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“Father please open our eyes”

What more need be said 🙂

With all of the posts from people in other countries singing “The Blessing”, one can’t help but be reminded that there are Christians all over the world. And everyone of them is our Sister and Brother in Christ. How fun it will be to meet them all in Heaven 🙂

Our Brothers and Sisters in Christ are on the journey with us to Heaven. They follow Christ just as we do. They may have different traditions, but their faith in Christ is the same 🙂

We may be divided into many nations, but it is our faith in Jesus that makes us a family. And faith and family come first!

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.-Matthew 5:8

“Seeking God’s Face” has as many interpretations as there are people.  For me, it’s so many wonderful things.. 

It’s seeking to be in the Presence of God and the overwhelming joy that comes with that experience.  It’s hard to describe, but it is a joy that lifts you up and away from all of your worldly challenges to a place of indescribably joy.

It’s listening.  How often do we actually listen to God?  We pray often and we read the Bible ?.  But how often do we actually listen for God’s small, still voice.

It’s speaking to God from our hearts.  Not a request, but an “I love you”.  A “Thank You”.  Telling God how happy and grateful we are to be His child ?

It’s seeking God’s Will and applying His Will to our lives.  It’s making God’s Will our life’s first priority.  Always.

It’s seeking God’s Face in the face of others.  We’ve all seen it.  The face of a person so filled with the Holy Spirit, that a light simply seems to shine out of them ?. 

It’s experiencing God’s Peace.  We live in a very violent and volatile world.  We struggle with many difficult challenges.  But during this time, we exist only in God’s Presence and we get to experience His Peace, as only He can give.  And we will emerge rested and ready to face the earthly world that we live in and able to share that peace with others ?

Seek God’s Face today and trust you will find it!  ?

In Ezekiel 33:11, it says God takes no pleasure from the punishment of the wicked:

“Say to them: ‘As I live,’ says the Lord God, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?’”

But God is Just and He will do what is necessary. In Ezekiel 33:  1-6, God makes that clear:

“Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² “Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword upon a land, and the people of the land take a man from their territory and make him their watchman, ³ when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people, ⁴ then whoever hears the sound of the trumpet and does not take warning, if the sword comes and takes him away, his blood shall be on his own head. ⁵ He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will ^[a]save his life. ⁶ But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.’”

Who are America’s Watchmen today?  They are the Christians that are currently persecuted by America’s government and the “left”?  In one of the commentaries written about Ezekiel, it says that his warnings did not fall on “friendly” ears.  But clearly, from the above Bible verse, if we do not warn the people, we will face God’s Wrath.

There is another aspect to the Watchman’s warnings.  If we truly love someone, we will warn them, because we don’t want them to suffer!  We can’t claim to love others and then watch them walk off the edge of a cliff with no warning. 

Honesty is part of Love.  We need to be honest with each another, not popular.  Abortion is wrong and so is gay marriage.  They are both sins.  Yes, they are forgivable sins, but repentance is required.  We will never win a popularity contest saying these words, but we will, ourselves, be “saved” 🙂

Blow the Trumpet today!

“Violence shall no longer be heard in your land, Neither ^[a]wasting nor destruction within your borders;  But you shall call your walls Salvation, And your gates Praise.” – Isaiah 60:18

Heaven is coming and in Heaven there will be no more violence! 

Whether we look around the world or at the news, violence seems to be everywhere. Wars, Riots, Close or Far, violence is here, and so is fear and anger.  But God and Love are here too, and God will be with us every step of the way.  Until one day, when we come Home to Heaven, there will be only Love, Peace & Joy ?. 

So hang in there, the violence we see all around us will not last forever!  God is with us and He loves us.  We do not walk alone ?