Fill Er Up!!

He answered, "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'" Luke 10:27

I am a product of the wonderful 50's and 60's the days when prayer was allowed in school. The days when the Ten Commandments were not outlawed. The days before the Bible was more relevant than political correctness. The days of happy innocent television where murders and sex scenes were not viewed on a nightly basis. The days that spanking was not child abuse. The days the Gideon Bible was actually handed out in public schools. The days before it was okay to legally murder an unwanted baby in a mother's womb. Oh my how we have changed.  The times when the gas station had an attendant, who asked when you pulled up to the pump "Fill er up?" He even checked your oil and washed your windshield. 

It is time for a revival in our land. There is nothing 'old fashioned' about living for the Lord or having good morals. The Bible has laid out a plan if we follow it that we can have eternal life. When the things of the world become more important than God therein is the problem. America was established as a Christian nation but not a nation that is supposed to ignore God's word and apply tolerance so as not to offend. We are to love God and love people but sometimes this is tough love. The word of God is clear and unchangeable yet modern man, and even some churches,  have twisted it to satisfy the times.  

Now is the time to rise up and stop calling good evil and evil good. The enemy has deceived many.  It is not too late. Every day call upon the Lord to heal this land. We were not created by God to forget about Him and He has the final say. We are not to ignore His commands. 

PRAYER: Lord Jesus I know that Satan thinks he has won the battle for America. He has messed with people's minds making them accept wrong as right. Lord you alone can redeem and set the captives free. Set anyone free who I know who is believing lies of the enemy. Stir up hearts to bring revival to this nation.Protect me from deception.  In Jesus' name. Amen.

RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION

When I first moved to Alabama in 1999 there was a billboard on Interstate 65 going northbound almost into Tennessee which read "Righteousness Exalts a Nation,But Sin Is a Reproach to any people". This is actually a Bible verse in Proverbs 14:34. This billboard was on top of one advertising for a strip club.

I drove on past one of numerous X rated billboards advertising more strip clubs, known here in this area in a kinder yet gentler deceiving name of "gentlemans clubs". Kudos to whomever paid for the Christian billboard. It was there for over 11 years till it was replaced by a billboard for an Adult Bookstore in Tennessee. Very sad isn't it? I had hoped the thousands of travellers northbound on I 65 were blessed when they saw the scripture billboard, as I know I was.

Sin is becoming so common place that we are becoming desensitized to it. Today our nation sits on a slippery moral slope and we are about to slide off I am sad to say. Until we in the church who are supposed to know right from wrong, get serious about taking back this nation it will continue to slide. We are reaping what we have sown. In 1963 prayer was removed from the public schools. From then on our nation continued to teeter and falter. No more moral absolutes. Ten years after prayer was put on the chopping block 9 justices in black robes decided to play God and said it was perfectly fine to kill babies in the mother's womb. Calling it women's rights, choice, or reproductive freedom it is still the same. Murder of a baby who God created. How long can we in this country go on dissing God and making up our own rules for right and wrong?Pretty arrogant I would say. We elect leaders who then say 'this is not a Christian nation' and things once seemingly perverse are celebrated. Satan has blinded many to the truth.

Psalm 33:12(NIV) says 'Blessed is nation whose God is the Lord the people He chose to His inheritance.' Don't you imagine God is weeping for His people who have been led astray by Satan? I know He is. Our monuments in the Nation's Capitol testify to this country's founding fathers having a Christian heritage. Great colleges, such as Harvard, were even founded on Christian principles. How far we have allowed the enemy to gain ground because we let unjust people lead us and did not speak up for the truth? We have brought this on due to our complacency.

There is a verse found in Proverbs 29:2 which is very pertinent for today and it says 'When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.'

The Founders even used God's word when writing the Constitution. Satan has his ambassadors too and they want nothing more than to destroy a wonderful God fearing nation that most of it's 237 years has followed God and the truth. We have freedom given to us by God and we are blessed because we have followed God. Those who make a mockery of God will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 11:21(NIV) is our promise from God's word. It says 'Be sure of this. The wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will go free.' I am saying this to say it is not too late to get serious and seek God with all your heart. He is not Democrat or Republican but he hates injustice and lies and His people being trampled on. Jesus is Lord and in the end everyone will know it.

Let me leave you with a good verse to commit to memory and it is 2 Chronicles 7:14(NIV) which says 'If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray, seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and heal their land.' Are you ready to get serious about righteousness and saving this nation?

PRAYER: Lord Jesus I know you love righteousness and truth and hate a lying tongue. Father we have many liars mascarading as leaders trying to control the people you want to be free. Help us Lord to speak up in Love and put those people in public office who are true servants and not people who want to control us and lord over us.I pray for those people who seemingly hate your word to come to a knowledge of the truth. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Please listen to this very powerful song about God and America:

http://youtu.be/BEUfRsQxq2A