11-6-08 pm
I really broke through, and I think I’ve got an answer from the Lord. It was that clock that goes round and round when He says yes. I’m just drilling in. When you praise and thank the Lord, that’s when He answers, if you’re thankful. He cannot move for you unless you’re thankful and unless you praise and thank Him. If you really mean it from your heart, if you’re cleansed in the blood, you can approach the throne boldly. You can just go straight up there. That’s why I emphasized in the Bible, in the book of Psalms it says to cleanse yourself. And in the book of Revelation it says if you’ve lost your first love, repent, cleanse yourself. Repent is a beautiful word because here the person is saved and they’re doing the work of God. They’re doing all these good things and they hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, and the Lord hates them too, but they lost their first love. So He says you can still repent from that. When you repent and you’re covered in the blood, then you can be very thankful and praise the Lord and you can approach the throne very quickly and really get some fantastic answers! So that’s what you need to do tonight. Get everybody doing it the same way because this is an actual pattern.
The song of Moses in Exodus says, “He is become our salvation” (Ex. 15:2). In other words, He saved them. He saves those who are His. If you’re His, then you’re there at the throne all the time. “Pray without ceasing,” and “pray always” (I Thes. 5:17, Luke 21:36). Everybody else is going crazy in the world, but always pray. Stay right up there.
There’s another Scripture that says, “There shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left” (Luke 17:34). That doesn’t mean that their bodies are raptured. Then He tells after that what He means, to always pray, because you never know when the Lord’s going to come. If you’re in prayer, and there are two of you, one of you is praying and one is not praying, the one that is praying is already there in Heaven. The two men in bed, one is taken and the other is left because one is praying and the other one wasn’t. Two women were grinding, but only one was taken. The spirit was taken, because the body comes up later. That’s not talking about the rapture. Then the Lord goes on to say, “And He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint” (Luke 18:1). That really hit home to me when I was reading it earlier. Get that across to everybody. The second or the minute that you decide not to pray, that’s when the Lord can take your spirit.
Then I recalled the vision that the Lord gave me of how the sky was real cloudy, and all of a sudden the spirit went up in an instant and then back down before you can even say, “Lord!” So that’s what that means. It doesn’t mean the rapture. There are people that are in an automobile. They get in a crash, and one of them might have been praying and that person’s spirit was taken into Heaven and the other one didn’t go to Heaven because the one that prays is the one that is in Heaven.