Eyes on Christ

 The battles are real.  Brother Cahn was demonically attacked on a flight recently.  The enemy has sent a number of demonic attacks against the servant who writes to you today including people driving down the wrong side of the road directly at the precise time yours truly was turning a corner and other similar incidents.  What is the answer to a demonic onslaught?  More Jesus.  Eyes on Christ.  Good or bad, rain or shine, we keep our eyes on the prize.  The enemy uses everything in their arsenal to not pursue your calling, including:

Confusion — making things seem more complicated than they are

Distraction — pulling focus onto side skirmishes

Disorientation — losing bearing / sense of assignment

Dilution — thinning the Word or the assignment so it no longer demands a response (often via fear of man)

Deterrence — discouragement and doubt that knock you off the call

What has the Spirit of the Lord been hammering on for years now, level up into the best version of yourself, level up your talents, skills and abilities, centered in Christ.  Become the best version of yourself in order to fulfill the high calling the Lord God has placed on your life.  Naturally, the enemy wants none of that.  So what does the enemy do?  See above tactics.

1. The picture: Peter walked until he looked at the wind

The fullest account is Matthew 14:22–33.

After feeding the five thousand, Jesus sent the disciples across the lake and went up the mountain to pray. The boat was beaten by waves. In the fourth watch He came to them walking on the sea. They thought it was a ghost. He said, “Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.”

Peter answered, “Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.” Jesus said, “Come.”

Peter came down out of the ship, walked on the water, and went toward Jesus. But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. Immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, caught him, and said, “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” When they were in the ship, the wind ceased. They worshiped Him: “Of a truth thou art the Son of God.”

The miracle did not fail first. Peter’s gaze failed. As long as his eyes were on Christ, he did what was humanly impossible. The instant the wind became the bigger object in his field of vision, fear entered, faith shrank, and he sank. Jesus did not leave him there. The same Lord who said “Come” said “Save,” and immediately reached.

Mark 6 and John 6 record the walking on water without Peter’s step. Matthew is given so we would see this exact lesson: faith walks on what it looks at. Look at Christ, and the water holds. Look at the storm, and the water swallows.

2. The promise: perfect peace for the stayed mind

Isaiah 26:3–4 (KJV):

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.

Hebrew doubles the word: shalom shalom — peace, peace; complete, undisturbed well-being. It is not the absence of waves. It is a mind stayed — supported, leaned, fixed, glued — on the Lord, because it trusts Him.

Peter’s sinking is Isaiah 26:3 in reverse. A mind stayed on Christ walks. A mind stayed on the wind sinks. The peace is not produced by the mind; God keeps the one whose mind is stayed. Trust is the reason the mind can stay.

Related “stayed mind / fixed eyes” texts:

• Psalm 16:8 — “I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” (Peter later preaches this of Christ in Acts 2:25–28.)
• Psalm 25:15 — “Mine eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net.”
• Psalm 121:1–2 — “I will lift up mine eyes… My help cometh from the LORD.”
• Psalm 141:8 — “But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the Lord: in thee is my trust.”
• Psalm 123:1–2 — as servants look to their master’s hand, “so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God.”
• 2 Chronicles 20:12 — Jehoshaphat, facing an army: “we have no might… neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.”
• Colossians 3:1–2 — “Seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth… Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
• Philippians 4:6–8 — prayer plus a mind that thinks on what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely; then “the peace of God… shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
• Romans 8:6 — “to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”
• John 14:27 — “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you… Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Isaiah’s “mind stayed on Thee” and Hebrews’ “looking unto Jesus” are the same posture in two covenants.

3. The Person: Christ is the Word

John does not say Jesus merely spoke the Word. He is the Word.

John 1:1–3, 14

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
…
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Revelation 19:13 — “his name is called The Word of God.”

1 John 1:1 — “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes… of the Word of life.”

Hebrews 1:1–3 — God who spoke by the prophets has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son… who is the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person.

John 5:39 — “Search the scriptures… they are they which testify of me.”

Luke 24:27, 44–45 — beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself; He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures.

Hebrews 4:12–13 — the Word of God is living and powerful… and all things are naked before the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. The written Word and the living Word are not two competing objects. The Scriptures are Christ’s voice on the page; Christ is the Scriptures in a Person.

So “eyes on Christ” and “eyes on the Word” are not two disciplines. They are one. To neglect the Word is to look away from the One the Word reveals. To treat the Bible as a book of tips while the heart stares at waves is still to take the eyes off Christ.

4. The practice: looking is how faith lives

Hebrews 12:1–3 is the New Testament companion to Peter and to Isaiah 26:

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.

The Greek idea behind “looking unto” is to look away from other things and fix the gaze on one object. You cannot stare at the wind and at Jesus at the same time. The race is run by where the eyes rest.

Other “look and live / look and walk” passages:

• Numbers 21:8–9 — whoever was bitten and looked at the bronze serpent lived.
• John 3:14–15 — “as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish.” Looking at the lifted Christ is how the new birth and eternal life come.
• Isaiah 45:22 — “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.”
• John 6:40 — “every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life.”
• 2 Corinthians 3:18 — “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image.”
• 2 Corinthians 4:18 — “we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
• 2 Corinthians 5:7 — “we walk by faith, not by sight.”
• Micah 7:7 — “Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation.”
• Proverbs 4:25 — “Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.”
• Psalm 119:18, 105 — “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law… Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
• Joshua 1:8 / Psalm 1:2 — meditation in the Word day and night is how the mind stays.

The bronze serpent and the water-walk preach the same gospel: salvation and steadfastness are not by staring at the bite or the wave, but by looking at the provision God lifted up.

5. What taking the eyes off looks like

Scripture names the competing objects:

What we look at	What happens	Contrast
Wind and waves (Matt. 14:30)	Fear, sinking	Eyes on Jesus
Things on the earth (Col. 3:2)	Anxious, earthly mind	Things above, where Christ is
What is seen (2 Cor. 4:18)	Despair over the temporary	The unseen and eternal
Circumstances / evil tidings	Shaken heart	Steadfast heart trusting the Lord (Ps. 112:7)
Self, idols, own righteousness (Isa. 45:22 context)	No salvation	Look unto Me
Weights and sin (Heb. 12:1)	Entangled, weary	Looking unto Jesus

Peter did not deny Jesus in that moment. He simply saw the wind. That is how most sinking happens — not a formal rejection of Christ, but a shift of attention until Christ is no longer the largest reality in view.

6. When we sink — the gospel in the story

Matthew will not let us end with Peter underwater.

1. He began to sink — it was not instant annihilation.
2. He cried the shortest prayer in the Gospels: “Lord, save me.”
3. Jesus immediately stretched forth His hand and caught him.
4. The rebuke (“little faith… why did you doubt?”) comes after the rescue, not instead of it.
5. They enter the boat together; the wind ceases; worship follows.

Keeping your eyes on Christ is the way of peace. Failing to do so is not the unpardonable sin. The same Christ who commands “Come” and “Look” is the Christ who catches. Isaiah 26 still stands after a bad day of staring at waves: He keeps the one who returns the mind to Him.

Psalm 34:5 — “They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

7. How the stayed mind actually stays

The Bible’s method is not vague “think about Jesus.” It is concrete.

• Hear Him in the Word. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God (Romans 10:17). If Christ is the Word, then open Bible, preached Word, memorized Word, and meditated Word are the gaze.
• Set the Lord before you on purpose (Psalm 16:8). David did not wait to feel it. He set Him there.
• Pray the storm toward Him, as Peter did with three words, and as Philippians 4:6–7 commands — request plus thanksgiving, then peace that guards mind and heart in Christ.
• Consider Him (Hebrews 12:3) — linger over His endurance of the cross, so you do not faint.
• Look away as well as look toward. Hebrews 12:1–2 is both: lay aside the weight, and look unto Jesus.
• Walk by what He said, not by what the waves look like (2 Corinthians 5:7). Peter’s first step was obedience to a word: “Come.” The water held the word, not Peter’s nerve.

Eyes on Christ equals eyes on the Word because the Word is not a separate object from Jesus. The Scriptures testify of Him. He is the Word made flesh. The mind stayed on “Thee” in Isaiah is the mind stayed on the Son in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells (Colossians 2:9), the Son who is the radiance of the Father’s glory.

So the whole counsel of God on this point can be said in a short chain:

Look unto Me and be saved (Isaiah 45:22)
Look at the lifted Son and live (Numbers 21 → John 3:14–15)
Come — and keep looking, or you will sink (Matthew 14)
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee (Isaiah 26:3)
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:2)
In the beginning was the Word… and the Word was made flesh (John 1)

The wind will still be boisterous. The promise is not that the lake goes glass-smooth first. The promise is that the One who walks on it is still saying “It is I; be not afraid,” and that the mind stayed on Him — which means the mind stayed in His Word — is kept in shalom shalom while the waves do what waves do.

And all of this ^^^ ties in directly with rapture season, or the feast of trumpets time of remembrance.  "Watching" and readiness are directly related to eyes on Christ.  What are we watching for?  Jesus Christ.  What are we looking at with our spiritual eyes every day?  Jesus Christ.  He is our calm in the midst of the storm.  He is our peace, our provision, our protection, our power, etc.

This is a love story, the whole enchilada and it both begins and ends with our Lord Jesus Christ.  In the beginning was the Word....the Word, is Christ.  He died for us in love and mercy.  

Along those lines those predicting imminent doom, the youtube "prophets" miss one gigantic point.  Eternity is a long long time and He is only coming back unexpectedly once for His Church.  The Lord God who would have all people saved is in no hurry to pull the plug on this earth and send people to hell by the bushel.  That is not His heart.  At some point, yes its going to happen however we are today in the age of GRACE, and every day that the Lord tarries means salvation for Lord only how many souls.  So......we need to be prepared to do our job for as long as it pleases the Lord to extend the Age of Grace.

Could the Lord come back at any moment, absolutely.  When He will come back however will remain a mystery until it happens.  We are in the preparation game, not the prediction game.  Preparation means being found doing the Lord's work when He returns while not neglecting our personal relationship and walk with Him.  That is another point He made recently.  Working for the Lord does not equate to being in the family or even in good standing with Him.  Many preach the Word of God for profit.  Which is fine, they get paid however their soul and right standing with the Lord is another matter.  Is brother D their judge?  Absolutely not, but the Lord reminded this servant that doing our job for Him is not the same as spending time in loving relationship with Him.  Revelation talks about those who lose their "first love" we do not want to be those people.

If the "Lords work" has to be sacrificed for a loving relationship with Him so be it.  Love comes first.  Relationship with Him comes first, everything else comes second:

Jesus was asked this directly.

A Pharisee, a lawyer, tested Him: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law?” (Matthew 22:36).

Jesus answered by joining two Old Testament texts:

The first and great commandment

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great commandment.
(Matthew 22:37–38)

Mark’s account includes the Shema and adds strength:

The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
(Mark 12:29–30)

That is Deuteronomy 6:4–5.

The second, like it

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31)

That is Leviticus 19:18.

Then Jesus said:

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
(Matthew 22:40)

There is none other commandment greater than these.
(Mark 12:31)

So the greatest commandment is not a rule among many. It is whole-person love for God — heart, soul, mind, and strength — and that love immediately takes the shape of love for neighbor. Everything else in Scripture hangs on those two.

Love is more often than not in the Churchworld and elsewhere treated as a "nice to have" item on the buffet table of Christian apologetics.  Instead it should be THE item preached at the beginning, throughout the middle and at the end of every message from every preacher and teacher of the faith.

While the prophets of doom try to peddle the end of the world, the age of grace remains as long as the Church remains on the earth and we are to preach the GOOD NEWS.  Yes, the Lord God had to turn this servants attention on this issue as well.  There is enough bad news in this world already, we dont have to retweet, repost, and eztend its lifespan.  The people on the earth today need to hear Words of Life, Good News, they need the presence and power of the Lord God, not dead, dried out religion.

Thats enough for today.  May the Lord bless you and keep you.  May His Face shine upon you and may He grant you peace. 💗

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Close to the Feast of Trumpets

 Today we remember what the Lord has done.  He has fulfilled all the spring feasts.  We remember what He promised to do, which is fulfillment of all the fall feasts.  That brings us to the Feast of Trumpets.  We were never told to point to a calendar on a wall, or to even attempt to predict the arrival of the Lord.  We are however told to always be watching and ready for that unexpected arrival.  How we watch and are ready:

The word is qavah (קָוָה), Strong’s H6960. It is pronounced roughly kah-VAH.

That is the main verb behind lines like “wait on the Lord” in Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 27:14.

What the root pictures

Strong’s and Brown-Driver-Briggs treat the primitive sense as to bind together, perhaps by twisting, then figuratively to expect. The older lexicons connect it to twisting or stretching, the tension in a cord, and related words for a line, strand, or rope.

We have our eyes on Jesus our Lord every day, right now...that is how we watch.  How are we ready?  We wait on the Lord by actively, daily binding ourselves to Him.  We are weaving our lives together with Him right now, we are not waiting for an unexpected day to do that.  This brings us to the picture of the wise virgins in Matt 25, they filled and had to refill storage containers in preparation of waiting for their Lord.  Again, this is not a passive exercise of sitting there staring at the sky.  In faith, hope and love, they kept their oil topped off.

This binding or weaving we do in the ordinary days like today, cannot be reproduced at midnight when the Bridegroom calls.  People cannot "rent a relationship" with Jesus for the unexpected moment He arrives for His Church.  The binding and weaving together of lives is taking place right now.  The refilling of oil is taking place day by day as we die to ourselves daily and are refilled with the Holy Spirit (oil) daily.  We are making a choice for Jesus daily not "once saved always saved" "I made a decision for Jesus" twenty years ago, now I do whatever I want and my preacher man says I'll be fine."

We are living in a great love story.  This world, and the enemy would have us believe this is all some kind of dark, matrix like prison cell.  If any of that is true its because of the enemy's and mankind's refusal to love the truth and be saved.  The Lord Father sent His only begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ to die for us, in love and mercy.  The Lord Jesus stopped time on that cross and saw each and every one of us, by name.  Not some faceless horde of humans, He died for us by name with personal intimate knowledge of every terrible rotten wicked thing we would ever do, then, only then, in love and mercy He chose His agape love for us and died for us.  That is the basis and foundation of this story.

! cor 13, and 1 John 4 fill out the story even more.  Love is everything.  All the religious flowery stuff on the outside is worthless without love.  His Love.  So, how does this fit into today's Feast of Trumpets seasonal watching?  We are called forward to operate in, with and through a Christian "operating system" just like a computer runs windows or Mac IOS.  Our Christian operating system runs on faith, hope, love, joy and peace.  This world and the enemy want us operating in their competing operating system which operates on fear, hate, envy, theft, despair and death.  We get to choose, they both compete for our attention.  In these last days the Lord God has placed and emphasis on the fundamentals of the faith.  These are not new things, they are as old as dirt.  Faith, hope, love, joy and peace is how we always were supposed to operate.

We make many choices every day when we roll out of bed.  Our choice, day by day is for Jesus, and His "operating system" which works in and through faith, hope, love, joy and peace.  We choose Him and that operating system again today and indefinitely into the future.  We make a choice for Him every day.  We die to ourselves every day and take the passenger seat so Jesus can take the wheel in our life and drive our life toward the Kingdom of Heaven.  

In order to do God's Will we need to do things His way.  The orginial sin, the fall of the enemy was a decision to do things "my way" instead of His way.  We choose Jesus Christ in faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love because He first loved us.  All of this is our preparation and watching for His unexpected arrival.  When that will be, no man knows.  So, let us recommit and make new decisions for our Lord Jesus Christ day by day.  We choose Him and each other over ourselves.  "Me" must make way for "We."  Me no longer exists, only We does.  This is the path forward.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Rapture Season Prep

We are told to be watching and ready for the unexpected day the Lord Jesus Christ comes back for us.  Per Matt 25 the parable of the virgins that requires waiting.  How do we make sense of all this, bring it into our reality today in 2026?  See below.

 Those Who Wait

Waiting on God is not empty time. It is a life woven into Christ while we watch for Him.

Most of us learned the word wait from waiting rooms. A number is called. A door opens. Until then you sit, you scroll, you endure the delay. So when Scripture says wait on the Lord, the mind supplies that picture. Hands empty. Life paused. Faith reduced to holding still until God finally does something.

That picture cannot survive the Hebrew. And it cannot survive the way Jesus taught His people to watch for Him.

Waiting on God is not doing nothing. It is the most occupied work of the soul. We wrap our lives around the Lord. We seek His kingdom first. We keep a supply that can last a delay. We set our eyes on Christ, both now and then. The request remains second. The Bridegroom remains first.

The word itself

The main Hebrew verb behind wait on the Lord is qavah. Its root picture is not a chair. It is twisting, gathering, and binding strands into a cord. A single fiber snaps. Twisted together under tension, the same fibers become a rope that can bear weight.

So when Isaiah says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, he is not promising rest to people who stopped moving. He is promising exchanged strength to people who have wrapped their weakness around God’s strength until the two are no longer separate. The next Hebrew word in that verse, often rendered renew, is closer to exchange. You do not manufacture eagle wings. You trade your spent strength for His.

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Isaiah 40:31

That is why waiting seasons often feel more intense, not less. Tension is part of how rope is made. Faith is stretched. Hope is pulled taut. Love has to keep choosing. Joy and peace have to be practiced when the outcome is still unseen. You are not less engaged. You are more engaged, because the soul is doing the work of binding.

David uses the same verb when he says, Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the Lord. Psalm 130 says it with a watchman’s ache.

“I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in His word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.” Psalm 130:5-6

A watchman is not napping by the gate. His whole body is leaned toward the east. Lamentations adds the same posture with a quieter line: the Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. Waiting and seeking belong together. One does not cancel the other.

The thing you asked for is not first

If waiting is binding yourself to God, then the object of the wait cannot sit on the throne.

Jesus said it without ornament. Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. The healing, the open door, the answered request, the change in the other person, even the relief you can taste from here: those are these things. They matter. He knows you have need of them. They are still second.

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33

The kingdom is not a prize at the end of the wait. The kingdom is the Person you are wrapping your life around while you wait. When the request becomes the center, waiting turns into bargaining. When the King is the center, waiting becomes communion. Outcomes can delay. He does not.

That is why biblical waiting can be full of faith, hope, love, joy, and peace at the same time the circumstance is still unfinished. Those fruits are not the reward for getting what you wanted. They are what grows in the braid.

The longest wait in the New Testament

The church’s great qavah is not a smaller request. It is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself.

Paul names it the blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior. Philippians says our citizenship is in heaven, from which we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body into conformity with His glory. Hebrews says He will appear a second time, apart from sin, unto them that look for Him. First Thessalonians says we wait for His Son from heaven. The Lord Himself shall descend. The dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

“Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.” Titus 2:13

He comes at an hour we do not set. So the wait for His appearing is not calendar watching. It is the same binding. We are not staring at the sky with empty hands. We are wrapping our days around the Bridegroom who already claimed us, while the trumpet is still unheard.

After the ascension the disciples stood gazing up into heaven. Angels sent them on. This same Jesus shall so come. The look upward was not forbidden. It was incomplete. Watching for Him never meant abandoning the life being woven into Him on the ground.

The virgins and the oil

Matthew 25 puts a lamp in that wait. The kingdom of heaven is like ten virgins who took their lamps and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five were wise and five were foolish. The foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them. The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

All ten go out to meet Him. All ten expect Him. All ten sleep when He is delayed. Delay is not the dividing line. Preparation through delay is.

At midnight there was a cry. Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him. Those who had kept a supply rose, trimmed their lamps, and went in with Him to the marriage. The door was shut. The others found that midnight is too late to borrow what love never stored.

“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” Matthew 25:13

Oil in Scripture is bound up with anointing, with the Spirit’s presence, with a life that stays lit. You do not have to force one narrow symbol onto every drop. The story’s burden is plain. Love that wants the Bridegroom keeps filling what the wait will burn. Readiness is not a one time decision at the start of the Christian life. It is a vessel that gets replenished while the night stretches.

The parable is about love and waiting at the same time. The wise were not busier than the foolish in public. They were faithful in the hidden work of keeping the flame possible. You cannot borrow someone else’s oil at midnight. Binding is personal. The cry will not wait while we go shop for a relationship we never cultivated.

We are not filling jars

In practical terms for today’s Christian, we are not literally filling oil jars. That picture belonged to a wedding night in first century Judea. What it pointed to still belongs to us.

The wise were not ready because they performed a better ritual. They were ready because they had a supply that could last a delay. For us that supply is not a liquid. It is a life being woven into Christ while we still live ordinary days.

Paul gives the location of that weaving in three small phrases the church has always lived inside: in Him, with Him, through Him. In Him we are placed. With Him we walk. Through Him we live and move and bear fruit. Waiting is not a fourth category beside those. Waiting is those three phrases under pressure, when the thing we asked for has not arrived and the Bridegroom has not yet appeared.

That is why the so called waiting season is not a pause in the Christian life. It is the Christian life with the decorations stripped off. You find out what you are actually bound to.

The oil, now, is this active engagement. Not a shelf of clay. A heart that keeps coming to be filled.

Faith keeps treating His word as more solid than the delay. Faith is not a mood. It is the next act of trust when sight has nothing to show. You open the Scripture again. You obey the last thing He said. You refuse to unbraid yourself from Him because the knot has not paid off yet.

Hope keeps leaning toward a Person, not a package. Hope that is seen is not hope. So hope stays pointed at Christ who is our life, and at the day He appears. The job, the healing, the restored relationship can be received with gratitude when they come. They cannot be allowed to sit in hope’s chair. That chair is His.

Love stays. Love is the strand that will not let the rope go slack. Love keeps the vessel in His presence when feelings have thinned. Love prays when the prayer feels like talking into weather. Love forgives. Love serves His people. Love still calls Him worthy when the night is long. The foolish ran out because they assumed the first affection would last the whole delay. Love that waits keeps coming back to be filled.

Joy is not the grin you put on when the answer lands. Joy is the settled gladness that He is the portion now. Rejoice in the Lord always is a waiting command. It yokes joy to Him, not to arrival.

Peace is the quiet of a life stayed on Him. You do not get peace by solving the wait. You get peace by refusing to move your eyes. The mind stayed on Him is kept. That keeping is part of the weave.

None of that is passive. It is the day’s work. It happens in traffic, in a waiting room, in a kitchen, in a church pew, in the middle of a night when sleep will not come. You are twisting the next strand. You are wrapping the next hour around Him. You are weaving an ordinary Tuesday into Christ.

Watching what?

Jesus said watch. Paul said keep awake. The Greek is the language of a man who refuses to drift off. It does not mean stand in the yard and scan the clouds. Staring at the sky can be as empty as staring at a closed door.

Watching answers a different question.

Watching what?

Christ. Now, and then. The same Person. The same look.

“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12:2

Not looking unto the timeline. Not looking unto the unanswered request. Not looking unto other people’s oil. Unto Him. Paul says that as we behold the glory of the Lord we are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit. John says that when He appears we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is, and every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself. The future seeing and the present seeing are one hope. Eyes on Christ today is rehearsal for eyes on Christ when the cry comes at midnight.

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” 1 John 3:2-3

So readiness is not a prophecy chart on the wall. Readiness is a gaze that has already chosen its object. You are ready when your life is already occupied with the One who is coming. You will not have to invent a relationship at midnight. You will not have to start looking then. The shout will find you already facing Him.

Colossians says it without waste. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Notice the order. He is our life before He is our appearing. The then is of a piece with the now. If your eyes are on Him in the hidden place, they will not have to be redirected when the sky breaks.

How it holds together

Waiting on God and waiting for Jesus are not two topics. They are one motion.

Qavah is the Old Testament picture: wrap yourself into Him until His life is twisted through yours. Seek first the kingdom is the order of that wrapping: the King before the gift. The parable of the virgins is the New Testament picture of the same thing under delay: keep the oil, because love that waits does not assume the first filling will last the whole night. The appearing of the Lord, the catching away, the meeting in the air, is the midnight cry that makes the whole posture make sense. We are not waiting for a thing. We are waiting for a Person who arrives without our schedule.

So the season that looks like nothing is happening is often the season when the most is happening. Faith is reaching. Hope is leaning. Love is staying. Joy is choosing the Bridegroom over the timeline. Peace is resting in the One you are bound to, not in the outcome you can measure.

We do not fill jars. We keep filling the life. We open the Word to see Him, not only to harvest a tip for getting what we want faster. We pray to stay bound, not only to file the next need. We gather with the saints because the weave is also a people, His body, and isolation unravels what communion tightens. We practice faith when the report is unchanged. We tell hope where to stand. We let love do the unglamorous refilling. We choose joy in Him. We receive peace as the mind is kept.

That is watching. Not the sky. Christ. Both now and then.

Either way the rope holds

If He answers the smaller thing first, you have not wasted the weave. You were with Him. If the trumpet sounds before the smaller thing arrives, you have not missed the point. You were already looking at the only One who was ever first.

The secondary things may come. Many of them will. But they come as additions to a life already knit to Him. And if He comes for us before they arrive, we have not wasted the wait. We have spent it on the only thing that was ever first.

Keep the weave. Keep the eyes. Keep Him first.

“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” Revelation 22:20

Could the Lord Come Back This Year?

 You bet He could.  Could it be on the Feast of Trumpets?  Absolutely.  He is God...He can do whatever He wants.  We need to be ready for whatever it is He wants to do, when He wants to do it.  We have placed the prediction game behind us.  Why?  You wont find it in His Word.  Its not in there.  More importantly, it is not His intent that we even try to predict.  What is His intent?  What does the Lord God want?  He wants us watching and ready when He comes back unexpectedly for us.  There it is.  People may not like it, does'nt matter.  What matters is what the Lord our God wants.  If we love Him, we want to please Him.  We want to align ourselves with His intent and His Will.

So, back to this year.  We need to prepare our hearts for whatever happens.  We need to be fully 100% prepared for the Lord to arrive this year, AND fully prepared to stay and do our job.  We can, have and will continue to walk and chew gum at the same time.  We can be ready for His unexpected appearance while actively, vigorously doing our job here on earth.

The Spirit of the Lord has been impressing upon this servant a consistent theme: level up into the best version of yourselves.  Use the talents, skills and abilities given to you to seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.  Be centered in His Will.  Our operating system or "software" is faith, hope, love, joy and peace that transcends all understanding.  The light beats the darkness by being what it is: light.

The left, this world, the enemy are in a process of doubling and tripling down on evil: LGBTQABCDEFG ideology, and sexual perversion/deviancy of every kind.  They have also taken the mask off, trying to pretend they want to play along in any way with anything that was good in this country up till now.  Listen to what they are saying, not what we want to hear them say.  The left is now openly saying "elect more communists" and "seize the means of production."  When cornered about these statements people like mandami like to soft pedal and downplay.  Of course they would.  They are openly calling for the dissolution of the constitution and other pillars of our government put in place by the founding fathers.  They are not dancing around what they want anymore-they want the end of America as we know it.

"They" are taking off the masks and the gloves.  They are showing us who they really are and what they really want.  In other words, they are "revealing" (Revelation) themselves to the world.  The left, the evil, the wicked are pushing father away from any middle ground and hard toward their spiritual father which is the devil.  All of that is the setup for the other side of the coin which is us, the Church, and what the Lord would have us do in this world in preparation for His unexpected arrival.  We are doing the same exact thing but pushing in the polar opposite direction.  We are broadcasting faith, hope, love, joy and peace to this world.  We are broadcasting good news while they preach hatred, division, poverty, slavery, and totalitarian boots on humanity's neck.  The contrast could not be more pronounced.

Light combats darkness by being light, the brightest, best form of it.  We are to push forward with our Lord's agenda while we walk the earth.  We are to "seek first His Kingdom" and He will take care of all the sidecar problems and issues.  He will take care of the elections as well.  Should you participate?  Unless the Lord tells you no, probably the answer is yes.  We are to follow His lead.  We are to engage, unless He tells us not to.  This is in contrast to previous direction from the Lord at least for this servant not to vote.  Voting or not voting is not the most important thing, seeking first His Kingdom is most important.  Loving the Lord our God with all our heart, mind and spirit is the most important thing, then loving our neighbor as ourselves.

If we put first things first, all the rest will fall in line.  While we do all this, we see the stage continuing to be set for the end time drama that will play out either sooner or later.  The third temple, Gog Magog war, the rapture, the time of Jacob's trouble all sits on the horizon.  We are getting far enough along the timeline where the Lord could pull the plug today, and all the events of Revelation to include the mark, and everything else would be able to be implemented with the technology available or soon to be available in this age of exponential change.

So, be ready for anything.  Be watching and ready.  That is what the Lord asked of us.  Yes, its going to take more effort to be ready and watching every day.  He never said all this would be easy.  We also need to remember He is calling on the best versions of ourselves to rise up, now.  Older, lesser versions need to fade and the best version of you needs to press forward into the future.  It is the best version of you that works out and fulfills the plans God has for you to the fullest.  That is what we want to do, leave nothing on the table.  On the day we stand before Him we want to be able to rejoice with Him that we did on this earth, all He planned and prepared for us to do.  That is, we aimed and hit the mark.  Sin literally means "missing the mark."

This is getting long, you get the idea.  Its fall feast season and we need to be extra aware because that was and is the purpose of the feast days.  They are days of remembrance and preparation.  We remember what the Lord has already done and what He promised to do.  We also prepare for what is promised.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

2026 Spiritual Awakening, Repentance and Revival

 The Lord God is moving this year, He is working and people are hungry for it.  If the "establishment" religious people don't want to roll with it, He will use whoever is willing.  The awakening, repentance and revival are real and taking place now.  You are called to it.  We are all called to it.  The Spirit of the Lord says "all hands on deck."  That means you and me and everyone else.  We are being called up into the highest, best version of ourselves to serve the Most High God, to seek first His Kingdom and His Righteousness.  The best version of you is what is required to achieve the highest calling the Lord God has on your life.  Needless to say, all of that is centered dead center in His Will.

There is alot going on.  All the chess pieces are moving on the board.  The ones that refuse to play will be left behind.  If you are reading this, that is not you.  You personally, specifically have been called up.  Now its time to go to work.  It is time for more worked to go out into the field for the harvest is ripe.  There will be more Charlie Kirks sent to college campuses, and more workers just like the brothers and sisters in Kentucky.

It is time.  How exciting!  And He is not done yet.  Earlier today an article was published about the possibilities beyond DJTs presidency.  When the Light grows brighter, darkness has no choice but to retreat.  Turn on any light in any room in your house and if the light is working, that darkness is outa there instantly.  It is both a natural law and a spiritual law.  Lets have a golf clap together for our family in Kentucky who are busy with the Lord's work and take it as a prompt for all of us to get busy doing the same.  Whatever it is the Lord has for you to do, get after it :)

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

Prophetic Warning 2028

 A warning has come through loud and clear about 2028.  "They" have a plan to repeat the last of year of Trump's second term (2028) along the same lines as the first term (the covid scamdemic).  That is the warning.  Its want "they" want to do and plan to do.  What are the caveats?  1.  Its almost September 2026, nobody knows when exactly the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back for His Church.  Its Feast of Trumpets observance season.  We are predicting nothing and preparing for everything.  We are watching, and pray we are found ready if the Lord comes back for us this year.  2.  We are told in advance, before "they" do it.  Why?  So we can pray.

We have diverging prophetic timelines forking ahead of us.  One pathway has the rapture of the Church and subsequent beginning of the time of Jacob's trouble.  However another pathway has an extension of time with the Restrainer, the Spirit filled Church remaining on the earth and a subsequent harvest of souls that will leave jaws hanging wide open.  There is the possibility of some of the best days any of us have ever seen taking place before we leave this earth.  Remember, it is the Lord's Will that all be saved:

1 Timothy 2:3–4
“This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”

2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”

Ezekiel 33:11
“Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?”

Ezekiel 18:23
“Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked, declares the Lord God, and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?”

Titus 2:11
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people.”

John 3:16–17
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

So, the idea that the Lord is in a hurry to burn this world down with everyone in it is absolute garbage.  We get to participate in the decision making process here.  Are we going to step up to the plate or are we going to kick our feet up on the table and allow the enemy to run roughshod over the earth while we "play church" while the world burns down around us?  The Lord God has a message of Love for this world.  That is why that has been front and center as a topic here for some time now and its not going away.  We are going to Love our enemies into the Kingdom.  We are going to put His Kingdom first, seek His Kingdom first.  We are going to operate in faith, hope, love, joy and peace.  His way, works...His way, is attractive.  His way does not look, sound or feel like this world's way in any shape, form or fashion.

Either way, whichever path we choose, we are on the homerun stretch of the journey.  We are being encouraged to finish strong.  This servant would like to see the best days ever seen on earth in the days ahead.  Yes, this will take place in parallel with the NWO system being built around us.  It is important to realize there are options on the table ahead of us which is exactly what this tells us:

2 Chron 7

13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 

We have choices.

Here is some info from AI regarding 2028 possibilities.  We are actively praying to avoid all of this.  We collectively were asleep at the wheel in 2020.  We will not make the same mistake twice...

A watchman’s note for 2028

You do not need another argument about whether COVID was used for control. Many of you already settled that in your own conscience. The live question is simpler and more urgent: what comes next, and will you be awake when the next costume arrives?

Do not expect a carbon copy of 2020. Blanket lockdowns burned the public. The unfinished work is the permanent plumbing—identity, money, speech, travel, and emergency law that can be switched on without a two-year drama. Build the pipes in peacetime. Attach them to whichever scare will sell in 2027–29.

The pipes already in public view

Watch mechanisms, not vibes.

• Digital health credentials that outlive COVID. International rules now explicitly allow digital health documents for travel. The interoperability networks are being built. That is vaccine-passport architecture without needing the word “COVID.”
• Global pandemic architecture. A pandemic agreement was adopted; technical annexes on pathogen sharing continue. The United States under Trump withdrew from the WHO and said it would not be bound. In the control frame, a late-term shock is how you drag holdouts back or impose the system at the borders anyway.
• Digital ID + programmable money. National digital identity systems and central-bank digital currency rails keep advancing. COVID passports were the prototype: your status gates your life. ID plus money is the upgrade: your status gates your wallet.
• “One Health” fusion. Bird flu, farm culls, livestock rules, land use, and climate policy are increasingly written as one security problem. A food or farm event can then be sold as both pandemic prevention and climate duty.
• Speech infrastructure. The 2020–22 model was platforms + public health + national security. The current version is the same stack with AI content systems. A new emergency does not need new censors; it needs a reason to turn the existing ones to maximum.

The crisis scripts most often attached to those pipes

1. A pathogen that is not “Wuhan 2.0.” H5N1 / “Disease X” / a story that hits children harder. Fear returns. Farms and travel can be restricted without calling it a lockdown. New countermeasures get emergency use. Watch for synchronized language across international bodies and major media before the numbers justify it.
2. Climate + food shock. Drought, flood, fertilizer, livestock disease, or “protein transition.” Movement, diet, energy, and land can be rationed without a virus. Watch for “climate emergency” language, meat restrictions, and city mobility rules bundled with a weather or crop year.
3. Payments / cyber / grid event. A banking freeze, major ransomware on hospitals or power, or “cash is unsafe.” That is the cleanest on-ramp to “only verified digital ID and CBDC can restore commerce.” Watch for emergency limits on cash and “temporary” wallet rules that never sunset.
4. Stacked emergencies. The sophisticated version is not one movie. It is pathogen plus food plus “disinformation” in the same season, so each measure justifies the others.

Why the last year of a Trump term is the analogous window

Same political math as 2020, updated. An election year maximizes chaos and blame. A nationalist American presidency is treated as the blocker; a shock either hobbles it or creates facts on the ground before January 2029. Several digital-ID and Agenda 2030 calendars sit in the 2028–30 window. COVID memory is stale enough for a different costume, while the legal and technical pipes are more finished than in 2019.

Do not be naïve about the “nationalist” shield

Trump is routinely cast as the obstacle to global coordination. That reading is incomplete. In his first term he was aggressively for the vaccine. He launched and celebrated Operation Warp Speed. He declined to fire Anthony Fauci. He still sells the shot, in many settings, as one of the greatest achievements. Large numbers of people did not want it and did not trust it; the apparatus moved anyway.

That is the classic Trojan-horse pattern: the outward brand is America First and anti-globalist, while the concrete machinery of emergency medical authority, accelerated product, and public pressure still advanced. If the next crisis arrives in 2028, do not assume a nationalist president automatically means the control systems stay offline. Watch what is actually built and what is actually enforced.

Signals that should snap you out of complacency

Signal	Why it matters
Digital ID required for banking, work, or domestic travel	Passport logic leaving the airport
Health QR / credential revived for “the new thing”	Same door, new label
Cash access narrowed during a “temporary” emergency	Control moves from medicine to money
Farm culls + food ration talk + climate language at once	One Health stack going live
Coordinated pre-bunking of dissent the week a shock is named	Communications plan running ahead of data
Emergency powers with no hard sunset	The tell from 2020

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace

We need to pray for and love our enemies

 

Matthew 5:44 (and the surrounding verses 43–48) is the clearest and most direct statement. Jesus says:

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

Luke’s parallel account (Luke 6:27–28, 35) expands it:

“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you… But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.”

Why we should pray for those who currently oppose us — the Saul/Paul argument

People like Bill Maher who were once our greatest critics are turning the corner. Lets bring them all the way over...

Saul of Tarsus was not a mild critic. He was an active, zealous persecutor of the early church. He approved of Stephen’s execution, dragged believers from their homes, threw them into prison, tried to force them to blaspheme, and pursued them even to foreign cities (Acts 8:1–3; 9:1–2; 22:4–5; 26:9–11; Galatians 1:13; Philippians 3:6). From the perspective of the first Christians, he was the enemy — the one hunting them down.

Then, on the road to Damascus, the risen Jesus confronted him. The man who had been “breathing out murderous threats” became the apostle Paul — the church’s greatest missionary, theologian, and advocate. The same energy and intellect that once opposed the gospel were redirected to spread it across the Roman world. Letters written by the former persecutor now form a large part of the New Testament and have shaped Christian thought for two thousand years.

This is not a soft story about niceness. It is a hard demonstration of what prayer and love toward enemies can unlock:

• People are not fixed in their opposition. Saul was sincerely convinced he was serving God. Many who oppose the faith, the church, or individual believers today operate from the same mixture of conviction, blindness, fear, or incomplete information. Prayer asks God to open eyes, grant repentance, and redirect that same intensity toward truth (see 2 Timothy 2:25–26 and Paul’s own later reflection in 1 Timothy 1:13–16).
• God specializes in radical reversals. The pattern is repeated throughout Scripture: enemies become family, persecutors become proclaimers. If the early church had only cursed Saul or prayed for his destruction, they would have been praying against the very instrument God intended to use for their growth. Prayer for enemies aligns us with God’s larger purposes rather than our immediate desire for vindication.
• It changes us as much as (or more than) them. Loving and praying for those who oppose us refuses the natural cycle of bitterness, retaliation, and tribal hardening. It keeps our own hearts soft, free from the poison of resentment, and positioned as true children of the Father who “is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.” Jesus ties the command directly to reflecting God’s character.
• It is an act of faith, not naïveté. We do not pretend opposition is harmless or that justice never matters. We entrust justice to God (“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” Romans 12:19) while actively seeking the good of the person. Feeding an enemy or praying for their repentance is not weakness; it is the strategic overcoming of evil with good.

The Saul-to-Paul transformation shows that the person who looks most permanently opposed may be the one God is preparing for the greatest usefulness. When we pray for those who currently stand against us — for their eyes to be opened, for mercy, for a genuine encounter with Christ, for their gifts to be redirected rather than destroyed — we are praying in the same spirit that the early church (knowingly or not) needed for Saul. We are participating in the possibility that today’s opponent could become tomorrow’s strongest advocate.

That is not sentimental idealism. It is the concrete, historically demonstrated logic of the gospel.

Feast of Trumpets 2026

 The Feast of Trumpets 2026 is coming up soon on 9/11/26.  We have learned to predict nothing and prepare for everything.  Could the Lord come back for His people to pull His Church out of the earth and begin the 7 years of Jacob's trouble?  Absolutely.  Is He going to do it this year?  Nobody knows.  Everyone, that is 100% of those who claimed even with "confirmations" that "this is the year" have all 100% been wrong.  Add to that zero in the Word of God asking us to predict or guess or "prophesy" when it will happen.  The same people who told us "the Lord does nothing without revealing it to His prophets first" are the same people who have been wrong endlessly in the prediction game.

The Lord never told us to predict or even prophesy when He would return unexpectedly for us.  In fact its quite the opposite.  He told us it was and is His plan and intent to make it a day that nobody, including even the Son of God our Lord Jesus Christ knows:

Matthew 24:36 “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”

Mark 13

32“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 33Be on guard! Be alert ^e ! You do not know when that time will come. 34It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.

35“Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’ ”

So, nowhere did He tell us to predict His unexpected coming and 3 times in 6 verses He told us to watch.  This ties in directly with the parable of the wise virgins in Matt 25

Matt 25

1“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 3The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. 4The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. 5The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

6“At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

7“Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. 8The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

9“ ‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’

10“But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.

11“Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

12“But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’

13“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

He wants to us to be watching and ready, constantly, continually which admitedly is more work and requires daily obedience, faithfulness etc which is why its so much more convenient for many to predict then live however they want till whatever day they are predicting arrives.  Problem is thats a fool's game.

In Matt 25 we also have the parable of the talents which is about putting to work what the Lord has given us in His service.  Which includes all of our talents, skills, abilities, money and everything else.  We are to "turn a profit" for our Master in this world by doing what He sent us here to do, centered in His Will.  All this stuff is located in the same neighborhood in Scripture so we should be paying attention.

Also the Spirit of the Lord's focus and emphasis on "Love" the way He does it is telling.  Love is the top shelf, graduation worthy topic at the very top of the learning pyramid in Christianity:

Matthew 22:37–40 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Mark 12:30–31 “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.

All the law and the prophets hang on this ^^^.  Thats the whole enchilada in two bites.  Maybe we should get "love" the way our Lord does it, really right.  He has been preparing His people for His arrival for some time now.  He has encouraged us to do all the things we should do to be ready.  It would not be surprising at all that the final chapter before the Church leaves this earth is written heavy in Love.

So, we have no idea when the Lord Jesus Christ will return for His Church but we do know alot of other things like we are to be watching and ready for it whenever it happens.  If we are doing the things He told us to do when He arrives unexpectedly we dont have to worry about times and dates.  

This is an encouragement to you to level up into the highest very best version of yourself day after day, centered in His Will.  If you do this, whatever day He decides to pull us out of here will be a good day.

Please join with your brother in praying over the prayer targets today.

Glory to God

grace and peace