Sis. Shellie Drayton.
Pearl of Great Price Tabernacle
PREPARE: To make ready in advance, for a particular purpose, event, or occasion.
People prepare for everything except eternal life. They just don’t think about where will they spend eternity! People don’t realize that they are one breath away from heaven or hell!
But we are going to talk about the good places in Jesus Christ. We’ve got to prepare ourselves for what lies ahead.
1 Corinthians 2:9; But as it is written, Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has it entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him.
There is a place in God with your name on it, that he has prepared just for you. In every trial and test we go through, God prepares us for that place. Enter in to the place he has for you. Prepare our hearts and he will bring us into the place he has prepared for us. Even In our struggles, he is preparing us to stand strong in him.
Going into the military, they will train you and prepare you to fight. It’s the same way in God, he is preparing his people to come into the place he has prepared for you, for his kingdom.
Rejoice in your trials and tests, for God is counting you worthy, he’s preparing you for heaven. He will equip you with what you need to prepare yourself for any ministry or calling he places on your life.
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 has prepared for them a city.
Not only has he prepared us a place in him in this life, but he has also prepared us a heavenly place that we shall forever be with the Lord! A city, a mansion, whose builder and maker is God!
Luke 1:17; And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
All through the Bible, God was preparing a people, his chosen, his elect, to fight, to go to battle, to proclaim the Word of the Lord.
Every day people prepare to go to work, kids for school, prepare for exams, prepare for appointments, prepare meals, prepare for holidays, so why can’t we prepare for a place in God? God is looking for a strong people that will stand on his word, and believe him for anything and everything.
Matthew 25:34; Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
From the beginning of time, God already had it in his plans.
Proverbs 30:25; The ant are a people not strong yet they prepare their meat in the summer.
If God gave the ant sense enough to prepare, to make ready, then we have no excuse. Don’t let the Lord catch you unprepared, don’t let the Lord have to say Depart from me. Get prepared and stay prepared, for there is a place in God.