Sadly....

so thankful we won't be here for the time of lawlessness worldwide and the wrath to come on the evil that will spread so rapidly after the Rapture!  we are learning in the meantime to not live in fear as the darkness surrounds us and wickedness crawls out of the hidden crevices, but to instead recognize the work our Savior is doing and wants to do in us and through us and trust and love Him more and more taking one step at a time with Him on this adventure of Eternal Life we have united with Him!  i know He wants us to be the longing, loving Bride- the light that spreads to push away darkness, the salt that feeds the good works to starve out bad, and His children who will not be ashamed at His coming...can't wait til we get to meet Jesus in the air!!! :flyup:

Sadly as well there is a growing brazeness whether displayed by the common street criminal or world leaders in the commission of sin and evil!  The sense of entitlement that has been being fostered socially for years is now coming into fruition!  Even deeds that were done in dark of night are now done openly in the day time!  Though many are being deceived, many are becoming a law unto themselves.  Denying civil laws and choosing to act with a seared conscience!  There are many humble, good and law abiding people in the world but many of those shall soon be taken out of this world, IE: Rapture!  And but for the sake of many simply refusing to enter into a life guiding and loving relationship with their creator God, there will be many good and law abiding people that will spend eternity in hell!  Light exposeth the darkness and darkness cannot love light!  TR

i remembered this thread because i wanted to tell of recent personal experiences w/ darkness, but came to realize that i probably remembered actually because God wanted me to read my own post on here and just ask for prayers for all of us in general...my family needs encouragement from Him as the darkness lurks closer and closer- and all our spiritual family i'm sure needs it too...

i try not to think about all of the unbelievably unexpected things that have happened to us since we've moved...it does feel as though we are truly being demonically attacked- repeatedly and more intensely & often-really continuously now...but at the same time we can see where we must be being protected because of how much worse each event could have easily played out.

i don't want to think about it all...God is keeping me going by not letting me really look back too much or look forward- just one day at a time is more than enough...evil is rampant...scammers are deceiving...demons are destroying...thieves are coveting, plotting and stealing...violence is spreading...we are in the midst of this broken rotting world, but not of it- we have so much more to look forward to and have so much more already in that we are His and He is already within us- we've got to put on the full armor of God and have faith that He will only allow what will bring Him the glory He deserves and the good He wants for us and others...pray for our enemies too who are lost without Him and doomed to much worse than the hurt they cause!  we've got to try to focus on Him more so that we will view things more like He does instead of being rendered useless for His Kingdom and miserable and plagued with doubts and then ashamed at His coming ...

we all need to pray even just in general for The Church worldwide!!!  Things are heating up like TR said at a street level...everywhere...satan hates us and probably knows he only has a short time to try paralyze us with fear and crush our joy in Christ- our Prince of Peace- before He calls us up to meet Him in the air!  Maranatha!  :prayer-hands:

Ephesians 6:10-18 :bible