Love you all, praying for you…
Praying that you would like the men of Issachar – who understand the times. That you would be like Elijah – a man just like us – but who understood the heart of God for his nation. And prayed! A famous quote by Thomas Paine – America was in crisis then, just as it is today. “These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country…” So what is the service that your country requires of you? that his country required of Elijah? To Pray. There are some times in history that are pivotal – for a generation, for a nation. Right now all the world is watching. They are waiting to see what will happen in America. Because how America goes, so goes the world. Two different opinions – about what America is – and what it stands for – freedom or control, wickedness or righteousness - just like the people of Elijah’s day faced. They were faltering between two opinions. James 5:17 - Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. Why did He pray this? Because He knew the heart of God, He prayed what God told him to pray, because he knew that God was about to do something that would change the course of the nation. Because the wickedness in the land had reached such a point that God intended to rise up and put it to an end. He started with a famine. Elijah understood the heart of God, and the purpose of God and the timing of God for the nation he lived in. Many others – just went about their business as usual… pursuing their own life’s pursuits, or even what they thought were religious things. Elijah wondered if He was the only one left that sought after the heart and the things of God. But God told him, I still have 400 who have not bowed the knee to Baal. God always has a remnant. How easy it is to be completely consumed with what so easily can consume you, that you could miss out on what God is doing in these unprecedented times. This election is a fulcrum not between two candidates, but between two opinions, two platforms, two completely different forms of government, and two different moralities, a was that seems right, and a way that is right. God is going to bring justice throughout the world, starting in America. He is beginning to expose the depth of wickedness and corruption, the spirit of the anti-Christ, and all of the people and plans that have raised themselves up against God and what He calls righteous. We live in a day where men call good evil, and evil good. Where the wicked accuse the righteous of the wickedness they are full of themselves. For three and a half years… Ahab and Jezabel had been searching for Elijah to kill him. Now Elijah met a man who worked for Ahab, who was in charge of his palace. But this man was a devout follower of the LORD. When Jezabel tried to kill the prophets, He hid one hundred of them in two caves and supplied them with food. Elijah told him, “Go get Ahab.” The man said, ‘You gotta be kidding me, what have I done wrong? When I go and get Him, the Spirit of God will catch you up and take you away, and Ahab will kill me. But Elijah calmed him. As the LORD Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today. It was God’s time to bring a change – to reverse the ungodly order, and establish His order. God was about to move. Elijah understood the times, God was about to expose all falsehood, to utterly remove it from the land, and then He was going to Send The Rain. When Ahab saw him – He spoke in perfect fake news character… “Is that you? O troubler of Israel.” Ahab and all those in power and of influence in the nation – had convinced the people that Elijah was causing the trouble, when it was their lies and their sin that brought the curse. Trouble never comes from the righteous, it comes from those in power, or those who seek power who call good evil and evil good, who call the righteous evil, when evil is what they do. That which is against God’s law, and against God’s will, against the good news of Jesus Christ and the freedom from sin that He brings. Elijah responded with truth to the lie. “It is not I who has made trouble for Israel. But you and your father’s family. You have abandoned the LORD’s commands and have followed the Baals. Any time we abandon God’s command, the land is cursed. Ahab removed God’s Word from the schools and censored it from the media, he murdered prophets like we murder babies. He killed people to secure power and wealth. But Elijah gathered the people on Mt. Carmel and confronted them all. How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. They had to choose between two opposite forms of government. Like today, the bondage and curse of sin, or the liberty and freedom of God. That day God sent fire from heaven consumed the sacrifice, the altar, the stones and all the water in the trench around it. The wickedness was removed from the land, and God sent the Rain. Elijah knew God’s heart, what blessed Him, and what grieved him. He did not side with the wicked, He was on the LORD’s side. In our nation today there are two sides, the side of life and the side of death. Those who promote God’s truth, and those who perpetuate lies, who call good evil and evil good. God is about to expose things that will shock the world. God is about to establish whom He has chosen to lead this nation, and the fake news, fake votes, and fake officials, with all the gates of hell will not prevail against it. The question is will you be like Elijah? Will you humble yourself and pray? Will you stand with God and what He wants to do, adding your prayers to what is His priority? or will you be distracted by other things. Do you even know what’s at stake, and what is the heart of God in this hour? These are the times that try men’s souls, that determine the direction of nations. Will we be one nation under God, that will result in the blessing of God, or a nation that rejects God and soon suffers the miseries of sin which is a curse to any nation? Praying that you will understand the times, and like Elijah – that you will pray. Love you all, dad
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