What is Your Vision for our Future?

What is Your Vision for our Future?        8-11-24 Kelly Durant 

 

Proverbs 29:18

18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.       Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

 

2.I want you to answer this question. Does history just happen from circumstances or do people make the circumstances happen?

Do random events make up our past or did people plan those events? For Example, did World War II just happen, or was it planned to happen? If you think things just happen on their own, think again.

 

At that time all of the world’s leaders conspired and fought hard to obtain their positions. Everyone had a vison for the future. For example, the Germans wanted to rule the entire world and cleanse it ethnically! The Americans dreamed to stop that evil and have each country’s sovereignty and ethnicity respected! It’s the same war today; it’s either oppressive dictatorships or republics with freedom! As described in the Daniel 2 statue, either iron or clay.

 

The world’s nations have a dream or vision inspired by their leaders but note that man proposes but it is God who disposes! We know the outcome of the past; God was on the side of the Allies as it wasn’t yet time for the anti-Christ to arise. Hitler was a type of anti-Christ, led by hate and the occult, but God allowed good to conquer evil then because Christian people fought. The question for you and me today is: What is your dream as an individual? The world leaders are going to do what they do and sadly wars and misguided goals destroy millions. But what can we do within the confines of our local world?

 

3. MLK Jr. said: I have a dream…I have a dream that….

Do you know what that was? It was that all the people would one day live without discrimination being judged by their character, and not by the color of their skin. This was a good dream, and much has improved since the 1960’s. It was needed and still needs to be envisioned and practiced everywhere but man’s sin of not having love for his neighbor stubbornly persists. The world needs Jesus! 

 

People do catch visions, or idealistic dreams and often these dreams are announced by men of God onto the people who want to accomplish something of value. We all want a cause to give our life to. It is better to die for something than to live for nothing! Right?

 

So, what is your dream for us to accomplish in this city? Corps?

It is God, and only God that permits your or my dreams to become reality. I propose we teach our children and family members the ways of the Lord, and that we all shine our lights of good works in the community, and pray that, even though we are few, that the community gets impacted by the Word of God! Proverbs 11:10

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices; And when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.

 

4. Here is another dreamer, a globalist-conquer-the-world type one: Did you know that when Napoleon met the Russian leader at the border of Europe after he had conquered Europe, said, “I will invade Russia, I will march on the streets of Moscow”! 

 

Napoleon had a dream. But the wise Russian leader responded, “Man proposes, but it is God who disposes!” Soon the winter snow caught and froze almost all the soldiers of Napoleon’s army and so many died that Napoleon had to retreat and He returned never to reach is dream. He was from then on reduced and defeated.

 

His dream was not within God’s will. His dream was only for himself and his desires. He was building his kingdom, not God’s kingdom. This has an analogy to many churches today, they want to grow, be rich, and take over the regions, but their dreams are for their own grandeur, and not for God’s glory. And sadly, people who get burnt from being a part of a “chosen-frozen” church that dries up in scandal due to an unrighteous pastor or corrupt congregation often lose their faith, vision, and dreams to serve Jesus! We must be careful what we are following! If it is not to grow God’s Kingdom, then we know it will fail as man’s kingdoms all fall and fail! The globalist today are building a world system, but it will only last a short time because Jesus will return and destroy it!

 

5. What is your dream, for God’s glory, or for yourself?  

How many of you are planning your future right now?

How many of you had a dream say 5 years ago and now you are living that dream now? Did you plan to be where you are today? God’s grace has brought us all through a lot of trials and hard times. 

 

Many people, including immigrants, often plan big to become rich and live the American dream only to never reach their goals! They are like Napoleon, deceived they have obtained something, not seeing how it will soon all be lost when adversity comes. Adversity comes to everyone and we cannot even walk without God’s hand pulling us through! Having the wrong dream in life makes you miss God’s plan as much as not having any dream at all!

 

Here in the scripture of Proverbs 29:18 we read that the people faint, the people lose hope, they perish if there is not a vision or dream to live for. People, you and I, we all get depressed without a dream to get better. The reality is the average person does not even have dreams for their lives. Some do get rich but the ones who gain the world are going to regret it one day when judgement comes. Mark 8:36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? 37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”

 

6. We know we need faith to get God’s support. We must have God’s dream for our lives, in order to have confidence that God will answer us in our prayers. Most of just want our basic needs covered, right? 

James 1:6-7 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

 

There are many Christians that have not quite learned to have a dream for God yet and then have faith to carry it out.

It takes work, it takes study in the Bible and trying many things to discover what God’s goal is for you, what you are called to do!

If your dream in life is within God’s dream then you are going to have success and progress, happiness, peace, and blessings.

Jesus gave us dreams to do God’s will. He said in Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

 

Here we invite people to worship Jesus, we enroll the youth, and we teach the youth and adults God’s Word, and we know we are doing what will accomplish God’s blessings! 

 

7. Once your soul is saved you understand you are going to heaven to live forever in God’s Kingdom of love and happiness then after that all you want to do is live to see another soul saved too!

Your dream then will be focused on others, not yourself.

 

Jesus commanded us all in Mark 16:15

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

 

Jesus imparted a tremendously huge vision on us to win others to His Kingdom and that is a big challenge! If we consider the entire world, Christians are only about 20% of all the world’s religions! Today, we must have a tremendous vision in order to convert the 80% that do not seek God on Sunday or any day, and it starts with you and me converting our neighbors, family, and coworkers.

 

8. Why is there a Salvation Army in 130 countries, with over 3,000,000 members of Soldiers and volunteers carrying out the world’s largest rehabilitation service to alcoholics, and help to the poor? Plus, it has all happened in around 150 years! How?

 

You and I are here because William Booth had a dream that was in God’s will! Why am I here with the Salvation Army doing what I do? Because I caught God’s dream for my life! I had to forsake my dreams for God’s dreams and His are so much better!

 

In the verse of today, we understand we must obey God’s law to be happy with a future. In other words, history is full of examples of people who did not dream within God’s plan and their end was frustration and losses, never achieving their goals! I challenge you today to dream God’s dreams for our children, our community, and Corps.  

 

Dreaming within God’s plan, we will be happy and blessed achieving what God intends for you and me to accomplish! And for our children and babies, are you and I challenging them to dream of becoming someone great serving God? Or is your goal for them to build a personal kingdom? All things are a loss if not done for God’s kingdom? 

 

Have you dedicated your will and your dreams to God? Today, I challenge you to do it! Do you have God’s vision or your own?

What can we do for those who are in our community to bring them to God? 

Jesus…in Your Dreams! He visits many people this way to communicate!

Jesus…in Your Dreams!             By Kelly Durant   4-10-13   Re 3-5-23

Matthew 27:19 When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

2. How many of you have dreams? Can you distinguish when a dream really means something and when it is just your mind floating out there trying to make a collage of strange purposeless things?

Have you ever dreamed you are flying? Many people have! According to the scientific study of dreams your mind keeps working on problems you could not solve in the daytime. People who dream flying could be learning what they will need to know after they leave this body behind! Jesus will raise us up! 

Concerning Easter, you can find tens of thousands of sermons on Jesus’ resurrection and that important day and that is priority. But there is one verse I want to explore, and that is how Jesus appears to, and appeared to, different unsuspecting people. Jesus communicates to many in dreams, even though the ones seeing Him did not choose to meet him, nor had they ever met him personally.

3. For example, the wife of Pilate had a dream, and in her dream, Jesus appeared to her, and she suddenly took seriously the injustice that was happening to him. In a dream she was touched by the purity and holiness of Jesus because she described him as a “just man”.  That was divine communication. All the rumors stirred up then were that he was a devil! But she listened to the spirit, not the world’s lies, and we all must develop that skill.

Then, like good wives do, she tells her husband what she feels and thinks about the decision he will make concerning Jesus’ trial. Often the men have the power, but women usually have a strong behind-the-scenes influence. Women often change outcomes from their influence with their words, do they not? She told him she had suffered in a dream because of him. When the wife suffers and is disturbed it affects the man as well!

That dream that she had that we do not know the details of troubled Pilate as she got through to him about the true holy nature of Jesus. This started troubling him that a just man would die, and he was accustomed to sending men to die all the time.  So much was he disturbed by his wife’s dream, and God’s conviction, that he washed his hands in public to symbolize he didn’t want anything to do with what was happening with Jesus condemnation, do you recall that?

4. Matt27: 23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

What we can conclude is that Jesus visited Pilate’s wife and this visit influenced how he handled the case of having Jesus in front of him. He tried to change the mind of the the people by releasing Barabbas instead of Jesus, a known murderer, but it did not work. In reality, he tried to protect an innocent man, but the people chose the death of Jesus despite that. So even evil rulers fear God’s justice!

I am sure Pilate, and his wife was very disturbed after that day.  What sort of terrible people would choose the death of Jesus, a just man over a man who was a dangerous murderous threat to society? 

5. Dreams are a major component in all our lives. A long time before Jesus birth, God sent dreams to Joseph in Egypt and there are many accounts of dreams in the Bible. Recall the dreams of Joseph of Mary to marry her and then to flee Egypt and that of the Wise Men who took action on their dream and traveled away from Herod to avoid his wrath. They did not even know of his plot to kill Jesus until they dreamed it. How do we explain such detailed communication in dreams? God is always working behind the scenes, in the spirit world!

There are day-time dreams that happen as well, but those we usually referred to as visions. Jesus appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus and that changed Paul’s entire life! 

Here is a strange reality, Jesus, God, or angels have been appearing to millions of people in visions, premonitions or dreams ever since He made earth, and these experiences are so real that millions of people have taken radical decisions to start living very different lives from what they were. 

6. Referring to how dreams change others, let’s look at Muslims and those of faiths who are isolated in lands where the gospel is not heard. I have read many testimonies of people being converted just because of a dream they had of Jesus appearing to them. 

These unexplained dreams of Jesus or God have been so real that people have been willing to change their lives and their religion, often leaving their country, or even going to jail to be persecuted for their new found faith in Jesus!

How can science explain that? It can’t! Some things are just supernatural, and it is not that some people in the world are just superstitious or ignorant, to the contrary, many people know how to be sensitive to spiritual communications and act upon them!

Your spiritual sensitivity is everything in life! Have you been shown things from God in dreams, or in prayer and then acted upon them appropriately?

7. When I was 21 and deciding which direction my life would go, I was stuck between staying in the university or leaving it to serve Jesus as a missionary in South America. A major factor in my decision was a dream that came to me.

Here is my dream of being at a Bob Dylan concert. I dreamed I was in a rock concert and the main artist that I thought was the most amazing person alive back then, was being arrogant and stupid keeping the people waiting for hours. During that time the auditorium was filling up with thick smoke form the marijuana everyone was smoking. Suddenly I felt glued to my chair and I got very scared as if I felt I would die immovable, stuck right there if I did not get up immediately!

But I forced myself to get up and when I did in the isle it seemed like a drama skit of something was happening, and a guy said, “Hey you, come here and help us”. There was Jesus carrying a cross and some others people nearby and one gave me a hammer and long nail in my hands and said here, help us to crucify this man? I dropped the hammer and ran outside as fast as I could! I did not want to help them kill Jesus! I had to get away from those terrible people!

Once outside I thought it was going to be night, but instead it was day and there were hundreds of police cars and police there that were getting ready to invade the auditorium and take everyone to jail.

The Lord showed me I needed to escape my old life radically, if not I would be paralyzed from drugs and crucifying Jesus in the process. The police were representative of the angels of God that will return with Jesus to judge the world!

8. Jesus changed my life by appearing in a dream. My sister in law also told me one time that she had a dream in which Jesus told her to stop following the church of her past and follow the evangelicals. Now, let me ask you, how many of you have ever had a dream, or a vision, or an experience with Jesus communicating to you? Look around, that is quite a few of you! My point is Jesus ever since his death, and in all the book of Acts, Jesus has appeared to others in dreams and visions in various supernatural ways. 

Divine communication through dreams and visions is not history; it is a phenomenon that keeps happening today! There is a science study of the mind called ‘noetics’ to try to discover how we experience precognitions and the unexplainable. 

It is also a fulfillment of the verses of Acts 2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. Take note that the last days began with Jesus birth. (Also, please contextualize that these verses are not a license to get disorderly and randomly interrupt the service to proclaim some personal revelation as if you are the most spiritual one in all the church as is done in some churches today).

9. But here is an undeniable reality, there are people that Jesus has communicated to in his pure and holy way, and they have either resisted or accepted the mission! What did Jesus tell Paul on his way to persecute Christians in Damascus? Acts 9:5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks?

Jesus was troubling him and rebuking Paul. How? By a vision shining through his darkness! Jesus love, His nature of purity, of righteousness, His just way of fairness of bringing healing to broken hearts and bodies contrasted greatly against Paul’s intentions of destruction. Jesus getting close to anyone of us would expose our ugly selfish proud human nature which is the opposite of His! So the people that still have many sins and faults, we must assume have not really met Him! 

10. Jesus in dreams is usually not the superman that takes you by the hand and lifts you flying in the sky over the mountains and moon, He is the one who sends a message to you about something important that is happening in your life at that moment and He often is warning you to change immediately, change your attitude, move away to another place, or to take action on an important decision. Jesus wakes you and I up to a new truth and this reality requires a reaction!

Jesus appearing in a dream, or in a vision, is an unexplained internal awareness and it is as God’s Holy Spirit at work.  Those who ignore that tugging of the heart, or reject the revelation of the truth of God, miss the out on the blessings of God, and depending on what message God is convicting them of, that person might even be rejecting salvation! 

11. We see an instance of this is Acts where Stephen, filled with the Holy Ghost, reveals the truth of Jesus to the crowd but despite his vision & powerful glowing presence, despite the heart piercing conviction his anointed words brought to the crowd’s ears, they still resisted! They murdered him as they did Jesus, out of the hatred in their hearts rejecting the fact that Jesus actually is the Son of God. 

We all must bow down and reverence Jesus as Lord of Lords when the Holy Spirit convicts us, if not the only alternative is rejection by choice and an eternal separation from the God which leaves nothing but hell. Stephen’s final warning while having a vision (a daytime dream) was, Acts 7:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

12.Today I want you to decide, has Jesus or the Holy Spirit ever appeared to you, in a prayer, in a vision, in a dream in the night, or in a still small voice in your heart and mind? If so, did you act on it? Or do you know someone to whom God communicated? God communicates today but few are talking about it!

John 15: 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

God may comfort in his message or trouble you, but you must wake up.

Have you responded to some troubling dream or message gotten in a prayer? If not, it is never too late to obey God! God is merciful, but that second bus (after you missing the first) is on a different time clock of God. Many people miss God’s will and really mess things up in their lives! Start asking your friends today, have you ever dreamed with God or Jesus? Use that as a way to share the gospel of His love! 

 

HEAVEN! I Can’t Wait To Be There! I know what it is like!

HEAVEN!  I Can’t Wait To Be There!                              By Kelly Durant 8-9-15 Re 10-16-22

Revelation 21:4 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.

 

2. How many of you have ever had a dream about heaven? Have you been flying like an angel? You are not alone! Thousands upon thousands of books and testimonies exist of people who have dreamed about heaven! And there are those who temporarily died, and come back to life, and witnessed heaven! Well, frighteningly, some others have reported they witnessed hell!

Heaven is what we all look forward to, and because Jesus spoke about it, it gives us hope of a much better existence than the one we have to endure at this present time!

 

The Old Testament was not very clear about what the spirit world held for us in the future, or how heaven would be. But here it’s made clear by Jesus, John 14:2 “In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you”. I’ve always thought, why do I need a mansion on earth? I prefer the one in heaven! What gain is there to invest so much in this decaying material world and then one day you will leave it all behind? You and I are just pilgrims just passing through this temporary place. Wise people invest in heaven!

 

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.”  In other words, some of the people that have had a little glimpse of heaven in a dream or vision, have really not seen anything yet! It is going to be even better than all our dreams combined!

 

3. Why am I bringing up the subject of heaven? Because everyone wants to know about it! I have never met anyone yet who does not like to talk about heaven! (Well, some atheists deny heaven’s existence even though they accept science’s rendition of a multidimensional universe and how sad for them as they are missing out!) Try to bring up the subject of hell and see if people like to talk about it! It’s not very popular as some people know it is a real place for the wicked and they are afraid to seek God to know if they are one of them! 

 

Everyone wants to go to heaven; do you not agree? But if they would go there or not, that’s between Jesus and them, their faith, and what they are doing with their life. We can have a role in offering salvation and heaven to them, by offering them Jesus’ saving love, but each person decides for their self. We all need to be reminded of heaven as often as possible, so we live happier in the present because it is our hope and future reality! It is where our Christian loved ones are! What is the heaven of your dreams? How do you want heaven to be anyway? 

 

The verse of today describes something beautiful… “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.” This is one of my favorite verses in the Bible! I can’t wait, can you? That’s the way the world should be! Free from pain and suffering!

Imagine a perfect world where all creatures live in harmony and love and live in happiness forever! Imagine getting a new resurrected heavenly body that never will hurt, get sick, or die. And all the suffering we see today will all stop! Rev 7:16 “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.”  This is the way I want the world to be, the heaven I want to live in! Imagine, nothing hurts or bothers you, natural AC and there is only the love, beauty, and the light of God’s presence! Now that is a utopian paradise!

 

4. Another favorite verse of mine is in Isaiah 65:25 “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord”.  I thank God for the book of Revelation as it describes heaven in a way that most of us as clueless thinkers have never thought of. It is described it as a physical place with beautiful elements which we value here on earth.  

 

Heaven will exist in a time and space continuum but in Revelation 10:6b it states, ”That there should be time no longer.” We interpret that to mean measuring time would be meaningless as all things are maintained in an eternal state in a heavenly dimension, we are not familiar with yet. Scientific string theory says 11 dimensions exist, maybe there are 12, who knows but let’s explore the number 12 in heaven.  Rev 21:19-20 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 20 The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.

 

I wanted to start a rock collection of all 12 of these stones but I soon realized that it is not in my budget!  One time I wanted to calculate how far man could get if all nations gathered up all the precious stones on earth to build a wall such as this one described in Revelation which is 1,500 miles long, or 6,000 miles in it’s total length & it has a width (?), and the height is 216 feet high! I am sure that on earth we cannot even construct 10 feet of it given earth’s limited resources! And don’t forget the streets of gold! These are hard elements that air, water, and sandstorms cannot erode (but in heaven there are no more sandstorms, ha!)

 

5. Heaven is the eternal City of God that we all are anxiously looking forward to get to! Hebrews 11:16 “But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.” Man starts out in a garden then ends up in a City. I really do not fully understand why God needs heaven to have streets of gold and with precious stone walls, but what it appears like is heaven will be electrified! Energy will radiate and vibrate throughout the whole structure. Why is this a legitimate assumption?

 

Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. Lightning is electric and all the other shakings provoked by it!

Everything has a purpose, and apart from heaven being eternal in its physical composition, it will contain elements of what we are familiar with here along with things we are to learn about. I have had dreams of being in heaven and what I recall is less about the beautiful surrealistic surrounding nature, and more about the indescribably feeling of peace and joy. John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

 

6. God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and He can transcend the laws of physics which he established, and with Him the eternal can be maintained over any material. I know that God has precision and reason behind His architectural design in that unknown world. Only Christians are blessed with the Word of God revealing to them the beauty of heaven. Other religion’s versions pale comparatively, and their renditions of heaven often are disappointingly false concoctions of carnal man’s desires of pride!

 

Recall how the High Priests in the Old Testament had 12 precious gems on their breastplates representing the 12 tribes of Israel. God esteems us, his people, to be compared to these beautiful colorful, light emitting stones. Quartz and similar stones capture sound and radio waves, and the mysteries of God are still not yet understood by our tiny 3 pounds of grey brain matter! 

 

In our resurrected bodies we will still perceive light as we do now and all of the colors will be for our enjoyment! The most important thing is that in heaven we will be in God’s house, a house that He is the architect of. And if Jesus is there, I want to be near Him! And you?

 

7.  Just by being in the presence of God we will have eternal light, life, and indescribable joy! The Biblical definition of hell is an eternal existence separated from the presence of God in a burning darkness! God owns all the beauty of all things created and he created and administrates the unique ‘tree of life’ that will sustain all who are allowed to partake of it forever. Why would anyone want to mess up their chance for this? 

 

John gave us the Revelation of heaven because God wanted him to see it and to write down how amazing it is! Rev. 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. So to answer the question of many of you, yes, you will we get to eat in heaven! Fruit, in particular! And it will be there just for the taking and not cost you a whole dollar for one!

 

Heaven is where your memory of this past hellish earth will be over-written with new beautiful experiences, and you will be surround by a new group of pure loving people who are authentically holy and loving being angels many who are transformed former humans. Many of the people there you will know and recognize. Matthew 8:11 And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. How wonderful is that! I want to talk to them! 

 

8. Heaven will be all of what we could never afford here on earth, and there we will not have to make payments on it either! Jesus paid a high price to pay for it for us in order for us to enjoy it forever! John 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. Few people have grasped how valuable this is!

 

Let’s obey God and Jesus in everything, in every way, loving, serving, trusting, and worshipping! Reread Revelation 21 and 22 and be heavenly in your thoughts, dreams, and behavior! If you are not practicing heavenly manners in the present, don’t think that God will assume you will be any better and change in the future. Revelation 22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

 

How can you and I be heavenly minded and be holy as God is? Phil 4:8 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.

 

So, keep dreaming of heaven, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace! Remember, Heaven, is the place of our destiny. It is important to dream about, envision it, and look forward to as it will be our future home where God will wipe away all our tears! And remember these words I love from this old gospel song that says:

When we all get to heaven, what a day of rejoicing that will be!

When we all see Jesus, We’ll sing and shout the victory!