Dear John & Doves                                                                                                                                                                        4/29/09

 

   Some godly counsel is needed from like minded brothers and sisters, so i am turning to you for feedback.  This morning after my usual routine of coffee, reading the doves and digesting the news i had a really deep stirring in my “gut” that events have taken an ominous turn?..the words in my hheart/mind were “it has begun”.  I have been a watchman for over 20 years and many times during those years i truly felt that the world just could not continue in the same manner?..but i was wrong?..God wasn’t as readeady as i was, so the decline continued, ever steeper, faster and creepier.  The video clip on the Doves by J.R.Church was very interesting today and i wanted to send the clip to my son and his family (they are believers as well).  Many times in the recent past i have warned them when i felt like things were getting ripe for His coming and they listened politely and thanked me for the concern but went about their lives as usual.  It is easier for me to study and be watchman as i am a retired widow with more time to do those things than they are.  They have jobs and a family to care for so even when they are concerned they pressed on with their normal activities  (which is probably a good thing).  Unlike me who gets excited, motivated to tell everyone in my circle of influence (which is small) anything that will prompt them to pay attention to the times and their relationship with God. Anyhow, back to the video clip?..i started an email and went to copy the website and hit a wrrong key which deleted it.  My first reaction was phooey?now i have to start over, but on second thought i feltt like maybe the Lord wanted me not to send this information to my son so i let it go.  Well, interestingly this afternoon i got a very strange phone call in the middle of the afternoon from my son and his words to me were?..Mom, how are you feeling todayy? (not normally a strange question but coming in the middle of the afternoon on a workday was very unusual)  He sounded strained and i thought something was wrong so asked what he meant and he said he had a very bad feeling today and so did my daughter-in-law and all the things that we had discussed in the past about getting prepared were really preying on his mind.  He said he could kick himself for not getting the things done he had been pushing to the back of his mind for years now.  My response to him was that if he was supposed to have prepared the Lord would have made it clear and would have impelled him to act.  I reminded him that i  have been praying about those things myself for a long, long time and continue to get no clear response about “getting ready” in the physical sense?..only to be ready spiritually speaking.  <He feels like the Lord has been warning him just because of the fact that this has been on his mind for so long and he continued to push it away.  Now he wants to begin a major undertaking to build gardens, rain water collection, food storage and the like and i don’t know what to do or say?????  In my heart/mind I don’t think we will need all that since I am fully convinced that we won’t be here but maybe it would be alright for family left behind.  So...dear Doves how would you approach this dilemma????

Be blessed in our Coming King

YSIC

Sheila Baker

Lakeway, TX