"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thesselonions 4: 16-18
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1 Thesselonions 4: 16-18
Lord, we’re living in perilous times.
The kingdoms are in an uproar.
The nation of Israel sits at the hub of history,
And the predictions of Your Word are unfolding like a scroll.
Evil has never been stronger and the end has never been closer.
Our world is in the grip of the birth pangs of the coming tribulation,
The likes of which have never been seen before and will never be seen again.
Lord, rejecting the spirit of fear, we claim the Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.
Help us preach the Gospel in these last days.
Give us a sense of urgency, anticipation, and evangelism as we await the upward call.
May we persevere as we listen for the shout, for the voice of the archangel,
And for the trumpet call of God.
Dear Lord, give us patience and give us power.
Give us strength and give us souls, as we pray:
"Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”
In His precious name we pray....
Amen!
Have a Blessed Day Secure in His promises and our Future ! 😊
The kingdoms are in an uproar.
The nation of Israel sits at the hub of history,
And the predictions of Your Word are unfolding like a scroll.
Evil has never been stronger and the end has never been closer.
Our world is in the grip of the birth pangs of the coming tribulation,
The likes of which have never been seen before and will never be seen again.
Lord, rejecting the spirit of fear, we claim the Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.
Help us preach the Gospel in these last days.
Give us a sense of urgency, anticipation, and evangelism as we await the upward call.
May we persevere as we listen for the shout, for the voice of the archangel,
And for the trumpet call of God.
Dear Lord, give us patience and give us power.
Give us strength and give us souls, as we pray:
"Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”
In His precious name we pray....
Amen!
Have a Blessed Day Secure in His promises and our Future ! 😊
Heavenly Father,
Carry me into your place of shelter when storms of life rages around me.
Sustain me in the eye of the storms where your presence brings gentle calm.
Quiet my anxious heart when winds howl and waters churn.
Surround me with reminders that you are sovereign, you are good, and you are with me.
Lift my gaze up from the waves to see you above the storm.
Release me from the grip of dread and helplessness.
Thank you for your anchor for my soul that allows me to rest, even amid tumult, knowing you are in control.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Have a Blessed Night ! 😊
Carry me into your place of shelter when storms of life rages around me.
Sustain me in the eye of the storms where your presence brings gentle calm.
Quiet my anxious heart when winds howl and waters churn.
Surround me with reminders that you are sovereign, you are good, and you are with me.
Lift my gaze up from the waves to see you above the storm.
Release me from the grip of dread and helplessness.
Thank you for your anchor for my soul that allows me to rest, even amid tumult, knowing you are in control.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
Have a Blessed Night ! 😊
The Lukewarm Church Is Alive and Well Today
Pastor JD Farag Prophecy Update
(Closing Prayer) 7/28/24
"Father in heaven, we're in awe of You.
Who is like unto You, O, God?
Only You, O, God, know the end from the beginning and can tell us with such precision what the world's going to be like at the time of the end.
And for us to be that chosen generation, that final generation alive at the time when that trumpet sounds.
Wow!
So be it.
Lord, for anybody that maybe is here in this service, or perhaps there watching online, this was for them today because today is the day of their salvation.
And so, Lord, I pray they would not delay the most important decision of their life for eternal life.
Please, Jesus, I beg of You for their salvation, if they would surrender to You, believe in You, and call upon You, and be saved today.
Thank You for the gift of eternal life that You paid for.
And Lord, lastly, for those of us that are watching all of this stuff which is just off the charts, weird, and crazy, and bizarre, would You just — as You're always so gentle to, and gracious to, and faithful to do, just remind us.
I told you.
I told you so.
I told you.
Would did you expect the world to be like at the time of the end?
All this crazy, bizarre, blasphemous stuff that's going on?
I told you, that's exactly what would happen before I came to get you and take you out of the world.
So Lord, I pray for anyone that's discouraged, that they will leave here encouraged with these words because they're Your words in Your word.
And for that, we thank You.
In Jesus' name.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray.
Amen."
Pastor JD Farag Prophecy Update
(Closing Prayer) 7/28/24
"Father in heaven, we're in awe of You.
Who is like unto You, O, God?
Only You, O, God, know the end from the beginning and can tell us with such precision what the world's going to be like at the time of the end.
And for us to be that chosen generation, that final generation alive at the time when that trumpet sounds.
Wow!
So be it.
Lord, for anybody that maybe is here in this service, or perhaps there watching online, this was for them today because today is the day of their salvation.
And so, Lord, I pray they would not delay the most important decision of their life for eternal life.
Please, Jesus, I beg of You for their salvation, if they would surrender to You, believe in You, and call upon You, and be saved today.
Thank You for the gift of eternal life that You paid for.
And Lord, lastly, for those of us that are watching all of this stuff which is just off the charts, weird, and crazy, and bizarre, would You just — as You're always so gentle to, and gracious to, and faithful to do, just remind us.
I told you.
I told you so.
I told you.
Would did you expect the world to be like at the time of the end?
All this crazy, bizarre, blasphemous stuff that's going on?
I told you, that's exactly what would happen before I came to get you and take you out of the world.
So Lord, I pray for anyone that's discouraged, that they will leave here encouraged with these words because they're Your words in Your word.
And for that, we thank You.
In Jesus' name.
Come quickly, Lord Jesus, we pray.
Amen."
And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth
Revelation 3: 14-16
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth
Revelation 3: 14-16
STAY AWAY FROM PROSPERITY GOSPEL TEACHINGS!!!
In the prosperity gospel, also known as the “Word of Faith Movement,” the believer is told to use God, whereas the truth of biblical Christianity is just the opposite—God uses the believer.
Prosperity theology sees the Holy Spirit as a power to be put to use for whatever the believer wills.
The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a Person who enables the believer to do God’s will.
The prosperity gospel movement closely resembles some of the destructive greed sects that infiltrated the early church.
Paul and the other apostles were not accommodating to or conciliatory with the false teachers who propagated such heresy.
They identified them as dangerous false teachers and urged Christians to avoid them
Paul warned Timothy about such men in 1 Timothy 6:5, 9-11.
These men of “corrupt mind” supposed godliness was a means of gain and their desire for riches was a trap that brought them “into ruin and destruction” (v. 9).
The pursuit of wealth is a dangerous path for Christians and one which God warns about: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (v. 10).
If riches were a reasonable goal for the godly, Jesus would have pursued it.
But He did not, preferring instead to have no place to lay His head (Matthew 8:20) and teaching His disciples to do the same.
It should also be remembered that the only disciple concerned with wealth was Judas.
Paul said covetousness is idolatry (Ephesians 5:5) and instructed the Ephesians to avoid anyone who brought a message of immorality or covetousness (Ephesians 5:6-7).
Prosperity teaching prohibits God from working on His own, meaning that God is not Lord of all because He cannot work until we release Him to do so.
Faith, according to the Word of Faith doctrine, is not submissive trust in God; faith is a formula by which we manipulate the spiritual laws that prosperity teachers believe govern the universe.
As the name “Word of Faith” implies, this movement teaches that faith is a matter of what we say more than whom we trust or what truths we embrace and affirm in our hearts.
A favorite term of prosperity gospel teachers is “positive confession.
” This refers to the teaching that words themselves have creative power.
What you say, prosperity teachers claim, determines everything that happens to you.
Your confessions, especially the favors you demand of God, must all be stated positively and without wavering.
Then God is required to answer (as though man could require anything of God!).
Thus, God’s ability to bless us supposedly hangs on our faith.
James 4:13-16 clearly contradicts this teaching: “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
Far from speaking things into existence in the future, we do not even know what tomorrow will bring or even whether we will be alive.
Instead of stressing the importance of wealth, the Bible warns against pursuing it.
Believers, especially leaders in the church (1 Timothy 3:3), are to be free from the love of money (Hebrews 13:5).
The love of money leads to all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10).
Jesus warned, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).
In sharp contrast to the prosperity gospel emphasis on gaining money and possessions in this life, Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19).
The irreconcilable contradictions between prosperity teaching and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is best summed up in the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:24, “You cannot serve both God and money.”
In the prosperity gospel, also known as the “Word of Faith Movement,” the believer is told to use God, whereas the truth of biblical Christianity is just the opposite—God uses the believer.
Prosperity theology sees the Holy Spirit as a power to be put to use for whatever the believer wills.
The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a Person who enables the believer to do God’s will.
The prosperity gospel movement closely resembles some of the destructive greed sects that infiltrated the early church.
Paul and the other apostles were not accommodating to or conciliatory with the false teachers who propagated such heresy.
They identified them as dangerous false teachers and urged Christians to avoid them
Paul warned Timothy about such men in 1 Timothy 6:5, 9-11.
These men of “corrupt mind” supposed godliness was a means of gain and their desire for riches was a trap that brought them “into ruin and destruction” (v. 9).
The pursuit of wealth is a dangerous path for Christians and one which God warns about: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (v. 10).
If riches were a reasonable goal for the godly, Jesus would have pursued it.
But He did not, preferring instead to have no place to lay His head (Matthew 8:20) and teaching His disciples to do the same.
It should also be remembered that the only disciple concerned with wealth was Judas.
Paul said covetousness is idolatry (Ephesians 5:5) and instructed the Ephesians to avoid anyone who brought a message of immorality or covetousness (Ephesians 5:6-7).
Prosperity teaching prohibits God from working on His own, meaning that God is not Lord of all because He cannot work until we release Him to do so.
Faith, according to the Word of Faith doctrine, is not submissive trust in God; faith is a formula by which we manipulate the spiritual laws that prosperity teachers believe govern the universe.
As the name “Word of Faith” implies, this movement teaches that faith is a matter of what we say more than whom we trust or what truths we embrace and affirm in our hearts.
A favorite term of prosperity gospel teachers is “positive confession.
” This refers to the teaching that words themselves have creative power.
What you say, prosperity teachers claim, determines everything that happens to you.
Your confessions, especially the favors you demand of God, must all be stated positively and without wavering.
Then God is required to answer (as though man could require anything of God!).
Thus, God’s ability to bless us supposedly hangs on our faith.
James 4:13-16 clearly contradicts this teaching: “Now listen, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.’
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow.
What is your life?
You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.”
Far from speaking things into existence in the future, we do not even know what tomorrow will bring or even whether we will be alive.
Instead of stressing the importance of wealth, the Bible warns against pursuing it.
Believers, especially leaders in the church (1 Timothy 3:3), are to be free from the love of money (Hebrews 13:5).
The love of money leads to all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10).
Jesus warned, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions” (Luke 12:15).
In sharp contrast to the prosperity gospel emphasis on gaining money and possessions in this life, Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19).
The irreconcilable contradictions between prosperity teaching and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is best summed up in the words of Jesus in Matthew 6:24, “You cannot serve both God and money.”
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Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3: 17-19
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Revelation 3: 17-19
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches
Revelation 3: 20-22
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches
Revelation 3: 20-22