“This world is not your home. You have heard this said. Indeed, My word says that you are sojourners on this earth. What does this mean – ‘sojourners?’

“To ‘sojourn’ is to settle in a land that is not your own. To go to a strange place and yet make it your home. Yet have you not heard that the earth is yours? That I, the Great I AM, gave My earth to mankind to rule over? Thanks to My Son’s Blood shed for you, My People’s authority to rule over this earth has been given back to them. Therefore, why would My word call you sojourners? Strangers in this earth?

“Your ‘sojourning’ is a matter of the heart.

” When my people Israel were led captive to Babylon, I told them to sojourn there. In other words, I told them to build houses and to plant, and to live in such a way as to cause abundance and harvest in the strange land to which they were brought. They would not remain there – for I would call home any who were willing to go. But during that time in Babylon, I wanted to keep My People well and whole, having children and raising them. At the same time, they were never ‘of Babylon.’ They were always My Nation, called by My Name.

“In the same way, My People are on the earth to serve and work for Me and their own good – even in the midst of people and laws that do not honor Me. A time will come in which I change the face of the Earth as I would change a garment. Upon this transformed earth you shall no longer be sojourners. For it will be your eternal Home with Me.

“Take to heart My message to My Nation of Israel who were taken to Babylon. While living in the chaos of your current earth, you are called to serve Me. You are called to be Light and Truth to the world around you. You are called to live according to My Will. Do not let your heart be so set on your future earth of perfection that you lose sight of My Timing and Plan for NOW. I have WORK for you to do. I have a GREAT HARVEST to bring into My Kingdom. You may be current sojourners. But you are not to be complacent, lackadaisical, lazy sojourners – who do not represent Me or My Kingdom, but are objects of contention to Me. LIVE according to MY TIMING, MY PLAN. Allow me to reign in your heart – and live accordingly. REPRESENT ME WELL.

“To the GOD of NOW and the GOD of the FUTURE be all Glory, Honor, Dominion, and Power forever and ever. Amen.”
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Notes:

Psalm 119:19: I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!

Jeremiah 29:4-7: “Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon, ‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce. Take wives and become the fathers of sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there and do not decrease. Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.’”

Genesis 26:2-3: The Lord appeared to him [Isaac] and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and bless you, for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to your father Abraham. 

Psalm 102:25-28: Of old You founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not come to an end. The children of Your servants will continue, and their descendants will be established before You.

I Peter 2:11-12: Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Philippians 3:17-21: Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.