IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL...FINALLY

MY SIS FLEW DOWN FROM ARKANSAS TO VISIT ME THIS WEEKEND FOR HER 29TH BIRTHDAY WHICH WAS YESTURDAY.  SHE IS GOING THROUGH JUST AS TOUGH A TIME AS I AM DEALING WITH HER OWN PERSONAL ISSUES.  MY SISTER, WHO HAS BEEN A MISSIONARY IN SEVERAL MUSLIM NATIONS SAID SOMETHING VERY INTERESTING TO ME WHILE SHE WAS HERE.  SHE TOLD ME THAT THE MUSLIM HOLIDAY RAMADAN STARTED AT THE BEGINING OF SEPTEMBER AND, THEY PRAY AGAINST CHRISTIANS EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME FOR 20 DAYS.  IT REALLY REMINDED ME OF THE SPIRITUAL BATTLE THAT WE CAN'T SEE, BUT WE, AS TRUE BELIEVERS IN JESUS CHRIST, FACE ON A DAILY BASIS AGAINST SATAN AND DEMONS AND OTHER PRINCES AND POWERS OF THE AIR.  IT JUST GAVE ME A LITTLE SPIRITUAL INSIGHT INTO THE BATTLE THAT I AM REALLY FIGHTING THAT REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FLESH AND BLOOD.  I JUST SURE WISH I WOULD HAVE REALIZED THIS 3 WEEKS AGO BEFORE ALL OF THIS STUPID SHIT THAT I DID WENT DOWN. MY SISTER IS SO WISE, AND JUST SPENDING 3 DAYS WITH HER REALLY BRINGS ME BACK TO MY PEACE THAT I USUALLY HAVE IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.  SHE TALKS TO ME IN A WAY THAT I JUST UNDERSTAND.  SHE KEEPS IT REAL WITH ME, AND WITH KNOWING HOW MUCH SHE LOVES ME AS HER BIG BRO, I REALLY RESPECT THAT ABOUT HER.  SHE REALLY MAKES JESUS COME ALIVE WHILE LIVING THIS DIFFICULT EVERYDAY LIFE.  SHE TOOK MY SON TO CHURCH WHILE I WAS AT WORK, WE ALL WATCHED THE COWBOYS GAME TOGETHER, THEN WE ALL WENT TO SOUPER SALAD ALONG WITH DEUCE'S MOM FOR MY SISTERS BIRTHDAY, AND THEN MY SISTER AND I WENT TO CHURCH AND IT WAS TRULY AWESOME AND DID A LOT TO GET MY MIND RIGHT AND GET MY SOUL BACK INTO THE LOVING ARMS OF JESUS WHERE IT BELONGS.   I TOOK MY LONG WALK AROUND THE PARK WHERE I PRAY AND CRY OUT TO THE LORD TO FIX ME AND TO BLESS AND PRAY FOR MY WIFE AND OTHERS.  I GOT BACK HOME AND THEN MY WIFE CALLED(PRAISE GOD) AND I GOT TO TALK TO HER FOR A BIT.  I TURNED ON THE TV SCROLLED THROUGH SOME CHANNELS AND AS I SCROLLED TO 21, WHICH IS TBN WHERE I AM, THERE WAS JESUS IN WHAT APPEARED TO BE AN OLDER MOVIE FROM THE 70'S, SO I WATCHED FOR A BIT AND JUST THEN HE SPOKE AND SAID THE FOLLOWING... "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household." (Matthew 10:34-35 NASB)  AND JUST THEN, ALL THE EVENTS OF THE PAST 3 WEEKS JUST HIT ME ALL AT ONCE, AND TO SEE JESUS SAYING THESE WORDS INTO THE CAMERA, IT WAS LIKE HE WAS TALKING DIRECTLY TO ME WITH HIS CRYSTAL BLUE EYES.  I DID NOT COME TO BRING PEACE, BUT A SWORD.  HUH, WITH THE WAY HE WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ME, HE MAY AS WELL HAD SAID A BAT, AND THEN SAID THROUGH THE TV SCREEN, YEAH ROB, I SAW YOU.  IT'S LIKE GOD SAW THIS COMING AND SO IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF MATHEW JUST TO SPEAK TO MY HEART RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.  I JUST STARTED CRYING UNCONTROLLABLY TO THE POINT MY SISTER HAD TO COME IN AND CONSOLE ME TO SEE IF I WOULD BE ALRIGHT.  IT WAS LIKE JESUS TELLING PETER YOU WILL DENY ME 3 TIMES BEFORE THE COCK CROWS, AND THEN AFTER PETER CAME TO AFTER THE COCK CROWING, HE WEPTED BITTERLY. AFTER CRYING MY HEART OUT OVER WHAT I HAVE DONE, I PASSED OUT IN BED ONLY TO WAKE UP AT 230 AM TO TAKE MY SISTER TO THE AIRPORT TO CATCH HER FLIGHT AND THEN CRUISE INTO WORK WITH MY EYES SWOLLEN FROM ALL THE TEARS LAST NIGHT.  THEY SAY THAT CRYING BRINGS CLEANSING.  I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR GOD TO WASH ME WITH HIS SON'S BLOOD SO I COULD BE FORGIVEN AND BE MADE WHOLE AGAIN, WELL, I GUESS THIS IS HOW HE DID IT BECAUSE I FEEL CLEAN AND LIGHT TODAY LIKE THIS BURDEN OF MY SIN THAT I HAVE BEEN CARRYING ON MY CONSCIENCE FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS HAS BEEN WASHED AWAY BY THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS.  JESUS, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, AND I THANK YOU FOR NOT GIVING UP ON ME AND CONTINUEING YOUR PROMISE OF COMPLETING A GOOD WORK IN ME UNTIL THE DAY YOU RETURN... AND ON THIS DAY THAT ROSH HASHANAH STARTS,(OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FESTIVAL OF TRUMPETS) I FEEL YOUR RETURN IS AT HAND AS THE SUN BEGINS TO SET OVER ISREAL AS I WRITE THIS RIGHT NOW.  I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL I HEAR THAT TRUMPET CALL OF THESSALONIANS 4 AND DISAPEAR OFF THE FACE OF THIS EARTH.  MANY BELIEVE THAT IT WILL ALSO BE FORFILLED DURING ROSH HASHANAH, SINCE IT WILL HAPPEN WITH A BLAST OF THE SHOFAR TRUMPET, IN ONE OF THE COMING YEARS...IF NOT TODAY.  MARANATHA LORD.