The Same Thing Either Way

Today's message is easy. It really is. And the reason it is easy is because we now know who has been chosen to be the next President of the United Stated of America: Barack Hussein Obama. And I promise you, my thoughts this morning would be the same thing had John McCain been the choice. Here's why.

As we were reminded from God's Word yesterday, no power (or person) rules except that it has been ordained by Our Heavenly Father. Romans 13:1. Today we read how that can be when it seems that Mr. Obama might not represent the values many of us share. We find it in Proverbs 21:1; "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will."

Today, our responsibility before God is exactly the same as if Mr. McCain had won the election: to pray for our new President and his administration; to pray for our Congress which seems to be dramatically changing; to pray for our Supreme Court, which will definitely be changing dramatically; and to pray for revival among American Christians.

Perhaps the fact that God has chosen to allow Mr. Obama to be President is His way of continuing to call His church, His people in the United States back to Him. Perhaps this is what it takes to get we Christians back on our knees in true repentance before Him. Pray for revival.

The hard truth is that American Christians have been spoiled and have lived in such comfort and ease that we have neglected the most important relationship we have; our relationship with God. We have taken Him for granted. We have been guilty of presumptuous sins, which we will be defining and discussing one Sunday night very soon.

I, and others who have been privileged to be spokespersons for the Almighty, have said for sometime now that what American Christians need to truly come back to God is a good dose of persecution. That may be coming.

I am excited. I believe with all my heart that God is on His Throne. He is at work all around us. His will, purposes and ways are not going to be thwarted. He will prevail, and mightily so. I believe that we are on the verge of perhaps the greatest revival that has ever come to America.

Pray for it. Believe for it. Don't settle for anything less. Put on your happy face and watch, wait and look up. Not for bombs or invaders but for a great outpouring of the power of God. Jesus is coming. You can count on it.

In His Love
Walter