Lord, may I bless you with a jubilant heart?  You deserve my undivided attention.  Let me for this brief time lay aside those things which struggle to monopolize my attention.  For a moment, today Lord I got to witness in a substantial way to one of Your creation.  A young man seeking answers and wrestling with the half-truths he has been given, about Your plan for humanity, and the love which eludes him.  Dumfounded, as always at that moment when You prepare them for a message.  Amazed at the process which causes them to break down at certain point and ask for the Good News of Your Kingdom, even if for the duration of our relationship they had fought, avoided and cajoled me.  I am so very grateful that You would choose me to deliver this impassioned plea.  I hope that I brought glory to Your name in this young man’s eyes and that we will see him among the citizen’s of heaven.

Lord, please give me the words to convince my brothers and sisters that the time is preciously near.  Evidence of the coming persecution of believers stacks up daily and yet I fear that it is not being reviewed and thus heeded as preparation warning.  We were made to be tested by the fire’s of this world and the next.  Our meddle tempered to stand against the lashes of time and produce actions, resolve and tenor consistent with Your glorious intention.  I see many fellow Christians becoming something akin to the believers of old, standing in the face of impossible circumstance, proclaiming the truth in justice and wisdom.  I plead to You Father that You awake those who will be blindsided by the one to come in his own name.  Let us plant a seed of Your love in their soil, so deeply that even the fires of tribulation do not prevent its blossom.  Bring us awake to the time and the season.  Give us a heart of service for others, denying ourselves to fulfill Your will, in time to bring all who would be saved to the Cross.  Save them from the wrath to come.  Open their eyes to our missteps, straightening our path to thee.  In Your Mighty, Holy, Precious, Glorious, Resounding Name I pray.  Lord Jesus, bring us home.

http://youtu.be/IOetBYPBz6A  Sent in by Jamie regarding the current luke-warm church