Unfolding prophecy is the guidepost of our century.  God has waited, dispensing grace and mercy through His saints and angels to a world that rarely considers His beneficence.  The sweetness of sustained providence has fattened those basked in its wonder lulling many to lullaby, humming contentedly ignoring the sharpened edge of prescribed judgment.  As a humanity we catapult along the thoroughfare collectively ignoring the warnings of upcoming tolls and outed bridges.  We dabble in mysticism, consort with wickedness and toy with unrepentant sin, seemingly oblivious to predictive wisdom and Bible declaration.  These things will shortly and perhaps swiftly come to pass.  The harvest comes.  The earth is ripe for gleaning as both sin and righteousness have reach the seasonal tipping point.

All eyes should be firmly set upon Israel and specifically Jerusalem, as the events predicted by God’s prophets will originate in the homeland designated for His people.  All the supporting cast have been mustered and stand ready and oddly willing to launch the events ending in Judgment.  Do we not see the bud, uncurling and know that the pages of Biblical prophecy act as individual leaves to God’s unfolding masterpiece?  Do you see how Russia, Persia (Iran), Muslim nations and even those countries of Northern Africa have gathered for the slaughter?  Who can deny the current disarray of both Israel’s historic enemies Egypt and Syria representing the lure of world and violence?  These places have been purposely stirred and thrown into chaos, war and poverty by God’s almighty Will to disarm them in their attempts to forcibly capture Jerusalem.  They cannot bring to bare their desires for the necessity of dealing with their own internal maelstrom.  This is God’s merciful plan to save them for the good pleasure of conversion to worship.

When two armies enter the field and prepare siege engines and supplies for extended assault, war is shortly over the horizon.  When black clouds hover over the landscape, sending shards of lightning careening to the ground in passionate outburst, storm is certain.  When the leaves begin the twirl earthward in dramatic colors of orange, crimson and gold preparations for winter’s arrival must already be in full bloom.  The harvest time is coming and yet we stand idle at home as the fields remain untended.  The apostasy, also predicted thousands of years prior has taken its toll on the faithful.  Our churches are infiltrated by imposters, bidding us to dilute the waters of life with impurity.  We have fallen prey to ignorance and ill attendance to prophecy and are just as guilty as the fallen or unbelieving.  Few recognize and respond to God’s heraldic predictions.

Get ready, be ready and keep your eyes skyward for the Coming of Our Great God is near.  He has patiently provided mercy awaiting our response to His calling.  This time He will come to dispense justice for our actions, inactions and wickedness.  All will see the Glory of Our Coming Lord and wish that they had headed His Prophecy, but that moment will be a late revelation.  We apparently are destined to suffer the passion of His Wrath.  Oh precious Lord let me reach those who will listen to Your Story of Glory and things that will certainly come to pass.  Let them hear Your Words and run from the judgment to come, run directly into your arms the only place of safety, mercy and strength.  Forgive my shortcomings, but hold me accountable to the work You have set before me.  I want to do Your will and lay the ground work for Kingdom Come.  Have mercy on all of us in this coming hour of need and triumph.  Let us remain true to the faith.  Praise God in the name of Jesus Christ the Redeemer of mankind.

Do you know Jesus?  Are you quick to answer that question?  What prompts rapid response, is it a desire to belong or maybe an unwillingness to exclude yourself from those “sure that they are going to heaven”?  Do you mistakenly believe you are going to wake up in the presence of God because of something you’ve done in this lifetime?  Reflecting on your life, at what point do you believe that you became eligible for eternity?  Was there a collection of sacrificial events or a grand total of some philanthropic gifting which you believe purchased the price of a ticket on the journey to the hereafter?  The fact that you resort to making a list of reasons or rationalize your qualifications, unfortunately makes it transparent that you are heading to an eternity separate from the Lord.  “Man that is harsh”, you say, “how can you be sure of who is going and who isn’t”?  Because I do not possess omniscience I cannot tell you who will be there, but I am “REQUIRED” to tell you the truth about the steps to salvation and none of them include anything that you have done to earn heaven.

Get a bible and look at John 3:16 (arguably the most quoted passage in the Bible) and then take some time to see exactly what it says about eternity or eternal life.  Better yet take a look at John 3:16-19 to see that it gives specific guidelines of what salvation is as well as what brings voluntary damnation upon those unwilling to comply.   For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.  This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 

So I have to ask again my original question, Do you know Jesus?  Do you believe in the WORK THAT HE DID, to redeem you to God?  Do you see where this disqualifies any rationalization or argument for salvation outside of belief in Jesus?  Have you repented of your sin and asked forgiveness of Jesus for the grace bestowed upon you by His work upon the cross?  If you believe in the work of Jesus Christ have you surrendered to Him out of willingness to leave behind your sinful past, so that He may sanctify, purify and utilize You for the Good of His Kingdom?  “Wow, man you really want a lot from me don’t you”?  You must understand, I am trying to save you from a false dedication to the Christian belief.  Don’t profess you are a Christian until you know what that means.  I mean, you wouldn’t call yourself a Democrat unless you knew what that meant, right?  The Lord wants us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.  What does that mean to you?  That we should take it for granted that because we said a simple prayer on one vulnerable day of our lives that this somehow freed you from the obligations of coming to God in humility, trying to understand the gift you were given?  Don’t take this thing lightly, if you are not 100% sure that you are saved, don’t you think it would make sense to seek that surety?

And those of you who have hijacked the Word of God to provide you fame, fortune or standing in the World’s Eyes as you dispense wisdom to the hungry masses.  For shame.  The Word of God is complete, perfect, final and more than adequate to say what must be said to provide the living water to a thirsty world.  In fact, the Lord chose us when He could have as easily made the trees, rocks and wind speak the Gospel.  His Word was not meant to be used to gain any person glory, but to bring that Glory to HIS NAME ALONE.  Those of you who have been given the talent, education, speaking or writing gifts to reach a greater segment of the population, you have a greater challenge to make sure that your own motivations are kept in check when delivering HIS MESSAGE.  It makes me shutter when I think of myself looking in those eyes of fire answering for my actions taken on His behalf.  It is just like the reverent fear you should have when riding a motorcycle, it is often said, “if you aren’t a bit afraid, then you shouldn’t ride”.  Even more so with dispensation of God’s Grace through preaching, teaching and encouragement.

Father, You are the Righteous One.  My works are like filthy rags when done in and of my own authority and accord.  Please let me do those tasks for which You alone have designed and empowered me.  Let me turn away from personal benefit that comes in compensation for delivering the Gospel.  Let me totally understand and discern the difference between an unmuzzled oxen put to plow and a servant who has become manipulative and been led astray by greed or lack of wisdom.  Let me approach you in advance of any work I do for the Kingdom so that I am sure of my motivations and that those intentions serve You alone.  Praise Your Holy Name King Jesus.

Lord I beseech You on behalf of my Brothers and Sisters who practice the Catholic faith.  Father, they must be worried, confused and feeling defensive over the recent assertions by the Pope that clear statements in Your Word are actually open for personal modification.  Lord I ask that You settle their hearts upon Your immutable Word and give them peace in making a decision to follow the Bible instead of this flagrant false doctrine.  Their hearts must be divided, wounded and grieving.  Father I pray that they quickly heal and turn their hearts toward You and Your inerrant Word as the only Truth.  Father I pray that the Pope repents of calling You, Jesus a liar.  The Pope’s words cannot stand if the Catholic Faith is to remain true to Jesus.

Father silence this false teacher so that others are not led astray.  Lord I see the majesty of Your plan but it saddens me to see this as the beginning of the great apostasy.  Just as when evolution provided an alternate, albeit false, explanation for creation, this false teaching will lead unbelievers and the wicked in droves to the “all inclusive”, totally tolerant Catholic Misinformation society.  They have joined the likes of Oprah in declaring the lukewarm doctrine that there are many roads leading to God.  Emphatically, Categorically False.

This points clearly to prophecy and verifies again Your Word as truth as You told of these things before they have come to pass.  I look to the Heaven’s Lord for Your Return must now be near.  Father allow us to take peace in the fact that we have been shown the revelation of what must surely come to pass.  I know that Your Love for true believers will transcend this wickedness perpetrated by Catholic Leadership.  May they find a home within a body of true Bible believing Christians so that they may be welcomed in Spirit and Truth.

Lord this world teeters.  Sin has grown to enormous proportion.  It gets tougher each day to see the good in this world.  We perpetrate violence, adultery and malfeasance daily.  The corruption in our ruling bodies a cancer which has been too long for surgery.  We have been praying for a leader to show us the way out of this contortion we have created.  The only earthly leader we will get is named wickedness, delusion and malignancy.  The stage is nearly set for his emergence and subsequent torment of mankind.  How long will you allow this to go on Father.  Release us from this world which has outlasted its usefulness.  Silence the mockers and please take Your Rightful Throne, Lord.

We will wait Father, for as we wait we can be assured that You still have work yet for us to do.  Lead us to those tasks and fill us with Your Spirit to do what must be done for Your Glory.  I know that You will cut Your Wrath short or none of us would make it to the finish.  Thank You for Your Mercy Grace and Truth.  Jesus, the ONLY Door to God, The Good Shepherd, The Alpha, The Omega, The First, The Last, The Redeemer of Mankind and Ruler of All.  Amen and Amen.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/13/egypt-military-helicopters-hit-sinai-militants/?intcmp=obinsite  Egypt is forced to attack Muslim Extremists in the Sinai Peninsula, just outside of Israel’s Border.  Why won’t our leaders discuss this in their strategic planning briefings to the public?  A man cannot make the right decisions for his family, church, business and community without first knowing the entire truth.  What does this portend and how does the Bible address this topic?  Seek and you shall find, Isaiah 17-19, Psalm 83, Ezekiel, many of the major/minor prophets told of these events thousands of years before they are happening.

When it is quiet, in the moment after a leader has listened to the opinions and inputs of all his leadership team, what happens next determines if wisdom is present.  Leaders who depend upon their own understanding to discern the correct way forward have already evicted wisdom from the conversation.  The smartest, wisest, most noble man in the world will always come up short with regard to determining the best path forward unless that leader first consults God seeking the proper wisdom to proceed.  You ask me who am I to put leaders to this kind of inquisition and testing?  I say to you that this questioning of my motivations demonstrates your lack of knowledge about God’s Word.

Each time that David, a man after God’s own heart got into trouble immediately followed a decision that he made without first consulting the Lord.  Look for yourself what happened to each man or woman that either chose a path in conflict with God’s directive or chose  not to consult Him.  There is no success, no freedom, no wealth, no acquittal, no release, no achievement outside of God’s Will.  Even unbelievers owe their good fortune to the Lord.  Since there is no bounty, escape or reward outside of God’s Authority, why then would I make any decision outside of consult with the Lord.  To do otherwise is placing myself in the position of authority above God.  Sure God wants us to make good decisions, but He also provides the construct under which those decisions are approached and determined.  Proverbs 2 is a recipe to wisdom and decision making and reflects the absolute commitment to consulting God before making any decision.  The man who asks God before making a move is the man who will certainly be in God’s Will at judgment day.

Look, I am no specialist in the right way to go.  I always direct men and women to the Word after we have had a conversation, because HE not me is the authority and giver of wisdom.  I may say something that makes sense or turns out to produce some manner of success or bounty in a person’s life, but I assure you that it came from the Lord through me.  There is nothing inside of me that is genuine and true but Jesus.  No idea, no wisdom, no authority, no intelligence, no prophecy and no love that I did not first receive from the Lord.  He is the center of the universe, not me.  I recommend consulting with God before any decisions are determined.  You will never go wrong if your guide is the Lord God.  Don’t calculate, consult.

Frustration is another form of paralysis.  Do not allow the enemy to suck you in with wiles designed to take up your time and energy or turn your good works to apathetic side-line-ism.  There are many of you who are reluctant to take up the cross daily because you have met with push back by those you believe would join you in your pursuit of victory.  Any thing worth doing is going to take the Power of Christ through the Holy Spirit in its achievement.

How clever God’s enemy.  First he whispers that we can get the job done when we cannot.  Then when we embark on the fools errand, he whispers that we are insufficient to the task or that we are labeled failures for even trying.  Then when we cannot get others to join us in our commitment to achieve great things, he whispers that we should chastise them for their lack of faith and action.  Then when we are isolated in our frustration, the enemy whispers that we should blame God for the fact that we are ineffectual.  Do you see this process as it plays out in the lives of believers everywhere?

If the works that God had designed for us to do before the beginning of time were resolvable under our own strength, power, treasure, talent and authority then we would not need to be ambassadors of Christ, we could simply ambassadors of our own good will.  Don’t allow the enemy and the flesh to convince you that you can succeed in overcoming the powers and principalities under your own abilities.  It has never been me who defeated the enemy, but Christ.  The enemy enjoys getting me into mano a mano battles that reduce me to dependence upon my own power to defeat him.

This is an effective illusion designed to send us off on a tangent path instead of relying on the Holy Spirit as our source of all wealth, whether material or spiritual.  It is easy to get frustrated at my own inabilities.  God will never let us down in that fashion.  We will overcome through our love for Christ, our testimony and the willingness to give Him the glory that He deserves by acknowledging that He has already overcome the world, AND EVERYTHING in it.

It is not under my authority, skills, will, treasure, time and blessings that anything miraculous will occur in this lifetime.  Anything that I have achieved brings the glory to me and allows unbelievers to continue disbelief by claiming that it was me that conquered this or that challenge.  God deserves all the Glory for achievements done for His Kingdom.  Therefore those achievements should reflect His power and authority.  It should be absolutely transparent and obvious that the LORD was present and that without His intervention what was achieved would never have come about.

So, don’t get lured onto the path of self-righteous frustration with your Brothers and Sisters for not joining you in your quest.  Follow God’s prompting and remember that if He has designed works for you to achieve that He will provide the words, power, authority and bodies necessary to overcoming any/all obstacles set before you.  Have the faith that if it is God’s plan that Brothers and Sisters join us in a particular campaign that it is predetermined.  We have but to set out on the journey and the others will come alongside, brought there by His prompting.  His Glory, His Power, your participation in faith.

Remember that Love overcomes.  Try using it and you will find it exponentially outperforms criticism as a tool to rouse the apathetic.  I love you my Brothers and Sisters and let me assure you that you are worthy of love, and that you are more than sufficient to any task for which the Lord designed you.

God be praised for everything that I may accidentally or intentionally achieve in this life.  Lord please never let me take one step onto a path that leads me to frustration, defeat, despair or apathy.  To You be the Glory, honor and blessings.  Jesus my King.  Thank you.

The Pope paves the wide road for unbelievers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pope-francis-god-mercy-extends-atheists-agnostics-article-1.1453538 

No longer is it a necessity for people to accept and believe in the work of the Lord Jesus Christ as the only way to God.  According to the Pope, people only need obey their conscience in a quest to reach God.  Unfortunately, the wide road leads to destruction and an eternity separated from God.  How can the supreme pontiff of the Catholic faith be so utterly mistaken about the Gospel to so foolishly pronounce this false doctrine?  I think those of us who understand that wisdom begins with fear of Lord get it at the center of our beings.  This is false teaching, delivered by a man who heads up a church that practices rituals based in pagan history.  He is simply doing his work as the last pope of the Catholic church by leading as many astray as possible by creating a one-world religion that claims all roads lead to god.  It is something that is necessary to setting the stage for the unveiling of the antichrist as the great apostasy begins.

Makes you want to run to Bible to see what it says about this doesn’t it?  Praise be to God that is exactly what the Lord intends, that all things be used for good for those who love Him and walk according to His purpose.  So keep the faith and do not be led astray by the whispers of satan the flesh telling you that this doctrinal pronouncement is correct.  It is heresy clear and simple and if you follow that path it leads no where but to the steps of Hades.  Jesus Christ is the only door to God.  No one comes to the Father but through belief and faith in Jesus.  Remember God said that even if an angel tells you about about another gospel other than the true Gospel of Jesus don’t believe him.  And that is exactly what is occurring an angel, a fallen one, satan is propagating this babble to invalidate the work of Christ and lead as many to hell with him as possible.

Praise You Lord, that in Your Grace, Mercy and Love You saw it necessary to come here and redeemed those who would be saved.  You extended that Grace to the entirety of mankind but also set the constraint that only those who believed in Jesus would be washed free of their sins and redeemed to Your Glory.  Thank you for the clear Gospel that is spoken in Spirit and in Truth for all of humanity to obey or put aside.  That choice makes it each person’s decision as to where they spend eternity.  I know that nothing is happening that is outside of Your Sovereignty, therefore I understand that this man must do what he has done in order to further Your Plan.  I do pray that as many as hear that they disobey his folly and realize that You are the Way the Truth and the Life and turn their hearts to You.  I pray that his words fall idle on the ears of our youth and that they worship You.  Praise You Lord for Your Mercy and Grace.  Jesus Name be Praised as the only Way to God.  Amen.

Why would you use eight words when one was enough?  A single note sung so clear that all who hear know that God is listening.  Does my walk make everyone talk but it really doesn’t do anything for Jesus?  Bending, standing, serving, waiting, holding, helping, having patience for those who’ve never seen it.  Did you mean it, the words you said or are you looking for a place to hide, deep inside to avoid having to stand by them?  At least they stood and fought, caring and sharing the fears, doubts and misunderstanding that led them to folly.  It is simple he said, this thing in my head, but my mouth can’t seem to explain it.  Let’s hum it again and when we get to the end we simply have to refrain it.

Children speak truth without additive.  Rain washes clear all intentions, no one stands in the mud intentionally without reason.  That is why we start out young because everything looks so big, but life is simple, you just want to please your parents and get love.  Returning to that mindset is imperative for surrender to God’s purpose for our lives.  We just have to hold on and believe, standing in the face of calamity armed with nothing but faith.  When reason abandons all, God will not change.  He is simply Truth without additive, that is why children know Him closely and hear His voice so clearly.

It is so tiring being so clever.  Trying to outsmart the house game using statistics that never give in to the visitor.  I know that when danger is discerned it is not wise to proceed.  But what about the man who plays it so safe that He forgets to breathe and smothers for his caution?  The Lord meant us for life not to make sure every box was checked and verified.  I am designed for work not for incessant boredom and that is why I am certain that I am serving my own plan.  Doing God’s work never tires or bores a man.  Lord, show me the way to become ready for the next station, the next job, tasking or battle.  My back, heart and mind are Yours forever.  Praise God with Jesus’ Name upon my lips.  Amen.

Can fishermen feel the tide, tugging, pulling, telling them that it is time to come in or go out to sea?  Why did the Lord go to these men, steeped in natural understanding, having made there living from the lake or ocean?  What unique gifts or understanding did they possess which made them the best possible choice for disbursing the Truth of the Gospel?  Is discipleship really similar to fishing, using your natural senses to “sound” the waters for bounty, testing what lay beneath the surface with some sort of spiritual understanding and mastery of practical application?  What made fishermen and shepherds the appropriate example of what it meant to be a servant of the Most High God?  Perhaps it was there attentiveness or their dedication to duty or maybe even their willingness to deal practicably with those forces seeking to limit their success.  It is not that I am confused but rather attempting to inject some questioning surrounding this subject.

These men and women understood specifically that their blessings came from God.  They had a unique understanding of the impacts of changes in climate, topography, threats both natural and man made.  They uniquely understood that a man could do everything in his power to become prosperous, effective and successful and still come up empty.  Yet they knew that personal attention to detail and work ethic were an essential part of God’s Blessings.  They knew that man could not just sit by the roadside or keep his boats in port and simply wait for the Blessings to come.  They understood that tending the flock or casting of nets is a man doing “his” part of the successful process of being Blessed by God.  They understand specifically the difference between “works” and blessing and knew how to properly balance the tasks of life with faith in Christ.  They also knew, as a farmer knows that every worker is essential to the final successes of the whole.  Knowing that the Lord chose these people specifically for their natural discernment it is also natural that the enemy would try and reduce their respect in the process of human health.  That is why it is a lowly thing now to be shepherd, fisherman or farmer, when in fact they are blessed with a unique understanding of God’s intention.

These people also knew to test the wind for coming changes making it necessary to take action.  The tide, the wind, dangers and the lack of resources caused the to react intuitively to make changes so as to avoid calamity.  We as Christians share this discernment, as we have the scriptures telling us to remain vigilant, “on watch”, discerning, ready, watching, waiting, preparing for His return.  We too are to be testing the wind and the weather for changes in the tide.  Such changes are palpable now and if you are not feeling the tug of the tide upon your heart and spirit, then you should be concerned.  The storm looms just beyond the mountain and when it sweeps down the valleys it will come swiftly, not leaving time for preparation after the clouds of rain arrive.  The fall approaches, the leaves darkens and wind freshens against our skin telling that change is come.  Applying the practical and natural understanding of a fisherman, shepherd or farmer we would all be taking action right now that I do not see Christians taking.  What then are we to think if we do not see obedient hearts in the Body of Christ?

Oh, Blessed Father, awake our hearts, minds, feet and hands so that we may take necessary action to prepare for the coming storm, danger and change.  Let us sleep no longer, shatter our silence if necessary so that we may slumber no longer as there is much work to be done.  Give us a heart for preparation and attendance, to that sheep may be fed, storehouses filled and fish brought in to dry for the coming winter.  Let us collect the pure waters so that our thirst may be quenched for eternity.  Write Your Word upon our hearts so that when asked righteousness pours forth from the wellspring of our spirit.  Your Will Be Done.  Christ the King of Glory.

Isaiah 17 NIV

A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.  The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.  The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim, and royal power from Damascus; the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the Israelites,” declares the LORD Almighty.  “In that day the glory of Jacob will fade; the fat of his body will waste away.  It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain, gathering the grain in their arms—as when someone gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.  Yet some gleanings will remain, as when an olive tree is beaten, leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches, four or five on the fruitful boughs,” declares the LORD, the God of Israel.  In that day people will look to their Maker and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands, and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles and the incense altars their fingers have made.  In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.  And all will be desolation.  You have forgotten God your Savior; you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.  Therefore, though you set out the finest plants and plant imported vines, though on the day you set them out, you make them grow, and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud, yet the harvest will be as nothing in the day of disease and incurable pain.

Woe to the many nations that rage—they rage like the raging sea!  Woe to the peoples who roar—they roar like the roaring of great waters!  Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.  In the evening, sudden terror!  Before the morning, they are gone!  This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who plunder us.

Do you see the importance and current application of the Word of God delivered by Isaiah, a prophet who was known to have never been wrong?  Have we seen this occur anywhere in history where Damascus has become a ruinous heap?  Look it up, ask the historians.  Damascus is the oldest continually inhabited city of the this world and Isaiah prophecies that it will be uninhabitable.  When will this come to pass.  Has there ever been a time when chemical/biological or nuclear weapons existed in such quantity as to make such a  city ruinous?  Let us take a realistic look into the near future and we must wholeheartedly admit that we stand on the precipice of possibility.

The current saber rattling, posturing, politicking and second guessing is placing dangerously close to an episode that would leave Damascus in shambles.  God is foretelling the coming judgment against the City of Damascus and the ancient peoples of Syria for their trespasses against the Jewish Nation and consistent pillaging of the Jewish People.  All this will come about so that people will once again turn their eyes toward God, abandoning the symbols of idol worship and the power of royalty and kings.   The Lord will leave those trembling few so that they may choose to turn back to God, the rest will be lost to “sudden terror, disease and incurable pain, some tossed as chaff on the hills or tumbleweed at the coming storm.  I understand that people would want to take a positive look at the options going forward.  But those who believe that the Bible is God’s Inerrant Word must acknowledge the line upon we currently reside.  The end of Damascus nears and Egypt is in turmoil, the other part of the prophecies in the Book of Isaiah following Chapter 17.  We must prepare our hearts for what is coming and pray for the peace in Jerusalem.

God told us what must come to pass so that we might see that He stands Omnipotent, outside of time, knowing the end from the beginning.  He showed what we will see in the coming days, months, weeks and years so that we would have faith and prepare our hearts and minds for His Glorious Appearing.  I don’t know when Damascus will fall, but I know that it will.  I don’t know when Egypt will be conquered by Israel, but it will. Praise be to Jesus Christ

I pray to have the mind of Christ.  That I see this world not as it is but as it should be.  My faith grows when I think of how the Lord would deal with these seemingly insurmountable issues.  He would be thoughtful, seeking quiet counsel in Spirit and prayer, taking time to be by himself upon the mountain, hill or garden.  He would seek the right timing at which to present the right words to address the exact thinking or actions needing adjustment.  He would patiently wait until others brought forth the delusion, misunderstanding, accusation, wrong or wicked practices.  Then He would speak clearly in Truth, Love and Authority proclaiming the correct way to think, believe and act.  In the process He may have unleashed a miracle by multiplying scarce resources or correcting deformity to bring Glory and Honor to God.  He feared nothing for He could see beyond time and was quiet, comfortable and assured in the knowledge of what would come to pass, even the victory which included His loss of life.  I cannot see defeat if God promised to use all that I have done to the Good of His Will.  There is no defeat in that.

Where does my talent end?  What is that thing which is beyond my ability, gift, strength or treasure?  That is the thing I seek to do, because it guarantees concentration upon God and not upon me.  Yes it may require or be defined as miracle which will invariably grasp the worship of those who pursue baubles, gold and supernatural occurrence, but there will be others who see and honor God through His use of me as conduit for His Will.  How many people could I feed if residing in the mind of Christ?  How many sick may I heal, wars may I avert or crops may I water?  What is beyond me steeped in the mind, authority and Spirit of the Lord Jesus, Nothing?  That is where my prayer must begin, driven by His authority, His desire, His Will, His Power, His Mercy, Grace and Truth.  I am simply the vessel for the Word and Water of God.

Where will this take me, I do not know?  It produces a sensibility that seems to be a combination of emotion, peace, knowledge and faith.  A place I have never been before in my walk.  I do not know the circumstances, but I do know what this walk will produce, Glory to God, Revelation of His Name.  Father, I may not know the entire story, but I do not need to know.  I am comfortable in that walking for You will produce such results beyond my own capacities and undoubtedly lead hearts to You through belief in Christ.  Show me those things I am not currently aware of, let me be at the right place and time to produce those results You seek by acting as an ambassador of Your Good Will.  Give me peace that surpasses worldly understanding so that they may see glimpses of You through my action.  Let me pray for those things which are beyond me, so that they cannot deny Your name.  To You be all the Glory, honor and praise, my King.  In Jesus’ Name.