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Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  --1 Thessalonians 4:17 I don’t know if these are the final days or not, but I do know that I want to be found walking faithfully with the Lord when He comes back. Just like Enoch in Scripture, I want to be well-pleasing to God and be a witness for Him. A decade ago there was a movie entitled A Walk to Remember, a beautiful and uplifting story of life and love. I want to talk with you today about a walk that’s really worth remembering, because it’s an eternal walk of life and love with Jesus Christ. First, let me remind you that the Christian life is a life of faith from beginning to end.  You became a child of God by faith…trusting in Christ for your salvation.  And each day you must continue to live by faith in the One Who loves you and died for you. But as you walk by faith with Christ through life, I want to encourage you to take time to look down the corridors of time and realize that you can know with certainty that one day you’ll be with Him in heaven forever! Like our verse today promises, you have an eternity to look forward to of life with God! So don’t let the concerns and pressures of today rob you of the joy of knowing you will one day be living with God…FOREVER!  As you take this eternal walk with Christ, you can be as certain of heaven today as if you’re already there.  Take time today to meditate on that truth…and thank God for this incredible hope! As a child of God, you have an eternity of life with God to look forward to! How to Heal a Nation by Dr. Paul Chappell “And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.” 1 Kings 18:36–38 When Elijah faced the false prophets on Mt. Carmel after three years without rain—the judgment God sent because the people were worshiping Baal instead of Him—he was vastly outnumbered. It didn’t matter! Elijah had spent those three years watching God work miracle after miracle to keep him alive and safe, and he poured out his heart to God in prayer. Elijah even went so far as to have barrels of water poured on the sacrifice and the altar just to make sure everyone who saw what happened realized that it could only be God. Though the wicked Ahab and his wife, Jezebel, had turned the nation away from following God, when the power of God was displayed in answer to Elijah’s prayer, the people immediately recognized that they had witnessed the hand of God in action, and they declared that He alone was truly God. The only cure for a nation is found not in political, economic, or social reform, but in revival. The poet George Liddell wrote: Give me a man of God—one man, True to the vision that he sees, And I will build your broken shrines, And bring the nations to their knees.   Today’s Growth Principle:  What we urgently need today are men and women of faith who know how to get things from God in prayer.