MY FRIENDS, GOD IS LOOKING FOR THE ELECT TO FINISH THIS COURSE!!

Sep 8, 2015

MY FRIENDS, GOD IS LOOKING FOR THE ELECT TO FINISH THIS COURSE!!

“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And if in the land of peace, in which you trusted, they wearied you, then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan”? Jer. 12:5 (KJV)

My friends, if you’re worn out in a 5k footrace with the forces of evil, as you go through the trials of this life each day, what makes you think you can handle a full marathon as we begin to enter into the last days of this life’s history right hear at the threshold of the promise land?

Christ Himself tells us in Matt. 24:21 (NASB), “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will. Unless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.”

My friends let’s make it personal today as we ask ourselves the question, am I an elect?  Elect being a person or persons that are worthy to be chosen, and worthy to be chosen tells us that is a person who by his faith in God and His word, will endure till the end.

My friends Its time we begin to move at a rapid speed as we prepare ourselves by taking up our cross and becoming a disciple of Christ as we take the good news to the world. Like Jeremiah, God’s chosen, an elect for his time, had allowed life to wear him down as he become absorbed in self-pity and doubt.

Jeremiah was ready to abandon it all and then a word from the Lord tells him, “If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? Life is difficult, Jeremiah, are you going to quit at the first wave of trials and opposition?

My friends, what about us, do we have the faith to endure for what lies ahead? Look around you, Satan is busy we will never make it if we have not laid “aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, [so that we can] run with patience the race that is set before us, Heb. 12:1 (KJV)

Remember, the elect will never retreat when they find that there is more to finishing this journey Christ has placed us on than having plenty of food each day and a comfortable bed at night to sleep in?

God calls all of his Children to pursue righteousness, to sustain a drive toward excellence, to have a life of purpose far beyond what we ever expected because we allowed our faith and endurance to be stretched to the limit which allowed us to finish the course.

But in order for that to happen, we must stay focused as we remember, this marathon is now a sprint. We can no longer allow self and the god of this world to utilize our time, money and talents. It must become all about our faith and our wiliness to serve.

But I must continue to set before you a shared vision because “without a vision, God’s people will parish.” And that vision once again is a promise from God and it is a promise because “it is written: [in His word] that “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Cor 2:9 (NKJV) Now my friends, stay focus on that vision.

My Friends, where there is no vision, the people perish…..Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)