I didn’t teach her this… she must have learned this in her Sunday school class… but every time I pass by her door my heart is comforted in knowing that our beloved Lord will come back very soon… I often use these very words to comfort others… that are going through intense trials of sorrow, sickness, persecution…

My prayer is that Jesus returns soon…very soon to set everything right… to restore peace… to render justice… to deliver creation from her groaning birth pangs. The pain of living in this world which is not my land… is almost getting unbearable… it is scary to see the wicked getting all the more wicked. To be in the wrong is right whereas to be in the right is wrong… My soul is vexed to see this world turned so upside down that they no longer blush to call evil good and good evil… I can’t help but cry out… “Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down…” (Isa 64:1).

I really wish our Savior will return soon to sweep His bride off of her feet… to deliver her from all those who oppress her… to carry her away to a far away place which He has prepared for her… a place where there is no more sin and sorrow.

Most importantly my eyes can’t wait to see the Messiah, my first love… and lest we forget… we are His beloved… and if you are a people who are deeply in love… “What kind of people ought you to be? … You look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.” (2 Peter 3: 11- 12 NIV)!

We do feel a deep concern for the lost in our own families… and we do intercede with tears… my ears still ring with the tearful heart-rending prayers of my father for his only son— my brother who strayed away from the Lord… my whole family was overwhelmed with untold pain and I almost thought the Lord will surely kill him. However, God is good… and is very slow to anger and is full of mercy… my brother who was lost is now found… he was given up (by me) as dead but is now alive… actively winning other lost souls for Christ in a far away continent.

So, IMHO we certainly cannot arm twist others into believing and can only trust and let God’s Spirit do the saving …we should not delay in sharing the Gospel or be slow to intercede and pray for our lost loved ones… but to desire for a delay of Christ’s return? No…that is not the feeling of my heart…

The entire family on my husband’s side is unsaved. They are very good folks who readily and lovingly accepted me- an outsider, into their family. After our marriage we just had 2 weeks time before leaving that country…hence, their salvation was my #1 priority. My big fear was that there might not be another opportunity to tell them about Jesus… talked my husband into postponing our honeymoon… so we could spend those 2 weeks with his family. Of course it was not 2 weeks of Bible-beating and fiery preaching. My strategy was different… I asked my Mother-in-law to take a break as I took over the reins of the kitchen… cooked and cooked… till I could cook no more… for a family of 7! It was the very first impression… and I literally sweated… while praying before every dish that I fixed. Needless to say that all the food and the shopping sprees with MIL gave me enough time to win all their hearts…and sow the seed of the Gospel! …and if anyone thinks it was a wrong or selfish motive behind all of the cooking and the shopping then so be it… I would absolutely do anything to win people for Christ… anything that is humanly possible on my part…but changing their hearts and saving them is His part. I trust Him completely. The Lord knows all those who belong to Him and has mercifully appeared to delay His second coming until the very last one is saved!

I believe in prayer, “The prayers of a rightous man avails much”, so I pray for myself and the world – to comfort the sick, broken hearted, etc. I have stopped saying, “good bye or thank you”‘ without also saying, “God bless you.” One day I SAW with my heart, I saw how evil doesn’t hide, it’s in our books, radio, tv, everywhere. When it does evil in hiding, it always surfaces – I thought, “WE CAN DO THAT TOO!”

I tell every Christian I meet, I first ask if they are Christians, then tell them to start useing “God bless.” I explain that if we could get the Spirit of God into the realm around us, hear Him in others, see Him in others and around us, that MAYBE, MAYBE………..

God bless.

I have been impressed with Paul’s compassion for his people.

Romans 9:1-5 (NASB95)
1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit,
2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,
5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

I also don’t want to be like those who made excuses when Jesus said to follow Him. I am ready to go now. I am not perfect, but I’m ready to follow Him whenever He calls me.

After preaching a sermon one Sunday on the Rapture, he invited the congregation to meet him after the service on the church lawn for ‘rapture practice’.

Those of us who were present for the ‘practice’ still laugh today at any mention of the Rapture as we recall our fond memories of this dearly departed saint.

Huggs
frank

PS. I have those ’selfish’ moments, too, when in desperation I call out for Jesus to come quickly; however, I am reminded of all the lost (including a granddaughter) and weep at my selfishness.

She also is a worrier. I speak with her almost every day, we talk of our mutual faith and expectation of Christ’s return.

She, only last year lost a daughter to an unexpected death. She grieves every day over her children.( She had 4.) Worrying about their salvation. Even after they assure her they have accepted Christ still she worries.

The appointed time of the rapture, will happen. No ammount of praying from us will deter that time line one bit.

Many people came to Christ through the trials and tribulations their wayward life brought them to.
So it will be during the “Great Tribulation”. Some people are just so hard headed and stuborn that only the heavy hand of God’s Great Tribulation will finaly open their minds and hearts to accept Christ. The prophecy including the Jewish Nation.

Yes I long for the return of Jesus Christ, for the time when there are no more crippled people, no more cancer, no more death. A time when God’s justice prevails and His will is done on Earth.