Happy Thursday!
Here’s an excellent random thought I just posted on twitter and facebook: “People have a real chance at becoming great when they are surrounded with great people! I am on the path 2 greatness!” (my reply to a very kind comment from Pamela Myers)
A big thank you to Dave, Rae, and Kristin… for your great thoughts about prayer on yesterdays blog! As I re-read that blog and made a few necessary amendments, then read your comments… I started feeling very high, and I’m still feeling high right now! Thanks for sharpening my life!
Proverbs 27:17 “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.”
Effective, consistent daily prayer… this really is one of the BEST ways to people to find real jollyness during the Christmas Season or at any other time of the year! Especially today, we so desperately need real reform and revival in the American church… not only for the American Christian people, but also for the blessed continuance of our struggling nation.
When considering todays news headlines, time is really becoming “of the Essence”… history has well established how there is an expiration date on every season of grace and opportunity. Consider the following:
- According to Reuters, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech, “The Zionist regime (Israel) and its (western) backers cannot do a damn thing to stop Iran’s nuclear work!” (this is a serious global situation)
- Over the next few months, 30,0000 additional US troops are heading to Afghanistan! These are our precious sons and daughters… they are leaving it all to go sacrifice for tomorrows better world!
- Look ahead five years-look deep into the prophetic horizon… consider the continued imminent threat of terrorism in America and throughout the entire world. What are we all heading into if God doesn’t help us all.
- Face reality about the ever worsening condition of this US economy and how much lower we could descend before hitting rock bottom… really, where will this stop?
- Consider our terrifying moral decline and ask yourself, “What will this mean for the future of the FAMILY unit… and for your children’s children?”
- Consider the lasting negative spiritual and social impact of more than 50,000,000 abortions here in the USA since 1973.
- Consider these present REALITIES of our national and global situation: and no matter how painful this may be at first, consider how YOU and I can REALLY MAKE IT BETTER!
Discussing world crisis always seems like a big old pile of gloom until one considers the historical POWER of a PRAYING CHRISTIAN CHURCH! Every day… I head over to foxnews.com for the latest state of our Union and world. At first, my heart drops and feelings of hopelessness laden me down. But never for more than a minute or two! Because EVERY DAY, the SPIRIT of God rises INSIDE me with great hope for a better day!
Every time I pray… I know that I am making a real difference!
James 5:16-18 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.
The American Christian population must to LEARN HOW TO PRAY again! We need to MAKE A 21st CENTURY COVENANT with an everlasting God… that we will re-discover the secret hidden power of prayer and fasting! That we will pray like Elijah until OUR SKIES OPEN UP… and the RAIN COMES DOWN… and our troubled earth BEGINS TO YEILD ITS CROPS AGAIN!
Today, let’s covenant to:
- Pray and fast just like the founding prophets and apostles of our faith!
- Live according to the teachings of Jesus just like the first century church!
- Lavish our finances on every good church and ministry in our land… until every MISSION OF HOPE is extravagantly resourced!
- Volunteer 10-20 hours a week or more to something that matters in the face of eternity.
- And SURGE at our enemy with all we have until his resolve is BROKEN and the moment shifts back into our favor again!
My God, this is STRONG IN ME today. I feel like I’m channeling a message… a prophetic rally call from the BIG GUY!
Selah
Find Me!