For those who are feeling disheartened, weak, or hanging by a thread, know that you are NOT alone!
The road to the Blessed Hope is NOT supposed to be EASY!
We are supposed to feel weak and have little strength, feeling that we're at the end of ourselves — then at that moment, we will be ready for our new beginning and go through THAT OPEN DOOR!
KEEP LOOKING UP!
📜It is prophecy! It is written that we would feel this way. This is what Jesus tells His faithful Church:
📖"I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name."
✂️God has been preparing us to leave this world by cutting our ties to it one by one, and it’s not fun! He’s testing all areas of our lives—cutting our love for the world, testing marriages, friendships, health, job security, financial stability, reputation, life plans, and whatever else we're holding on to. This can be painful and exhausting, but as challenging as it might be, it’s a necessary process to be ready to leave this world!
🔭Watching for His appearance is not supposed to be easy.
If it were, everyone would be watching! It's challenging to live these two parallel lives: in our flesh, we need to keep planning for the long term, but inside, our spirits are conflicted and torn, longing and crying louder and louder for His presence. This inner feeling of longing and anticipation, along with this profound desire to see His promises fulfilled and be in HIS PRESENCE, can become overwhelming.
However, it’s part of the process — the Bible tells us that we "groan inwardly as we eagerly await our adoption."
📖"Not only that, but we, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies." Ro 8:23
➕And it’s not only us who feel this way —the whole creation does too!
📖“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.” Romans 8:22.
💔It's not easy to keep preaching when people are just not taking heed — for them, it's just empty words. They have eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear.
🩹Our call is not glamorous and it doesn't come without a cost. We've seen friendships come crashing down, loved ones avoiding us, people talking behind our backs even spouses and kids believing that we have lost our minds, waiting for the perfect opportunity to mock us.
🩸The truth is that we are ruined with the love of Christ; once we have tasted it, nothing on earth can ever satisfy us!
Nothing on earth will quench our hunger for Christ, His love, and His glory!
👉🏼If you are feeling disheartened, alone, weak, neglected, shunned, and ignored, know that you are not alone.
Christ knows our struggles and our journey intimately. He walks beside us through every step of the path He has laid out for us.
📖"I am with you always, even to the end of the age."
👉🏼Know that this journey is not in vain! It’s the fulfillment of prophecy! Our payday is coming —we will receive our reward in heaven: the crown of righteousness! Jesus instructs us to hold fast to what we have, so no one can take our crown from us!
Jesus says:
📖"Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing." 2 Timothy 4:8
📖"Behold, I am coming quickly! Hold fast what you have, that no one may take your crown." Rev 3:11
👉🏼Today, let's find that joy and persevere, for He is with us, helping us to endure all things until the very end of this race!
👉🏼Today, let's find joy in realizing that as challenging as life may be, it is the closest to hell we will ever experience!
👉🏼Today, let's find joy in anticipation of all the blessings Christ has in store for those who love Him.
🔊Let's keep looking up!
If you are feeling weak, you are in the RIGHT PLACE!
It is written we would feel this way! IT IS A SIGN! Let's keep pushing through and enduring together.
We're not alone, He is with us! Let's continue preaching about our precious Jesus and our Blessed Hope! Hear Him cheering us on, along with all the angels!
Our King is coming!
KEEP LOOKING UP!
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⚠️IF YOU ARE NOT IN CHRIST TODAY, GET SAVED RIGHT NOW!
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Believe Jesus is the Son of God, who shed His blood for you, died on the cross for our sins, He was buried and resurrected during the third day, according to the Scriptures, so we can have eternal life with Him.
When you believe in Him and that He died for your sins - you're saved, justified, sealed until the day of redemption, and rapture ready!
The Holy Spirit will come to live inside of you - He will help, guide, change, and be with you FOREVER!
📖"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:16-18)
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