Lee Grady: God Has Pushed a Great Big Reset Button
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for three months, you know gasoline prices are at record lows. Some states are reporting prices below a dollar a gallon. There are two reasons for the price drop: Not as many people are buying gasoline because of the pandemic, and Russia and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a price war, causing the oil supply to swing up. Market analysts say they’ve never seen such a glut of oil. As I pondered this situation, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and said: “Now is the time to fill up.” I knew He wasn’t talking about my car’s gas tank.
Sometimes there are things in the natural world that send spiritual messages. I believe God is asking the church in this season of lockdown to fill our spiritual reserves.
Jesus talked about the importance of having enough oil. The five wise virgins in His parable in Matthew 25 made sure they had enough oil for their lamps, while the five foolish ones weren’t prepared. They were locked out of the wedding feast because they didn’t consider oil an essential commodity. Right now, God has hit a “reset” button because He wants us to be ready for what’s coming.
We’ve been much like the foolish virgins. The oil of the Holy Spirit hasn’t been important to us. We can take it or leave it. We figured out a way to do church without God’s help. We even have books and church growth gurus to teach us how to manufacture a cool vibe, entertain people for 60 minutes and get them out quickly.
A.W. Tozer said it this way: “If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95% of what we do would go on, and no one would know the difference.” Many churches today are devoid of the Holy Spirit’s raw power. Conversions are rare. Baptismal tanks are dry. Altars are empty. Our processed version of Christianity doesn’t resemble the book of Acts.
This must change. What if God wants to send a global awakening of the Holy Spirit after this coronavirus pandemic? Do we have enough oil in our lamps to handle the next revival? Here are three things should do immediately to prepare your heart for what’s coming:
Pray for a spiritual reset. When the pandemic started in March, my schedule was canceled, and I realized how busy I’d become. As uncomfortable as it was to adjust my routine, I knew I needed the break—even if it meant less income. I asked the Lord to change my habits, purify my thoughts and attitudes, and give me more hunger for Him. I wanted personal revival.
I began soaking in God’s Word. The Lord told me to read the book of Acts every day in May leading up to the day of Pentecost, which was May 31. Reading about the early church stoked my hunger for God even more. I don’t want to settle for anything less than New Testament revival. The book of Acts is still God’s template for how He works, and we need to adjust our lives to it.
Let God refine and prune. Before Jesus came, John the Baptist had to prepare the way. That process requires repentance and a washing away of the old. Whenever God is about to do a new thing, He recalibrates us so we don’t go back to our old ways. He can’t put new wine in old wineskins. The way we did things in previous seasons won’t work in this next move. Ask God to trim away the dead branches of stale religion.
Seek a refilling. Dependence on the Holy Spirit was the early church’s secret. The Spirit anointed the first disciples to heal the sick, discern evil spirits and carry the gospel boldly to difficult places. How did we ever think we could do ministry without that power?
When Paul went to Ephesus, he met some men who believed in Jesus in an intellectual way, yet they had never been born again. In fact, they didn’t know there was a Holy Spirit (see Acts. 19:1-7). This reminds me of many American churches. We go through the motions of church, but we are clueless about Pentecost.
Now is the time to ask the Holy Spirit to fill you. Don’t wait until your regular routine resumes. The last thing we need is to go back to last year’s “normal” setting. God has a new normal for us! What He has in store for us in 2020 is unprecedented. Only those with full tanks will be able to handle it.
J. Lee Grady was editor of Charisma for 11 years and now serves as contributing editor. He directs The Mordecai Project (themordecaiproject.org), an international ministry that protects women and girls from gender-based violence. His latest book is Set My Heart on Fire (Charisma House).
This article was excerpted from the August issue of Charisma magazine.
The Devil Running Away With America – Day Of Inauguration
The folllowing article from Canada Free Press is very upfront and speaks to the events of the day in true form by: Judi McLeod — Bio and ArchivesCopyright © Canada Free Press
Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years’ experience in the print media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared on Rush Limbaugh, Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-devil-running-away-with-america-on-day-of-the-biden-inauguration
What will happen between now and next Wednesday’s surrealistic Biden-Harris Inauguration on the steps of the Capitol before being led into the White House by the Military?
To all click bait pushers: NO ONE, other than God Almighty, really knows.
No one knows everything about what’s going to happen over the next few days, and anyone who claims they do, is flat out lying.
Information on the web has now gone past the boiling point all the way to hysteria.
But amidst all the hysteria hoopla, including videos “shared” by those claiming to now have permission of high-up informers to altruistically warn us that Martial Law is imminent, there could be a kernel of truth:
President Donald Trump is not waiting in the White House for Nancy Pelosi to come and drag him out of there “by his hair, feet and little hands” because he may have already taken refuge at a military base.
To be clear, we don’t know this, we’re only hearing about it.
As I wrote to a long-time friend who messaged the Mother Ship this morning, asking if we know “what is REALLY going on”, I responded: When President Trump asserted twice this week, ”Never tell your enemy what you are going to do”, it was a message to the Democrats—and to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in particular,”adding that “Pelosi has been wildly boasting that she would drag the president out of the White House, ‘by his hair, feet and little hands’.
“Try that at a military base, Mrs. Pelosi.”
There can be little doubt that the Democrats would have a harder time impeaching the President from afar.
So in thee 11th-hour, just like in Rome which has two popes—one of whom must be bogus—we have two militaries, one which the media tells us will escort the corrupt Biden into the White House on Inauguration Day, and the one purportedly guarding the president at a Texas Military Base.
In which one would you have the most faith?
Here at CFP, an hysteria high reached its zenith today when a conservative source messaged that Trump “could possibly be having a breakdown with the stress he’s been under”.
“I asked if Trump could possibly be having a breakdown with the stress he’s been under… the answer was yes, a huge possibility that this was the case and they are very worried for him.”
Isn’t a “nervous breakdown” exactly what Desperado Democrats need to impeach this right-as-rain president?
Needless to say that the next BCC from this source will find the CFP delete button.
The masses are supposed to reel into shock and despair every time the social media—which has cut off all communication lines to truth tellers—just as Communists always do, the the most important line of Communication cannot possibly be cut.
That is the line of communication between the masses and the Almighty—“as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be”.
Drunk with power lust, the Democrats control the masses through both pandemic fear mongering and 100 percent Digital Censorship.
Don’t believe in the hype hoopla. Don’t believe that any talking head over at Gloat Central (Fox News) will save you
Democrats have convinced themselves that uncountable millions will be watching their surrealistic Biden-Harris Inauguration on Jan. 20.
But who wants to watch Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama lay wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as the Biden Team will have them do?
Their Dance of the Dead continues its way to a hopeful burial of the republic with any resistance already dead and buried.
As sure as the Creator made day and night, Antifa and Black Lives Matter—which have been doing damage to Trump’s name—will continue to do so.
It all comes down to a question of belief.
Don’t believe in the hype hoopla. Don’t believe that any talking head over at Gloat Central (Fox News) will save you.
Believe in yourself, your children and grandchildren, believe in a past, present and future America, believe in the Power of Prayer
Don’t believe in everything you see on the Internet, or watch on television.
Believe in yourself, your children and grandchildren, believe in a past, present and future America, believe in the Power of Prayer—no matter how dark the world has become. Believe most of all that God will not be mocked by any inauguration-bound president who would bring Planned Parenthood members into prominent public office.
Meanwhile, the same media, which has now cut off all communication lines for the masses, says that Biden, whose inauguration will take place on the steps of the Capitol, will be escorted into the White House by the Military.
Wrong! If the Biden-Harris inauguration (God forbid!) comes to pass, they will not be escorted into the White House by the Military—but by the Prince of Darkness himself!
BELIEVE!
(Postscript: Thank you to Talk Show Radio Giant Rush Limbaugh for his shout out to Canada Free Press on Monday’s radio show. It sent our traffic soaring through the roof!)
This Is How Conservatives Get Erased From the Internet
And this is how we can change it.
Two companies, Google and Apple, each control about half of the smartphone market. So when the two companies made a move against Parler, the conservative social media alternative, it effectively erased its app from existence. Joining the party was a third member of the FAANG Big Tech consortium, Amazon, which deplatformed Parler from Amazon Web Services.
AWS controls a third of the cloud marketplace. Microsoft and Google are in 2nd and 3rd place.
Blocking an app doesn’t permanently kill a social networking service, though it places it at a structural disadvantage, but Apple and Google can flag sites as unsafe through their browsers.
Google’s Chrome commands 45% of the browser market in America while Apple’s Safari has a little under 40%. While browser flags can be currently bypassed, it would add a further structural disadvantage that would make people less likely to use the service, and there’s nothing stopping Apple and Google from permanently blocking access to any conservative site.
There are other browsers, but Google and Apple could kick any browser off their app stores that doesn’t comply with a blocklist of ‘unsafe’ sites, further narrowing the potential browser options.
With desktops and laptops, Microsoft and Apple can block access to sites at the operating system level by using their built-in antivirus software. That can also be turned off. For now.
Google controls over 80% of search traffic. Facebook controls some 80% of social media. Being delisted and deplatformed by them can be all but fatal to any site trying to attract new users.
Some conservatives take refuge in the illusion of alternatives from smaller companies, but in the oligarchy, smaller companies usually directly or indirectly rely on services from Big Tech.
DuckDuckGo, for example, serves up searches from Microsoft’s Bing. Many smaller alternative companies are likewise dependent on Big Tech players. The small companies conservatives take refuge in are still reliant on the infrastructure of the big players and can be easily pressured into joining their boycotts or have their own services cut off by the Big Tech oligarchy.
There are workarounds for all of these, but when visiting a conservative site turns into the equivalent of going to a speakeasy, that eliminates much of the potential user base.
Sites can also be crushed at the domain level, banishing them to the dark web.
If conservatives distributing information becomes as onerous as Chinese political dissidents bypassing the Great Firewall, what will be left of the conservative movement online?
It will take more manufactured emergencies to unlock some of these options, but there should be little doubt that they will be. The Democrats and their media allies invented the threat of “disinformation” out of thin air and still can’t properly explain what it means. But they successfully used it to engage in a massive online purge of their political opponents.
A violent clash or a random shooting by an unstable man will unlock another censorship tier. But it could just as easily be another conservative politician winning when he’s supposed to lose.
Direct deplatforming is only the crudest tool. Pressure campaigns have targeted advertising and payment options for conservative sites. Google, again, controls 37% of the digital ad market. Payment options at the top are controlled by the same old team of players. That’s what happened when the David Horowitz Freedom Center was cut off by Visa and Mastercard.
The ‘killer app’ though won’t be direct internet censorship, but corporate cancel culture.
Instead of Facebook deleting your post, you will be fired from your job for posting it. If you own a small business, larger suppliers and companies will no longer work with you. If you belong to a trade association, you’ll be ousted. If your business requires a license, you will lose it.
This isn’t a paranoid fantasy. It’s happening right now.
In November, I wrote about how the National Association of Realtors had modified its regulations to allow members to be forced out of the business over their social media posts.
“Doesn’t this mean that if I post my opinion online and someone doesn’t agree with it, that I can lose my membership and be forced out of the business?” the NAR FAQ asks.
That’s not an isolated policy. Similar moves are underway in various trade associations which would treat politically incorrect views as a violation of professional obligations. Cancel culture isn’t a new phenomenon, but this is the industrialization of cancel culture which takes it from an isolated phenomenon to a collective system of enforcement like China’s social credit score.
This includes monitoring social media profiles and flagging employees, renters, or businesses with conservative views as a potential risk.
Yelp has already implemented a similar program for some eateries. It’s not alone.
Big Tech censorship is a symptom of a much bigger problem which is the criminalization of conservative views within the corporate world. The FAANG bloc has led the way, but big business has been slowly tilting leftward. The giant multinationals are the worst offenders, at least when it comes to public virtue signaling, and they control a great deal of the economy.
Conservatives never asked companies to adopt their political views. Leftists made it mandatory and organized pressure campaigns from the outside and the inside to make it happen.
That’s why they won. It’s why conservatives are losing.
Leftists took over academia and cultural industries by organizing networks inside and then imposing their own leadership and institutional ideologies that made their views mandatory and left no room for dissent, while conservatives failed to organize a common front against them..
Naming major conservative musicians and movie stars was easy. Now name one. Under 40.
The same takeover is happening at a slower pace inside the corporate world, backed by diversity quotas and social responsibility statements. I wrote about this at length in my Freedom Center pamphlet, Thought Control, Inc, and internet censorship is a symptom of that threat.
The whole threat will erase conservatives from the internet and from public life.
Can conservatives influence, campaign, and win elections under these conditions? The endgame here is eliminating conservatives as a meaningful political force in America.
That’s the scale of the threat. Conservatives have spent too long ignoring it. And even now they underestimate the sheer scale of the strategy to erase them from the marketplace of ideas.
But Big Tech isn’t as powerful as it seems. It’s vulnerable and it’s worried.
That’s why Big Tech waited until it was confident that the Senate would be in the hands of the Democrats before it made its big move against Trump. That’s weakness, not strength.
Forcing out President Trump was a priority for Big Tech, not only for political, but economic reasons. The Trump administration was the first to aggressively go after Google and Facebook on antitrust grounds. It’s no coincidence that Google is a Biden Inaugural Committee donor.
President Trump was the first GOP president to stop being a cheap corporate date. Republicans, even some in the MAGA class, are happy to trade favorable legislation for contributions with economic interests, from Big Tech to the media, that hate conservatives.
Democrats trade legislation for contributions, but they also demand political allegiance.
When corporations hire Democrat operatives, they get lobbyists for their business interests who still push leftist political agendas, but when corporations hire Republicans, all they get is lobbyists who ignore the fact that the interests they represent are bad for conservatives.
The Left understood that corporate policy is national policy. Its members adopted conservative boycotts of companies behaving immorally just when conservatives decided to abandon them. Leftists chose brands based on their politics, while conservatives had no idea what the politics of their cable company or breakfast cereal were. That’s why corporate politics turned leftist.
Democrat elected officials help companies who share their views and hurt those who don’t. Republicans help companies who give them money even while they’re crushing conservatives.
And if that doesn’t change, there will be fewer Republicans and a lot fewer conservatives.
The only way it’s going to change is if conservatives stop paying attention to what their elected officials are saying and start paying attention to what they’re doing on behalf of lobbyists.
The battle for the corporation, unlike academia and the media, isn’t a lost cause. But it actually needs to be fought. And one of the best tools for that fight is duplicating the Left’s infrastructure for monitoring the interactions between politicians and corporate interests, and demanding that the politicians represent conservatives, not just their campaign war chests, with corporations.
Conservatives view the corporate landscape as an amorphous free market while leftists see friendly and unfriendly companies. After generations of this, the market has become a lot more leftist and a lot less free. Conservatives need a better response to this crisis than to roll out the old claims about their commitment to a free system which failed in academia and the media.
Instead, conservatives may need to start viewing corporations in the same way, using political power to pressure companies into adopting conservative positions, funding conservative priorities, and protecting the civil rights of conservatives, while crippling the business interests of companies that serve as the major funders of leftist agendas and deny conservative civil rights.
Imagine if Republican legislators actually used government contracts, copyright law, and regulatory oversight to extract meaningful cultural concessions, instead of just campaign contributions, from AT&T, Disney, and Facebook: just to name a few examples.
If you want to imagine a country where conservatives aren’t just fighting a rear-guard action against an ascendant radical movement that is taking over everything, that’s the place to start.
This may strike some free market fundamentalists as anathema, but a better word is survival.
There is nothing free about a market controlled by a Big Tech oligarchy, a handful of multinationals and giant chains, and corporate fronts for Chinese business interests.
The only way to ‘free’ the market is to make it more open by demolishing the oligarchy.
Facebook and Twitter censorship may be what conservatives see immediately, but the big picture is the erasure of conservatism as a movement from America.
It didn’t have to happen. It still doesn’t.
Conservatives have lost their grip on many key institutions, but they still have a foothold on political power. The question is whether they’re willing to use it before they lose that too.
Christians and Culture: What Role Should We Play?
DON WILDMONFOUNDER
https://afa.net/the-stand/culture/2021/01/christians-and-culture-what-role-should-we-play/
MAY 2004 – How should we Christians respond to our society that is largely turning its back on the very values that have made the country great? Should we be involved in the political system to change laws and institutions so that they more closely reflect God’s mind? Or should we only be concerned with changing hearts?
I believe the answer is that we should be waist-deep in both. As Christian activists, we believe there is a biblical charge to restore our country to its godly foundation using the means that have been granted to us, means like voting and exercising our free speech rights to oppose those things that God opposes. At the same time, Jesus clearly tells us in Matthew 28 that evangelism and discipleship are priorities.
So, for American Christians who take the Bible seriously, we have two mandates to understand and to fulfill: restore our society to one that honors God, and at the same time, share with our neighbors how to find Christ and mature in Him.
And while we’re doing all that, we must remember that our success is totally in God’s hands. As I’ve written many times over the years, our duty is simply to be obedient.
Sure, we want to preserve a free world for our children and grandchildren. We want them to experience the same precious freedoms that we have enjoyed. However, in the end, all our efforts must be done in such a way that God is honored. That’s how Jesus did things, according to John 17:4: “I have brought you glory on earth by finishing the work you gave me to do.”
Below are some questions for your Sunday School class or small group about a Christian’s role in society. Search the Scriptures to learn what the Bible says about these questions. Then pray about what part you can play in making God’s invisible kingdom visible here on this earth.
- If there is no God, can there be right and wrong?
- Has the church put as much emphasis on helping the needy in your community as it has on buildings and programs?
- Does the vulgarity in entertainment affect Christians as much as non-Christians?
- Do Christians have an obligation to vote?
- Should a Christian vote for a candidate based on the candidate’s stand on moral issues?
- Do the messages heard in Sunday School and during the worship service on an average Sunday make a difference in the day-to-day lives of most church members?
- Are the rights of Christians to speak out against homosexuality threatened by proposed “hate” crime laws?
- Would the government ever make it a crime to preach or teach that homosexuality is a sin? Would it do the same for adultery?
- Is there much difference in the lifestyles of the average Christian and the average non-Christian?
- Discuss the difference between “going to church” and “being the church.”
- Is our society becoming more moral, less moral, or staying about the same?
- Is the child growing up in a single-parent home at a disadvantage? How can your church help?
- Is the United States a Christian nation or a secular nation?
- How does the dominant religion of a country impact its civic and cultural life?
(Editor’s Note: From the late 1970s through 2010, Don Wildmon, founder and president emeritus of American Family Association, wrote hundreds of monthly columns for AFA Journal. This one strikes home in light of what is taking place and where we are in America. It is offered again in the hope that Bible-believing God-fearing people will engage the culture and transform it into a better reflection of what God intends.)
A Glimpse into Joe Biden’s Nightmare America
Events occurring more recently, but also since America turned away from God in 1960 steadily becoming more and more evil until this past year of 2020, have distressed and angered many. Canada Free Press had a significant article as follows:
https://canadafreepress.com/article/a-glimpse-into-joe-bidens-nightmare-america
If Joe Biden takes the oath of office as the 46th President of The United States, based on his 110-page signed agreement with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders the Constitutional Republic will be transformed into something other than how it was founded.
And if the election was stolen, as many Republican and some Democrat voters feel it was, the radical transformations that will take place are without the consent of the people and thus increase the risk for potential civil unrest.
At the time of the agreement, Sanders released a statement that the goals (of the task force) were to move Biden into “as progressive a direction as possible.”
The Democrat propaganda networks have successfully suppressed Biden’s intentions for the future of the country. But withholding information from the public only works until the programs are implemented and thus felt by the populace.
Both Americans who voted for Biden and those who voted for Trump are mostly unaware of the short and long-term changes they will experience once a Biden administration is up and running.
The below forecasts are not a result of hyperbolic hysteria but rather a history-based performance of past liberal / Democrat economic policies combined with the new promises made within the context of “The Green New Deal.”
Many middle-class Americans will fall into significant debt due to higher property taxes and higher cost of living expenses. These increased expenses will primarily result from higher energy costs and products directly impacted by those increased costs, such as food and home goods. But significant increases in taxes will also come from the proposed student loan cancelations and bailouts of businesses and other entities harmed by the Covid lockdown policies enforced mainly in cities and states controlled by Democrats.
Unemployment numbers for lower wage-earning Americans will sharply rise due to an increase in competition of approximately 11 to 20 million illegal alien workers. All the record gains in increased Black and Latino employment numbers realized under the Trump administration’s four years will vanish almost overnight.
The increased unemployment numbers will increase crime and significant dependence on government subsidies translating into higher taxes needed to fund such programs.
Learning from the successfully stolen 2020 election, future elections will consist of mostly mail-in ballots, not requiring signature verification or proof of residence
The Biden administration will add approximately 7 million Americans back to the food stamp recipient list, and 2 million Americans will fall back into poverty.
Within the first two years of his administration, Biden, with Democrat-controlled senate support, will increase the number of Supreme Court justices to fifteen from the current nine.
The new judges will all hold a radical left view of the law. This move will eliminate any future appointees to the court having originalist/conservative ideals. From this point on, the court will take a permanent hard left turn.
To secure a perpetual leftist Democrat-controlled government, steps will be taken to ensure that all future elections follow the same flawed policies that allowed such widespread fraud in 2020.
Learning from the successfully stolen 2020 election, future elections will consist of mostly mail-in ballots, not requiring signature verification or proof of residence. Any software used in the election process will only be audited by senate committee members appointed by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Conservative Americans will no longer have a platform to discuss their ideas and will no longer be aware of government dealings
This move will forever eliminate the conservative vote. The discrepancies in the 2020 Presidential election focused mainly on the Presidential race. But new refinements in the election software will impact all down-ballot races to ensure that only the most trusted candidates are seated in those positions.
The right to self-defense will only be available to the wealthy. Although the term “gun confiscation” will not be used, the new policies will have the same results. Ammunition and registered weapons will be taxed at rates, making it impossible to own such items.
“Voluntary gun buybacks” will be the terminology used to take away self-defense weapons from Americans. The Second Amendment will exist but only on paper. With a new, more defenseless population, more stringent radical policies can be considered.
Information for and communication between conservative Americans will cease to exist. The Biden administration and Congress will side with big tech to eliminate all conservative news items and information.
Conservative Americans will no longer have a platform to discuss their ideas and will no longer be aware of government dealings.
Although this fact of censorship is becoming more evident by the day, what a Biden administration will accomplish is a complete black-out of news and information. Americans will be given what to think and told what can be discussed.
Anyone considering that the above prognostications are ridiculous on their face should consider the following.
Conspiracy theorists and leftist radicals continue to uphold the Senate’s handling of the Bret Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. However, without a speck of evidence, the left and their propaganda, “media” was able to destroy Kavanaugh’s’ reputation without any fear of reprisal. Kavanaugh represents what can happen to any American not obeying the radical left.
There is a Mountain of evidence that the country experienced a highly coordinated multi-department coup attempt against the office of the Presidency
Conspiracy theorists and leftist radicals continue to ignore the mountain of evidence that the country experienced a highly coordinated multi-department coup attempt against the office of the Presidency.
Americans might not feel comfortable about this subject, but if honestly looked at, it happened, and the guilty parties just walked away.
These same conspiracy radicals disregard the treasonist activity where the IRS was able to target and damage the lives of ordinary citizens based on their political affiliations without any detriment to any political leader or the IRS leadership.
The propaganda networks have no problem that Twitter could successfully censor the oldest newspaper in the country. It happened in this country.
Youtube was able to announce publicly and then successfully censor its entire platform. All by itself, it suspended the First Amendment rights of Americans and removed all content it did not agree with. Unbelievably scary, but it happened in this country.
To ignore this dangerous trend is to skip past the history of governments that fell due to fear and complacency.
In the same way, Black Americans will no longer have high murder rates not because it does not occur, but because it will not be reported, America will become a country without corruption, not because it doesn’t exist but because it will never be known.
Whatever the country evolves into, most certainly will not resemble what the forefathers envisioned. The United States Constitution will be relegated to a historic document only. Unmoored from the Constitution, the country will be unable to turn to an established set of laws.
Rick Hayes lives in the epicenter of liberal land where reality and truth will never encounter a welcome mat.
An award-winning writer and photographer, with over twenty years of professional experience in both fields, Hayes started his journalism adventure after a successful, eye-opening career as a Banker in Wall Street. Although he spent his early work life surrounded by custom made shirts, expensive ties and the shiniest of shoes, Hayes was an accomplished singer, cutting a few records with a local band and appearing on one of the first cable shows.
Working for a weekly New York paper, in one of the most politically corrupt areas in the State, he began investing his time trying to understand the nature of corruption.
WHAT A ONE PARTY RULE MAY MEAN — JANUARY 9, 2021 |
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
President Trump issued that statement early Thursday, and Democrats were quick to follow.
Joe Biden said those who stormed the Capitol were “domestic terrorists. It’s that simple.”
Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer called for Trump’s immediate removal under the 25th Amendment, calling Trump “a very dangerous person” who committed an “act of sedition.” . . .
In four years, in the face of furious opposition, President Trump achieved more than anybody thought he would, and Trump’s middle-east peace accords drew widespread praise.
Trump never got his day in court, so by all indications the president of the United States has no standing to present evidence of election fraud. . . .
Long before they caved to election fraud, federal legislators were representing the Washington establishment to their districts, not the other way around. . . .
Powerful precincts of the establishment deployed against Trump supporters, and that will surely ramp up under Biden.
The Department of Justice spearheaded the coup attempt against Trump and despite a mountain of evidence declined to file any charges against key players Comey, Strzok, McCabe et al. The DOJ is basically the pro-bono law firm of the deep state, and not a friend of freedom moving forward. . . .
Like the KGB, the FBI takes the man then finds the crime, and the bureau is not adverse to “wet” operations. For example, in 1992 the FBI deployed military force against a single family, and FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot Vicki Weaver through the head as she held her infant daughter. Attorney General William Barr sprung to the defense of the FBI sniper, not his innocent victim. . . .
In 2020, while leftist mobs burned buildings and murdered police officers such as David Dorn, reports of FBI response were hard to find. . . .
Joe Biden has described Antifa as “an idea, not an organization,” a concept echoed by FBI boss Christopher Wray last September. Wray has kept rather quiet about the murder of former DHS whistleblower Philip Haney last February. Those who pushed back on Islamic terrorism during the Trump administration should be now be watching their back. Like Kamala Harris, Joe Biden will not speak the names of the terrorists’ victims. That hardly enhances the safety of the public, also subject to other powerful forces.
The composite character president, formerly known as Barry Soetoro, deployed the IRS against conservative groups and individuals. . . .
Under the prevailing regime of white coat supremacy, citizens can be stripped of their basic rights with impunity. New York state is considering Assembly Bill A416, under which the governor can “order the removal and/or detention” of persons who are or “may be” a danger to public health. . . . .
With no apology to Dalton Trumbo, this could be the beginning of the American concentration camp. . . .
The left automatically consigns this group to the oppressor class, and they will get no respect from the establishment media.
Recall that Neil (rhymes with puto) Cavuto of Fox News broke away from a press conference on election fraud. The news must now be examined for what it conceals, which can be considerable. The New York Times set the standard by concealing Stalin’s terror famine in Ukraine. Modern counterparts look the other way at BLM-Antifa violence, or pass it off as “peaceful protest.”
The ancien régime headed by Joe Biden is hostile and the reactionary forces formidable. On the other hand, a patriotic movement is on the rise, rededicated to the God-given rights to life and liberty, and as David Horowitz says, “is prepared to defend them.” As President Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
(Excerpt from Front Page Mag. Article by Lloyd Billingsley.
TURMOIL ABOUNDS IN OUR NATION
JANUARY 9, 2021 | DAVE KUBAL, IFA PRESIDENT/CEO
Turmoil still abounds in our nation. I am hearing so many perspectives, condemnations, and prophetic words my head is almost spinning. So, I thought I would take a few moments to address our intercessors to encourage you and give you some perspective.
The “events” the Capitol were “intolerable”? I was in D.C. on Wednesday on the lawn of the Capitol for seven hours – only taking a break to go to the rally on the Ellipse. What happened on this day was a peaceful demonstration by hundreds of thousands of people who care about our nation and want free elections. They heard speakers, bought t-shirts, ate big pretzels, and went home.
This fact cannot be missed: The vast majority of the many people were peaceful protestors. I have never seen so many people in my life. If I were told there were 1 million people, there I would believe it.
A small portion of the immense crowd actually made it to the Capitol.
The crowd at the Capitol was still thousands of people—for a miraculous story in the midst of protest at the Capitol please watch this. I walked through the crowd all day long. Most were patriots asking for fair elections.
The Gospel was being preached on loudspeakers and people were blaring praise music.
But there were a small number of people who came to stir things up. I saw them yelling into the crowd around them. A small number of them were wearing helmets, vests, and knee pads as if they were readied for violence.
It was clear that some were there to create or participate in violence. Active “members” of antifa—the far-left group—were later identified by facial recognition. “Members” of the Proud Boys—a far-right group—were easy to spot because of what they wore.
The violence I witnessed personally involved 10 men wearing regular clothes (no Trump paraphernalia) who challenged the vastly outnumbered Capitol police and were eventually let through the temporary fence set up. That is when thousands stormed up the Capitol steps and when they got to the top they simply cheered!
Of the thousands on the Capitol, I would estimate I saw about 10 men who were engaged in violence, some who used self-defense batons to break the windows.
The violence of this incredibly small group, of course, should be condemned. And I do condemn it. But the question must be asked, why did the authorities just allow these bad actors – whose motives are unknown – to walk past them at the time the electoral college certification was being debated?
The Capitol Chief of Police—who reports to Congress—not the Mayor of DC, nor the Trump Administration – has resigned, and should have.
Here are my main points:
This situation should have been avoided.
Those who committed violence were not only on the right side of the political spectrum.
The violence was instigated by a tiny fraction of the people there that day.
In the back drop of our nation dealing with our Capitol being sieged, our Congress chose not to investigate the potential of voter fraud and they accepted the electoral college in the middle of the night.
For those who have prayed earnestly for the Trump administration, how are we to react? Where is God in all of this?
I am hearing people express their disappointment, describing a state of mourning. Wonderful men and women who have mustered faith and hope for months now see a distressful outcome.
Where is God in all of this? What is He up to?
Let me tell you the various things I am hearing from others:
- America is under judgment. Our lawmakers have legalized abortion on demand resulting in 60 million babies aborted. God has been merciful in past years, but now has allowed us to be led by governmental leaders who fully embrace abortion on demand, not to mention the destruction of the biblical form of marriage, scriptural sexual identity, religious freedoms, etc. The Church receives the government we deserve.
- God’s sovereign plan was for this to happen. God’s plan for this nation is sometimes influenced by people’s actions, sometimes by intercession, but we find ourselves in a situation where we are experiencing the sovereign will of God. This was His plan and destiny all along.
- Evil has won the day and, despite prayer and intercession for our leaders, the resolve to investigate potential voter fraud was not there.
- If you have a lack of faith, God will not do what He (or is it we?) want. We must have faith in order to see God’s mercy for our nation to come to pass; without our faith He will not act.
- God is still the God of turnaround, so hang on. President Trump will still be elected.
Here is what I think: God is still on the throne. Regardless of circumstances I will put my trust in Him and not earthly leaders. The short term outcome looks bleak, but the coming months will require believers to be MORE engaged in prayer and action. Church leaders will be forced to speak out against ungodly government because we are moving past disagreement on issues to potentially government-sponsored persecution. The remnant is there, and we intercessors have yet had our day. The power of intercession is yet to be realized.
Those of us who consider ourselves intercessors for America must band together, intercede with unity, commit to community, and resolve to continue to battle on our knees. Many would have preferred a different outcome, one resulting in our nation’s top leaders supporting biblical values, but we will continue to pray for godly leaders, we will intercede and strive for biblical values in our culture, and we will continue to fight the spiritual battle on our knees.
We may mourn for a brief moment, losing a hard fought battle, but we will continue in the fight until the war is won. https://ifapray.org/blog/turmoil-abounds-in-our-nation/
America: Persecution Is Coming – But Don’t Lose Heart
Dr. Rex Rogers | President of SAT-7 USA |
The shifting cultural tides in America right now are making many Christians uncomfortable – and worried about what they perceive as a rapid erosion of religious freedoms and an ever-steeper decline in Christian values.
The pillars of conservative Christianity are being shaken – and it’s giving many American believers the jitters, leaving us asking: “What’s coming next?”
As America adopts moral relativism as its cultural worldview, Christians are finding themselves increasingly marginalized and in the minority – frequently on the defensive against anti-Christian bias, including accusations of “hate” and “bigotry.”
Where Christianity once occupied the seat at the head of America’s table, now it is increasingly denied any seat at the table. This is evident in America’s leading opinion shaping institutions – universities, media, government, entertainment, and even athletics.
Law, education, the arts, entertainment – culture in everyday life once guided by a Judeo-Christian consensus – are now floundering in a moral relativism that in essence believes in no truth, no objective right and wrong, and thus has no meaning. This is the nihilism that’s growing in America right now.
A few days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled by the narrowest 5-4 margin that certain safety precautions for abortion clinics were unconstitutional – a crushing blow for pro-life Christians.
Several weeks ago, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio attacked Christian relief agency Samaritan’s Purse, after the organization set up an emergency field hospital in Central Park, coordinated with The Mount Sinai Hospital, to care for COVID-19 patients. De Blasio called it “very troubling,” citing the organization’s conservative stance on social issues.
Yale Law School adopted a policy that disallows employers that consider religion, religious creed, gender identity, or gender expression from hiring students who benefit from Yale funding. The effect is to discriminate against organizations with religious identity and purposes.
Could American Christians – like their brothers and sisters in other parts of the world – be next in line for a wave of harassment, and even persecution?
In the Middle East and North Africa, Christians know what it means to be in the minority. They’re always on the edge of society, viewed with the utmost suspicion. Often despised and even hated, they’re constant targets for abuse and violence.
As a religious minority in the Middle East – ironically, the cradle of Christianity – followers of Jesus have wrestled for hundreds of years with how to respond in an environment supercharged with animosity.
While none of us goes out looking for trouble, we can be sure that as America moves towards a morally unhinged pagan view of life, trouble will find us. As our culture – like the Pharisees who had their own agenda – seethes and gnashes its teeth at those connected to Christ, how do we respond?
Over centuries, persecution has taught the church in oppressive settings not to “return reviling for reviling” but instead to repay hostility – and even hate – with love that does no harm. As a Christian satellite television broadcaster based in the Middle East, this is something we at SAT-7 see every day as local Christians reflect the love of Jesus.
When Christians show love and respect towards those who treat us disdainfully, we disarm their hate, prejudice, and anger. We show them a picture of Christ, the Lamb of God.
Harassment that can lead to persecution – while obviously not pleasant – is actually a blessing for those who follow Jesus. As Christ told us: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you” (Matthew 5:11-12, KJV).
‘POSITIVELY’ PERSECUTED
SAT-7 is privileged to have an “open door” 24/7 into the living rooms of more than 30 million viewers across the Middle East and North Africa – and we’re determined to use this as a channel of positivity and good, putting love into action.
SAT-7 transcends politics and partisanship – instead showing viewers what it means to be a true follower of God. Our audiences need to see that God’s love extends to everyone, and that he desires every single person to have freedom of thought, religion, expression, and economic opportunity.
Even though as Christ’s followers it sometimes appears people are just spitting venom at us, many secretly long to see real love made visible. During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a huge spike in the number of engagements with SAT-7’s social media in places like Iran and Turkey.
Don’t lose heart! It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you live, the unbounded love of Christ will change the world. Others’ venom will become our victory. Persecution will only make the light shine all the brighter – and no one will be able to hide from the radiant beauty of Jesus in us.
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily represent those of Christian Headlines.
https://www.christianheadlines.com/columnists/guest-commentary/america-persecution-is-coming-but-dont-lose-heart.html
Dr. Rex Rogers is president of SAT-7 USA, making God’s love visible to more than 30 million viewers across the Middle East and North Africa through Christian satellite television and online services in four regional languages.
Mt 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, etc.
Mt 24:37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Mt 24:38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark;
39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
1Pe 3:17 It is better, if it is God’s will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.
18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,
19 through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison
20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water,
21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also– not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand– with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him.
(NIV)
JUDGMENT HAS COME
Words of impending judgment fill the pages of scripture. History is filled with the reality of God bringing judgment upon the earth. Yet we live in such a so-called sophisticated society that we believe we’re far beyond such “ancient superstitions.”
Even many Bible believers have jettisoned all thoughts of God bringing judgment. Certainly, there is little to no preaching of judgment with our modern sensibilities.
If God is allowed a mention in the public square, he must be the God of soft-spoken love, of thinking well of all, of only smiles and compliments toward human beings. Any suggestion of the historically held Christian belief that he is a God of judgment is vastly scorned. Any voice that speaks a word of judgment is seen as intolerant, backwoods, worthy only of absolute rejection, the next victim of a cancel culture.
Our churches are full of language about this God. He apparently exists as a cosmic self-help guru, enabling us to fulfill our ambitions, desires and shoot-for-the-stars destiny.
None of this changes reality. Truth is not determined by popular opinion or political correctness. We in America are under the judgment of God.
An uncontrollable virus, killing hundreds of thousands, might suggest that God is up to something in some other season, trying to get our attention and wanting to wake us from our sins, societal sickness and gross perversions.
Yet, there is much more than the virus. Our political upheaval is unmatched since the Civil War. Riots in the streets and the storming of our nation’s capitol building halted government proceedings and ran out our national leaders. Some of those leaders close prayers with words like “amen and a-women,” do away with the God-given clarity of gender and lead a culture of devastating confusion over sexuality, calling perversion good and good perverted.
We are sick; we are leaderless; we are killing babies by the millions; we hate, steal and kill by the thousands as murder rates in our cities skyrocket.
All of these are clear signs of a profoundly sin-sick society.
Yet, we still hold onto a sense of self-rightness and self-purity, saying, “Surely God would not criticize, condemn or judge such a nation as ours.” But no nation under judgment has ever thought it deserved it or even thought it possible to come under judgment. Few even believe there remains, if there ever was, such a thing as the judgment of God.
We have forgotten the Flood, scorned Biblical warnings, disbelieved the plagues of Egypt. Yet the truth about God’s judgment, proven over and over, is that it often gets worse until it is addressed. So until we see our present reality as a merciful wakeup call from God and repent, we’ll drown in ever-rising waters as time goes on.
Do we not see this? Are we so blind? Have our hearts become so calloused, our ears so deaf? If there are Biblical and historical accounts of actual judgments of God on nations, including America, and if they proceed as they have in the past, then what we’re seeing now is only the birth pangs of what’s yet to come.
Violence will grow worse and worse. Anarchy will be more destructive than ever. The rising level of fear in American homes, especially those in major cities, will cause a growing mass exodus. But there will be nowhere to go. Stores will be closed because of government shutdowns due to the coronavirus and from mass looting, rioting and burning of buildings.
The worst judgment of all is when God gives up on a people. He judges not by force but by absence. This is where we are headed unless we have a national spiritual awakening, a recognition of our waywardness, a heartfelt mourning over our wickedness.
Right now, our situation seems bleak, not only because of the first fruits of this present crisis but because of a deep, unrelenting commitment to wickedness. Far worse, those leading the way in wickedness don’t even know that what they’re doing is absolutely opposed to God. Nor do they seem to care. They have become seared of conscience, given over to sin. That is the worst judgment of all because it is the most hopeless.
Rarely in history has such a deepened lack of contrition, with no recognition of calling evil good and good evil, been reversed. More often, as this tragic form of judgment takes place, culture exists in despair. Its lostness and slow death go unrecognized. Such a nation doesn’t disappear; it just exists in Godless, lifeless, loveless self-despair.
At one point in our history, the church could have held out in hope for an awakening and a return to God. This may no longer be true. The church in America is anemic, compromised and confused, trying to appeal to a sin-sick culture by appeasing it. We easily compromise our truth to fit in with the culture. Much of the church is now changing its view on homosexuality. The newly elected senator from Georgia who calls himself a pastor is fighting for greater abortion rights. In that same state, a conservative pastor recently suggested we untether ourselves from the Old Testament. He’s referring to two-thirds of the Word of God; no wonder God is bringing judgment and may soon leave us to our own devices, which is the final ruin of any culture.
If in the midst of this wicked generation you have any godly conscience left, I plead with you to ask him to soften your heart to his truth, to repent and turn to him. He is willing to heal and restore you.
If you are part of a compromised church, I pray that God will take hold of your heart and that you will return to the faithful embrace of scripture rather than compromising with the culture you’ve been immersed in.
If you want to see America saved from ultimate judgment and a withdrawing of God from us, it is time to engage in desperate yet hopeful prayer. Perhaps we may yet turn and find the deep, Christ-centered hope that remains for us.
Gary Wilkerson
PAST AND PRESENT: Turning Away from God’s path
Regarding the killing of unborn babies, the entire Old Testament tells about how Israel started worshiping other gods and sacrificing their kids, (so they could get ahead – have more choices), and then God really allowed them to be punished.
He started out allowing droughts, floods, hail, ice storms, earthquakes, really bad tornadoes, hurricanes and things now called “Mother Nature”. When no one would listen, He would allow the Israelites be captured by other nations.
This could very well be what is happening to the United States right now. The word “captured”, could mean being in debt to other nations too. America is deeply in debt to China in the billions of dollars. China and other nations are purchasing American land. and businesses, as well as Canadian and speculate of moving entire communities here. If God says, “OK, here is the path – stay on it and you will be safe. I can protect you if you stay on this path”, and if America goes off that path, who is to blame? (See “Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan – now considered a Classic).
Let the reader please understand the truth of the downfall of America and the entire World (which seems to follow America quite willingly) occurs only by permission of the Three-In-One God. He permits Satan to work through evil men but limits their destruction.
The reader may consider areas of thought not usually even imaginable such as Illuminati: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjrov7lUBLMAEPglnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTBsa3ZzMnBvBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkAw–?_adv_prop=image&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&va=Illuminati&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-001
In some churches for a time, the leader would say “God is good”. And the people would reply “All the time”. The leader would say “All the time” and the people would respond “God is good”.
We cannot blame God for disaster when we as His people have gone off the path He has given us to walk. He does not send the severe weather, and other things mentioned above. These disastrous things are off the path He gave us. Again, there is always a war between evil and good. As this nation has turned away from God, so has Christian/Jewish persecution increased:
This site reveals attacks by Muslims on Christians by the country, and separates the attacks by the month and year: http://www.persecution.org/2014/12/09/house-church-leader-arrested-in-shiraz-iran-his-fate-is-unknown/
The End Times Are Written of in Scripture in Various Ways
As an example: In general, most churches of today meet the requirements Paul wrote to Timothy about, in his second letter: 2Ti 3:2 “People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God– 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them”.
This means a church may look good on the outside, having a form of godliness but there is no love. See 1st Cor. 13. Without love for others, it is pretty much useless to “do church”. Soup kitchens, and nursing homes seem to be a better place to invest time. However, with considerable time investment, it is possible to find a place that truly meets the definition of a “true” church. This would include some Messianic Jewish places of worship. Home churches are making a tremendous comeback and with the onset of “Christian” persecution, especially by Islam and the enemedia (MSM) will continue to do so. http://www.persecution.org/2013/09/27/islamist-war-on-christians/
Although the USA has already lost its number one status, because Almighty God wishes, the kingdom of God will never decline. http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2014/12/were-number-two.html
God can awaken this nation again even as He did during the First and Second Great Awakenings! Finally, there are some hopeful signs now in the evangelical church as many united prayer movements are being launched and there is a resurgence in purposeful unity that, hopefully, will not be too little, too late to save our nation from further judgment and disorientation.
(More to Come)
