Being Ready

Getting Ready for Jesus To Return Soon (22 mins)

If you believe Jesus is returning soon, you want to be careful how you think about that and respond to it. We get ready for Jesus not by controlling our lives and kid's lives into a false reality, but rather learning faith and patience in the context of regular life.
 
Nowhere in the gospel do we see the disciples isolating themselves with food, water and swords to wait out the intense events promised in the Bible. No, instead we see them daily dying to their fears and control and living as Jesus.
 
This is the only plan for the end times. It is in the pressure of giving ourselves to God in the responsibilities of daily life that our hearts really grow!
 
The Gospel is the only answer to the end times, and it's ALWAYS the right time to do the Gospel!

Growing in Responsibility in the End Times (35 minutes)

Luke 21:25“And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring; 26“men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Do you know what this passage about "men's hearts failing" is really about? This isn't talking about heart attacks! it's talking about people's mind, will, and emotions failing as trouble increases.   It's important to take a right approach to the end time intensity increasing. if you take the right approach, your love won't "grow cold"... meaning your heart won't fail. We should be growing more responsible, more stable, more clear, more loving...right now...so we are ready to meet Jesus with heads held high! This primarily happens in a community place of prayer not focused on how everyone else should get ready for Jesus to return, but on how I NEED to get more stable and clear as Jesus return nears.  I want to meet Him ready...with my head lifted up. Luke 21:27“Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. 28“Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”

Getting Ready to Meet Jesus (47 mins)

Being "saved" isn't the same as being ready to meet Jesus. If you want to know, in really practical terms, how to get ready for Jesus' return, you can get started here!

Five Bridesmaids: Matthew 24 and 25 (42 mins)

It's important to get the right idea of what to look for in this hour. it often isnt what I imagined, but, if I keep coming back to the throne, my faith becomes my sight. what does the Great Tribulation really look like? Is offense growing? The first markers of the Great Tribulation are offense and betrayal. If this message offends, consider that what I am saying hasn't changed....what has changed is the season and the hearts of those listening. Dont take my word on this. Look it up in your own Bible.

Waiting to See (43 mins)

A message about waiting to see what happens.

When it is Too Late to Respond to Jesus' Coming (47 mins)

There is coming a moment when it will be too late to respond to Jesus' return and be safe in that very return. According to the Bible, we are rapidly approaching that moment when it is too late for safety...for an ark in the flood. Make peace with Him now, while there is time. Do you know when it is too late? Are you ready? Ready knows it isn't ready. The Spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.

Responding with Vision (Hiawatha Country Church) - 1.29.2017

Message given at Hiawatha Country Church on Jan 29, 2017

Preparing for the Coming Storm (Released 7.12.15)

This is the Hour of Sleeping (46 min)

We are in a very prophetic
moment.  There is promised a time when for those who have been looking for
Jesus, it would actually seem like not as much is happening, even though more
is happening than ever before. The darkness of the night makes a person sleepy.
 To be sleeping means to quit watching and knowing the hour more and
more...confusion and delusion are opposite of being soer and wide
awake...living in the daylight by choice.
 
This is how the writers of
the New Testament lived: awake...on purpose.  They lived by prophetic eyes
more than natural eyes.  It is important to search for any scrap of
fulfillment and qualify it into your reality..to see the news prophetically, to
see your church prophetically, to see yourself prophetically, and to see your family
prophetically.
 
It is never going to be
obvious to the church that Jesus is returning.  This will offend many in
the church.  Many in the church are waiting for Jesus' return to be
obvious.  This wont happen. .  It will be as in the days of Noah....for
the world, a great harvest of people WILL see th day.  This is the
promised great harvest that began in Acts 2 and is described in Revelation
7...a whole multitude that will come out of the Great Tribulation.
 
Right now, you want to be
a watchman...awake with Jesus.  Not as much is obvious, this isn't because
the prophetic fulfillment is any less obvious, but because the night is getting
darker.  This was always promised.
 
Matthew 24:37-39 But as
the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in
the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving
in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until
the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of
Man be.
 
Matthew 25:5-6 But while
the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. "And at midnight
a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!'
 
Revelation 7:14-17  And I said to him, "Sir, you know."
So he said to me, "These are the ones who come out of the great
tribulation, and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the
Lamb. Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve Him day and night
in His temple. And He who sits on the throne will dwell among them. They shall
neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor
any heat; for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and
lead them to living fountains of waters. And God will wipe away every tear from
their eyes." 

The Promised Acceleration of Darkness and How to Resist it in Your Family (48 min)

The world is not moving in a linear way, but rather is accelerating...exponentially...people aren't just multiplying, so is darkness...just as in the days of Noah, God is going to bring this to a conclusion:
Genesis 6:1-3 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Matthew 24:37-39 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.