* Making yourself ready for the return of Jesus.

When we tell our troubles or our concerns to people, we have failed to connect with God.

After God has given us a solution, it is fine to tell the problem and God's solution.

Until we are doing this in everything we are not ready for the return of Jesus.

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Joan Boney ... apostle/prophet

We are supposed to "cast our care on God for HE careth for us."  (I Peter 5:7)

We, the church, connect to God each time we pray to God through faith in God and hear from God by HIS Spirit and follow the instruction, by faith, which we believe God has given to us.

These are real Christians.

Most church people want to tell their problems to other humans and ask them what to do.  So they seek out ministers, or even people in the church who "seem" spiritual.  And if they do this, they cast their cares on other humans instead of casting their cares on God.  And they burden other humans with their cares.

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A young man visited with me once.  He said to me, "It is so wonderful to be in the presence of a really godly woman."

Then he said, "It must be wonderful for you also to have a person to tell your problems to."  (He meant himself.)

I indicated I didn't tell my problems to another human.

He was shocked!

He then replied, "Then who do you tell your problems to?"

I replied, "To God."

Then he really seemed shocked.


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Psalm 62:8   Trust in HIM (God) at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before HIM: God is a refuge for us.


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I Peter 5

6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that HE may exalt you in due time:

7 Casting all your care upon HIM; for HE careth for you.

God knows the past, present, future.  God knows everything about everyone and everything.  Humans do not.


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And the Bible instructs us to pray to God and God will answer us according to HIS will.  If we pray according to God's will, HE hears us and our prayer will be answered.  

I John 5

14 And this is the confidence that we have in HIM, that, if we ask any thing according to HIS will, HE heareth us:

15 And if we know that HE hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of HIM.

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Philippians 4

6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Only when we can pray to God and have God lead us in the issue of this present life, will we be able to live in "peace".

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The apostle Peter says:

II Peter 3:14   Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of HIM (when Jesus returns) in peace, without spot, and blameless.

If you are troubled and full of cares, you show you are not praying over each of those concerns, and should Jesus return for the church and you are not ready, you will likely not be taken up but will be left on this earth for the great tribulation, or you might have physical death and be removed by that.

Some of the elect of God will be on this earth during the great tribulation.

Luke 21:36 Jesus says:    Watch ye therefore, and pray always ... that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

(Through watching ourselves and that which we do ... and through prayer ... we connect ourselves to God at all times ... By doing this, we are accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.)

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Concerning the elect left on this earth during the great tribulation:

Matthew 24    Jesus says:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

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