With next week Tuesday being just around the corner, how can we help but have thoughts on the election, the state of our nation, and a wonderment at what God has in store for us?
We urge you to go to the polls, vote Biblically, and, all the while, rest in the Lord, praying for our nation. I want to take this time to invite you to our prayer vigil in front of the American Decency offices at 203 E. Main St. in Fremont, on Tuesday (11/5) – election day – from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm.
If you plan to join us, show up at 2 pm for pizza, coffee, and water; this also gives us a moment to pray together before going out to the sidewalk, encouraging our community to pray for our nation, for God’s grace and mercy, and reminding them that the Lord is our only hope.
This is only one way to proclaim the truth. We urge you to have intentional conversations with others about God’s grace, mercy, and plan of salvation. We encourage you to pray for open doors and that God would be glorified through our conversations and kindnesses which we show to others. We pray that each of us would be constrained by the love of God, to friend and “enemy” alike.
I encourage each of us to be thermostats, not thermometers. Instead of responding to the heated environment around us (like a thermometer), may God’s grace rule and overrule in our lives, helping us to bring His peace to the situations at hand (like a thermostat). All to the glory of God, the magnifying of Christ, and doing so through the power of the Holy Spirit.
I urge you to consider the above as you listen to Bill Johnson narrate these Decency Minutes or as you read the scripts below. Also, would you please consider helping us spread the word by posting these to your favorite social media platforms or prayerfully sharing this email with a handful of friends?
As I record this message, the election is just days away. No matter who is elected, the quest of the Left to radically transform America won’t stop. The world is in a state of spiritual war, with those in rebellion against their Creator plotting to break the bonds of God’s authority. Which means that we Christians, also, cannot stop proclaiming the Truth of God’s Word in the cultural and political realms. If we withhold our influence, we leave a vacuum that will be filled with Godless ideology.
Yet, while it’s clear that the ramifications of this election are immense, there is a King who is reigning over it all. Whether or not we have a president who acknowledges that Christ is King, God’s sovereignty supersedes every ruler. That truth should give us hope and peace no matter who holds the temporary reins of earthly power.
G K Chesterton wrote, “Because children… are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, ‘Do it again;’ and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony…”
This month begins with the end of election season, and it ends with the beginning of the holiday season – Thanksgiving: a perfect time to open our eyes to those “monotonous” gifts of God which we find ourselves too “grown-up” to exult in.
NO MATTER WHAT happens in American politics, we have so much to be grateful for, so many blessings we’re blind to, because we’re just so used to getting them.
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above,” James 1:17 says.
As we approach Thanksgiving, look for and “exult” in God’s “monotonous” blessings.
The One True Source of Comfort
Recently, a friend of this ministry wrote the following devotional reading, a reminder that our God, who does not change, has given His Word to govern the world in perpetuity. Listen, as he starts with Isaiah 40:8. “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
“In a world where fact seems to no longer matter. When what the world calls ‘truth’ is ever changing. In a society that is full of fake news. There is good news today! And it is found in God’s Word.
“What a comfort and joy it is to know that there is a source of truth. It is THE TRUTH that you can stand on, that you can trust, that you can always turn to! It is The Word of God!” (Unquote)
What a comfort to know that God and His Word will ALWAYS be true.
John Wesley’s journal entry for October 6, 1774 was:
“I met with those who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them:
While number two might be most difficult, the third point is certainly the most important, for the heart of the gospel is love; the Christian life is to be exemplified by love; and if enemies are to be won over, it will only be by love.
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