When the body of Christ is raptured to heaven, we will not leave as a beat-up, busted, disgusted bride – NO! We will leave this earth as a glorious bride without spot or wrinkle or any such thing!

Ephesians 5:25-27 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of God’s word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

As the body of Christ, we may not be what we should be, but you can be sure that God has great plans for us, and his purposes will prevail! For it is God who is working in us both to will and to act according to his good pleasure! Philippians 2:13

Seeing all that’s happening on the world stage makes me realize even more that we are in the last days! Knowing that Jesus will soon return gets me excited and stirs me to be about his glorious business! I love Paul’s admonition to Timothy in the following Scripture.

2 Timothy 1:5-8 (NIV)  I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also. 6 For this reason, I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline. 8 So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God.

God is doing great things, and we get to be a part of it! He is moving on every front, and the body of Christ is beginning to sense God’s marching orders and are rising up! Though there is much to accomplish, we know it is not by our might or power but by the Spirit of God! Zechariah 4:6 What God has promised is available to those who will humble themselves and, like a child, fully trust him! All creation groans as it eagerly anticipates the culmination of God’s amazing plan to be revealed in God’s people!

Romans 8:19 For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

Oh, may it be that God’s great purposes will be released through you and me! My constant reminder to you is that your input will determine your output! The powerful things of God can never be worked up – they must be soaked up! We must focus on the love and grace of God and on his good opinion of us.

It is of utmost importance that you do not allow your soul to be snared by any religious ideas that lure you back into a life of performance! As I often say, the most important word in the whole Bible is Believe! Everything we need to change this world is in the unseen realm, and only those who believe enter in.

Oh, my dearest friend, what a wonderful day to be alive! God is on the move, and we are on his team! Pray that you are as excited as I am to go deep into all God has for us! Oh, yes! Today is our day – now is our opportunity! Don’t let today slip! The world needs to know the truth about God’s precious love, and you and I are God’s ambassadors! Come on – get ready because the stage is set for God to…

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