"The righteous perish and no man takes it to heart; the merciful are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come."

Death. It will surely come to your door at some time or another. It's that unexpected, never saw it coming... that can get to you. In the past four years our family has lost eight people. First, the men were stricken, we lost three in seven months. Now then, are the ladies. Three in this past week. Today, I learned the very sad news of my baby Sister. This one is tough. I was very close to my brothers and I'm kind of lost without them but, life always goes on. Until it doesn't.

Fortunately, we have a heavenly Father Who is there and, really cares. When the battles and trials, the storms are one right after the other without reprieve, you just have to wonder what is happening. Four men. Four women. All very quickly. It's eerie. No, it isn't. It isn't that at all to some of us. There was the set-up, the layout and then, the sell-out. The way this all happened tells me a spirit of Death came seeking victims and, that spirit found an open door. I had closed one on a carrier of this form of darkness years earlier; this evil found another way in and I can see it.

I have clapped the dust off my shoes as a testimony against you, the carrier of this wickedness.

MY GOD REIGNS!

I've spent the day with God, resting in Him, taking comfort as I really could use it and found peace in His Presence. He cares. These were all good people. I mean just decent towards others. The mean remain. I have questions about that. So through a broken heart, I questioned. Do you not have dialogue with the Almighty? If not, you should as you are most assuredly missing out on but a foretaste of the Greatness of His Love. In this day, you need His Presence and Guidance, it's gross darkness that has covered the land. People are running around trying this and that to produce love out of something which is not based in reality yet, there they are, trying to convince us all they are solid. WHEW! People talk themselves into situations and involvements without thinking; they want what they want and they want it now. WE have surely left off seeking God's face about decisions that can loom large over us.

God Who is rich in mercy...,"Why"?

Haggai 2:6 states: "For thus says the LORD of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land."

"Whose voice then shook the earth; but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only but also heaven. And this word Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire." (Hebrews 12:26-29)

It's all about the shaking. If you are a seasoned Believer, you know what I'm talking about but, we can further explore that idea in the upcoming days and weeks.

Deception, Delusion and Destruction are at the door. "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." (Matthew 10:6)

I am incredibly thankful each of my family members are at rest, they were ready to meet

THE GREAT I AM. They rest, what remains for the others I do not know.

"The curse causeless does not come"...repeatedly and increasingly, I am troubled by this verse of Scripture.

Stay hedged in Christians. Some associations are not meant to be; the appearances of 'good for you' can fool you. This is a sifting time and the wheat and tares are being divided. Choose carefully. Let's remember we can accomplish far more by praying for others than we can by criticism.

"The fields are white with harvest..."(John 4:35).