How Much Do You Want Our Nation to be One Nation Under God?

I think most of us woud like for our nation to stand as a free nation and keep our constitution in tact. But the way the world is going, this is going to be hard. If it is to stand as a beacon of light and hope in a dark world, it is going to be up to God's people to make it so.

Read Nehemiah 1: 5-11 to see how Nehemiah prayed to God for his people. This is a good example of how we should pray for our nation. God knows when our prayers are in earnest. We can just pray on the fly. God hears best when we are on our knees. But I can't get on my knees, so my heart bows as I lie down. It is the attitude of the heart that God sees.

Prayer is a mighty tool God has given us to bring to Him the needs of our heart. Some things we should keep in mind as we pray are:
1.  Recognize the holiness of God, He is Soverign of the universe; honor His holiness.
2.  Cleanse our hearts before Him. Repent. Make certain you have your slate wiped clean
     before you begin your requests.
3.  Recognize our inadequacies. God knows what you can do. Don't simply imply God is
     mistaken when He tells you to do something. Obey what he tells you. But recognize we
     need His power to do whatever.
4.  Be willing to be available for God to use you. In prayer, we experience divine enabling
     power. We don't have the right to withhold ourselves from God. If He tells you to do a
     certain thing, do it. He has already equipped you for it.
5.  Faith, trust, cleanliness, and expectation enable us to come to God with our needs. We
     come to Him out of our necessity.
6.  Prayer and the Holy Spirit are inseparately linked. We come to God by the name of Jesus
     and with the aid of the Holy Spirit.

Our nation is in necessity. We are losing our powerful influence for God in this world. God knows this, and He is waiting for His people to realize it and come to Him for instructions as to what we each can do to help bring it back under His control. He will hear the prayers of those who have earnest desires to bring this about.

But God may ask you to do something besides pray. Be willing to do whatever He leads you to do. It may be to write someone. It may be to speak before people. Whatever it is, He has already opened the door for you and equipped you. Be of good courage and obey.

If God's people don't pray and work for the good of our nation, we will fall under the tyranny of those who are evil. Our lot will be bad. None of us want this. It is a great necessity that we give our time and hearts to earnest prayer. And then obey as God leads.
We cannot save our nation in these last days without this.

We need to stand as a nation that supports Israel. God is not finished with Israel. And those who turn against Israel, God will dishonor. This is something we must do because it is written in the Bible. God knows why.

I plead with all of us to do this. Our very lives depend on it, and the lives of our children and grandchildren.
Sandra

Pray for God to have mercy on our nation

Everyone of good conscience and those who belong to Jesus Christ must pray for God to have mercy on our nation. Pray for Him to forgive our national sins and to spare us to be a lighthouse to a dark world. Please intercede for our nation to have leaders who will bring us back to a nation with God as our Commander. Pray for leaders who will make laws according to the principles of God's laws.
If we pray, perhaps God will find favor with us and spare our nation from entering into the dark one world government. Our nation is needed as a beacon of hope in the dark days to come. We need to continue to support God's people, Israel, for He still has work to do with them in the end times.
If we are complacent and lazy, we will go the way of the world. I urge everyone to pray in earnest for our nation to remain as light and salt for this evil world.
Sandy

Leaders Turning to False Ways

I remember a time when I could count on Joyce Meyer to speak the truth. But lately she has come out for things I no longer can tolerate. Is she one more leader who is being led astray by the ecumenical movement?
See this article:
April 14 - Joyce Meyer joins critics of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill


Article: Social Gospel

Charismatic preacher Joyce Meyer has spoken out against Uganda’s highly contentious Anti-Homosexuality Bill.

In a statement released Monday, Meyer said it is “increasingly evident” that the Bill introduced in the Ugandan parliament is a “profoundly offensive, dangerous and disturbing attack on the very foundation of individual liberties and human rights afforded not only to the good citizens of Uganda, but on the at-large global community”.

Proposed last October, Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill seeks to strengthen the criminalisation of homosexuality in Uganda by introducing the death penalty for people who are considered serial offenders, are suspected of "aggravated homosexuality" and are HIV-positive, or who engage in sexual acts with those under 18 years of age.

Though Member of Parliament David Bahati, who proposed the Bill, said the legislation is necessary to protect Uganda’s children from being “recruited” into homosexuality, the Bill has provoked criticism and protests internationally, including in the United States, where both liberal and conservative church leaders have expressed their opposition.

Among those who have spoken out against the legislation are Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Mark S Hanson, popular megachurch pastor Rick Warren, and leaders of Exodus International – which claims to be the world's largest Christian referral and information network dealing with homosexual issues.

“As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution,” she insisted.

The Signs of the Times

The more I read and study, the more convinced I am that we are living in the end times. I know that has been said of each generation, but we are told to look for the signs in the Bible. In the book of Revelation, God has to show John the things that were to come at the end of the age by symbols and signs because He could not show John the things as they were. John would not have been able to comprehend such things as computers, helicoptors, tanks, and other modern warfare equipment. But God showed these things to John.
Those who can read about these things in this book and see what we have today in our modern military that can be these things know that it is now possible for each event to take place. This is the time when the battles described in that book can now be possible.

Also, much is written in the Bible about the love of people toward God and things of Jesus will grow cold as time draws to and end. The last church written to in Revelation is to the church of Laodicea. Each church gives a time in church history when the love of people was either hot or cold. But in Laodicea, the love is purely gone  neither hot nor cold. God hates this.

Today, many people are like this Laodicean church. They attend church on Sunday to appease their consciences, but live like the world for the rest of the week. False teachers abound in our nation and the world. Many people are following them. The people of God have been silent for so long that the world thinks they have given up.

It is urgent today for God's people to wake up, speak up, and stand up for their faith. Only by this can our nation hope to be given mercy by God to stand in these dark days as a light of hope to a lost and dark world. If God's people don't do this, our nation will be lost into the chaos of the one world nations.

It is going to take a lot of intercession on the part of Christians to bring God's mercy on our nation. We must stand. We must support Israel, for God is not yet finished with that people. We must vote for leaders who will give back our nation to God's control and make laws according to His principles. If we don't do this, the fate of our nation is upon our heads.

We cannot sleep and be lazy. We cannot quit. We must walk this path as long as we have breath and life. It is a call to arms for all Christians. Wake up! Be alert! Act! Write to your senatore and representatives at both the state and federal level. Urge them to make laws that abide by the prinicples of God.

If we do our part, God will heed our devotion, and He will work. Other nations may fall, but ours can shine as a beacon of hope and light. Please do your part to make this happen.
Sandy