I am reading The Russia-China Axis by Douglas Schoen and Melik Kaylan. I have been reading it for two weeks, off and on. I have to take it in small doses. It’s too much to take. Basically it outlines how Obama is disarming the US.
A quote by Mark Halprin, to start chapter 5.
“Our policy, relentlessly pursued by the president, is to disarm. As China and Russia integrate their defense industrial base s, we diminish ours. We are stripping our nuclear deterrent to and beyond the point where it will encourage proliferation among opportunistic states, endow China with parity, and make a first strike against us feasible.”
And I’m so, so, so tired of all the flame-throwers, they never stop. Ben Carson is the latest target of social media snark and vile ridicule (although Kim White continues to trend high).
What’s happened to us? 😦 😦 😦
We need to be fervently praying that God will send revival and wake people up from this folly.
Talk about imploding from within — we’re collapsing in on ourselves.
A revival isn’t enough now, Donna.
We need a prophet to come to tell people that what they are doing is wrong.
Pastor Steve believes we have already crossed the line.
Maybe.
But as I’ve said many times before.
There are still ten good men in Sodom.
But recognizing our sin is the first step in — and a key part of — revival. That has to come first, but it’s all part of the process — People are divinely awakened to their sin and to their need for a savior — for their need to repent and be forgiven, that they/we are accountable to the Creator and that we’ve been living in folly and in estrangement from him.
God has turned many cultures from their own destruction, he’ll continue to do so — all according to his good pleasure.
But he doesn’t & won’t bring revival in every case. Sometimes a culture’s collapse is exactly what is needed — it is all part of his good plan and will.
Either way, we believers need to trust what God is doing — in good times and bad.
He’s not abandoned us or his creation. He still rules the nations.
So praying for revival includes and begins with a people waking up and seeing their desperate need, their rebellion against God. The bad news, then the good news. The gospel.
What I see now in the U.S. is a nation filled with a prideful & rebellious people, full of themselves, rejecting God, despising those with whom they disagree, pounding their chests as they ridicule and demean and turn on one another with so much bitterness. And when I say “they,” I have to think “we” and look inward and see where these attitudes live in me as well.
It’s just not a pretty picture.
And, frankly, it’s taken the wind out of the 4th of July for me in the past few years. 😦
Other than a divine move of the Spirit, I don’t see how our country comes back from this mess.
But my view is limited.
And nations come and go in history — our God lives forever.
Things have been worse in the past in many places. I suspect we’ve been somewhat spoiled living in what really was a grand experiment of a nation that thrived for so long.
Chad is right. There are still more than 10 good men in Sodom. I am very encouraged by our young Christians. They are serious about their faith. It helps me if I focus on the trees, not the forest.
I feel just what Donna is feeling. and then here at school we used to meet three mornings a week for prayer. Last year I was the only one meeting one day a week. This year no one and this week there wasn’t even prayer at the staff meeting. We are desperate, but not on our knees. And I need to be respectful and not takeover.
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I am reading The Russia-China Axis by Douglas Schoen and Melik Kaylan. I have been reading it for two weeks, off and on. I have to take it in small doses. It’s too much to take. Basically it outlines how Obama is disarming the US.
A quote by Mark Halprin, to start chapter 5.
“Our policy, relentlessly pursued by the president, is to disarm. As China and Russia integrate their defense industrial base s, we diminish ours. We are stripping our nuclear deterrent to and beyond the point where it will encourage proliferation among opportunistic states, endow China with parity, and make a first strike against us feasible.”
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So discouraged about the state of the nation.
And I’m so, so, so tired of all the flame-throwers, they never stop. Ben Carson is the latest target of social media snark and vile ridicule (although Kim White continues to trend high).
What’s happened to us? 😦 😦 😦
We need to be fervently praying that God will send revival and wake people up from this folly.
Talk about imploding from within — we’re collapsing in on ourselves.
OK, rant over.
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A revival isn’t enough now, Donna.
We need a prophet to come to tell people that what they are doing is wrong.
Pastor Steve believes we have already crossed the line.
Maybe.
But as I’ve said many times before.
There are still ten good men in Sodom.
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But recognizing our sin is the first step in — and a key part of — revival. That has to come first, but it’s all part of the process — People are divinely awakened to their sin and to their need for a savior — for their need to repent and be forgiven, that they/we are accountable to the Creator and that we’ve been living in folly and in estrangement from him.
God has turned many cultures from their own destruction, he’ll continue to do so — all according to his good pleasure.
But he doesn’t & won’t bring revival in every case. Sometimes a culture’s collapse is exactly what is needed — it is all part of his good plan and will.
Either way, we believers need to trust what God is doing — in good times and bad.
He’s not abandoned us or his creation. He still rules the nations.
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So praying for revival includes and begins with a people waking up and seeing their desperate need, their rebellion against God. The bad news, then the good news. The gospel.
Still praying. 🙂
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What I see now in the U.S. is a nation filled with a prideful & rebellious people, full of themselves, rejecting God, despising those with whom they disagree, pounding their chests as they ridicule and demean and turn on one another with so much bitterness. And when I say “they,” I have to think “we” and look inward and see where these attitudes live in me as well.
It’s just not a pretty picture.
And, frankly, it’s taken the wind out of the 4th of July for me in the past few years. 😦
Other than a divine move of the Spirit, I don’t see how our country comes back from this mess.
But my view is limited.
And nations come and go in history — our God lives forever.
Things have been worse in the past in many places. I suspect we’ve been somewhat spoiled living in what really was a grand experiment of a nation that thrived for so long.
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Chad is right. There are still more than 10 good men in Sodom. I am very encouraged by our young Christians. They are serious about their faith. It helps me if I focus on the trees, not the forest.
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10 Good men: While God has singled some out to save from destruction, his judgement can/has (and will again) fallen on whole nations nevertheless.
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I feel just what Donna is feeling. and then here at school we used to meet three mornings a week for prayer. Last year I was the only one meeting one day a week. This year no one and this week there wasn’t even prayer at the staff meeting. We are desperate, but not on our knees. And I need to be respectful and not takeover.
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Chas, not Chad. Sorry about that.
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So he didn’t sing with Chad & Jeremy?
Or invent hanging chads?
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