ARE YOU READY?

Well, I guess each of us is as ready as we’re ever gonna be.  I have taken to living in the here and now.  I never know if I’m going to have any tomorrows in this ole body the Good Lord gave us.  

I am not real happy with my carnal nature.  The flesh wants what it wants.  I keep discovering that the only way I can overcome sin is by the Blood of Jesus.  Either, “He that is in me is greater than he that is in this world”.  Now that is a biblical truth or it isn’t.  If it’s the “Truth”, than nothing can ever defeat me.  It would have to defeat the Truth.  The Truth is, “God is Love”.   He is full of compassion, and mercy, quick to forgive, and willing to overlook all of our sins, and receive each of us back Himself, as it was in the Garden of Eden, before the fall of man.  God has decided to raise man up again.  He came on the scene, disguised as Jesus, and showed us that it is possible to so lay down your life that you will take it up again by the power of the Holy Spirit.  God is BIG and God is SMALL.  He is infinite, and He is ALL.  Wherever you, He is.  You can’t do nothing without Him being connected to it by His Very Spirit. He is everywhere, and we are connected to Him, right smack dab in the middle of our hearts, and He is LOVE.

Many believe that we have come to the end of the ages.  I certainly do.  Unfortunately, I now see the corruption of the flesh with new meaning, and how utterly desperate I  am in need of the transformation promised to the Believer in the finished work of Christ.  For sure I been counting on the Love and Mercy aspects of the Personality of God.  He also is Daddy, Father, Brother, Spirit, Ever Present, At Hand, and ready to help you and me move heretofore unmovable limitations.  He is Greater than all limitations. His resources are limitless, for He Alone is God, and supplies ALL of the needs of each and every one of His Children.  He is Present in each us, that is why Jesus said, “as you do unto others, so do ye unto Me”.

Prepare Ye the Way

Isa 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. KJV

Anyone looking at the conditions of the world systems can plainly see that everything is crumbling around us. Every idol is being destroyed. That is to say, those things that man has trusted in to take care of him, except God. Man’s idols are power, money, and force. They hang their hope on these things.

God is saying to His own, “you are not to rely on any of these things, for I Alone am your source”. How many times have we read in the Psalms or Isaiah that He is a shield and a High Tower to those that trust in Him. Yet, we tend to quickly forget that He is the Author and Finisher of our faith. He alone has ordained the trials that have come into our lives.

His Word of late to me has been “The voice of him the crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God”. It is a divine mandate that His appearing is at hand. Make certain that your heart is prepared for the fullness of His coming. We, the church, are that voice crying in the wilderness of the land, get your heart right before God. Those entrenched in atheism or agnosticism, or in organized religion are all in the wilderness of their own carnal nature and unable to hear God. Even if you get in their face and yell, FIRE!, yet they are still deaf. We know that Christ, the indwelling Presence of God, is the ONLY answer, yet most reject Him.

Those with ears to hear and eyes to see, embrace our presence, because they are also Chosen Ones, from the foundation of the world to believe on Christ.

My message is simple. Don’t look outside of Christ in you for any hope. The church can’t save you, the government can’t save you, the doctors, lawyers and Indian chiefs can’t save you. Your salvation comes from Christ alone, and He lives within you. Get your heart pure before Him, so you can hear when He speaks. If you have any “sin” in your heart, you can’t hear Him, so examine yourself to see if there be any wicked way in you. Ask of Him and He will show you what you need to deal with.
Isa 59:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. KJV

I have no doubt that God hears and knows all that is happening, since nothing exists are can exist outside of Him, and He is everywhere. We need pure hearts to hear the voice of God for all things that pertain to our lives.

He spoke to me recently and said “Believe Me for the multiplication of resources”. I immediately thought of Jesus feeding the throngs of people with just a few loaves and fishes. God knows His own, and has already made provision for them. All we need do is to trust Him, even when we can see no direction out. He is the solution. He makes everything out of nothing.
The forces of darkness gather with their sinister plans for the enslavement of mankind, and the elimination of everything that God stands for. It is truly a spiritual battle. The battle belongs to the LORD. He is our Momma Hen, and we are His baby chicks. I encourage each and every one of us to abide there, under the “shadow of His wings”. He tells us to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. (Psalm 91). He will also “make a road in the wilderness and streams in the desert. To know Him is to love Him.

Patrick