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THE NATIONAL PROBLEM
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WHY ARE WE STILL LOSING THE CULTURE AND SPIRITUAL WAR.
When this website started in 2020, we faced a viral pandemic killing thousands then a million people in the U.S.; Governors and Mayors shutting down economies, businesses going bankrupt; governments mandating medication on people, millions losing their jobs; rising suicides and domestic violence; racial tensions mounting; riots and crime rising in the streets as politicians promoting lawlessness, raging inflation, government and media cancelling freedom of speech, freedom of religion and more.
THE PANDEMIC IS OVER – BUT GOVERNMENT CONTROL AND THREAT TO FREEDOM IS WORSE.
Throughout history politicians and the elite have used crises to seize total control over people’s freedoms assuming they know better how to run everyone’s lives than the people themselves. “You never let a serious crisis go to waste” (Rahm Emanuel, Former White House Chief of Staff). Sometimes a sudden shift in popular opinion can enable good policies, but more often it is used to give the few greater and greater control.
Policies like we see in the U.S. today where:
– freedom of speech cancelled by government, universities, media and corporations,
– freedom of religion being restricted or cancelled by government, media, schools.
– abuse by Justice department, FBI, CIA, IRS to oppress political opponents for partisan power.
– conducting and prosecuting “unreasonable searches and seizures (4th amendment),
– changing election rules without proper legislative approvals,
– forcing the public to deny that God made mankind as only male or female,
– giving the rights of parents over their children to “progressive” educational organizations
– encouraging children to get sex change operations without knowledge & approval of parents
– forcing schools to teach racism and revisionist history as part of the school curriculum,
– forcing employees & students to get vaccines against their will or they’re fired or expelled.
– aborting the preborn in the name of personal selfish choice and forcing others to agree.
– Mayors and governors and even presidents who refuse to enforce laws for partisan power.
– Judges who no longer apply the written laws, but ignore or rewrite them
– Increasing lawlessness because district attorneys no longer prosecute crime
– increasing chaos at our national borders because the administration does not enforce the law.
– increase in drugs & human trafficking at border from cartels, our leaders don’t fight it.
– national media not holding politicians accountable for crimes to protect the partisan power.
– a media that persecutes people who have not committed a crime silence them.
– Constant lies (spinning) about what government is doing to hide agendas and mislead.
– CEO’s pushing progressive “woke” ill-conceived causes without regard to customers.
– a push by some special interest groups with communist ties to abolish the nuclear family.
– a breakdown in family and friend relationships egged on by interest groups & TV shows.
– reckless government overspending causing runaway inflation and hurting all citizens
– exploding national, state, corporate, personal debt with economic collapse in 20 years.
– financial institutions and brokers cheating to gain profit with no real SEC oversight.
– mainstream churches going “woke” and apostate from the faith.
– U.S. international policies to weaken U.S. and benefit countries that would destroy us.
– and these problems happening worldwide with all countries.
And there are many more fractures in our society. It’s hard to watch the news without getting very upset. Some frustrated by the impotence of our electoral system to right these wrongs, and the power of politicians to ignore the will of the people have caused some to despair and withdraw from society, and caused others to consider violence or insurrection and take matters into our own hands. .
But as Christians we are told:
Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves. (Romans 13:1-2)
And this was written by the apostle Paul at the height of the dictatorial Roman rule.
So, do we just give up, lie down and do nothing. No, we are told to fight injustice.
“Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression.” Isaiah 1:17
If not with violence. How? One hymn in popular use today says it succinctly
“WHEN WE FIGHT WE FIGHT ON OUR KNEES WITH OUR HANDS LIFTED HIGH”
When all I see is the battle, You see my victory
When all I see is the mountain, You see a mountain moved
And as I walk through the shadow, Your love surrounds me
There’s nothing to fear now for I am safe with You
So when I fight, I’ll fight on my knees With my hands lifted high
Oh God, the battle belongs to You And every fear I lay at Your feet
I’ll sing through the night Oh God, the battle belongs to You
(“Battle Belongs” Phil Wickham)
It was the prayer of Hezekiah that called on the Lord for deliver from the mighty Assyrian Army.
That night the Angel of the Lord slew 185,000 of them. And the king fled to his home country and was killed by relatives. (Isaiah 36 and 37)
It was the prayer of Jehoshaphat and the Israelites and sending the worship teams in front of the Israeli soldiers in the face of the VAST Moabite and Ammonite armies that would destroy them, that led to the Lord to having those two armies instead fight and destroy each other.
It was the prayer of Moses when the Israelites fleeing the mighty Egyptian army and trapped by the Red Sea, that led God to part the sea, allow the Israelites to cross the sea on dry ground, and then cause the sea to overflow and drown the Egyptian army. (Exodus 14)
Our battle for Christian truth and justice against a few politicians, District attorneys, judges, school officials, CEO’s, and financial interests pose no real threat to God’s people, if we fight according to His way… BY PRAYER.
Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together
against the Lord and against his anointed, saying,
“Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.”
The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
“I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” Psalm 2:1-6
God has installed King Jesus “at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” (Ephesians 1:20-21)
We are to win the battle IN PRAYER and humble trust in our Lord.
I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (I Timothy 2:1-3)
SO WHY DO WE KEEP LOSING THE CULTURAL BATTLE?
PRAYERLESSNESS!
Depending on our own strength rather than pray and trust in the Lord. Many times in the Bible Israelites lost because they trusted in their own strength rather than their God.
Today we trust in our own intellect, our arguments, our candidates, our financial giving, our courts, our marches, our own media.
It is only as II Chronicles 7:14 says,
if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
How long will we not pray fervently, regularly, daily for God to intervene.
When King Ahab was leading all Israel astray, one man, Elijah prayed that God would punish the land with drought till they turned back to Him,
“Elijah was a human being, even as we are. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth produced its crops.” James 5:17,18
Jesus says if the Holy Spirit causes even two or three believers to agree on anything in prayer:
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:19,20)
And one or two can defeat a thousand or ten thousand.
How could one man chase a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up? (Deuteronomy 32:30)
We don’t need guns or marches – the combined power of true Christians praying unleashes the power of God which is unstoppable.
The only questions are, are you moved enough to start praying fervently for God to fight for the United States? And do you believe and trust in our God to act on our behalf? “Because without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Hebrews 11:6
Are you willing to gather other believes to pray daily for our God to stop the evil that is coming over our country, to change peoples’ hearts with a revival, or to remove those who resist from power and replace them with Godly men and women. (see History of Revivals; https://prayforunitedstates.com/history-of-revivals-god-answering-prayer-for-nations-coming-soon/ )
Or are you still fooled by Satan that we can’t do anything or that we can overcome this vast army against us with our own politics and power?.
We were only saved spiritually by God’s grace from the power of sin (Ephesians 2:8,9) and we are constantly being saved from evil and the schemes of Satan by God’s Spirit. Paul chides the Galatians and us:
“Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh?” (Galatians 3:3)
Over the next year and a half we have have primaries and elections that could determine the future of the United States and our freedom as Christians to worship here. And on a daily basis we are being attacked by special interest groups state and national governments, in courts, in universities, in corporations to gradually insert Satan’s lies in our laws and our literature.
Will you join with us daily and encourage other true believers to join the onward Christian soldiers marching as to this cultural war through our prayers. Will you spend even just one minute a day in prayer to join myself, and maybe two or three or maybe ten or a hundred, or a thousand or a hundred thousand, or a million or a hundreds of millions of believers worldwide to stop this secularization of our nation and our world. The power Christians calling on God in prayer is unstoppable. No powerful government officials, or rich “woke” billionaires, or PR firms, or massive media networks, or collection of educational organizations or secular universities can stop the prayers of God’s people. One true fervent praying believer and Jesus is not only a majority, but an overwhelming victory.
I pray now, please join me now, and every day for at least one minute (see The Strategy https://prayforunitedstates.com/the-strategy/ ,
And then join us each week as we post prayer requests against the new attacks against God’s truth enter the public sphere. Hopefully we will have thousands maybe even millions praying each day. Click this link to see the regularly posted prayer requests:
“Lord Jesus. You see the creeping evil in our nation and our world. You know we cannot defeat it by ourselves. We pray for your mighty hand to utterly defeat the forces of darkness as you did many times in the past. Please raise up army of fervent praying believers not merely to fight the cultural war, but to win many souls for Jesus’ Kingdom. Jesus, you say the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, and that not to first up recruitment but to “Pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into the harvest”. Lord we pray that you would raise up a mighty army of prayer warriors to fight these attacks by Satan on our society and world so we can win as many souls for your kingdom as we can. In Jesus name, we pray, Amen.”
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