A Thief In the Night

Okay this is getting ridiculous, my third blog this week! I feel like my best friend is becoming this blog page. (pathetic if you ask me lol) So I had a phenomenal Christmas with my family, we prayed and the power of God was in our home, I really felt like the true meaning of Christmas was recognized this morning. In addition to countless texts and phone calls with family and friends, a wonderful dinner, the Lakers won! Okay, that is not what prompted me to write. I was watching television and Direct TV was airing on the God channel “A Thief in the Night” made in 1973 with patty Dunning, Mike Niday, and Colleen Niday. This movie set in Des Moines Iowa so vividly captures the rapture on a level that changed my life as a child like never before. (Here’s the wilkapedia sight on the movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Thief_in_the_Night)

It was a cold Friday Night at the Apostolic Faith Home Assembly, and I was upstairs in a building called Douglas Memorial Hall, and the images from the movie were imbeded in my mind. They took the messages of the bible and captured them in cinematic form. Along with the bible, Fred Hammond Pages of Life chapters 1 and 2, add this movie to your Spiritual Survival kit. This was a powerful evangelism tool. It sparked fear (for real like even the soundtrack evokes great emotion, they have this slow song called You’ve Been Left Behind! Crazy), but this fear drove me to a relationship with God based on love. I am currently watching the scene when the rapture has just occurred and Rev. Turner who didn’t preach the word is talking to Patty after the rapture, he asks himself "How many did I mislead? How many are still here because of me?!" I resolved long ago I would not be Rev. Turner, I would not fail to teach about the rapture, see most recently the message the “The Wedding Planner.” I take it seriously being a watchman on the wall and will do any and everything in my power to share the word of God and prepare all for the return of Jesus Christ. (I am all about total ministry that deals with the total man and life on earth, but if we aren’t preparing people to see Jesus, then what are we doing?)

While I am resolved not to be Rev. Turner, now my prayer is that I will not be Patty, the one who heard the word but did not surrender to the word completely. Each time I watch the movie I can only imagine the anguish I would feel being left behind, knowing what’s to come, and how the media will try to spin the word of God, and the pressure the world government will place on everyone to take the mark of the beast. On this Christmas evening as we are another day closer to your return I want to thank God for sending His son to become my savior so I won't have to experience a world where the presence of God is absent after the rapture! The rapture so places everything into proper perspective, to imagine we are on the brink of God returning for His bride is exciting. God, allow me as your word instructs to occupy until you come but more than anything, I aspire to and will stop at nothing to be ready for your return.