They said that Trump followers would riot and destroy when their man lost the election. They vilified, slandered and mocked. All the while it was they who were making plans for riot and destruction, and not the victims of their lies.
The
victims of their lies were fasting and praying and seeking God’s
mercy and grace upon this once
greatest of nations.
And,
Oh,
the power
of prayer!
Nations
in the Muslim world are now beginning to read the, very Christian,
Isaiahic Commission blog. For many long years Christian people have
been praying for revival to hit the Muslim lands, but could find no
way of making headway other than
battering the doors of Heaven, beseeching God through the
power of prayer.
Years
ago, in the American Midwest, there was a powerfully virulent Atheist
and a quiet, meek, young woman. Terrified of witnessing to him, she
resorted to fervent, incessant prayer. The
woman was Tonia Adams; the Atheist was me.
In
the arenas of the ancient Roman Empire, unarmed,
facing gladiators and wild, ravenous beasts,
Christians in their droves resorted to worship and to praise
and to prayer. Years later, Emperor Constantine ended the Roman
persecutions of the faithful and joined them in their faith.
God
is moved by the power of prayer.
He
is moved by it because by it believers are depending totally and
completely on Him, not using it as a “just in case” measure, but
as their only resort. Recognizing no power in themselves, they seek
the power of God. The power of God is put on display through the
power of prayer.
In
early 2013, a political ad was aired by a small Christian television
station in the American Midwest. They were seeking a change of regime
in the City of the Arch.
From
that day till this that regime has sought the
destruction of the organization behind that ad. They have even
declared it illegal to stop on the street in front of that Christian
church and ministry, seeking to choke off the lifeblood of the
donations that keep it going, and they vilify and slander and mock,
falsely accusing and spreading the filth of blame while they execute
wickedness themselves, seeking to leave the desperate in the wind and
the snow and the ice and the rain.
God,
though is more powerful than that. By God moving in the minds
and hearts of those determined for justice and for truth, the head of
that regime stands exposed as culpable in the cover-up of the murder
of an unarmed civilian by an out of control police officer. His days
of power are numbered, for God
has numbered them, and his sought for outlet into the Federal regime
is cut off—again,
through the power of prayer.
The
regime he sought to join will not be because people in their millions
prayed and God responded by turning the presidential election of 2016
on its head in response to the reverberations of the din of the
prayers of millions around the world praying for mercy and grace to
be bestowed upon a nation.
The
evil man conceives wickedness and gives birth
to falsehood. He makes a pit, digging it, and falls into the pit he
has made. His mischief turns, and his violence comes
on his own head. i
The
doors which once
beckoned now disappear and his prison winds up without walls.
They
have bleached all dignity from their own
lives, and innocence is a foreign language
to
the ears of their mind. But evil is not foreign
to my mind, for that is what I was before God, by the prayers of the
innocent, conquered my mind.
It
is by the power of prayer that God does these things, and even those
swept up in the violence of their own rebellion and sin can reach out
their hands to him and be washed and cleansed within. I
was there; now I’m here.
Even
the diabolical madman can be washed and cleansed, should he
turn and seek the Creator of his soul. Should he do so, it would have
been through the power of prayer.
There
are stories of one such who would murder
and devour children. After being caught, convicted, and
imprisoned for his crimes, it is said that he turned and faced his
Savior and became clean, before being murdered himself in the
performance of his duties while prison-bound.
People,
in general, do not like hearing such stories. Those stories slam up
against the public sense of
justice. But the public sense of justice is based upon a
population of those, the large majority of whom, have not faced their
own culpability for sin.
They
think themselves well though they are
bound for hell, and their “justice” is based on themselves
and not on God. They think themselves good when God is the source of
good, and not them.
God
is the source of good. He is the only source of good.
This
concept is vilified, and slandered and mocked by those who think that
people are the source of God, but this is a nonsense that simply
cannot be, for we are not the source of all we see.
Yes,
friends. All that we see has a source, and that source is not you and
me.
Each
of us was born. We were born out of the flesh of those preexistent to
us, so we cannot be the source of all we see. All that we see has a
source that came before we were caused to be. For those who seek the
truth, this is easy enough to see.
Think
on this (you know it to be true by your own experience and innate
logic): There is not one thing that causes itself to come to be.
Not
one.
It
does not happen. By simple, elementary logic, it cannot
happen. There is no argument against this (except from those insane
with their own sense of self-godhood).
How,
then, does anything happen to be?
It
happens because there is One who has being, without having begun to
have being; who exists without
having begun to exist. We
know this because it is the only logical and sensible solution
to the problem of existence in general. Material existence itself
does not solve this because all verifiable scientific evidence
screams that material existence began to exist. Because material
existence began to exist, it cannot have caused itself to be. It
cannot have caused itself to begin to exist.
Because
of this, that which has being without having begun to have being
cannot be material in nature. It has to be immaterial. Another way of
saying this is that it has to be spirit.
God
is spirit, and those who worship Him, in spirit and truth must
worship. ii
Coders
should ask themselves this: How does one know if a system is
programmed? Then, once you answer that question, take your answer and
apply it to biological systems.
It
is God that is the power behind Creation, and God that is the
programmer behind it, and God that is the power behind prayer.
When
you cry out to something (anything!) that is beyond the visible
creation, are you not acknowledging that there is, in fact, someone
there who is listening? When you cry out, so, for help, are you not,
in fact acknowledging your own powerlessness?
Those
who do so are not insane, but are simply acknowledging the elementary
facts of simple logic that state that someone who can help, who can
effectually answer such pleas, is, in fact out there, waiting for you
to call. The effects of such calling are all around you, if you will
but open your eyes to see. And it all comes about by the effectual
use of the power of prayer!
iPsalm
7:14-16
iiJohn
4:24
