9/21 - Prayer & Scripture Reference

Good morning. I've been in 2 Thessalonians 2 for a couple days and want to spend a little more time in study before I share. The chapter goes into great detail about the rapture and the second coming of Christ, an issue I'm realizing I know far too little about. I should definitely look a little deeper considering how important these events are and how they could happen like now.....or now.....or maybe not until I'm long gone from this earth. The point is, we don't know the day nor the hour but it would behoove us to know what's coming, especially since he's made it known in His word. Here's a few scriptures outside this chapter I plan to look into concerning the last days if you'd like to follow along: Daniel 9:26-27, Matt 24:15, John 14:1-3, 1 Thess 4:13-18, 5:2-5, Hebrews 10:25, Rev 3:10, 13:2-10,18. I'm actually really excited about where this study will take me & what God has for us to learn.

I'd like to add our country to the prayer list. Keep praying for the U.S. because the division here seems to be getting worse. Keep our president & elected officials lifted up because whether we like them or not, God has appointed them (Colossians 3:22-25). Pray for Issue 3 in Ohio, the latest attempt to bring casinos to Ohio. This time it's being packaged as a way to create thousands of jobs but the cost, as always, is the moral decline that follows casinos where ever they go. And that's not a price I think we ought to pay, no matter what our economic situation may be.