Thanks be to the Lord to rescued your servant from the "common cold." Since the last post, Trump has renewed attacks on Iran but that's not really a new thing-it's a continuation of an old thing. What has the Lord said over the past few weeks? The same exact message as before: level up, center in His Will, pray for the 2026 spiritual awakening, as well as repentance and revival in the Church.
The Lord provided a few mental images to help illustrate what we are doing here. We are the lamp, the Spirit is the oil that powers that lamp. But what happens when that lamps glass becomes cloudy, or not clear? The light cannot pass through into the world as it should. We must get out of the way. We become less, He becomes more. Our "glass" must be almost invisible or crystal clear so you don't really see the glass, all you see is the light coming through it.
We are standing in alignment and agreement with Him and then with each other. We are living 2026 as a year of faith, hope and love. And love is the greatest. Read 1 Cor 13 and 1 John 4. Nobody gets into Heaven without love. Hate is at the vanguard of the enemy's army, Love is at the vanguard of ours. In order to practice the kind of love we need, like loving our enemies we must die to ourselves and live in, with, and through our Lord Jesus Christ. We can only do what we need to do in Him, with Him and through Him. This was never supposed to be the Lone Ranger show.
This year we up our game. Will the Lord come back this year? Maybe, maybe not. He never told us to predict, He told us over and over to prepare. The wise virgins came prepared with extra oil for their lamps. When the Lord arrives, we will be ready for Him not because we predicted the day or hour or season but because we live in a state of perpetual preparedness.
There is a lot going on in the world right now and between now and the end of this year it's only going to increase. The midterms are coming up, there is war and moving chess pieces everywhere we look. What do we do about all this? We do our job. What did the Lord God put us here to do? Do that. And while we do that, we remember to do it all wrapped in love because without love everything comes to a screaming, epic halt. People can do all the "works" they want to, without love it's all worth nothing. If we look at how the Lord has prepared us over the past few years and how He now has us on the capstone issue of love tieing everything together, we could guess that our Lord's unexpected arrival is not far off.
Maybe getting things right at the end buys this world some more time. Who knows, regardless of which it is-we do our job. We work, and pray and love as thought the Lord is coming back today and we cannot possibly miss the unexpected day He arrives for us.
So, in summary this servant has heard nothing new from the Lord. What this servant hears and sees is staying the exact same course He has had us on for months and years. Continue to do your job while we remember that our first "ministry" or duty is to Him personally. We are to love Him, spend time with Him, walk with Him, talk with Him-you know, stuff people do in a real relationship. Everything else will take care of itself.
Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.
Glory to God
grace and peace
