04/06/2022 – truthforlife.org: “What does it look like to be a faithful disciple?” / fyi: “Normal” is not coming back, Jesus is!”
https://blog.truthforlife.org/what-does-it-look-like-to-be-a-faithful-disciple
If I knew you got this far, I would say a prayer of thanksgiving to my prayer of petition this morning! No, I need to say it now!,not knowing , but having faith! Next step: Click on the link above and read the article, pray and reflect. If the Holy Spirit is still tugging on your shoulder say weeks hence, you are being called to something unfathomably greater, in wordly terms: to fight relentlessly in what seems like a completely hopeless battle. (we must not focus our perception on this life that is lasting only a breath from here, regardless of the timing of Yeshua’s (Jesus’) 2nd coming, but on His Kingdom in heaven. And besides perception is 180 degrees from reality: See Judges 7: “God selects Gideon’s army” ) So, just ask yourself weeks hence: “What would be the odds that I would be reflecting on this weeks later, if not from the Holy Spirit?”
I am a mess, but I am a redeemed mess. And I am learning to be progressively more “comfortable with uncomfortable”. That is my story and I’m sticking to it! I saw a t-shirt the other day: “Normal” is not coming back, Jesus is! Heaven is perfect yet paradoxically, we have a closing window of opportunity lasting that single breath here in this evil world: We will never again have the opportunity to witness to lost souls and suffer in His name. (See 1 Peter 4: 12-13, 1 Peter 4:1 / James 1:12 / and so many more verses…
https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-about-suffering/
And as to witnessing to lost souls, the Great Commission, Jesus’ command, the last two verses in Matthew:
“Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.” Matthew 28: 19-20
My warrior mentors for today: The Ukranian Christian remnant. Continue to pray for them – prayers of petition certainly, but also prayers of thanksgiving. This can only be from the Holy Spirit.
Soli Deo Gloria!
Love,
Your brother in Christ,
Jimmy