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I was incredibly blessed by my devotional reading today which was titled, "The Mark of God". In my reading, Pastor E. M. Bounds wrote that through our faith in Jesus, and our prayers, God does give Himself, His presence, and His grace to us... through them we receive His mark, and sign. There are physical marks of God, and spiritual marks of God, but none is any more powerful than those of prayer which can leave both on us. Physical marks on our knees, feet, and foreheads, and spiritual marks left by answered prayer on our souls and behaviors such as the marks of love, forgiveness, mercy, and grace.

We believe, and have faith, but so often we are afraid to know the unfolding will of God. We fear prophesy, and signs, because, although we might outwardly want the world to change, quite often we find that inwardly we are satisfied with our lives as they are. Thus we fear the revelation of events that prophesy speaks to, or the changes that signs tell us are coming. We see the signs of autumn as the days begin to grow shorter, and the leaves start falling from the trees, but we dread the cold winter that follows. Signs can show us the way, but they always point to change… a new place, a new experience, a transformed life, but always the passing of something old. Change means that we will experience, or know, something new, but it also means we will leave something behind… a love, something comfortable, or some other thing we have grown accustomed to. Are we ready to ask God for prophesy, and signs today? Are we ready for change in our lives?