Eph 6
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 13Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. 19Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.
A bunch of useful stuff in the passages up there ^^^. We now have a muslim communist ruling over a major US city (NYC) similar to what has been the case for years in London. The enemy just keeps coming, trying to gain a foothold wherever they can, whenever they can. The problem for them is, the Lord so far has seen fit to have His Church remain on the face of the earth. The Church with the indwelling Holy Spirit is the Restrainer as far as this servant can tell. The Word is very clear that we the Church are salt and light in this world which means we restrain the darkness, rot and decay.
18And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests
This ^^^ suggests strongly to us that we are to be praying over every situation, all the time. It is a full time job. Its kind of like a game of whack-a-mole plus. Every time the enemy pops up some new demonic plot, plan, agenda or narrative we are to suppress it with all of the spiritual tools at our disposal. The restraint and suppression of enemy plots and plans must now include stopping the inroads they are trying to create with muslim communists.
The enemy is busy but so is the Lord our God. We are here because we need to be here to do the Will of the Lord our God who put us here.
1 Tim 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
We are engaged in a fight as we can see in both Eph 6 which speaks of war and 1 Tim which speaks of the fight. People who engage in war and fighting on a large scale and over a prolonged period of time are called soldiers-that would be us.
2 Tim 2:3
Join with me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
The Lord could come back for us at any moment, but until He does-we are here to engage the enemy and save as many souls as possible. We are also here, primarily to know and love the Lord our God-to walk with Him and talk with Him. He comes first, everything else is secondary.
Mark 12:30
30And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ [l]This is the first commandment. 31And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
John 13
34“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
We have discussed at length here the need for us to level up into the highest, best versions of ourselves, centered in His Will. At the very tippy top of the ladder of us becoming the very best versions of ourselves is love for our God and love for one another. It is the capstone and the foundation of who we are and what we do. While this world is going from bad to worse, we are rising up both literally and figuratively in every way possible. The Lord our God would have us finish the race strong.
1 Cor 9
24Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. 25Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. 26Therefore I do not run like someone running aimlessly; I do not fight like a boxer beating the air. 27No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
The Lord could arrive on any day. Trump has been given crowns both in his current term and previous term.
Rev 6
1I watched as the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals. Then I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice like thunder, “Come!” 2I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
This servant is not making assumptions about Trump but rather observing correlations between what has been written and current events. In addition to crowns being handed out we have peace deal in the making in the middle east, wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes all over the place, food prices ridiculous:
Rev 6
5When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. 6Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds a of wheat for a day’s wages, b and six pounds c of barley for a day’s wages, d and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
And more, and all of it overlayed nicely on top of the rapture season we have been watching this year from Feast of Trumpets 2025 through Hannukah 2025. To be clear this servant is predicting nothing. This nobody predicts nothing while preparing in watchfulness and readiness for everything at any time. Lets think this through, all of the events that are now underway will be developing further after Hannukah this year, does that mean we stop watching and preparing for the Lord's arrival? No, because that would be foolish. The Lord picks the day. It would be some ordinary plain Jane day somewhere in nowhere Jan 2026, who knows? We certainly do not. So we must be watching and ready now, and into the indefinite future as we watch events unfold exactly as our Lord told us they would.
While we remain here on the earth, please join this servant in praying over everything-all the time.
Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.
Glory to God
grace and peace
