Dear Tracy,

Ha!!!...Dear Sister, nope, you are right, you were not the only one discouraged when things didn't turn out the way WE wanted them too.  I was desperately hoping, again, that this past Pentecost was the time for us to go.  But how wonderful Our Father is!!!  He has His reasons for us to go through what we are going through. 

This morning when I read the first June letters there was a message from Randall R. Russell, The Future: Psalms 109-119 = 2009-2019?  While reading the Psalms this one really struck me as my answer from Father in Heaven regarding my questioning of when He was going to send Jesus to get us out of here.
Read: Psalm 119: 81-88

⁸¹CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: [but] I hope in thy word.

⁸²Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?

⁸³For I am become like a bottle in the smoke;(He was become like a leathern bottle, which, if hung up in the smoke, is dried and shrivelled up. Matthew Henry) [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

⁸⁴How many [are] the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

⁸⁵The proud have digged pits for me, which [are] not after thy law.

⁸⁶All thy commandments [are] faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.

⁸⁷They had almost consumed me upon earth; but I forsook not thy precepts.

⁸⁸Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

The whole chapter 119 is wonderful, it is my prayer that God would give me understanding and comfort like He did for all of those before us.  I believe King David wrote the 119 chapter of Psalms, although it is called an "orphan Psalm" as the author did not incorporate his name into the text of that chapter.  So even King David wanted to know when would God comfort him.  He longed for his redemption as we are, waiting for that wonderful day to come.  Look what he said further in that Psalm:

¹¹³SAMECH. I hate [vain] thoughts: but thy law do I love.

¹¹⁴Thou [art] my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

¹¹⁵Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.

¹¹⁶Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: and let me not be ashamed of my hope.

¹¹⁷Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

¹¹⁸Thou hast trodden down all them that err from thy statutes: for their deceit [is] falsehood.

¹¹⁹Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth [like] dross: therefore I love thy testimonies.

¹²⁰My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.

So Dear Sister in Jesus and the Doves I too, am not ashamed of my hope, I so long to be there already, but just as you said Tracy because of this "no-show-go" we are digging deeper in His word, never giving up on that blessed hope, always in prayers and supplications and praises He will find us.  I have lost hope but not in God and His word, I have lost hope for this world to get better, which we know from then on will not happen. 

So let's continue to get prepared, (my wedding dress had a spot on it and I have to make sure it is clean and white so to speak.)  His timing is perfect as He is perfect.  I thank you sister for sharing what you shared with us, and like you I sometime get sad because it is not yet, but soon, very soon, I still have that belief that it will be very soon.

Tracy you are a gem to Father in Heaven, He is faithful to us.  And just so you know, I too am grateful that He is giving us the opportunity to learn more and therefore be even more prepared for His coming and also it is giving us more time to reach those who still don't believe.

Thanks again Tracy, I am waiting with you Dear.

In His love,

Barbara