ABUNDANT LIFE MINISTRIES

WE "PREPARE", BUT NOT OUT OF FEAR, WE PREPARE OUT OF WISDOM!

Matthew 24:8
"All these things are the beginning of birth pains." (Calamities that precede Christ Coming)

With the increase in birth pains that comes the closer you get to the DUE DATE, HOW WILL WE ENDURE? HOW DO WE NOT BE ALARMED, NOT BE AFRAID?
HOW WILL WE BE ALERT, AND READY? HOW WILL WE BE KEPT, IN SUCH AN HOUR, IN SUCH A SEASON, IN SUCH A TIME?

HERE IS HOW!!!!.....

"WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FAMILY REUNION!"

WHERE WE MEET OUR SISTER "WISDOM", AND OUR CLOSE RELATIVE "UNDERSTANDING"... GOD'S WORD SAYS, THIS IS HOW YOU ARE KEPT...

PROVERBS
7:1 My child, keep my words
and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
7:2 Keep my commands so that you may live,
and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
7:3 Bind them on your forearm;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding a close relative,
7:5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman,from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

JESUS SAID:
MATTHEW 24:13
But the person who endures to the end will be saved.

HOW DO WE ENDURE? WE ARE SMALL IN NUMBER, WE HAVE LITTLE STRENGTH AND POWER OVER WARS AND EARTHQUAKES, OVER FALLING SKY, AND ROARING SEA, OVER THE FAMINES OR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, OVER THIS WORLD AND ALL IT'S SHIFTING....HOW DO WE ENDURE?

BEING SMALL, WEAK, OF LITTLE POWER, OR EASILY CAUGHT, DOESN'T MEAN FAILURE... WISDOM PUTS YOU IN POSITION FOR VICTORY, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR SHORTCOMINGS MAY SEEM TO BE...

TO ENDURE... WE MUST HAVE WISDOM!.... POWERFUL!

Proverbs 30:24-28
30:24 There are four things on earth that are small,
but they are exceedingly wise:
30:25 ants are creatures with little strength,
but they prepare their food in the summer;
30:26 rock badgers are creatures with little power,
but they make their homes in the crags; (rocky cliffs)
30:27 locusts have no king,
but they all go forward by ranks;
30:28 a lizard you can catch with the hand,
but it gets into the palaces of the king.

1.) PREPARATION- ANTS... The wisdom of the ants is found in their diligent preparation of food supplies in the summer for times in the winter when food is scarce. According to this, being prepared ahead of time is a mark of true wisdom.

2.) ROCK SOLID- ROCK BADGER... The wisdom of the badger consists in its ingenuity to find a place of security. (In the crevice of the ROCK)

3.) TEAM- LOCUST... The wisdom of the locust is that they go forward in orderly divisions, or ranks. Therefore the wisdom of the locust is in their order and cooperation to work together, and not be isolated.

4.) NO LIMITS- LIZARD... The wisdom of this saying is that a weak creature like a lizard, that is so easily caught, cannot be prevented from getting into the most significant places.

IF WE WOULD WALK IN THE WISDOM OF GOD'S CREATION, WE WILL BE READY FOR WHATEVER COMES NEXT.