Prophecy and Self Control

This is an email I received from a friend by an unknown author:

Thursday, March 12, 2009

FEAR NOT. FIX YOUR THOUGHTS ON JESUS

We are to listen carefully to the warnings of the Bible's prohecies and prophets but are not to become obsessed with their warnings. We are to be alerted and warned by prophetic messages, and we're to heed every one that's revealed and confirmed in Scripture. We're to gather all the knowledge we can about the coming storm, so we can prepare our hearts for whatever destruction it brings.

But we are not to let fear or anxiety consume our thinking, dominate our minds, take hold of our hearts!

Darkness is certainly coming, and judgment is at our very door. But as God's people, we cannot allow any cloud of darkness to hide the light of his great promises of love and mercy toward his people. We are to be well informed by the Lord's words and prophets, but we are not to dwell on prophetic knowledge so much that it takes over our lives.

The devil would love for that to happen. He knows if he can't get you to doubt God's Word concerning his judgment, he'll take you to another extreme by driving you to a fearful obsession with perilous times. He'll try to rob you of all hope by consuming you with thoughts of foreboding.

The apostle Paul reassures us about such things with this instruction:
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things"
(Philippians 4:8).
Paul is telling us, "You've heard all the warnings. Now, simply take heed to what God's Word reveals. Then, finally, fix all your thoughts on Jesus and his goodness.

"I (?) have faithfully warned of a soon-to-come worldwide economic holocaust, and we already see this happening around the world. I have warned that Christians are going to suffer - that here will be great loss and hardship - and right now multitudes of precious saints all over the world are enduring unbelievable tribulation. But none of these things is the focus of all my energies and ministry. No, the deepest expression of my soul is to proclaim the love of God the Father and the tender mercy of our savior Jesus the Christ. So when I go to bed at night, I know that he alone is in control of all these things. I simply do what the prophet Isaiah did: he put his mind to rest by fully trusting in his Lord.

He said, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee"(Isaiah 26:3).

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As usual this author has taken truth and claimed it for themself. Fact is all the things this author has claimed for theirself actually comes from the prophets and prophecies of the Good Word, and YES FOLKS - they are coming true before our very eyes. So egomaniac aside, I agree wholeheartedly with the above statement and have one question:

Do you have the HOPE of Jesus Christ to fall back on in these hard times?
Do you know who Christ is at all or do you just take the world's view on Him?
Have you even bothered to seek out the truth for yourself or are you relying on some other yahoo's faith or beliefs for your own salvation?

Folks this threat is very real and our way of life is disappearing before our very eyes. Don't you owe it to yourself, your friends, family and loved ones to STOP TAKING OTHER PEOPLE'S WORDS FOR TRUTH AND SEEK TRUTH OUT FOR YOURSELF?

You say you want to be unique and different, yet you go with the flow and follow everyone else's lead. Time for a revolution folks.

REBEL against the ways of society and get out there and find the TRUTH FOR YOURSELF!

Don't believe? Fine. Prove I'm wrong. READ THE NEW TESTAMENT. ALL OF IT.
READ PSALMS and PROVERBS. DANIEL. ISAIAH. ALL OF IT.

Prove it for yourself and stop being so lazy by just taking other people's word for it. Isn't your eternal salvation worth a look into what all the Hubbub's about?

People have been following the Holy Bible and its teachings since the very first pages were discovered long before the coming of Christ ... don't you have even a little curiosity as to why so many would follow the instructions of a book as the very basis of their very existence?

There MUST BE SOMETHING TO IT ... SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY ... READ THE Bible starting with the new testament and move on from there and you will see for yourself why I as an artist, writer, intellect and growing theologian finally got out of the world's horrible grasp, rebelled against the norm and chose Yeshua ... Jesus the Christ as my Lord and Savior and the Bible as my guide to "HOW" to live a satisfying, joyful and hope-filled life.

Amen.