Seven Blessings Testimony

            God has now placed on my heart to testify how He has blessed me with all the things I need and so very much more. I have listed seven areas in particular that I have been blessed with during my lifetime. I did not include mercy as one of the blessings, even though God has been so merciful to me during all my life. In fact, I did a separate testimony on how He has been so merciful to me during my life. Here is a link to it for you to read that particular testimony

https://www.facebook.com/#!/notes/jay-dougherty/seven-mercies-in-my-life-testimony/10200335690688461

This testimony deals with seven other areas and things in which He has blessed me during my lifetime.

1 Provision, including food, housing, and all other necessities

I have been blessed all my life that I have never lacked anything important, be it food, clothes or other items. Even though my parents they did not make large  amount of money made certain  that I never had any lack or had any need for anything critical all the while I lived with them, and even beyond while I lived in Hilton Head, South Carolina. God by His grace and mercy enabled my father to earn enough income to pay for the house, cars, food and even some fun things that my family had, such as a television and vacations that the family took during the summer months. Generally most months we as a family ate out at least twice- one lunch and one dinner(on vacations the family ate out for ALL meals). My parents diligently for years saved money also so that I would have enough provision saved up for education, and then a first car when my college education did not work out for me as they had initially planned it. Then they helped me attend a local community college, but even that did not go greatly well, but still they paid for most of the classes that I took there. I did though reimburse for some classes that I did not do well on. They let me stay there past the death of my mother, helping me there with provision as my supermarket bagger job never would have provided enough income for me to live on my own, with the rent food, and other costs so they helped me by letting me live with them until they both died, my mother died in 2001,my father died in 2006. I did try to move out on my own in 2003 and 2004, but ended up moving back at the end of October 2004,as that never really worked out for me, and in hindsight I realized that God wanted me to be around when my father died in 2006. My father helped make the difference financially so I could live on my own during those 15 months, as I did not get enough hours of work during much of the year to pay my rent, food and other bills. My father did die in 2006, and soon after he died, and with the financial help of my inheritance from my father’s death, I was sole heir, I moved away from Pennsylvania this time for good. I haven’t been back to Pennsylvania since I moved  then in late April 2006. The inheritance that I got from my father’s passing helped me make ends meet for a number of years, especially 2007 and 2008, before  would get on disability, and may have helped me financially for a much, much longer time period, except the fact that I squandered so much of it on vintage magazines, which I collected particularly obsessively in 2006, after my father’s death. It may have been partly a mechanism to cope with it, seeing that I was not really saved yet, but still I wasted many tens of thousands of dollars on the magazines. However God had another way to help me survive: disability ssi income, which I still am receiving each and every month as I write this in 2013. He had to act decisively in His mercy so I could get it, moving on the people who I was living with at the time in South Carolina in 2008 to help me apply for the disability and other benefits and help, and, in the fall of 2008, I succeeded in getting this monthly social security disability income. This was a real blessing from God for people who are much worse off than I am often have much more trouble getting this SSI income from the government, if they even succeed in getting it at all. Even before, they also helped get me on food stamps/ ebt, so I could more easily afford groceries. I was strongly led to go seek and to get a designated payee for social security, seeing as how I could not trust myself with this income because I had wasted so much of my inheritance on old magazines. I did NOT want to take ANY chances of this money being wasted by any obsession of any kind on my part. I still do have this payee and I am thankful for it, for I still do not trust myself fully with this financial blessing from God, and much prefer having someone else to look after my disability income. God has been good to me to provide different payees depending on where I live at a given time. This income also largely helped pay for school classes during the years 2009-2012 through different places, too. I sold my car thinking I would move overseas to Africa, I was thinking Zambia, permanently in 2012, but that never happened, but God has seen it that I do not need my car anyway. I don’t really want to drive either. Up to now God has seen my provisions met, now having me with a family with someone who is blessed with a really good job, and also a caring woman who let me come there- Teresa Wiggins. Even with me there they can get out and see their family in Plant City, go out on meals, and so on. God has really been good to me in my life for provision.

2  God’s protection in my life

            As with provision, I have been well protected from all evil during all my life. He put me with very protective parents who kept me successfully from interacting with any really bad fellow students and peers during High school. Also for a number of reasons, including my disability (Asperger’s syndrome which my parents never knew I had) I was somewhat marginalized in school which also helped keep me away from that kind of evil. In the evening I largely spent time in my room on my own, as my parents were strong willed and would argue very frequently over small things, and I wanted to stay out of their disputes. It meant though I did not get out much so that helped to kept me away from the bad people. All of my schools and work places during my life were within easy walking distance or very close driving distance, except when I went to college in the 80s and 90s. All were safe to live at in good neighborhoods so there was little danger there; almost all of the places where I resided were quiet areas. God also protected me strongly from other people’s malice and evil for I was teased quite a bit in High school for the sake of my disabilities, and due to the fact that many students were better off financially that I was, or my  family. Also God looked to keep me safe during college too from that.  Students can be rather merciless in that regard. Beyond my parents God has also put me with people who did protect me from much harm that otherwise could have happened to me.  Most of all God protected me against myself, my sometimes poor decisions, and my own stupidities and obsessions at all times during my schooling, work, and life and so on. He has been so good, faithful and very merciful to me by doing that. I will not go into a lot of detail here but I will direct you to my regular personal testimony which has much more on that. A link to it is here

https://www.facebook.com/jay.dougherty.50?ref=tn_tnmn#!/notes/jay-dougherty/personal-testimony/10200273845382367

As well as all of the above God protected me by wisely choosing good and safe places for me to live, work and study. He also protected me during my many travels during my life wherever I may have gone, near and far, so that most of my travel was largely without incident or accident. I have been through God’s mercy and protection free from major disease and accidental injuries, so thank You Lord for Your protection that way too. Outside of when I was about six, I have never been to a hospital for a few hours at a time, and I give thanks for His protection on that.

3 Places

            God ensured I that I lived in rather quiet and peaceful locations all during my life. All were safe and away from all the difficult neighborhoods that cities largely contain. The large majority of my life- almost 31 years- I was in the one place in Pennsylvania, apart from when I went away to college August 1986 to March 1987, and even then I was not too far away from there, about 40 miles. The first few years of my life I was a few miles away, before the main place and from 2003 on I moved quite a few times, to various places, in several different states. The place that I lived in most of my life was in a small town, with everything we could need such as groceries and clothes and all the other supplies was within a five to fifteen minute drive away from the house. This made things very convenient and errands were relatively easy to do. Most doctors, dentists, and the like were also very close by, I walked to many of my doctor’s and dental appointments, as they were very close to the house. After I moved away in 2003, and then again in 2006 back to where I was in 2003, I found that the place in Hilton Head, SC  and every other place I that I would later move to be very peaceful and enjoyable to live in. The one place where I lived in 2003, 2004 and 2006 and 2007 was within a few minutes walk to a beach- on Hilton Head SC. The next place I was at I rented a trailer on a farm in a very rural area in Northern South Carolina, which was about 8 or so miles to the nearest town, Kershaw. If one needed to go to a larger place for more varied shopping such as a Wal Mart, or counseling, then it was necessary to drive 25 miles or so to Camden, SC for those shopping and services, which are available only in larger towns. However it was worth it in many ways for this was most likely the most peaceful location I ever lived at during my life. I stayed there a little under 2 1/2 years In 2009 during  the fall, in late September and October, God had me move to North Carolina for 15 months to help out at a Christian retreat center in western North Carolina, in the Blue Ridge mountains, which was very, very beautiful and it had a view in the backyard for many miles, as the place was on the top of a ridge. This was one of the prettiest place I stayed, (there or the place, Cimarron, where I was at for three months in Colorado in the start of 2011, early January to early April. After being there in NC, I was with Youth with a mission in various places from 2011 and 2012, up to late June of 2012. I was in Colorado for the Discipleship training school lecture, Washington for the DTS outreach, California volunteering at a base and Texas for the school of the bible. The Colorado and California places were the nicest of the group. In late June 2012 the Lord moved me to south Florida at Pompano Beach where I have been up to now. Florida has been nice place, it is fairly quiet, and it does not get cold at all, not even during the winter (about 40 for a low is all it gets, which is much warmer than any other place I have been).When I first came to Florida, I thought the Lord would have moved me on by now to somewhere else by now, but that has not been the case. He does however know where it is best for me to be at any given time and I am just going to trust Him completely with that.

4 Education

            During the time I was in both primary and secondary schools, even to some degree in college, I was blessed with small classes led by teachers who really did care about my success in academics. The caring of the teachers about my success was a real help to me to get through all the years of my schooling. During 5 ^th and 6 ^th grades, I was at a school literally two doors down from the place where I lived at that time. The  high school that I attended- for graces 7 to 12 was only a few blocks walk away, approximately a 15 minute walk , so I fortunate in that I did not have to rely on any busing or other transportation to get back and forth to school, apart from perhaps a few activities. I did have some activities however during my school years (band, and chorus which added to the interest, as well as being a part of the American Field Service. The last one was a blessing from God as I happened to be wandering around the hallway at the time of a meeting in 8 ^th grade and I was invited in. Band also was a blessing since I could attend the football games, participate in concerts and even go on several trips.  I would stay with the club through graduating High school. I managed to get good schooling even with my ADHD and graduated high school, but only through God’s mercy and grace, for it was a struggle at times. I really struggled a lot with college too due to that, but in hindsight realize that a regular education was not part of God’s plan for my life. I would end up going back to schools again in 2009, taking bible related classes at a technical school, one comparative religion, and the other on the bible. In 2010, I would go to a four week summer school program in Tennessee which was indeed a real blessing, having wonderful teachings during the week, being able to serve in a soup kitchen and being around friendly students. The teachings made me so much hungrier to learn about God, so during the fall of 2010 I searched for internships and programs that could satisfy this thing. A contact with a woman led me to Youth with a mission and its discipleship training school. That itself was a big blessing because for 12 weeks I learned various aspects about God from different instructors, living in close quarters with the other students at that time and functioning on a beautiful base in western Colorado that I feel in ways was the prettiest place I have ever stayed at. It was pretty intense and those weeks went fast, for there were classes all five weekdays during the morning as well as intercession and worship. Work duties followed during the early afternoon, as did physical training twice per week. Most evenings were free time, though, but a few had classes, if an instructor could not teach on say Friday morning I learned even more on the 8 week outreach phase at a faith based facility intended to help the Lord break the chains of alcohol and drugs off its male students. It is a very effective program and its students have very powerful testimonies of God’s mercy in their lives, and also many families were restored as a result of the program. It was a very intense program with activities all seven days of the week, although the weekends are more relaxed and not as intense. They needed to be highly structured and accountable as the students there had been struggling with drugs and alcohol before they joined the program. The last school I have been in was the school of the bible in Tyler, Texas, from August 2011 to June of 2012. This was a very intense program which included a very detailed study of the bible for almost ten months. It also was intense with classes again Monday to Friday mornings, work duties after lunch and a good bit of homework to do for the evenings, though many days, I often could finish with it by dinner and as a result have the evening off to relax. This school was easily the best of all the schools I had taken in my life. It had various intercessory prayer and other activities as well all during the week.

5 fun, educational, and mission trips

            All my life I have been blessed with many fun trips of different types and purposes , but especially so in 2011 and 2012. While I was growing up my parents saw to it that we had a family vacation for several days to a week or more mainly to areas like Virginia, Washington DC and the like. When I was young the family went to Florida twice- once to see Walt Disney World in Orlando, and then the second time to go to Miami and the keys. When I was older the family went to Canada several times, mostly to Montreal and Quebec as my parents enjoyed those cities and the sights that they had. This was mainly when I was in my school years, then those slowed and stopped especially after my parents health declined. The family did take a few day trips every now and then, too. My school activities enabled me to take several trips also, to go to football games to play, to go to festivals and parades in different locations in my 9 ^th through 12 ^th grade school years, and also God blessed me with enough talent to make district band and participate in that during my junior and senior years in high school. Later in my life I took personal trips too, collecting and going to flea markets and yard sales especially in the late 80s and 90s as I enjoyed that then, also eating out. God saw to it I had provision to do it too, so I was blessed. My personal vacations in that time period were to Charleston, SC in 1999 and 2002, then Hilton Head in 2003, to which I would move for a season. Later on I would go with my SC friend from the Kershaw area on several trips to help him do things to various locations-mainly in 2008 and 2009. Also in 2009 I did a quite a number of spiritual retreats to draw closer to the Lord, these being financed by the sale of my vintage magazines. I also had a man’s retreat in the fall of 2010 which was fun and I was able to serve in the kitchen for a few days before the retreat. 2011 during the schools had several little trips- day long or so. One week the DTS went to Texas which is when God spoke to me about the school of the bible, and also the whole trip to California in summer was a blessing, I served in housekeeping department also in August I 2011 I went from there on a mission trip to an orphanage in Mexico, in Baja California, where I served in various ways in and out. The school of the bible in 2011 had an outreach to Florida in November where I learned about how a church functioned, as well as other side trips including one witnessing, and three to a night of worship in Dallas at Christ for the Nations. 2012 brought another outreach for the school of the bible, this time to Mexico, also several more trips to Dallas for the night of worship, and a prayer event. After my move to Florida, I was blessed with a trip to Haiti, several trips to see Teresa’s family in Plant City. There was a week plus long crusade in the fall of 2012, too, which is what God used to cause me to move to Florida. This crusade went from Florida to Virginia and then back. God made sure we had enough provision and made it the whole trip despite bald tires. He also showed a rainbow to us  in front of the car on the way out, which was very encouraging, showing that He would be with us on the journey. In 2013 the trips to Plant City continue (indeed, I write this in Plant City).

6 relationships with other people

            The Lord has blessed me over all my life with many, many other people who cared a lot about me. The first of those of course were my parents who loved me and guided me as I grew up. I was blessed also with caring teachers and instructors throughout my educational process grade school, high school, college and beyond. I had caring people at work, too, when I worked at supermarkets and restaurants. God was in control of all this. I do want to acknowledge however some of the most caring of all of the people that God has blessed me with particularly in the last few years. The first of those was William Roberts,a manager at bilo who helped me move to where his mother’s farm was, where the rent was much less(and in many other ways also two of his family, particularly Lindsay his one of his two daughters and his mother, Bobbie Taylor. She was one of no less than three spiritual mothers that the Lord has blessed me with. In 2007 William’s mother had enough patience to put up with my constant visits and she also had the determination to get me the help I needed then, even though I resisted some. She got me the new licenses, then she was able to get me on food stamps in late 2007 to help with food costs. She also was very patient with rent too, as my uncle had to pay it from my inheritance as I was not able to afford it working 5 hours per week. Eventually I was able to get on disability SSI income as well. She also helped make sure that I had the counseling and such that I needed.  The daughter, Lindsay, was used by God to break me of my reclusiveness when she came to live with her grandmother from 2008 and 2009. She did this in more than one way, from inviting me to be there for some dinners and taking me with her son to a local park, to help me exercise and all. The next person who would figure large in my life was the owner of a Christian retreat that I would go to in western NC, which was called Stonehaven, Harrietta Turner. I had found her in an ad in a Christian newspaper when I was on a spiritual retreat in North Carolina in the summer of 2009. The ad was looking for a volunteer but God opened up the door for me to go there for 15 months. It was a real blessing for me though, seeing that Harrietta was much more mature of a Christian woman than I was at the time, and she did counsel me in various ways which helped my growth in the faith. She cared for me, too, and I was blessed to know her. She also helped me when she could, getting me help and taking me occasionally to appointments and all, and in other ways blessing me. I was with YWAM for 2011 and the first half of 2012 before meeting someone via facebook in early April 2012 while still at the school of the bible who has really blessed and helped me grow a lot  in faith and in other areas, while I have been with her. I would then move with her at her condo at the end of June 2012 and have stayed with her and her husband there to this day. She is Teresa Wiggins who is the president of a ministry called We All Are One Ministry. She also is a very mature Christian, who really loves the Lord with all her heart and has a powerful personal testimony of healings and many visits from the Lord Jesus both in person and via dreams and visions and a very, very special relationship with God. She has worked with me on things and God has used her to counsel and advise me to reduce in ways a lot of the obsessiveness with my condition, Asperger’s syndrome. He has blessed her with a very loving husband, Kevin. They are blessed more than a lot of people, being able to visit family who are four hours away from them on a rather regular basis- often monthly, if not more. She knows very well who her blessings come from, and so do I. God has given her the patience she needs to deal rightly with my little failures and to correct me for them as needed, so that I might learn from those erroneous ways. I praise Him and give thanks to Him for that, for He knows well that is exactly what I need now to grow more in Him.

7 Salvation, Redemption, relationship with the Lord.

            My most powerful blessing of all the blessings that God has given me is the very relationship that I have with both the Lord Jesus and the Father. The relationship with Him, complete  with the peace that He alone can give, and the love that only He can give and  show, being perfect, is far bigger than all six of the other blessings that I have described combined. How can anything, anyone, or any place on this earth that He can give me in blessing even in the remotest way compare to Jesus, and a relationship with Him? There is nothing at all on this earth that can compare at all to a relationship with Jesus, as He is so perfect, unlike the things of the earth. Even before I got saved God made sure my needs were met and intervened in my life in many ways in His mercy and grace, preventing me from suffering consequences that I often deserved due to the poor choices that I made. After I got saved I realize how powerful this relationship with Jesus really is. He has spoken to me repeatedly about how He has intervened in my past life, so I might share that fact with others that they might know His love to them. I love His word in the bible and all the wonderful other things He has put in my life. He has gifted me with various diverse spiritual gifts, and He has used various people and situations in my life to help me grow closer to Him at various stages of my life. He sent me to various churches, retreats and other forms of teaching to further help me grow ever closer to me. He speaks to me each and every day, many times, giving me instructions of things to do for Him, other instructions, reproof when I grieve and displease Him when I yield to my flesh or otherwise do something stupid. I am glad He does, for it does give me opportunity to repent of those incidents which restores peace for He is oh so forgiving of my failures and I also pray for wisdom for I don’t want to make these mistakes at all, but I do want to please the Lord at all times. He did indeed die for me, the ultimate sacrifice  so I want do all I can to please Him at all times, as best as I can, but I fully know that I am absolutely nothing without Him. I am so thankful for all of what He has done in my life, all the love He has showed me, the provisions, the relationships and so on. There is absolutely no love like His love, as it is so perfect. As I write this the Lord has told both me and Teresa that we are indeed in the very last days and that the rapture is coming almost at any time- the rapture indeed is a big blessing because it enables His people to spend at least seven, if not more years with Him in Heaven completely avoiding all the mess and chaos that will come to the earth both immediately following the rapture and during the seven year tribulation period which will be the most horrible period that the earth has ever known which also will occur sometime after the rapture of the believers.

Here is a link to describe what can happen immediately after the rapture

Future: Rapture I conclude this blessing testimony with the following discussion of the rapture:

https://www.facebook.com/jay.dougherty.50?ref=tn_tnmn#!/notes/jay-dougherty/at-the-rapture/10200290432677039

also read below for this future blessing which the rapture will be for all believers, and how others can still get in it, if this is read before the rapture happens and what to do if you read this after the rapture

                                  THE RAPTURE IS IMMINENT!!! ARE YOU READY????

            I am very strongly led to believe the rapture is very imminent, and could happen any day at anytime at all. Nobody knows the exact time for the rapture but the Father God Himself. I cannot strongly enough advise all of you to get your hearts right with Jesus by asking the Holy Spirit to reveal to you if there is any Sin /iniquity/ uncleanness in your heart, mind etc and repenting of any and all items brought to your mind right away, asking the Holy Spirit to cleanse you and your garments so that they are spotless, being washed by the blood of Jesus. I am a man, needing the blood of Jesus for cleansing as much as everyone else, and believe me I am doing the same thing. This repenting is a continuous process, not just a one time thing; I have found that I myself have been repenting several times throughout the day. I know that it will be God's grace and mercy ONLY that I make the rapture, not anything I do, I am well aware of the fact that grace alone being what saves, and not works lest any should boast, but also faith without works is dead so I am sharing this with everyone, in the hopes that a few, even just one person, would wake up in time, and repent, for the remaining time here is very short.

            I post and share this document for I deeply care for people and DO NOT want anyone to miss the rapture and find themselves left behind to face the 7 year tribulations which will follow the rapture which will be pure a horrific time on earth, the most horrific ever, in fact, where you will have to hide in caves or in mountains, away from all the evil and very selfish people, be an absolute survival expert, which many are not and absolutely refuse at all costs to take the mark of the beast(666).As a result of your refusal to take this mark, you won’t be able to buy or sell anything, work, eat, live in a normal way, and so on, and most likely you’ll be killed for it, but that is far better than taking the mark and ending up in the lake of fire for eternity, as each and every man and woman  who take the mark of the beast will end up in the lake of fire, where there will be absolutely no rest from their torment night or day(Revelation 14).  Even doing all the precautions, hiding by getting away from all population centers and into the mountains, and so on may not be enough because many if not most people, in fact will not survive the judgments that God will pour out on the world in this time period, in the seal, trumpet and bowl judgments as well as the judgment and destruction of the daughter of Babylon. All these events are described in good detail in the book of Revelation in chapters 6 through 18, which I strongly advise all to read. Here is a link an excellent animated video of the entire book of revelation for you to watch

 The tribulation period of seven years absolutely will make today's evil world seem like life in paradise by comparison. I very strongly suggest reading the book of Revelation chapters 6 through 18 which tell you specifically what sort of events and judgments the world will see during this tribulation period.

Rapture related scriptures:

 (1Corinthians 15:51) Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

(1Coorinthians 15:52) In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

(1Thessolonians 4:16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

(1Thessolonians 4:17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

God wants to keep us from this tribulation by His love and mercy Because thou has kept the word of my patience, I ALSO WILL KEEP THEE FROM THE HOUR OF TEMPTATION, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth."  The implication of this verse is obvious:  If the end-time Christian does NOT stay close to the Lord and endure to the end, HE WILL NOT BE KEPT FROM THE TRIBULATION HOUR Revelation 3 verse 10, so it is IMPERATIVE to stay close to the Lord in these last days. 

Now I have a very special warning message to all those who are lukewarm Christians to repent of this condition and to be on fire for Jesus or Jesus will surely spit you out of the rapture(see verse 16, below) and you will go through the seven year tribulation as it says in Revelation 3 14-22. There are FAR TOO MANY are in this condition the Holy Spirit warned me this AM. There are FAR TOO MANY LAODICEANS today. Please REPENT NOW of your lukewarmness and be on fire for the Lord before it is too late and you miss the rapture as a result of your being lukewarm!! Here are the verses in Revelation chapter 3 concerning the Laodicean church:

(Rev 3:14) And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

(Rev 3:15) I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

(Rev 3:16) So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

(Rev 3:17) Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

(Rev 3:18) I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

(Rev 3:19) As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

(Rev 3:20) Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

(Rev 3:21) To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

(Rev 3:22) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Summarizing, you MUST all be ready for this coming rapture, AND be on FIRE for Jesus, and not be at all lukewarm but loving Jesus with ALL Your heart, mind and soul as commanded in the bible, in several places in both the old and new testaments. If in case you need to receive the Lord please pray the following prayer (backsliders can also use this prayer to repent of their sin and lukewarmness and recommit their lives, and return to their first love, Jesus. Please do so NOW before it is too late)

Dear God in heaven, I come to you in the name of Jesus. I acknowledge to You that I am a sinner, and I am sorry for my sins and the life that I have lived; I need your forgiveness. I believe that your only begotten Son Jesus Christ shed His precious blood on the cross at Calvary and died for my sins, and I am now willing to turn from my sin. You said in Your Holy Word, Romans 10:9 that if we confess Jesus as our Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead, we will be saved. Right now I confess Jesus as the Lord of my soul. With my heart, I believe that God raised Jesus from the dead. This very moment I accept Jesus Christ as my own personal Savior and according to His Word, right now I am saved. Thank you Jesus for your unlimited grace which has saved me from my sins. I thank you Jesus that your grace never leads to license, but rather it always leads to repentance. Therefore Lord Jesus transform my life so that I may bring glory and honor to you alone and not to myself. Thank you Jesus for dying for me and giving me eternal life.

Amen.

Here are 10 steps that can be of help to be ready for the soon to come rapture:

1. Make sure that you have received Jesus Christ into your life as your PERSONAL Lord and Savior(see the salvation prayer above and use it if need be).

2. Examine your own heart for any signs of backsliding, worldliness, unwatchfulness, compromising, and lukewarmness.

3. REPENT (Turn COMPLETELY away from sin and turn COMPLETELY around towards Jesus).  Sin separates you from God, even as a Christian.

4. Study end-time Biblical prophecy(Daniel 7-12, Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 17, 21, 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessolonians 4 and 5, other placesd but the  book of Revelation in particular)  until you become completely convinced that His Coming is, indeed, AT THE DOOR.  This will help keep you from temptation and sin.  JESUS IS COMING VERY SOON!!! Lord help me be absolutely convinced YOU ARE at the door!!!!!

5. Do something for the Lord.  (Passing out tracts would be a good start.)

6. Examine your priorities, lest the CARES OF THIS LIFE cause YOU to MISS THE RAPTURE, as we are so adamantly WARNED about in Luke 21, and so many other Scriptures.

7. Draw closer to God by praying, reading His Word, attending a fundamental church as often as possible, and surround yourself with a Christian atmosphere (Christian friends, books, music, radio, TV, etc.)

8. PRAY DILIGENTLY.  ASK THE LORD TO REVEAL TO YOU ANYTHING IN YOUR LIFE THAT EVEN MIGHT KEEP YOU FROM THE RAPTURE.  PRAY THAT THE LORD WOULD GIVE YOU A PEACE, IF YOU ARE READY, AND AN UNREST AND UNEASINESS IN YOUR HEART, IF YOU ARE NOT READY.

9. Listen for His voice and then STAY OPEN TO THE LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

10. Act upon that which the Lord is calling you to do. DO IT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

Please also pray and ask the Lord Jesus to see if you are indeed ready and to give you peace if you and If the Lord has planted even the least bit of doubt or uneasiness in your heart, will you swallow your pride and pray this prayer with me:

"Dear Lord, Thank you for preparing a WAY OF ESCAPE from the horrible Tribulation to come.  It is my sincere desire to be ready for your Soon Return, so that I can participate in the Rapture. Give me a COMPLETE PEACE IN MY HEART FROM YOU if I am, indeed, ready. Let there be no false sense of security in my heart concerning my readiness for Your Return.  Begin to reveal to me things in my life and in my heart that might keep me from the Rapture.  Show me what I need to do to BE READY and then give me the power to act upon that which you show me to do.  Draw me away from the world and closer to you every day.  Use me in whatever way you can to help others

who may not be ready for your Return.  Fill me with your peace when I am ready and fill me with YOUR POWER, for victory over sin and temptation, and for effective service for your kingdom.  In Jesus' mighty name, Amen

If, by an unfortunate chance, you are finding yourself reading this testimony after the rapture has happened, and you find that you have missed it, everything is not lost by any means, just please pray immediately to accept the Lord Jesus as savior and /or recommit your life to Him, repenting of anything  and everything that you have done that has caused you to miss the rapture, especially such things as being lukewarm and whatever else you may do during that time absolutely DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN THE LAKE OF FIRE!!!!!(taking the mark of the beast means you are essentially married to Satan, the antichrist, the beast and false prophet,  ALL OF WHOM ARE DESTINED FOR THE LAKE OF FIRE, AS ARE ALL WHO TAKE THEIR MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD OR HAND). IT IS NOT AT ALL FORGIVABLE TO TAKE THIS MARK- so again you must avoid taking this mark AT ALL COSTS you won’t be able to buy, sell, work, and so on, you will have to hide, living in the forest and away from civilization, face jail, torture, and be executed for refusing the mark. If you do die for refusing to take the mark of the beast, if you are Jesus’ you will go to heaven immediately as a tribulation saint and martyr spoken of in the book of revelation. I cannot strongly stress the point enough to NEVER, EVER accept the mark of the beast, no matter what!!!! It will be well worth it to lose everything and everyone in this world, including your life so as  to not have to spend all eternity in hell and the lake of fire, where again there will be never any rest on your torment day or night.

Here is a video link for after the rapture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbvC-9Ei83E&feature=youtu.be

And a link to another facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/jay.dougherty.50?ref=tn_tnmn#!/notes/jay-dougherty/good-book-on-tribulations-and-end-times-please-share-aslo-video-link/10200133756520233

God bless you and yours