God Is Calling His Bride

God has called the end-times handmaidens and servants to gather each year for our World Convention—it’s a time of “the bride making herself ready.” It’s a time to “come away, My beloved,” as the Bridegroom of the Song of Solomon calls. He’s wooing us to come away with Him to have an “encounter with the King.” That face-to-face meeting with Him causes us to lay aside everything that has kept us from the fullness of our destiny. Isn’t that what falling in love does to you? Once He has held you in His divine embrace, you don’t ever want to tell Him no again. His overwhelming love gives you the grace and strength to keep saying yes to keep obeying, even when your circumstances seem impossible! But with Him, all things are possible!

We are praying for divine intervention for each and every person the Lord is drawing. Song of Solomon 1:4 says, “Draw me after you, let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will remember your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.” It’s a picture of the individual and the corporate bride. The Lord draws me individually, and we, the corporate bride, run after Him together! He brings me (each of us individually) into His chambers, and we, the corporate bride, experience gladness and rejoice together in Him. Together we have a corporate mindset of His love that is better than wine for making our souls glad. And our love for Him makes us walk uprightly before Him, shunning every evil that would sidetrack us. Of course that bridal company includes both men and women, even as we are all given the power to become sons of God as we believe on His name.

Consider this heavenly vision of the bride: A beautiful bride in her wedding dress and veil walks the aisle to the altar to stand at the side of Jesus for the great wedding of the ages. Then another walks the aisle and merges into the bride that was already standing there. Each one who had prepared and made herself ready has her individual time of recognition, walking the aisle, and then, as it were, surrenders her individuality to become a part of the corporate bride.

Our Father is looking for that bridal company of those who have surrendered their individuality to allow His Son to live His life through them, becoming one with His character through the fruit of His Holy Spirit. Are you allowing Him to help you make yourself ready? Nothing of this earth carries the value of that relationship! Nothing compares with Him! Nothing should stand in your way to keep you from following after Him!

We hope that you will bring your individual anointing and join with us to form the amazing corporate anointing that we experience each year at the World Convention. It is worthy of note that fasting increases your anointing when you are seeking the Lord for His purposes to be accomplished in your life. And when people who have fasted and received that increase in anointing gather together, the corporate anointing goes off the charts! The glory of the Lord’s presence in worship is breathtaking, and the depth of the preaching of the Word of God is life-changing. Let’s believe God together in prayer for each person whom He calls to take faith and willingly and joyfully obey His prompting and come to encounter the King!

As we gather July 3-7, 2017, at the Holiday Inn and Northwest Arkansas Convention Center in Springdale, Arkansas (originally known as Shiloh), we expect to:

• Be transformed by God’s presence as we allow His glory to permeate our spirits.
• Enter into a new level of anointing.
• Connect with God’s purpose for our lives.
• Restore our godly passion and spiritual balance.
• Receive God’s heart for the nations.
• Become better equipped to be used by God to change the world.
• Build eternal relationships in the body of Christ.

To register or find out more about the conference click here (http://www.eth-s.org/en/39th-world-convention-information).

Joyfully,

Sharon and Philip Buss
President and Vice President

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