Wed.’s Devo - This is Our Time!

Read: Jeremiah 16:16-18:23; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-5:3; Psalm 81:1-16; Proverbs 25:6-7a
The Lord searches the heart and examines the thought of people and they are rewarded accordingly. Judah had been examined and found guilty. They had become rich deceitfully and forsaken the Lord and his commandments. For all this they were being judged. God’s people were like pots that God could make or destroy according to their sins. Jeremiah had warned them but they refused to listen.
Paul had instructed the followers of Christ how to live a life that would please the Lord. It is God’s will that we be sanctified in our hearts. When that happens we won’t want to be sexually immoral or dishonor God by a lack of self-control. We will also love our neighbors, live a quiet life minding our own business and staying busy with what is ours to do.
Paul ends with telling them not to worry about times and dates when Jesus will return because he is coming as a thief in the night and the world will understand God’s timing. One thing we need to know is that we will not be here then. The rapture will occur first and the Word says that God never does anything that he doesn’t first tell his prophets. The second coming will be later and we will come back with Jesus. The people on the earth will not know when that will be. But…we are in the kingdom age where we are going to see revival on a proportion we have never seen before. The harvest has to be brought in before the rapture. We are to bring heaven down to earth first so we need to be busy about our Father’s business which is doing the things that Jesus did. We are living in the most exciting days of the church yet!
Lord, give us boldness and power to step out and do what Jesus did - heal the sick, deliver the oppressed and break every yoke.