15 GLAD TIDINGS AUGUST 2025 18. He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, and it seeped into his inward (life) like water, and like oil into his bones. Ecclesiastes 9:8 - Let your garments be always white (with purity), and let your head not lack (the) oil (of gladness). Isaiah 61:10 - I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul will exalt in my God; for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. Revelation 3:4-5 - So call to mind the lessons you received and heard; continually lay them to heart and obey them, and repent. In case you will not rouse yourselves and keep awake and watch, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not know or suspect at what hour I will come. 4. Yet you still have a few (persons) names in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes, and they shall walk with Me in white, because they are worthy and deserving. 5. Thus shall he who conquers (is victorious) be clad in white garments, and I will not erase or blot out his name from the Book of Life; I will acknowledge him (as Mine) and I will confess his name openly before My Father and before His angels.” Revelation 3:18 - “I counsel you to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that you may be rich; and white raiment that you may be clothed, and that the shame of your nakedness do not appear; and anoint your eyes with eyesalve, that you may see.” Revelation 7:13-14 - Then, addressing me, one of the elders (of the heavenly Sanhedrin) said, Who are these (people) clothed in the long white robes? And from where have they come? 14. I replied,. Sir, you know. And he said to me, These are they who have come out of the great tribulation (persecution), and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 16:15 - “Behold, I am going to come like a thief! Blessed (happy, to be envied) is he who stays awake (alert) and who guards his clothes, so that he may not be naked and (have the shame of being) seen exposed! Revelation 19: 7-8 - “Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. 8. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. As we fill our spirits with the Word of God, Jesus is weaving the threads of His Word into a beautiful, clean, white, illuminating garment, causing us to shine in His own likeness. Each new day the Lord gives us is an opportunity to live our lives pleasing to Him; feeding our spirit man with His Word, as it weaves our garment and prepares us for the day He comes to take us home to be with Him for all eternity. u WEAVING OUR GARMANT - CON’T Woman Meets Jesus During Shocking NDE: ‘I Was Preparing to Die’ BILLY HALLOWELL/CBN 06-19-2025 Vanessa Joy Lancellotti was a newlywed preparing to get her life moving when the unthinkable happened — a February 2016 near-death experience that was absolutely terrifying. “I had a ruptured arteriovenous malformation of the brain … and it’s something that I wasn’t aware I had that you can actually develop … in the womb … before birth,” Lancellotti told CBN News. “And, so, it just ruptured out of nowhere when I was having tea with my two sisters, Amanda and Melissa.” The sisters were having a good time when Lancellotti started experiencing sharp pain in the back of her head — an ache so strong she collapsed to her knees in discomfort. Lancellotti, who tells her story in the new book, “Miracles Really Do Happen!: Jesus Makes All Things New,” said she was “really scared,” and that her sisters rushed to get her to the hospital. “I felt [like my head] was wet inside,” she said. “I felt it rupture. I felt the bleed out.” Lancellotti said she knew what she was experiencing was serious and “life-threatening” and that death might befall her. “I started preparing myself to meet Jesus because I really felt and believed that, ‘OK, this is it. I think I only have a few minutes left and I better get ready and prepare myself to meet Jesus,'” she said. “And, so, I started to repent the best way that I could and go through kind of my life history.” She continued to repent while on the way to the hospital, fully prepared to die. By the time she reached the hospital, she was unable to function. With the hospital ill-equipped to deal with the situation, they prepared to transport her to another facility and loaded her into an ambulance. “I was preparing to die,” Lancellotti said. “I was not praying like, ‘Oh, Lord, let me be healed,’ because I knew that this was happening quickly. … It was like I was preparing to meet the Lord.” Suddenly, while in the ambulance, she felt like she had been swept up into a “new place” and all of her pain and fear dissipated. “I had no recollection of the past at all whatsoever,” she said. “It’s like sin never existed, pain never existed — no physical, spiritual, emotional pain at all. It was all gone, and it was wiped away immediately, and I was in the presence of the Lord. It was just this bright white, vibrant light around me, like this pure, pure white.” Lancellotti said it is hard to put the experience into words. Overtaken by peace, she said she was suddenly with Jesus. “I had an encounter with Jesus, like he was standing before me and He was just brilliant,” she said. “He was in brilliant white robes with this light blue sash around him, and I remember I felt like this little girl, like I felt very pure and innocent.” Lancellotti continued, “And I remember that Jesus — He hugged me. I felt so, so loved … just like I was completely taken out of any trauma and I was in His presence. I was in His arms … He hugged me with His wide open arms and I felt so loved, and like all the fear was gone and I knew that I was protected.” And then she said the Lord delivered a message she’ll never forget. “He said to me, ‘It is not yet your time,'” she said. “I went back into the ambulance or back into the hospital.” What’s most remarkable is the fact that her heart didn’t stop, so at no time was she clinically dead. Yet she doesn’t believe the experience was merely a dream or a vision. “I was literally in a new place,” Lancellotti said. “I believe I was in paradise. I was with Him in heaven.” The interaction profoundly transformed her life. “Right after I had the encounter with Christ and my family was around me, my mom, she’s like, ‘You have such a glow around you,’ and I had such a joy despite what just happened or what we were going through.” That joy persisted even as she was prepared for surgery. Suddenly, her spiritual awareness was totally illuminated, with Lancellotti focusing on Jesus’ imminent return as well as His care for her. “He loves me,” she said. “He saved me.” Afterward, she started attending revivals and learned more about the Holy Spirit. Over time, she said her faith got much stronger. “Up to that point…I knew I had a strong knowledge and understanding of the Gospel,” she said. “I had a relationship with Christ. But, up until that point, I didn’t really know very much about the power of the Holy Spirit or the gifts of the Holy Spirit and how they operate in us as believers.” Now, Lancellotti is sharing her story in an effort to help build up others’ faith, using her book “Miracles Really Do Happen!: Jesus Makes All Things New”to inspire. u Permission Granted JESUS IS COMING SOON, ARE YOU READY?
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