If you’ve been following us or receiving our emails for any length of time, you’ll notice that we only have two Decency Minutes and their scripts this week, instead of the normal three. That is because of a very special happening next week on Thursday, starting at noon. As many of you are likely aware, it is the National Day of Prayer (NDOP). Lord willing, we will be airing the NDOP Decency Minute on Monday and Wednesday, inviting people to join us for this very special and sacred time of crying out to the Lord in our desperate need for Him to move mightily upon our nation, its government, and its people. We will be calling upon the Lord our God to do that which only He can do, to rule and overrule in the hearts, minds, and affairs of men. There is no denying that we need His healing, saving, sanctifying, and guiding Hand to intervene in our desperate wickedness, drawing us to Himself, and making us a holy people, a holy nation. Though some may scoff at such an idea, mentally saying, “Impossible!” let me ask you, “What is impossible with God?” The answer, of course, is “NOTHING!”
Yet, if we are to pray such “impossible” prayers in faith, let us be ready for what such an answer to prayer may entail. God, in showing grace and mercy to Israel, would give them over to their enemies or send pestilence upon their land, destroying their crops. Sometimes it would be drought, other times locusts, but this was more than mere punishment. It was what it took to get their attention and draw their hearts back to the one, true God, their Creator, the One who brought them out of Egypt with a mighty Hand and established them as His people.
I’m certainly not saying that this is how God will deal with America; it is one distinct possibility of His answer to our prayers, though. Let me just say that if it comes from the Hand of God, it is good. More often than not, we prefer to see God answer our prayers without the mess and hurt that it takes to bring a child (or nation) back to Himself, but He knows best. Do we believe that and can we trust that He is good no matter what? As our first Decency Minute states: “Surely, God sees. Surely, He will judge. Yet, He has graciously given us year after year to turn from our wicked ways.”
Remember, God gives us an opportunity to humble ourselves (and pray and turn from our wicked ways and seek His face – 2 Chron. 7:14), but if we refuse to humble ourselves and go forward in our own wickedness, HE WILL HUMBLE US (2 Chron. 7:19-22).
Our second Decency Minute describes one of the many symptoms of refusing to humble ourselves and continuing to walk away from God, rather than seeking His face. “When the Bible, prayer, close-knit family, and biblical education were the norm, there was no ‘mental health’ crisis among children — no epidemic of child suicide, school shootings, or persistent hopelessness. This is all a modern phenomenon.”
The answer doesn’t lie in man’s “wisdom;” we do not need better government, school, or even church programs. The answer came from the beginning of time and has been reiterated in many different ways throughout the Word: Believe, trust, obey, fear, love God and put nothing above Him. Or as written in Isaiah 8:13, “Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.”
Such a life evangelizes the world around us and will draw fire from all sides, except from above. Yet, Peter urges us to the same life, even using our words to evangelize and to glorify God and magnify our Lord Jesus Christ. “But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.” (1 Peter 3:15-16)
There is no question of our desperate need for humble, agonizing, God’s face-seeking, sincere prayers of faith. If that doesn’t describe our current praying, may our next prayers be that God would give us a heart of brokenness; might we, by His grace and mercy, sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, trusting and fearing Him alone. Amen.
With each passing year, I ask: “How long, oh Lord, before you deal with our increasingly degraded homeland?”
Lawlessness; corruption; abortion; homosexuality; the profaning of God’s name.
Surely, God sees. Surely, He will judge. Yet, He has graciously given us year after year to turn from our wicked ways.
May we cry out in repentance, seeking God’s mercy for a wicked nation and an apathetic church.
This Thursday on the National Day of Prayer, let us join together, praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the American people – that, by God’s grace, we may see spiritual renewal in our nation.
Please join us at American Decency, 203 E Main Street in Fremont, this Thursday, May 7 at Noon for the National Day of Prayer.
Let’s come together on this day set aside for every citizen to seek God’s face.
Alex Newman reports, according to a new poll, that 94 percent of California teenagers and young adults experience “mental health challenges” in an average month. Despite the drugging, “social-emotional learning,” and increased “mental health” schemes, the numbers continue to increase. Ironically, another study shows that when school is out for summer, the number of student suicides plummets, before skyrocketing again when school begins.
Newman writes: “When the Bible, prayer, close-knit family, and biblical education were the norm, there was no ‘mental health’ crisis among children — no epidemic of child suicide, school shootings, or persistent hopelessness. This is all a modern phenomenon.”
Our youth don’t need the leftist indoctrination that is constantly being forced upon them in their government schools: “race” mongering, transgenderism and gender fluidity, climate hysteria, and the list goes on. What they need is what we all need: Truth and love.
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