A Message For A Friday

Few Christians have enough faith to believe that God can preserve America. There is a cloud of dispair and unbelief upon people everywhere, as they look for disaster or the judgment of God to fall. We are looking for God to bring deliverance. We believe this with all our hearts. God has made us to be a nation, a people for His possession. Peter made it very plain that while we are citizens of the Kingdom of God, we are also coexisting with this present world.
 1 Peter 2:11-25

America is a great country! Consider the position of women today. In every Christian country, women have far more liberation than in other countries, and they are trying to attain still more. Many women want to move in domination, not liberation; they want to take over. women already own more real property in the United States than men do. In no other place of the world does the women have the rights that she enjoys in a nation with a Christian heritage. In some parts of the world a woman is bought and sold like a cow, harassed and esteemed as very unworthy; while the man continues in his dominant arrogance.

Where Christ has ruled, or where the Christian Church has had influence, it has been the salt of the earth and an instrument of change. No big revolution was needed to start those changes working. The Kingdom of heaven comes like leaven hidden in three measures of flour, and soon the whole is leavened (Matthew 13:33).

All we have to do as citizens of the Kingdom is to worship and to prophesy, to move in what God has for us, speaking the Living Word and seeing it sent forth, because that is the factor which will change the structures of society; we will do it by a Word.

We do not overcome evil by combating it in the same way it comes against us. Because we earnestly desire to see God move in the earth, we submit totally to Him. We must reach the place where we can love even our enemies. Others may come against us, but God has given us a promise that in the end time no weapon formed against us will prosper (Isaiah 54:17). When human nature enters into a situation, then nothing is accomplished spiritually. God cannot bring the victory as long as the one involved is not yielded to Him in the realm of his spirit so that He can make him an instrument. None of the ancient armies could cope with Elijah or Elisha. On one occasion, when fifty men came to take the prophet of God, he said, "If I am a man of God, let fire consume them" (II Kings 1:10,12). In other words, "God, You defend me. You take on these enemies Yourself." Elijah was wholly dependent on God to defend him, and He did.

There may be times when God does not defend certain of His servants. If we are chosen to be martyrs for Him, we will rejoice in the privilege. But if it is God's will for us to prevail by the Spirit, we believe for that. And this is exactly what He has been speaking to us, that we will prevail in the Spirit. We submit to the institutions that God has raised up, because we know that this is God's way of working, and it is what He says to us in His Word.
 I Timothy2:1-8 expresses this same thought.

Lord we look to You. We do not want to be a  fearful people, nor do we want to be a compromising people. After receiving so much from You, we do not want to back away from it. But we do want to apply the Word that You have given us in the way that You say we are to apply it. We know that we cannot use carnal means to bring about a spiritual end, for our weapons are not carnal; they are mighty through God (II Corinthians 10:4). We reach to You, Lord, believing that You will bring down every lofty thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Yourself (II Corinthians 10:5). We believe in the ultimate glory of God in the whole earth. We believe in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords (Revelation 17:14). We believe that He shall rule and reign, for this is His right.

We believe that the simple voicing of our prayers and our faith will bring Thy divine power into action and bring about Thy will in the whole earth. We commit ourselves into action and bring about Thy will in the whole earth. We commit ourselves to Thee, Lord. We refuse to walk by any other word than Thy Word. We submit ourselves wholly unto You. So completely do we yield that whatever You tell us to do, we shall do, in Your name.

We take upon ourselves the armor of God, that we may resist all the powers of darkness, and "having done all that, to stand" (Ephesians 6:13). We do not fear, for we know that Christ is coming to rule, "to be glorified in His saints" (II Thessalonians 1:10).
Amen.