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CITY IN THE SKY - Chapter Seventeen

 

PREPARING FOR RAPTURE
 

Love the Lord your God
with all your heart,
with all your soul,
with all your mind
and with all your strength

A religion without feeling is like romance without emotion.  Love and religion need the heart.

My son give me thine heart.
Pro.23:26

If your lover does not have your heart, your lover does not have you.  If Jesus does not have your heartfelt emotions He does not have you!

Search for Me
with all your heart.
Jer.29:13

It is a fact that Jesus died in our place to give us eternal life, and we must have faith to believe this, but salvation does not become real until our emotions respond, until our hearts are stirred to love Jesus.

You have put gladness
in my heart.
Psa.4:7

Seek God for a profound spiritual experience and do not resist the gentle Spirit of God as He makes you realize your sinful condition.  He will bring your spirit to life when you sincerely say, 'Jesus forgive me, and take my sins away.'

God's Spirit tells our spirit
that we are God's child,
and heirs of God with Christ.
Rom.8:6

And when you promise Jesus your obedience, the Spirit of God will come to abide with you in His fullness and you will...

'...rejoice with joy unspeakable
and full of glory'
1Pet.1:8

Be filled with the Spirit.
Eph.5:18

To go in the rapture you will need the fullness of the Spirit before the darkness comes.

I will stand upon my WATCH,
and set myself upon the tower,
and will WATCH to see
what He will say to me.
The Lord answered me...
Hbk.2:1-2

WATCH
Mat.25:13
Mrk.13:37 Act.20:31 1Co.16:13 Col.4:2 1Th.5:6 2Tm.4:5

WATCH and PRAY
Mat.26:41
Mrk.13:33, 14:38 Lke.21:36 1Pet.4:7

WATCH - for you know not the day and hour
Mat.24:42
Mat.25:13 Mrk.13:35

NOTE:  WATCH means watching for Jesus.  Gather to talk about and look for His appearing.

Blessed are those
whom the Lord finds watching when He comes.
Lke.12:37

If you do not watch,
you will not know when I will come.
Rev.3:3

Behold I come as a thief.
Blessed is he who watches.
Rev.16:15

Be like men
who WAIT for their Lord.
Lke.12:36

WAITING for the coming of our Lord Jesus
1Co.1:7

WAIT for His Son from Heaven
1Th.1:10

WAITING patiently for Christ
2Th.3:5

LOOKING for the appearing of Jesus.
Tts.2:13

LOOK for Him (Jesus).
Heb.9:28

LOOKING for the coming
Day of the Lord
2Pet.3:12

BE READY,
for Jesus is coming.
Lke.12:40

READY to be revealed
in the last time.
1Pet.1:5

Christ's Bride
has made herself READY.
Rev.19:7

A crown for all who love His appearing.
2Tm.4:8

Everyone who hopes to see Jesus when He appears,
purifies himself even as Jesus is pure.
1Jn.3:3

Abide in Jesus,
that when He appears,
we may have confidence
and not be ashamed before Him
at His coming.
1Jn.2:28

By the help of God's Spirit,
put to death the lusts
of your lower nature.
Rom.8:13

Walk in the Spirit,
and do not fulfill
the lust of the flesh.
Gal.5:16

We have not followed cunningly dvised fables
when we made known to you
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
but were eyewitnesses of His Majesty.
2Pet.1:16

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