Lift Up Your Heart
7-20-25
Psalms 62:8
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah
Selah
means to pause and think about what God is saying .
- Trust
- Pour out your heart
- God is our refuge
As a Christian we understand from reading the Bible that there is a kingdom of light and a kingdom of darkness,
Reading Isaiah 14:12-25 and Ezekiel 28:11-19, we see the description of the fall of Satan and the coming of the kingdom of darkness.
The devil has come to kill, steal and destroy all man kind, also
He is going about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
As the midnight hour draws closer, we know that spiritual warfare has increased and we must guard our hearts.
With our speech we can either bring about healing or division.
No foul language should come out of our mouth.
What we feed grows and what we starve dies,
And what we have hidden in our hearts will eventually come out through our speech, as described in Luke 6:45.
Whether we do good or do evil it begins in the heart and the manner of speech we use describes the type of heart that we have.
In the 70’s a phrase by Flip Wilson became popular, and even Christians would say “ The Devil Made me Do It”. I confess I said it, but I didn’t understand what I had spoke in jest.
I believe Satan created this saying to take away the trust that we have in Christ.
Words spoken in anger, can be compared to spears thrown at a person that wounds the heart and often times kills the spirit of a person. This is verbal abuse.
Satan wants to shred the heart to pieces, to keep us focused more on the issue rather than the healing.
What we feed grows and what we starve dies,
And what we have hidden in our hearts will eventually come out through our speech, as described in Luke 6:45.
God is Our Refuge
Each one of us has faced a storm in life that almost sunk the ship, a real trial of our faith.
To trust someone shows we have confidence in them. We believe what they say, they really are doing.
However many have had trust broken, by slander, or deception that shakes a person to their core.
We are to follow peace and to encourage one another in the Lord, especially those that are in need of hearing grace.
If we want our prayers answered ,forgive those that has committed a trespass against you, if you don’t then our heavenly Father will not forgive us.
The disciples went through a couple of these storms with Jesus.
Satan sent a storm trying to kill Jesus, the greek word for this storm is seimos- earthquake. A tsunami with waves covering the ship.
While the storm raged, Jesus slept. The bible says the disciples came to him and woke him up, saying, Lord save us lest we perish.{Mathew 8:24]
Pour out your heart to the Lord
God knows your storm that you are in today, and our prayer can be “Lord save us lest we perish”.
Psalms 32:7
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah
One day in the future, there is a storm that is going to sweep across the world that will affect everyone that is alive, it will last for 7 years and it is called the the great tribulation {Mathew 24:21-22}
There is a misconception and confusion among Christians that those that have accepted Christ as their savior will go through this storm also. There are those that scoff at those that believe what God’s Word states, and have said there will be no secret rapture take place.
Well I agree with the one that said that, the entire world will know on that day.
Scripture clearly state in 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, ‘the dead in Christ shall arise first, and then those remaining shall rise to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Romans 5:9
“We shall be saved from wrath through Jesus” we are justified through salvation.
What is this wrath? A terrible judgement poured out from God upon those that remain, because of sin and un-belief.
The Book of Revelation describes what will take place, beginning in chapter 6:1 through chapter 19:11
“The tribulation saints will be martyred during the first 3.5 years of the tribulation” [1.]
“A highlight of the wrath to come.
The brunt of the wrath will be in 1/4 of the world that will include the Mediterranean are as well as most of, if not all of Europe, including the Soviet Union {Daniel 11:44} (2)
The entire world will be affected Rev 6:12 the planetary bodies are affected by 1/3/of sun gone, 1/3 of moon gone, 1/3 of stars gone
1/3Earth burned, 1/3 trees burned, 1/3 sea becomes blood, 1/3 of living sea creature die, 1/3 of ships destroyed, 1/3 pf streams and rivers becoming contaminated with wormwood.
No buying or selling without the mark of the beast- Antichrist.
Once the mark is taken, in the palm or on the forehead, your goose is cooked. Literally – eternity in hell
There will be nations that come out of the great tribulation and that will go into the Millennial which is another study in itself.
Today the earth is groaning, major earthquakes 7.3 Alaska 7-15-25
3100 plus flash flood warnings so far in 2025 this in US.
Major wildfires world wide.
Wars and Rumors of war- world wide
Civil Disorder- world wide
“The door of mercy will never be closed to Jews or Gentiles, for the scripture plainly says “ That whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” {Acts 2:21} {3}
Lift Up Your Heart
Today is the Day of Salvation
Romans 10:8,9,10
- The Prophecies and Symbols of Revelation, by Jimmy Swaggart { page 45}
- “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””{ Page 44}
- “””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””{ page 56}
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