Another Month's End Already!

GOD is so good all of the time; all of the time GOD is so good! If you are a Christian, you know this to be true even through the times of suffering. In the past months I have shared the following Fruits of the Spirit:

January - Joy

February - Love

March - Peace
April - Hope
May - Faith
June - Self Control
July - Patience
August - Perseverance

In September, the Fruit of the Spirit I will share is Kindness (generosity and open heartedness.)

I just want to thank You, LORD, for all of the visitors who have come to my blog. LORD GOD, bless them greatly with the leading of Your Holy Spirit.

So What Is Perseverance?

Even the animals have to have perseverance! It is a shame that man's sin also brought down the animal kingdom! Survival of the fittest does not always apply when you look at all of the cattle/poultry that are killed daily to feed man. They are most fit indeed to sale, yet do not survive the slaughter by man to feed his appetite for survival.
  

Life is a run of perseverance. Endure no matter what comes your way whether it be emotional, physical, or spiritual. Almighty GOD in Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit empowers His Elect to trust Him to do so.

Almighty GOD's perseverance has been from everlasting past through everlasting future! Unsaved man believes his life has a beginning and an end, or his end is some "blissful" place without GOD. Before creation, all that is past, present, not to mention future, has been in the LORD's mind from eternity past. "Before the world was (created) I knew you." (Ephesians 1:4.) Man has an eternal future, either with our Awesome Creator Savior GOD in the New heaven/earth or in eternal hell, the lake of fire, in everlasting agony, separated from GOD.

Let GOD's perseverance take you to His Eternal Kingdom. Don't allow yourself to go to an everlasting hell by rejecting His free gift of salvation in Jesus Christ. 

GOD's Perseverance

 Psalm 18:30, "As for GOD, His way is perfect; the WORD of the LORD is flawless."  He expects perfection.

Genesis 6:5, Man is fallen and "his heart is wicked all the time."

Genesis 6:7, "It grieved GOD that He created man. But, Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD." Get this now! All mankind was so evil and wicked, GOD destroyed all mankind except for Noah and his family. GOD's perseverance will only last so long with evil and wicked man.

Genesis 19 Man had again multiplied in their evil and wickedness. This chapter tells of the total destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah due to man's evil and wickedness. The LORD sent angels to lead Lot and his family out and away before GOD's wrath came down. GOD's perseverance will only last so long with evil and wicked man.

Revelation is the final destruction on evil and wicked mankind by GOD. He has given His prophesy of the Tribulation in those days and they are quickly approaching. GOD's perseverance will only last so long with evil and wicked man.

Then Christ will descend with His Church for His millennial reign before all things are made new in the New Heavens, New Earth, and New Jerusalem! GOD's perseverance will have brought His Elect into Eternity with Him forevermore! Hallelujah! Amen! 

If you don't know our Almighty GOD, you can! Come to your Savior, Creator, GOD for the forgiveness of your sins by asking in your heart, His forgiveness of your sins. Read the Book of John and you will see the Love of our Perfect GOD for an imperfect mankind.

Endure With Perseverance

Proverbs 3:5, "Trust in the LORD and lean not to your own understanding." 

Spiritual Perseverance

Matthew 5:44, Luke 6:27, 35 "Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you."

Acts 7:55-60, speaks of Stephen's stoning for his testimony for Christ. As heaven opened up to him, he shared the glory he was seeing which only angered the crowd more! Even as he was dying he called out for the LORD to not hold their sin against them. How many people today would feel this way about their enemies?Perseverance even in the face of death!

Pancreatic cancer...something no one wants to hear they have. My dad had exploratory surgery and the doctors just closed the incision giving him 4 months to live. He lived for 13 months in pain, agony, and emotional distress. His perseverance carried him to the end with a reward of joy that I'll never forget! The angels had been preparing us all. We would get peripheral vision of someone passing by going to his room, but turning to look we saw no one!  We saw visitors who came, do the same thing and mom and I would just smile! The time came. He called for mom and me. The room was dark other than for a faint light from another room. He asked for us because his eyes no longer could see us. I touched his arm, mom touched his feet. Then Heaven opened up to him! The angels began descending as he counted, "Look out, here they come...one, two, three, look out!" He turned his head side to side as though they were going to fly into him! Continuing to count four, five, six seven...look out! Then total silence when he saw King Jesus! He was about to speak but the LORD sealed his lips. A sparkle came from dad's eyes as though they were reflecting the very glory of GOD! He let out a joyful squeal like a child in a crib does when mom comes in the room to take him in her arms! His head then rolled to the side and he passed from this world into eternity! Our LORD had removed my dad from the crib of this world into the very arms of our Awesome, Almighty, Creator, Savior, Holy Father GOD!   His perseverance through the months of pain is now rewarded in the joy of heaven!

Thank you LORD Jesus, for your sacrifice for my sins and the sins of all mankind! I pray for salvation to come to those who do not know you as their personal Savior GOD.

Empowered By the Holy Spirit to Persevere

Has the trials and tribulations of this fallen life had you to seek out with perseverance, the salvation of our Almighty GOD in Jesus Christ?

Perseverance is not just emotional and physical, but is also (if not for most) spiritual!

Ephesians 2:4-5, "Because of His great Love for us, GOD, Who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions (sins), it is by grace you have been saved." Man is spiritually dead until the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ "makes you alive" in Him. Accept His free gift of forgiveness of your sins, receiving eternal life and see what happens!

Ephesians 2:8-9, "For it has been by grace you have been saved, through faith and not of yourselves; it is the gift of GOD, not by (your) works, so that no one can boast." 

Works have nothing to do with salvation. Our sins have been forgiven and Hebrews 8:12 says they "will be remembered no more." However, as Christians saved in Jesus Christ, works have to do with what we receive or lose of rewards when we stand before the Judgment Seat of Christ (only for Christians, 2 Corinthians 5:10). Our names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. The Lost will stand before Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-12) where the Books will be opened to judge their sins before expelling them to the eternal Lake of Fire (where its flame does not go out and the worm doesn't die, Mark 9:48.) Those going there will forever be in the flames and will never burn up! Our present universe's Laws of Thermal Dynamics does not apply there! "The old things have passed away, behold all things are new!" (2 Corinthians 5:2), Not just for the saved, but also for the Lost.

Christians, be empowered by the Holy Spirit to persevere  the things of this fallen world and you will receive the Crown of Life in GOD's Eternal New Heaven and New Earth!  A totally new experience that man's comprehension now cannot understand! (1 Corinthians 2:9)

Why Do the Wicked Prosper?

Jeremiah 12;1, "Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?"

Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?"

Jeremiah 20:20, "Those people denying GOD are never content with what they have or who they are; their greed drives them relentlessly."

Jeremiah 24:24, "For a while the wicked prosper, but then they wither like weeds, like the stalks of grain that have been cut down."

Psalm 92:7, "All who do evil prosper, it is so that they can be eternally destroyed." 

Mark 8:36, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul" to an eternal hell?

The sin that occurs in prosperity is that it eventually turns to greed, especially those who refuse to recognize that it is Almighty GOD Who has allowed them to prosper. Those in the LORD who have been blessed to prosper need to use their prosperity for good and not greed.

All the riches of this world will pass away. As I have said in past blogs, "The gold man kills others for now is the asphalt of the New Earth's roadways!"

Psalm 23:5, "Riches disappear in the blink of an eye; wealth sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue yonder!"

Persevere! For the wicked's time is short. This present earthly life is but a blink of an eye, a vapor that briefly appears and then is gone (compared to eternity!) Psalm 39:5, James 4:14

Romans 8:6-7, "The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace. The sinful mind is hostile to GOD. It does not submit to GOD's Law, nor can it do so." Only salvation in Christ Jesus opens your eyes to Eternal life in Him! 

Fellow Christians, let us persevere with and for one another, loving one another. In doing so, we are doing the will of GOD. ( 1 Peter 1:22)

So, the prosperity of this world is not the prosperity of Eternal Life with our Almighty GOD. For the things of this world will pass away (1 Corinthian 7:31), but life eternal with Christ will never pass away; as so the eternal suffering in the Lake of Fire for those who deny and turn their backs to the salvation in Christ Jesus offered to all. (Revelation 20:15, 21:8) Persevere, fellow Christians, for what awaits us is greater than any "riches" of this world or even anything we could imagine! The highest treasure of any man  will be when we behold Jesus, Face to face!