Wednesday, July 3, 2013

A Patriots Prayer

People still believe that we will make this world a safe place to live in, and that there will be peace on this earth, the educated and the ignorant believe this, and they believe we will do it by human means. Some Christians think that preaching the Gospel will do that, but that is not why we were given the Gospel! Before you hit delete please read on,We should be encouraged by the freedom we have in Jesus Christ, it should challenge us to daily be responsible for the way we live our lives and carry on,” to whom much is given comes great responsibility” someone once said.

God has not forgotten man, it is man that has forgotten God. And God gave us the Gospel to win souls for Heaven, not to save the world from the wreckage, it will come to and end. He gave us the gospel to save mankind from the wreckage of the world.

As Christians, brothers and sisters we should know our nation is in serious trouble.

There is little doubt we’re in a moral free fall. History as we know it is coming to an end. We are seeing precepts of the Battle of Armageddon.. It could be today, tomorrow, or forty years from now, but the road is being paved, and soon we will hit Rock bottom and there will be no repair. America will become another ancient empire in history’s landfill if something radical and dramatic is not done.

Should this make you fear the future? It shouldn't, as Christians first our citizenship is in Heaven, and we know God is the Author of hope, and we can stand on His sovereignty, He has always been, and will always be. God alone is Unshakable. America's first line of defense is not the military or government, it is God Himself.

Christians everywhere should be asking, what can we do to bring our nation back to God? Well it is not to late to begin with, if we can breathe, read the word of God, pray and ask God for help, there is Hope.

GIVE ear, O Shepherd of Israel, You who lead Joseph like a flock; You who dwell between the cherubim, shine forth! 2 Before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, Stir up Your strength, And come and save us! 3 Restore us, O God; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved! 4 O LORD God of hosts, How long will You be angry Against the prayer of Your people? 5 You have fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in great measure. 6 You have made us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves. 7 Restore us, O God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved! 8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; You have cast out the nations, and planted it. 9 You prepared room for it, And caused it to take deep root, And it filled the land. 10 The hills were covered with its shadow, And the mighty cedars with its boughs. 11 She sent out her boughs to the Sea, And her branches to the River. 12 Why have You broken down her hedges, So that all who pass by the way pluck her fruit? 13 The boar out of the woods uproots it, And the wild beast of the field devours it. 14 Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts; Look down from heaven and see, And visit this vine 15 And the vineyard which Your right hand has planted, And the branch that You made strong for Yourself. 16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down; They perish at the rebuke of Your countenance. 17 Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself. 18 Then we will not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name. 19 Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved! Psalms 80:1-19

This is a prayer from the heart of a patriot, who sees his nation being destroyed systematically and ask God to revive this one flourishing land, just as we are today. This is a great psalm to pray for America, God has blessed this nation because of the principles we were founded on and based our judicial and government on, His laws and word.

If we have any hope it lies solely in the hands of God's mercy. We have to look to God our Creator and cry out.. Restore us, O LORD God of hosts; Cause Your face to shine, And we shall be saved! vs. :19

Revive us again oh Lord! we need to come humbly to God with fasting, praying and weeping, a revival of the heart for this our nation. That is one thing that comes from calamity, either it will revive a nation or destroy it, there can be no middle ground. The middle ground gives way, and that is where we are today.

Revival must come from within every individual heart. God will not bring revival through Washington. This is something we need to realize and change our ways of thinking on, God called His people, not a government.

“If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14

Prayers from unrepentant people is an insult to God. Religion without righteousness is repugnant and that is what we have today in America. It does not matter if we hold a public spectacle for a National day of prayer, where even Washington’s elite politicians will gather to pray. While cesspools of iniquity are full and running over into our homes and churches and schools, six days a week people are out eating, drinking and being merry and come Sunday they come in wondering why America is the way it is, dying on the vine, it is because we have dead prayers going no higher than the ceiling. So much of our prayers are “God bless us. Just bless us, anyhow.” But God will never do this as long as we continue on this path, you and I and every one who calls themselves a Christian must make every day a National day of prayer and we must start with confession and turn from our wicked ways.We have the God given right and responsibility to Speak up and Speak out .

Let Your hand be upon the man of Your right hand, Upon the son of man whom You made strong for Yourself. Then we will not turn back from You; Revive us, and we will call upon Your name vs. 17 & 18

That name is the name above all names the Son of God Jesus Christ and we must stand strong, and we must speak up. And if they tell you, you can’t you simply reply (these are my favorite verses to quote to the liberal minds and mouths)

So they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered and said to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.20 "For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard." Acts 4:18-20

If your told separation of church and state, which is the most UN American thing a liberal mouth could say, answer them as someone once said “ The church is not the master of the state, nor is the church the servant of the state. The church is the conscience of the state.”
We have to speak up and say what God's Word says. Satan's strategy is to keep Christians silent, and he is succeeding.

The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; My God, my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies. 4 The pangs of death surrounded me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears. 7 Then the earth shook and trembled; The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken, Because He was angry. Psalms 18:2-7

The victory is ours, either way God will go before us, and the wrath of God will strike down the nations that gather against Him and His children, whom shall we fear, NO Man, or power other than Him. We stand on The Rock, the Lord Jesus Christ!” We don't need great multitudes. Jesus said "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them." Matthew 18:20

Jesus Christ and me or you, that is the majority no one else is really needed, It's time that we who call ourselves God's people were filled with this unshakeable attitude and we stand up and say “Oh God, give us deliverance!” Look We have the King of Kings, on our side, The Holy Spirit is our ally , God’s Word, our weapon The Victory is already ours through the Man who sits on the God's right hand, Jesus Christ.

In Christ
brian