Preparation For His Second Coming

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And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man. They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built;  but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed (Luke 17:26-30 NKJV). 

            

"Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour (Matthew 25:13).

Luke 24:47-53

ü  Jesus told them what to preach -repentance and remittance of sins.

ü  In whose name to preach - His name only.

ü  Who to preach to - all nations.

ü  Where to begin - Jerusalem.

ü  Promised them the Holy Spirit then - today we have the Holy Spirit.

ü  Jesus instructed them to tarry - today we are also instructed to tarry for His second coming.

ü  He told them where to tarry - Jerusalem. For us today, we should live daily in anticipation of His coming. 

ü   Be prepared, watch and pray.

ü  Duration of tarrying not known by the disciples, neither do we. The day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

ü  What are they tarrying for? The Holy Spirit.

ü  What are we tarrying for: The second coming of the Lord.

ü  For them it came to pass in Acts 2.

ü   For us too, it will come to pass.

Will you be ready, dear brethren?

PRAYER 

      May the God of peace Himself sanctify us through and through.

      Separate us from profane things.

      Make us pure and wholly consecrated to God.

      May our spirit, soul and body be preserved sound and  complete.

      May we be found blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thess 5:23 Amp 

Faithful is He Who is calling you (to Himself and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it (fulfil His call by hallowing and keeping you). 

    Thank God for His faithfulness, that He is trustworthy and He will keep us. He will do that which He has promised.

  May God direct our hearts into realizing and showing the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and in waiting for His return. 2 Thess 3:5 Amp

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God’s Way Or His Acts Only

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Psalm 103:7
He made known His ways to Moses, His acts to the children of Israel. NKJV

He revealed His character to Moses and His deeds to the people of Israel. NLT

He revealed His plans to Moses and let the people of Israel see His mighty deeds. GNB

He taught His Law to Moses and showed all Israel what He could do. CEV

God’s method of revealing Himself:

v  Dreams and visions – Numbers 12:6, Gen 15: 1, 46: 2-4.

v  By angelic appearances – Judges 6: 11 ffl, 13: 2-3, 6

v  In the likeness of a man/men – Gen 18: 1-3: There was nothing to suggest that the three men that visited Abraham were of angelic or divine appearance, Abraham’s initial response of worship was just typically of eastern culture of hospitality of that time. (Heb 13:2)

v  Hearing His voice audibly – Num 12: 4-5

v  In various other ways (Heb 1:1), but never face to face like He did with Moses (Num 12: 7-8, Deut 34: 10-12).

• These are examples of God’s dealings with His people, whereby God finds a man faithful and reveals to such His plans, ways, character, laws etc. Such a one then relates to the people/multitudes who now become recipients of God’s goodness, miraculous occurrences/deliverances.
• These multitudes only see the acts brought about by the faithfulness of men who have paid the price of walking with God.
• They are a need-oriented people always looking to the ‘big man of God’ to collect things from God.
• As they continue to rely on the big man to approach God on their behalf, they never learn to know God for themselves; so that when the man of God is no longer in tune with heaven, their philosophy becomes ‘the end justifies the means’ as long as the ‘provision’ is still coming.
• Little wonder then that the children of Israel wearied Moses and God with their complainings in the wilderness.
• How I wish Moses had asked God to also reveal Himself to these people in his passionate appeal to God for himself in Exodus 33: 12-18.
• Thank God He has spoken and reaveled Himself to us, and still does by His Son in these last days! Heb 1:1.

Ø  We see God in the face of Jesus Christ – 2Cor 4:6 

Ø  He is that light that God shined in the darkness in Gen 1:1 and He has shined that same light in our hearts so that we experience His glory much more than Moses did, Hallelujah!!

Ø  Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared God to us – John 1:18

Let us pray:

• Dear Father God, please continue to shine the light of Jesus Christ in our hearts as we desire to know you more.
• Precious Holy Spirit, please help me to study the Bible to know GOD and not to get things – 2 Tim 3:7
• Please LORD, give us and make us leaders who will continue to point us/others to Jesus Christ and not themselves.
• Give us leaders like the friend of the bridegroom who seeks always to bring the bride to the groom and withdraw as the two have come to know each other intimately.
• John the Baptist came baptising in order to reveal Jesus to the people (Jn 1:31); he kept pointing the people to Jesus. Lord, please give Your church leaders whose singular purpose in ministry is to connect the people with their Saviour, and not build themselves demagogues.
• Give those leaders/disciplers who are on track with this vision, the grace and humility to know when their work is done so they can withdraw, learning to ‘bow out when the ovation is loudest,’ amen.
• Lord, please deliver my soul from impatience and hastiness; help me to learn to wait on/for You to meet my needs so I do not keep going to others for help. (Psalm 37:7, Heb 10: 36) - A fretful, discontented spirit is open to many temptations.
• Dear Lord Jesus, please give me grace to endure to the end as I await Your coming. COME LORD JESUS!!

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God's Children and the Accursed Thing

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Joshua 7: 1, 11- 18, Revelation 2: 1- 7, Ephesians 5: 21- 25

The accursed thing - sin will not make you as an individual to be filled with all the fullness of God and the aftermath is that it will lead to your destruction like Achan and all that he had. What is the accursed thing in your life, household, family, tribe and nation? Please cry to the Lord for yourself and all that is yours. 

• Lord, thank You for loving and giving Yourself for me (church) Ephesians 5: 25.
• Thank you for Your coming, death, suffering, leaving all to save me.
• Let all Your suffering, death find expression and meaning in me and all that concerns me.
• We want to be able to face our enemies, take the battle to the enemies gates. But, if the accursed thing is present in me, my household, family, tribe and nation, it makes us turn our backs before the enemies. Thus, we become prey to them. What is it that God have against me, somewhat or accursed thing in my life, household, family, tribe, nation?
• Lord, have mercy on us. Destroy any accursed thing in us (Joshua 7:12). Destroy those sinful nature, tendencies that could make us turn back before the enemies. 
• Please, Lord, I don’t want you to come to my nation, tribe, families, households and I in judgement rather, come in mercy (Joshua 7: 14).
• Please, Lord, don’t search us (me, my household, family, tribe and nation) for destruction rather search us for repentance and mercy (Joshua 7: 15).
• When the Lord comes, it is to judge and burn the carrier of the accursed thing Lord, I don’t to perish. Please, let none of my household become burn or go to hell because they fail to destroy sin – the accursed thing.  Open our eyes to the accursed thing, be it hidden or open (Joshua 7: 15).
• Lord, forgive me where I have left You as my first love even though it seems as if I am working, patient and labouring (Revelation 2: 1 - 4).
• Help me remember where I have fallen from, where I have left You as my first love and started pursuing other things at the expense of my love for Christ Revelation 2: 5.
• Empty me of self-life and fill me with all the riches of Your fullness – repentance, righteousness, mercy, love, compassion, faith etc. Ephesians 3: 17.
• Let me be totally submissive, subject to Christ. It is out of my reverence first for Christ that I can submit to husbands and others. (Ephesians 5: 21, 24).
• Lord sanctify me and cleanse me by Your word so that I can become that glorious church without spot, wrinkle, or any such thing (accursed thing, somewhat etc.) Ephesians 5: 26-27).
• Lord, let the oneness you are longing for in the body of Christ be fulfilled in my local assembly (name of where you worship) John 17: 21 and 23. Take away disunity from my local assembly.
• Grant me confidence to know that this good work (salvation, repentance, etc.) you have started in my life, household, family, tribe, nation, church shall be accomplished until the day of our Lord Jesus, no matter what may be the present situations around my life and family members – Philippians 1:6.

Dear Lord, please come and search me now in mercy before it is too late!

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