Posted on 11/06/2012 8:53:30 PM PST by Blogger
Well, it is 11:42 and it appears that the answer to many of our prayers was "no." Not what we wanted to hear. Heartbreaking, but not surprising. A nation can not, after all, run around being completely unrepentant of murdering nearly 60 million babies and expect God to turn His head away forever. We also can not have a leader who would turn on God's chosen nation the way Obama has and expect for God's blessings to continue. Such would contradict Scripture - to which God is ultimately always faithful.
So where do we go? To our knees. Yet though He slay me, still will I trust Him. Where can we go but to the Lord? This is a very hard time. Our nation is gone. It is no longer America. Free stuff and fraud won. And God's people will no doubt face some very hard times.
But keep looking up. Nothing can happen without God's sovereign allowance. Even in this sorrow, He has a plan and it is for His glory and the good of His children. Perhaps to save our nation, which is what we have prayed, we must lose our nation. Don't know. But I know God is good. Heaven is real. And if we never get back what we lost, we have been blessed having had it. Love my Freeper friends. God bless the Free Republic, even if it's namesake no longer is.
You are correct on all points. I have reckoned that we live in the America that was founded and built on our Christian faith.
Have we become so godless and evil and lost collectively that we are no longer God’s chosen?
They are piling on me on another thread, but don’t worry I’m sure you will get it too. LOL.
HUGS and thank you for your maturity and candor in admitting that, it shows a level of Christian faith that has been rarely seen lately. God bless you.
Ephesians 6:12
New International Version (NIV)
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
The reasons and values of America’s foundation are built on Christianity even if there was some debate about the Christian faith (as opposed to Deist) of the founders, the culture they were steeped in was strongly Christian.
I do think we have become a godless nation and I think that we are reaping the ‘rewards’ of that and that God is letting us wallow in our mire.
But we are NOT God’s chosen as a country, Christians (by adoption) and Jews (by covenant) are God’s chosen people, not this nation.
One of the saddest things to me is to see the secularism of the nation of Israel. I know several who lived over there and have read many other accounts of how there are many “Jews” (cultural not observant) who say things like “I don’t believe in God, but I believe in the nation of Israel”. They don’t see the connection.
The Old Testament in a nutshell....God blesses Israel, Israel gets stupid and follows after false gods, God withdraws His blessings, Israel is broken and repents and returns to God. Rinse and repeat.
While America is not God’s chosen people, I do think that God has blessed us infinitely in times past,possibly because in times past we were per capita a strongly Christian people, but like His chosen people (Israel)we have turned against Him and are following false gods. He is letting us find out the hard way so that we may be broken, repent and return to Him.
Just a side note, and kinda off topic, are you aware that Mormons teach that the Garden of Eden is in Missouri and is “Zion” (the New Jerusalem), that Mormons are “Israel” and Jews are ‘gentiles’ and that Christ will return and rule from Missouri and make the US Government an Mormon theocracy? They really do believe that America is God’s chosen people and that Jews have been abandoned by God.
Even a paranoid might have some real enemies!
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Its not paranoia if they are really out to get you.
On the bright side, I haven’t gotten any death threats from Mormons for awhile. I must be slipping.
My prayers for you.
(((((Hugs to All)))))
That is a great verse Elsie- however, let’s not forget that Christians also went htorugh very very terrible tiems durign hte times of the romans when htey were tortured and slaughtered for entertainment- God allowed it- and it’s possible that God may allow very terrible times to befall us today too- I’m not sayign all is hopeless- but the reality is that even Christians suffer too- it rains on the just and the unjust alike- I’m also not sayign the God abandoned thsoe Christians who were skewered and roasted alive over burnign coals for entertainment, however, it does shake the faith just a little to think such evil can be perpetrated on peopel and God allowing htat evil to happen- (There are reports that Christians being roasted alive wetre still able to bless those who were killing htem despite the horror- let’s just hope is was a supernatural strengthening during those and coming horrible events becauswe left to ur own strengths, I fear I may fail
And God said:
You murder infants, and call it "family planning".
You steal, and call it "redistribution".
You commit adultery and fornication, and call it "personal fulfillment".
You commit buggery, and call it "marriage".
You mock and deride parents, and call it "entertainment".
You profane the Lord's Day, and call it "business as usual".
You put race, or money, or self-esteem, or the esteem of others ahead, or carnal desires of Me, and call it "progress".
You blaspheme, and profane My Name, and utter every kind of vulgarity and obscenity, and call it "free speech".
And then you seek My blessing????
HAH!!!!
Or so it seems to me ... I don't presume to speak for God ... but in all seriousness, I think that's what He is saying to America.
So I say:
Yes, LORD, I DO ask that you bless America.
Almighty Father, bless us abundantly the graces of repentance and conversion. Grant that we may turn aside from our evil ways, individually and as a society. Grant that we may again call upon You, and seek you truly with all our hearts, that we may then return to You, follow Your ways, and bless Your Holy Name.
This we ask, Father, through your Son Our Lord Jesus Christ, who reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God forever.
Stop with the anti MormonISM nonsense, please. Even the Rev. Billy Graham disagrees with you. For God’s sake, knock it off.
Jesus died for Mormons, too.
True, after Saul came David, but we are not Israel.
I prayed each day for 40 days and fasted from my favorite pastime during that time. I fasted from all food on election day and was prompted to pray each time I felt a hunger pang. But I have to admit, it felt somewhat flat, unlike previous years. It was almost as though the spirit was not aligned with this effort and it became just that...my effort.
Maybe the Lord is removing his hand of protection and blessing and evil is being giving more reign. All I know is that He is sovereign, and I trust.
[[Maybe the Lord is removing his hand of protection and blessing and evil is being giving more reign. All I know is that He is sovereign, and I trust]]
It is exactly hwat I beleive is happening- Why shoudl God continue protectign those who as a whole kicked Him out of our country? Why shoudl God continue protecting those who love sin and who revel in hedonism and perversion? This country unmistakenly voted for sin and evil- prefering ot believe the lie instead of the truth, and the reason they prefer sin over morality is because that those perpetrating hte sin offer promisses of free stuff- The evil one is bribing peopel to love sin more than truth- and sadly the idea of free stuff was enough to get many to compromise their morality- it’s no wonder God has removed His blessings from this coutnry- We kicked Him out and invited Satan to take His place
For YEARS, Billy Graham did agree with Elz! And, now that Mitt the loserman has lost, Billy can have his people put that cult info right back on the Web site!
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