|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

Because the salvation process is betrothal, everything in the believer's life must increasingly become about the return of Jesus and the limited amount of time alloted to be ready. You don't know when He is coming and you don't know how much time you have to get ready. He is coming like a thief and He will only accept the ready. No groom wants to marry a bride who doesn't care enough about the wedding to get married. There is much to do. There is little time to do it. Jesus said, "I am coming soon" to everyone who reads His words. Revelation 22:12 NKJV — “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. There is an impatient disconnect in much of the church that says he is delaying. We put years on it where the Bible takes years off of it. Urgency is the message of the Gospel. Not an urgency that everyone else gets saved... An urgency that we get ready. The Gospel is more effectively witnessed to the w...

I heard the Lord say, "many come from afar to the altar of God, even to the City of the Great King to take, and not to offer." He was talking to me about why we are here in Jerusalem, but also the Church in general. God is generous. He gives all we need already. Even to the hardened heart that says God doesn't exist, God provides breath and life and provision. God gives. When we come to the altar of God to take more, we don't recognize the violation of both love and authority. God is looking for relationship... To be mutually yoked... To mankind, He as Father and us a children. When we come to God, we should be asking God what He wants. What is it that God made us for? What unique thing can we bring to Him? Samantha and I have been in Jerusalem and Israel for about three weeks at this point. When we first came to Jerusalem in December of last year for a weeks long vacation, God spoke to me the first morning and said, "don't walk through this city looking for ...