Posted on 09/16/2009 8:32:25 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
September 16, 2009
Georgette Smelich
Through many generations God’s loving Hand has greatly blessed the United States of America. We are a Christian nation that was founded upon reliance on God and His principles.
He has graciously provided all of our needs, from an abundance of food on our tables, the clothes that we wear, to the warm shelter within our homes. The Lord has protected us, for we are His people. He has remained faithful and merciful, gently caring for us as a shepherd tends to his flock.
In difficult times God is our solid Rock. He is our Shield that fiercely protects us from our enemies as He offers those He loves a safe and secure place of refuge.
The United States of America was once a prosperous nation that overflowed with milk and honey. Our thriving economy actually manufactured quality products that were labeled “Made in the U.S.A.” God blessed us with the strongest military power in the world, as our allies depended on us for their security and defense.
But, somewhere along the way, we became a rebellious people. Like the children of Israel we decided to take the credit for ourselves, failing to acknowledge that these wonderful gifts came from Almighty God, the One who created heaven and earth. Instead of thanking our loving Father with praise we began to eliminate Him from our lives.
He has been removed from the schools and America’s children are no longer allowed to pray. Sadly, in some places we are not even allowed to openly worship the baby Jesus at Christmas time except in our homes. Some churches are not upholding godly principles, straying away from God’s Word, supporting detestable acts in God’s eyes such as abortion and homosexuality. Traditional marriage between a man and a woman is being altered as now homosexual couples are allowed to marry each other.
God’s children are being raised in dysfunctional homes without a clear concept of the true American family, which includes a father and a mother.
The influx of illegal immigrants across our borders is creating havoc, as they take our jobs and destroy the rule of law, making a mockery of the fundamental principles of this great nation.
As Christians we know deep in our hearts that God surely must be weeping with a broken heart for His people and how we have defiantly disobeyed him. It can only be a matter of time before God’s enduring patience with us begins to subside. In fact, we are already witnessing the erosion of our God-given freedoms.
The United States of America was once a prosperous nation. Now our economy is disintegrating right before our eyes, forcing people into poverty, as millions of Americans lose their jobs to overseas competition, and their homes to foreclosure.
Families are now finding themselves to be dependent on the government for their entire welfare.
Our only hope for the survival of this great nation is in God. We must repent of our sins, and turn back to Him before it is too late!
The Lord speaks to us very clearly in 2 Chronicles, chapter 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 will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
If we seek the Lord with all of our heart and soul, humbling ourselves, He will hear our prayers. And then, like all the generations that went before, our posterity will be able to enjoy the wonderful blessings of His Almighty Hand.
And so, until the hour of Jesus’ glorious return, let us do the work He has given us in helping to turn our fellow Americans back to Him. If we will simply be faithful in that, what a victorious Day that will be!
BTT with thanks
My pleasure. Very much so.
We need to keep in mind . . .
our HOPE IS IN CHRIST ALONE.
There is no other hope.
Not for us as individuals. Not for our families. Not for our beloved Republic.
And there is NO HOPE TO RETURN TO STATUS QUO of the last 200 years in any way shape or form.
There is NO hope to return to business as usual.
There is NO hope to mix light and darkness.
There is NO hope to continue to pollute the sanctuary.
There is NO hope to do our own thing in this land and pray God will tolerate it and bless it or at least endure it and allow it to continue. THAT WILL NOT BE THE CASE.
The land itself is about to vomit up the evil plaguing it. No amount of prayers will prevent that.
There will be no safety, no peace, no stability and no hope apart from Jesus The Christ.
And He is not going to be relating to us nor to the USA as suffering servant Lamb. He is relating as LION OF JUDAH.
There is NO COMPROMISE with the LION OF JUDAH. It is all or nothing.
There is no hope to hang on to "CHRISTIAN AMERICA" fantasies with business as usual.
There is no hope to hang on to CHURCHIANITY as usual.
There is no hope to cling to RELIGION as usual.
There is no hope from going through RELIGIOUS MOTIONS as usual.
There is no hope from putting other things first as usual. God Alone must be first.
There is no hope from leaning on a rotten post of vain imaginings, fantasies and RELIGION as usual. We MUST lean only on the everlasting arms of Jesus.
There is no hope that even earnest fasting and prayer will make a righteous silk purse out of the sow's arse that D.C., Hollyweed, Madison Avenue, . . . etc. have so vividly become.
Even our good works must be kept on God's altar. Even our best efforts, our best . . . filthy monthly rags . . . of our works of righteousness must be continually offered up to God on His altar as nothing . . . CHRIST ALONE, CHRIST'S BLOOD ALONE IS SUFFICIENT.
GOD IN US ALONE WILL DO.
GOD IS NOT INTERESTED in business as usual in the USA nor in the world.
God is increasingly and increasingly rapidly interested in being about trashing the old world in the fires of his fury at sin. Anything and everything and anyone and everyone clinging to that sinful world will be trashed with it.
Even clinging to the sinful components of the sinful world in the name of patriotism and The Republic will be trashed.
America without God is a suicidal, murderous disaster in the hands of the king of hell and his Jr Minister of Destruction--Othuga. All such are doomed.
There will be no such thing as a Righteous America with a side order of a little recreational sinning.
This chapter of the online book about the spiritual Pearl Harbor etc. is correct. Take heed.
http://www.cryfromthewall.com/chapter18PearlHarbor.html
God The Father will insure that the Bride of Christ is spotless. One either eagerly cooperates or is out of the boat and into the sea of the fires of hell.
There is nothing inherently righteous about any American nor about America. GOD ALONE MAKES ANY OF US AND ANYTHING RIGHTEOUS.
And ALL THE CHAFF, ALL THE DROSS, ALL THE UGLINESS OF ALL SIN WILL BE CONSUMED IN THE FIRES OF HIS FURY.
Even 'looking back' at what has been . . . will be eternally hazardous. Looking back will risk being counted unworthy for Heaven.
We are used to the AMERICAN STANDARD being the world's paragon standard of good.
Those days are gone, to whatever degree they ever were true.
God is calling us higher to HIS STANDARD. NO OTHER STANDARD WILL DO.
It is NOT to our credit that any group or religion or nation could point the finger at the filth out of Hollyweed, the filth out of D.C., the filth out of Madison Avenue, the filth out of our media, the filth out of even so many of our churches as the current hallmarks of America's reputation.
No amount of prayer, sackcloth, ashes, fasting or God forbid, even cutting ourselves, will cause God to put lipstick on sin and call it beautiful.
THE ONLY WAY TO REDEMPTION IS CONFESSION, REPENTANCE AND FORSAKING ALL BUT GOD ALONE. THE GOOD IS THE ENEMY OF THE BEST. CHRIST ALONE WILL DO.
GOD IS NOT INTERESTED IN AN OVERHAUL. God is shredding to the Foundational elements and rebuilding. Any foundation other than Christ will also be shredded. CHRIST ALONE WILL DO.
Any goal other than Christ alone will be trashed, come to naught, be costly to even contemplate.
The America that survives will be CHRIST'S ALONE. He will not share His glory. He will not share His primacy.
I knew I recognized that blue font, hello Quix, good post ...
BTTT and well said.
bump!
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.
THANKS for your kind words.
BLESSED BE THE WAYS OF THE LORD.
Thanks for your kind words.
"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Psalm 118:8
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkvkLmkYVg
This is a really wonderful singing tribute to the perseverence of the American people by Lloyd Marcus, a black Conservative.
God Bless America...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZkvkLmkYVg
This is a really wonderful singing tribute to the perseverence of the American people by Lloyd Marcus, a black Conservative.
God Bless America...
HOORAY, MAGNIFICENT POST, QUIX. ONE OF YOUR FINEST. GOD BLESS YOU.
Thanks, Alex. That’s wonderful.
No, they don’t. The Bible talks about the generation that knoweth not God. We’re seeing it now. What hurts me is the number of ‘church’ kids who go out into the world and behave JUST like the world.
Great performance and song. Loved it. Now let’s DO something about it.
I understand the yearning for the America that was, but the America that was was an America which, with a few exceptions, honored God and obeyed Him and did not deliberately spit in His face and deliberately and arrogantly break His commandments and enshrine into law that which He detests and has called abominations.
The America that was can never be again because the common culture that existed, the culture that had at its core a reverence for God and an acknowledgment that God is sovereign, is gone- too far gone.
It is a horrible tragedy, but we are at the point where each man and woman needs to examine what they will do with Jesus Christ because that is what it has come down to and where we are at. Everything is crumbling and falling down, and the only thing that any of us will have, in the not-too-distant future, is our faith and security in Christ. And if you don't have that faith and security, you have nothing. Nothing.
That's what it has come down to.
THANKS FOR YOUR KIND WORDS.
BLESSED BE THE LORD, SOURCE OF ALL GOOD.
Absolutely correct. Well put.
Thanks tons.
Blessed be the Name of The Lord—the source of all good.
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