God’s grace moved and people who profess a relationship with God voted. According to MSN: “Exit poll data from CNN and other news outlets reported that 72% of white Protestants and 61% of white Catholics said they voted for Trump. Among white voters, 81% of those identified as born-again or evangelical supported Trump, up from 76% in 2020 and similar to the 80% of support Trump received in 2016.”
For many around the world and in America, the sun SEEMS to shine just a little brighter. Yet, President-elect Trump hit the nail on the head when he said, “We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.”
Our prayers are that President-elect Trump will choose true-conservative people to be in key positions and it appears that he mostly is. We desire to see him, or any president, do well, as the leader of this country. We hope that his policies will be righteous, according to the Word of God, so we also pray that the Lord will change the 47th president’s mind on certain policies that he’s already spoken to. American Decency has often written that it’s important for the United States to withdraw from the U.N. (United Nations) and the W.H.O. (World Health Organization). Both of these globalist organizations assault America’s sovereignty and health. Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr. are now in a position to reject such assaults; we hope they will. Yet with all the positive that we are seeing, the best machinations of man will never do what only the Messiah, Jesus, can do. Our only hope nationally is to return to God. Our only hope personally is to trust in Jesus.
“All my hope is in Jesus” is a chorus that talks about the redemption of Christ and the blessing it brings. If you’ve put your faith in Christ and Jesus is your only hope, then regardless of what comes our way, let us say with the Apostle Paul to his “son in the faith,” Timothy: “And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
As you read or listen to this week’s Decency Minutes (narrated by Bill Johnson), we urge you to prayerfully seek ways to put them into personal practice. Let’s be intentional about the walk we walk before a watching world, community, and family.
Now’s the Time to Plan for Advent
It may seem to many conservatives as if Christmas has come early this year, but, of course, we’re just getting in to the holiday season.
Soon, we’ll be meditating on and enjoying the many reasons we have to be grateful to God at Thanksgiving, and then we’ll enter the Advent season as anticipation builds for the hope that was realized 2,000 years ago which we celebrate at Christmas.
I want to encourage you this year to participate in that remembrance of the weary world “in sin and error pining” in anticipation of the “new and glorious morn” we live in today, as the old carol “O Holy Night” describes.
You still have time to look for an Advent devotional or find a Bible reading plan which helps you meditate on the Old Testament church’s anxious awaiting for their Messiah, and then, on Christmas, rejoice with them at His coming.
The government is on HIS shoulders.
Reach Out to Your Liberal Loved Ones this Holiday Season
In the aftermath of the presidential election, perhaps you’ve seen angry posts from some on the left refusing to go to Thanksgiving dinner with conservative family members or even vowing to cut out of their lives their own Trump-voting parents.
However, many on the right are wrongly taking delight in these leftist meltdowns. We’d think differently if we remember that for those not in Christ, this life is the only heaven they’ll ever know. They’ve placed their hope in earthly institutions and politics has become their religion.
We’re surrounded by people who are desperately searching for something to give them meaning, not knowing that void can only be filled by Jesus.
Yet, we have the answer they need – and the responsibility to share it. This Thanksgiving, reach out to your unbelieving family members – not to debate politics, but to share the hope found only in Christ.
A Call to Post-election Prayer
With the election behind us, let’s continue with post-election prayers: Prayers of thanksgiving for the merciful reprieve that God has given us. Prayers for those who are still in authority and for those Leftist followers who are truly distraught, some posting themselves weeping and feeling a loss of hope. Ask God to send someone into their lives to speak truth and that the Holy Spirit would prepare their hearts to receive the hope that only Jesus gives. Continue to pray for our nation as a whole, that God’s grace would grant us repentance and revival; we’re still a nation in great need. Pray for election integrity; it’s still of vital concern. Finally, we should pray for ourselves, that God will open eyes to the need for self-change, that we would diligently seek God’s face, and that we would share the gospel with others.
May God’s will be done.
Charles Spurgeon: “Prayer is the forerunner of mercy! Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarcely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication. When you had great deliverances out of sore troubles, and mighty helps in great dangers, you have been able to say, ‘I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears!’ Prayer is ALWAYS the preface to blessing.”
J.R.R. Tolkien: “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
And two from G.K. Chesterton:
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.”
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