19/04/11

His people are waiting for Him

Luke 8:40 - And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.


In the Bible we see more importance is given to purpose and process. It is by the process the purpose is perfected.

God did not make us without purpose just to exist. When God made us He had a purpose but to perfect the purpose He put us through a process and that process is what we call life here on earth in this flesh.

God very well knew when He created Satan what he would do, God also knew how man would sin and fall. But God also knew the answer and wrote the victory through His Son and His Spirit. The Son became a way for the Spirit to do the work in man.

All Christians who know that life here on earth is the process of preparing us for the eternal life in Heaven, are all waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. Their waiting for Jesus is because we know that Jesus' coming is a sign of the completion of all that God is written of the process we need to go through.

God has prepared awesomely for us in Heaven which awaits us and to take us to Heaven is what Jesus would be coming for.

We may be going through difficult times, persecution in the Name of Christ but all these are just temporary and will come to an end but what awaits us is worth more than all that we suffer. So let us with great joy await the coming of our Lord Jesus and to quicken His coming let us quicken the process which the Lord wants to do in us.


[ Prayer Starter ]
Lord, You did not make us for vanity. When You created us You had a vision and that vision was good but to bring perfection in us You put us through a process. Lord, Your wisdom is unquestionable and non-comprehendible. You know what is right and good for us. Lord, we may be suffering for a while but we know what awaits us is worth much, much more. Lord, we wait for You to come and take us to our eternal inheritance in You. So as we wait quicken the process of making Sons of us...

This prayer we make in Jesus' Name, Amen.


[ Reference Scripturesr ]
Matthew 24:3-39
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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