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Posted: 07/26/2012 at 8:15am | IP Logged Quote Kevin Barrett

In my prayer time with the Lord today, He said these words: 

My son, hear Me this day.  I am about to do a new thing in the earth that will tingle the ears of those that hear and many will be astounded. My son, tell My people to mend their ways.   

Word from the Lord:

Oh, My people, do you not sense in the Spirit the change in the atmosphere?  My people, I am doing a new thing in the earth and the old ways of doing things will not work for you any longer.  Seek Me, My people and come up where I sit on My throne.  For those that shall lay all down for me in these days shall have their hearts thrilled.  Oh, My people, I do not want any of you to miss out on this.  But hear Me, and hear Me well.  For there are many that call themselves by My name that worship Me with their lips only, but their hearts are far from Me.  Do not be deceived, not everyone that call themselves by My name truly follow Me.  MY sheep hear My voice and follow Me wherever I lead.  And in these days, I am leading My sheep into My chambers. 

Oh, my little children.  Cry out to Me and come unto Me often.  Come away from the cares of this world and sit in the presence of your God.  I love you all, My dear children with an everlasting love.  Oh, but hear Me, My dear little ones.  As I have said in My word, there were only five of the ten virgins that had extra oil in their lamps.  The foolish ones said to the wise ones, “Give us of your oil”.  Oh My little ones, you cannot receive My oil from another.  You cannot know Me intimately by receiving from your teachers, pastors or prophets.  You MUST spend time alone with Me in the secret chambers of your heart.  My children, I have made it this way to weed out those that only seek Me for My gifts.  In My word, I healed ten lepers, but only one returned to thank Me.  My children, do not be like the other nine that went their way once they received their gift from Me. 

My children, these days will determine those who are truly Mine and those who are not.  The lawless one comes quickly upon the world’s scene and he will deceive many.  Those that think they are mine, but are not will quickly follow his deceitful and smooth words as their answer to their current crisis.  For I am shaking everything that can be shaken and many will be dismayed and think that I have left them to fend for themselves because I did not save their fleshly kingdoms. 

But hear Me, My people.  I shall have a remnant that will rise from the ashes and she will be My beautiful bride adorned in My righteousness.  She will stand and she shall redeem all that are Mine that will seek after Me with a pure heart.  She will be My will and My hands and feet in the earth realm.  And she shall not be overcome by the world but shall overcome. 

Oh, My people, how I desire for you all to be part of My beautiful bride in the earth.  But woe unto the foolish virgins, for they shall not be ready when I come to My bride.  And once the door is shut, there will be no second chances.  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when many of My people see what they have lost out on because they did not spend time with their Master. 

So hear Me, My people.  I am now looking across the earth to see who has a heart for their Master and Lover of their soul.  And I shall begin to take these ones through the purifying fires of My Spirit to wash and purify My bride.  Do you heed the call of your Master to lay all down at My feet and allow Me to purge and purify you?  If you do, get ready, My people.  For I am about to rain down fire from heaven that will purge and purify those that have a pure heart after Me. 

I love you, My people, and desire the day that we shall be together as one.  So come up higher and sit with Me, My people.  And allow Me to do the work in you that I so much desire to do.  You cannot find this work in your churches.  Your pastors cannot purge you, My people.  Only the fire of My Spirit can do this work.  So separate yourselves unto Me and cry out to me for My fire.  See if I will not answer from heaven and rain down upon your souls and spirits.  I love you My people and this is My gift for My bride.  Do you receive what I have for you this day, My people? 

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1 Samuel 3:11 Then the LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. 

Isaiah 29:13 Then the Lord said, “Because this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote, 

Revelations 4:1 After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” 

John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 

Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 

Luke 17:15-18 Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice; and he fell on his face at Jesus’ feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”   

Matthew 25:10-13 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.   Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.  But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.  Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh. 

Luke 12:49 “I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!  

Malachi 3:3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the LORD an offering in righteousness.



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Posted: 07/26/2012 at 11:48am | IP Logged Quote Werner Woop

THESE GODS ARE AS GRASS


12-14-2006 by Judy Curmi


Don’t look at others, Judy. Look to me and keep your eyes on me.


You do not know or understand what I am doing in others. I want you to trust me, trust that I know what I am doing and that my will will be accomplished to the utmost.


The shaking has begun. Soon it will come hard and fast, from many directions at once.


Very few are prepared for what is on the horizon.


Very few have chosen to make me a priority in their lives.


They worship other gods and follow other paths, either in delusion or by specific choice.


These other “gods” have their rewards – for the moment, but these other gods will begin to fall with a great crash as I turn up the heat.


As the fish god Dagon of the Philistines fell with a resounding crash [1 Sam. 5:1-5], so will all of the things people have put before me and which they serve as their gods.


THESE GODS ARE AS GRASS BEFORE ME.


They will burn up or wither away in the heat of my consuming fire.


I am not a God that can be mocked forever.


I am not a God that can be ignored forever, as men pursue the desires of their flesh in rampant rebellion to my Word.


My words bring LIFE, but mankind has chosen DEATH.


There is a cult of death in your country (the USA), while in certain other cultures death is worshipped as a way to reach paradise.


I do not require dead bodies to reach me!


The price to enter my heavenly kingdom has already been paid in full.


Nothing can be added or subtracted.
When I mark something “Paid in Full” it is “Paid in Full”!


On the other hand, my gifts are not to be taken lightly or spurned.*


A very high price was paid for your redemption from the power of sin.


Who will walk the walk?
Who is willing to do more than talk the talk?


Talk is so cheap. It is nothing but words.


Your world is awash in words and broken promises, but where is the man or woman who is willing to pick up their cross and follow me?


Who is willing to die to themselves and receive my resurrection life?


Who is willing to let my power flow through them without wanting to take credit or use this power for their own monetary gain?


I AM going to shake out those who use my name falsely in the days ahead.


I AM going to separate the sheep and the goats and the wheat and the tares. [Matt. 25:32-46, Matt. 13:1-43]


Many goats are under the delusion that they are mine and are actually sheep, but they never got to know me.


They never wanted to know me.


They were quite satisfied and comfortable where they were at.


They took satisfaction in where they were at.
They did not want a relationship with me.
They never knew my voice, nor did they want to follow me.


MY SHEEP KNOW MY VOICE AND THEY FOLLOW ME!


Is this too hard to understand? No, even a child can grasp this simple truth.


It is the person who is wise in their own eyes who has persuaded themselves that they can be a sheep when they are not of my flock – when they do not recognize my voice or follow me.


Now the hour is at hand to begin the great separation.


Many will stampede in the opposite direction from me as the heat is applied.


The pretenders and the pretense will fall away.


The truth of a man’s walk will be exposed!


I will bring down those who say they are mine, but are standing in opposition to MY will.


I will bring down the mockers and the scoffers.


They will run for cover to the things of man, the most foolish and dangerous thing they can do!


The beast will swallow these ones up like candy. The promises will sound tempting and the heat will be so hot…but by disregarding ME they will walk from the frying pan into the fire, from the skillet into the red hot burner, oblivious to the future that awaits them.


Can we reason together?


Will there ever be another viewpoint that is of any importance beyond their own?


We will see how viewpoints in opposition to mine do in the days ahead.


MY WORD IS NOT CONFUSING!


It is clear and concise.


It brings LIFE, whereas all of the grandiose schemes of man result in nothing but death and ashes.


WATCH ME SHAKE!


LISTEN TO ME!


FOLLOW AND OBEY.


THERE IS NO OTHER WAY!


My sheep know my voice and they follow me.
They do not follow another.


Whom are you following if you are not following me?


Do you still think and insist that you are one of my sheep?


Your Jesus


*Spurn: To reject or refuse disdainfully, scorn, contemptuous rejection

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Without a Wedding Garment
[This chapter is based on Matt. 22:1-14.]

The parable of the wedding garment opens before us a lesson of the highest consequence. By the marriage is represented the union of humanity with divinity; the wedding garment represents the character which all must possess who shall be accounted fit guests for the wedding.

In this parable, as in that of the great supper, are illustrated the gospel invitation, its rejection by the Jewish people, and the call of mercy to the Gentiles. But on the part of those who reject the invitation, this parable brings to view a deeper insult and a more dreadful punishment. The call to the feast is a king's invitation. It proceeds from one who is vested with power to command. It confers high honor. Yet the honor is unappreciated. The king's authority is despised. While the householder's invitation was regarded with indifference, the king's is met with insult and murder. They treated his servants with scorn, despitefully using them and slaying them.

The householder, on seeing his invitation slighted, declared that none of the men who are bidden should taste of his supper. But for those who had done despite to the king, more than exclusion from his presence and his table is decreed. "He sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city."

In both parables the feast is provided with guests, but the second shows that there is a preparation to be made by all who attend the feast. Those who neglect this preparation are cast out. "The king came in to see the guests," and "saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment; and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The call to the feast had been given by Christ's disciples. Our Lord had sent out the twelve and afterward the seventy, proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand, and calling upon men to repent and believe the gospel. But the call was not heeded. Those who are bidden to the feast did not come. The servants were sent out later to say, "Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage."

This was the message borne to the Jewish nation after the crucifixion of Christ; but the nation that claimed to be God's peculiar people rejected the gospel brought to them in the power of the Holy Spirit. Many did this in the most scornful manner. Others were so exasperated by the offer of salvation, the offer of pardon for rejecting the Lord of glory, that they turned upon the bearers of the message. There was "a great persecution." Acts 8:1. Many both of men and women were thrust into prison, and some of the Lord's messengers, as Stephen and James, were put to death.

Thus the Jewish people sealed their rejection of God's mercy. The result was foretold by Christ in the parable. The king "sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city." The judgment pronounced came upon the Jews in the destruction of Jerusalem and the scattering of the nation.

The third call to the feast represents the giving of the gospel to the Gentiles. The king said, "The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy. Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage."

The king's servants who went out into the highways "gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good." It was a mixed company. Some of them had no more real regard for the giver of the feast than had the ones who rejected the call. The class first bidden could not afford, they thought, to sacrifice any worldly advantage for the sake of attending the king's banquet. And of those who accepted the invitation, there were some who thought only of benefiting themselves. They came to share the provisions of the feast, but had no desire to honor the king.

When the king came in to view the guests, the real character of all was revealed. For every guest at the feast there had been provided a wedding garment. This garment was a gift from the king. By wearing it the guests showed their respect for the giver of the feast. But one man was clothed in his common citizen dress. He had refused to make the preparation required by the king. The garment provided for him at great cost he disdained to wear. Thus he insulted his lord. To the king's demand, "How camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?" he could answer nothing. He was self-condemned. Then the king said, "Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness."

By the king's examination of the guests at the feast is represented a work of judgment. The guests at the gospel feast are those who profess to serve God, those whose names are written in the book of life. But not all who profess to be Christians are true disciples. Before the final reward is given, it must be decided who are fitted to share the inheritance of the righteous. This decision must be made prior to the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven; for when He comes, His reward is with Him, "to give every man according as his work shall be." Rev. 22:12. Before His coming, then, the character of every man's work will have been determined, and to every one of Christ's followers the reward will have been apportioned according to his deeds.

It is while men are still dwelling upon the earth that the work of investigative judgment takes place in the courts of heaven. The lives of all His professed followers pass in review before God. All are examined according to the record of the books of heaven, and according to his deeds the destiny of each is forever fixed.

By the wedding garment in the parable is represented the pure, spotless character which Christ's true followers will possess. To the church it is given "that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white," "not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing." Eph. 5:27. The fine linen, says the Scripture, "is the righteousness of saints." Rev. 19:8. It is the righteousness of Christ, His own unblemished character, that through faith is imparted to all who receive Him as their personal Saviour.

The white robe of innocence was worn by our first parents when they were placed by God in holy Eden. They lived in perfect conformity to the will of God. All the strength of their affections was given to their heavenly Father. A beautiful soft light, the light of God, enshrouded the holy pair.

This robe of light was a symbol of their spiritual garments of heavenly innocence. Had they remained true to God it would ever have continued to enshroud them. But when sin entered, they severed their connection with God, and the light that had encircled them departed. Naked and ashamed, they tried to supply the place of the heavenly garments by sewing together fig leaves for a covering.

This is what the transgressors of God's law have done ever since the day of Adam and Eve's disobedience. They have sewed together fig leaves to cover the nakedness caused by transgression. They have worn the garments of their own devising, by works of their own they have tried to cover their sins, and make themselves acceptable with God.

But this they can never do. Nothing can man devise to supply the place of his lost robe of innocence. No fig-leaf garment, no worldly citizen dress, can be worn by those who sit down with Christ and angels at the marriage supper of the Lamb.

Only the covering which Christ Himself has provided can make us meet to appear in God's presence. This covering, the robe of His own righteousness, Christ will put upon every repenting, believing soul. "I counsel thee," He says, "to buy of Me . . . white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear." Rev. 3:18.

This robe, woven in the loom of heaven, has in it not one thread of human devising. Christ in His humanity wrought out a perfect character, and this character He offers to impart to us. "All our righteousness are as filthy rags." Isa. 64:6. Everything that we of ourselves can do is defiled by sin. But the Son of God "was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin." Sin is defined to be "the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:5, 4.

But Christ was obedient to every requirement of the law. He said of Himself, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God; yea, Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8. When on earth, He said to His disciples, "I have kept My Father's commandments." John 15:10. By His perfect obedience He has made it possible for every human being to obey God's commandments.

When we submit ourselves to Christ, the heart is united with His heart, the will is merged in His will, the mind becomes one with His mind, the thoughts are brought into captivity to Him; we live His life. This is what it means to be clothed with the garment of His righteousness. Then as the Lord looks upon us He sees, not the fig-leaf garment, not the nakedness and deformity of sin, but His own robe of righteousness, which is perfect obedience to the law of Jehovah.

The guests at the marriage feast were inspected by the king. Only those were accepted who had obeyed his requirements and put on the wedding garment. So it is with the guests at the gospel feast. All must pass the scrutiny of the great King, and only those are received who have put on the robe of Christ's righteousness.

Righteousness is right doing, and it is by their deeds that all will be judged. Our characters are revealed by what we do. The works show whether the faith is genuine.

It is not enough for us to believe that Jesus is not an impostor, and that the religion of the Bible is no cunningly devised fable. We may believe that the name of Jesus is the only name under heaven whereby man may be saved, and yet we may not through faith make Him our personal Saviour. It is not enough to believe the theory of truth. It is not enough to make a profession of faith in Christ and have our names registered on the church roll. "He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him. And hereby we know that He abideth in us, by the Spirit which He hath given us." "Hereby we do know that we know Him if we keep His commandments." 1 John 3:24; 2:3. This is the genuine evidence of conversion. Whatever our profession, it amounts to nothing unless Christ is revealed in works of righteousness.

The truth is to be planted in the heart. It is to control the mind and regulate the affections. The whole character must be stamped with the divine utterances. Every jot and tittle of the word of God is to be brought into the daily practice.

He who becomes a partaker of the divine nature will be in harmony with God's great standard of righteousness, His holy law. This is the rule by which God measures the actions of men. This will be the test of character in the judgment.

There are many who claim that by the death of Christ the law was abrogated; but in this they contradict Christ's own words, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. . . . Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law." Matt. 5:17, 18. It was to atone for man's transgression of the law that Christ laid down His life. Could the law have been changed or set aside, then Christ need not have died. By His life on earth He honored the law of God. By His death He established it. He gave His life as a sacrifice, not to destroy God's law, not to create a lower standard, but that justice might be maintained, that the law might be shown to be immutable, that it might stand fast forever.

Satan had claimed that it was impossible for man to obey God's commandments; and in our own strength it is true that we cannot obey them. But Christ came in the form of humanity, and by His perfect obedience He proved that humanity and divinity combined can obey every one of God's precepts.

"As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name." John 1:12. This power is not in the human agent. It is the power of God. When a soul receives Christ, he receives power to live the life of Christ.

God requires perfection of His children. His law is a transcript of His own character, and it is the standard of all character. This infinite standard is presented to all that there may be no mistake in regard to the kind of people whom God will have to compose His kingdom. The life of Christ on earth was a perfect expression of God's law, and when those who claim to be children of God become Christlike in character, they will be obedient to God's commandments. Then the Lord can trust them to be of the number who shall compose the family of heaven. Clothed in the glorious apparel of Christ's righteousness, they have a place at the King's feast. They have a right to join the blood-washed throng.

The man who came to the feast without a wedding garment represents the condition of many in our world today. They profess to be Christians, and lay claim to the blessings and privileges of the gospel; yet they feel no need of a transformation of character. They have never felt true repentance for sin. They do not realize their need of Christ or exercise faith in Him. They have not overcome their hereditary or cultivated tendencies to wrongdoing. Yet they think that they are good enough in themselves, and they rest upon their own merits instead of trusting in Christ. Hearers of the word, they come to the banquet, but they have not put on the robe of Christ's righteousness.

Many who call themselves Christians are mere human moralists. They have refused the gift which alone could enable them to honor Christ by representing Him to the world. The work of the Holy Spirit is to them a strange work. They are not doers of the world. The heavenly principles that distinguish those who are one with Christ from those who are one with the world have become almost indistinguishable. The professed followers of Christ are no longer a separate and peculiar people. The line of demarcation is indistinct. The people are subordinating themselves to the world, to its practices, its customs, its selfishness. The church has gone over to the world in transgression of the law, when the world should have come over to the church in obedience to the law. Daily the church is being converted to the world.

All these expect to be saved by Christ's death, while they refuse to live His self-sacrificing life. They extol the riches of free grace, and attempt to cover themselves with an appearance of righteousness, hoping to screen their defects of character; but their efforts will be of no avail in the day of God.

The righteousness of Christ will not cover one cherished sin. A man may be a law-breaker in heart; yet if he commits no outward act of transgression, he may be regarded by the world as possessing great integrity. But God's law looks into the secrets of the heart.

Every act is judged by the motives that prompt it. Only that which is in accord with the principles of God's law will stand in the judgment.

God is love. He has shown that love in the gift of Christ. When "He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life," He withheld nothing from His purchased possession. (John 3:16.) He gave all heaven, from which we may draw strength and efficiency, that we be not repulsed or overcome by our great adversary. But the love of God does not lead Him to excuse sin. He did not excuse it in Satan; He did not excuse it in Adam or in Cain; nor will He excuse it in any other of the children of men. He will not connive at our sins or overlook our defects of character. He expects us to overcome in His name.

Those who reject the gift of Christ's righteousness are rejecting the attributes of character which would constitute them the sons and daughters of God. They are rejecting that which alone could give them a fitness for a place at the marriage feast.

In the parable, when the king inquired, "How camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment?" the man was speechless. So it will be in the great judgment day. Men may now excuse their defects of character, but in that day they will offer no excuse.

The professed churches of Christ in this generation are exalted to the highest privileges. The Lord has been revealed to us in ever-increasing light. Our privileges are far greater than were the privileges of God's ancient people. We have not only the great light committed to Israel, but we have the increased evidence of the great salvation brought to us through Christ. That which was type and symbol to the Jews is reality to us. They had the Old Testament history; we have that and the New Testament also. We have the assurance of a Saviour who has come, a Saviour who has been crucified, who has risen, and over the rent sepulcher of Joseph has proclaimed, "I am the resurrection and the life."

In our knowledge of Christ and His love the kingdom of God is placed in the midst of us. Christ is revealed to us in sermons and chanted to us in songs. The spiritual banquet is set before us in rich abundance. The wedding garment, provided at infinite cost, is freely offered to every soul.

By the messengers of God are presented to us the righteousness of Christ, justification by faith, the exceeding great and precious promises of God's word, free access to the Father by Christ, the comfort of the Spirit, the well-grounded assurance of eternal life in the kingdom of God. What could God do for us that He has not done in providing the great supper, the heavenly banquet?

In heaven it is said by the ministering angels: The ministry which we have been commissioned to perform we have done. We pressed back the army of evil angels. We sent brightness and light into the souls of men, quickening their memory of the love of God expressed in Jesus. We attracted their eyes to the cross of Christ.

Their hearts were deeply moved by a sense of the sin that crucified the Son of God. They were convicted. They saw the steps to be taken in conversion; they felt the power of the gospel; their hearts were made tender as they saw the sweetness of the love of God. They beheld the beauty of the character of Christ. But with the many it was all in vain. They would not surrender their own habits and character. They would not put off the garments of earth in order to be clothed with the robe of heaven. Their hearts were given to covetousness. They loved the associations of the world more than they loved their God.

Solemn will be the day of final decision. In prophetic vision the apostle John describes it: "I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works." Rev. 20:11, 12.


Sad will be the retrospect in that day when men stand face to face with eternity. The whole life will present itself just as it has been. The world's pleasures, riches, and honors will not then seem so important. Men will then see that the righteousness they despised is alone of value.

They will see that they have fashioned their characters under the deceptive allurements of Satan. The garments they have chosen are the badge of their allegiance to the first great apostate. Then they will see the results of their choice. They will have a knowledge of what it means to transgress the commandments of God.

There will be no future probation in which to prepare for eternity. It is in this life that we are to put on the robe of Christ's righteousness. This is our only opportunity to form characters for the home which Christ has made ready for those who obey His commandments.

The days of our probation are fast closing. The end is near. To us the warning is given, "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares." Luke 21:34. Beware lest it find you unready. Take heed lest you be found at the King's feast without a wedding garment.

"In such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh." "Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." Matt. 24:44; Rev. 16:15. 
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Posted: 07/26/2012 at 4:40pm | IP Logged Quote Kevin Barrett

Amen, Werner

Thank you so much for sharing. 

Oh Lord, I pray that you shake us awake to your calling and open our eyes to our nakedness and need for your righteousness.

Blessings,



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Posted: 07/27/2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged Quote Lyn McSweeney

Blessings to you Kevin!



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Posted: 07/27/2012 at 8:13pm | IP Logged Quote Janet Hanson

Thank you for posting this important word, Kevin. May we all be found ready for His coming.


"Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit." Lk. 12:35 (NASB)



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Posted: 05/26/2013 at 7:41pm | IP Logged Quote Karen Samford

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Posted: 06/01/2013 at 12:42am | IP Logged Quote Henry Falcone

Awesome word Kevin, and great threads with it. We must be prepared the fire is here !

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