For today's update, I want to talk to you about how born-again Christians, though suffering through many fiery trials, will be kept and protected and guarded until the very end.

I think you would agree with me that as we near the last hour when the trumpet sounds,

that the hardships are becoming increasingly and infinitely more difficult. Would you agree with

that? It's really evidenced by the many prayer requests that we're on the receiving end

of, really from all over the world, people asking us to pray for very serious matters that

people are suffering, many, many fiery trials in these last days.

I want to share with you a list, just give you sort of a sampling of some of the requests that we receive for prayer.

Relief from fear and discouragement, protection against spiritual attacks, spiritual warfare, miraculous healing for cancer in both children

and adults, young children, hope and encouragement for pastors, one in particular in Brazil. Sleep, comfort and peace to the last until the rapture,

just to make it. Homelessness with shelters on the mainland being full.

Of course this one, salvation of loved ones before the rapture, that's a biggie always is.

Respite and comfort for a weary soul.

Healing for debilitating illness and chronic pain. Comfort for the broken

hearted. This is another biggie. Return of prodigal sons and wayward daughters, many of whom have gone into the

LGBTQ lifestyle. And then this one lastly, and this is really an abbreviated list, just to give you an idea, but comfort after the sudden and unexpected

death of a loved one. And again, this is both young and old alike.

The question becomes one of why it is that the closer we get to the end, the harder it gets

for us as Christians in the end.

And thankfully, the Word of God and the God of the Word are not silent on the matter, despite us being unable in the

finite to know the ways and the wise of God. It is impossible. God is infinite and His ways

are too high for our understanding. His ways are not our ways,

his thoughts, not our thoughts. But when we don't know, we go to what we do know and what

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