Gut Feelings

Yes, and it will not be nice either.

What do you guys think is coming?

And, how do we brace ourselves/prepare for what's coming?

Our first goal is to prepare to meet our maker. The second is to plant as large a garden as we can. The third is to get a hand pump installed on our well (in preparation for power outage).

All three goals will enable us to better serve our Lord (Feed my sheep).

Looking at the financial situation we see deep depression - worldwide poverty. Worse yet is the Spiritual poverty.

Pray for wisdom,
white stone
(praying for all on SI)

Be at peace and just be faithful where GOD has placed you. Encourage the brethren and plant Gospel seeds everywhere you can. It's all good.

Yes my brother. A great storm is coming. We are told to prepare and wait for our Master, and He will come again.

Many have been sensing this for a while. A sense of urgency to spread the Truth amongst the lost is as high as it has ever been before in my life.

Along with this sense of urgency is a great sense of peace. I know who my Master is. I know whom I worship. I know that He is a good and faithful Lord and that He loves me.

Prepare your children and teach them His ways.

I've been reading some church history that gives record to the end of the 1st century and early on in the second century. It is interesting information as it depicts the urgency of the Lord's coming in the preaching and proclamation of the Gospel in the NT and the prevalence of being ready as necessity. The comparison can be made that this is of utmost importance for us to return to in this day and age. I wonder, if we were to actually study this further; and from what I'm reading, the stagnation and the lukewarm nature of the church is not just an Americanized thing, it's a literal problem of the church since the end of the canonized scriptures. Pretty interesting. Even reading beyond that you see the same behavior in non-canonical books that show the easing off behavior of Christians and how it affected the preaching of the word.

While we should always be ready, such as scripture speaks, I wonder if the dismissal of lukewarm believers as converts is really such a drastic call we should make. Its easily seen even in the sub-apostolic and even apostolic periods...

Just food for thought concerning the notion of something big happening....as the church ever acted if she were ready?

Krispy, I think you’re feeling what a lot of us are experiencing. For me, it’s a sense of impending doom, yet there is a peace at the same time. Our country is changing drastically and rapidly – it is staggering! My flesh wants to panic, yet I know God is in control and that He will remain faithful.

Whatever happens, I believe it will separate authentic believers from the false ones who will fall away when things get tough. Real persecution is coming and only genuine believers will remain true.

Lorijean

“Fear is of the flesh, panic is of the devil.” A.W. Tozer

KrispyKrittr wrote:
Anyone other than me just have a gut feeling that the world is on the verge of something huge...?

Krispy

Mr. Bill feels that way, but the SS would probably show up at my door if I were to tell you what it was. :-o

Krispy and all,

I don't believe I'm living in lala land (some may say so), but I do not feel any sense of dread. Ok, well, I do when I watch the news which is why I quit watching Glenn Beck. As good as he is, I could feel panic rising within me when I watched him.

Now, I am not saying do not get out of debt and/ or don't grow a garden. Hey, we should do all we know to do.

I love history but there is not any other time I would rather be living... call me crazy but I'm getting excited! :-D

Matt 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

Matt 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

Matt 24:11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

Matt 24:24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect

In other words, four times in 21 verses, Jesus specifically warns us against deception in this period of the close of the age.

So, Jesus warns us four times against deception. Anybody who shrugs off that warning or treats it lightly does so at the risk of his own soul. The greatest single danger in this end time is not sickness, nor poverty, nor persecution nor a finicial collapse. It is deception.

i have a minor burden on my (st pauls, the decepted church) and a few people i know well-ish and i have been feeling the urge to evangelize or something before i even became a true saved christian.

also as for the gardens and stuff i wouldn't so much worry about it a whole lot (you need to remember i am 17 though and i dont even know about politics or the economy so.... yeah...)

and yes even sense i started learning about the end times there has been an increasing burden.

but above most of it all i am quite content. i cry every once in a while becuase i get scared for people i know who might not see heaven but yeah...

it saddens me because i know where alot of people are going but on the other side of the coin i am happy that God finaly got to me. but it also helped that i have been looking for him for some time now.

[b][size=x-large]Fear Not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee[/size][/b]

Dear Brother Colin,

You have a winner with this post! I feel I should copy it to my card file and carry it around with me. With times as they are it would be more valuable than gold to have those verses engraved upon your heart.

Thank you for posting,
white stone

Am I missing somthing? I haven't had that feeling either, maybe I haven't been paying attention or have missed the significance of things. I am concerned however, about the rapid decline of the authority of the bible...

I also have a sense that black clouds are rolling in and the wind is beginning to howl.

Reading the headlines, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that God is punishing America by depriving our leaders of their wits; that he has judged us for our godlessness by afflicting our wisemen with confusion and madness. That may sound like political satire, or sarcasm, but it's not. How else do we explain a man of Barack Obama's intelligence thinking that he can make the country richer by printing more money? Or Bush's lunatic adventure in Iraq? Or the bailout package in which government borrowed $700 billion from the banking sector in order to lend $700 billion to the banking sector? Or giving Israel $4 billion a year in military aid and then pledging $1 billion for Palestinian reconstruction, so we can rebuild facilities that Israelis destroy with bombs that we provide? What kind of lunatics finance both sides of a war and then call for "peace talks?"

Collective insanity on this order of magnitude cannot be explained in terms of run-of-the-mill government corruption and incompetence. There is something very strange happening in Washington DC. It's as if the Gadarene legion that drove the Bush administration to madness has entered the new administration and is driving them in the same direction.

The destruction of American hegemony was probably necessary for the establishment of a world government under the Beast, and so might be taken as yet another sign of the times. And like Lysa, I am not despondent, but excited.

"And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

Who are the only people in the world who have a true reason to rejoice in the midst of suffering, true strength in persecution, true wisdom amongst worldly 'enlightenment', true convictions of the Spirit rather than right to opinion, a living hope in a world of false ones, a sure inheritance rather than 'whatever you can get yourself', something worth living (and indeed dying) for rather than mere existence?

Who went out before the army of the Lord in OT times? Worshippers!

If we are burdened, let it by for the Lord. But do not give up hope - God IS working His purposes out!

colin, jlosinski, menderofnets, and wayneman - woo hoooo - amen!!
I didn't mean to leave anyone else out!
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We can know what is going on around us without being all down in the mouth about it. Christ is truly on the horizon. What the Lord has been showing me and trying to get through my thick skull is, [b]if we don't own anything - there will be no fear of losing it[/b] (and it is the same with our bodies).

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord,
nor of me His prisoner,
[i][size=medium]but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling,[/size][/i]
not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace
which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,
2 Timothy 1:8

What an invitation!!

[size=medium]For this reason I also suffer these things,
but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed
and I am convinced that He is able to guard
what I have entrusted to Him until that day.[/size]
2 Timothy 1:12

Let the word of God be true and every man a liar!! Amen?