We miss being in your presence and praising Your glory! Is there something you are not telling us, TR? :scratch: :amen: and yet people in our lives get on our cases for being a watcher and try to discourage us by mockingly say … “where is the promise of His coming for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation?” II Peter 3:4 God once walked and talked with man I the cool of the evening, daily! Just missing His presence! TR . . Feeling thankful, ~ ~ ‘feeling’ impatient, too ~ ~ everlastingly, our Jesus ever real, says we’re His elect ~ ~ up and away, in His arms, . . Christ in us, no one can steal Is Christ’s timing PERFECT? . . we know ~ it is set . . . . ~ ~ Growing faith adorns His dear ones, His Bride realizing the depth of Christ's Love ~~ What amazing Grace displayed by our God filled with forgiveness while on the Cross and in His agony . as only He could, He saved us . . . David Hocking once said, "If you feel far away from God, who moved?" He's right there always. :rose: I must apologize, TR. Upon re-reading, perhaps this reply could have been seen as an attack and it wasn't meant to be. As a child of God, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit. (Eph 1:13) God is literally within us. Messiah is in you, the hope of glory. (Col 1:27) So we are in His presence all the time. We are blessed beyond measure. Not only that, we can come before Him at any time. He is always there for us. Hebrews 4:16 King James Version 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. The Rapture will come at the Perfect time. Until that time, He is with us every step of the way. As real as if He were physically walking with us in the garden. :heart: The Rapture is a loving gift for His own! A splendid and glorious mechanism as well to accommodate a transition from death to life! Much fanfare and celebration as like when the prodigal son returned home! TR Dennis, I’m right there with you brother. My heart so yearns to exit this earth, as Paul said, ... my desire is to be with Christ, for that is far better...Phil 1:23. The difference for us is the very first part of this verse, most of us here are no longer torn between the two .. we desire only Jesus. Yes unworthy and undeservedly so! As such I have wrestled for years through the attacks of the enemy, whispering in my ear I will not be raptured! Though traditionally seals were made to be broken as like the seals of Revelation, we are promised that we are sealed unto the day of our redemption! And being given the vision of Isaiah seeing the heavens and earth being rolled up as a scroll, included was the promise that I would live to see it! TR Whether the mark of Cain as given by God, or the Holy Spirit’s seal upon believers, they are permanent and visible even unto angels and demons! TR
in this late hour, we’re still here? ~~ as watchers, who knew?
Gracious assurance ! ~ ~ He never neglects . .
By and through His Spirit, we ARE sealed ~
even now, we’ ‘see’ His open arms to us, ~
oh, Jesus! ~ ~. . whisk us above,
for Your Word is true, as strong as Your Love ~ ~
It truly is just “as the door”. Do you feel that I can just reach out and touch the Lord, yet I feel so unworthy. Soon, all of this will be over and glory awaits us. :yahoo: :prayer-hands:
