March 29, 2023

PRAYER JOURNEY
Day Thirty-six

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

In that soon coming Day of the Lord…Men’s hearts will be failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the Earth: for the powers of Heaven shall be shaken.   When God spoke from Mount Sinai His voice shook the Earth, but now He makes another promise: “Once again I will shake not only the Earth but the heavens also.”  This means that the things on Earth will be shaken, so that only eternal things will remain.  When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh. [Heb 12:26-27; Luke 21:26, 28]

The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.  The heavens will  disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire.  In that day, the Earth will burn as an oven.  Everything in the physical, material realm will be burned up…EVERYTHING… nothing will remain. 

• All the cruise ships and private mega-yachts, mansions, &  private jets of the wealthy will be burned up;
• All the ski resorts, vacation resorts, and private beach houses will be burned up;
• All the sports complexes…Hockey Arenas, Football Stadiums, Basketball Arenas, Baseball Diamonds, golf courses…will be burned up;
• All the Night Clubs, Prostitution Houses, Porn Shops, and Gambling Establishments will be burned up;
• All the Television Sets, cell phones, and Internet Access will be burned up;
• Everything this world has to offer that attracts the hearts of Man and that they give their affections to…everything that competes with our attraction to God and our affections for Him…will be burned up. 

Since everything on the Earth will be destroyed in this way, you ought to live a holy and godly life as you look forward to the coming Day of the Lord!  Everyone who has this hope purifies himself, just as He is pure.  So, beloved, since you are expecting these things to happen, be eager to be found by Him at His coming living a pure and blameless life, and at peace…in serene confidence, free from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts. 

Beloved child of God!  My Divine Son Jesus came into this world as the Sacrificial Lamb of God; He laid aside His Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility. 
My Divine Son Jesus clearly stated, “I am able to do nothing independently, of My Own accord, but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders.  You prepared a body for Me; Here I am, I have come…it is written about Me in the scroll.  I desire to do Your will, O My God; Your Law is within My heart.  I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose, but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.  I only do what My Father shows Me to do; I only speak the words My Father gives Me to speak.  I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do.  My food is to do the will of My Father Who sent Me, and to carry His work to completion.” 

Brethren…Why ever are we so arrogant, haughty, and proud to think I don’t need to live my life this way as well, when the Son of God lived His life on Earth in the character of a human nature in this manner?  My time on this Earth…that specific allotment of time…was given to me, NOT TO DO MY WILL, BUT TO DO YOUR WILL, Father.  
Therefore, the allotment of time given me belongs to You, Father, and not to me…it is sacred, and has eternal value and eternal worth.  My allotment of time is precious, it is priceless.  I dare not spend it on frivolous things… things that have no eternal value nor eternal worth.  Forbid it, Father, that I should ever squander my time in that way…for in whatever way I spend each and every hour of my time…that time is gone forever.  It can never be redeemed, never replaced, never replenished.  May I never be flippantly unaware of how I am spending each hour of my time, so that I can stand before You face to Face without shame and without embarrassment as I give You an account of how I spent it.

My beloved child…you will know where your heart is by where you spend the allotment of time I have given you, a specific allotment of time which I had determined in eternity past.  Stand face to face before Me, and give Me an account of how you spent your time during the past week.  Are you able to tell Me…without any embarrassment and without any shame?  Were there things you spent your time engaged in to satisfy your own self-interests and self life?  Whatever and everything you spent your time on…what was the reason why you did so?  Tell Me everything you spent your time on, and why you did so.  Bare your heart before Me…then you will know whether you are a true disciple of Christ My Son.  Do you have the same mind-set, the same heart-set?  Your priority in life is to wait upon God…as My Divine Son Jesus Himself did, clearly stating, I am able to do nothing independently, of My Own accord, but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders.  Here I am, I have come…it is written about Me in the scroll.  I desire to do Your will, O My God; Your Law is within My heart.  I have come down from Heaven, not to do My will but to do the will of Him Who sent Me.  

My precious child, have you never considered this?  My Divine Son Jesus came into this world as the Sacrificial Lamb of God; He laid aside His Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility.  Have you been so slow to understand and to fully embrace this?  My Divine Son Jesus set an example for you, that you would follow in His footsteps.  

Beloved child…your new life is hidden now with My Divine Son Jesus in Me.  So continually set your heart upon the rich eternal treasures that are above, in the Heavenly realms, where Christ Jesus My Son is seated at My right hand.  Continually set your heart, mind, and thoughts on the things of Heaven and the spiritual realm, not on the things of Earth and the physical realm. 

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

Here is a concise summary overview of God’s purpose and intention in bringing you into existence, as He Himself has clearly set forth in Scripture, expressed clearly and accurately in the Westminster Shorter Catechism: The chief end of Man is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever. 

• I made you for Myself, in My Own image and in My Own likeness, Divinely crafted with the capabilities and capacity to be joined together with the Triune God in a Sacred Covenant relationship…a living union of oneness…the very crown jewels of My Creation, and that, as a mirror of the Almighty, you would reflect My Glory to the Created Universe.
• I purchased you, by Myself and for Myself, with the precious and priceless Blood of My Divine Son Jesus, that you would declare My praises…the praises of the One Who called you out of darkness into My marvelous light.
• I made you to be a kingdom of priests, a holy nation, consecrated and set apart to the worship of God…consecrated and set apart to worship Me!

Brethren…God’s high calling for His royal children is hereby clearly set forth:
The story of my entire every day life…every thought I think, every word I speak, every thing I do…must be WORSHIP in Your eyes.  WORSHIP is not a part of my life; WORSHIP IS my life.  My only true worship is a life wholeheartedly embracing: NOT MY WILL in anything; BUT THY WILL BE DONE in everything…the life of a bond-slave, wholly surrendered unto God, wholly given for the blessing and salvation of souls…solely, only, and always surrendered unto God.   

My life…my heart, my soul, every fiber of my being…consecrated and set apart to the WORSHIP of God is what glorifies God and fulfills the chief end of Man…which is to glorify God and to enjoy abiding in the Holy of Holies…in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father… continually and unceasingly even now all the days of my life on this Earth, and then throughout the endless unfolding ages of all eternity. 
Brethren…this is why my God brought me into existence; there is nothing else.  Period.

Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22]  Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [PS 91:1]  Hallelujah! 

Are you prepared to go into the Garden that Jesus went to that night of His betrayal, and to walk along the path He was called to walk in demonstration of His love for the Father?  Our Lord Jesus asks of me…of each one of us…“Do you love Me with an agape love?”  Have you set your heart to walk along the path of obedience and suffering, self-sacrifice and self-denial, death to sin and death to self?  It is the path Jesus walked and the way which He Personally dedicated for me…a new and living way to God, through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of the flesh…my sin-enslaved human nature.  It is the veil of my flesh that is an impenetrable curtain prohibiting entrance into the Presence of God in the Holy of Holies; it must be rent in two from top to bottom for me to enter in and abide there.    

It is not humanly possible to walk that path; only the Holy Spirit can set me free to walk that path, in His Power and in reliance upon His strength.  I can’t do it apart from Him.  Even so…If only I would just give Him free reign over the living-out of my every day life, He will Personally live out this life of Christ Jesus in me to also walk that same path.  And He will Personally work out the death of Jesus in me…death to sin and death to self…conforming me ever more deeply into the likeness of His death, in order that I may thereby attain, more and more, to the power of His Resurrection life out from the dead…the power to walk through each and every day as more than a conqueror and with overwhelming victory.  It is the ONLY path that leads up to the Gate that opens into the Heavenly Sanctuary and into the Holy of Holies…into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of my Father’s unclouded Presence.  The Gate bears on its header the inscription “THY WILL BE DONE.”   No one can walk through that Gate without first checking his/her own will there with the gatekeeper in absolute and unconditional surrender.

Beloved child of God…The power of My enabling grace can not…can never…be manifested and exercised in you by your sin-enslaved human nature.  Only My Holy Spirit can make My enabling grace effective in you.  Don’t you understand?  It is My work, not your work; your place is to cooperate and to respond. [Father God…1 Cor 12:6-11; Day 217]
Your Divine Son Jesus explained to the Samaritan woman at the well, “The time is coming, and is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.” [John 4:23]  True worshipers such as You seek, Father, will worship You in Spirit and Truth.  The only act of true worship is embracing in my heart, and manifesting continually and unceasingly in living out my every day life: NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL BE DONE…IN EVERYTHING.  And how do I manifest this true worship in living out my life?  By living out my every day life in a manner that bears witness for all to see to the truth of what I claim to believe…that in everything my life literally expresses an unwavering child-like trust in You, an unreserved child-like dependence upon you, and an unquestioning child-like obedience to do Your will and accept Your will.  The confirmation of Your Holy Spirit within me will be my unruffled child-like rest in You, and an unclouded child-like carefree joy in Your Presence.

PRAYER JOURNEY
Day Thirty-six

You live a life of trust not by trying to do what I show you to do, but by cooperating with My enabling grace to do so.  You are not trying by your own efforts and in your own strength, you are cooperating…with My strength; with My wisdom, knowledge, understanding; with My capabilities and capacities.  It is My work, not yours. [Father God…Zech 4:6; Isa 11:2-4; Day 219] 

Your Divine Son Jesus explained to the Samaritan woman at the well, “The time is coming, and is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.” [John 4:23]  True worshipers such as You seek, Father, will worship You in Spirit and Truth.  The only act of true worship is embracing in my heart, and manifesting continually and unceasingly in living out my every day life: NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL BE DONE…IN EVERYTHING.  And how do I manifest this true worship in living out my life?  By living out my every day life in a manner that bears witness for all to see to the truth of what I claim to believe…that in everything my life literally expresses an unwavering child-like trust in You, an unreserved child-like dependence upon you, and an unquestioning child-like obedience to do Your will and accept Your will.  The confirmation of Your Holy Spirit within me will be my unruffled child-like rest in You, and an unclouded child-like carefree joy in Your Presence.

E] ETERNAL PROVISION: GIFT OF MY HOLY SPIRIT
      MINISTERING SPIRIT

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

Just as the angels are ministering spirits, are we not called to participate along with them as ministering spirits, sent by the Holy Spirit to serve those who are inheriting salvation?  Obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit always brings the blessings of God.  And prayer, in accordance with God’s will, moves the hand of God.  Following are several testimonies to illustrate how we are called at the Spirit’s Own discretion to participate with Him in His work of salvation in particular souls and in the way He leads us.

DIVINE MISSION
As we were leaving the prison that Sunday morning after conducting a church service for the inmates there, I felt deeply impressed to have my brothers in the Lord pray for my visit to the hospital to see my boss.  He was not doing well, was on a respirator, and had been suffering from various health issues over the past several years.  His god was money, and I was asking specifically that the Lord would arrange for me to be alone there with him, so I would have the opportunity to present the Gospel of salvation to him.  I was at the hospital quite often; I was his assistant… Assistant to the President…but his hospital room was always filled with people!  I needed to be alone with him…free of distractions!  That was my prayer.  The Lord had told me many years prior, while interceding for him, “Your boss will be saved.” [that is a literal quote!]

My spiritual journey to that hospital began 14 years earlier, when the Lord miraculously placed me as Comptroller in Arthur’s privately-held family-owned Corporation.  There I was…working in Brooklyn, a location where I had said I would NEVER work!  Even so, I knew it was the Lord Who had placed me there!  The first few months were not the greatest.  On a number of occasions, Arthur would instruct me to do something unethical that I had to respond to by saying, “As a Christian, I can’t do that.”  He would get absolutely livid, and angrily tell me, “You won’t go to Hell because you do that!”  I replied, “I know; but I still can’t do it.”  After a while, my boss learned not to ask me to do those questionable things; he would ask someone else!

As time went on, I became CFO of the Company.  Then one day my boss called me into his glass-enclosed office and went into a ballistic tirade against me for the next 20 minutes over something I had or hadn’t done [I can’t even remember what it was]…his face beet-red with anger!  Finally, reaching the pinnacle of his livid ranting, he was determined to lay upon me what he considered the crowning insult: Furthermore…you are only a clerk, and not even a good clerk; the only reason you are here…THE ONLY REASON…is because I trust you!  Well…I was hardly able to contain myself; I could have done cartwheels!  What he meant to be the crowning insult was for me the highest compliment a Christian could possibly receive!  I didn’t realize it at the time…but that would prove to be the reason why he would listen to, and accept, what I had to say to him on his death-bed about the gift of salvation through Christ Jesus!  He could trust me!

As the years rolled by, I became CEO of the Company as well, and Assistant to the President.  I knew the Lord had Personally placed me in this  Company, and so I prayed often for Arthur’s salvation.  It was during one of those evenings while in prayer that the Lord assured me, “Your boss will be saved.”  His god was money…and he had a very big god.  And so the Spirit led me to pray specifically along these lines: Lord…in Your mercy, strip away from him everything he leans on for support, everything he counts on for support, until he has nothing left to turn to but to You.  What good would it be if he were to go through the balance of his life with a sense of peace and comfort, a sense of well-being, and then, in the end, lose his soul?  What good would it be even if he were to gain the whole world, but then lose his soul?  That is exactly what the Lord did in answer to the manner of prayer the Spirit had led me to pray.  The Lord literally stripped away Arthur’s health, so that he continually had health issues, and was in and out of the hospital often over a period of years.  This work of the Lord in answer to my very specific, Spirit-led prayer was confirmed to me one day when Arthur lamented, “What good is all my money if I don’t have my health?” His great wealth was completely negated, rendered useless and of no value to him!

Finally…on Sunday February 8, 1998 as I left the prison, and my brothers had prayed for my visit, I was on my way to the hospital.  I walked into Arthur’s room…and, for the first time, there were no visitors there!  There was just 1 other person in the room…a nurse!  Even better…I soon realized in conversation that she was a born-again believer!  The Lord had wonderfully answered our prayer; I was alone with Arthur!  I began to talk with him…praying in my heart for the Holy Spirit to open a door for me to present the Gospel of salvation, and patiently waiting.  When He did open that door…I could sense the anointing of the Spirit upon me, just presenting the thoughts He gave me to present and speaking the words He gave me to speak concerning sin, repentance, and the Blood of Jesus. As I was speaking, in my mind I was commenting to the Lord, “Whoa, Lord; this is not me…this is You!”  Arthur acknowledged his belief, and his desire to follow me in prayer to confess his sins, ask for forgiveness, and make a solemn vow before God to give himself to be the bride of Christ, promising to honor and obey Him as both Lord over his life and Savior of his soul. Arthur passed on to his eternal rest with the Lord just four days later…on Thursday, February 12th…as a child of the Most High God!

I don’t know whether in the depths of your heart you really believe there is a God in Heaven Who sends us out as His ministering spirit, but this I do know…my boss’ god was money, but the Lord neutralized his god and made it to be of no value.  He placed me in Arthur’s Company, commissioned me and prepared me to be His ministering spirit, for the purpose that 14 years later I would be there to present the One True Living God to a soul whom the Lord foreknew would be inheriting salvation just four days before his death!  Hallelujah!

DIVINE INTERVENTION
If ever there was a person who was the perfect poster-child picture of arrogant, haughty, proud, and in the face of God…that was this person whom I grew up with.

My prayer earnestly continued for my unsaved sister’s salvation over the years, seemingly with no effect.  Then one morning…in the early hours of the morning well before dawn…I received a phone call from my sister.  She said, “I just wanted to say good-bye.”  I wondered why she would call me to tell me that…so I replied, “Oh…are you going on a trip?”  She said, “No…I just took a whole bottle of pills.”  “Oh Lord!,” I said to myself… “Please don’t let her die, and be ushered into Hell!”  I managed to get off the phone with her, and immediately called her husband, my brother-in-law.  That he answered his cell phone at such an early hour of the morning was a miracle in itself!  I quickly explained what had just taken place, and he was able to contact ER, who rushed her to the hospital.

After her recovery, my sister began calling me frequently, and I would talk to her about the God Who loved her, and about Christ Jesus.  I lived in Brooklyn, and she in Connecticut…but I would visit often to spend time together with her, to walk the beach and talk about relationship with Jesus…Who He is, and Who He desired to be for her.  Several months of this new relationship as confidant for my sister went by, and then one day, during one of our frequent telephone conversations, she asked, “You know that prayer meeting you attend on Tuesday nights at the Brooklyn Tabernacle?  Do you think I can go with you next Tuesday?”  After I picked myself up off the floor in stunned surprise!…I responded, “Sure!  You can meet me there at the church, and we can go in together.  The meeting starts at 7 PM, but you should plan to be there around 6 PM, or we probably won’t get a seat.  There are four thousand people who attend these Tuesday night prayer meetings!”

I gave my sister detailed directions to the church from her home in Connecticut…at least an hour and a half trip.  The following Tuesday I arrived at the Brooklyn Tabernacle early and stood outside praying for her, and to maintain cell phone contact [Year 2001 technology] should she need assistance with the directions.  The last contact I had was that she was lost…she didn’t know where she was; then we lost contact completely because of the interference of the high buildings.  I began praying earnestly for my sister: “Lord, my sister is out there somewhere, and she is lost!  Satan is trying to keep her from getting here!  Please, Lord…You have got to intervene on her behalf!”  I was fervently crying out to the Lord in intense prayer…when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, I was startled by the voice of the Lord saying, “Your sister will be saved in this meeting.”  That is a quote!  The Lord’s voice was not audible, but was as clear inside me as if two friends were speaking together face to face!

It was now 7 PM, and I could hear the worship and praise songs that always opened the prayer meeting.  7:20…and my sister is still not here! The worship and praise songs continued…which was unusual; they normally go on for just about 20 minutes.  7:35…I see my sister walking toward the church from a parking lot!  We went into the church together…and the worship and praise songs were still continuing!  We walked into the Sanctuary with four thousand people immersed in worship…standing with their hands raised in adoration and singing praise songs!  My sister was stunned…completely bewildered, saying, “I never saw so many people…worshiping God!”  An usher somehow found two seats for us in the balcony, as the singing continued!  My sister repeated again her bewilderment.  The pastor then called on the people, “Whoever would just like to come down to the altar to continue in love and adoration of the Lord…just come.”  The aisles filled with people walking down to the altar!  I went, hoping my sister would follow; she did.  We continued singing worship and praise in front of the altar and in the aisles.  Finally, we all were ushered back to our seats for the remainder of the prayer meeting. When we were dismissed for the evening…it was now 9 PM…I walked my sister back to her car in the public parking lot.  She was still bewildered and in awe of all she had just witnessed…and said again, “I never saw so many people…worshiping God!”

We continued to stay in touch, by phone and visits.  Four months later, in one of our telephone conversations, she said, “Do you remember that prayer meeting I went to with you?”  I replied, “Yes.”  She continued, still in awe, describing that evening, “I couldn’t believe what I saw there…so many people…worshiping God!”  Then she added, “…And that is the reason why I am a Christian today!”

I stood in amazement before the Lord, deeply thankful.  He faithfully honored my prayer for my sister’s salvation.  He literally stripped away from her everything she counted on for support as I had requested in prayer, until there literally was nothing left for her to turn to but to Him.  He brought her to the point of suicide, and then…after all those years my sister had considered me to be her enemy, whom she went out of her way to be vindictive toward at every opportunity…made me to become her confidant…the one whom she would turn to for support!  And then finally…He just wanted me to know that He was faithful to what He spoke to me that evening as I waited for my sister in front of the church…“Your sister will be saved in this meeting.”  That is what literally took place!  There was no altar call for salvation…my sister had simply, and quietly, in the depths of her soul, given her heart to the Lord in that meeting!  Hallelujah! That was 16 years ago [from the date of this posting]…and today, my sister continues to be an on-fire Christian!

DIVINE PROMPTING
When I was at my log cabin in Upstate New York over the weekends, there was a little country church I attended on Sunday’s, and had gotten to fellowship with a sweet Spirit-filled sister who also attended.  We were kind of “kindred spirits.”  During one Sunday service, when the pastor was asking for prayer requests, she stood up and lamented about how no one ever came to visit her unsaved husband Al, who was also suffering with Crohn’s disease.  I felt the Spirit of God impressing me to become involved. My first visit with Al and Dolores went well, and in subsequent visits I got to know Al better and we became friends; he looked forward to my visits. It became very clear, though, that he did not want to talk about Jesus, or God.

Winter came, and I wasn’t able to travel to the cabin because of the heavy snows.  I had a Billy Graham Devotional book that I was following, and one day the Holy Spirit prompted me as follows: Every day, make a copy of the Devotional for that day, put it in an envelope [by itself, with nothing else], and mail it to Al.  Each day, every day, all seven days of the week…mail an envelope to Al.  It seemed like such an unlikely, innocuous thing to do…but I replied, “Well…OK, Lord; I will do that.”  For a number of weeks, Dolores told me by phone, Al would get these envelopes, open them, and without reading the devotional just angrily crumple it up and furiously hurl it down onto the floor!  Then quite suddenly one day, after several weeks, he opened the envelope and for the first time read the devotional…and then began reading them each day, even several times during the day.  This pattern continued over a number of weeks.  Dolores said that he began to look forward to getting the mail every day, and would get upset with the Post Office if there was no envelope for that day!  [Of course, he would then get two envelopes the following day].  I never did get to see Al again; he ended up in the hospital, and a short time later passed away.  But Dolores told me she was eternally grateful for how the Lord used those devotionals to open Al’s heart, and he accepted the Lord with the pastor of that little country church on one of his visits!  Hallelujah!

Whoever would have thought that the Lord’s prompting to do such an unlikely, seemingly inconsequential thing would be the very vehicle God would use to draw a soul into eternal salvation through a saving relationship with His Divine Son Jesus!  Unquestioning child-like obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit does indeed bring the blessings of God!
I don’t know whether in the depths of your heart you really believe there is a God in Heaven Who seeks to use us as His vessels to save the lost, but this I do know…Al was dead in his trespasses and sins, but the Spirit of God knew what would draw him into a saving relationship with Christ Jesus, and He knew that I would follow His leading to participate with Him in that work.  Mine was the blessing of being used as a ministering spirit, sent to serve those who are inheriting salvation!

DIVINE MERCY
Friday, 10 AM…the phone in my office in Brooklyn, New York, was ringing. It was my mother in Florida…telling me that my father was admitted to the hospital the day before, is on a respirator and kidney dialysis for his one remaining kidney…and the doctors want to remove him from life support because the prognosis is terminal!  All I could think to cry out in panic was, “NO!…don’t let them do that; I am on my way down!”  I knew if they did, my unsaved father would be ushered into Hell!

The date was May 6, 1994.  I had been praying for my father since the day I was born-again on October 17, 1981.  We had been raised Catholic, but my father never wanted to talk about God.  He was especially incensed when I told him, shortly after my salvation, that I had begun tithing; he was ballistic because I was already struggling financially.
I was talking with the cab driver on the way to the airport…it was only 11 AM…telling him my father was in the hospital in Florida, that they wanted to remove him from life support, and I needed to get down there before they did that.  He asked me, “What airline?”  I replied, “I don’t have a  ticket.”  He exclaimed in disbelief, “There is no way you are going to get on a plane…especially to Florida!  This is Mother’s Day weekend!”

I entered the terminal, and got on a really l-o-n-g line to a ticket agent.  All the while, I was just crying out to God, “Please make a way for me to get on a plane!  Please don’t let my father pass away before I can get there!  Please give me just one more opportunity to present Your Gospel of salvation to my father!”  I just continued to pour out my heart to God as I waited what seemed to be forever on that line!  Finally…I was in front of the ticket agent, and in desperation I just poured out my heart to her concerning my father being in the hospital on his death-bed, and my urgent need to get to Florida.  She listened patiently, and then replied, “You’re in luck; I have 1 ticket left.”  I boarded the plane just thanking and praising the Lord for providing that ticket for me, and continued to cry out to Him the entire trip, “Please don’t let my father pass away before I can get there!  Please give me just one more opportunity to present Your Gospel of salvation to my father!”

The cab driver pulled up at the hospital entrance in Palm Beach Gardens and I hurried to the area where my father’s room was located.  I saw my mother with my sister, several friends, and several doctor’s huddled together in conference.  When I walked into the midst of that conference, they were again strongly recommending that my father be removed from life support…to which I emphatically proclaimed, “We are NOT doing that! No way!”  The conference over for the time being, and we all decided to go to my father’s room.  There was no way I was going to be able to talk to him about the Lord…especially with my unsaved [at that time] sister present.  I began pleading with God in my heart to make a way for me to be alone with my father, with no one else present.  Shortly, we all decided to leave the hospital to have dinner, and then return.  As we walked toward the hospital exit, I kind of lingered behind…and then was prompted by the Spirit to just turn around and go back to my father’s room.

Finally…I was alone with my father!  I took hold of his hand and began to talk to him; he could hear, and understand, what I was saying…and since he could not talk, he would respond when asked by squeezing my hand. The Spirit of God was upon me…I could sense it…and I just presented the thoughts He gave me to present, and spoke the words He gave me to speak…concerning sin and repentance and acceptance of Who Jesus was…the Divine Son in the Triune God, the Lamb of God Who came into this world to become the One only all-sufficient atoning sacrifice that brought forgiveness for his [my father’s] sins and restored his relationship with God. I asked if he would like to receive Jesus as Lord of his life and Savior of his soul.  As my father squeezed my hand to say “yes,” I led him in a prayer and he accepted Christ as Lord and Savior.  Hallelujah!  I made arrangements with the Hospital to stay with my father in his room that night.  Every time he awakened throughout the night, I was there to take hold of his hand to comfort him.  In the morning, as I was preparing to leave, my father’s countenance was radiant; I knew he had truly accepted the Lord!  That was a confirmation of the Spirit!  My father went home to be with the Lord two weeks later, on May 26th.  But it no longer mattered! Hallelujah!  Surely, I will enter Your gates with thanksgiving, and come into Your courts with praise…singing songs, hymns, and spiritual songs, and making melody in my heart to You, Lord!

I don’t know whether in the depths of your heart you really believe there is a God in Heaven Who is not willing that any should perish without having been given ample opportunities for salvation, but this I do know…my father was dead in his trespasses and sins, but the Lord in His Omniscience knew my father on his death-bed would accept that invitation to accept Jesus.  He therefore Personally intervened to stay the hand of death, and wonderfully opened up the way for that one more opportunity for me to be able to get to Florida and present the Gospel of salvation to my father! Mine was the blessing of being used as a ministering spirit, sent to serve those who are inheriting salvation!
My soul, wait thou only upon God!  

40 DAY PRAYER JOURNEY

What is it that you are asking the Lord to do for you during this 40 day Prayer Journey?  Brethren…the specific blessing you are praying for is REVIVAL.

Personal revival.  Revival begins in one’s own heart.  The prayer journey is a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me:

• Longing for God…an ever deeper, more intimate, personal  relationship with Him.
• Hunger and thirst for personal holiness in my heart, manifested in living out my everyday life.
• Seeking to keep on being continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

This is the entire focus for the prayer journey over these forty days.  It is intensely personal in nature, a heart-cry to God to touch my life by His Spirit, and work a deep change in me.  You may have this blessed assurance: you will never be the same again!

The hour in worship and prayer each day is not a time for intercession for family members, friends, co-workers, or church family.  Do that at another time.  If you get lost in intercession for others during this hour of prayer, you will have lost the reason for, and purpose of, this Prayer Journey.  My heart longs to be inflamed with yearning for God alone…to pour out my soul, my life, my all for Him!

PRAYER JOURNEY
February 22 through April 2

Preparation: Following is an example of a format for the daily hour of prayer during the Prayer Journey, to provide guidance on how a participant might effectively approach it.  The prayer journey is so intensely  personal, however, that within this framework each individual will need to give the Holy Spirit free reign to lead and guide you in the way He alone knows is best for you.

SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

Heart preparation: Longing For God [link] and 
My House Shall Be Called A House of Prayer Video:
      https://vimeo.com/132887856/
Link: Everything marked [link] go to:
https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/prayer-journey/

A]        15 min            Worship and Praise: [Ps 100]

• First, before all else: Begin with a Worship & Praise song [link]
• Worship His Majesty [link]
• Worship Scriptures: Psalms; other Scriptures.

B]        30 min            Personal Holiness: [Mt 5:6, 8; Heb 12:14]

• Purity and holiness [2 Cor 7:1; Mt 5:48]; Purity [link]
• Confession of sin and repentance: [1 John 1:9]; Repentance [link]
       * visible physical life [Mt 5:14-16]
       * unseen physical life [Ps 139:1-12]
       * hidden life in my heart [Mt 5:21-22, 27-28]
       *Spiritual realm [Heb 3:7-4:11]
• Blood of Christ [link]
• Bride of Christ [link]
• You will find all items marked with [link] above at…
       https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/prayer-journey/

C]        15 min      Outpouring of the Holy Spirit: [Eph 5:18; Acts 1:8, 12-14]

• Power of the Holy Spirit Devotional:
       * https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/daily-devotions/
       * [scroll down to Day 183 through 244]
• Personal testimonies:
       * https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/testimonies/
• Believers responsibility to testify [Ps 35:18; Rev 12:11]
• What does the outpouring of the Holy Spirit look like?
       * [Acts 4:8-12; 6:3-6, 8-10, 13; 7:54-56; 4:1-31]
• Prayer moves the hand of God [1 John 5:14-15]
• Blessings of obedience to Holy Spirit’s leading [Acts 16:6-10]

Counseling and Encouragement:
Michael: mihkail43@comcast.net

REVIVAL

Revival begins in one’s own heart.  The 40 day prayer Journey [February 22 through April 2] is a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me.

My brothers and sisters in Christ…living in the Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is the entire focus of our life-long Journey of Faith into the Holy of Holies.  It is intensely personal in nature…a heart-cry to God to touch my life by His Spirit and work a deep change in me.  Revival begins in my own heart.  Our Journey of Faith as resident aliens on this Earth [we are citizens of Heaven] demands a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me.

• What is it that I am actually calling on God to do when I ask, “Lord, send revival?”  I am pleading with Him to pour out His Holy Spirit upon me…
  to bring a deep conviction of sin and to make me painfully and consciously aware of sin in my life.
  I am crying out for Him to impress me with a deep need for Godly sorrow, confession of sin, and repentance.
  I am asking from the depths of my soul that He create a pure heart within me…a heart that is inflamed with yearning to live out my everyday life in a purity, holiness, and righteousness of my own that comes from obedience to His Law…in every thought I think, every word I speak, in everything I do.
  I am telling Him that the deepest desire of my heart is to be holy as He is Holy; to be perfect as my Heavenly Father is perfect…just as He exhorts His children to be.
  And I am asking to be filled with His Holy Spirit…that His Spirit would become a fountain within me, welling up, flooding my soul with torrents of Living water, ever flowing, continually overflowing, spilling over, touching the lives of everyone with whom I come into contact…that the Name of Jesus would be glorified through me, with me, and in me…to the praise of His glorious grace!
• What can you fully expect God to do for you in answer to this cry of your heart?  He will make you miserable over sin in your life that you have heretofore been careless, complacent, and indifferent about, and He will make you painfully and consciously aware of sins that your heart…being deceitful and desperately wicked that it is…has hidden from you.  He will reprove His children, “Wash your hands, you sinners, and  purify your hearts, you double-minded!”  He will cause you to “Grieve, mourn and wail over your sins, and in true repentance change your laughter to tears of sorrow and your mirth to deep sadness as you grieve over your disloyalty!”  And He will lovingly urge you, “Humble yourself  before Me, and I will lift you up, encourage you, and help you!” [James 4:8-10]  He will lead you to confession of sin and true repentance, and to have the same desire for purity, holiness, and righteousness in your life that He desires for all His children: “As the One Who called you is Holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.  For  it is  written, ‘You shall  be holy, for I am Holy;’” and, “Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” [1 Peter 1:15-16; Mt 5:48]  He will grant you the desire of your heart for purity, holiness, and righteousness, because Christ Jesus assured you: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” [Mt 5:6]  He has assured me that my longing will be completely satisfied, and I will be filled up to the measure of all the fullness of God…to the richest measure of His unclouded Presence, a soul wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!
• There will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon your life, according to His command, “Keep on continually being filled with the Spirit.” [Eph 5:18]
  You will experience the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in your life…singing songs, hymns, and spiritual songs and making melody within your heart to God [v. 19].
  You will experience prayer, in accordance with God’s will, moving the hand of God,
  and you will experience the blessings that come from obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit in your life.
  God will show you His Glory; you will see it with your own eyes, and you will thereby have occasion to testify to His great Name and mighty Power!  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God! [Mt 5:8]  Hallelujah!
• Here is a link to the full presentation of Revival and the intense focus on Purity and Holiness:  https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/25/revival/
• Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22]  Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [PS 91:1]  Hallelujah!

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

Just as God raised up a remnant of just 1% of all the men Gideon had marshaled to fight against the Midianites, even so there is a holy remnant whom God is raising up for Himself in these Last Days…a Godly remnant of the 1% of His children who will not bow down, who will not shrink back, who will not compromise, who will remain steadfast and immovable in their commitment to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes.  God’s holy remnant is called to a life of self-sacrifice and self-denial.  You cannot become My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anything and everything you own.  Obedience is what characterizes the life of My child…obedience continually and unceasingly day and night.  You are called to a life of obedience.   Obedience is better than sacrifice; rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as evil as worshiping idols. [1 Sam 15:22,23]

God is calling you, and desires to anoint you, to be part of His holy remnant.  Whether you are a pastor, a Christian leader, or a member of the congregation…this is what the Lord says: To the pastors I have placed in charge of My churches concerning your congregation and each individual member, write: This is the last call.  I have wooed you so many times.  This time, I say to you, in great love…there is a cost to an anointing; this is not a light, frivolous matter.  The anointing is not cheap.  If you say in your heart, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it,” if you pay the cost of the anointing, I’ll open doors for you, I’ll speak through you, and I’ll use you again like you have never conceived.  The church and any members of the congregation embracing My call will move in the Power of My Holy Spirit, and bring great Glory to God!  The time of being pumped up is over.  I am tired of your solemn assembly’s, I’m tired of your sacrifices…they’re not from the heart.  Don’t miss what God is about to do.  The time has come; I need you, and I love you…but if you ignore this trumpet call…if you say in your heart, “We will not listen,” I am going to remove your anointing.  You’re not going to have anything to say to anybody; you’re going to be dry.  You are going into the desert…I will love you there, and I will keep you in My care, but you can’t go with Me, and I won’t go with you. 
Beloved child of God…let My Holy Spirit open your heart, and say from the depths of your being, “God, once again, use Your church; use Your child.  Now…not another time…tonight, let something in my heart respond to Your call.”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmE2nbVctE  [Note: this video opens in the middle of a worship song, which continues to the 2:15 minute mark before Pastor Wilkerson is introduced as the speaker]  

LONGING FOR GOD

Brethren…

• Is your soul longing to experience real joy, real peace, real comfort?
• Does your soul thirst for the felt-sense of the Presence of God?
• Do you long for this deeper, more intimate personal relationship with the Lord…and His promise to pour all of His Blessedness and Goodness into you, to have deep and intimate fellowship with you, to become ever more one with you?
• Well then, if anyone thirsts, let him come to Me!  Let him drink who believes in Me…ever coming, ever drinking, continually satisfied!  The Water I give will become a fountain within you, welling up, flooding your soul with torrents of Living Water…ever flowing, continually  overflowing!  No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry!  No one who believes and trusts in Me shall ever again thirst!  Your soul shall forever be satisfied, as with the richest of foods!  You will feast on the abundance of My House, and I will give you drink from My River of Delights!  Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the Waters; and you who have no money…come, buy, and eat!  The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!”  Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life!
• Following is a prayer entitled Longing For God.  You will be greatly blessed in embracing this as your own prayer!   https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/22/longing/

PERSONAL HOLINESS:

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.  Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.  
Blessed Jesus…You assured me, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” [Mt 5:6]  Blessed, You said, are those who, in living out their everyday life, hunger and thirst for deliverance from consuming addictions, and for a purity, holiness, and righteousness of their own that comes from obedience to the Law.  You assured me that my longing will be completely satisfied, and I will be filled up to the measure of all the fullness of God…to the richest measure of Your unclouded Presence, a soul wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!
I delight myself in You, Lord…and You promised to grant me the desires and secret petitions of my heart that are in agreement with Your will.  You promised that if only I would just commit my way to You and trust in You, most assuredly You will do this: You will make my righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of my cause like the noonday sun! [Psalm 37:4-6] Hallelujah!
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/23/repentance/

PURITY, HOLINESS, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

Purity, holiness, and righteousness…first of all and above all…is a matter of the heart.  It is in my hidden life within my heart…in my mind, my thoughts, my imagination…where a pure, holy, and righteous life has its roots.  The only righteousness acceptable to God is purity of heart.  Without that purity, the outward physical life makes no difference.  God’s Divine evaluation takes place in the heart.  He judges the source and origin of sin, not its manifestation or lack of manifestation.

True Christianity lies in the heart, in the purity of heart; the washing of the heart from wickedness.  Those who truly belong to God will be motivated to purity.  The deepest desire…the consuming desire…of the redeemed is for holiness, even when sin hinders the perfect fulfillment of that desire.  Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. [Rom 6:19] Intimate knowledge of and fellowship with God is reserved only for the pure in heart.  
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/24/purity/

WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY

Lord God Almighty…I WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY; Your Name is majestic in all the Earth. You are glorious in Your Majesty, majestic in Holiness, awesome in Power, You are our wonder-working God.  You do whatsoever You will with the powers of Heaven and Earth.  You call the things that are not just as though they are.  You merely speak, and it is done; the very words You speak carry within themselves the power to effect what You have spoken…immediately, completely, continually.  The mountains quake before You, and the hills melt away.  The very mountains melt like wax in Your Presence!  The Earth trembles at Your Presence…the world and all who live in it.  Heaven and Earth flee from the Almightiness of Your Presence!

Who is there like unto You, O Lord?  Who can be compared with You?  Who is Your equal?  Who was there when You formed the Heavens and all their starry hosts, and called them out, each one, by name?  Who was there when You created the Earth and all that’s on it…all things visible and invisible, all things animate and inanimate, all things, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities?  Who was there when You formed the seas and all that is in them, and set their boundaries that they might not transgress it?  Whoever, O Lord, were Your instructors, that You should acquire knowledge from them?  Whoever were Your counselors, that You should learn wisdom and understanding from them?  No…You are God, and You alone; there is none other besides You!  All other so-called gods are merely lifeless images, carved out of wood or formed out of stone or cast in metal.  But You are the One True Living God, and You live and reign forever and ever, throughout the eternal ages! 

I stand in awe of You.  I stand in awe of the Most Holy, Most High Triune God, Almighty Creator, Sovereign All-Ruler.
I stand in awe of the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the One Who always was, Who is now and ever shall be, and Who is to come back into this world once again.
I stand in awe of the Lamb of God, the Lion of Judah, the Root of David.
I stand in awe of our Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father.
I stand in awe of the Prince of Peace, Great I AM, King of kings and Lord of lords.
I stand in awe of the Faithful Witness, the First born from among the dead, the Ruler of the kings of the Earth.
I stand in awe of the One Who Loves me with an everlasting Love, Who freed me from my sins by Your Own precious and priceless Blood, Who made us to be a kingdom of priests, a holy Nation…consecrated and set apart to the worship of God.
I stand in awe of the One Whose eyes are like blazing fire, Whose feet are as burnished bronze, the One out of Whose mouth comes a sharp, double-edged sword, quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword…piercing, even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, even to the dividing asunder of the joints and marrow.
I stand in awe of the One Whose voice is Majestic and Powerful, like the thunderous roar of many rushing waters churning wildly through a narrow chasm, cascading over a great waterfall, and thundering to the depths below.

I stand in awe of the Sacrificial Lamb of God…You laid aside Your Majesty and Glory and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness and lowliness and humility.  You loved me with an everlasting love and You voluntarily lay down Your life for me, even unto death.  No one took Your life, Lord; You were free to lay it down, and free to take it up again.  You stretched out Your arms on a cross on my behalf, and declared, “IT IS FINISHED”…for all time, and for all Eternity…available to any soul who freely and wholeheartedly chooses to embrace the rich eternal blessings of the finished work of Christ on that cross at Calvary, through their solemn marriage vows to become Your eternal bride, Blessed Jesus…the bride of Christ.  

• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has forever freed me from my sins, and has guaranteed and secured my Judicial Status of Eternal Righteousness before God as an accomplished and finished fact.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Union with You, Lord…now joined inseparably together with You in an Eternal living union of oneness as the bride of Christ in a divine marriage…flesh of Your flesh and bone of Your bones.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured that the Eternal Purpose for which God created me…to be joined together with the Triune God in a Sacred Covenant relationship…stands eternally fulfilled.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Access into the Holy Of Holies, and into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…as my birth-right.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Holy Spirit was indeed given as God’s Eternal Gift to dwell in me, never to leave me, never to forsake me…to be the Power in me Who continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithful to my solemn marriage vows as the bride of Christ in our Sacred Covenant relationship.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is now made continually available to me, Whose Power in me continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithfully within the Holy Of Holies, in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father, in our Sacred Covenant relationship. 

I stand in awe of the One Who will be coming back into this world once again, no longer as the Lamb of God but this time as the Lion of Judah, arrayed in all of Your Majesty, Glory, and Power, to assume Your role and to begin Your reign on Earth as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.  In that glorious coming Day, every eye will see You, even those who pierced You, and all the peoples of the Earth will mourn because of You.  They will mourn as they now fully realize the incomprehensible magnitude of what they had done in crucifying the Lord of Glory, and the contemplation of the impending magnitude of the consequences that will be visited upon them as a result of what they had done.  All those upon the Earth who never knew You…the rich as well as the poor; the kings and princes and rulers of this world, as well as their subjects and slaves; the famous and the well-known, as well as the unknown and the obscure; the arrogant, haughty, and proud…all of these alike will run to the hills and to the mountains in abject terror, to hide in caves and to cry out for the rocks to fall upon them…just to hide them from the face of the Lamb and from Your terrible Majesty!  In that Day, Blessed Jesus, You will stand steadfast and immovable, with You right foot on the sea and Your left foot on the land, and You will declare with invincible Omnipotent Power, “There shall be no more delay!”  Woe, woe, woe unto the Earth and its inhabitants on that Day when You utter those ominous words; it would have been better for those people had they no longer been living.  In that Great and Terrible Day of the Lord, Father, Your Divine Son Jesus will manifest the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God against all those upon the Earth who stand in rebellion to His Throne, and He will destroy all those upon the Earth who are enemies and usurpers of His rule and authority, until He has placed every one of His enemies under His feet.  Then in that Day, Your will, Father, will voluntarily be done on Earth as it is in Heaven.

I stand in awe of the Rider on the white horse, Whose robe is dipped in blood, and on Whose thigh is written, “King of kings and Lord of lords.”  I stand in awe of the One Who with one fell swoop of Your terrible swift sword against the vast countless multitudes who rise up against You, and their blood will flow…like a river…for 180 miles to the height of a horse’s bridle!  I stand in awe of Your terrible Majesty, Lord Jesus!  I stand in awe of Your awesome Power!  I stand in awe of Your awe-filled Majesty and Glory, Your Almighty consuming Power!  I stand in awe of You!  Hallelujah!

Mine eyes have seen Your Glory…yes, the coming of My Lord;
You have opened up the storehouse where Your grapes of wrath are stored;
You’ve unleashed Your fearful lightening and Your terrible swift sword;
Your Truth keeps marching on!
Glory, Glory, hallelujah!  Glory, Glory, hallelujah!  Glory, Glory, hallelujah…Your Truth keeps marching on!   https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/25/worship/

Friends, brothers and sisters…

There is one absolutely necessary preparation for every living soul on the face of this Earth, for the soon coming and imminent return of Jesus Christ…the one preparation that will irrevocably determine in which neighborhood you will spend all eternity, whether in Heaven or in Hell.  You must be a born-again child of God.  I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s Kingdom.  I tell you the truth, no one can ever enter the Kingdom of God unless you are born of water and the Spirit.  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.  You should not be surprised at My saying you must be born again. [Jesus…John 3:3-7]

The truth is that there are just 5 foundational principles underlying human existence…5 principles determined and ordained by God that are the framework for human existence.

God’s framework in creating Mankind:

1. ETERNAL REASON for my existence: Love.
2. ETERNAL PROVISION for my existence:
   Gift of My Son
   Gift of My Holy Spirit
3. ETERNAL PURPOSE for my existence: Relationship.
4. ETERNAL PLAN for my existence: I know the plans I have for you.
5. ETERNAL PROMISE for my existence: A promised rest for My children.

The Gift of My Son makes it possible for you to appropriate My Eternal Purpose for creating you and bringing you into existence…Relationship… through becoming His bride, the bride of Christ.  
The Gift of My Holy Spirit makes it possible for you to embrace and be engaged in My Eternal Plans specifically and personally ordained for you in bringing you into existence…I know the plans I have for you.
Entrance into the Eternal Blessings I have for Mankind…a Promised Rest for My children…BEGINS with your solemn vow before me to become the bride of Christ My Son in a divine spiritual marriage. 

If you have never been born again,
or you are not sure whether you have been born again,
or you have been living your life as a lukewarm Christian and would now like to recommit your life and enter into a deep and intimate relationship with Christ Jesus in preparation for the soon coming marriage supper of the Lamb…
then I counsel you to get alone with God, read the solemn marriage vows presented below you must make to become the bride of Christ and thereby be born-again, and with sincerity of heart from within the depths of your being, acknowledge before God, “I DO.”

MARRIAGE VOWS 
SPIRITUAL BRIDE OF CHRIST

• Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Divine Son in the Triune God, the Lamb of God Who came into this world to become the One only, all-sufficient, atoning sacrifice through His death on a cross and subsequent resurrection, thereby securing forgiveness for your sins and restoring your relationship with God that had been severed by sin?
• Do you now solemnly vow before God to give yourself to be the bride of Christ, receiving Jesus the Christ into your life in a spiritual marriage, promising to honor and obey Him as both Lord over your life and Savior of your soul?
• To be joined inseparably together with Him in a Sacred Covenant relationship…an Eternal living union of oneness through the new life to be conceived in you by the Holy Spirit…
• To have and to hold Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, as the choicest, most precious treasure of your heart…
• To love and to cherish Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, reserving for Him alone your sweetest, most tender affections…
• For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of your life, until death of this body brings you to be together with Him in Heaven for all eternity?

Now this is eternal life: knowing You, Father, the One True Living God, and knowing Jesus Christ Your Son, the Messiah Whom You have sent.
God Himself has given this testimony concerning His Son: I have granted you eternal life, and this life is given through union with My Divine Son Jesus.  Whoever is joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness 
possesses that life; 
whoever is NOT joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness
does NOT possess that life.

I have written this to you so that you who place your trust in Christ My Son will know, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that you do now indeed  have eternal life.

BLOOD OF CHRIST

I stand in awe of the Sacrificial Lamb of God…You laid aside Your Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility.  You loved me with an everlasting love and You voluntarily lay down Your life for me, even unto death.  No one took Your life, Lord; You were free to lay it down, and free to take it up again.  You stretched out Your arms on a cross on my behalf, and declared, “IT IS FINISHED”…for all time, and for all Eternity… available to any soul who would freely and wholeheartedly choose to embrace as their own the rich eternal blessings of the finished work of Christ on that cross at Calvary, through their solemn marriage vows to become Your eternal bride, Blessed Jesus…the bride of Christ.  

• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has forever freed me from my sins, and has guaranteed and secured my Judicial Status of Eternal Righteousness before God as an accomplished and finished fact.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Union with You, Lord…now joined inseparably together with You in an Eternal living union of oneness as the bride of Christ in a divine spiritual marriage…flesh of Your flesh and bone of Your bones.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured that the Eternal Purpose for which God created me…to be joined together with the Triune God in a Sacred Covenant relationship…stands eternally fulfilled.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Access into the Holy Of Holies, and into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…as my birth-right.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Holy Spirit was indeed given as God’s Eternal Gift to dwell in me, never to leave me, never to forsake me…to be the Power in me Who continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithful to my solemn marriage vows as the bride of Christ in our Sacred Covenant relationship.
• IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is now made continually available to me, Whose Power in me continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithfully within the Holy Of Holies, in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father, in our Sacred Covenant relationship. 

Revelation 10:1-11 [NIV; amplification in italics]

Then I saw another angel, a mighty Angel, coming down from Heaven…the Angel of Yahweh; the Lord Jesus Christ Himself! He was robed in a cloud, with a rainbow above His head.  His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance, and His legs were like mighty fiery pillars…steadfastly irresistible and immovable; pillars of infinite, all-consuming Majesty and Power!  He was holding a little scroll which lay open in His hand…the title-deeds to God’s wonderfully created Earth, which Adam’s sin had caused to be forfeited and mortgaged to Satan and his seed, but for which the True Go’el has paid the redemption price and satisfied the particulars for the redemption of that inheritance, and had now forever broken off its seven debarring seals. He planted His right foot on the sea and His left foot on the land, thereby claiming possession of it as its rightful owner, asserting His purpose henceforth to take possession of it as His Own and to establish His occupancy and rule over it forever and ever; and He gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion in declaration of His intention to consume all opposition and to take vengeance upon enemies and usurpers.  When He shouted, the voices of the seven thunders also spoke in affirming declaration of the forthcoming righteous judgment of the Throne of Eternal Majesty to be visited upon the guilty and still rebellious world. And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from Heaven say in strict command, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”

Then the Angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised His right hand to Heaven.  And He swore by Him Who lives for ever and ever, Who created the heavens and all that is in them, the Earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There shall be no more delay! But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, and in those days following when his trumpet shall be sounding, the mystery of God encompassing the final consummation of all God’s revelations and actions for the reinstatement of man into his lost inheritance will be accomplished. It will be done just as He had announced throughout all the ages…those glad tidings of His Gospel message spoken to any and every one of His servants the prophets, and likewise always so faithfully foretold by them.” Although that Day has been repeatedly delayed beyond all mankind’s expectation and anticipation, though the Bridegroom has tarried, true as the life of God…certain as the Divine Eternity…unfailing as the Power which made the worlds…immutable as the oath of Jesus…the great consummating Day will come!  And now, with the solemn immutable declaration of Eternal Majesty in the person of the Angel of Yahweh, that “THERE WILL BE NO MORE DELAY,” the appointed time had now indeed come for the rightful Owner of the estate to enforce the holy indignation of that Throne against all who stand in rebellion against it, dethroning forever and ever the enemies and usurpers who occupy the Earth!

Then the voice that I had heard from Heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the Angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”  So I went to the Angel and asked Him to give me the little scroll.  He said to me, “Take it and eat it.  It will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.”  I took the little scroll from the Angel’s hand (as the representative of what each and every raptured and glorified saint now in Heaven is likewise commanded) and ate it, thereby consuming and appropriating as my own the recovered title-deeds to the inheritance now released from the mortgage claim that had formerly stood as the legal document giving Satan and his seed the rights of possession of the Earth.  It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth: “How sweet are Thy words to my taste!  Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”  But when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour with the bitterness and heartache that results from proclaiming the Gospel message to an unsanctified world! So the book in John’s mouth was “sweet as honey,” but when he had eaten it “his belly was made bitter.”  To receive as his own, and as the food of his soul, these precious title-deeds of the blessed inheritance thrilled him with joy and gladness; but those scenes of blood and wrath to the dwellers upon the Earth which must be enacted before the inheritance is reached…those hardships to the flesh in holding faithfully to the holy document…those conflicts, and contradictions of sinners, and harrowing contumelies, and trying dangers, and laborious toils, attendant upon honest prophesying of these things…all combined to make the effects of the book bitter in his body, though so sweet to his taste. Then I was told, “You (as the representative of what each and every raptured and glorified saint now in Heaven is likewise commanded) must preach and prophesy again about the rights, titles, and warrants to the inheritance secured by the True Go’el, to many peoples, nations, languages and kings, that they also may eat that little scroll which embodies all the prophetic, priestly, and royal rights of Christ, given and imparted by Him to every one of His believing people, and to thereby appropriate those rights, titles and warrants as their own, to feed on them and to live on them, to incorporate it within their inmost being, to make it the subject of their hopes, their prophesies, their prayers, and in the strength and virtue of it to live and reign with Him forever, building themselves up with them unto eternal life.” [Revelation 10:1-11]

 The Bible warns there will be the Anti-christ…a man who proclaims to be God…who will unite the world in a one world government, with a one world financial system, and establish a one world religion.
While we cannot predict “the day or the hour,” when you put all these components together, it’s starting to look even now a lot like the beginnings of the End Times.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead as a visible badge to show their allegiance to their infernal lord, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the Beast or the number of his name! [Revelation 13:16-17] 

• The vaccine mandate with its “VACCINE PASSPORT/DIGITAL ID,” without which you won’t be able to buy or sell…your kids won’t be able to attend school, you will not be allowed to go to work, or go into any store or facility open to the public, or travel anywhere, or attend any sporting events or live entertainment, or to enter movie theaters, or do anything…is the forerunner of, and preparation for, the mark of the Beast. 
• The GLOBAL RESET with its one world government and one world financial system…now being ushered in through the on-going destruction of the Constitutional Republic of America which stood in the way of the principles and dictates of the Anti-christ…is the preparation of the way for the coming rule and reign of the Anti-christ.   

Destruction of America: Preparation of the Way For the Anti-christ

There were 5 chilling prophetic dreams posted by Pastor Dana Cornerstone that portrayed the utter destruction of America.  I have been writing about this nearly every day for 18 months already, and so the dreams are not really prophesy, they are a confirmation of the Holy Spirit of what is already taking place!
I am going to post one dream each day for the next 5 days; following is the 2nd one.  I urge you to watch them and consider them in light of how events have unfolded even to this very hour.

• Lady Liberty Dream:  The Statue of Liberty was assaulted and utterly destroyed, never to rise again.  She fought with all her resolve, but was betrayed with 30 pieces of silver.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7rfMn9eMrY

Lord God Almighty, when Your judgments come upon the Earth…as they are even now…the people of the world learn righteousness.  Though God shows grace to the wicked, even so, they still do not learn righteousness; even in a land of uprightness they continue going on doing evil, and regard not the Majesty of the Lord. [Luke 21:26; Isa 26:10]
But if the watchman sees the danger coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes the life of even one of them, that one will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood. [Ezek 33:6]  Lord God Almighty, as Your watchman I have been solemnly fulfilling the responsibility You have given me in sounding the alarm to warn Your people; there will be no blood on my hands.  

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

I love my Country; I grew up here, and worked here, and enjoyed the freedoms we were given here.  Even so…this Country is no longer the Country I grew up in.  It has become something else…something totally different, something strange and foreign to me.  We are a Nation no longer under the rule and Authority of God, and as a result so horribly transformed from what our Founding Fathers envisioned and birthed.  Once a great and respected Christian Nation, God has made us the laughingstock of the world.  This is what the Sovereign Lord said to Moses concerning the Israelites, and our Nation’s founding fathers warned it would apply to America as well: If you disobey the Lord your God and do not faithfully keep all His commands and laws that I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you in accordance with God’s solemn resolve to punish you as you deserve for disobeying Him. 
Cursed shall you be in the city and
cursed shall you be in the field.
Cursed shall you be when you come in and
cursed shall you be when you go out.
The Lord will send upon you curses…calamitous events such as fires, floods, earthquakes, or pestilence that happen suddenly with a huge loss of life.
He will bring confusion and rebuke in everything you put your hand to, until you are destroyed and come to sudden ruin because of the evil you have done in forsaking Him. [Deut 15-16, 19-20]
Presented below is what it looks like…utter chaos…when God has determined by His Own Divine Decree to destroy a Nation, as He has America.  Here is what a Fascist Totalitarian Dictatorship looks like as it continues to unilaterally shut down, trample over, and shred our every constitutional right that stands in its way.
Make no mistake about it…God Himself has Personally judged our Nation with utter destruction, by His Own Divine Decree.  Man did not do this; God didn’t just allow this to happen, He determined it to happen.  Just as He did not allow Sodom and Gomorrah to be destroyed, or allow the world to be destroyed by a Great Flood…He Personally caused it.
We are plunging into a deep and very dark abyss in American history, at warp speed!  A new Democrat reign of terror is upon us, utterly obliterating our Constitutional Republic, free speech, free press, political playing field, and our personal liberty!  We need to be fully aware of what is taking place in our Nation in order to know how to be prepared as ministers of the Lord during these End Times.
God has determined by Divine decree that our Nation will be destroyed.  “Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat!  Those whom God is determined to destroy, He first infatuates.”  God has Personally stricken the minds of our Nation’s leaders with idiocy, so that professing to be wise, they have become fools…utter morons! [Rom 1:22]  He has caused their thinking to become utterly confused…just as He had warned…so that they actually believe they are acting in wisdom while they are in reality literally destroying the Nation!  You see it unfolding before your very eyes every day!  The Lord will cause you to lose your mind in idiocy, and strike you with wild and helpless fear and panic; He will make you become blind and cause your minds and hearts to be confused. [Deut 28:28]  

Destruction of America: Preparation of the Way For the Anti-christ

Brethren…you need to watch this Pastor Dana prophetic dream concerning ominous events that will take place during December, and January.  We see all of these things being foreshadowed even now in our everyday news…

• Baltic Dry Index dead…no movement of goods, no global trade; ships anchored in ports, nothing moving at sea;
  people standing for hours on long food lines;
  Nationwide power outages;
  people being housed in shelters;
  market crashes and yields lost;
  Great sadness throughout the land; people seemed very dazed and very confused;
  Depression as a creature, choking people, pushing them down;
  God’s holy remnant shining like little beacons of light and hope in neighborhoods throughout the Nation:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMpDDLFvVE
• Perhaps God is now forewarning of something worse yet to come, even Nationwide…a cyber attack shutting down our electric grid, or severe food shortages resulting from cargo ships stranded unloaded in our harbors…I don’t know; I can’t answer that.  Even so…This is where I continue to stand.  I don’t know why God has been exhorting me to continually warn the brethren to be prepared with a supply of food and necessities…but I am not giving up my own provisions at this point in time.  I am holding on, and I will wait and see what takes place.
  And so I continue to encourage you…Make provision for the physical sustenance of your family and yourself [refer to  https://preservechristianfamily.org/2017/02/26/brace-yourself-prepare/
  A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep on going, and suffer for it. [Proverbs 22:3]
  The Lord always warns His holy remnant beforehand, so that they will always be prepared and never taken by surprise like the unbelievers and the lukewarm.  Make provision for yourself and your family materially, spiritually, and emotionally NOW for what the Lord is warning will take place so as to not be overwhelmed by a severe scarcity of goods, and thereby spiral into debilitating emotional depression!
  You need to be prepared and available as a minister of the Lord to a dying world: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the Word of life. [Phil 2:14-16]  We have been raised up by the Lord for such a time as this!  

But if the watchman sees the danger coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes the life of even one of them, that one will be taken away because of his sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood. [Ezek 33:6]  Lord God Almighty, as Your watchman I have been solemnly fulfilling the responsibility You have given me in sounding the alarm to warn Your people; there will be no blood on my hands. 

Beloved…I still hold to these words of warning from the Holy Spirit:  “Brace yourself, and tell others that I have warned them to brace themselves, for they are about to see even more shocking things.  Ready or not, Nation, here it comes!  Brace yourself on My Word and on My promises, and do not rely on your own strength.  Do not stop bracing yourselves, and don’t look back; the storm will not pass until I, the Lord, stop the storm!  Those who refuse to get ready will be wanting in the end.”

Righteousness and Justice are the foundation of Your Throne; unfailing Love and Faithfulness go before You!  Blessed are those who have learned to worship Your Majesty, who walk in the inaccessible light of the Glory of Your Presence, O Lord!  I rejoice in Your Name all day long; I continually praise Your righteousness!  For You are my glory and my strength, and by Your favor I am more than a conqueror, with overwhelming victory! [Ps 89:14-17]

Arise My bride, and prepare to see My Face

Behold, I am coming soon!  My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
Then the angel said to me, “Write this down: Blessed are those summoned to the marriage banquet of the Lamb…all true believers who are members of His Universal Church.  They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory.  And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect…God’s holy people…from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”  And he said to me further, “These are the True Words of God.” [Rev 19:9]

Blessed Jesus…I rejoice and shout triumphantly for joy!  I celebrate and ascribe to You glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb draws near, and Your bride, the Universal Church and each of her members, has been preparing herself and has made herself ready! [Rev 19:7]  Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!  For our Lord God, Sovereign All-Ruler, reigns!  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him Glory!  For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.  The finest linen, dazzling and white, was given her to wear.  Then the angel said to me, “Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage banquet of the Lamb!” [John…Rev 19:6-9; Luke 14:15-23]

The washing of one’s robes and the keeping of one’s garments relates to this very attitude and habit of looking for the return of Christ as an imminent event.    Brethren, as you hope to walk those golden streets, and eat of those immortal fruits, see to it that you have your garments clean and your loins girded about like unto men waiting for their Lord. [Seiss…Rev 21:9-22:5]

Then the king said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.  Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.”  So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.  But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding garment.  “Friend,” he asked, “How did you come in here without putting on the appropriate wedding garment?” The man was speechless.  Then the king told the attendants, “Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  For many are invited and summoned, but few are chosen.” [Matt 22:8-14]

ENDURE TO THE END

Behold, I am coming quickly.  Hold on to what you have, so that no one will deprive you of your crown.  Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith…I will make a pillar in the Sanctuary of My God.  Never again will you leave it.  I will write on you the name of My God and you will be a citizen in the city of My God…the new Jerusalem…which will come down out of Heaven from My God; I will also write on you My Own new name.

Holy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcx2O9WXvn8&feature=youtu.be