Are you prepared? Are you ready? Jesus is coming back soon. Prepare yourself now. Ask Him to come into your life and forgive you of all your sins and be your personal Saviour.
Matthew 16:27 For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done.
APOSTLE PAUL A FRONTLINE WARRIOR
Paul was ever mindful of his need for the intercessors of the church to pray for him. Moreover, Paul pleaded , “Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.”
Among the most highly respected intercessors and spiritual warriors today is Johannes Facius of Germany, coordinator, of Intercessors International. This point is made to signify that we are not talking about a novice, but a veteran. Facius tells how back in 1986, a team of intercessors went to the Soviet Union and entered the Lenin Mausoleum in Mosco. They felt they should pronounce judgment upon the “gods of the Soviet system,” Vladimir Lenin. Facius declared,“What happened in the heavenlies at that time we do not know. However, we do know that Soviet Communism soon crumbled and it was through this move against Satan that I suffered one of the strangest attacks of sickness that I have ever experienced.”
“Wherever the marks of the Church are evident . . . that is, preaching, the Word, the sacraments, and church discipline . . . inevitably, the surrounding culture will be changed.” John Calvin.
It is at work in the toughest places in our society –– inside cold, barren prisons like Newton, Iowa. At least half of the prisoners were unbelievers when they arrived, and yet within a short time, the whole prison culture had been transformed. The staff explained that when the Christian inmates arrived, they began meeting for prayer regularly. The same thing has happened in our Texas and Kansas prisons, and is now happening in our fourth prison in Minnesota. The evidence is indisputable: The church when it is the Church, behind prison walls is transforming the surrounding culture. But there’s a lesson here for the rest of us –– we should reflect upon as celebrate the resurrection.
Evangelicals are shameful! You are casual about the Church. We hop from one church to the next; we act more like spectators than participants. Our lack of commitment to the Church is one reason 68 percent of Americans say there’s no such thing as moral truth. But when, we get serious and become the Church we’re supposed to be . . . worshiping, praying, studying the Word, celebrating the sacraments and ordinances, administering discipline . . . our culture will be transformed. If it can happen in the prisons, where people come from the most hopeless backgrounds imaginable, it can . . . by God’s grace . . . happen in your community.
Jesus is coming real soon! Prepare yourself for the coming of the Lord! Get right with Jesus today!” Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on His head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God. And the armies of heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses”. Revelation 19: 11-16