CHALLENGE

You are living in challenging times.  It seems like every morning you are faced with another crisis to pray about. I told My disciples that there would be wars and rumor of wars, plagues, famines, earthquakes and other dramatic occurrences in the Earth before I return.

My disciples faced so many challenges just as the persecuted church all over the world is facing many of the same challenges today.  However, those challenges did not deter My disciples from spreading the gospel world wide.

The main challenge you have each day in these times is to keep your focus on Me.  As you draw close to Me, My peace will invade your heart, and I will be able to instruct you through My Word and daily prayer what I desire for you to do each day in order to fulfill My will.

MATTHEW 24

RUN

I want you to run well in these last days.  My beloved Paul wrote this question to the churches in Galatia:  "You did run well; what did hinder you that you did not obey the truth (Galatians 5:7)?"  The Galatians were leaving the simple truth that we are saved by faith alone and that faith works by love.

My adversary is causing many believers to doubt the simple truths of My good news.  My Word predicts that there will be a falling away from the faith in the end days.

Pray for those you know who have turned away from My truth in these days.  Bind the hindrances of doubt and unbelief  that my enemy is placing in the minds of some believers and loose My Spirit of truth to lead those who are not running well to the simple truths of My gospel once again.

GALATIANS 5:6-7

SPACE

I am a merciful God, and I always give mankind a space to repent.  Some are asking now: "How long before things in America and the world turn around? 

I am giving those who have been corrupt in governing the nations a space to repent.  They no longer can cover their sins when full disclosure happens.  That is the space in time when they can choose to repent or continue their wicked ways.

Once the offer to repent has been given, then My glory will begin to fall upon the whole Earth. Do not grow weary during this space in time.  Keep praying and calling forth My Kingdom to come and My will to be done. I even gave Jezebel a space to repent.

REVELATION 2:21

LIGHTNING

When the Pharisees demanded Me to tell them when the kingdom of God should come, I said: "For as the lightning, that lights out of one part under heaven, shines to the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in His day (Luke 17:24)."

I was saying that the kingdom of God would not come with observation just like no one can know when the sky will be lit up by lightning.

My return will be like lightning. No one will know exactly the moment or the hour when the heavens will be lit with My glory upon My return.  This is why you must always be prepared.  Stay very close to Me in these last days.

LUKE 17:20-30

OCCUPIED

What has occupied your time lately? Has it been the news, friends, or social media.  There are so many things that can occupy your time today.  Technology today can rob you of time with Me.

The writer of Hebrews warned the readers not to be occupied with all kinds of strange doctrines.  The same is true today.  The writer gave the answer to how you can keep your focus on Me in these last days.  

The writer reminded the readers of the truth that  I am the same yesterday, and today, and forever. The writer urged the readers to establish their hearts fully with grace instead of occupying their time with rules and regulations like abstaining from meat. Give your heart fully to Me daily, and then My Holy Spirit will keep you on the path I have prepared for you.

HEBREWS 13:8-9

PUBLISH

When My ministry first began, I asked those who were healed and delivered not to publish what happened to them when they returned home and also when they went to other towns.

What is being published abroad today is not My gospel.  It is the deceptive words of My enemy.  The only way to fight such deception is to publish My truth to every nation. My disciples began in Jerusalem, and soon My good news was published throughout the world.

The one sign of My return to earth is that the gospel of My kingdom shall be published in every nation. Pray for more laborers during this harvest time, but also recognize that you are My laborer at this time.  Begin to publish My gospel in your own neighborhood.

MARK 7:36; 13:10

SEEN

You live in an age when deception is raging.  This causes many to lose their sense of reality. Only the spiritual discernment that is gained through reading and applying My Word will help you to determine what is reality and what is not.

My servant Paul wrote: "While we look not at the things that are seen, but at the things that are  not seen: for the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18)."

The things in the spiritual realm are not seen, but I can reveal those things to those who have eyes of faith. I desire for you to war through intercession for those who are bound by temporal things.  Ask Me to reveal to you what to bind on earth so those things will be bound in the spiritual realm and what to loose on earth so those things will be loosed in the spiritual realm.

2 CORINTHIANS 4:18; MATTHEW 16:19