Hi Pastor John,
This Thought for Today is so good! I started reading again the Suffering and the Saints book, and this goes so very well with your introduction. I have been thinking and praying a lot on “being prepared, and ready” for God to visit us. To me, I have been having the thought, being prepared is being ready to be healed, or rather leaving sicknesses behind, ready to have your tears wiped away (having your mind on Christ), or like Sister Willie said Wednesday night to, “wear this world like a loose garment” (having no worldly cares). It’s God bringing us closer to Him in perfection; the more perfect we become, the more we will be like Jesus, pleasing to the Father. I believe the Father likes the way His Son looks and feels.
When you said last night, “When God visits, he’ll bring fire with him,” that’s a fearful thought, but there is hope in that because we know the Father and His Son love us dearly; all that Jesus wants to do is burn the ropes that bind us like he did for Daniel’s three friends. Nebuchadnezzar’s servants even heated the furnace hotter than normal, but it doesn’t matter what men can do anyway, and all that’s going to burn are the things that bind us. Look at what effect it had on a kingdom when the King saw Daniel’s friends loose and walking in the midst of the flames! The whole kingdom was told to worship the God of Daniel.
If we have dross, it’ll be raked aside. What a wonderful thought! Thai is, to be cleaner and more perfect in Jesus’ eyes. There is peace, joy, and love (like Donna’s song said Wednesday night). The more the dross is out of our hearts and minds, the more we look at and act on what Jesus is doing and not on what Jesus did like the Pearl for Thursday September 17, 2015 says: “We’re not supposed to do what Jesus did; we’re supposed to be doing what he does.”
I am so excited today for my life! I enjoyed to the fullest watching Laura be blessed. I loved seeing Venus’ joy. I loved watching my wife feel the power of God. Oh my! Can we be prepared to feel more of his love and power? I pray, ”Jesus, what must I do to be saved?” There is even joy is asking God this question.
We are coming up on something good in God. What ever He does or however he visits will be good for the body as a whole. God, let me prepare my house.
Billy
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