One thing I've learned with my walk with God is that it's not always easy to mature in faith and become more like Him. Some lessons I had to learn the hard way, such as patience, humility and self-control.

And I think this is also the reason why it's necessary for the physical world to go through the tribulation period before the kingdom of God comes. Like our spiritual life which undergoes sanctification from the moment we receive Jesus, the physical world will also experience the same. Revelation talks about great earthquakes, mountains and continents being displaced and restructured, and huge meteors falling from the sky. I think this pretty much resembles the Christian life in that the earth will go through extreme and dramatic upheaval before the Kingdom of God is birthed.

I feel a stirring ~~

no more incantations, no more dead rituals, no more costly robes at an alter of candles and swaying incense ~~ The veil is torn, ripped away for all who will, to receive Christ's amazing Grace . . all who are saved may enter in to the Holy of holies, and drink the Living Water of Spirit, for the Mediator and Risen Savior, God Most High sits at the Father's right Hand, showing it is finished ~~

to the apostate ~~~ do away
with broadened preaching, turn and pray
with conviction of true teaching
disdain darkness and be ever reaching
in prayer for those on the wide road
trusting God's Grace to amazingly save
lost souls from the world's deceptive bait

Donna wrote:
to the apostate ~~~ do away
with broadened preaching, turn and pray
with conviction of true teaching
disdain darkness and be ever reaching
in prayer for those on the wide road
trusting God's Grace to amazingly save
lost souls from the world's deceptive bait

Well said sis!

God Bless and Love,
FW