Sleeping in Ruins?

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.


1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

5:1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing. NKJV

Let us watch: greygoreuo....1127......is to awake...NT 1453 is to waken (from sleep) from inactivity, as in sleeping in ruins and from nonexistence.

Now that is a little scary if you ask me. That we are told to not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 

That sleep is that which people do without knowing it. They are those who have no discernment of the time and the season.  We are to take a stand.

Putting on our breastplate of "belief" in the feast of love! For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Drawn into that word of watch.......1127..........and that people are to awaken from inactivity. Well what inactivity, and what is that sleeping in ruins? Do people have an actual place of which they operate as the non-existent one?

Isaiah 41:11-13

11 "Behold, all those who were incensed against you 

Shall be ashamed and disgraced;

They shall be as nothing,

And those who strive with you shall perish. 

12 You shall seek them and not find them--

Those who contended with you.

Those who war against you 

Shall be as nothing,

As a nonexistent thing. 

13 For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand,

Saying to you, 'Fear not, I will help you.'   NKJV

Now I really love the book of Isaiah and sometimes really have to have a quiet place to read it. And during my days of working outside the home, the Lord gave me this passage of scripture.  Those incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced. They shall be as nothing and those who would choose to strive with me would perish. YIKES! 

Then I was told: YOU shall seek them and not find them----those who contended with you...those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL HOLD YOUR RIGHT HAND....SAYING, 'FEAR NOT, I WILL HELP YOU.'

ON rising this morning, I thought on this area of discernment. My husband and I spent much time reading on it last night. And the scriptures we were given on it, especially for prayer surely made a lot of sense. And it was like we were being awakened to something new.  For in this teaching, we saw the prayer warrior given a message from the Holy Spirit to pray for a brother overseas who was fighting in the Vietnam War in the 1960's. AND the specific prayer given to prayer person was so surprised what the Lord had given him in this vision/dream who then mailed it to brother in Vietnam. He wrote to brother: This is how it will happen and you must be on your guard!

It was mailed and received.  And the "message" given came to pass some 4 weeks later on an actual battle field. The brother survived the attack and did what the prayer warrior had sent him to do by the Spirit of God. Hallelujah!

As this prayer warrior grew more in that awareness of God and His speaking, this prayer person continued to give another example of how the Lord showed him how his brother was to die this one day around the 3 p.m. hour and He, God desired prayer person to pray. Well quickly, he, the prayer warrior called one other person and together they prayed from their different locations. They asked for God to intervene on the older brother's behalf and reminded God of the brother's commitment in his early teen years to God. They also spoke how they knew he had walked away from God, but that still believed and had faith that said brother in harm's way would be delivered from the harm.  They prayed the Word and the prayed in Tongues. The brother( in harm's way) just knew he needed to pull off the road and talk with a man within this business, but when he stopped and went inside he could not remember what he needed to ask the business owner. Well, in that four minutes.........another vehicle had went on by and that vehicle crashed into the vehicle coming from opposite direction and in that head-on crash, the couple inside died exactly what had been given for prayer warrior's brother to be killed. BUT someone prayed and  not only prayed but kept praying for another full two hours after the event was to take place. The thing taken from this was..........was anyone praying for the couple who died that day?

And then I was astounded to know what people could be given about circumstances. 

The prayer warrior had many examples of God's love for those who love Him. And I thought of those that are or become the nonexistent thing.

While meditating on what we had read, we awakened to another important part of why we are to pray. We also came away with what God cannot do when NO ONE PRAYS for someone. For surely lives were saved on that eventful afternoon at 3 pm. and others were lost.

We know how to pray for a loved one who has not received Jesus, right? That is to remind God of how they might have gone to church as a child, how they took others to church and how regularly they tuned in Kathryn Kulman to see God move through people in the attitude of complete quiet. We can remind Him of how a parent might have taken us week after week to church, yet in their last days on earth, they choose to lie in bed in a death state that is one of sleeping in ruins and being the nonexistent thing. But God in His love has shown us how we are to put on that love and walk by faith, not only for ourselves but for others as well.

We got this message to pray for loved ones last night.  With a conditioner in my hair and a mixture of water and creme running into my eyes, I got this vision. I saw a driver out of control on state route 14 headed from the Stevenson area to Vancouver.  I was telling my husband we must text our family and tell them to stop where they are at and not go any further. And we continued to pray. Again, I saw the out of control person, and it appeared as a woman trying to reach for a ringing cell phone drives into the opposite lane on a sharp curve. So we prayed more thoroughly. They had stopped and waited a full hour and instruction came. So they went the long way around to get home. Was there something that would have cost a life? Not sure yet, but we will know. We confess we will always know every form of information God desires for us to know that will bring glory to Him. We will have that piece of information to make decisions that involve our lives and others and in that we require and put God's wisdom on it, in it and through it in how ever many hours of prayer it takes.

When the call came in they had arrived home in safety, then we rested in God and His love.

1 Thessalonians 5:9-11

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. 11 Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

For God has not appointed us to wrath. In our salvation through Jesus Christ, we live unto Him. And we know many others have gone who now sleep in Him. But those who sleep today, who sleep in ruins and the decay, those who sleep as the nonexistent thing are those who are far from God.

The Amplified Bible states this: for verse 9 For God has not appointed us to [incur His] wrath. [He did not select us to condemn us], but [that we might] obtain [His] salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). 10 Who died for us so that whether we are still alive or are dead [at Christ's appearing], we might live together with Him and share His life. 11 Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing.

For the Lord is returning for His people. And we are not the "condemned" but the saved.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Rom. 8:1) 

 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. 64 But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. (John 6:63-65)

There are those appointed to wrath, but we are not those. Our world is to be framed by the Word of God.  It is in that trust that where we live and reside is not in the that place of the "ruins" but in the safe place of His boundary, and it is in His Word. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.  By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:1-3)

Our praying, not only for our loved ones, but also those who come across our path, are those who now have a boundary, a fence if you will, around their lives. The Word of God spoken and prayed over them will keep them in the safe place.

As an example I have put a prayer here that is that boundary of God's Word around our grandchild. It is prayed and placed as a "hedge" of protection around her. And when or if something arises........we remind the Lord that she was placed in His hands the moment we heard of her conception.

Father, in the name of Jesus we pray for our granddaughter. May she obey her parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. WE pray that she would not be provoked by her father so that she not become discouraged according to Colossians 3:21.

 We pray that she will honor her father and her mother. She will be a wise son who hears her father’s instructions,  she will not consent to going with sinners. We pray she not walk on the path with them but she keep her feet from their path for their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

 According to James 1:19-23, our grandchild will be "the" swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; knowing that the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God. We pray she will continually lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with  meekness,  the implanted word, which is able to save her soul. We say that she will be a doer of the word and not a hearer only, deceiving herself.

It is According to Prov. 22:24-25 that she will make no friendships with angry men and she will not go with the furious.  She will refuse them and their ways.  We pray that she will know that God loved us so much, that He gave His only begotten Son Jesus , so that we would have everlasting life by believing on HIM. We pray that she confesses with her mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in her heart that God has raised HIM from the dead, and be saved. We believe her to walk all her days of life with Him.  Her heart, we pray, will believe unto righteousness, and her mouth brings her to salvation of her soul.We pray that the LORD is her Shepherd and she shall not be in want of any good thing.  The Lord restores her soul so that she walks the paths of righteousness for His names sake. She will have no fear of evil for she will know that God is with her to protect her. His rod and His staff will comfort our grand-daughter . She will be anointed with fresh oil till her cup is running over. We will see the goodness and mercy of God follow her all the days of her life and she will dwell in the house of the LORD FOREVER. AMEN AND AMEN

Truly we can make a difference in praying and speaking God's Word over another person. Truly He is on our side when we choose Him 1st. May we awaken from that sleep that leads or tends toward poverty of the soul. May we make the decision to not only attend church..........but attend to that which God has placed in our hands. The Lord is returning for His church "His body of believers" and will He find faith on the earth?(Luke 18:8)

In closing:

Proverbs 24:30-34

30 I went past the field of the sluggard,

past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment; 

31 thorns had come up everywhere,

the ground was covered with weeds,

and the stone wall was in ruins. 

32 I applied my heart to what I observed 

and learned a lesson from what I saw: 

33 A little sleep, a little slumber,

a little folding of the hands to rest-- 

34 and poverty will come on you like a bandit 

and scarcity like an armed man.   NIV

When we consider everyplace we have traveled, everyplace we have walked and seen, how many places can you remember that seemed to be that which was the overgrown, the overwhelmed with weeds and briars?  How many places do you remember seeing that was the broken down, needing paint and the wall or fence around was in "ruins"? Well that is one's heart. And when we apply God's Word it changes. For if we continue to neglect to speak His Word and pray for others that God has given us, then a little sleep, a little slumber, ah yes the folding of hands to rest.........and you will find yourself in poverty. In those moments before the disaster, before the earthquake, before the report of a grave illness, what wall will keep the enemy away or will it come in like a flood?

Arm yourself with His Word and declare His truths. 

Forever who would love life and see good days, must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech. He must turn from evil and do good. He must seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and His ears are attentive to their prayer. But His face is against those who do evil. (1 Peter 3:10-12)

Amen.

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Weeds

What have we done to see our families, those young in the Lord to go forward with Him and serve Him all the days of their lives? What have we placed around them, what horizon have we given them to focus on for all their tomorrows?

What boundaries have we put into place around our families, our grand-children (future grand-children), our spouses, our homes, our jobs and even around that future college for your child or children to attend when they leave home?

Is there even a fence placed, to keep the evil away, and the good, the blessings of God to come continually to our children? The adversary, the devil, desires to take the youth out by the hundreds, and what are we doing as the family of God to stop it? Have we ever considered what waits on the street corner for your son or daughter or your neighbors daughter or sons' walk or how about the places only the youth provide the numbers for a filled event that you have no desire to know or understand or even attend yourself? Your answer of yes to such things can bring them into the wrong thing!
Our prayers can certainly put a boundary for them to be stopped in Jesus name that would be a consistent harm to our children or grand-children or even for a friend in the Lord.
We may have a friend, or friends or neighbors who have no protection. Their parents never gave them that protection. They possibly knew not the Lord or had the revelation of placing some protection around them.
Proverbs 24 tells us something of a broken down wall!

Proverbs 24:30-34
30 I went past the field of the sluggard,
past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
31 thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins. 
32 I applied my heart to what I observed
and learned a lesson from what I saw:
33 A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest--
34 and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.   NIV

What if we keep putting off our prayer time, what if we put off confessing God's Word of strength and power around that friend, that family member, or how about our spouse? For that slumber time away from God is poverty in your spiritual land and causes a scarcity...........it is a place of "lack", it is hunger, and it is void of life. That means everything around you is tending or leaning towards decay, brokeness, destruction, and weeds!

The Amplified Bible says this:
Proverbs 24:30-34 I went by the field of the lazy man, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding. 31 And, behold, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles were covering its face, and its stone wall was broken down. 32 Then I beheld and considered it well; I looked and received instruction. 33 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep-----34 So shall your poverty come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.

That which is "in ruins" is the broken down.....and....will continue to break down with no kind of secure wall for safety around them, when we do not place that Word of God around our children, families or that which we need a boundary around. Some seem so complacent about the Word of God and applying it to their lives and I am NOT sure why they appear so lax with it! For God's Word is power unto life. It is power that overcame the devil, but rarely hear it spoken. We speak it in our home! We have praise and worship toward God going and shut off the outside "noises".

Interesting about that phrase of the ground covered with weeds.......that which keeps producing weeds till it covers the face of the ground. And who likes weeds? If you have ever cared for a yard, then you know what I am speaking of, but if not, then you may want to pass over this. BUT this is important and to know what to do for that weed "problem". Are there any thorns that we might be planting in a child's life that we should not be doing? What about an adult child..........yes that grown up person who has a family of their own? What are the "thorns"?

Well, it looks like: knotty, complicated, the ticklish, the troublesome, the annoying, the barbed.
The "thorny" become the difficult to handle! They are the "easily irritated: and will go on the attack on another sibling, a friend or even a parent. Yes, they are thorny! They become the difficult, but very changeable. They can be the unreliable and the erratic in their doing of things.
And yes, everyone gets stuck by their personality. But God wants our place like " a garden: where His peace resides. So who is tending the child's/children's garden? Who is looking over them in prayer for the "hedge of protection" to be in place? Who is asking God for help in this serious situation of a person's life?

Where do we take our child or children and let them have a hey day with those who may the "ones planting the thorns in their lives? What about that place you let them "run" to have some kind of fun, and so they can run off some of that extra energy, yet they come home a little bit more thorny than when they left? They become more erratic and more flighty, any which way that the wind will blow, they seem to go.

thorn: OT....7057......quimmowsh (kim-moshe').........to sting........prickly

in KJV...nettle.....7063

that wall (2040) is broken down.......in ruins

So today is a good time to start placing that "hedge" of protection around them............yes, time to pray and profess the Word that will guard them or even that job you have! What about a ministry where you do something, and your body has been abused by outside forces you did not expect?

Job 1:9-22

9 "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied. 10 "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land. 11 But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face." 

12 The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger." 

Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD. 

13 One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 14 a messenger came to Job and said, "The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, 15 and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 

16 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 

17 While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 

18 While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, 19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!" 

20 At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship 21 and said: 

"Naked I came from my mother's womb, 

and naked I will depart. 

The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away; 

may the name of the LORD be praised." 

22 In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.  NIV

The devil can certainly see when there is a hedge of protection around you and yours. He can also know and see for himself when you have not done it. But I remind you that in Job's situation, the protection was still there. And the devil was mad. But Job still worshiped God. Job still spoke and remained. Job had four people to show up at his door. And they each had something to speak about him and his situation!

Let's remember that the devil cannot be everywhere at all times like God is, but he does have his co-hort's in crime and he tries his best with his thousands of years experience to defeat you. But we remind him of the Blood of the Lamb that was spent, poured out for people God loved. Yes the Blood given for many who did not believe in Jesus, did not like His speaking, His truth and shunned Him in every way and in many ways!

Surely we do not want to shun our children or friends, whatever age they may be,  nor do we desire to shun our spouses, or our neighbors when we see them being beaten down by the enemy. Our prayers matter much. The prayers of the righteous will avail much power. So will we do it, and see that hedge come up around them or will we wait till the "trouble" really comes, and then our words with no faith will fall on deaf ears?
God will hear when we are "the humble". God will answer those who have sought Him, believe His goodness for others and He will move when the "tears" are those from the man or woman of humility whose entire trust is in God and Him Alone!
And the enemy will attack when he sees something "big" about to happen to you or your loved  one.

In the blog High Risk!...I wrote about when the trial comes, and at the midnight hour what will be your confession and who will you trust, for it will surely come!
It is coming on a year now since that midnight word........and which the enemy spoke in March 2015. I am still here. I am strong, I am the "soaring". I had many speaking this over me and I am the thriving not just the surviving to see another day.  I am still praying and seeking His purpose for me that is of the good and that which compels me to grow more in HIM, to take the land and prevail for He is with me to be the "victorious". And I believe that for all who read this and are in a trial or tribulation.

From reading from Job 1 we find Job bombarded by many messengers. Each gave a word of loss, and discouragement. He lost his livelihood, his servants, his children. All were gone in a short amount of time. Now this is some kind of circumstance.........and certainly God has shown many things from His Word.
Four people showed up in the life of Job when all hell was raging against him. His wife even told him to curse God and die. Elihu, the true friend came with wisdom of God, and for the other three friends: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naanmathite, well, we find God's thought for them. Here below we see the account of all which came down to God answering.

Job 42:7-17

7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has." 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite did what the LORD told them; and the LORD accepted Job's prayer. 

10 After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD made him prosperous again and gave him twice as much as he had before. 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. 

12 The LORD blessed the latter part of Job's life more than the first. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand donkeys. 13 And he also had seven sons and three daughters. 14 The first daughter he named Jemimah, the second Keziah and the third Keren-Happuch. 15 Nowhere in all the land were there found women as beautiful as Job's daughters, and their father granted them an inheritance along with their brothers. 

16 After this, Job lived a hundred and forty years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation. 17 And so he died, old and full of years. NIV

Job had much delivered to him. And he certainly was surrounded by those who like "to gab". But truth should ring out. And who or what person do we allow to surround us?

I would rather be the "the true friend" delivering what God had determined for the one in "the storm", the one who is bombarded by destruction of the devil. STORMS COME!

 But Shelley, we have the grace of God and His mercy. We surely do, but the enemy is alive and well.............and  he is also the very old, the very ugly, and the very weak.........because we are to give no place to him. We are to guard our mouths and speak only what God desires us to speak. It is to be truth in HIM and in HIS Word.

What we believe, trust in and declare will determine how we act in a "storm" in that of which Job faced. Surely we believe all to be " of the good" with no problems, but it is always best to keep watch and pray!

So that whatever tomorrow may hold,  we can stand knowing we spoke God's Word over them, that will hold them in place much like the earth is held in space and the Light of God will shine on their hearts to reveal life that comes from Him and continue to show them the way "home". The journey is marked with some hardship, just ask Paul the Apostle. But it is in our repetition of God's Word, expanding our faith into the perfect will of God, we see the hedge placed and enforced.........being made stronger and stronger.  May our family members keep rhythm to the beat of God's Word that is of power, is prayer that seeks His covering and is in the persistence like Christ.
The horizon we seek for our loved ones is the one that looks beyond time. It looks into eternity and what God has purposed for "that loved one". It is what God has for them that give ways to life with a beat, a rhythm in God that will vibrate, and bring influence toward the things of God and away from the broken, the torn down, and the disaster of storms.
They will surely come if you live a full, long life on this planet called earth, but our focus is to be in the "eternity" of God and  HOW do we fare in our department of faith!  Is it that hall " of faith" that which keeps lengthening or is it a 3' x 5' space we stand?

BUT storms come to those even of the "faith". Storms come and how we walk through is determined what we have believed and where our trust resides.

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

3:1 Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you. 5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.   NKJV

Today, I pray and hope you will stand with me for those who are our grand-children, children, friends like  our young friend Daniel, and many who have faces, but we know not their names. Pray with me for the countless teens who have been thrown to the curb, thrown out from family homes, family relationships, and brought to the lowest place of no value. For God surely values those created in His image. He values life.........and life everlasting, filled with abundance of good that comes from Him!


Father, we pray today that the word of the Lord runs swiftly and be glorified and that those we are believing for today, all the teens abandoned, those Daniels who do not understand that which has come upon them, but knows God.............these we pray that they are delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for not all have faith. But YOU Lord are the faithful who will establish them and guard these teens, our friend like Daniel.........those who have the call and to be a mouthpiece for God through their music, and for those who have run from God! Our confidence is in God the Lord and that which concerns those we pray, that they do and will do the things God has given them to do. May the Lord direct their hearts,  these we cherish, these our future, into His LOVE and into the PATIENCE OF CHRIST.

Show us those whose walls are down, and in ruins. Our desire is to reach out and touch lives in our prayer time. We choose to be those who will be salt to those in pain and in much anguish. If our paths cross their paths Lord, may we have the ability to give them the truth they need and may they be embraced by Your Love. Father, Your Word is true and we hold it up, yes, confess it over our loved ones today. In their time of need, may they have the grace to help in their time of need.   For whatever trials and tribulations, take away the weight of it Lord. Please! Strengthen hearts for any battles ahead, and give patience for them and us as we wait on You.
This journey is for an eternity, for those who have entered Your kingdom, and who profess Your Word, may the wisdom of God come, and help us in any decisions in choosing that to pray for those far from Christ. Oh yes, it is  in Jesus' holy name we  pray. We expect to see the "youth" come to the altar of God, for the Daniel's to be released from the mouths of the lions and the Caleb's to take that mountain. This is the day and the hour. Let's take it in strength and the power of God's Word revealed in Jesus Christ, the hope of glory. Amen.

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