THINKING ALOUD – PREPAREDNESS 2023 – UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: REACHING FORTH TOWARD GOD’S PLAN-PURPOSE-AND-PURSUIT!
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the CALLED according to his PURPOSE. 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDESTINATE to be CONFORMED to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did PREDESTINATE, them he also CALLED: and whom he CALLED, them he also JUSTIFIED: and whom he JUSTIFIED, them he also GLORIFIED” Romans 8:28-30.
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this PURPOSE the Son of God was MANIFESTED, that HE MIGHT DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL” 1 John 3:8.
“Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. TO THIS END WAS I BORN, and for this CAUSE came I into THE WORLD, that I should BEAR WITNESS unto THE TRUTH. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice” John 18:37.
“Not as though I had ALREADY ATTAINED, either were ALREADY PERFECT: but I FOLLOW after, if that I may APPREHEND that for which also I am APPREHENDED of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I COUNT NOT MYSELF to have APPREHENDED: but this one thing I do, FORGETTING those things which are BEHIND, and REACHING FORTH unto those things which are BEFORE, 14 I PRESS TOWARD the MARK for the PRIZE of the HIGH CALLING of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you” PHILIPPIANS 3:12-15.
The HORSE is PREPARED against the DAY of BATTLE: but SAFETY (DELIVERANCE, VICTORY) is of the Lord” Proverbs 21:31 Emphasis Mine.
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE” Matthew 11:11-12.
Further Scriptural Reading Text: Galatians 1:3-5; Romans 8:19-21; 2 Corinthians 2:14; 1 John 5:3-5; Hebrews 11:1-3; Philemon 1:4-6; Romans 10:8-10.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI