Daily Rhema: Watching and Praying

Matthew 24:42 (KJV)
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Here the Lord Jesus tells us how to prepare and be ready for His coming in the end-time. We are told that we will not know the day or the hour of His coming. However, we are supposed to discern the times and the seasons of His coming (Lk. 12:56; 1Thess. 5:1-4).

It is instructive to note that His coming will be in three phases:

He is coming in us (His Church) in the perfection and fullness of Christ with the outpouring of the Spirit without measure (Eph. 4:13-15; Jn.14:12; 3:34).

He is coming for us in the “rapture” or “catching up” (1Thess. 4:17) of the Church not having spot, blemish, wrinkle or any such thing (Eph. 5:26).

He is coming with us for the millennial reign at the end of the ‘great tribulation’ (Matt. 24:21; Rev. 17:14; 20:4).

Why watch and pray?

We are to watch and pray so that we will be spiritually alert and discerning to know the times and seasons of His coming, so that we will be prepared for the day of His coming. This is so that that day will not overtake us as a thief in the night (1Thess. 5:4).

What will happen to the Christian who is not prepared, who that day overtakes as a thief in the night?

Such Christians, at best, will first fall away from the faith temporarily and then be restored later, but with loss of reward (2Thess. 2:3; 1Cor. 3:13-15).

At worst, such Christians will fall away from the faith and permanently go back to a life of sin and be eternally damned in hell fire (Heb. 6: 4-8; 10:26-31).

How to watch and pray.

We pray by praying daily in the Spirit, making at least one hour, a goal which we should gradually attain, if we cannot do it immediately.

We watch by reading and meditating on the scriptures, so the Holy Spirit can reveal the present mind of God to us and show us things to come through the Word.

It is as we watch and pray we will see what God is doing, and be strengthened and encouraged to wait in the ‘upper room’ (Acts. 1: 13) of prayer, until we are endued with power from on high, in this the day of His coming in us.

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