WARNING!  JUDGMENT IS COMING!  BE SAVED! The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.  And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls. —Joel 2:31-32 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.  The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. —Joel…

NO UNDERSTANDING LEADS TO RUIN! A people without understanding will come to ruin. —Hosea 4:14             How else could it end?  If people do not understand who the Lord is and our responsibility to Him then it will not end well.  We were designed by the Lord God Almighty to have relationship with Him and so those “ensnared by Satan being held captive to do his will” will come to ruin (II Timothy 2:26).  Satan is a destroyer and will destroy as many people as he can.  Satan entices people with pleasantries of the flesh in order to enslave them and lead them to destruction             Look around you.  See…

BE GLAD WITH GOD’S PEOPLE IN HIS PRESENCE! I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” –Psalm 122:1             It is wonderful to be with the people of God in the presence of the Lord.  This is just a taste of what glory will be like.  Think of it… we will one day be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ forever.              Do you now look forward to meeting with God’s people together in His presence?  If not, then something is surely wrong in your life!  To be with the people of God is to be accepted, loved…

HELP COMES FROM OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. —Psalm 121:1-2             Where do I find my help?  Who is my help?  Is there anyone I can trust 100% for help?  Is there anyone there all the time for me?  Yes, “My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”  He is the One who said, “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:3) and “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your…

JESUS IS COMING WITH REWARD AND RECOMPENSE Behold, your salvation comes; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. —Isaiah 62:11 See, the Sovereign LORD comes with power, and he rules with a mighty arm. See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him. —Isaiah 40:10 He repays everyone for what they have done; he brings on them what their conduct deserves. —Job 34:11 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? —Proverbs 24:12 For…

SHINING THROUGH SERVANTHOOD Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the LORD?  “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide…

LIVE ACCORDING TO HIS THOUGHTS, WORDS AND HIS WAYS! Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.  Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. —Isaiah 55:6-9             People want to live their own way according to…

BEAUTIFUL FEET How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” —Isaiah 52:7 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us…

BE MULTIPLIED! Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for he was but one when I called him, that I might bless him and multiply him. —Isaiah 51:2             Brother and sister, God called Abraham.  God blessed Abraham.  God multiplied Abraham.  God called you.  God blessed you. God wants to multiply you.  Abraham was going to be a blessing to the world.  His “offspring” would be multitudes through the ages.  How about you and me?  Will we be multitudes to the end of this age?             God did all this through Abraham and yet Abraham had a part that he was responsible for.  He wasn’t just…