We Are In A Battle

I am up as it is 1:30AM. I had been asleep and then the Lord woke me to pray so I pray.

I am asking the Lord to heal our land. We have heard people say, “wearing a mask says you care” and now we hear our POTUS and his First Lady have tested positive and I hear the same voices gloating. The depravity, hate, unforgiveness, anger, well just plain evil is running deep in our nation... our “Christian” nation. Father, forgive us!!

I am pressed to the altar of the Lord! While sitting with Him; here is what He said to me after reading this (link)... many who were at the Rose Garden ceremony (announcing the Supreme Court nominee last weekend) are now testing positive for COVID. Kellyanne Conway’s own daughter (posted to social media) a disrespectful post against her mother; releasing this news to the public even before Kellyanne addressed it. Her daughter’s vitriol is symptomatic of the breakdown of many things in our nation! We have lost the ability to choose love! This is more alarming to me than the headline of the outbreak of positive test results. (Higher positives don’t equate to higher deaths - just the opposite in fact!)

Jesus, our nation is in desperate need of the Father’s steady hand. Just a couple of headlines pressed me back into the Father’s presence for clarity and direction! 

As I was praying the Lord dropped 2 Timothy 3:1-5 in my spirit — so I looked it up. Here it is in the New International Version:

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.

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 such people.

Hmmmm - have NOTHING to do with such people. 

As I began to write this out, I heard the Lord say for me to pray through these verses FOR the people I know who are manifesting this behavior. As I read the list again, I actually was reminded of conversations I personally have had (in the last couple of weeks) where almost every one of these attributes was actively in play by the person I was encountering! Jesus! We need you!

I encourage you to slowly read through these 5 verses and then actively pray for the names of the people you hear as you read the list! God is inviting you to intercede for these people; maybe even your own name!

Here is the list again: There will be terrible times and people will be...

• lovers of themselves
• lovers of money
• boastful
• proud
• abusive
• disobedient to their parents
• ungrateful
• unholy
• without love
• unforgiving
• slanderous
• without self-control
• brutal
• not lovers of the good
• treacherous
• rash
• conceited
• lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God
• have a form of godliness but denying its power

        Have NOTHING to do with them.

All these conversations I had were with people who say they are BELIEVERS! I know many of you too have been “butting-up against” this same stuff. What is this? Well, it is stemming from our watered-down beliefs many have renamed Christianity; we have a FORM of godliness... we say we believe... but even the demons can say they believe! Lord, we need a shift!

Y’all, God is calling us to HOLYNESS! Consecration! And even separation from the evil! We can’t have this “mixture” in us!

What does this have to do with the link I shared you may ask? 

Well, today our commander and chief, his wife and several in his closest circles are being attacked! Think of a war scenario; IF the leaders of your army are attacked, there is great danger of the entire army failing! Our leadership in our nation has been attacked and the enemy has breached the walls! WE ARE THE WATCHMAN ON THE WALLS! This has happened right under our noses! It starts with us; with our “effective, fervent prayers” of the saints! We want to see the Lord HEAL OUR LAND but we have more advancement from the enemy... why? Because we have to rid ourselves of the things listed in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 and put on James 5:16. Here is James 5:16 (again in the New International Version) —

Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

We have to CONFESS our junk (like the list in 2 Timothy 3:1-5) and THEN our prayers become effective AND powerful! We can’t have both - mixture!

Let’s take some time to look into the mirror (James 1:23-25) and examine ourselves (2 Corinthians 13:5 and 2 Peter 1:10-11)! This plague is taking ground because many (believers) are not engaging in the battle with clean hands and pure hearts (Psalms 24:4). We have pride, arrogance, unforgivesss... we have mixture and we are double-minded, unstable in all our ways (James 1:8)!

Father, forgive us! Show us what is in us that is not of you so we can turn from our wicked ways; and then you will heal our land! 

2 Chronicles 7:14 King James Version — If MY people, which are called by MY name, shall HUMBLE themselves, and PRAY, and SEEK my face, and TURN from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

We need thee, Father! Jesus Come! Maranatha!