KnowingJESUS Daily Devotional | October 1, 2019 – Enrich and Sustain your relationship with Jesus reading our daily devotional – Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ – Titus 2:13
Beloved, always be mindful of this . Expectation is the guaranteed pathway to manifestation.
It is only what you earnestly expect that shall eventually manifest.
Twice in the history of the children of Israel, when God was to visit them for unusual manifestation, they had to specially prepare for them to experienced the great visitations.
The first happened in the days of Moses, when God came down bodily on mount Sinai. See it.
Exo 19:14 — Exo 19:20 And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; they washed their clothes. And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives. it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. Also Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. The Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; Moses went up.
Exo 24:9 — Exo 24:11 Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel: And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness. And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
The second unusual visitation happened in the day of Joshua, when God was to divide river Jordan for them to pass.
They also had to specially prepared before the experience came.
Joshua 3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
Jos 3:14–17 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Beloved, in the same way the children of Israel prepared greatly to experience what no other people in the whole world never experienced.
So you need to be preparing and always looking heaveward to partake in the dawning rapture that few believers in all the wholewide world shall experience.
This imminent event shall not elude you in Jesus name. See how to prepare.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
May the good Lord help you in particular in Jesus name.
Dearly beloved, no doubt Jesus our Lord , before ascension to heaven assured His beloved followers of His coming back to take them to a special place, He was going to prepare for them.
But then, He never failed to tell them of the adequate preparation they needed to make for the visitation, not to elude them.
What He told them, then was also meant to prepare you, to partake in the dawning rapture. See it.
Jn 14:1–3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
See the unusual preparation they needed to make for them not to miss the imminent event.
Mat 24:36–44 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Dearly beloved, in the same way Jesus our Lord urged the believers then to always live in readiness at all times.
The blessed Holy Spirit is urging you, to tirelessly be looking heavenward, for you to be ready, when the trumpet shall sound.
You shall be ready in Jesus name. See what He said.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
Remember, Jesus shall appear only to those that are looking forward to His coming. See it.
Heb 9:28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
1Co 1:6–8 Even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you: So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Phi 3:20–21 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
The good Lord shall help you to tirelessly be looking heaveward. So that when our Lord appears, you shall be ready in Jesus name.
1Co 15:51–52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Friend, being part of the dawning rapture shall end up to be a delusion for majority of the churchgoers who claimed to be expecting the coming of our Lord.
It shall not be for you in particular in Jesus name. For this not to happen, you must determinedly be doing two things :
1. Looking tirelessly for that day.
Titus 2:13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
2. Having insatiable love for the appearing of Christ.
2Ti 4:7–8 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
This is because this imminent events shall happen very suddenly.
2Pe 3:10–14 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night;
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
Friend, consider seriously, what this Bible passage said.
IT SAYS BE DILIGENT THAT YE MAY BE FOUND IN HIM IN PEACE, WITHOUT SPOT, BLAMELESS AND HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS.
May the good Lord help you in particular in Jesus name.
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