Although you cannot see Him, Your Bridegroom cometh

He’s preparing your home –John 14

² In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

He’s left you a Comforter and a guide to truth-John 14

²⁶ But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

There will be a celebration-Revelation 19

⁶And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.

⁷ Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

You prepare your dress for the Bridegroom-Revelation 19

⁸And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Together with Him forever- 1 Thessalonians 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.

Revelation 21:

⁴ And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Strategies for enduring difficulties

Remember He has made you free- Song of Solomon 2:

¹⁷ Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn my beloved and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether

Focus on Jesus and think on His fragrance- Song of Solomon 4:

⁶ Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

Remember Jesus loves you, His love is stronger than death!- Song of Solomon 8:

¹⁴ Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Roes and young harts roam free among the mountains, leap over the abyss, and have energy

Mountains of Bether-probably not a specific physical location but rather indicating the difficulties are large and hard to overcome

Remember Jesus has made you free

John 8:

³⁴ Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

³⁵ And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.

³⁶ If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Galatians 5:

¹ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Focus on the fragrance of Jesus and times with Him

Mountain of myrrh

Hill of frankincense

Mountains of spices

Most often we hear this verse – repeated three times in the Song of Solomon – as a warning not to have sex until marriage. But let’s look again at the three different situations the maiden is in when this verse is given.

Song of Solomon 2: Response to the world’s allure away from the Beloved

⁷ I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song of Solomon 3: Response to her failure to wait for His timing

 ⁵ I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please

Song of Solomon 8: The world should stop seeking to divert her love from her Beloved

⁵ I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

How can you use the advice of this verse to keep yourself focused on Jesus?

Hebrews 12:

¹Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Let us run with patience the race He set before us, looking unto Jesus,

Coach Patti