In Whom Do You Trust!
Before you begin your Bible study, as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, be
sure you have named your sins privately to God the Father.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(Known, Unknown and Forgotten sins) (1Jn 1:9)
You will then be in fellowship with God, Filled with the Holy Spirit and ready to
learn Truth from the Word of God.
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth,"
(John 4:24)
The True Hope of a nation
The next few moments are devoted to silent prayer. You have the privacy
of your priesthood, the option of rebound if necessary to insure the filling of
God the Spirit for the perception and metabolism of the Word of Truth. You
also have the opportunity of blotting everything else out except concentration on
the teaching of the Word of God. In preparation for our study, let us pray.
Most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank You for the privilege of being
sustained logistically in this, the devils, world; and that we have the privilege
and the opportunity of fulfilling the most exciting and the most unusual plan of all
human history. We are grateful that we live in the Church Age, where we have
been given so much, and where the significance of the ordinary believer is
beyond measure. We pray that God the Holy Spirit will challenge us regarding
the things that we note, for we ask it in Christ’s name, Amen.
From time to time, we pause for what I call inculcation to emphasize on
how Divine Thoughts are formed. One source is eschatology, the study of
future events from biblical Prophecy. From this knowledge we can appreciate
and understand that the source of our hope and happiness is our guaranteed
future with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Rarely do I watch television, or the news, but I did this evening. I wanted
to see the crowd at the inauguration festivities. I knew the media interviews with
people in the crowd would be excellent. There was quite a cross-section of
people from this country attending the inauguration. Almost without exception,
everyone interviewed expressed similar ideas. Some were eloquent, some
spoke with hesitation, some with a measure of confusion, but they all centered
eventually on one word — HOPE. Their hope was not the Biblical hope of
confidence in the Lord and in the Word of God— the function of the faith-rest
drill as one of the problem-solving devices. In effect, their hope was based on
unrealistic expectations — a new face in the White House, a new
administration, a political change. To the people who were interviewed, political
change meant something better for them. Hope was the word they used. They
were depending upon government — a government that has failed to fulfill its
functions and obligations and has the greatest indebtedness in human history.
They were depending on a congress, on a president, on people, and on a
government that has shown tremendous Fiscal irresponsibility, to say the least.
They thought the government either owed them a living or that change would
bring something they wanted — happiness. A better environment was just
around the corner.
These people came from long distances; (Some people who were
obviously not well-to-do, others who obviously were) all kinds of people; they
were like sheep. They were looking for something they obviously had not found.
Then I began to Think of, (Jer 17:5) because this passage describes
exactly what the people in this country expressed. Never have I seen on
television so many people from all walks of life, which had such tremendous
needs. Because they cannot define their needs in terms of God’s Thinking, like
you can, they are looking for a man to solve their problems. They are looking
for government to do something for them. They are looking at people to wave a
magic wand, as it were, and to give them what they want to make them happy.
From, (Jer 17:5) I want you to understand, as a believer in Jesus Christ,
what occurred on this special inauguration day. We live in the Church Age, the
dispensation of the ordinary believer, when God has provided more for us than
for the greatest heroes of the Old Testament. We have something that is
beyond any riches that man can measure!
I am sure many of those people at the inauguration have heard the Gospel;
I am sure many of them are believers. But they have been exposed to so much
false twisted Truth, that they have no concept of what is true value; WHERE
and HOW we will spend eternity!
THUS SAYS THE LORD, BEING CURSED IS THE PERSON WHO PUTS
HIS CONFIDENCE IN MAN AND MAKES THE SIN NATURE HIS STRENGTH,
SO THAT HIS HEART TURNS AWAY FROM THE LORD. FOR HE SHALL BE
LIKE A TUMBLEWEED IN THE DESERT... (Jer 17:5-6)
Many born-again believers are described this way, as are many
unbelievers. Those thousands milling about tonight in Washington, D.C., looking
for happiness, going to the various parties, the balls, all celebrations of a
change; because change has been the key word subjecting themselves to a
false hope, how are they described? The Scripture says they are
“tumbleweeds.”
In high desert country, at an altitude of at least 2,500 feet, you can look in
at least three directions and see mountains. What a magnificent view; the
mornings are cold, the days warm, and the winds blow almost constantly. When
I was a young officer in the horse cavalry at Fort Bliss, we would ride out,
mounted, troop after troop, going on a Field training exercise. The wind would
come up. Our horses would shy and rear as hundreds and hundreds of
tumbleweeds, like a wave of advancing troops, would blow across our path.
Tumbleweeds have no roots; they are vulnerable to any wind that blows. I
suppose if tumbleweeds had souls, they would be looking for a place to settle
and take root.
FOR HE SHALL BE LIKE A TUMBLEWEED IN THE DESERT AND HE
WILL NOT SEE PROSPERITY... (Jer 17:6) cf. (Jer 22:21)
Prosperity is the Hebrew word tov, equivalent to the Greek agathos,
meaning “good of intrinsic value.” It can be translated “Values and or Virtue.”
HE WILL NOT SEE VALUES (The opportunity to believe in Christ and or to
grow to Spiritual maturity) WHEN THEY COME; FOR HE SHALL LIVE IN
PARCHED PLACES... (Jer 17:6)
There are many, many reasons the people of this client nation are living in
parched places. It has nothing to do with what they possess in life. It has
nothing to do with their financial condition, or their job, or lack of one. It has
nothing to do with any form of human security. People with human security,
people without human security live in parched places. And the reason is given in
the previous verse, “whose heart turns away from the Lord.” Everyone is
looking for assurance. There is a tremendous restlessness in the land today.
Everyone wants change! But change of human environment will not help. Only
that which is stable and rooted in God’s Thinking can offer comfort and
happiness! Truth keeps people from becoming tumbleweeds in the desert.
FOR HE SHALL BE LIKE A TUMBLEWEED IN THE DESERT, FOR HE
WILL NOT SEE THE ABSOLUTE GOOD [Spiritual Values: Salvation and
Spiritual maturity] WHEN IT COMES; (Everyone has an opportunity to be saved
and grow to Spiritual maturity! (Rom 1:18-20) HE SHALL LIVE IN PARCHED
PLACES IN THE DESERT. (Jer 17:6)
Except for the parched places, the desert can be a place of wonder and
beauty. The tragedy is that parched places describe not only the unbelieving
populace, but also the majority of born-again believers in the time in which we
live. When I saw on the television tonight people who had been sleeping out on
lawns since dawn so they could be in the right place to see the inauguration and
the parade, and all the revelry — people who have placed their hope in the
promises of a man — I thought, How heartbreaking to realize these people are
so close and yet so far from the Truth of the Word of God; which is so readily
available in our land. They live only in parched places in the desert.
They do not know that Divine problem-solving devices are the God-given
means of applying metabolized Truth to experience, and provide the only
perfect environment in the world today. That environment is in the soul!
Now you who have Truth in your soul are prepared to understand the
significance of this inauguration day of the forty-second President of the United
States. You have the opportunity to see what is really happening because you
have that perfect environment of the soul; metabolized Truth circulating in the
seven compartments of the stream of consciousness.
Illustration
All of the earnest emotion in the world, all of the yearning for a better life
cannot solve the problems of this nation. There is no substitute for the perfect
environment of tranquility and contentment, which can exist only in the soul of a
Spiritually mature born-again believer! That perfect environment is the Word of
Truth, metabolized Truth from which originates the problem-solving devices. The
problem-solving devices not only apply Truth to experience, but provide the only
perfect environment available until the Second Advent and the-millennial reign-of
Jesus Christ.
BLESSED [Being made happy] IS THE MAN WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD
AND WHOSE TRUST IS THE LORD. (Jer 17:7)
“Being made happy” is the passive voice in the Hebrew. Happiness is not
an instant condition. Happiness is a process that develops and continues when
maximum metabolized Truth circulates in your soul. The problem-solving devices
not only apply to your experience on a continual basis, but at the same time
create the perfect environment, the motivation, and the Thinking God intends for
us to possess.
As I watched the inauguration, I thought of you who have consistently
learned Truth. What a contrast between you and those people who are so
hungry for change, seeking hope, depending upon man when God says cursing
is the result of trusting in man. Some of you have found that curse to be true as
you depended on a husband, a wife, a friend. You depended on someone you
thought was going to change everything for you, but they did not. You did not
apply Truth.
I occasionally see on some of your faces the same thing I saw in the faces
of that crowd. You come to church for a “fix’ as it were. You want a one-shot
inspiration, a religious experience, and then you are gone to do your own thing.
It will not work!
BEING MADE HAPPY IS THE PERSON [The believer] WHO TRUSTS
[Batach] IN THE LORD... (Jer 17:7)
Trust is the qal imperfect of the verb batach in the Hebrew. This word is
used for the faith-rest drill. Another word, amen, is used for salvation by faith.
Even the Greek transliterates amen the same.
NOW ABRAHAM BELIEVED [Amen] IN THE LORD; AND IT WAS
CREDITED TO HIS ACCOUNT FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS. (Gen 15:6)
Faith is not just the pattern for Old Testament salvation, but the pattern for
salvation always. The hiphil stem of amen is the word used for faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. How much faith does it take to be saved? Just a little bit more
than none at all. In the privacy of your own soul, you can speak inaudibly to
God the Father and say, Father, I believe in Jesus Christ. That is all! How much
faith is that? Just a little bit more than none at all.
By contrast, batach, is the faith of a believer applying the Promises of God
to problems. I call this the faith-rest drill. Abraham applied faith-rest. All the
great heroes of the Old Testament lived the faith-rest life. We, too, can have
faith-rest.
BEING MADE HAPPY IS THE PERSON WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD...
(Jer 17:7)
The faith-rest drill, one of the problem-solving devices, establishes Divine
Thinking. The faith-rest drill uses metabolized Truth, and makes application of
Promises to experience, and applies the Doctrinal rationales, e.g.,
(Rom 8:26-32).
Where do you place your hope? Hope in the Bible means confidence.
Where is your confidence? In man? We have just seen in, (Jer 17:5) that
confidence in man is “being cursed.” “Being cursed” is in the passive voice
indicating it is a process just as attaining permanent happiness is a process.
Happiness is a process because you cannot have the problem-solving devices
in place in an instant. Learning and applying Truth takes time; it is a process —
a little today, a little tomorrow, a little the next day. Truth every day is our life,
our blessing, our capacity for life, our confidence, our love, and our happiness.
BEING MADE HAPPY IS THE PERSON WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD;
THEREFORE, THE LORD IS HIS CONFIDENCE! (Jer 17:7)
The Biblical word for hope means confidence, absolute confidence in a
fantastic plan, in being a part of that plan, having temporal impact, but far more
important, hope has eternal repercussions. You stop running around and looking
for hope, looking for some person to satisfy whatever your hopes, your desires,
your lusts; you may be looking for some job, looking for some short-cut to
wealth — seeking but not knowing what you are seeking. I wanted to shout to
those people at the inauguration, you are putting your confidence in the wrong
thing! You are depending on a man! You are depending on a government! You
are depending on an organization that has demonstrated a remarkable amount
of incompetence! Political change will not alter anything! Change just means a
different group of imperfect people come in with the same old incompetence,
the same old power lust. If you are depending upon people, you are in the
process of being cursed. And if you are depending upon God, you are in the
process of being blessed.
Being blessed through Truth applied to your life makes you an invisible
hero, the positive impact of the Church Age believer through personal execution
of the plan of God. That Concept is the only way there will ever be change that
fulfills the Principle,
BEING MADE HAPPY IS THE PERSON WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD;
THEREFORE, THE LORD IS HIS CONFIDENCE. HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE
BEING PLANTED BY THE WATER... (Jer 17:7-8)
Water refers to Truth. Water makes the tree, (A Believer) grow.
GROW IN GRACE AND IN THE KNOWLEDGE (THINKING) OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. TO HIM BE THE GLORY, BOTH NOW
AND TO THE DAY OF ETERNITY. AMEN. (2Pe 3:18)
HE SHALL BE LIKE A TREE BEING PLANTED BY THE WATER AND BY
A STREAM; HE WILL SEND OUT ROOTS... (Jer 17:8)
What is the difference between the water and the stream? “Water” is the
entire canon of Scripture. The “stream ‘ is Truth you are taught on a consistent
basis. The stream is where your roots go. And the roots are the problem-
solving devices that make the tree strong. You will not become a “tumbleweed.”
Now note the last half of verse 8.
THEREFORE, HE DOES NOT FEAR WHEN HEAT COMES... (Jer 17:8)
Why is the believer being made happy without fear? Fear, along with guilt,
is an emotional complex of sins. The two sins together are destructive to your
Spiritual life. You cannot deal with the adversities of life in fear, nor can you be
motivated by guilt. The problem-solving devices remove fear and guilt as false
motivation.
THEREFORE, HE DOES NOT FEAR WHEN HEAT COMES. (Jer 17:8)
“Heat” is the outside pressures of adversity and prosperity. For the
problem-solving devices on the defense line of the soul prevent the outside
pressures from becoming the inside pressures of stress in the soul. How
disturbing to see people suddenly becoming enthusiastic with unrealistic
expectations. The greater the unrealistic expectation, the greater the
disappointment. From great disappointment follows disillusionment and reaction.
Disappointment always exists in human
history, with one exception. When your expectation is from the Lord, you are
never disappointed!
THEREFORE, HE DOES NOT FEAR WHEN HEAT COMES FOR HIS
LEAVES ARE ALWAYS GREEN... (Jer 17:8)
“Leaves” are a metaphor for problem-solving devices in your soul and
“always green” is applying problem-solving devices to life.
HE DOES NOT WORRY IN THE YEAR OF DEPRESSION (National and
or personal) AND HE NEVER FAILS TO BEAR FRUIT. (Jer 17:8)
To “bear fruit” is the invisible impact of the believer growing in grace,
functioning under his very own Spiritual life, and executing the protocol plan of
God for the Church Age. Bearing fruit for us today is the invisible impact of the
invisible hero.
WHERE THERE IS NO VISION, THE PEOPLE PERISH. BUT HE THAT
KEEPS THE LAW, HAPPY IS HE. (Prov 29:18)
What does it mean for people to have a vision? The Hebrew word referred
originally to the writings or the messages of the prophets of Israel, specifically
to the messages that were recorded and became a part of the Word of God.
This does not exclude the fact that the prophets of Israel also had other
messages to the people that were not recorded, because they were not
pertinent to future generations. But vision refers to the content of the message
of the prophets and that content was God’s Thinking --- that ALL believers are
to use to Think with! (2Pe 1:20-21)
WHERE THERE IS NO DIVINE COMMUNICATION, [Where there is no
Thinking with Truth] THE PEOPLE PERISH, (The people are unrestrained;
ignorant and arrogant). (Prov 29:18)
The niphal imperfect of para, “perish,” means to “let loose, to run wild,” not
to physically die, but to be “unrestrained, to be out of hand, to let loose in the
sense of letting something slip through your fingers.” Where there is no Truth;
you let that happiness and blessing slip through your fingers. Perish means to
be “ignorant and arrogant.” Unruly people are often ignorant and arrogant. Their
ignorance of Truth motivates their unruliness, their lack of restraint.
SO HE WHO GUARDS [Observes, keeps, and keeps on keeping Divine
Thinking] THE LAW. (Prov 29:18) The adversative vowel plus the qal active
participle of shamar means “to guard, to keep, to keep on keeping, to keep on
observing,” therefore to persist in the perception and metabolism of Truth. This
is not just a one-shot deal, when you need a Spiritual ‘fix’ when things are going
wrong, but CONSISTENT perception and use of Truth!
The word “Law” was used for all of the Mosaic Law. The first five books of
the Old Testament, written by Moses, called the Pentateuch, include the
Spiritual, social, and Divine establishment laws for Israel, not just the Ten
Commandments. “Law” eventually came to refer to the teaching of the
Thoughts of the Word of God as They then existed; and now exists!
...HAPPY IS HE WHO KEEPS [Or guards] THE LAW [The teaching of
Truth]. (Prov 29:18)
In the book of Proverbs “Truth,” when used in poetry, means the teaching
of Spiritual Wisdom. And in Proverbs, every verse is poetry.
The noun esher is translated “happy or sharing the happiness of God.”
Happiness and contentment come only through applying Divine Wisdom to
adversity and prosperity!
WHERE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION OF DIVINE REVELATION,
THE PEOPLE LACK RESTRAINT, [They are searching for something] BUT HE
WHO KEEPS AND USES THE THINKING OF GOD; HAPPY IS HE!
(Prov 29:18)
No nation survives long without having a national crisis and that is
especially true of a client nation to God. You know there is no such thing as a
Christian nation, and never will be. Nations cannot be Christian; only individuals
can become Christian. Based on a Judeo-Christian heritage the founding
fathers provided for religious freedom in the Constitution of the United States.
Although many of the inhabitants of this country profess Christianity, the laws of
Divine establishment, upon which the Constitution was based, were set up to
insure the protection, survival, privacy, property and blessing of Christians and
non-Christians alike. Religious freedom depends upon the separation of church
and state, (Matt 22:21; cf., Rom 13:1-7). Christianity cannot be forced on
people. Christianity must be optional. The first half of the option is to hear the
Gospel and then respond:
HE WHO BELIEVES IN THE SON JESUS CHRIST HAS ETERNAL LIFE.
(John 3:36)
And to respond is the other half of the option:
BUT HE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE SHALL NOT SEE LIFE BUT THE
WRATH OF GOD ABIDES ON HIM. (John 3:36) (The same is true for the
ENTIRE WORD OF GOD! First we must hear; and then we must BELIEVE and
USE IT! (Heb 10:23)
In a client nation to God there is the desire to communicate the Gospel, to
give people a chance to hear, to accept or reject Jesus Christ. God the Holy
Spirit is the sovereign executive of personal evangelism. (John 6:44) That
means all the begging, all the weeping, all the wailing, all the pressure of any
kind — coming forward, raising your hand, jumping through a psychological
hoop — are futile. Our responsibility is to make the Gospel clear. The function
of God the Holy Spirit is to make our faith effective for salvation. (Tit 3:5) With
the Holy Spirit as the sovereign executive of evangelism we can only make the
issue clear; no more no less. For people to say, we’re going to produce a
Christian nation, we’re going to pass Christian laws, is tyranny.
Some of the horrors during the time in which we live is when born-again
believers do not have Divine Thinking, and do not have the problem-solving
devices, and do not understand God’s plan for their lives!
They inevitably will enter into the legalism of tyranny. They will actually
become involved in Christian activism = MORAL AND OR IMMORAL
DEGENERACY.
WHERE THERE IS NO COMMUNICATION OF DIVINE REVELATION,
THE PEOPLE ARE UNRESTRAINED, IGNORANT AND ARROGANT.
(Prov 29:18)
Christians who are ignorant of what the Word of God teaches are
unrestrained. In activism they can destroy property and even the lives of those
who disagree with them.
God has given us the greatest plan in the world, yet there is no restraint on
these believers who are involved in activism. By activism, I do not mean voting,
I do not mean entering into the political activities that are related to the
governing process of this country. But I do mean crowds in the street, yelling
and screaming and destroying property, being viciously intolerant in their
attitude toward others. There is no place for activism.
The power of Christianity is not political or visible, but is Spiritual and
invisible. The Christian way of life is operating within the protocol plan of God
for the Church Age. The influence of the invisible hero is the only way this nation
will ever bring blessing to its citizens. You must execute the protocol plan of
God and become a member of the pivot, the Spiritually mature believers of a
client nation. This is the dispensation of the pivot of invisible heroes whose
production, called in the Bible “fruit,” (Gal 5:22-23) is the true hope for this
nation.
One of the most extraordinary periods of history occurred between A.D.
96 and 192 in the Roman Empire during the period of the Antonine Caesars.
For nearly a century few troops were ever seen within the Empire. And the
distant clash of arms on the Tigris and the Euphrates, which runs through
Baghdad today, and on the Rhine and on the Danube scarcely disturbed the
Mediterranean lands of the Roman Empire. The Mediterranean was a Roman
sea. Rome controlled North Africa and every land surrounding the
Mediterranean. Six emperors or Caesars ruled SPQR, Senatus Populusque
Romanus, “the Senate and the People of Rome,” as the Romans called
themselves. Today, we know them as the Roman Republic and the Roman
Empire. They even had a flag, a banner emblazoned with SPQR. The six
Caesars who ruled SPQR were Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus
Aurelius, and Commodus. The last two emperors even persecuted Christians.
None of them
were born-again believers.
Yet born-again believers had more to do with the prosperity of that period
than any time in history. Born-again believers launched the pivot from Ephesus,
the Roman province of Asia as western Turkey was called in those days. The
men who ruled Rome were mostly unbelievers. Yet the individual flourished
during the most impressive period of prosperity in history. Everything changed:
Women were respected; there was a vigorous economy, a stimulating social
life, and a dynamic Spiritual life among believers, with fantastic prosperity the
most phenomenal period in history. Why? Because a certain number of ordinary
believers executed the protocol plan of God and became the beginning of a
pivot. The pivot did not exist in Rome: the pivot existed in Asia Minor, long
before the Ottoman Turks conquered the area. Asia Minor was a wonderful
place with wonderful believers.
Edward Gibbon, the famous English historian of the last century, wrote a
history in five volumes on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon
believed that a person, if allowed his choice, would prefer to have lived in the
time of the Antonine caesars than in any other period of history. The German
historian, Theodor Mommsen, a famous professor of Roman law, also
describes this period as the Golden Age of history. Paraphrasing him from the
German: This empire fostered the peace and prosperity of the many nations,
united under its sway, longer and more completely, than any other leading
power has ever succeeded in doing.
How marvelous that a pivot should rise first in Ephesus and then spread
throughout the empire. It is interesting that the canon of Scripture was
completed in A.D. 96, the very year that Nerva became the emperor. And the
dynamics of the Spiritual life of the pivot was so phenomenal that the greatest
period of blessing ever known in history lasted for almost a hundred years.
Perhaps now you can begin to see the dynamics of a pivot with Divine Thinking;
established through learning the plan of God for our life.
What is important to you? Would you be standing in that spectacular scene
that extends from the very high needle of the Washington Monument all the way
to the White House? Would you be able to stand there with Divine Thinking or
would you, if interviewed, simply express the hunger, the desire, the hope of so
many people thinking, now that there is a change, life is going to be wonderful?
BEING CURSED [It is a process] IS THE MAN WHO PUTS HIS TRUST IN
MAN AND MAKES HIS OLD SIN NATURE HIS TRUST; AND WHOSE HEART
TURNS AWAY FROM THE LORD! (Jer 17:5)
“Clarence Manion, the dean of the Notre Dame law school from 1941-
1952, boarded a plane sometime during the early 1950’s; one of the
passengers recognized him and went over and sat down next to him. Dean
Manion was doing some work but he had to put it all away as this man began
asking questions. He told Professor Manion that he was one of the greatest
thinkers in our country at that time. He wanted to talk with the professor about
the unfortunate condition of our country. So Dean Manion listened patiently,
conversed with him, and began making notes while the man was speaking.
As the plane landed he got up, shook hands with the man, who again told
Dean Manion what a wonderful privilege it was to talk with a man of his caliber
of mentality. Dean Manion smiled, thanked him, and handed him a slip of paper
on which he had written these words:
Man begins his existence in bondage, and rises from bondage through
Spiritual faith, from Spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from
liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to
complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from
(DEPENDENCY back into BONDAGE!) (THE WHOLE WORLD IS HERE NOW!
(Prov 13:13; Prov 14:2; Prov 15:32)
This is the cycle of civilization; national and personal. The only hope of
breaking this cycle is the believer who gives his attention to the Word of God.
HE WHO GIVES ATTENTION TO THE WORD SHALL FIND GOOD, AND
BLESSED IS HE WHO TRUSTS IN THE LORD! (Prov 16:20)
We are grateful, heavenly Father, for the privilege and the opportunity of
fellowshipping in the Word; for the challenges that come to us through the
Scripture; for the Thoughts that we learn; for the fantastic provision for each
one of us as Church Age believers, the dispensation of the ordinary person. We
are grateful for the fantastic portfolio of invisible assets provided for each one
of us to have, not only Spiritual impact on history, but to be recorded forever in
the eternal state as the names and the deeds of believers who become invisible
heroes; to provide hope for America not through revolutions, or violence, or self-
righteous arrogance, not through crusader arrogance, or attempting to change
things by any form of tyranny, not through Christian activism, or civil
disobedience, but through our invisible impact. Therefore, Father, in view of
what has occurred today and what has been occurring in this country, challenge
us under the principle of separation of church and state to fulfill our Spiritual
destiny as provided for us, that we might have a legitimate impact on this nation
that we love so dearly. May we become the true hope for our nation. We ask
this in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
WE NEED TO LEARN AND BELIEVE WHAT GOD DECLARES TO BE
REALITY; AND NOT WHAT WE THINK IS REALITY!
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