Hebrews 13: 14-15-NLT

For this world is not our permanent home; we are looking forward to a home yet to come. Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.

In January 2024, as I began to assess my life as a follower of Jesus Christ and see and hear all the ways Satan is continuing to use humankind as his weapon against God, I began feeling helpless and started pleading with God to take me home. Not just praying but pleading with him. In the process, God has led me to an incredible connection with him.  God has allowed me to see many things in the spiritual realm that I prefer not to boast about. As a matter of fact, many people who profess Jesus is Lord and study the Bible will not believe the visions that God has allowed me to see. My life is no different from anyone else who is striving to follow Jesus, yet I find myself many times like Moses and Jonah in the Bible pleading with God not to send me.  Like Moses, I have made my case that I am not a good speaker (Exodus 4:10) and like Jonah I wanted to run away from God's calling because I question people’s desire to repent as I see the choices that they make (Jonah chapter 1-4). In 1John 4:1-6 we are reminded to test every Spirit to see if it is from God.  Paul in Galatians 1:8-9 reminded me "As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God's curse! What gospel did Jesus himself bring to me at the age of nine when he brought me a Bible? He said that he heard my cry, and I might not know what this means but one day I will. I am beginning to understand the good news of grace that Christ declared to me on that midday. In God's infinite mercy and truth, I know and believe Jesus Christ is the son of God who came to take the sins of the world on his shoulder while we were sentenced to Hell. He died and took my place so that I can live eternally as I wait to enter my permanent home. I no longer live but Christ lives in me. The only way to enter the grace and mercy that God extends to all human beings is through Jesus Christ, as our Lord, Savior and our high priest (John 14:6). Satan will do everything in his power to deceive us in believing God is not real, he does not care, he is absent and will fight to make us believe his earthly kingdom should be our desire. The Devil’s goal is to throw us into confusion to make us believe we are each other’s enemy instead of focusing on him and his demons using human vessels (body, mind and heart) to carry out his wicked acts.  As you are reading this devotional, you might not believe in the spiritual warfare because Satan has blinded you from seeing him as he is (2 Corinthians 4:4, John 12:37-41).  Or, you believe in the gospel, yet you are blinded by Satan to see the Spiritual forces that you are fighting against because it is easy to believe in what is seen.  The grace that Jesus has lavished upon us is beyond this world. Our destination is to be seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 2:6-9).

One night, as I was pleading my cause before God and asked him what can he possibly need me for on this earth? I prayed, “I know you can use anyone and work through them but not me because I don't have any more in me to fight against the enemy and the people will not listen. I pleaded with him to please take me to be with him. During my sleep that night, the Lord allowed me to see why he has chosen and ordained me to go warn the world to see Satan's scheme. To urge the world to be aware of the spiritual war waging for our soul. He clearly showed me why he can't take me yet to my permanent home.  I must share, I have had many visions in my journey even before I knew God was with me. Not once did I wake up frightened and speechless to talk about any of my dreams.  I did everything to get the dream and vision out of my consciousness and kept telling one friend and my husband I had an encounter with the Lord that I am not able to speak of. Two months later I was prompted to share the vision with one of my spiritual advisors. However, I was not compelled to share it with anyone else until months later.  I shared it with my husband and a friend. And now, as much as I don't want to speak of this specific vision, I must obey my Lord and Savior.

I went to bed in distress crying and asking God to take me home.  While in my sleep I felt separated from my body, and I realized with great joy I was floating high.  I felt a sense of peace as I kept going up.  I was not flying but just going up through an open space that seemed clear and white.  As I was about to go through another white open space, I felt a person hugging me and wrapped himself around me from the back and stopped me from going through what felt like my destination.  The person was dressed in all white, I couldn’t see his face. He begins to speak with me as if we were communicating using our consciousness where we could hear each other’s thoughts and conversation.  It was very different because I did not use my mouth, yet I was speaking. I soon realized I was with a higher power. I pleaded with him to let me go and he said ‘no, your work is not done.’  I asked what work?  I attempted to look at the face of the powerful being which I could not see besides a pure glowing light that seems like a face of a human being behind the light.  He did not have wings or anything unusual, yet I was wrapped in what appears to me to be a pure white garment with a wide-open arm and he and I became one as he brought me down and stopped.  I looked at his face and he whispered to me I am sending you to warn the people. I said who do I need to warn?  He turned me to face a great wall that looked clear but unbreakable.  I looked at my body and noticed that my entire body became as white as the powerful being while he held me and said look!  As I looked through the clear wall, which I can’t even begin to describe, I saw a face with two blazing eyes. As I focused on the eyes, I saw the man’s body from head to toe was filled with black darkness filling the area where he was like lava from a volcano but black.  The darkness spread over the land where he was standing, and I saw different people’s eyes popping out all over his body and they were trapped crying and fighting to escape from his body, but they couldn’t. With tears, sadness and heavy-heartedness and burdened I turned and look at the man and I said Jesus!  He said go warn.  I woke up from the vision crying, shaking and troubled for weeks and months.

Every year, I always start my year with a theme.  For some reason, this year no theme came to me besides asking God to take me home away from the earth. I felt tired of hurting physically and watching the evil that is roaming through the world and felt helpless. Well, the first week of January 2024, God gave me a theme that I will never forget and answered my plea with a simple no. My response is Yes Lord I will go! Which is my theme for this year and for the rest of my life until he calls me home. Psalm 31: 3-5, For You are my rock and my fortress; Therefore, for Your name’s sake, lead me and guide me.  Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, For You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth” (KJV). I would like to make one fact known, I wish God would choose someone else who is more popular or qualified for this mission.  If I had a choice, I would not choose this path because I feel so inadequate and unqualified for this job.  Yet, I am reminded that God is known for taking the shameful things of this world to do his work.  So that I (we), as his servants, will never dare to boast about my (our) ability and work. All the Glory, praise and honor will be to God (1 Corinthians 1:26-31).  I have always prayed less of me and more of God.  I have always asked God to use me as his vessel to reach people all over the world. Jesus, in his timing, has answered my prayer and ask me to warn the world that Satan will stop at nothing to snatch their soul away from eternal life.  As God warned Ezekiel in the books of Ezekiel chapter 3, he knows how stubborn and blind the people he is sending me to are but woe to me if I choose to be defiant toward my Lord because of fear of men who cannot destroy my body and my soul (Matthew 10:28). Woe to me to forget the height which Jesus came down to rescue me while I was drowning in Satan’s schemes and extend grace to my life (Romans 5:6-8).  I know the persecution and hateful campaign against me are coming.  Praise God that my Father through Jesus Christ is the final judge that we all will have to answer to. I am not sent to judge but to warn. As God has warned me in Revelation 22:18-19, I will be held responsible for speaking what his words say and not to add or remove anything from the Bible. Therefore, I am not interested in “foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless” (Titus 3:9-10).  Jesus instructed me to go warn and for reasons beyond my understanding I am choosing to allow his Holy Spirit to use me as his instrument to warn the world. I am not sure how and when he will allow me to proclaim his message but one thing I know, I am available for his call.   As God warned Ezekiel as he ordained him as his watchmen, so I must learn as he led me to this passage because I was arguing with my maker in my sinful flesh.  At the end of seven days the word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so, hear the word I speak and give them warning from me.  When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself. “Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. But if you do warn the righteous person not to sin and they do not sin, they will surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved yourself” (Ezekiel 3:16-21).  To God be the glory! May he guide me through the path which he sets before me according to his will.  I am willingly entering into this servitude role of my Lord to warn every living breathing soul that Satan and his demons are deceiving them from believing that Jesus is the only way to God and to turn them from darkness to God sanctification (Acts 26: 16-18).  Lucifer who is also known as Satan and his demonic kings and his demons know there is an appointed time where their wrath against humanity will be over (Mattew 8:29; Revelation 20:7-15). The question I have for each person who is reading this devotional, do you know that your appointed time will also come?  Who will you choose to use your body as a dwelling? Will you choose the Spirit of the living God or the Demons who are ready to take you to hell with them?