It’s Monday Everyone… Rise and Shine!

I hope you guys had a great weekend… we enjoyed the deep freeze AND the light snow on Sunday morning. If it’s going to be COLD, then LET IT SNOW! The weather prophets tell us that we may receive 1-2 inches today… we can only pray!

It’s 3:47am right now… I only slept about 2 hours last night before LILLY, the pig started going crazy in her piggy hut. So, after rolling over and over and over… I got up at 2:15am to write in my book, blog, read, and pray. This may have been a big mistake… my eyes are very heavy… (nodding off)

During the month of January every year, I spend a few weeks describing the future as I see it through prayer, evaluation, and biblical study. This year has been the most difficult prediction to ever announce… hands down! I would prefer to talk about ANYTHING else… even to the point of confessing every sin I ever committed in the microphone to the entire world!

Sadly, most Americans don’t really want to hear truth these days. There is so much pressure on the American preacher to avoid topics that make their audiences uncomfortable. And having to tell the truth is no fun at all! 

According to Jesus in John 10:10, the only thing that will ever set us free is hearing the truth. Yeah, I’m just like everyone else… I hate it when someone shines a light on my flaws… I get irritated so many times having to deal with the hidden issues of my heart. But afterwards… after my pride gets finished temper tantruming, and I finally face the truth; it is then that I am afforded the only real shot at an authentic kind of freedom!

Please don’t misread me here… this blog is not written to defend all the gloom and doom, grouchy, judgmental, arrogant preachers of this land. There is no place for arrogant prophets in any era. Truth must always be presented in humility, with great mercy… and great hope! Standing up on a haughty platform and pointing a judgmental finger down the noses of a lost society will never effectively communicate truth.

I just wish to God that Americans would stop avoiding the truth of our current spiritual state. I wish that the people of this land would stop silencing the voice of truth from among us… stop making honest preachers have to live in the constant fear of offending every time they open their mouths. How have we become so hardened? How much more hardened will we become over the next few years? How much farther will America drift before she desires truth again? Are we bent on driving our truth bearers out of business… so unwilling to face truth that we go so far as shedding the blood of our prophets?

2 Chronicles 36:13b-16 NLT “Zedekiah was a hard and stubborn man, refusing to turn to the Lord, the God of Israel. Likewise, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed all the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the Lord that had been consecrated in Jerusalem. The Lord, the God of their ancestors, repeatedly sent his prophets to warn them, for he had compassion on his people and his Temple. But the people mocked these messengers of God and DESPISED their words. They SCOFFED at the prophets until the Lord’s anger could no longer be restrained and nothing could be done.”

So my prayer today is that each of us would desire truth, seek for truth, and act upon the truth presented. That more Americans would have the courage to stay where it is uncomfortable and unpopular. That more of us would financially fuel the voices of truth in our land. Because dangerous is any society that silences their messengers of truth.

Hope you enjoy today’s blog… I love you guys, just finished praying for your week to be a great one! Chat with you later…