Hello from long-lost Lisa!!

It’s been a while, huh? I’ve had a lot happen since my last post, but now I find myself able to get back into the swing of things. I don’t intend to post on a regular basis, but I will as I’m able. Currently, I’m working on a new fiction book, so that feels like the good-old days to me. Lord willing, it will release sometime in 2026. I should be able to give you a more specific time frame closer to the end of the year.

Below is a link to my latest Rapture Ready article. I hope it’s an encouragement to you.

Lingering Light

I recently ran across a note in my Bible where I had written the words lingering light. Though there was nothing more noted, I knew what they were referring to. It’s imagery of my hope that my life and my home after the rapture will shine a lingering light for those left behind in the torment of darkness. People who ignored our warnings before the rapture and those who never heard at all will be desperate for any word of hope. Deception and lies will explain away our departure. If we don’t leave behind truth, it won’t be so easily found. I’m not sure we can even fathom how vital our roles might be in the horrific journeys of people left to face the tribulation. Our lingering light can feed empty bellies and fuel hopeless souls.

I, and others here on Rapture Ready, have written articles about how we can prepare our homes for the departure of the church. I have even offered free printouts you can use to leave in food pantries, medicine cabinets, cars, etc., places where once-honest people will have no option but to burglarize in the homes of the recently vanished. You can find those resources here.

My own home was all prepared for my departure. The insides of closet and pantry doors had large warning signs posted, telling where the missing people had gone. I had cards with the ABCs of salvation tucked between canned goods. I was ready and eagerly awaiting Jesus. Then, that same Jesus uprooted our family and started a ten-month-long process of buying land, selling our house, moving to an apartment, building a new home, and moving once again as He replanted us in another town, way out in the boonies. Read more…

If you would like to read Lisa’s previous Rapture Ready articles, you can find them here: Lisa’s Rapture Ready Articles/Series.

Other Free Resources:
Daybreak, Last Days of Light – Free ebook download

In Dwell With Jesus, I asked if we have what it takes to stand and be effective for the kingdom every moment we’re here, be it one more week or several more years. Admittedly, I don’t have what it takes. And I’m sure you’ll agree that you don’t either. Only in dwelling with Jesus do we have any hope of withstanding all that will be required of us as evil rises and the world grows only darker. We see the end is near, so close that the rapture could come at any moment or on any given day. We are quite possibly the generation who will see the rapture and with that comes the responsibility of to whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48).

Last time as we considered dwelling with Jesus, we examined how Jesus knew the Word, obeyed the Word, and lived out the Word, and that we must do the same. Today we’ll see that in order for us to dwell with Jesus, we must also be where He is, among people. He created people. He came for people. He taught people. He died for people. Jesus loves and is about people.

With Jesus’ heart in mind, we each must ask ourself: Am I about people?

My honest answer: I’m often more about people than I should be and am called a micromanager at times. I’m about my people, my family and friends. I’m also about the people I teach and reach through online ministry, which makes sense considering I’m a discipler. The found are typically who the Lord places within my reach. But what about lost people; how “about them” am I considering I’m not among them as often? Honest again: Not enough and rarely comfortably. Continue reading…

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In my previous Rapture Ready article, Gather Up Courage, we considered our prepositional God, the One who is with us and in us and for us and how His proximity to us allows for us as believers to gather up courage in these final days.Whether we have one day, one week, or one year (plus) before the coming of the Lord Jesus for His church in the rapture, we must respond accordingly to the blessing of being part of that final generation by becoming God’s prepositional us, a people dwelling with Jesus and being about Jesus.

I’m sure we can agree that we have already seen more than our 2020 selves ever believed we would, and we don’t dare ask what more 2024 might bring for fear that the answer to that question may very well be a national refining like we’ve never known. Whatever is to come, we must ask ourselves if we have what it takes to stand and be effective for the kingdom every moment we’re here, be it one more week or several more years.

I’ve taken inventory of me, myself, and I and have found that I don’t have what it takes. But a tap, tap, tap from within reminds me that I have Who it takes, Jesus. This prepositional us, I in Him and He in me (1 John 4:13), changes everything. He will do in me what it takes to prepare me. He will be through me that which He asks of me. But His activity in me and through me is conditioned upon my willingness to yield to Him and be used by Him. So, what does it take to shape my will to His? It takes dwelling with Jesus. Continue reading… Continue reading →