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Judgement In This Age?

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Wanda:
Thank you Michele, for your heartfelt words, very inspiring.

It's in our darkest most difficult moments we should draw even closer to our loving Father. It's only by his giving us the strength to hold up under the weight of these heavy burdens that we can endure and overcome. I think of Jesus going off into the mountains to be alone with him, how else would he have ever been able to endure the tremendous and overwhelming expectations so many placed on him, without his Fathers filling him with renewed strength and the hope before him.

Most of his life Jesus only Relied on him in all things. We of course have to be taught through our trials to do this, by his Spirit,  nudging us along bit by bit until it is something we fully grasp, as being absolutely essential to our spiritual growth and our peace of mind. I have come to even consider this is why many of us live lives of solitude. I once was very sociable and not the least happy, when to long a span of time passed before I was doing something that was engaging with others, but now I am content to be alone with God, it's all I seem to need or want.

If you're put in a position that really does separate you, both physically and mentally from the world it can make you want to turn to God when you need emotional support, rather than turning to anyone else, who in all honesty cannot give what only he can give.

I didn't mean to give the impression that God removes his spirit from us, it is we, who when doing what we know is not pleasing to him, that pull away. He tells us he draws near to those who draw near to him, and that is a truth we can all have faith in.  As you stated, It's the influence of our past false teaching that we have to overcome, before we can truly be overcomers. It's those lies that make some of us feel unworthy to turn to God when we sin, but in fact, Our Father is wanting and expecting us to turn to him more at those times so he can help us overcome them. He created us to sin and he's here to love us through to the end, no matter how long it takes.

I don't know what you're dealing with Michele, but I will pray God fortifies you with all you need to endure. I'm going through a difficult trial myself and if it weren't for God helping me, it might be the very thing that finally breaks me.

Praise his holy name. I owe my my all to him.

Heidi:
Thank you both Michelle and Wanda, I can certainly feel and have also experienced this heartfelt joy that only comes when near to God.  I feel physically ill if I have not spent time in His word, on the forum or reading and rereading Ray's papers.  There is a joy to be found that nothing in this world can offer and it is the joy of the Lord.  The more I learn the more I am humbled and quite often will say our loud "oh what a wretched man I am"  The judgment by fire is real and boy does it hurt, but onwards and upwards.  The fear of missing out keeps me going.  How can anything else in life matter more?
Wanda, I have also become very reclusive because I just want to spend time with my Saviour, I can no longer be part of this worlds thinking and view points and consider it all loss so that I can gain Christ!  My heart rejoices in the unity we all seem to experience and the love for God and the desire to move forward and to obtain the end goal.  May God grant us His mercy and grace to do it and not to grow weary.   I love my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ although I have never met you, I know you.
Heidi

Prune Soleiado:
It's only by night that we can see the light. The city on the mountain is visible by night for that's the only thing gleaming in the darkness. By full day, we can't notice its full splendor, just a tiny glimpse of it. Darkness, Night, Obscurity… we can only see it when you're alive in Christ. Dead people Don't know they're dead. They don't know they're walking in the darkness. So the more I suffer for realizing I walk in the valley of darkness, the more I rejoice for seeing the light of Jesus guiding me throught it. We need to see the night surrounding us to see the light. Like Lightning, flash of pain illuminating the splendor and holiness of Our God. Lightning strikes that fill us with repentance, pain, hate for this world, love for Our Father in Jesus, joy, hope.
Solomon says that God dwells in a dark cloud (2 Chronicles 6:1).
2 Corinthians 2:10: "That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG."
Psalm 97 1-4: "The Lord reigns, let the earth be glad;let the distant shores rejoice. CLOUDS AND THICK DARKNESS SURROUND HIM;righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Fire goes before him and consumes his foes on every side. HIS LIGHTNING LIGHTS UP the world;the earth SEES and trembles. The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people SEE his glory. Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Zion heard, and was GLAD; and the daughters of Judah REJOICED BECAUSE OF THY JUDGMENTS, O Lord. For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods. Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. LIGHT is sown for the righteous, and GLADNESS for the upright in heart. REJOICE in the Lord, ye righteous; and give thanks AT THE REMEMBRANCE of his holiness."

Heidi:
Hi Prune,
Thank you for sharing this, I was overcome with joy and understanding that it IS in the darkness of this present age of this world that our light shines out.
Heidi

Heidi:
We were also once walking in this darknes, being dead but not knowing we were dead.  Until the wonderful light of Christ shined into our hearts.

Ephesians 2:1-3
1As for you, you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3At one time we all lived among them, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Heidi

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