Ears to Hear

Good Morning,

     God has been speaking to us since the end of last year that we are to be getting prepared for our eternity.  Yes, we know this, but really most of us spend the majority of our energy on living here and making a living here.  We invest numerous hours into the building of our earthly home, and this is fine if it is done in the right order of importance.  Really though, most of us are consumed with these things.  We tend to forget the command of our Lord, that says, "Seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things taken together will be given you besides." (Matt.6:33)  Our hearts should be longing for the Kingdom of God, heaven, and the return of our Lord.  Just think about it, the Lord has been preparing for us, it is time that the bride spends her time in expectation and preparation for home.  Listen to His heart; "Then the King will say to those at His right hand, Come you blessed of My Father (you favored of God and appointed to eternal salvation) inherit (receive as your own) the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." (Matt. 25:34)  Of course most of us can quote this verse: "Don't let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God, and trust also in Me.  There is more than enough room in My Father's home.  If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?  When everything is ready, then I will come and get you, so that you will always be with Me where I am." (John 14:1-3)  Now we understand that our Lord is in preparation, so we as His love should have the same heart.  Prepare means to make ready beforehand; to get into condition for use; plan the details of; to provide for by getting ready; it means a process that has a purpose which involves varying stages.  God has placed in our heart the desire for our eternal home and we must stir this up at all times.  Keeping eternity as our driving force will cause us to keep on the path of righteousness.  "But as it is written, Eye has not seen and ear has not heard, neither has entered into the heart of many the things that God has prepared (made and keeps ready; plan the details of) for those who love Him in affectionate reverence.  Yet to us (in varying stages) God has revealed unto us by His Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the deep things of God.  (I Corin. 2:9) As we yearn for His return and long to be with Him, He begins to reveal to us more of the secret things that He has hidden for us, not from us.

So then family, let us, "rejoice and shout for joy [exulting and triumphant]! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb at last has come, and His bride has prepared herself."(Rev.19:7) Our hearts should at all times have the longing that is recorded in the Word in many places.  Listen to this, "[Then, longingly addressing her absent shepherd, she cried] Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, return hastingly, O my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young hart as you cover the mountains [which separate us]." (Song of Solomon 2:17)  Let me say that the true Church has turned up the fires of her longing for the Love of her life.  We are awakening love, it is time.  Now, the Spirit and the bride are on one accord.  We are saying, come!  We are in preparation and more is opening up in the heavenlies to assist us in being single-minded.  "Now we live with great expectation and we have a priceless inheritance, an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled beyond the reach of change and decay.  Which are being guarded by God's power through your faith until you fully inherit that final salvation that is ready to be revealed for you in the last time." (I Peter 1:3-5)

I don't know about you, but I am glad that my inheritance is beyond the reach of the decay of earth.

Love,

Pastor D.