Don't Try To Understand

There are times when I pray that I don't hear a word from the Lord. But then there are times that His voice is loud and clear. I have spent many days praying and doing spiritual warfare on Trump's behalf, since his campaign trail. I prayed with a ferver when he got in and up until recently my spiritual warfare reached a crescendo. That's when the Lord told me to stop praying for Trump. He had him, but He needed me to pray for his church and His remnant. So I did, but in the back of my mind I was trying to understand why.

Spiritual warfare is intense and when you are putting yourself in the gap for someone, their lives become important to you. For example, Jared and Ivanka pushing out those Trump placed in his cabinet and replacing them with more bankers - like in the previous administration. Also selling the same old lies that Obama tried to sell us concerning Assad and his chemical attack on his own people, who he was protecting from Isis. I saw opportunities to keep praying for Trump. Besides where were the spiritual leaders who prayed over him on his campaign trail and prayed at his inauguration?

"It's time." I saw the signs and a few other confirmations, but I couldn't help but think I had failed and I told him so. "You haven't failed."

"But I'm trying to understand what is going on with Trump and why he's not paying attention to what Jared and Ivanka are doing?"

"Don't try to understand just accept what is happening and rest in my word."

Wow! Isaiah 55:8 says it all. "My thoughts are not your thoughts." We don't understand sometimes when God pulls us away from something that has meant so much to us.  But He knows what He's doing and we must accept it in faith and move on.   There are more opportunities out there that the Lord has for us and more people who need us. I agreed and had noticed that I needed to back away from all this. I needed a rest.

Resting in God's word means to me that I need to get back into the Bible....back to the basics. The one thing that I love to do is read God's word and find new treasures. But it made me curious so I did some research on Biblehub.com and I found this for "resting in the Lord" instead.  Here are the results:

Rest in the Lord] Or Be still before (Heb. be silent to) the Lord (R.V. marg.), in the calmness of faith. Cp. Psalm 62:1; Psalm 62:5; and for illustration see Isaiah 7:4; Isaiah 30:15. (Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges)

Verse 7. - Rest in the Lord; literally, be silent; i.e. do not murmur; make no complaint; be silently acquiescent and resigned. And wait patiently for him. Be content to await his time, which is sure to be the right time. Meanwhile possess your soul in patience. Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way (comp. ver. 1, of which this brings out the sense). It is when the ungodly prosper that the righteous are apt to repine. Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. It is the success of the ungodly in their wicked plots and schemes which especially vexes the righteous (see Job 9:24; Job 12:6; Job 21:7-9: 24:2-12; Psalm 72:5-12, etc.). (Pulpit Commentary)

Notice the highlighted words. Being patient, no complaining....Yeah I need a lot of work on that. Being calm. Reading God's word does calm me. I've noticed whenever I'm upset or crying that the Lord will tell me to read His word.

So I let go of it all and got back to my Bible. I'm noticing my love for God's word again and I feel more rested. The Lord is also showing me things I need to deal with, things I spent years pushing aside because I was busy working.

Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.

Psalm 55:22

My challenge to you -- If you have never read the Bible or have gotten away from it, ask the Lord which book He wants you to start with. Read a chapter or two a day and focus on what God is trying to teach you. Ask Him to show you the treasures that are in His word and write them down in a journal. When you need encouragement, read your entries and you may notice just how much you've grown spiritually.



Keep Watch...Keep Looking Up

“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.” Matthew 24:36-39

This is so wild! It's happening! The stars and planets are aligned like in the days before Jesus was born and in Rev. 12. And now I'm hearing of a full solar eclipse that will take place on August 21. It will start in Oregon and move across the US to the east coast. That, to me, is a sign. Will it be a foreshadowing of an attack on our country from the southern border that will move quickly across our country? The Bible says it will be suddenly upon us...without warning.

"Disaster will come upon you, and you will not know how to conjure it away. A calamity will fall upon you that you cannot ward off with a ransom; a catastrophe you cannot foresee will suddenly come upon you." Isaiah 47:11

Right now there are gang members and ISIS amassing at our southern border. The border patrol was calling on Trump for help. I heard about this a few weeks ago. Will this be the demonized military force that will behead people like in the visions others are having?

Following the eclipse, on September 23, the virgin will give birth to her male child. In Revelation 12 we are given an account of this.

“A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its heads. Its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that it might devour her child the moment he was born. She gave birth to a son, a male child, who “will rule all the nations with an iron scepter.” And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.” Revelation 12:1-5

It's the position and alignment of the stars and planets. For years I could never figure this out until now. It all makes sense. It would have to be. A few weeks ago I shared on social media about this alignment. It happened months ago....in December, 2016. That was when Jupiter entered the virgin's womb and rotated inside. The red dragon has been positioned outside the womb to eat her child.

This was the same position the heavens were in when Jesus was born. Is this the sign right before the dead in Christ rise to be with Jesus with the church following (1 Thessalonians 4:16)? Watch video below:

My challenge to you

Look up the original Biblical purpose for the stars... what God intended for them to be. The constellations weren't originally called the zodiac. That's a pagan thing Satan started to take our eyes off of God. The constellations were created to teach people God's word... God's plan for us chiseled in the stars. The book of Enoch speaks of the stars having names. And there are stars that have been imprisoned for not being present before the Lord when He called them. You'll find out there's a whole lot more to God's creation than what you t knew. It's an interesting study.

“The woman fled into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God, where she might be taken care of for 1,260 days.” Revelation 12:6

This is a reference to Israel and Matthew 24:16-21, “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’^aspoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. The woman is Israel and when the “abomination of desolation” appears in the temple, the Israelis are to flee into the mountains. For years Bible scholars said the place to flee to would be Petra. And in history, the Jews would hide in caves in the mountains to hide from the enemy.