Hi James,

 

I can appreciate your position and frustration. I feel for you and there are thousands of "Christians" just like you in this world. You have a form of godliness but by your own admission you deny the power thereof. I hate to say that because it sounds harsh but these are not my words but those of scripture. I am no better than you when it comes to my works or performance of good works; however, I am way better than you when it comes to my having learned to take God at His word and see His faithfulness to His word and His willingness to grant me what He has promised to fulfill if I will put Him in remembrance and all that. For example, the last few days, I had a tooth start to hurt real bad and I prayed and claimed God's promises to heal and would not stop until I felt myself really believe that He was answering me and today the tooth is healed. Now why did God do that for me and He has not done it for you?

 

For the same reason that some will not be able to participate in the rapture while others will. You must decide whether God keeps His word or not. You must decide if you want to HEAR God's voice or not and then when you have heard Him you must decide to be a DOER of whatever He tells you to do and not a hearer only, deceiving your own self. This is what WAITING ON THE LORD  is. It is where you wait on Him the way a waiter waits on a table in a restaurant and you ask God what He would have you do. He will tell you something that He wants you to do if you will get quiet and let Him speak to you. Whatever He tells you to do, it will be something that will require faith from you in Him to perform, and that is where the power of God will begin to change your life from one of defeat to one of victory. This process is exactly what will be required of you to enter the rapture. It will be by faith just like everything else with God is. Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God. Double thinking is not faith and let not that man who double thinks think that he will receive anything from God, including the rapture. NOW is the time when you are supposed to be learning to walk by faith not by what you see, hear, or feel but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

 

I challenge you to read the following two chapters of Romans and ask God to illuminate them to you. Notice that chapter 5 has all the wonderful good promises to us that everyone likes to quote. But if you continue right into chapter 6 that people seem to forget, you WILL notice that there is something that we must DO in order for the promises of chapter 5 to apply to us. It is not enough to passively believe but you must ACTIVELY YIELD YOURSELF UNTO GOD as it says below in chapter 6:13.

 

I have great news for you bro, you have yet to discover the great joy of knowing God and experiencing His power. Deny it no more but call on Him while He is near and begin letting Him have you and come out of darkness into His marvelous light. If you cannot enter His presence and experience Him now and see His power in your life now then how are you going to believe that you can enter His presence when He descends from the sky?

 

Romans 5

 1.  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
 2.  By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
 3.  And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
 4.  And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
 5.  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
 6.  For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
 7.  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
 8.  But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
 9.  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
 10.  For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
 11.  And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
 12.  Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
 13.  (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
 14.  Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
 15.  But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
 16.  And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.
 17.  For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
 18.  Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
 19.  For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
 20.  Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
 21.  That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

 

Romans 6

 1.  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
 2.  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
 3.  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
 4.  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
 5.  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
 6.  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
 7.  For he that is dead is freed from sin.
 8.  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
 9.  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
 10.  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
 11.  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
 12.  Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.
 13.  Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.