Many of us are like birds with broken wings. But God chooses some of the most unlikely people to spread His Word.

“For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption— that, as it is written, ‘He who glories, let him glory in the Lord’” (1 Corinthians 26-31).

God’s people are not immune from bouts of despair.

Charles Spurgeon, a well-known Baptist preacher who died in 1892, who is still known as the “Prince of Preachers,” suffered from depression for many years after a tragedy in his life that occurred in 1856. He was often bed-bound with depression, unable to preach. He later said that he cried for no reason, but still his ministry went on.

From Christian Answers.net, Examples of people in the Bible who suffered bouts of depression:

Abraham (Genesis 15)
Jonah (Jonah 4)
Job (Book of Job)
Elijah (1 Kings 19)
King Saul (I Samuel 16:14-23, etc.)
Jeremiah (Book of Jeremiah)
David (Psalms 6, 13, 18, 23, 25, 27, 31, 32, 34, 37-40, 42-43, 46, 51, 55, 62-63, 69, 71, 73, 77, 84, 86, 90-91, 94-95, 103-104, 107, 110, 116, 118, 121, 123-124, 130, 138, 139, 141-143, 146-147)

David said, “Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him for the help of His countenance…For You are the God of my strength…” (Psalm 42:5, 43:2).

Read more about this, including how to deal with depression at:
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/depression-bible.html

The Lord doesn’t promise we won’t have suffering in this life, but He will comfort us if we put our trust in Him. Jesus said to His disciples in John 16:33 “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”

If anyone knows suffering, it is certainly Christ Jesus, who even though He had no sin, died for us so that we may be saved who believe in Him.

I’ve always been a Christian, albeit a stumbling one from time to time still in my walk with Christ. And I suffer from depression. Several years ago it all became so overwhelming that I spent over a year curled up on the couch, paralyzed with depression. God helped me to realize that I had to wait on Him and trust Him no matter what. I finally started praying for the Lord to use me for His glory until the day of deliverance comes. And He has.

“The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand” (Psalm 37:23-24).

In the winter blackbirds flock together, and those birds who live in the cities have learned to sing louder and at higher frequencies in order to be heard above the noise and confusion. Taking a lesson from these birds, I have found–in the winter of my life– “birds of a feather” to join with on Facebook and the Rapture Ready website. Together we spread God’s Word to a broken world.

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6).

I still have times when I experience the “dark night of the soul.” My brothers and sisters in Christ have shared that they too have these times. You see, Satan hates those who spread God’s Word. He tries to stop them, and he knows which buttons to push. And he has ramped up these attacks, as he knows his time is short. Seeing what’s going on in the world now is shocking, even to those of us who study Bible prophecy and knew this time was coming. Our hearts break for lost loved ones whom, at this late hour, we realize may be left behind to face the Tribulation, at which time it will be harder than ever to turn to Christ. Now is the time for salvation!

Excerpt from GotQuestions. org:

Question: “What does it mean that today is the day of salvation?”

Answer: God has told the sinful world, in no uncertain terms, to repent (Mark 6:12; Luke 24:47; Acts 3:19; 17:30). To repent means to change your mind from embrace of sin and rejection of Christ to rejection of sin and embrace of Christ. Those who refuse to repent and turn to Christ in faith will suffer eternal consequences…

There are several reasons not to delay repentance. First, the Bible’s command to repent is accompanied by an urgent appeal to do it now: Paul quotes Isaiah 49:8, which speaks of “the day of salvation.” Then he says not to delay: “I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2). Repentance should take place as soon as God the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sins (see John 16:8)…“Today, if only you would hear his voice, do not harden your hearts” (Psalm 95:7–8).

Another problem with delaying repentance is that no one knows the day he will die. And after death comes the judgment (Hebrews 9:27)…

Every time we refuse to repent, we continue to sin and our hearts get harder (see Hebrews 3:7–8). Every time a person says “no” to what’s right, it becomes a little easier to say “no” the next time, too. There’s a gradual hardening of the heart, a searing of the conscience (1 Timothy 4:2), that can numb an unsaved person to the point of being past feeling. This is a dangerous spiritual condition to be in.

Also, the harder a person’s heart becomes, the more “force” God will have to apply to bring him to repentance. This is illustrated in the increasingly severe plagues in Egypt. As Pharaoh continued to harden his heart, the plagues continued and worsened until culminating in a loss of life in every Egyptian household (Exodus 7–11)…

Tragically, there is a point of no return. God may eventually stop trying to bring the chronically rebellious to repentance and give them over to their own ways (Romans 1:28)…

By delaying repentance, we are delaying certain blessings from God. At least three verses bring this to light: “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord” (Acts 3:19). “He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy” (Proverbs 28:13). “Your wrongdoings have kept these [showers of blessing] away; your sins have deprived you of good” (Jeremiah 5:25)…

It is true that God is gracious to us and that a person may be able to repent up until the day he dies. But we should not live presumptuously. We are not guaranteed tomorrow…

James 4:17 says, “If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” Once we know what is right, we are responsible to do it. And once we know something is sin, we are responsible to repent of it and forsake it. We dare not delay repentance. There was a time when the Lord shut the door of the ark, and the flood swept everyone outside the ark away (Genesis 7:16). There came a time when the wedding party began, and those who were not ready for the coming of the bridegroom were locked out (Matthew 25:1–13). — Gotquestions. org, CEO, Michael Houdmann

So, if you have not given your life to Christ, I urge you to do it now—this very day!

“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light” (Romans 13:11-12).

“And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns” (Philippians 1:6).

BLACKBIRD
(by P. McCartney; sung by Sarah McLachlan)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3VrggQW7tk

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly; Blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night.

Blessings,

Cynthia Nuara
www.facebook.com/propheciesinthebible
writer for www.raptureready.com

“Let them not rejoice over me who are wrongfully my enemies; Nor let them wink with the eye who hate me without a cause. For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful matters against the quiet ones in the land. They also opened their mouth wide against me, and said, “Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it” (Psalm 35:19-21).

Barack Hussein Obama and his Demonicrat party have cursed the US with his last days in office backstabbing of Israel at the United Nations Security Council. His “Aha moment” for Israel was to abstain, knowing full well that anything short of a veto by the US allowed the council to pass its resolution denying the right of what it calls Israel’s “settlements.” Already the Arab-dominated UN’s agency UNESCO had recently won the vote to claim that the Temple Mount and holy sites in Israel are all Arab history, not Jewish history. Has this latest affront to Israel assisted the UN in driving the final nail in Israel’s coffin? No.

“For I am with you (Israel),’ says the Lord, ‘to save you; ‘Though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet I will not make a complete end of you. But I will correct you in justice, and will not let you go altogether unpunished… I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord, ‘Because they called you an outcast saying: ‘This is Zion; No one seeks her’ … Behold, the whirlwind of the Lord goes forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; It will fall violently on the head of the wicked. The fierce anger of the Lord will not return until He has done it, and until He has performed the intents of His heart. In the latter days you will consider it” (excerpt Jeremiah 30).

God is without a doubt allowing Islam to wreak havoc in the world…for now. All through the Bible God uses the enemy to punish nations for their sins, while calling them to turn back to Him in repentance, and then He destroys the enemy.

Who would have thought that only seven years after 911, the US would elect a man with deep Muslim roots & even a Muslim name to run our country. The ideals of Islam are polar opposite to Judeo-Christian values, and we are considered infidels to be conquered in Islam’s quest to take over the world through infiltration, over-population, subjugation, and murder.

Did you know there are even Muslims who see Obama as the sign to them that their Mahdi is coming soon, due to an old Shiite prophecy? The Mahdi, as believed by Muslims, is their Savior who will arrive around the same time as the Second Coming of Jesus. As I’ve said before, according to Islam Jesus is only a messenger and not the Son of God, but one who will assist the Mahdi in ridding the world of the Jews and Christians and in taking over the world for Islam; and then 40 years later their version of Jesus dies and is buried next to their esteemed prophet Muhammad. Needless to say, that’s not our Jesus!

The following is an excerpt from a Forbes article several years ago: According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of Islam’s Mahdi, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.”

In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us.” — from Forbes.com, Oct.28, 2008 “Obama and Ahmadinejad”

Let me just say that Satan knows Bible prophecy, and he is a sneaky counterfeiter of God’s Word, who has helpers in this endeavor. Muhammad, for example, who invented Islam several hundred years after the Bible was written, twisted Scripture from it for his own purposes, and completely made up many other verses from scratch. If only Muslims who follow the Qur’an to the letter would realize that they don’t have to kill for the god they worship in order to be guaranteed a spot in heaven. The true God of the Bible came to earth in the flesh and died for us so that we could be saved who believe in Him.

Barack Hussein Obama has been bad news from day one & has followed the agenda of his Marxist beliefs, of Islam, and of globalists —to destroy the US. There were clues from the start to let the US know what a mistake it was making. Here are some interesting FACTS concerning this man who did nothing of note to deserve the presidency, but rather was relatively unknown until he burst onto the scene promising “change” and “to fundamentally transform America.” Only his idea of transforming the US is to bring it down.

The day after his election, his home state of Illinois’ pick 3 lottery was 666 & the pick 4 was 7779. The number seven in the Bible indicates completion, and so does nine, even finality. During the seven-year Tribulation there will be three sets of seven judgments: 7 trumpet judgments, 7 seal judgments & 7 bowl judgments, each one worse than the other to be poured out on an unbelieving world.

Other indicators that turning the US into an Obama Nation would be an abomination: The security code name Obama chose was “Renegade,” which means “lawless one,” also “a deserter from one faith or allegiance to another.” His steel-plated limousine was dubbed “The Beast.”

He got his start in Chicago as a community organizer, working closely with ACORN Housing Corporation in Chicago IL 60606. (It is said that he represented zip code region 60606 when in the Illinois Senate. I do know that is a Chicago zip code). The phone number of his campaign headquarters began with the toll-free area code of 866, with the first number after that also being six. (I don’t think the phone number for his campaign headquarters in Chicago exists anymore).

I’m not making this stuff up. I did a lot of research on him when he first became president, and I’m sure you can still find this information online from “reliable” sources. I’ve listed some of the sources in this article and at the end.

During his candidacy & election as president, some celebrities & mainstream media were so mesmerized by him, they referred to him as a Messiah or the Messiah. The Nation of Islam’s Louis Farrakhan said that when Obama talks“the Messiah is absolutely speaking.” Mainstream publications depicted him in photos with light surrounding him. And when he was re-elected, Newsweek titled its cover “The Second Coming.”

Here’s a huge one: He finally visited Israel as president in his second term during the Jewish Passover week in March 2013. The day B.O. & his donkey party arrived in Israel for meetings with the leaders and stayed at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, was the exact number of days before Passover (5 days) as when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey & allowed his followers to proclaim him to be the Messiah. Was that day picked on purpose, either in jest or because Obama really began to believe the Messiah hype?

Interestingly, just a week before that, the papacy was taken over by a man who appears like a lamb, but more and more speaks like a dragon, who promotes global government & a global religion. He insinuates that “all paths lead to God.” He made that very clear in a video for all the world to see.. This is unbiblical and will lead many down the path of destruction. Jesus is the only way! (John 14:6). As you’ve heard by now, unless you’re a cave dweller, global government and global religion will be the sinister case during the Tribulation. Read Rev.13 and Rev.17. But I digress. Let’s get back to the infamous man of the hour.

Just ahead of Obama’s March 2013 visit to Israel, the Middle East was hit with a 30-million strong plague of locusts. On the last day of Obama’s visit, Israel was hit with a sandstorm that grounded his helicopter. So he had to ride in his limousine, The Beast (an identical backup to the one that “broke down” two days earlier), in a slow-moving convoy through an Israel checkpoint to Bethlehem. This shortened his visit to Bethlehem from 50 minutes to 15 minutes. The winds were so fierce at Ben Gurion Airport where Obama’s departure ceremony took place, that the staff had to take down the flags.

That brings to mind the fact that the White House became infested with flies upon Obama’s moving into the building. All the staff had to be issued flyswatters. It was reported, oddly enough, by the “liberal” New York Times in an article titled “What Has 132 Rooms and Flies?” And who can forget the flies that seemed to follow him in public forums and land on his face. Then there’s at least two incidents of him being surrounded by bees that made the news. One of them was when he was leaving the White House to attend some function, when a swarm of bees suddenly appeared around him. Another was when he was reading to a group of children at an egg roll event on the White House lawn. The title of the book he was reading was “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak.

What about Obama’s claim to be Christian and his membership in Jeremiah Wright’s Christian church? Well, he’s not and it’s not! And have you heard the lowdown on Wright’s “Down Low Club?” Um um um! Well, you’ll just have to read WND’s exclusive article “Obama Didn’t Join Wright’s Church to Follow Jesus.” It is an exposé that some may find shocking, but it connects the dots to the hows and the whys for “what pools he swims in” so to speak—on a number of levels. Here is the link to the exposé:

www.wnd.com/2012/10/obama-didnt-join-wrights-church-to-follow-jesus/#rR7Kg4Hy62fh9u0V.99

Obama must be laughing with delight right now at the “Aha moment” he’s been waiting to spring on Israel. But his day is coming when he will reap what he has sown, and he won’t be laughing then. The other world leaders on the UN Security Council who voted against Israel (all 14 of them did) will receive their comeuppance as well.

“Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha!” (Psalm 40:15).

France actually has the gall to call the world leaders to Paris again on January 15th for another Middle East “peace” conference aka another “let’s force Israel to divide” conference. When they held one in June, various parts of the world were deluged with massive floods at the same time, with Paris getting the worst of it—so much so that the conference ended early. But the world at large, being blinded by the god of this world (Satan), doesn’t connect the dots and see that God does not want His Promised Land divided.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it” (Zechariah 12:3).

God will have the last “Aha” moment, and His Word says that mankind is without excuse. The nations have turned against God, and despite His chastisements, they refuse to repent and turn back to Him. They would rather worship false gods and created things instead of the Creator. (See Romans 1).

Many pastors do not teach Bible prophecy because it’s easier to fill the church pews by tickling people’s ears, telling them what they want to hear instead. Apostasy is rampant now, and many false prophets are filling their pockets, using the pulpit for monetary gain and telling lies to their congregations. More and more churches have become nothing more than entertainment—and worldly entertainment at that!

“And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play’” (1 Corinthians 10:7).

But we watchmen and women on the wall, who have included last days’ Bible prophecy in our study of God’s Word, will keep urging people to turn to Christ and will keep warning them of what is soon to come. Many will scoff at this, but there has never before been a time in history like now when we are seeing all the signs CONVERGING that Jesus and His prophets told us to watch for occurring with greater frequency and intensity by the day—that tell us it’s almost time for the False Prophet’s partner, The Antichrist, to step onto the world stage and confirm the so-called “peace covenant” the world is forcing Israel into, which will divide Israel and which will turn out to be a false peace covenant. (Daniel 9:27).

But first the trump of God will sound, and Christ will “catch away” his true followers in the twinkling of an eye. Then, seven years later we will come back with Him when He returns at Armageddon to judge the nations and set up His kingdom on Earth for the next 1000 years. Here is an excerpt from Joel 3 that speaks of the final battle before Christ’s return:

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; (Battle of Armageddon) and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of My people, My heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land…Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war!… Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, go down; For the winepress is full, the vats overflow—for their wickedness is great. Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. The sun and moon will grow dark, and the stars will diminish their brightness. The Lord also will roar from Zion, and utter His voice from Jerusalem; The heavens and earth will shake; But the Lord will be a shelter for His people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion My holy mountain. Then Jerusalem shall be holy, and no aliens shall ever pass through her again.”

Cynthia Nuara

www.facebook.com/propheciesinthebible

Other Significant Sources:

YouTube, video uploaded Nov.8, 2008 “Obama’s State Lottery Is 666 Day After Win” (shows proof also of pick 4)

The Green Olive Tree, April 7, 2013 “In the News: Locust Plague—Obama–Sandstorm in Israel”

Times of Israel, March 19, 2013: “Barack Obama’s Timetable in Israel”