Kentucky Tornado 2021

This story is not selective or targeted to Kentucky. Kentucky just happens to be in the most recent news of destruction due to tornadoes and that at an unprecedented time period where tornado's are usually most prevalent in the month of March, but here we are in December of 2021. Devastation and deeply saddening with much loss of life, business, and family members. Prayers and more prayers are being asked for, and necessarily. Where, if you mention God and prayer it is dismissed or looked upon with a religiousness and an expression of the rolling of the eyes or a turning away, everyone is "religious" in these foxholes of life. Can anything be averted, by prayer? Can anything be averted by belief in God? Can anything be averted, even by community? And what about repentance...if it is mentioned at all?

In these times, communities do come together, to help, to be involved in restoration of property and emotional and mental stability, and to show acts of love. Humanity is exalted in these times of devastation for their goodness's, for their love, for their resilience and strength in togetherness, and God is prayed to...to help. Humanity however, is at the forefront and seems is the one exalted asking God for help, as though He couldn't before and is willing only now...in difficult situations.

Mankind is exalted in praying to God, in seeking His help through prayer and even in humbling themselves...in prayer, but what of.... Let's look at the scripture mankind and any of the "five fold ministries" love to espouse. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says, "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land". (KJV) Within this verse we are excused with the first requirement and the second and perhaps the third. We may even be excuse by the first and the second without the third or any number of sequences. However, there is a fourth requirement. That of "turning from their wicked ways" because it is "THEN" God promises to forgive and to heal...in this case...their land and without a doubt, their hearts. I've always said and discovered from revelation by Holy Spirit that the greatest wickedness is not the sin we do, but our refusal to repent. That is after all, what sealed Jezebel's fate according to Revelation 2:21-23 which reads, "I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.22 Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works,23 and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works".

The goodness of God is that He did not judge her according to her wickedness of sin, but upon her wickedness of refusing to repent, and in this reference it is specific to sexual immorality. Notice the wording as well. "unless the repent of HER works" but then, "I will give to each of YOU according to YOUR works". Her "work" of unrepentance" sealed her fate although the goodness of God was to lead her to repentance, but she refused.

However, we also have to ask...can repentance avert every situation, since it is appointed to every man to die and after that the judgment. Perhaps it cannot avert every situation, except that of Jezebel's demise and separation from God. I believe we MUST examine ourselves. Do we pray and most will say with some pride of acknowledgment, we do. Do we seek the face of God and only some may honestly say...I seek His face more than His hand. Do we humble ourselves and with some arrogance we will say yes...because after all we pray, we humble ourselves and we seek Him (but notice they do not mention if they seek His hand or His face). Here is the rubber meeting the road>Do we repent at which many may ignore or disguise with prayer, with a false humility and with justification of ourselves. However, Job justified himself because he judged/examined himself by these standards of men. However, when he SAW GOD, his comparison became unjustifiable because with God nothing is comparable, and there is no competition. You "see", before Job SAW God, he judged himself by the first three requirements of 2Chronicles 7:14, but not until he SAW God did he realize there is no other response to God except repentance and even prayer could not meet the requirement. Job said in chapter 42, "Then Job answered the Lord and said:" (prayed)

2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. 3 ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I have uttered" (prayed) "what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. 4 ‘Hear, and I will speak; I will question you, and you make it known to me.’ 5 I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; 6 therefore I despise myself, and repent[a] in dust and ashes.”

Perhaps it is in this revelation when mankind/humanity may avert much, including the great judgment Jesus took on the cross...for YOU...for ME and THAT judgment Only Jesus could bare...for us and we can not nor could not bare ourselves...at all.

The primary definition of Repent is to make a willing purpose to amend and turn from sin. Jesus did exactly that. He amend for MY sin, because I could not and neither can you. Jesus was tempted in every way but without sin. Why? Because He turned from it. Even our repentance, though skewed by committing sin is necessary and helpful but can not "compare" or be in any competition to that of the One who Perfectly Repented and remained repentant.

Its your turn for a choice...the first one to become His, the one if you are already His ("My people), or to return if you have left Him. Will you now refuse or receive the gift and goodness of God to lead you to repentance...as a lifestyle? Please let someone know your decision, including this ministry. I look forward to hearing from you...soon and before the time of His coming or your time on earth is done. The greatest destruction is that of the life that refused the goodness of God to repent.

Love is the answer, Repentance is the call.

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