Some much needed encouragement. The 8 minute video I am sharing below will lift you up on our watch. Also, Lyn Melvin put out an excellent blog post that will encourage you as well and one reason why I chose the image above for this post. Here is Lyn’s post…
2022–The Year of Tenacity and Awakening
Besides the image making me think of Noah and his family entering the ark and the door behind shut behind them:
Luke 17:26-35
Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all— so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back. Remember Lot’s wife. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it. I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”
Here are some other DOOR verses that come to mind…
Matthew 25:10
And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
Mark 13:33-35
Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake. Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—
Luke 13:24-29
“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’ Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’ In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out. And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.
John 10:7-11
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
Revelation 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.”
Once the rapture happens and the door is shut than Israel will be in the their final week of years and being shown and proven that Jesus WAS / IS their long awaited Messiah. They will be reconciled to God during that time as they finally turn to Jesus. That day is closer now than when we first began our watch. This year perhaps. I, for one, am expecting it to be this year. We watch and we wait. It is all we can do. But most importantly, we focus on Jesus and do the work he leads us to do while we watch and wait. Now for that encouragement…
If you belong to Jesus then you need to listen to this 8mins. You will not regret it! Five promises from the Bible that will renew our vision and strength for the battles we face in the good fight of faith.
Hang On Saints — Five Battle Promises
More by Lee Brainard at Soothkeep: Soothkeep YouTube and his Website.
Be encouraged! Not long now!!!
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