Until the people of this nation return to their most vital relationship, our restoration will be delayed. Today, right now, we must awaken, be revived and pursue God with all our strength. The Lord should again become the source of our input. The success of our nation depends on it; when we fail as a nation, check the input source.
Victory is predicated upon the actions taken after good advice is shared. Bad information almost always leads to poor results, conversely wise instruction produces excellence. Solid input and success are inseparable. America and its citizens should again make God its input source and stop allowing today’s media to bully our thinking into submission via the gutter of mediocrity.
It is said that broken clocks are right twice a day, just like a faulty system of governance; every now and then a good policy will get squeezed out. Haymakers in the game of boxing will get the occasional knockout, but it is a faulty strategy. Consistency is what we need, not the constant neck turning to observe what other nations are doing. Just look at the toll it’s taking. Our nation’s families should turn back to THE God who got us here, and away from the gods from all other nations.
Political science professors at the University of Houston conducted a 10-year study to find the source of the Founding Father’s ideas. 15,000 writings from the Founding Father’s era were collected. The study produced 3,154 direct quotes and identified the source of each quote. It may come as a surprise that the founders unanimously quoted the Bible more than any other writings. The Founding Fathers was the political and social leaders of their day.14 Huh? Looks like we’ve again been deceived into thinking politics, religion, church and state should stay separated. It worked just fine for our nation’s founders. Maybe that’s our problem today, the two don’t mix but should.
Amazingly, these 2 join just fine when trouble comes. Could it be that tragedy would be avoided if the 2 sides mixed more often? The government needs God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not a universal god, nor a secular god; but the God of the Bible. Let’s make it plain whom we serve for without proper identification, our God becomes just another consideration among other options.
How did this thinking become so widely accepted? Why would such a storied past now get the cold shoulder, be rarely embraced and seldom celebrated? Has anyone made the correlation between our current education system and why it continues to fall behind the world we once led? God wants in, a deranged few want Him out, and look where that has gotten us. Too few have gone too far in advancing the agenda of removing God from the American Dream. When Godlessness stops progressing, the nation’s decay will recede. Meanwhile, our prayer is that His-Story will again become Our-Story.
Too Big to Miss
America’s three (3) Branches of Government originate from Isaiah 33:22 (NKJV).
“For the Lord is our Judge, The Lord is our Lawgiver, The Lord is our King; He will save us.”
Judges, Congress and the President… look strangely similar to the Bible. If only our leaders first read, and then understood the beginning of each phrase… ”The Lord”. The Lord must lead our Judges, our Lawmakers and our President; He is the one who appointed their individual and collective functions long before they took office. But since we have asked God to step aside, our predicament should serve as a preview of a God-lite America.
The Separation of Powers is another founding principle rooted in scripture.
Jeremiah 17:9 NJKV “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked, who can know it?”
Knowing that men would fail through deceit, the Founding Father’s separated the powers of government and made them equal so as to provide balance. How brilliant of God to give such wisdom to a government made of noble people. Oh that this wisdom would be received today.
The logic of the Tax Exemption for Churches comes from Ezra 7:24 (NKJV). 15
“Also we inform you that it shall not be lawful to impose tax, tribute, or custom on any of the priests, Levites, singers, gate keepers, Nethinim or servants of this house of God.”
Let’s pray that the Lord blesses us to return to our founding virtues. Our country needs this cleansing to preserve the kind of future we want for our children.
Note the following. The Supreme Court’s ruling in 1892 in the Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States. “No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national because this is a religious people… This is a Christian nation.” The court provided 87 precedents upon which the decision was made. The court quoted the Founding Fathers, the acts of the Founding Fathers, the acts of States and Congress, and only concluded their evidence of America the Christian Nation after deciding that no more need be said. 16
In another case heard by the Supreme Court Vidal v. Girard (1844) A Philadelphia School thought its students could learn morality without the Bible. This was the court’s ruling. “Why may not the Bible, and especially the New Testament… be read and taught as a divine revelation in the (school) – its general precepts expounded… and its glorious principals of morality inculcated? Where can the purest principals of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament? 17
Our nation has God in its DNA. America was not founded to snugly fit into the mold of the world’s community, rather to lead the communities of the world into Christ-likeness. Where other countries rule with an iron fist, those who live here get to freely exercise God given freedom as a way of life. How refreshing! Therefore, as we embrace and not malign our country’s unique origin, we will reemerge to prominence. The Spirit of Christ will again be summoned to fulfill this earthly mission, for it was He who unified these United States under God.
On a level playing field, without the smoke and mirrors, people of reasonable intelligence would chose right and good, over error and covert schemes, any day. God draws people to Himself and (John 6:44) wants the country back. As we return to Him, and lose the incessant desire to control others, truth will triumph over rhetoric and popular opinion.
History reverberates the benefits of following God. His leadership simply works. God has no equal and until recently, neither did America. The further we depart from God, the greater the decline of our worldwide influence. Now, we are being trained to be just like every other nation. A compelling direction since much of the world does not regard the Christian belief. It is unhealthy to hug our enemies, shun our friends then blatantly disregard God. This combination of errors invites both peril and stress. Companionship with the Spirit of God helps us accept truth a lot easier. God, who established truth, requires it from those who follow Him. Without truth, freedom cannot be sustained.
Unfortunately however, many American’s find it is easier to lie than face the challenges associated with personal responsibility. To make the dosage a little easier to swallow, lies in their essence are often referred to as merely broken promises. For years lies have been assigned a color designation to quantify their impact… ‘Little white lies’. When a citizen lies to congress it’s a felony, but when a congressmen lies to you it’s called politics. How strange. The fact is, lies don’t challenge us to change, which makes it difficult for a nation spiraling out of control to gather its footing. As long as political and spiritual leaders use marginal deception as the method of communicating, positive change will not be possible. Without truth, deception will reign. God is currently training a volunteer army of focused Believers who will usher in change via the prayer war room. In these times, those who pray a lot will have sustained peace.
Our nation is changing, but in the wrong direction and in an abnormal way. Fortunately for us, God runs deep in the fabric of our country and change against His standards will not go without His notice. America is slowly waking up and God will hear us when we pray. Therefore, before the gap widens too deeply, our intercession and commitment to the nation must be ramped up. Let’s again embrace our Godly heritage and preserve the upcoming generation. We have a responsibility