Protecting the Body of Christ

Working Together and the Body of Christ.  It has been my life.  It is still my life, even though I am trying to find a senior path.

This design was an ad in a Christian newspaper.  I advertised for so many years, and never had a single response.  Makes me wonder why.

I decided to share it again today because I like the statement.  I don't have the money to finance anyone buying the mug, but the statement is still very important.

Selling something digital is better for me and for Working Together right now.  I have been trying to sell a printable of my very important writing called SERVANTS, also at Etsy, so I can avoid the problems of product costs.  If you decide to buy anything, that would be the right thing to buy... right now.  Later, I would have more options.

I have been trying to decide what the best path forward for me is.  I don't know what GOD is doing, but I know He is trying to warn His People, to provide for them, to protect us from the thngs we don't yet know about or understand in this time of history.  The Beast, the Antichrist, what prophecy means in our age.  Technology is becoming more than anyone could have thought it would.

I listen to a lot of Christian sermons on YouTube these days.  It is the easiest way for me to access Christian messages.  I also try to find news, movies, books to listen to, songs, and other digital materials to think about and find answers.  The internet has changed our lives in so many ways.  It is the future.  It is also a great danger for freedom, for finances, for government, for everything we know.  I can see why GOD may have chosen this time for the Antichrist and our deaths by him.

I am seeking GOD for the path forward.  

If I cannot do what I need to do, I look to GOD for the path I can take, what I can do, and what I believe He wants me to do.  I know that nothing in this world can stop GOD from accomplishing His Will in this world.  I have to trust that He will do whatever is needed.  That is what I do.  Wait.  Do what I can.  Wait for GOD to solve the problems.

In this election year, America is at a more serious crossroads than others in the past.  The choice between Trump and Biden, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, is a serious fork in the path to our future.  The ability to vote is our right to choose which direction we take.  

None of our choices will be perfect.  Every person running for every office is not a perfect person.  We have to choose the people who are heading in the directions we want to go.  We have many serious problems in our nation, and soon the world will become one government -- that will change EVERYTHING in all of our lives.  The decisions of government will become the prophecies of the Bible.  

I don't know if Working Together can help us, but I hope GOD shows us why He created it.  It must have an important place in our story.  I think it will help us become ONE Body of Christ, but it will also help us do more for each other.  That was my hope anyway.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us

Still seeking GOD for the path forward.

The end of the day is not a very good time to write, but I seem to face this battle every time.  I tend to be emotional from fatigue and lots of time thinking about the details of life and faith.

I ended up at Facebook tonight.  I wanted to reach a YouTube channel with a comment about their program on how the elderly are treated in those end-of-life care facilities - Retirement homes, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, etc.  The comments were turned off of the video.  Facebook seemed to be the only option.  I ended up sending them a message.  I hope they received it.  I never really know... my computer has a lot of problems.

I do want to share that the program talked about places where people paid over a million dollars for their care, and still the systems abused them and led to early death.  Another facility I watched about was holding a LOT of money in trust for the residents and the residents didn't get the proper care, leading again to abuse and early death.  It was really scary.  The facilities LOOKED great, one was brand new, but their loved ones were not cared for.

Anyway, I ended up seeing the video tab as I browsed around at my Facebook page, which I haven't really been involved with for years, and watched a series of different videos.

The last one I watched was about the Turpin children from 2018.  They were the family with parents that abused their 13 children, kept them home all that time, until one of the kids escaped and called 911.  I remember seeing short news items of the event and the parents, but I didn't know the details really.  This video was of the child escaping, the call to 911, and the process the police went through to verify the claims.  The parents were arrested, and the children were separated into two groups - the adult children and the minor children.  At the end there was a short mention of what happened to the children and the money the world donated to them to help with their recoveries.  Again, money became an issue of financial abuse as they tried to build new lives.

In our lives, in the times ahead, money will become another tool of the Enemy against us.  I think it was the goal of Hitler against the Jews in their time.  I remember seeing something that said the Nazi's went around to all the homes of the imprisoned and killed Jews taking whatever was valuable.

I am wondering how this will show up in our lifetimes.

Governments all over the world are struggling.  Thy are beginning to use their power in very strange ways.  I think they are flexing their wings to see what they can get away with, especially in those places where freedom and laws are more difficult to overcome the rights of the people.  I think COVID may have been one of those flexing moments because now the World Health Organization is seeking global power over vaccine issues.  In America it seems to be the powers of government becoming more strategized than they have been in the past.  We see it as Biden versus Trump, Democrats versus Republicans, Immigration, Black Lives Matter, the Supreme Court, Prolife versus Abortion, Taxes, Zoning, Program funding, and any other issue that will allow the government to control us more.

We don't have the ability to overcome government control.  Not really.

They want to control our water resources.  They will.

Things happening now, in our lifetime, will become the survival issues of tomorrow.

I don't know when, or how, but the Bible tells us everything will become so bad the Antichrist will be asked to solve the problem/s that bring him to power.

I am near the end of my life.  Who will still be alive when the Antichrist gets here?  What will the people of faith do when those hardships begin to change into persecution and then into government actions?  I keep wondering about all these things.  It has been my life for so many years, I still keep looking for GOD's meaning in our daily problems.

The Enemy will attack one, then two, then three, etc.  He will grow stronger and stronger as time passes.  Anything that has to do with GOD, Faith, goodness, family, etc., will become a target.  That is what we are seeing, we just don't know why these changes are happening.

We don't see them in the realm of Faith.

We see these problems, and we suffer, and we seek GOD, and we don't know what is happening to destroy our nation and our lives, but the real issue is the spiritual battles under the problems we see.  

I hope we find better ways to prepare for what prophecy tells us.

I think WE are the generation the Bible talks about... the one generation... the last generation before the Antichrist.  

Technology is the difference.  No other generations knew about technology and the difference it would make.  Digital currency and the microchip define what the Bible says about not being able to buy or sell.  Both are on their way to becoming global norms.

GOD has people in this world to help us.  We need to find them and get busy preparing for what our future will become.

24 MAY 2023 - Checking in on my way to better.

 I am in the process of trying again.

Been working out a path to get everything updated and some kind of plan to keep moving forward with my online selling efforts.

Selling sites.

Blogs.

Social Media.

A lot of places I haven't been able to keep up with.

Now I am learning videos and how to use YouTube to link with all my spaces.

I am hoping I see results before GOD calls me home.

This week I have been posting, updating, and thinking.  I made some new planning sheets to work with, real paper ones.

I read a lot of materials about apps that people use for business, creating, keeping organized, to reach their version of "success."  Not sure I can do all that.  Learning to set reminders on my devices will be enough for me.  Using the calendar options would be helpful.  Maybe later I can decide about all the apps available then.

I send out monthly prayer letters this year.  It's not always easy to see GOD's answers to our prayers.  I keep praying... because I know GOD is the only one who can help me in some things.  Life hasn't turned out the way I thought it would, but there are still purposes in what I lived.  I see them down the line, not when life is in the middle of a bad time.

I hope you see the future with GOD is better than this world's troubles.  Keep your faith in Him, keep making godly choices, trust that there is a plan for your life and for the unexpected things you encounter on the way.

The Bible says the End Times we live in will grow very evil, very hard... so terrible GOD will have to end this earthly existence or no one will be saved.  We think today is so bad because we remember better times.  People in the future will say the same thing about our times.  Hard to believe that could be possible.

I don't know what it means to live in a politically oppressed country.  I know what America used to be.  We are falling into oppressions slowly, like the frog in the kettle of slowly heated water that kills and cooks it.  It already feels terrible.  I keep hoping it will change for the good but the Bible tells us it won't.  Maybe in small bursts of revival, but the global picture is in prophecy and it isn't good.

I have problems with my internet efforts, and other things.  I sometimes wonder if America is already like one of those oppressed countries where the leaders control everything on the internet.  I assume the Antichrist will control it all... and he is already alive somewhere.  In thinking about it, I see the deletion of all things Christian and Jewish, anything that opposes the governing powers of the Antichrist.  Then I wonder how people will hear about GOD, about Jesus, about salvation, about the Holy Spirit.

It is hard for me to even imagine trying to survive in an oppressive and evil world.  Noah had to do that.  We don't know how he lived in that kind of world.  I suppose that is why he was living somewhere he could build an ark, away from most of the people of that time I assume.

We have preppers.  

Being a prepper doesn't mean you are a Christian.  There are going to be a lot of difficult times for Christians in the middle of a disaster that involves using prepper supplies in a place where others have nothing to keep them alive.

Noah had that huge ark to protect him from all the people who died in the flood.  What will we have?

I suppose that is why the Antichrist will seek to kill all the Christians (and Jews).  We will suffer for a short time and then go to our eternity... not having to suffer the rest of the Tribulation judgments.

It is always a hard thing to think about what the Bible says and how it applies to our lives.

If I haven't already shared it, I saw some videos at YouTube about global governments heading in the way of digital currency as the future form of money.  I have already read about the financial microchip that is going to be put in human bodies - already tested on inmates and then others - which I assume is ready for mass distribution.  I realized that when the two are connected, we would have what the Bible describes as the MARK of the Beast.  The moment of no return, when each person  has to decide to follow GOD to their death or take the MARK in their body and be excluded from heaven.

How to prepare for that... At this point I don't know.  All my plans for Working Together and helping Christians were based on a cash society.

I still need money to survive today.  That is why I keep trying to earn online income.  At my age and in my situation, that is the only path I can do.

We have to trust GOD for all our needs, whether they are much or little.  I keep hoping for more than what I've had so far.  Not sure what GOD will do, but I keep looking for His blessings to finally reach me.

I can't help too many others when I don't have enough for myself.

Somehow, GOD will show us the way forward.

What do yo think we can do for the BODY OF CHRIST in these days?

Let me know in the comments.

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us