America, This is Not a Time to be Spiritually Slack

11.10.2024

Introduction

This is not a time to be spiritually slack and nonchalant! This is a crucial time of challenge and change.

It just may be that God has allowed the election to go the way that it did so that there can be one more thrust of evangelism before the rise of antiChrist and the global government, and the return of Christ!

Unless the hearts of the people in America change, our nation will go right back to where it has been!

Don’t use this time to kick back spiritually!

God wants to wake us up!

The only way for America to remain free from the global agenda of control and the Antichrist spirit that has risen worldwide is for us to recognize God and His kingdom in Christ.

In the prophet Amos’ day, Israel was spiritually asleep and not dealing with the serious issues of the day.

They had become spiritually slack and lazy. They were not seeking first the kingdom of God!

Amos 6:1 (NLT) What sorrow awaits you who lounge in luxury in Jerusalem, and you who feel secure in Samaria! You are famous and popular in Israel, and people go to you for help.

Amos 6:3-7 (NLT)

You push away every thought of coming disaster, but your actions only bring the day of judgment closer. 4 How terrible for you who sprawl on ivory beds and lounge on your couches, eating the meat of tender lambs from the flock and of choice calves fattened in the stall. 5 You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David. 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and perfume yourselves with fragrant lotions. You care nothing about the ruin of your nation. 7 Therefore, you will be the first to be led away as captives. Suddenly, all your parties will end.

God has perhaps given us a reprieve from global control. The question is, will it last?

If our hearts do not change, we could go right back to the immorality we have been immersed in by our national leadership, and will lose the freedoms we may have gained.

Now is the time for us to wake up. God wants to do something fresh in our nation!

Ephesians 5:11-14 (NKJV)

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says: “Awake, you who sleep, Arise from the dead, And Christ will give you light.”

Wake up!

We just had what many say is one of the most significant elections in our lifetime this past week.

Donald Trump won in what some term as a landslide.

He had 312 electoral votes, and he won the popular vote.

The American people have spoken in the election that they want change.

Our economy is in trouble, many saying a deep recession or even a depression is looming.

Our southern border has been open, allowing people from all over the world access. They have been taken all over the nation and are being placed in hotels and given government money.

We are close to war with Russia over Afghanistan; Israel and its neighboring countries are in conflict, if not all out war, and we have pledged our support in helping them. Taiwan is being threatened by China, and we have pledged our help. Then North Korea is aiding Russia in the war with Afghanistan.

Inflation has resulted in prices rising by 25% or so, causing many to struggle to provide for their families.

Perversion has become a part of our morals, with homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism and such being taught and paraded in front of our innocent children at an early age.

Freedom of speech has become limited by guards being placed on social media so that certain themes cannot be mentioned publicly. Our new media has become controlled by a certain few and has become a propaganda tool.

Our national problems have resulted in an election that has turned the office of president, the Congress, and Senate over to the Republicans.

The majority obviously like the election results. Others don’t.

We need to be careful in our approach to the issues we face as a nation!

God has given us an opportunity to go another direction. What will we do with it?

What will you do with it?

Listen to God’s perspective on all of this”

Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV)

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

Psalm 33:12-22 (NKJV)

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen for His inheritance. (13) The LORD looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. (14) From the place of His dwelling He looks on all the inhabitants of the earth; (15) He fashions their hearts individually; He considers all their works. (16) No king is saved by the multitude of an army; a mighty man is not delivered by great strength. (17) A horse is a vain hope for safety; neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. (18) Behold, the eye of the LORD is on those who fear Him, on those who hope in His mercy, (19) To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. (20) Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield

Deuteronomy 30:19 (NKJV)

I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.

Isaiah 1:19-20 (NKJV)

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; (20) But if you refuse and rebel you will be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Our nation was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic (The Ten Commandments) and in many ways, we have chosen to depart from that ethic.

That departure from a moral compass has brought us to where we are today.

We have set aside that which made us great. Our sin is our undoing.

The undoing began when we chose to remove the influence of prayer in our public schools, when we removed the Ten Commandments from public view, when our churches chose to preach a watered down message that attracts large crowds instead of bringing conviction to sin and challenge to a reprobate lifestyle, when we chose to go mainstream with sexual immorality, homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism, and when we chose to indoctrinate our school children in filthy lifestyle choices. We have murdered over sixty million of our children through abortion. Life in America has become diluted from living to help others to narcissism and self pleasure at the expense of future generations.

To many, money, things, and entertainment have become the central goal in life.

Pleasing ourselves has taken the place of pleasing God.

We are on the edge of financial collapse. The family, consisting of a male and female in marriage bearing children who are raised in a nurturing environment, is being challenged.

Our military is but a shadow of what it was.

Some of our politicians are more interested in money under the table than truth and integrity. And, our enemies smell blood.

We are way past the ability of legislation and politics to save us from our own undoing.

Our ship of state in America has been sinking while some are trying to plug the holes in the vessel.

The only way forward is another Great Awakening such as we have had twice in our history.

A pig will never be a good house pet.

You cannot put a leash on a cat.

A lion will never make a good domestic animal.

And sinners who have a reprobate heart cannot keep a democratic republic without a relationship with God that curbs sin and promotes a selfless desire to put others’ and their needs above their own.

A change of heart is only available through Jesus Christ and the New Birth. We need an awakening.

Some quotes from over 200 years ago:

Listen to these quotes from our nation’s past that I have had in my archives for many years:

John Adams (2nd President of the USA)

1798 – Address to the Military

(http:patriotpost.us/fqd/results.asp, Reference: America’s God and Country (10-110)

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

1776 – letter to Zabdiel Adams

(http:patriotpost.us/fqd/results.asp – Reference: Our Sacred Honor, Bennett, pg. 371).

Statesmen my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty, but it is religion and morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand….The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people, in a great measure than they have it now, they may change their rulers, and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.

Here is a quote from atheist John D. Steinrucker in a 2010 article for the American Thinker: (from I Never Thought I’d See The Day! Culture at the Crossroads – by David Jeremiah (New York, New York: Hachette Book Group, 2011), p. 28).

It is rational to conclude that religious faith has made possible the advancement of Western civilization. That is, the glue that has held Western civilization together over the centuries is the Judeo-Christian tradition. To the extent that the West loses its religious faith in favor of non-judgmental secularism, then to that extent, it loses that which holds all else together…

Although I am a secularist (atheist if you will), I accept that the great majority of people would be morally and spiritually lost without religion. Can anyone seriously argue that crime and debauchery (immoral self-indulgence) are not held in check by religion? Is it not comforting to live in a community where the rule of law and fairness are respected? Would such be likely if Christianity were not there to provide a moral and spiritual compass to the great majority? Do we secularists not benefit out of all proportion from a morally responsible society?

An orderly society is dependent on a generally accepted morality. There can be no such morality without religion. Has there ever been a more perfect and concise moral code than the one Moses brought down from the mountain?

Those who doubt the effect of religion on morality should seriously ask the question: Just what are the immutable moral laws of secularism? Be prepared to answer, if you are honest, that such laws simply do not exist! The best answer we can ever hear from secularists to this question is a hodgepodge of strained relativist talk of situational ethics. They can cite no other overriding authority other than of that fashion. For the great majority in the West, it is the Judeo-Christian tradition which offers a template assuring a life of inner peace toward the world at large- a peace which translates to a workable society.

Another Great Awakening

Our only hope is in God, our creator.

Now is the time to get involved and lead a move of repentance and humility if our nation is to survive. What we are dealing with is more than just America’s survival. We are dealing with the spirit of antiChrist prepping the world for a global control of politics, beliefs, finances, and religion. America and its constitution stands in the way. Once America’s influence is removed, global control will follow. And we will see come to pass what Jesus revealed in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21, and what God revealed to the Apostle John in Revelation 6.

For the past two years my staff team here at Victory and congregation members have been praying for a great awakening in our nation and for God’s plans to be fulfilled throughout the world. We pray from 11:00 am until noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Join us! We are crying out for change and are praying for the lost to come to Christ. Pastors, I urge you to begin prayer meetings in your churches and praying for a spiritual awakening in our nation and world.

What God has allowed in this election with America resisting global control should wake us up to evangelize our neighbor!

God told Joel that there would be a fresh moving of the Holy Spirit before the Messiah returns:

Joel 2:28-32 (NLT)

Then, after doing all those things, I will pour out my Spirit upon all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams, and your young men will see visions. 29 In those days I will pour out my Spirit even on servants—men and women alike. 30 And I will cause wonders in the heavens and on the earth— blood and fire and columns of smoke. 31 The sun will become dark, and the moon will turn blood red before that great and terrible day of the LORD arrives. 32 But everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved, for some on Mount Zion in Jerusalem will escape, just as the LORD has said. These will be among the survivors whom the LORD has called.

Isaiah 60:1-3 (NKJV)

Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the LORD is risen upon you. 2 For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the LORD will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you.

3 The Gentiles shall come to your light,

And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Zechariah 10:1 (NKJV)

Ask the LORD for rain In the time of the latter rain. The LORD will make flashing clouds; He will give them showers of rain, Grass in the field for everyone.

Acts 3:19-21 (NKJV)

Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

James 5:7-8 (NKJV)

Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. 8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

2 Chronicles 7:14

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Action Points:

1. Are you at eaze in Zion (the church) while our nation is in a downward spiral?

2. Are you aware of our need to wake up and share Jesus with those in our social circle?

3. Are you asking God for a fresh move of the Holy Spirit?

4. Are you praying personally and attending prayer meetings and asking for fresh move of the Holy Spirit?