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In Italy the situation is really unbearable. Without a vaccination passport you can no longer work. As I have already written to you since the first of September I am at home without work. It's sad but it's happening right under our eyes. I have been a believer for twenty years and I can assure you that it is a very hard test. I am also thinking of expatriation but I don't even know where to go. They took our jobs away! Pray again for my wife and me. Let's pray together for Italy. Remember that what is happening now here could happen anywhere because Italy has been chosen as the world leader for the organization of vaccinations. Thanks again. I love you in Jesus Christ.

@OneofTen Amen. God bless you.

@Cherishingsparrows2020 @KarlGessler Amen

@KarlGessler Amen

For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

I Peter 4:17‭-‬18 NKJV

To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:

- A time to be born,
- And a time to die;
- A time to plant,
- And a time to pluck what is planted;
- A time to kill,
- And a time to heal;
- A time to break down,
- And a time to build up;
- A time to weep,
- And a time to laugh;
- A time to mourn,
- And a time to dance;
- A time to cast away stones,
- And a time to gather stones;
- A time to embrace,
- And a time to refrain from embracing;
- A time to gain,
- And a time to lose;
- A time to keep,
- And a time to throw away;
- A time to tear,
- And a time to sew;
- A time to keep silence,
- And a time to speak;
- A time to love,
- And a time to hate;
- A time of war,
- And a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1‭-‬8 NKJV

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Elijah was a man with a nature like ours,

and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.

And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

James 5:16‭-‬18 NKJV

For thus says the Lord God of Israel:

The bin of flour shall not be used up, nor shall the jar of oil run dry,

until the day the Lord sends rain on the earth.’ ”

I Kings 17:14 NKJV

Because you have kept the word of My endurance [My command to persevere],

I will keep you [safe] from the hour of trial,

that hour which is about to come on the whole [inhabited] world, to test those who live on the earth.

Revelation 3:10 AMP

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin,

but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Romans 6:12‭-‬13 NKJV

But you have come
- to Mount Zion and
- to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem,
- to an innumerable company of angels,
- to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven,
- to God the Judge of all,
- to the spirits of just men made perfect,
- to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and
- to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

Hebrews 12:22‭-‬24 NKJV

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 2:19 NKJV

Do you remember what God said to Joshua?

“You’ve got to put your foot on every place to make it yours.”

Just as Joshua and Israel had to “put their feet” on the Promised Land to inherit it, we must “put our feet down” and stand on the promises God has given us in order to inherit His promises to us.

“That through these [the promises] you may be partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4).

As you appropriate the promises, you become a partaker of God’s own nature.

This is one of the most astonishing statements in the entire Bible.

The Bible says to “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth” (Col 3:2).

Paul put this concept in military terms:
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Cor 10:5).

How does one do this?

Scripture is the mind of God. Not all of His mind, to be sure, but all that God cared to give believers.

To think like God, one must think like Scripture.

That’s why Paul encouraged the Colossians to let the word of Christ richly dwell within them (Col 3:16).

Derek Prince - "By Grace Alone"

Let me present this thought to you: “The will of God will never place you where the grace of God cannot keep you.” If you are in the will of God, no matter how strange, unfamiliar or difficult the situation may be, if you come to the end of all your own strength and resources, bear this in mind: “The will of God will never place you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”

You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.

There is One who stands before us and declares He will never leave us, nor forsake us. No matter how we may love each other, we are never in the presence of our dearest friends every part of every day, but here is One who declares He will never leave us, never forsake us.

"Living Water" - Brother Yun

I believe the Western church is generally in the same condition as Martha. You know the truths about God's Word in your head, but you still like to run your own lives.

Like Martha, many Christians cry out, “Lord, if you had just done things according to our plans, we would never have ended up in such a mess.”

Friend, you need to realize that God is not at all interested in your plans. He is only interested in His plans!

So many churches and individual believers think they should make their own plans and strategies, then ask (or in some cases, command) God to bless them.