1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born again), not from a mortal original (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God." 1Peter 2:2 (Amplified) says, "Like newborn babies you should crave (thirst for, earnestly desire) the pure (unadulterated) Spiritual milk (the Word of God) that by it you may be nurtured and grow into (completed) salvation."
Hebrews 5:12-13 (Amplified) says, "For even though by this time you ought to be teachings others you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God's Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary (either to Divine or human law)."
Hebrews 6:1-312,18-20 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, let us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to Spiritual maturity. Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith by which you turned to God, with teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead and eternal judgment and punishment. These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware of long, long ago. If indeed God permits, we will now proceed to advanced teachings."
Verse 12 says, "In order that you may not grow disinterested and become spiritual sluggards, but imitators, behaving as do those who through faith (by their leaning of the entire personality on God in Christ in absolute trust and confidence in His Power, Wisdom and Goodness) and by practice of patient endurance and waiting are now inheriting the Promises."
Verses 18-20 say, "This was so that by two unchangeable things (His Promise and His Oath), in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled to Him for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope anointed for us and set before us. (Now) we have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul (it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out on it-a hope) that reaches farther and enters into the very certainty of the Presence within the veil, Where Jesus has entered in for us (in advance) a Forerunner, having become a High Priest forever after the order of Melchizedek and rank of Melchizedek."
This is the Rest that Jesus has brought to us, by the Father. God never intended to just deliver the people out of Egypt, but wished to bring them into Canaan or Rest. God fed them with milk through the Wilderness, so they would grow into a mature. When it was time for them to go from milk to meat though, they wanted to return to the world that hadn't met their needs. They didn't want to grow into mature and refused to believe that God could and would deliver on His Promise. They didn't receive responsibility of maturity, in their faith.
Hebrews 4:6-7 (Amplified) says, "Seeing then that the Promise remains over (from past times) for some to enter into the Rest, and those who formerly were given the Good News about it and the opportunity, failed to appropreate it and did not enter because of disobedience. Again He sets a definite day (a New Today) and gives another opportunity of securing that Rest, saying through David after so long a time in the words already quoted. Today, if you would hear His Voice and when you hear it do not harden your hearts."
Like those of old, we've been given the opportunity to "Enter into that Rest," seize the Rest and taking the Land like Joshua and Caleb. We see our nation being taken by the enemy. We've been brought out of the bondage, which came from disobedience of former generations. Will we choose to stay in the Wilderness, refusing to eat the meat and maturity? Or, will we go forth in the Power of God's Might, breaking down the strongholds and entering into the Rest?
God has fed, clothed and nourished this generations, leading them to the gates and walls that hold our Rest. Will we retreat at what looks like a giant, or will we trust in our God to break down the walls and bring victory? Will you, as a believer, stay in the Wilderness where all the responsibility is on someone else or will you trust in God, to bring you out of the Wilderness and into the Promised Land? The walls around Washington D.C. aren't so high or strong, that our God can't bring them down and deliver the Blessing He determined to be ours, when He made covenant with our forefathers. It's time for God's Church to take back the land that God has given us, as an inheritance from our forefathers. We must pray and vote. The giants aren't so big that God cant's overcome them. Our God has no rival or equal and there's nothing He can't do.
2Chronicles 7:14 (Amplified) wasn't just a prayer and Promise of God for only His people at the time. It's for His people of all times, who have strayed from His Word and have turned their hearts from Him. Thus is says, "If My people, who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, pray and 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."
God, please Bless America again!
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