My dear friends,
In a world full of fear and fear-mongering, many believers are searching for answers, guidance, and comfort. The Lord has spoken to me and told me to address this issue on social media as well as in my blog. So here we go.
We are in the midst of great spiritual warfare; the times are very heavy and many believers are feeling alone and sometimes defeated in this battle. I struggled with these feelings myself, until the Lord spoke words of Life into me and reminded me who I am and WHOSE I am. So I am here to tell you that YOU ARE NOT ALONE. God has heard your prayers, and He is still fighting for us. He is tarrying before Returning to give US more time to be saved by His grace and our true repentance.
Church, there are two things we need to stop and do right now.
Step 1: Pray for God to tell us what He wants us to know.
“Father God, I pray that you would open the eyes and ears of all your true believers today, that we would understand Your Words, and receive them as You intended. Please strengthen us and give us wisdom by increasing the presence of the Holy Spirit in us today. Give us discernment and a thirst for Your Will to be done, in Jesus’ name. AMEN!”
Step 2: Choose to be His faithful servants by digging into the absolute Truth of His Word.
The Lord says: “Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.” -Jeremiah 33:3
If we earnestly seek His Truth, we will find Him. Every word of the Bible is God-breathed, and designed to help us understand how to live our lives in order to be pleasing to God, and to be blessed by Him. In my quiet time, I recently discovered the power of Psalm 91, and its perfect relevance to the tribulations we are facing today.
Psalm 91 (NIV):
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
“Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”
Friends, if this passage does not speak volumes to you in these trying times, then your ears have been shut by the enemy, and you are in danger of being held captive by the great delusion.
Did you know the “fear not” message is found in 365 verses of the Bible? Why would God put the same message in the Bible on so many different occasions unless He was absolutely serious about it? Living in a spirit of fear can affect our faith. Fear is not a fruit of the Holy Spirit, and therefore can only have one other origin. Do not be deceived!
95% of what the media is telling you is simply propaganda to spread fear. TURN IT OFF. Turn on the Word of God in your homes and in your heart! Let it be a Lamp to light your path. Carry it with you each day. Let it live on your lips and on the lips of your spouse, your children, your grandchildren, etc. until the Lord calls us all home at the end of time.
Absolutely nothing in this world nullifies the rich and living Word of God. Nothing can touch us without God’s permission. Not one single thing! In chapter 1 of the book of Job, we see that the enemy himself had to ask God’s permission to touch Job:
Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them. The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.” So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
The enemy took Job’s family, his servants, his house, his livestock, his fields… and what did Job do? He WORSHIPPED and PRAISED God.
Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.
Job understood that everything he had been given belonged to God. He recognized that God had blessed him with many things, and that God could also take away those things because He IS GOD, and does not need to explain Himself to us. Job was indeed a faithful servant of God.
Brothers and sisters, each of us has a number of days set aside by God, and not one thing can take away a single second of that time. NOT.ONE.THING.
In Job 14:5, we read: “…his days are determined, and the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his limits that he cannot pass…”
Knowing that God has numbered our days and that He is forever faithful to His Word, we can walk securely in the knowledge that He truly is our shield and refuge. Nothing can touch us without His permission. If He does allow something to cross our path, we must trust that He has a great purpose for it! He will either get us through it and use it to correct us or grow our faith and bring us closer to Him, or He will bring us home to glory because we have fulfilled our purpose and it is our time to rest. We can believe and trust in this good word from Him today!
No matter what you are facing today, PRAISE God. TRUST in Him. Walk by FAITH, and do not fear!
Be awakened to His Truth and stand firm in His Word! AMEN and AMEN!
Blessings,
Emily