“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.” (1 Corinthians 15:58)

We have often heard the saying, God don’t come when you want Him, but He is always on TIME. You are not forgotten and God sees everything you do. Be encourage doing right will always pay off.

“For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love, which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and continue to do so.” (Hebrews 6:10)

It seems obvious at times that we all feel like God has forgotten about us, and by our words and deeds we began to walk it out. (Matthew 10; 42), God sees all, how can He forget what you have done for Him? The labor of love is always rewarded. God sees the toil you go through the love shown to others, your labor and minister of kindness. He sees small things like sending an encouraging text message or a get well card to a friend in need, like giving a friend a helping hand, a kind smile, give a single mom child tutoring lessons, like give the mailman a bottle of cool water on a hot day, this cannot escape God’s eyes.

Big things like living sacrificially to minister love to the needy, homeless, the forsaken, spending sleepless nights preparing to visit a sick love ones or friend hospitalize, praying intensely for others as if your life depended on it, and giving your hard-earned money to helps someone else that are much worse off than yourself, will not go un-notice by God and you shall be greatly rewarded. For you are not laboring in vain or work futile or wasting your time, no matter what you see or feels or what is looks like in the natural. Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in DUE season we shall reap (receive) if we do not lose heart (and give up). Galatians 6:9. Heartaches, pain and suffering is all a part of the life. The question is how you handle it when it comes your way. Jesus said arm yourselves likewise because it will come.

God may not come in your chronos time, that is in the next few minutes, seconds, days, weeks, months or years, but he will meet you in your kairos moment, that is  he will come at the right moment and season for you to have the right opportunity for your DUE season. Remain steadfast, keep the faith, keep believing and keep pressing onward.

For God is God that will not and can’t lie. He said it, He shall also bring it to past.

Revelation 21:2-5
“Then I, John, saw the Holy City, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”

Revelation 21:10-21
“And he carried me (Apostle John) away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God. And her light was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

“And she had a great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on the west.

“Now the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall. And the city is laid out as a square, and its length is as great as its breadth … And the construction of its wall was of jasper; and the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

“And the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst.

“And the twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.”

Revelation 21:22-27
“But, I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple. And the city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it, and the Lamb is the light.

And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there will be no night there).

And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination, or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.”

Revelation 22:3-5
“And there shall be no more curses, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. And there shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever.”

Death Is Not The End
Every believer can look forward to a new Heavenly home, where there will be no more crying. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain; for the former things are passed away, (Revelation 21:4)

Jesus instructed His disciples to go and make disciples of all nations. To complete this task, Christians must evangelize, or bring the “good news,” to everyone they meet. You don’t need a pulpit to evangelize. You don’t need to be ordained to witness.  Just begin, here are a few steps.

Preparation

Step 1
Pray. It’s only by spending time with God that you can accurately represent the good news of the gospel.

Step 2
Know the scriptures. Read, study, meditate on and memorize passages from the Bible.

Step 3
Join a strong faith community that support you by  giving fellowship, advice and correction.

Building Relationships

Step 1
Meet people and get to know them. Ask them about their interests, how they arrived at their current place in life and where they hope to go.

Step 2
Talk to others about your own life. When this involves the specifics of how you live as a Christian, it is called a witness.

Step 3
Share your witness. Such as where you attend church. How God delivered you from situations.

Step 4
Put yourself in a position to answer questions. By witnessing in small ways, your friends will start to identify you with your faith. If they don’t understand a Christian belief or a practice of yours, they may ask questions.

Step 5
Use this opportunity to share more of your witness. Be sure to share the parts relevant to the question you were asked. Allow another person to share. This will help you focus your word to meet their needs.

Step 6
Learn how to set the foundations for Christianity and continue your spiritual growth, read, fast and pray.

Jesus specifically states that man’s spirit will be reunited with his body at the resurrection. “The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven…and the dead in Christ shall rise first,” (Thess 4:16, 17)

When Christ…shall appear, then shall ye also appear  with Him in glory, (Col. 3:4). He was not referring to a soul, reincarnation, but a bodily resurrection. (John 5:28, 29)

Mankind is going through a process of metamorphosis. What is metamorphosis?  Metamorphosis is a change of the physical form, structure, or substance by supernatural means. The resurrection is a supernatural process that will transform man’s body from the earthly material to the spiritual. “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed.” (1 Cor. 15:51)

The resurrection is like changing water into ice. It’s still water, but only in another form. It’s the same body, but a different form. You will exchange this earthly body for a spiritual one.  Just as the caterpillar is wrapped in the cocoon and appears to be dead, but after a while there is a rumbling, shaking and cracking open the shell and suddenly there emerges a beautiful butterfly.

Mankind, while on earth, is in the cocoon of flesh and when his physical body dies and goes to the grave, there seems to be no hope of life, but on the day of the resurrection, when Christ returns to earth, there will be a rumbling and the opening of the grave and there will emerge the spiritual body of the saints transformed by the power of God. “But God gives it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed its own body.” (1 Corinthians 15:38)

Weeping between the porch and the altar is a mandate for leaders to assemble God’s people together for a time of prayer, fasting and consecration. The porch represents the flesh; the outer court of worship, whereas the altar represents the spirit, the place of sacrifice, the place of giving up and re-dedicating one’s life back to God. It’s time to weep between the porch and the altar until the Spirit of the Lord be poured out upon us from on high.

It’s time to make haste and take up a wailing, mourning and crying until our eyes run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters before our God. It’s time for the altars of our heart to return back to God. Jeremiah says, “Oh, that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night.” (Jeremiah 9:1)  It’s time to let our eyes run down with tears night and day and not cease for the people and our nation. Lord, we acknowledge our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers for we have sinned against you. It’s time to go back to the true place of worship which starts with headship.

“Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, and the bride from her dressing room. 

“Let the priests who minister to the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar. Let them say, spare the people. O’ Lord and do not give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them.  Why should they say among the peoples, where is their God”. (Joel 2:15-17)

Church leaders are given a mandated assignment to gather God’s people for a time of prayer and fasting. Why? Because the meat and drink offerings are withholden from God’s house. The solid meat of God’s word and the power of His Holy Spirit are being withheld, watered down, causing, a drought, and dryness in the house of God. God exhorts leaders to encourage the people to cry out and turn back to Him with their whole heart.

Joel 1:13 – “Gird yourselves, and lament, ye PRIESTS: howl, ye MINISTERS of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye MINISTERS of my GOD: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholding from the house of your God.”

Joel 1:14 – “Sanctify ye a fast, CALL a solemn assembly, GATHER the ELDERS and all the INHABITANTS of the and into the house of the Lord your God and CRY unto the LORD.”

Joel 2: 1 – “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My Holy Mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land trembles for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand.”

Joel 2:12 – “Therefore, now, saith the Lord TURN you even to me with all your HEART, and with FASTING and with WEEPING and with MOURNING;”

Joel 2:13 – “And rend your heart and not your garments and TURN unto the Lord your God for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.”

Joel 2:17 – “Let the PRIESTS, the MINISTERS of the Lord, WEEP between the porch and the altar, and let them say, spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them…”