It's almost time

Jesus’ return is very soon. Some people might stop reading this knowing that the post is centred on the second coming of Christ because it’s “a scary” topic.

Nevertheless, I have a few questions.

• What’s so scary about the world ending?

• What’s so frightening about rapture and Jesus’ glorious return?

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The return of Christ should be the happiest day for someone who lives for Him because you’re meeting your first love and, as a member of the church, you are meeting your bridegroom ( John 3:29 TPT). It should be the day we wait for expectantly.

But that isn’t the case.

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And the simple reason for this is because we really don’t know who we are going to meet. We are primarily scared of Christ’s coming because we don’t know if we’ll make it. This is because we don’t genuinely have a personal relationship with Jesus. Because if Jesus was truly a friend, we would be ecstatic about His return.

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Another reason could be because we are frightened for those who don’t know the Lord and we watch them settle in their life of sin, instead of helping them get onto the path of righteousness.

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These two issues root from fear. However, God says that He has not given us a spirit of fear ( 2 Timothy 1:7). To eliminate fear, we must learn to love Jesus. Once we fall in love with Jesus, our hearts will yearn to be at His feet and we will desire to be seated with Him in the heavenly places.

Jesus Christ came to save us from the wrath of God. Once you accept Jesus Christ as Lord and saviour, you are saved. You become aware of the love God has for you and this pushes you to obey Him and ultimately carry your cross, neglecting all earthly desires. With this, you also learn to love the Lord Jesus more and wait expectantly for His glorious return.

So if you have this fear, I sincerely pray that Jesus will reveal Himself to you and that you would give Him the opportunity to do so. I pray that you fall in love with Jesus Christ and that your heart would wait eagerly for His majestic return❤️.

Bettering your relationship with God

Hi there,

Hope you are doing well by the grace of God.

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These are just a few tips on getting closer to the Father. Now, you need to understand that these tips cannot be done with human effort. The Holy Spirit alone can help you because God is spirit and it is the spirit in man (you and I) that connects to God. The Holy Spirit is the helper of the spirit in man ( John 14:16) . So, please remember the Holy Spirit.

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Also, you need to understand that the Lord provides that hunger, the desire to get closer to Him. Your flesh would never truly desire a genuine relationship with the Lord because having a relationship with God requires death of the flesh. So we must ask God for the desire to get closer to Him before we implement these steps into our daily routines. John 6:65 says that no one can come to Jesus unless the Father has enabled them (NIV). We can only get close to Him if He allows us and this can be done by simply asking Him.

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Tips📝

*An hour or so before you sleep, prepare an atmosphere for His  presence to dwell in so He speaks to you through dreams and so that you sleep in His presence.

*Take prayer breaks during the day, just inviting the Holy Spirit into every moment of your life.

*Take time to worship. On your own, put on some gospel music and worship the Lord for the Lord inhabits the praise of His people (Psalm 22:3 KJV).

*Fellowship with others. 

*Detach yourself from the world often. Find days where you intentionally spend the entire time in His presence, studying His word, watching sermons and praying.

*Set boundaries for what you watch, listen to and engage with. 

I sincerely pray that the Lord places an indescribable hunger to get closer to Him in our hearts. The desire has always been to burn and He is the one who sets us ablaze so the closer we get to Him, the more we can burn for Him. So God help us🤎!

See you next week God willing!😚

Fallen

It’s easy to fall out of love with the Lord due to multiple distractions.

We fall in love with Him because we understand Him and His ways a bit more and this understanding comes in the place of intimacy. However, when we stop being intimate with the Lord and allow other stuff to capture our hearts and fill our thoughts, we fall out of love with Him because He is no longer the Centre of it all.

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But that shouldn’t be, because we understand how much pleasure we receive when He is the only thought that fills our minds. We understand that we were created to be intimate with Him and to have continuous communion and fellowship with Him. We understand that our sole purpose is to bring Him glory and once we are out of line of this purpose, we are opposing the very will of God and we don’t want that.

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So let’s fall back in love with Him. Let’s intentionally spend time in His presence and allow Him to reveal Himself to us. All it takes is to have a posture of surrender and let the Holy Spirit know that you need Him sincerely in this walk of faith.

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I know this message is quite short but sometimes the Lord just wants to remind you to keep your eyes and heart on Him🤎