John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessings and Truth came through Jesus Christ."
I'm urging every eligible American, to make your vote count and participate in the upcoming midterm election. I'm beseeching believers in other countries, to please pray for America. The Body of Christ needs to stand together and stop believing the lie that, "It's fleshly to participate in politics."
Paul reminds us that we're not just dealing with political parties, but we're actually dealing with demonic powers in Ephesians 6:12 (Amplified) saying, "For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood (contending only with physical opponents), but against the despotism's, against the powers, against the master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (Super-natural) spheres."
The division and hatred operating currently in America, isn't something that exists between two different political parties, but is a demonic attack on our nation. Christians have the authority through the Name and Power of Jesus Christ, to put down this attack and restore unity and peace to our nation. I'm not saying that the people participating in the division are demonic, but they've been deceived into unknowingly operate under demonic influence.
We've been called to pray for our leaders and to use the Name of Jesus in power, on this earth. 1Timothy 2:1-4 (Amplified) says, "Pray first of all for our ones who are in leadership positions, that we may be pleasing to God and that we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life, and inwardly a peaceable one." There is no quiet and peace in our nation today, mostly because those of us who know how to pray, are not pleasing God in this sense.
America shouldn't have civil unrest, like nations that don't know Jesus do. We mostly vote parties (Democrat or Republican), instead of voting according to God's Word and His Spirit. We've done this for so long, that we've forgotten what it really all about. Jesus said in Matthew 24:6-8 (Amplified), "You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place. All this is but the beginning (the early pains of the birth pangs), of the intolerable anguish."
We are witnessing these things on a daily basis, in these latter times. When Jesus said, "Kingdom against kingdom," He was speaking about the kingdom of darkness being at full scale war against the Kingdom of God. This isn't happening only in our country, but throughout the entire planet. Man is devoid of anymore ideas and ability to prevent it. This is the time for God's Church to rise up from being babies and grow into the stature of Christ Jesus. Satan knows his time is short and he has pulled out all the stops.
In the midst of all this, the Lord instructed us to, "Be not troubled or frightened." Jesus told His followers, "My peace I leave you; Not as the world has peace, but My peace I leave you," in John 14:27 (Amplified). The only way of securing peace in these troubled and chaotic times, is to stay with God's Word and rest in Him. Christians have the power of His Name and the Promise of His Word, to change the these temporal things. We must not call the things occurring around the world, "The new normal," because that's not God's way. We're to "Call things that are not, as though they were." Paul writes about God's covenant with Abraham in Romans 4:17 (Amplified) saying, "As it is written, I have made you the father of many nations. He was appointed our father in the sight of God in Whom he believe, Who gives Life to the dead and speaks of the nonexistent things that He has foretold and Promised as if they already existed."
God didn't instruct us to call things we see as Truth, but to say that what God has said about those things, THIS IS TRUTH. Paul tells us who are enemy is, in Ephesians 6:13 (Amplified) where he writes, "Therefore, put on God's complete armor, that you may be able to resist and stand your ground on the evil day of danger and, having done all the crisis demands to stand firmly in your place."
This is the time to pray believe, resist and stand in the Promise and the armor that God has supplied. We must not say, "Nothing can be done," but we must stand in faith by God's Word and His Promise. God says in 2Chronicles 7:14 (Amplified), "If My people, who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave and require of necessity, My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and HEAL THEIR LAND."
Our nation has become sick, because of the lack of prayer over it. We've leaned on our own understanding for far too long and have failed to acknowledge God and His way of doing and being right. Only God can turn the heart of a nation to Him and He asks us to pray and trust Him. It doesn't matter about the politics of either side, but about people who will listen to Him. We need to vote the heart of God over our nation and listen to Him, in this time of crisis.
The time of awakening has come and it's time for the Glory of God to be revealed to the Church and the world. Prayer is the most important thing for our nation and voting is one way to sow a seed of faith into your prayer. James 2:17 (Amplified) says, "So also faith, if it does not have works (deeds and actions) of obedience to back it up, by itself is destitute of power, inoperative and dead." We must pray, listen, vote and believe that God will do as He says and "Heal our Land."
God Bless you,
Jim
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