The Time Has Come

Then He said to me, "These words are faithful and true," and The Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servant the things which must shortly take place.  "Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." ~Revelation 22: 6-7.

As I was asleep last night, The Lord spoke to me and said those exact words that I just shared with you all above in the book of Revelation.  The time has come for us to reach the lost and bring them to The Lord, before it's too late for them.  This is seriously the last effort in winning the lost to Christ.  How are we supposed to do that you might ask?  Well, the answer here is to pray about it and ask The Lord to show and tell you what to do regarding these things.  Are you ready?  If not, then you need to get yourself ready for it, before it's too late.  My advice to you all is this, you need to seek The Lord in all that you do before anything else can happen and take place, you need to pray, read the Bible, and do your daily devotionals everyday or night for it, don't have time for it? Well, you need to start making time for it, if I can do it, then so can you.  You also need to write, reflect, and fast on it all.  It's really not easy, but I know that you can do it all.  With God on your side, anything is possible. Trust and obey Him, you can do it, I know that you can. 

If I have learned anything from this past year, it is this, be content with what you have, no matter how much or how little you have, and share it with others that may need it more than you.  Where it's dark, shine your light, where there's sadness, be an encourager, and share the word of The Lord with others, because they need to hear it.  Otherwise, how will any of us become healed and saved if we don't  do these things for The Lord?  It isn't going to happen, unless we go out and do what The Lord is asking us to do.  He will never send you anywhere that you and Him cannot handle, because remember that, where ever you go, The Lord has already been there and He will help you through it all.  Because yes, that's how powerful and great He is! This year has been a really rough year on all of us, but because we have The Lord with us, He will help us heal and become closer to others because of all that we've been through lately.  He puts us through these things because, He wants us to be able to reach out to others the way that He's reaching out to us and so that we can help them realize that through it all, He's always been there for us.  All we need to do is ask Him for certain things, and He will make it so.  

It may take time, but that's okay, because all good things happen to those who wait and call on The Lord.  It will be in His perfect timing, not on our time, but His.  I want you all to make this next new year the best year of your life, because it may be your last.  Ever think about it that way?  I didn't do it until recently, and honestly it does help to put some things in perspective for me, I hope that the same thing will happen to you, because it's worth it, just trust me on this.  I have been walking with The Lord as a born again Christian for eight years now and it has been some of the rough, but best years of my life.  It sounds crazy I know, but it's the utmost truth.  He tests us to make sure that we are really ready for that next step in our relationship with Him.  Perhaps, I should also mention that when The Lord tests us, He wants to teach us how to rely on Him more than we do ourselves.  More of Him, less of us.  It helps us to have a much closer, more intimate relationship with Him.  So, if you want this, then say this prayer of Salvation with me, "Lord, I love you and I receive you, please come into my life and into my heart, and change me to be more like You, and less like ourselves.  Please forgive us and deliver us from our sins, we are not perfect, but we know that You are,  and we have come to the end of ourselves, and cannot go on like this any longer, please Lord, come save us all before it's too late.  We want to come home and be with You, and we do not want to spend the rest of our lives in eternal damnation, Amen and Always Praise The Lord, in Christ, Amen."  Thank you and God Bless!

~With Love and In Christ,
     Emily

Silence

  "And Saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!" "For this is He was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of The Lord: Make His paths straight."  ~Matthew 3:2-3.

    These will be what my thoughts and reflections are for the Bible Verse above; Basically, sometimes it just takes one voice from one specific person that is crying out to The Lord in the wilderness, to make a drastic change.  So then I thought to myself, why can't I be that one voice that is crying out to The Lord in the middle of the wilderness where ever it may be at the present time? That would make sense wouldn't it? Yes, indeed it does make sense.

     My next point here will be this: I feel like I have been silent for so long, that I've forgotten about how to speak up for The Lord as well as myself and others.  To me, this is God telling me that it's time to speak out more so for The Lord, rather than just for myself at this present time.  If The Lord is telling you to do something, then you best do it, because The Lord needs you to stop being so selfish about specific things, so that you can move on and obey Him.  It needs to be less about you and a whole lot more about The Lord.  It is the smallest of voices that can make the biggest of changes, and that's us as Christians.

    Seeing that it is a brand new year, why don't we all put our selfish desires aside, and start speaking up and working for The Lord? It is scary and uncertain, but it is The Lord's biggest desire for this fallen world.  He wants us to work together as a community and win the lost for Him.  We can do it with The Lord's help.  Nothing is impossible for Him. 

    Now, whose with me? If you have God, then you have all you could possibly need and want and even more for that matter.  He loves you and He will protect you, no matter where you go.  All you need to do is to repent of your sins and come to The Lord before it's too late.  You need to let it all go and place it in The Lord's hands, and He will take care of the rest.  Proverbs 3:5 says to put all of your trust in The Lord with all your heart, and to lean not on your own understanding; but in all of your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths, and make them straight before men.  Do you see how easy it could be if you would just decide to follow The Lord?  We can have all of this, if we could just stop being so fearful of what might happen if you came to The Lord.  He will not leave you, nor forsake you, He loves you so much, and it hurts Him to see that you are lost and not fully His yet.

   We do not belong to man or this world, we are His and we belong in heaven with Him and His Heavenly Father.  We are temporarily living down here on earth to win the lost to The Lord.  We are here to make a difference in this world for Him, and not for man.  We could make a huge difference in someones life, if we could just show that person God's love and if we taught them how to be more like Jesus and less like themselves.  We actually need to be the change that we want to see in this world.  Don't you agree with me? Thank you and God Bless! Amen and Praise The Lord!

 ~  With Love and in Christ,
      Emily

What is Modesty?

https://fashionablychristian.com/2016/04/14/what-is-modesty/

Blameless

http://fashionablychristian.com/2016/03/04/blameless/

Putting on the Light of Christ

http://fashionablychristian.com/2016/01/06/putting-on-the-light-of-christ/ 

http://fashionablychristian.com/2016/01/28/the-worst-christmas-of-my-life/

Baptism

     "When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him and He saw that the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him and suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." ~Matthew 3:16-17.
        This Bible Passage has an amazing message in it, and I am here to share with you all what The Lord has been saying to me through this Matthew 3:16-17 Bible Passage.  This Word came upon me during our church service last week.  It was during our announcements toward the end of the church service.  Anyway, it was announced to us last week that our church will be having six if not seven baptisms this coming Sunday on July 5th.  I've been thinking about that and being all fired up about it this entire week! I can't wait, I'm so happy about this because this is a huge leap of faith and in the right direction for our growing church.  When a person becomes baptized, that means that they are rededicating themselves to The Lord and to our church.  It also means that these people are getting rid of their old ways and are inviting in their new ways. 
        This is going to be awesome for me to see and to be a witness of because I was in the exact same boat as these people currently are about five years ago today.  That was when I decided to change my life for the better and to die to all of my old ways and fully give my new self to The Lord.  It was one of the best feelings that I could have ever had in my entire life.  I was cleansed from the inside out on that great day and it is all because of The Lord and what He's done in my life so far on this very day! This was the first time in a long time that I was finally at peace and in full agreement with The Lord.  I look forward to the plans that He has for my life in the near future.  I do not know what they are yet, but The Lord does and I have a feeling that I'm going in the right direction as to what The Lord has planned for me.  It's going to be astonishing and super exciting.  My life with The Lord is never dull because He always has an intriguing adventure planned out on a daily basis! 
       Especially since He knows that I'm in retail.  To those who used to work and still are in retail, you all know exactly what I'm talking about here.  Correct? I'm sure that all who are reading this blog at the moment are curious as to where all of this excitement will be taking place next week?  Well, lucky for you, I'll be sharing this information with you on this particular blog: We are going to have our usual worship and whatnot at the church and then directly after church we'll be going to the YMCA in Reading, MA.  That is where all of these baptisms will be taking place.  Here's the address of the Church: It is called, Christ the King Church 4 Railroad, Avenue, Suite 309 Wakefield,Massachusetts 01880.  The Church service starts at 10:30 am sharp and please do not be late! This is quite the important day in history for Christ the King Church.  The music is amazing and really hits home for specific people, so please come and enjoy the service and just listen to some soothing and comforting music.
      Should you decide to come on Sunday, I promise to you all that it will instantly be worth it.  But on a side note, I'm also stepping out in faith and starting a Young Women's Group, so please come and join us, we'd absolutely love to have you.  All are welcome and just remember that none of us are out of God's reach.  We all have a past, but it's okay, you are loved and have been forgiven by a loving and gracious God.  Thank you all and God Bless! I will talk to you soon and I hope to see you in church on Sunday.

In Christ, Emily

Struggling

   "To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and A time to die; A time to plant, and A time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, and A time to heal; A time to break down, and A time to build up; A time to weep, and A time to laugh; A time to mourn, and A time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and A time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and A time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, and A time to lose; A time to keep, and A time to throw away; A time to tear, and A time to sow; A time to keep silence, and A time to speak; A time to love, and A time to hate; A time of war, and A time of peace." ~Ecclesiastes 3:1-8.
     Is anyone else struggling at the moment just like I am? If the answer is yes, then please come and join with me as I go to write and pray about the experiences that I'm currently having.  I feel like I'm struggling because I am trying to start a whole new ministry and a whole new young women's group and I gotta tell ya that it has incredibly difficult for me to do thus far, especially because I'm not one to go out and talk to complete strangers about this new group that I intend to start at my church.  I'm what you would call, "anti-social" and "Socially Awkward."  Lately, I have been getting the word out about this new group, and I'm also in a lot of prayer about it recently.  It seems like every time a person from the church, asks me about the Young Women's Group, I tend to get aggravated and annoyed.  Then in my own head, I'm questioning if I should even bother doing this thing in the first place.  I'm trying pretty hard to get this group up and running, and soon.  I don't really know what's going on at this moment and especially in regards to this group.  Maybe I'm just not ready for this yet.  But I am hopeful and optimistic about it in the near future.
     The reason why I wanted to start this group in the first place is because I feel in my heart that God is calling me to do this for Him and I cannot disobey Him.  Another reason for starting this new group is because I was a teenager once and I know how life was like back then.  It was never easy for me because I've always tried to fit in with the others and it just never worked out that way for me.  I want to be a good, strong, Christian role model for all of those girls out there who were not really raised in a Christian home like I always was.  These young women need to know that God loves them and that they are not alone in this fight.  They need to feel accepted, loved, and empowered in this otherwise challenging and unforgiving world. 
   Both God and I do not want any one of them to suffer like I did in the past.  These young women could be the ones who make a really big difference in this world, just like God wants them to do.  The smallest act of kindness can instantly change this world around and reach out to those who are lost and unsaved.  How great would it be to see the lost come to God? There are times when I just want to give all of this up, but I know and trust that in God, all of this struggling, will be worth all of the fighting for what is right in the end.  But we need to get to that point first and foremost before anything else can happen. 
    Yes, it is a monumental task, but you just need to remember that, "With God all things are possible."  Amen? Let's join together and say a prayer to conclude this blog entry. 
      "Father, how grateful I am for Your Holy Spirit's work and Your precious Word, both of which You use to set me free from my pain and suffering.  Thank You for always loving me and never giving up on me.  It is a great comfort to know You will never leave or forsake me.  You know the wounds of rejection that have marred my heart.  You know how useless, helpless, and worthless I feel when yet another person casts me away.  So many of these feelings originated long ago and have deep roots.  But I am grateful for how You have set me free from these feelings; how You have given me a sense of belonging in Your eternal, heavenly, family as Your own child; how You have blessed me with a sense of worth through Jesus' death on the cross and resurrection, and how You have empowered me to accomplish all You call me to through Your indwelling Holy Spirit.
    "Father, I know I must make a decision-either I can believe what others have spoken about me, or I can trust what You say about my character and future.  I know what You say counts in eternity, Lord, so I choose to listen to You.  Thank You for Your unfailing love and for creating me with a good plan and purpose.  Help me to keep my eyes on You.  In Jesus' name I pray, Amen." (The Prayer that is in this blog is written By Charles Stanley in his prayer cards.)