The Awakening of America, Part 3

The Awakening of America

Romans 4:16-21  This may seem to you like a strange scripture to use in awakening a nation, but follow with me because the principle is still the same.  Many Americans have seen things wrong in our Government for a long time.  We have done as Abraham and tried to fix it ourselves.  As you recall, Abraham went to the flesh to try and bring the promise to pass, and brought forth Ishmael.  Because of this, there has been trouble ever since.

When we began to see a decline in our nation and our Government, we went to the arm of the flesh to fix it, not realizing it was God who made America great, not us.  I don’t believe that most people thought about it, then decided we don’t need God anymore.  I think we thought it was something politics could fix.  It wasn’t a deliberate decision to throw God out, but a complacent mind about the greatness of who we were.

We made a decision to throw out the Democrats and put in Republicans, or throw out Republicans and put in Democrats.  By not acknowledging God in our decision we made matters worse.

Finally, we need to come to the decision that Abraham did.  We look at the nation as it has become over the last two or three decades and see what Abraham saw when he looked at his 100 year old body and the body of his 90 year old wife.  There was no hope of the fulfillment of the promise, but he hoped in God and not himself.  Romans 4:18 (AMP) For Abraham, human reason for hope being gone,  he hoped in faith.

When we give up in total futility and want to quit, we need to realize that “with God, all things are possible”.  We have to hope in faith in Him and His promise that II Chronicles 7:14 still works, when politics and parties don’t work.  It has never been the result of politics that the nation declined, but a lack of confidence that God is still the answer.

We as Christians have had the responsibility of Godly government all along, but we went along with the world, not raising a voice when they took Him out of our language and even out of some of our churches.

I don’t believe we will ever go back to what we were, but I do believe we can make a difference in putting Him back at the center of hearts of the people.  In Hosea 4:16-17, God said “my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge, because you have rejected me as your God, I will reject you as priests”.  In other words, when you acknowledge me once again as your God, I will again acknowledge you.

Intercessors have always been what the Father used to reach His people and He is moved by intercession as His people call on His name.  You may recall the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18:23-33.  Abraham stood in the gap and interceded on behalf of the two cities until God would have spared them even for ten righteous people.  Surely you must believe that there are at least ten righteous people in America (See this also in Exodus 32:7-14 and Exodus 32:31-32). 

                                                       

You will find in the Book in Jonah that God gave him the task of preaching and interceding for Nineveh so He wouldn’t have to destroy it.  Jonah, on the other hand, was upset because God spared it.  I hear a whole lot of preaching today about the judgment of God on our nation as it seems that a lot of people are calling for judgment instead of mercy and compassion.

I believe that our Father wants us to stand in the gap as priests between Him and His people and pray, so He can do as He did in Nineveh.  We still, through God, have a chance at revival to reach a large portion of people before judgment falls on this nation of His.

Let’s quit looking for the Anti-Christ and begin once again to look toward Jesus Christ.  Judgment falls when the people stop hearing, but we are a people who hear the voice of the Shepherd and obey His voice.

Isaiah 59:16 When everything was going wrong for Israel, God said He looked and wondered why there was no man, no intercessor to stand in the gap for His people, so He, Himself became the intercessor so as not to have to destroy them.  Jesus came as an intercessor and even now as in Heb 7:25, He ever lives to make intercession.

What have we got to lose by spending time in prayer for the people to awaken and the judgment to be withheld until the awakening and the harvest has been completed?

Pray for an awakening!  Proverbs 17:10, reproof enters into the heart of a wise man, better than a hundred stripes on the back of a fool.  Hear the reproof!  Proverbs 14:34, Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. 

LET RIGHTEOUSNESS REIGN!