June 13, 2011

Hi all ~
I’ve got to honestly admit, for a good while – updating this site on a more regular basis was THEE single most important thing to me!!   I’d think:  “I’ve GOT TO LET THEM KNOW”!!  {meaning a lost & dying world ~ they need to know THE TRUTH after the disappearances a.k.a. rapture ~ what happened, where we went, etc. etc.}  

And then, I honestly don’t know what happened ...  some how I just lost my zip, my drive, my motivation!   I’ll now get back on the horse, as they say, only as directed by the Lord Himself.  No promises to update every single week, or even every single month.  Perhaps my main ministry focus should not so much be on letting the left behind crowd know what happened, as it is to keep on exhorting & encouraging the Christians in the here & now, to remind us all that Jesus IS coming ~ and soon....

Though it did not (and likely won’t?) happen on a Jewish feast..... will admit that I was flat-lined (in being sad) that Pentecost has come & gone.  But even so, in Matt. 24 where it talks about people out in the field working when it’s time for the rapture – well, how could Jews be doing that if the rapture happened on one of their feast days?  They wouldn’t, simple as that.  Wouldn’t that mean then that most likely the rapture will happen on an ORDINARY day?!

So though I’ve got an aching sadness (Homesick, maybe?).... yet, we keep on keeping on..... we stay busy ALWAYS abounding in the work of the Lord and work while it is YET day ~ REDEEMING the time.  I for one believe we’ll need to give an account of how we spent our resources, including the time we were allotted.  Isn’t that all part of DOING THE WILL OF GOD ~ to be careful stewards of our time as well?

And as far as the compassion for those left behind (which will be most of the world) ~ we remember that the Lord will take care of getting the truth out then, too ~ if only they will hear it!  There will be the sealed 144,000 witnesses; the two witnesses who will march right out of the Bible, clothed in sackcloth and will stand in Jerusalem and warn people, whom the world will not be able to ignore for a solid 3.5 years; an angel who will fly through the air telling people to NOT take the mark, plus the huge multitude that’ll “wake up” soon after the rapture & the world will have their witness as well.

As far as that “peanut butter” and other canned goods I’ve been storing under my bed ~ well, it finally dawned on me that the Lord comes out of His chambers to PUNISH the sinful left behind world  [re:  Is 26] ~ so why should I want to try to help those He wants to punish?  Instead of saving it for them, I should be far more generous to want to share that now with people who need it.  So add that to my ever-lengthening to-do list!

I’m a little depressed today..... but always get that way after gorging on “sugar” the night before!  Yes, you heard that right!  Sugar makes me sick!!  ... AND ALWAYS depresses me!!   I’m a firm believer in the connection between what we eat & how it affects us – body, mind & emotions.  I sent the rest of the cookies w/my husband to his office – I simply don’t need the temptation in front of me ..... “make no provision for the flesh”.  Also if we’re going to be a LIVING SACRIFICE unto the Lord, then well, first of all, we certainly have to sacrifice!   And second of all, if we expect to be LIVING sacrifices (rather than martyrs who died from gummed-up arteries from eating too many candy bars!  Heh!) ~ then we need to do what we know to do to make our “temples” healthy!!   {not to worry ~ this is a lecture to “self” more than anything!}

In all honesty, there’s something else that has me bummed out right now as well ~ and considering we’ve had multitudes of opportunities over the past few years to be offended, guess I shouldn’t hone in on just one.  Yet it bothers my spirit.  You see, I’m experiencing quite a bit of loneliness walking on the narrow path ~ this Christian journey!  I realize it wouldn’t have to be like that if I was to compromise & go fellowship with the folks down at the First Church of Laodecia ~ situated on every corner in America!!

But I believe as David Cloud does in one of his articles {from last year I think it was} ~ that this is not the time to be broadening our horizons as it is to be narrowing them down, to be walking with true Christians.... And not fellowshipping with those who do not walk in the light.

Yet some how along those same lines, I am sad today because some people whom I thought I was getting fairly close to have decided to shun me!  Yes, you’d think I was Amish!!  ~ this “shunning business”!   Apparently I did not live up to their versions of being what a perfect Christian should be!  I said I was sorry ~ I explained how the drugs were affecting my thinking (maybe “just” prescription antibiotics ~ but nevertheless, I can absolutely promise they DO affect how I think & act!! ~ every single time!)    So that makes me sad that they should choose to judge me so harshly, perhaps in thinking I’m that way all the time, but for whatever their reasons, I do not see forgiveness there.... another fine Christian attribute!   

I just loved & respected them so much, so the shunning cuts deep.  L   What can I say?!  As far as the other behavior, I wish they would have reached out & asked me about it, instead of assuming so much.  Perhaps if they would have walked a few miles in my shoes, they would have been tempted to have reacted in a very similar way.  No one is beyond falling.

I’ve experienced this far too often over the past couple of years alone, losing friends, losing friendships of ones whom I was absolutely certain were SOLID ~ and it rather makes me feel more & more that I am alone in the wilderness!  {and no, I am not that difficult to get along with!!  Heh ~ in fact, I make a rather lovely friend!!   ;)   Honest!!}  So I’m ppresently having an Elijah experience.  And if that’s to be the case, I sure hope my *whirlwind* comes & whisks me outta’ here soon, too! {I don’t mean by tornado, obviously (My MIL would think I’m *depressed* and have me committed!)  ~ but let him who has ears to hear understand!!}  The rapture is our blessed HOPE!!!!   ~ not our blasted gloom & doom!!

Christians: all I can promise is Jesus IS coming!  And if you, too, are feeling the slightest twinge of having an Elijah experience..... just imagine how GREAT will be our homecoming in heaven!! ~ we’ll have better relationships there than we could ever possibly even (yet) imagine!!   We’ll belong!!  At long last, we’ll finally belong!!  It won’t be like in many churches where entire families thrive & leave out the lone single person who is needing fellowship, support, and companionship.  No more loneliness in heaven!!   ~no more shunning from fellow believers.  No one kicking up his heel against us; no more “I’m a better Christian than you” games!!   No more ~ no more ~ no more!!

Just yet something to really, really look forward to!!   Heaven ~ paradise ~ our Perfect Lord ~ to FOREVER be with and fellowship with!!   Even so, COME Lord Jesus!!   Amen!!

One more thing, there’s someone in my life (by marriage) who can irk me more than any other being on earth!  I’ll flat out tell you that.  She makes up stories in her head ~ and assumes whatever she wants, and then spreads that lie (like cancer) to everyone in the large family!  Because I refuse to “list” (or tell or announce) to her all the things that I may do (or may not do, according to the Lord’s will) for the cause of Christ ~ except in her case, remember she is RC, so she does it to “earn brownie points for heaven”.  And when on the phone with her, you can’t get a word in edgewise for the first 20 minutes, as she rattles on & on about all the “goodie” things she’s spent the day doing or that are on her agenda for the next few days.

I choose to go by Scripture of Matt. 6:2-4.  

So anyway, because I see no need or feel justified in giving HER an account of my time, she ASSUMES (and even put her husband up to asking me this last year!)  if all I do is sit on the couch with the dog & watch TV all day?!

Heh!  Boy, if you knew me, if you knew anything about me at all ~ then you would realize that absolutely nothing could be further from the truth.  Most of the time when I am not managing the home, I am tending to some 5 businesses and all the various work projects that come down the pike.... A TON!!  {we’re both entrepreneurs & always have been}   I am wife to Mr. EXTREME-to-the-max-ADHD ~ which IMO is akin to having 10 kids around here!   He has a large band, and so much time & work is involved there as well.... I’m just rather “inducted” there by being married to him.  Plus, I’m the ADHD nature myself in that ~ if there is nothing to do (and I’ve never been in that situation!)  ~ but I would FIND something to do!!  Never do I sit with idle hands ~ except in the evenings, when it is flat time to “retire” and find rest & catch one’s breath before calling it a night.  Even then, I can’t stand what’s on the boob-tube!!

This lady knows absolutely nothing about me.  And because she chooses to share nasty rumours about me, I don’t exactly see this as a Ruth-Naomi love experience.  I do not even care to defend myself to her.  No matter what one does or doesn’t do ~ in her eyes, it is wrong, wrong, wrong!  I’ve always WANTED to like her; but she doesn’t make it easy.   Human nature: the ones you like are the ones you desire to be with.  
I pray for her nonetheless, but for the sake of my own sanity and the sake of my health, both physical and emotional health, I choose to keep as much distance between us as possible.  It wasn’t a “one time & whine she hurt my feelings sort of thing” ~ it’s a “every single time I see her she insults me” deal.  

Now if I acted this way to the friends I just mentioned above ~ then I’d SEE and UNDERSTAND why they’d want to shun me!!   No one likes to constantly be put down & wounded & rejected.

.... Hey, come to think of it?!  Wasn’t our Lord treated that way?   ... And weren’t we told we’d get the same treatment on earth that He got?   Guess then ~ my heart should REJOICE that I am counted worthy to suffer for Him!  See Acts 5:41; Colossians 1:24 and 1 Peter 4:13 and the book of James, of course.  {THANK YOU LORD!! ~ remembering Your Word, which I have hidden in my heart, can change my entire countenance around!!  Rather than wallowing in this “woe is me” business ~ I will cheerfully exhort and praise You!  My heart will sing a tune to You!!  Thank You for counting me worthy!  To suffer here ~ and then to enjoy paradise with You, when You deem that is time.  To live eternally and to reign with You....}

At any rate, folks, I’ll admit that all too often I’ve allowed the lady I’m referring to & her ideas of me to get way, way, WAAAY under my skin.  And so, I copied this which I found online some time ago ~ and taped it on the inside of a cabinet, where I can reread it as often as  necessary.  Maybe you’ll find it to be a blessing, too?  I just love this!   Isn’t it just like satan, the adversary of our souls, to try to take captives this late in the game?!  .... satan WILL devour those he can!!... This is not joke ~ it is all out spiritual war!!

Keep about your work that God has given you. Do not flinch because the lion roars; do not stop to stone the devil’s dogs; do not fool away your time chasing the devil’s rabbits.  Do your work. Let liars lie, let corporations resolves, let the devil do his worst, but see to it that nothing hinders you from fulfilling the work that God has given you.

He has not commanded you to get rich.  He has never bidden you defend your character.  He has not set you at work to contradict falsehood about yourself which satan and his servants may start to peddle.  If you do those things, you will do nothing else; you will be at work for yourself and not for the Lord.

Keep at your work.  Let your aim be as steady as a star.  You may be assaulted, wronged, insulted, slandered, wounded and rejected; you may be abused by foes, forsaken by friends, and despised and rejected of men.  But see to it with steadfast determination, with unfaltering zeal, that you pursue the great purpose of your life and object of your being until at last you can say, “I Have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.” ~ Author unknown

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.  Finally there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.” [2 Tim 4:7-8]

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom is master made ruler over his household, to give them food in the season?  Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.”  [Mt 24:45-46]

AMEN!!!!

Lastly, over the 6 months (since I’ve been absent from updating here) many things have happened in our lives ~ and all too often, the bad news of the world ~ I mean the really horrible filth of Sodom & Gomorrah has put me over the edge! ~ again, getting me to the point to where I do not want to hear anymore ~ that certainly does not “make it go away’ ~ but neither does it do any good for a Christian to have a nervous breakdown.... Can’t exactly do what we’re called & expected to do with that heavy burden hanging over us like thick clouds.

Also had a friend (more like an acquaintance) who dropped dead one morning of a heart attack:  age 42!!  So young!  Naturally, there was a good turn out for the family at the First Church of Laodecia ~ where they gleefully announced that he went to heaven..... because he “beeee-lieved” in Jesus....

And I really did like Steve (name made up) ~ he was likeable, full of laughs all the time, great all around guy!   Could cheer you up on the cloudiest, darkest day.

But I knew of some mischief that this particular man caused (to us personally) ~ though we could had been considered “friends” at one time.... Yet he cut & hurt us deeply..... No, I’m not being hypocritical here... It wasn’t that he said some little something that we decided to carry a grudge & shun him for the rest of forever because of it (my personal story above).  Actually this guy, being the head of his home (or at least the way it’s biblically supposed to be) ~ did something TO us/AGAINST us ~ that ended up costing us thou$ands....  Thus, ended the “friendship” and I certainly came to realize the true hearts of “Steve” and his family.

Not only that, but at his memorial service, his boss from work explained that “Steve” would not dress properly, in the right dress code for work at the hospital ~ and if his boss came around to remind him ~ this guy, (“Steve”) would only give him a hug! ~ to which drew laughs from the audience at the funeral, as that was the kind of guy Steve was.  Would not follow the rules ~ but would neglect them with smiles and a big laugh, and figuring it was “no big deal” if he opted to wear a tank top at work instead.

So I could only wonder in my own mind.... Did “Steve” make it to heaven?  Oh, I certainly hope he did.  But I’m also aware of:   “And also if anyone competes in athletics, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.” [2 Tim 2:5]  So indeed, for now ~ till we get there ~ I am left to wonder!  If he could not follow man’s laws ~ a simple dress code for work ~ then did he, was he able to keep & follow the instructions unto righteousness inside the pages of the Word of God??   Questions, questions, questions!!

My husband just turned TV on ~ to the Republican debates.  I just have a notion that we’ll be long GONE..... BEFORE the next U.S. Election even gets here!!

Under “Obamacare” the implanted “chip” will become mandatory by spring of 2013!!  Were you aware of that?  Whether this turns out to be THEE mark or not ~ still, who in his right mind would WANT to be chipped with RFID that can trace your every move??!!   

God is still on His Throne, Christian friends!!  Jesus still sits at His Right side!!  The Holy Spirit still remains on earth, leading us, guiding us, often protecting us.  Oh that the Lord will protect us from wicked & unreasonable men!! ~ the world is full of them right now!

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem & may we be united together with Lord Jesus in the air very soon!!!
Maranatha ~ and AMEN!!

[Will you please pray for my husband’s HEALTH!! ~ he has such trouble eating the right foods, foods that would greatly benefit his health; but regardless it is my deepest desire that he be in health until our rapture ride to heaven is manifested ~ in Jesus’ Name I pray!  Amen!]

Hope to see you in the air super soon!   May we be ready, praying always and accounted worthy to escape all these things (soon to come upon the earth) and to stand before the Son of Man!!  

Until then, remain at your post, keep working, always abiding, yet with one eye ~ always be looking up!

This life is nothing but a mist!!  Soon it’ll be all over.  Jesus will be here soon.  Titus 2:13 ~ our BLESSED HOPE!!   Keep watching!
RJ