I understand that it is popular now to say "pray for America", however I also know there is a point at which God is so angry over the sins and stubbornness of a nation that He tells His prophets to no longer pray for the nation.
I struggle with the idea that we should no longer pray for America. Most people want to preserve their country, it's about them. They like their freedom, their prosperity and their treasures. I don't hear anyone saying we need to get back to the Bible as our standard, in fact some who say they believe the Bible use it as a book of suggestions rather than revering it as the very Word of God to be followed out of deep love for Him.
However, there are more than 60 million babies that have been murdered legally in this country and many other terrible sins that continue, the people's hearts are not changing in fact they are becoming more staunch in their rebellion. Sin is growing, intensifying and proliferating more than ever.
Jeremiah 14:10-12 "…10 Thus says the LORD to this people, "Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account." 11 So the LORD said to me, "Do not pray for the welfare of this people. 12"When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence."…"
There is much deception in leadership, the masses are willing to receive a leader who will promise them "peace and safety", but they are not willing to evaluate their own character and direction in life.
1 Thessalonians 2:2-4 "…2 For you are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.…"
Those who love the Lord are beginning to see all the unBiblical things that are occurring in the apostate church, they are leaving the institutional church to run toward Christ.
If you are among those who want to return to the basics of the Bible, not just speaking about them but living them out every day, you can expect to feel alone, but fulfilled in a way others do not understand. There will be those who will judge you about silly things, attempting to divert your attention from that which Christ is commanding. Be assured, their punishment is coming for their attempts to hinder believers who love Christ. They will not be successful, but they will be judged anyway.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
"hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins But wrath has come upon them to the utmost."
It is a fearful thing to come against the brothers and sisters in the Lord. Those who do this are prideful thinking they know it all and will not listen to good judgement or righteous words.
Jeremiah 7:26-28 "…26 "Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers. 27 "You shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you; and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 "You shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept correction; truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.…"
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