The Coming of the Lord Jesus

I am to tell you that the sufferings we have today Jesus Christ has suffered already. He was arrested and crucified on the cross and killed for us. So for today we know how Jesus has experienced this life. So I would like to encourage you brothers and sisters today. Don?t forget what Jesus said about his coming. He said the tough life of today we are suffering is the same life he experienced. For sure the coming of the Lord is near so let us all understand this. In 1 Thess 4:16-18 it says "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first." That?s what the Apostle Paul said to the Thessalonians, and it was said not to those people only, but to us also. Then in verse 17 it says, "After that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, so will be with the Lord for ever. Therefore encourage each other with these words."

Let me encourage you with the following words: Deut.1:30-31 "The Lord your God who is going before you will fight for you as he did for you in Egypt before your very eyes, and in the desert where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place." Job 16:5 says "But my mouth would encourage your comfort, my lips would bring you relief." As well again in Psalm 10:17 "Hear O Lord the desire of the afflicted, you encourage them and you listen to their cry." So the encouragement in the Bible is to keep in the ways of the Lord. Lastly, 2 Samuel 19:7. "Now go out and encourage your men: for I swear by the Lord that if you don?t go out, not a man will be left with you by nightfall. This will be worse for you than all the calamities that have come upon you from your youth till now."

Bro. Fibion Ngozi, Banket, Zimbabwe