Don’t hope netmom, believe!! Jesus is coming soon for HIS bride. Those of us who belong to HIM must be spotless, pure and without wrinkle. That doesn’t mean perfect, it means, to be really in tune with God or trying to do the best you can. God is merciful and knows your heart. He understands where and what you want to be. We all fail in areas. He understands that. Don’t despair, TRUST Him!! CO
I know He’s coming.
What I’m hoping for is the soon part.
I have to DISAGREE with ya there CO. The bride of Christ will be spotless, blameless, pure and wrinkle-free and perfect! Being "in tune with God" and "trying to do the best you can" are man-made religious qualifications. The bride of Christ - believers - will be perfect because:
Philippians 3:9
And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.
Anyone who is trusting in their own good works or intentions to save them is believing in a false gospel. We are IN Christ and we have HIS righteousness that God gives to us by his grace through faith. So we ARE perfect, spotless, blameless and righteous and that is why we are his bride dressed in white and seated with him at the marriage feast!
Yes = indeed - The Return of the Lord Jesus for His Beloved Church - is so very very near!
I said in the initial post - perhaps this year.
That insight came from the article posted in the beginning posts of this thread (regarding this being THIS YEAR). I just came to that insight right before posting this thread.
I have known based on many many things that His coming for the Church - in the Rapture - is near - but I did not know until reading that article - that it was THAT near!
And I still am not 100% certain it will be in 2010.
I am 100% certain that THIS YEAR is a YEAR of RESTORATION and that it is the YEAR OF GOD PUTTING EVERYTHING IN HIS GOOD ORDER. A YEAR OF DIVINE ORDER.
That was said to me - that last prophecy. And the Year of Restoration prophecy has been said to me by MANY!
Both prophetic sayings resonate with my spirit - which is Heaven’s Amen response when we are shown something by others that is true - the Holy Spirit residing within us “leaps up” to say - AMEN - within our Spirit and our minds and our emotions.
That is why we are seeing, and will be seeing even more during this year - all over the world - RESTORATIONS happening - Restorations in homes - of marriages, of parent-child, of sibling relationships / in individuals - of health, mentally and physically - and most imporatnatly of SOULS / of businesses / of cities, states, and natios / of the CHURCH - reaching into all those parts of the church which in some of its parts have gone apostate - Jesus is RESTORING all the historic denominations back to their original caliing. I think this Restoration is going to extend to all those colleges and universities which were founded by Christians - but which have gone haywire in the last 50 years - they are going to be RESTORED to their founders’ original purpose - in Christ!
This Restoration year is all a wonderful gift from the Lord Jesus Himself to the entire world as He prepares everything and will have everything in divine order prior to His return for His own.
Joel foretold this time - in Joel 2 - in which He saw the time when the Holy Spirit would be poured out ON ALL FLESH!
That - dear friends - is what we are seeing occur this year!
(It has been happening for some time - but this year is evidently the one in which the River of God’s Spirit is pouring out - the River of the love of God - the River of His Healing Shed Blood from that Cross - which is an eternal river - is pouring out and is washing people’s sins away and washing away our illnesses and washing away all those things that have held back the blessings that God longs for us to have.....well - that RIVER (a key word at this time) is flowing over all the earth onto all human beings.
It would take a few days or weeks to relate to you how I have seen this happening in person and in reading about events happening all over the world.
Maybe one day there will be a chance to do this.
For now, if any have access to watching TCT TV (Total Christian Television) - TCT.TV is the website - so you can watch their programs on their website....
I would strongly recommend having that Television channel on at all times at home or to be on their website all you can (yes, that means less time on our beloved Free Republic).
Of course reading His Word is recommended at this time.
I am finding that it does not matter WHAT passage of scripture I am reading - EVERY scripture speaks to me and in every one - we are given such great insight into what the Lord Jesus really is doing and who He is and what His plan is for each one of us - which is so totally wonderful - well - we just need to be binding ourselves to God’s Word however we can do that - through TV, the Internet, through the Bible.
But even if we don’t do that - nothing can stop the RIVER that is flowing out to the entire world - as Jesus prepares it and us for the wonderful event called the Rapture of the Church - which very likely could be this year!
Hallelujah!
Maranatha!