In Pursuit of God

By Peter Schuler

Forty-one years ago, the Lord put a passion in the heart of Peter Schuler to seek God with all his heart, soul, and strength. Peter describes this passion in his introduction: 'I love You, Lord. Burn away anything that is in me that is not of You. I fall short every day, but I run to You and feel Your loving embrace. I hold onto Your Hand, and You lead me through the storm. I need not fear the darkness around me for You are with me. My heart is overflowing with Your Love. Hold me close to Your heart and never let me go. I cling to You with all my strength. I put my hand into Yours, and I walk with You. I am safe for You are with me.' By Grace, the Father has revealed Himself to Peter in a glorious way through visions, revelation, and amazing times of fellowship in the Presence of the Lord. Follow Peter's journey to know God as he worships the Father with music and photography on majestic mountain tops and beside beautiful lakes and streams. Discover God's Amazing Grace as Peter is called to lay down his life and walk through the valley of the shadow of death during a seven-year illness. Experience the joy of healing when the Lord miraculously restores his life. Hear the Call of God as Peter is led by Christ to leave everything behind and serve the Lord for twenty years in an inner city ministry to the homeless and those in jails and nursing homes. It is Peter's prayer that this book will inspire others to fall in love with Christ and begin their own journey to know Him. The Father Loves us more than we can ever know. Once you experience the True Presence of God, nothing else will ever satisfy! To contact the author or to order photographs please visit: InPursuitofGodALoveStory.com

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 18, 2016
• ISBN: 9781681976211

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In Pursuit of God

A Love Story

Peter Schuler

ISBN 978-1-68197-620-4 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68197-621-1 (Digital)

Copyright © 2017 by Peter Schuler

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To all the Saints

who love and serve the Lord,

the cloud of witnesses

who have gone before us

and my father

who joined them

in 1979.

A Portion of the Proceeds of this Book

will go to help the Homeless.

Introduction

I love the Lord with all my heart, soul, and strength. I love Him because He first loved me. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins (1 John 4:9–10).

I love all that He is and all that He has done. I love His Ways and I love His Voice. I love His Goodness and His Faithfulness. I love His Holiness and Righteousness. I love His Patience and Kindness. My only desire is to spend Eternity in His Presence. I want to draw nearer to Him every day. My passion is to know Him regardless of the cost. I pray, O, Lord don’t let me compromise and become lukewarm. Let this passion always burn inside me to seek You with all my heart. I am not satisfied with this world or the things of the flesh. I only want You. I love You, Lord. Burn away anything that is in me that is not of You. I fall short every day, but I run to You and feel Your loving embrace. I hold onto Your Hand, and You lead me through the storm. I need not fear the darkness around me for You are with me. My heart is overflowing with Your love. Hold me close to Your heart and never let me go. I cling to You with all my strength. I put my hand into Yours, and I walk with You. I am safe for You are with me.

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A Testimony of Love

The Lord has led me to write this testimony of God’s Love for me and my love for Him. I want to proclaim God’s Grace and Goodness toward me as I have followed Christ for over forty-one years. The Father has been faithful to me through all the seasons of my life. In the 1970s, He showed me Visions of the coming His Kingdom, and I tasted the Glory of His Presence. He put a passion in my heart to know Him, and I continue to seek Him every day. Jesus has led me to many glorious mountaintops and through many valleys of suffering. In the 1970s, I walked in the Anointing of the Holy Spirit, and in the 1980s, He called me to lay down my life in the Hope of His Resurrection. The Father fulfilled all His promises to heal me and then called me into full-time ministry. For the past twenty years, I have served Him in an inner city ministry to the homeless and those in the jails and prisons. I have been His vessel through which the Father poured out His Love to many lost and hurting people. God has called me to share the Good News of His Kingdom to those without hope, and many have believed His Word.

I give God all the Glory. He has done all of it. I will testify of His Goodness and Love Forever! I bow down before the Father and shout, "Worthy are thou, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for thou didst create all things, and by thy will they existed and were created (Revelation 4:11). I also kneel and worship the Lamb and proclaim with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!" (Revelation 5:12).

I pray that this book will ignite a passion in every reader to seek the Father with all their hearts! Let us lay down our idols and the distractions of this world and fall in love with Jesus! Let Him be our only desire. If anyone lacks a passion for Christ, let him ask, For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened (Luke 11:10). God promises that He will give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him (Luke 11:13). Draw near to God and he will draw near to you (James 4:8).

God promises, You will seek me and find me; when you seek me with all your heart… (Jeremiah 29:13).

Truly, God is Good!

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Thy Kingdom Come

The Father has called me to write this book to proclaim His Vision for His Church in these last days. In the mid-seventies, the Lord gave me a Vision of a sanctified Church rising out of the ashes of the rubble of the dead apostate Church. The Father will soon pour out the Power of His Spirit to raise up and sanctify His people to prepare them for Christ’s return.

The Bridegroom is calling His Bride to arise by the Power of the Spirit and come to Him.

Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you. And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising. (Isaiah 60:1–3)

Behold, the Bridegroom comes full of Passion and Glory. Awaken from your sleep, O my people, for He comes for His Bride. Break the chains of darkness and open your eyes to see Your King in His Glory. He will clothe you will fine linen (the righteous deeds of His people) and embrace you with His Love. You will no longer be afraid, for the Bridegroom will keep you safe in His Arms.

When Jesus removes evil from His Kingdom, then the Bride will shine bright with His Glory. The Son of man will send His angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Matthew 13:41–43). They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory; and he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other Matthew 24:30–31).

Believers in every age have lived by faith longing for these days when God’s Kingdom will Rule on this earth (Hebrews 11:13–16, 37–40). They rejoice to see the fulfillment of every Vision and every Prophecy. These lovers of God have set their eyes on the Lord and died in hope of a better land where Righteousness dwells. The world was not worthy of these chosen ones, and they were persecuted, tortured, and killed for Christ. These Saints longed for the Glory that is soon to be revealed on this earth.

We are living in the end of the age of darkness and the beginning of Christ’s Reign on earth. Jesus will soon destroy all the kingdoms of this earth that rage against Him. He will sit on the Throne and bring all things in subjection to Himself for He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords (1 Corinthians 15:24–26). Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that He is Lord. (Philippians 2:9–11). Hallelujah!

The seventh trumpet will soon sound and the Great King will Reign on earth with all His Saints who have longed for His appearing (Revelation 11:15). God promises that He will place His people in the safety of His Presence that they have longed for. These Saints refused to compromise their faith or love their life in this world, therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God. He has prepared for them a City where Righteousness dwells. God will shelter them in His Presence and protect them throughout Eternity. Their reward is waiting for them, and no one will steal their crowns. I have prayed for His Glory to be in me and in His Church. I have seen beautiful Visions of His people living in harmony with God, each other and with His creation. Jesus will soon reward His people with an Eternal and Glorious Inheritance! (1 Peter 1:3–4, Matthew 25:34). I wrote this Chorus in one of my songs: I see Jesus, High and lifted up; I see His Glory in me; I see His Bride shining so bright; filled with His Glorious Light.

Jesus is calling His Church out of the kingdom of this world (Egypt) into a new Heavenly Land. Jesus is shouting, Let my people go, and the devil (Pharaoh) is resisting the Plan of God. The enemy seeks to keep God’s people in slavery to sin and in bondage under the oppression of this present darkness. They cry out for a deliverer. Behold, He comes to deliver His people from slavery and take them to His Heavenly Kingdom. He will set His people free by the power of His Blood and by the great outpouring of His Holy Spirit to gather His Church. Behold the Savior comes. He will break their chains of deception and bondage to sin. He will place His Church in the safety of His Presence Forever. Jesus will destroy the destroyers of this earth and give us a Kingdom that will never be destroyed. He will Reign with His Saints Forever. Amen!

My Prayer for the Church

O Lord pour out Your Spirit upon Your people and fill our hearts with a passion to know You. Let Your people fall in love with Jesus, and let His Presence fill their souls. Call Your people out of Egypt (the world), and draw them to You Forever. Break the power of the enemy and the bondage of slavery to sin. Let them lay down their idols and bow down to the One True Living God who loves His people. By Your Grace, cause Your Church rise up with the Power of the Spirit and become an exceedingly great Army. Send forth Your Angels to gather Your Bride from the four corners of Heaven. Let them come together as one people united in Your Love. May Your Spirit draw them out of this world to sit with You in Heavenly places. Call them out of the kingdom of this world to Your Glorious Kingdom. Purify their hearts that the Light of Jesus may shine forth out of His Bride. Remove from us the love for this world and replace it with a pure and holy devotion to You. Pour out a Baptism of Fire to burn away our flesh by the Power of the Holy Spirit. Make us a Bride full of Holiness and without blemish awaiting the coming of the Bridegroom. Let us be clothed with the Righteousness of Christ. Sanctify and cleanse us with the washing of Your Holy Word. Lord, make us ready as a Bride prepared for Her Husband.

The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come’ (Revelation 22:17).

And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them (Daniel 7:27).

Truly, God is Good!