a christian in the tribulation period.  The realities of the times to come are so encroaching upon that it's hard to deny it's effects already.  Epic storms and catastrophes on a global scale that's ever increasing.  Economic chaos, the catalyst for new world order.  A new world of thinking and a new leader to control it all.  But how did i get from Christmas to end time prophesy? that's easy.  Because we all act like Jesus Christ is still a baby at Christmas time and then we forget about him till Easter. We forget all about him till someone blows up a building filled with so called innocent people.  The perpetrators don't think the people are innocent otherwise they wont kill them.  No, in the eyes of the Terror-Artist your guilty because you no different from the soldiers who resist them.  You just don't have a gun to protect yourself or defend your country.  They are bringing their fight to you, they aren't waiting to be attacked.

Not a baby anymore
Somewhere between Christmas and Easter we have failed to realize that Christ is really coming back again and he is coming for a church that is without spot and without wrinkle.  That means holy in spirit and in truth.  That's you and i making a daily choice to stay connected to Jesus from the heart.
What if he returns on Christmas day? that would be awesome, that is if we are all ready and not upstairs in the bedroom sleeping with the neighbor's wife.  Or having sweet fornication with that oh so cute babe or that hot guy.  Terminology may sound innocent enough in this app world but being caught with your pants down is a sure fire to miss your Lord when he comes looking for you.  The problem with waiting and time is that it can mess with your head.  You can find yourself doing and thinking things you never have before.  And before you get caught up in the addiction of that pleasure, learn to deny yourself.  Keep your garments white and spotless. Count the cost and consider what your trading, and if that fails do like Joseph. He just ran from that temptation.


This is just a snippet of a few thoughts.  So during this Christmas holiday season when your chicken is in the oven and the cakes are browning.  Just remember that Jesus loves you so much that he came, was born as the son of man, was beaten and tortured, died, rose again from the dead to secure your soul, purchased your ticket to eternal life with him.  No matter what you suffer it will never compare to the price Jesus paid for you.  You just have to ask yourself one question, is that sin worth of your eternal soul?

Have wonderful Christ-Celebration.

ETERNITY

ETERNITY
It would seem we are all closer to the moment of impact.  The moment when this mortal must put on
immortality.  It is not what you have or who you know in this life that secures you in the life to come, but it is the salvation that comes by no other.  That other being Christ Jesus.  The promised one, the Messiah, the savior of the whole world. Jesus said, if a man lives and believes in me, he shall never die.  And if a man believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live.  Death is certain and it is also certain that life after death is at the point of impact.  That moment one passes from death to life.

John 11
So if a man lives and believes in Jesus Christ, he shall never die.  How is that possible and relevant to you and i in these days of future past? Well let us observe that the one who makes this declaration is the one who made life itself. And being disconnected from the source of life, which is Christ, means certain death.  If a man lives and believe in me, he shall never die, why? because that man /woman, upon the moment of receiving Jesus into their hearts as Lord and savior, will at that point be ushered into eternity before it begins. It's like having the golden ticket, once you got it, your in. It has started, you now have that eternal life that Jesus says is yours because you believe in/on him.  This means that you trust your life to him, you have confessed your sins to him and repented of them. Your life is no longer yours but his.  Christ now has become Lord and king of your soul, your spirit, your will. And daily you live, holding on to that golden ticket called eternal life in Christ, that not even death can rob you of.

1 Corinthians 15:55-57
It's like holding the ticket and waiting in the cue to enter in.  To that party that Jesus is the life of.  While your waiting outside, your in the world.  When you walk through the door, you've passed from this world. Your in.  Death where is thy sting, grave, where is your victory. The sting of death is sin.  The strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The reality that eternity is waiting at the gate on the lives of every human being on the face of the earth, and we are reminded with each passing day by the lives of those we knew and loved and heard of.  We are burdened with the reality and feel some pain of the loss.  Because we are all human beings and not aliens from outer space.  It is a sad thing to lose a loved one to say the least and words cannot express it enough. Jesus knows this oh so well and through him we have the victory over the grave.

The Second Death
The sting of death is sin. the only power death has over you is the is the sin in your life. That sin drives you to death, but this is not death as we know it.  This death is not just the mere expenditure of present life but the eternal separation from the giver of life. Yes we all will face death at some point and that's inevitable.  But to be separated from God for all eternity is the sting that sin puts into death.  In the garden of Eden when Satan tempted man to disobey God.  God had told man that the day he takes of the tree and eats the fruit, that he will die.  Yes indeed that was the truth as only God speaks.  On the day man disobeyed, he died.  Sin came alive and Adam and Eve died.  The separation between God and man began and the next thing that will be man's demise would be the grave. So mankind faces 2 types of death.  Like the sun and the moon.  A greater light to rule the day and a lesser light to rule the night.  Separation from God is to die in your sins and then death by physical expiration.  Romans 6

Colossians 3
But thanks be to God who gives us the victory.  The victory that even though we die physically, yet we have life in Christ.  The giver of life, the victor over sin, death and the grave.  That in Jesus Christ though you die yet shall you live.  Not just exist but having eternal life, never to die again.  To be restored to newness of life, in a new body.  An eternal body that will never again be limited to time and space. There is much promised to those who will say yes to that eternal question. We are called by our loving heavenly father who gave his all to reconcile us back to himself. Will you take the opportunity to make it right with him today? and be ready for Eternity.