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INTIMACY WITH GOD JOURNAL
MARCH 2010
 
Opening:  Embrace Him!
The Defamed Walk - Compromised Lifestyles
Spring Ladies Hermitage in May! - See change in Annc.
 
 
                               Linda & Mike Schreurs
 
                  Embrace Him!
   In the above photo my husband has his arms around me. His embrace still excites me after 37 years of marriage! So why wouldn’t the Lord’s spiritual embrace of my eternal soul not excite me even more?! How about you?
  In the intimate book of Song of Songs, which is a beautiful allegory of the Bride of Christ to her eternal, heavenly Bridegroom, chapter 2, verse 6 says, “Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand embrace me.” Ahh…such tenderness of soul!  (See also Song of Songs 8:3) 
   In Proverbs 4:8 when speaking of godly wisdom it reads: “Prize her, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.” Oh the hugs of the Almighty! Embrace Him with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength and you’ll find your feet on a sure, steadfast path. 
   I’m reminded of an intimate time of prayer recently and was prompted to record it in my personal journal. The following is what fell upon the page. I could not have written it of my own volition. It was strange phraseology to me. Here are the words:
   “The masses {of people} must not only come TO Christ, they must go INTO Him in deep intimacy for strength and power for the coming days upon the earth. Things will grow increasingly dark, but those IN Christ will be the only survivors! Everything else will be shaken lose and discarded into hell. Now is the time to plunge deep into the Lord’s holy heart!”
   As I’ve been reading through the Bible as I do each year, I’ve been in Psalms, but that morning, the Holy Spirit told me to go to Matthew. As I randomly opened it, my eyes fell immediately on 8:34. I was astounded! “And behold, the whole city came out TO MEET Jesus; and when they saw Him, they entreated Him to DEPART FROM their region.” (My emphasis) This took place after Jesus had cast demons out of two men. Even evil spirits called Him the Son of God! Yet – shockingly, the people wanted Jesus to LEAVE their area! How sad. 
   I perceived there’s a time coming where many people will be coming to SEE Jesus, but they will not love Him or embrace Him.    Their hearts are deathly cold. This is a cautionary alert for what is ahead. Take note and pray. Pray that people will embrace Him and come under His grace and mercy!        Linda Schreurs
                               
         THE DEFAMED WALK
 
 
   I am about to write about something I have long avoided and still to this moment in time do not want to write of it.   It’s been on my heart for an extraordinarily long time. However, I’m compelled by the Holy Spirit to now release it and cannot avoid this issue any longer. The Lord requires obedience in His people and I must obey. I write this at the risk of being misinterpreted, misquoted, misunderstood, persecuted and perhaps a host of other ill effects by human standards.   But it’s the fear of God upon me that I do this, not the fear of man! “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Ps. 11:10; Pv. 7:10)
    I am by no means a well-known, celebrated author, teacher or preacher.  Nevertheless, a paradigm of what I’m about to deliver might be likened to the message of Jonathan Edwards’ famous discourse called: “Sinners in the Hands of any Angry God.” He told it like it was and I will do the same.   I do not know how many souls reading this will be radically changed by it, but I pray it to be so!
   Oh yes, sinners are in the hands of an angry God! Certainly our Creator has fashioned us to be in loving fellowship with Him, walking according to His divine plan laid out in the Scriptures.  The Lord does not force anyone to do so.   However, if we choose not to be in communion with Him, He has no choice but to toss us into the eternal despair and darkness of hell beyond human comprehension.  Psalm 99:8-9 tells us God is forgiving, but He is also an avenger!  Unrepented wickedness does not go unpunished. “Behold the kindness and severity of God.” (Rom 11:22)  
 
Who do we think we are?
 
   Did we make ourselves?! Did we fashion our arms, legs, toes and the specific designs of our face? Did we plan the number of hairs on our head and know the moment they would fall to the ground? Did we plan the amount or length of our eyelashes?  Can you or I program our eyelashes to know every second they are open or closed during our transient days of earth? Did we design the very second each one falls out? Did we in foreknowledge know all the people, places and things which our eyes will see in our lifetime, knowing every detail of every circumstance where they will focus?         
   Have you made a mountain top that extends beyond the misty clouds? Have you caused snow to fall on its peaks, and formed each flake different from the zillion of others? If not, how dare you try to live your life separate from a holy God who demands that we be holy as He is holy. (Lev. 11:44; 1 Tim. 1:9) 
  Who do we think we are to contend with our Creator? What makes anyone of us think we can trump the Almighty, Everlasting, Most High God’s complete sovereignty by living our own selfish way? That’s sheer foolishness!  
  It was a radical, nightmarish dream I had recently that confirmed now is the time the Lord would have me deliver what’s been weighing down my heart. You may be asking, “What was the dream?!” It’s too sickening to be spoken of here, but I can clearly tell you its essence:   The moral fiber of our country and world are headed in a disastrous direction!   Please know as you read through this month’s IWG Journal: “The goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.” (1 Tim. 1:5; See also Ezkl. 3:11)
 
Broken
 
   I see the Lord Jesus’ heart being severely crushed and broken.  People rip and tear at His bloodied Body all over again!  How?  Immorality is running rampant in every segment of society, sadly, even within the church.  They flippantly set aside the way to astounding, blissful eternal life by mocking the Cross of Calvary by going so far as to think they can live as they want under New Testament grace.  However, it’s not a holy grace, but a worldly manifesto of greasy grace that will cause them to quickly slide into eternal, torturous damnation.  Men, women and children are tossing aside His atoning, saving work on the Cross for the pleasures of this world.  They’d rather have their own way than God’s way. This is of course, nothing new.   It’s been going on since the fall of humanity in the Garden of Eden. However, a rude awakening is coming upon those who don’t understand or simply do not care, because just as you have a time to be born, you have a time to die. Might that be in the next second?! (Eccl. 3:2)   Your life now decides your life eternal. 
  
Accepted immorality
 
   Please understand, we’ve all been born into sin and desperately need the profound, beautiful, salvation afforded us by the Blood of the Lamb of God. (Rom. 3:23)  However, to ignore that and live just as we please is outright spiritual insanity. Which of one of you would choose to live in a darkened, hellish prison cell for the rest of your life let alone forever in eternity? But that’s the true reality if one does not give their heart, soul, mind, body and entire being over to the Holy Savior, Jesus Christ.      
   Protect your bodily senses from sinning in every way through the embrace of Romans 12:1-2: “I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”   
   Magazines, newspapers, TV shows, movies, now regularly show heterosexual couples living together without marriage.   The perverse gay/lesbianism agenda is now sweeping the entire earth against every divine and holy covenant God ordained through His written Word, the Bible.
   Many Hollywood stars live together without marriage…they do good things, they quote good things like the Bible, etc., but their lifestyle is one of death. Look deep into their eyes and you’ll see death! What do you want for yourself and for your sons and daughters?
   Unfortunately, we have a generation now being raised up where the shock of detestable behavior is wearing off.  Jeremiah says in 6:13-16 that “they do not know how to blush.” (See also Jer. 8:11-12) The ‘norm’ of immorality of our times is seen and accepted everywhere, even within the confines of church walls.
   Couples in this new era are nearly expected to live together without marriage to try it out.  Is this godly? Is this holy? Is this scriptural?! Not on your life!   And even if they do eventually get married, it does not automatically make things ‘right.’   Unless sin is repented of, the sin remains. “If you return, then I will restore you.” (Jer. 15:19a)   This is repeated over and over again in God’s Word. Ezekiel 18:29-32 states it clearly: “But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right? Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct,’ declares the Lord God. ‘Repent and turn away from all your transgressions, so that iniquity may not become a stumbling block to you. Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,’ declares the Lord God. ‘Therefore, repent and live.’”
 
Here’s the question
 
   I’m asking a viable and pertinent question to those reading this: Who’s setting the moral codes of our day? 
   It will have to be the Lord God and not we ourselves. Serious eternal consequences are at stake.  People of God, wake up! Speak up! There are many close to you who are doomed to eternal destruction and are being led to the slaughter like unsuspecting lambs.  There is more to life than this life.      
  Good deeds alone do not get you to heaven. “…All our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment.” (Isa. 64:6) Many people are doing wonderful things for the homeless disaster victims, widows, orphans, the abused and disadvantaged and are to be commended.  Nevertheless, at the end of their final breath their souls will descend into eternal darkness if they have not surrendered to the Light of the world, Jesus Christ. (John 1) You can gain all the riches and accolades of earth and it profits nothing!    
 
House of God
 
   Those who claim to know Christ warming pews on Sunday mornings and yet choose to make their own rules are abhorrent to Him. Multitudes are lukewarm compromising the things of God.  They’re on hazardous thin ice risking their very salvation which can indeed be lost!  “He who overcomes shall thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life…so because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.  (Rev. 3:5;16) Our devotion to the Lord is full, all-out, hot, committed passion for His divine laws of love. It’s all or nothing! Sadly, many would rather choose to be politically correct than Biblically correct. Which one lasts forever?!
 
Weak parenting
 
    It is sad that many so-called godly parents are not teaching the Divine Book to their children. Many don’t even know it for themselves. There is a reckoning coming to all parents, especially of adult children.   It’s become common place to say nothing when our adult children move in together without the godly covenant of marriage.  Some let them even take up residence in their own homes, under their own roof enabling them to continue in their lifestyle of sin! Some go so far as to take them on vacation providing them with their own room of sinful lusts, all the while professing Jesus as Lord. Is Jesus really there? Is Jesus happy there? I dare say, I think His heart is broken. Proverbs 28:9 says, "He who turns away his ear from listening to the law, even his prayer is an abomination."
 
  Stop and think! Stop and pray!  Stop the sins! Speak up! Don’t be afraid! Be afraid of Him who can cast both your body and soul into hell! (Matt. 10:28) We’ve only got one life to live. And, we may only have this next breath to live it. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” (1 John 1:9-10)
   These wayward parents bring contamination upon their lives and households. Have they not read Psalm 39:1-4? “I said, ‘I will guard my ways that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle, while the wicked are in my presence.’ I was dumb and silent, I refrained even from good; and my sorrow grew worse. My heart was hot within me; while I was musing the fire burned; then I spoke with my tongue; ‘Lord, make me to know my end, and what is the extent of my days, let me know how transient I am.”
   Speak now before life’s journey is ended for either you or your child and hellfire takes hold! The Lord God says in Leviticus 11:44 that we are to be holy as He is holy. (Deut. 23: 14; 1 Chron. 16:10; Ezkl. 44:23; Heb.12:14)  We are required to mirror His reflection to the world, but it begins at home.
   You and I had better side with Joshua when he says in 24:15, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” 
 
Eli, a bad example
 
  The priest Eli, in1 Samuel, chapters 2-4 attempted a weak correction to his sons who were frolicking with prostitutes. But he did not bring them into account. It appeared there were no consequences for their sin. Or so it seemed until God spoke to Eli telling him his two sons would both die on the same day. Their deaths would be a sign that God would raise up a faithful priest to take their place whose name was Samuel. But what a tragedy! What a price to pay for not doing the right and godly thing!
   You’d think Eli would run to his sons and implore them to repent. But he did not.   Why? No doubt he had more of the fear of men on him than the holy, reverential fear of God.  Consequently we read these sad words when the Lord spoke to Samuel in a vision: “For I have told him {Eli} that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.” (1 Sam 3:13)
  How many parents would stand by and watch their child put to death? If it’s in your power to do so, would you not stop it? Of course you would. Why then would you stand by and watch them toy with their passions that will send them to eternal destruction and death?   Ezekiel 3:18 is very clear on this stating: “When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. Yet, if you have warned the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.” Dear people, think about that for awhile.   We’re talking very serious business here! 
  
Consequences
 
   Do not think for a second that we as parents will suffer no consequences for saying nothing to our children concerning their sinful lifestyles as the above scripture says. It doesn’t matter how old they are, we are still parents.   However, we also know once they reach adulthood they can choose for themselves, but it does not negate our presenting the Gospel to them in its pure form, without compromise.  Once told, then it’s up to them. You’ve done your part. But we must realize if we’re ever going to evangelize the world, it begins in our own house.  
   There is accountability for those who try to outwit, outlast, the Lord’s laws of holiness, purity and righteousness. The only ‘survivor’ in the story about Eli is Samuel.   It was he who humbled himself to the point of lying on the floor before the altar.  “But as for me, by Thy abundant lovingkindness I will enter Thy house, at Thy holy temple I will bow in reverence for Thee.” (Ps.5:7)   How many have done that lately in your home or church? Would you care what people thought? If so, surely you are contending for your own soul. (Isa. 45:23; Rom. 14:11; Philip. 2:10)
 
Alarms
 
   Why are there no alarms being sounded by those who love, adore, worship and follow Jesus according to the Eternal Word of God? Are the saints too scared to speak up?  Might some of them also be involved in immorality themselves? Are they too uncommitted in their walk with God? Where are those who will stand against an army of immoral peoples?
  For the most part, there’s a sense of no moral codes of which to stand by in today’s society. There seems to be no conscience. There’s a contagious, demonic destruction hideously invading our lives. Do we not perceive this?! Does anyone care?  There appears to be no line or limit which is not being crossed today.  Very little is held sacred.  Even the Bride of Christ is dressing as a harlot exposing far too much of her flesh. This applies to men, women and children. There is barely anything of good family values or good quality programming on TV, let alone in movies, music, etc.
   The Old Testament book of Judges is very telling. The people of God began to stray very far from the signs, wonders and miracles that brought them up from Egypt as slaves. The very last verse of this prolific book seems to reflect the hour in which we live: “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” (Judges 21:25)   Proverbs 16:25 ought to capture our attention, “There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”  We need to look to King Jesus and embrace fully what His blood bought for us! 
  How sad to see those inside and outside the church embracing this new societal, accepted immoral code of conduct without a thought of consequence.   Almost every imaginable act of immorality is becoming the norm of the day. It’s become a ‘right.’ It’s become a ‘civil issue,’ never mind what God the Creator has said. It’s an atrocity!  
   Too many are defaming the Blood of the Lamb of God, slain for sinners such as you and I. Please understand, as human beings, we have all sinned and fallen short. (Rom. 3:23) But Jesus did not come to give a free ticket to heaven. There is a requirement. It is to accept and hold dear the morality of a holy life in Him which He taught us. 
   The Lord wants His purity, holiness and power to be known more than ever before as the dark days of this world climax into Armageddon ushering in His Second Coming.   If truly you believe Ephesians 5:27 that says He is coming again for His Bride who will be without spot or wrinkle, then this message will burn into your very soul! (Jer. 20:7-9)
 
Wondrous love
 
   Battle lines are being drawn all across the earth. Those who walk closely and intimately with the Lord are the ones marked for wondrous love beyond description for all eternity. Those who walk in unity of His heart and know His Word for themselves walk with a pure heart.  They couldn’t possibly compromise one dot of its holiness and power.  
   Those who do not know the Lord up close and personal, those who do not read, nor love the Word of God, are walking a tight rope. Unless they are trained by its instructions, they could fall at any given moment into the eternal abyss and be forever lost.   They are walking a defamed walk of danger! In a split second of any given day, they could die and find out too late they lived a lie. They lived a compromised life-style according to worldly principles rather than those found upon the Eternal bedrock of the Holy Scriptures. 
  
Read your Bible!
 
   Living in open sin, living with a boyfriend or girlfriend, committing adultery, engaging in polygamy (a new TV show!), delving into pornography, turning around the Creator’s work and living a homosexual lifestyle and all sorts of impurities, will certainly buy your ticket into everlasting torture. (Pv. 7:21-23; Pv. 9:13-18; Pv. 8:35)   
   Read the Divine Book, the Holy Scriptures! Read the book for your own self. Stop letting other people quote it to you! Read it from top to bottom through and through and then do it again and again and again! Don’t stop reading it for the rest of your earthly days! Read every word, every phrase. Then pray, sing, bow and worship along the way. Your world will change because of it. Proverbs 13:13, “The one who despises the word will be in debt to it, but the one who fears the commandment will be rewarded.” Psalm 119:9 should settle this fact for you, “How can a young man keep his way pure? By keeping it according to Thy Word.” 
   Oh how profoundly awesome is the Divine, Holy Truth of God’s Eternal Word! It is full of wisdom, power, glory, majesty, splendor and wonder beyond human comprehension. It is spectacular in deliverance, healing, knowledge and righteous judgments! It is the final word and the end of the story for mankind! Why would you want to neglect or negate that from your life?
  Get God’s Truth into your bones and into your soul. Get Truth and you will secure your heavenly home. Jesus said in John 8:31-32, “If you abide in My Word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”  
  It’s time to read the BOOK OF THE AGES. It’s time for all men, women and children to read the Bible for themselves. Learn and know truth for yourself. If you are a spoon-fed Christian, getting most of your information from others, your second hand information puts you at risk for misinterpretations, misalignments and being misled. Worse yet, the lies of the enemy are lurking near your soul to take you into eternal death and damnation. Why bargain with that?!
   Adhere, or plummet into eternal damnation.
 
Consequences
 
   No one can live righteously on their own. The power to do so comes only from the Holy Spirit.
    When a soul is allowed to be birthed (not being aborted), it will also know the exit of this transient life at some point in earthly existence. The emergence to the other side into the eternal realm must be set now for everlasting pleasures, or for everlasting pain. Watch out for sudden destruction! (1 Thess. 5:2-3) 
   Your best efforts will not keep you from hell. No human can devise his own plans for avoiding an eternity of torment and burning. There is only one way. There is only One who paid your way into a full ride scholarship of eternal glory - Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God!  (John 14:6)  
  There is a thin veil, a chasm that separates hell fire and heaven’s glory. You can inherit either by your own free will and choice. Luke 16: 19-31 discusses this very issue.   Two men died in this passage. One was in hell, the other in heaven. The one in hell’s tormenting, everlasting oppressive heat longed for just a finger-tip of water.   But the deep chasm can never be crossed once one has died. 
   He is told that many tried to warn him and he would not take heed.   Then he asks that someone warn his brothers who are still on earth. But again, he’s told that even if someone were to come to them from the dead, they still wouldn’t believe, because they, like he, should have listened to Moses and the prophets in God’s Word.  
   Precious people, when it’s too late, it’s too late! In Hebrews 3 and 4 it says four times, Today, if you hear His Voice, do not harden your hearts…”  Chose now, this day, whom you will serve and give your life to Jesus your Savior!
 
Get cleaned up
 
  Far too many in our churches across the globe are in extreme jeopardy of losing absolutely everything! It’s not about the loss of livelihood, or homes or health, but their very souls in a damnation that tortures forever and ever. 
   Are you alive in God? Or are you sitting on a fence wondering which side is more politically correct so you may be well liked and accepted in your sphere of influence?
   Consider Proverbs 30:12, "There is a kind {generation} who is pure in his own eyes, yet is not washed from his filthiness."  The issue, my precious friends, is purity. It’s key to understand that the Lord has said He will come back to earth again, and will only embrace and take unto His divine bosom those who are without spot or wrinkle, bar none. (Eph. 5:27)   Let’s get cleaned up. He is the washing! He is the cleanser! His blood bought it!
 
Reality check
 
  My heart has become heavier and heavier for those who do not give a thought to their actions as to what will happen to them when they die. No one gets through this life without a death certificate! You will die! Have you truly ever given it any thought?   It’s more of a reality than your current reality. Your current reality is slipping away quickly. Compared to eternity, you only have a few little breaths on this side of the veil. Then it’s over. Then it’s ‘forever time.’ Time itself is lost. It will be the point of no return. But now – in this moment, you can still take out an eternal insurance policy through the Blood of Jesus Christ.   He covered your ticket into glory. But it still comes with a price on your part and that is to live for Him in holiness and purity.   Anything less than what is in the Maker’s Manual, the Bible, is sin and worthy of eternal death.  
  People must begin to care, and care now.   An earthquake, a tsunami, a tornado, a car accident, a plane crash, a terrorist or a heart attack … anything at any given moment may take your life out of this world and into the next. Where will you be then?   Will it be in the heavens with God or in hell with  Satan and his demonic cohorts?  One is bliss, the other is demented with endless torture.
   Why let the arguments of this world take your eternal soul?   Why compromise the few earthly years you have for a never ending existence of deep darkness? Why engage in a few minutes of adultery that will both destroy your name here and the one you could have had in eternity?  (Rev. 20)  Why risk your soul in an eternity of pain and suffering? Is it worth it?
   What’s your soul worth TO YOU? To the Lord Jesus, your soul is worth more than the monies or gold or any pleasures this world could offer.  His battered, beaten bloodied body bought your life!  It’s precious to Him, it ought to be precious to YOU! Why throw it away on impurities living a lifestyle of sin?   Choose Psalm 16:11, “Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; in Thy Presence is fullness of joy; in Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.” Heaven is glorious pleasure everlasting!   Choose Jesus instead of yourself.
   Let’s give ourselves a reality check.   Romans 1:18-32 is especially frank.  Read it yourself and see that God will not put up with our depravity indefinitely. Verse 28 is especially poignant, “And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper…”   Likewise Romans 11:22 asks us to consider the kindness and severity of God. It’s our choice.
 
Do you care?
 
   I know I’m writing a different kind of IWG Journal this month. And I imagine I may pay a price for what is here. But the only price that scares me are the dire consequences to my own soul if I do not speak TRUTH! The Lord compels me! I cannot do otherwise.  His hand is heavy upon me.  What if the final trumpet blows while you’re reading this?! What will your final breath bring you – eternal life or destruction? If you don’t care, I have pity for you.  If you do care, then give your life fully and completely to Christ. He paid the costliest price known to humanity for your heavenly home. It’s more beautiful than you can imagine!
  
The end of the matter
 
   Adhere to God’s Holy Commands living solely and purely for Him or plummet into eternal damnation. The end of the matter is clearly stated in Eccl. 12:13-14.
Solomon, known for his great and astounding wisdom which was given him from the Lord, after trying everything life had to offer, states: “The conclusion, when all has been heard, is, fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person, for God will bring every act to judgment, everything which is hidden, whether it is good or evil.”  
   *In regard to the heavy subject matter of this month’s IWG Journal, it is extremely difficult to condense it. Therefore I’d like to suggest you read my book, Armageddon Bride, which covers this topic in much more detail.
 
A song
 
   Finally, I want to end this dissertation in a somewhat different manner.   A personal favorite song of mine that I sing quite often in my devotional time is The Battle Hymn of the Republic.  The reason is, I see it more as a prophetic picture of what is taking place behind the thin veil separating the natural realm from that of the spiritual realm. The spiritual realm is more real than this little earth and will certainly outlast it! It would do us well if we were to sing this more often in our churches. Here are verses one and three:
 
    Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
    He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,
    He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
     His truth is marching on…
    Glory! Glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
 
    He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never sound retreat,
    He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat,
    O be swift, my soul, to answer Him!
Be jubilant, my feet!   Our God is marching on.
    Glory! Glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
While God is marching on! 
 
(See Jer. 4:19; Rev. 17:13-22; Rev. 19:11-15)    
    
   Beloved friends, be swift to run to the Cross of Christ!
  
 
A prayer of commitment to Jesus:
 
  “Holy Savior, Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and have done many unholy things in my life. I did not create myself and therefore I cannot save myself from this sinful lifestyle. I truly believe You came to set me free from these things by the power of Your Blood at Calvary’s Cross. Forgive me. I love you and worship You with all my heart and all my being.   Fill me now with Your Holy Spirit that I may walk a life of divine destiny and victory in You! In Thy precious Name, Amen.”
(1 John 1:9) 
   If you entered into this amazingly powerful commitment of love to Jesus, please let us know that we may rejoice with you!
                                                               

       ANNOUNCMENTS

WOMEN’S SPRING HERMITAGE, has been rescheduled for May 20-23.   Nothing can compare to the privacy and quietness of your own little cabin in the woods. Personal, uninterrupted time alone with God not only refreshes your soul, it brings greater depths in your walk with Him. Contact IWG for more details quickly as the time is fast approaching!
 
LINDA’S BOOKS, Armageddon Bride and Words Aptly Spoken are available at many major book stores, or by the contact info at the end of this Journal.  Those who were able to come to the Birthing Your Dreams and Visions Conference were blessed with a free copy of Armageddon Bride. This timely book, endorsed by Lou Engle and others, speaks of the morale issue that is playing havoc in many societies globally. The Lord is returning for a Bride without spot or wrinkle. What does that mean?! ($14, plus $4 shipping). Words Aptly Spoken, endorsed by Francis Frangipane and others, is about IWG Ministry’s Prophetic Prayer Journey to Iowa’s 99 County Courthouses. What’s happening in Mid-America that’s about to shake the nations?! ($20, plus $4 shipping).

 

INTIMACY WITH GOD MINISTRIES
Mike and Linda Schreurs
P.O.Box 1294
Johnston, Iowa 50131-1294
Phone: 515-270-0231
e-mail: LindaSchreurs@intimacy-with-God.com
Website: www.intimacy-with-God.com

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