Not Tempting Him...Testing Him

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 i'm listening for the trumpeter...i am in ready mode...nothing about the Rapture is a surprise to me. 


What's a mystery to me is how to get everyone else in ready mode.  i find Jesus in Nehemiah as He is about the task of rebuilding my own broken walls.  Christ is the One who found me, not i who found Him.  It is the Holy Spirit who does the seeking, not i..."The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. ---[Deuteronomy 28:7] An enemy is anything that opposes me.  The sooner the place burns down, then the sooner i can test Him at His word.  Not tempting...testing...

The owner of the MotorMouth Motel must've promised her a share, a cut of the insurance money when some fool who smokes in his room burns the place down, and she's afraid--she fears--that he won't give her her cut.  I just hope that when the place does go down in smoke and up in flames, the owner's got an alternative location to move all the customers, so they all won't be out on the street.  She just afraid he ain't gonna deliver on his promise.  She's been catering to her areas of lack while in the name of Jesus!  Lord, i pray that You will take her in Your hands and cleanse her of her Jezebel spirit.

"...Whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says...whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."--[Mark 11; 23-24]

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