faith20 @faith20@dingdash.com

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy living and godliness, looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, by reason of which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

2 Peter 3:10‭-‬13 ASV

It is a fact that God has delivered us from the power of darkness - Satan’s kingdom - and translated us into the Kingdom of Christ.

Thus, we have redemption and our sins are forgiven.

We are no longer in Satan’s territory nor are we under His authority.

The unbelieving, the Christ-rejecters, the rebellious and the disobedient are under Satan’s legitimate authority.

But we are not!

The fact is that when we repented and surrendered to Jesus Christ and made Him Lord, we were translated, carried over - spirit, soul, and body - out of the kingdom of Satan into the Kingdom of Christ.

Did you know that prophets can smell? They can smell uncleanness. They can smell sin. They can also smell the sweet aroma of prayer and worship. They can smell bread where the Word is preached. They can smell the fragrance of the Lord when He is present in a church.
Prophet, don’t be afraid to smell; you are not crazy.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
—1 CORINTHIANS 12:17

I rose up to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
—SONG OF SONGS 5:5

J. Eckhardt - "The Prophet's Manual"

People can be offended by prophets. Prophets can rub people the wrong way. Some people hate truth. They don’t like what prophets say. Remember, Jesus offended the people in His hometown. He offended the Pharisees and the religious leaders of His day. He did not “butter them up,” but He spoke the truth.

If you don’t want to offend anyone, you cannot be a prophet.

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.”
-MATTHEW 13:57

Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended after they heard this saying?”
-MATTHEW 15:12

J. Eckhardt - "The Prophet's Manual"

Father, in the name of Jesus, I am at the brink of my Red Sea, but I thank You for the miracles that come as I face impossible situations.

I thank You for Your saving grace, Your strong right hand, and Your outstretched arm.

No one has an arm like Yours! Even as You brought the children of Israel through the Red Sea, I know You are doing the same for me.

I depend upon You to see me through. There is absolutely nothing impossible for You, Jesus.

I take courage and comfort knowing that You are my strength when I am weak.

My trust is in You, God. I take You at Your word, for Your word will not return void unto You.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7T5k_1-2k&ab_channel=TheCrosbys

Ezekiel was such a blessing to the captives in Chaldea, for he was a prisoner himself, and so wrote, “I sat where they sat” (Ezekiel 3:15 amp). Paul uses an arresting phrase, “the fellowship of His sufferings” (Philippians 3:10). This conveys the same idea about a mutual sharing of trials and sorrows. Are we lonely? If so, we can tell Jesus all about our experience, and He will console us. Remember, He had nowhere to lay His head, and all His disciples forsook Him and fled. At the cross, too, there is the mystery too deep for us to understand: He was momentarily forsaken by His Father for our sins. Are we in pain? Jesus can enter with us into such physical anguish for He knew what anticipated pain was, yet went steadily onward to meet it. (See Matthew 16:21; 20:17–19.) Then, did He not suffer the most terrible kind of actual and physical pain when He was scourged, crowned with thorns, and crucified? (See Matthew 27:26, 29, 35.) ....

... Because God spared not His own Son from the trials and sorrows of earth, God will not spare us similar experiences. After all, we are one in Christ. Yet being full of compassion and plenteous in mercy, God will see to it that the ill He does permit is for His glory and our present and eternal good. Did He not allow His children to be cast into the fiery furnace, thrown into the lion’s den, and driven out from their homes to wander in sheepskins and goatskins? Yet God sanctified unto them these grievous trials and turned the curse into blessing. If He scourges with one hand, He supports with the other, and thus He is our consolation. (See Jeremiah 31:13.)

Like John on the isle of Patmos, some saints are finding themselves in places of restriction in this hour, and are struggling with all the emotional trappings that attend imprisonment and confinement.

Feelings such as hopelessness, uselessness, despair, abandonment, rejection, reproach, lack of understanding, loneliness, vulnerability, etc.

With such a host of emotions assaulting the prisoner’s equilibrium, it’s difficult to maintain an unswerving confidence in the simple secret of this chapter:

When you’re in confinement, God is closer to you than you realize.

The Lord assures the afflicted soul, “‘I will be with him in trouble’” (Psalm 91:15).

When you’ve been troubled by circumstances that twist and press your soul, be assured that your Lord is closer to you than ever!

B. Sorge