Look Up!

If you see someone on a street corner holding a sign saying, “Jesus is Coming!” do you think, automatically, that the person is crazy? This rebel is infringing on the comfort zone of those satisfied with things the way they are. The urgency of the message of the imminent return of our Lord is more important than our plans of pot roast for dinner!

The political and economic tides of the world are changing. Believers can examine and recognize the shape of events today as what was foreseen by the prophets. We know that the coming of our Lord is near! The corporate focus of the body of Christ has shifted upward. Can you feel it in the air? Can you see it in the streets? The days of Noah have returned. Our time is short. Our work is pressing. Jesus stands at the door. His hand is on the knob, just waiting for a word from the Father.

Will you be united with me, in prayer and fasting, to seek God for His return? Let us align ourselves with His will, to accomplish what He has purposed in us. Let us seek His face, that we might understand. Let our call go up, for we have need of Him. (See Isaiah 62:6 & 7)

A prayer for Jacob
Lord Jesus
Show mercy and compassion to those who You have claimed for Your own so that they can become aware of the depths of their poverty. They are desolate and deprived without You, yet continue on, oblivious to their own condition. Restore Your people to Your favor by teaching them their folly so that they can repent.

I am struck down, incapacitated with longing for Your person. I am orphaned and have no life to live. My emptiness cries out for the presence of the living God, for Your beauty is terrible in it’s thundering power! Yet You lovingly restrain Yourself to gentleness.

When is the time of Your appearing to deliver Your people? For when will our joy overflow but when that day comes when we shall see Your face? Make haste to come to us so that our joy may be complete!

Blessed Hope

Bad things happen all the time.
Sweeping changes bring a flood of fear of more to come.
The world economy is reeling, staggering like a drunkard.
Those who love violence surround us.
They do not tire of plotting evil continuously.
Your people seek relief; They look up to watch for Your face.
We remember Your promises to us; to deliver us.
Great is the hope we have in You!
Wonderful are the promises gifted to us!
Those who trust in You have this faith;
Your glory revealed in us!
Your justice will shine out like the sun!
No longer will the forsaken and rejected weep in dark corners,
For You will be there to comfort them.
There is no more exalted hope than this,
that Love Itself should dwell with us.