This post was originally published last March, 2025. I have been reminded of the need to pray for our administration. It is always important.
But its importance has been elevated because of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, September 10, 2025.
Our nation is being awakened to the real spiritual battle that it faces every day of its existence.
‘Unprecedented unrest’,’ the spirit of antichrist’, ‘unrestrained lawlessness’, ‘increased violence’ ‘virulent rhetoric’comes to mind to characterize our nation’s atmosphere.
Today is September 20, 2025, the day before Charlie Kirks memorial service.
I encourage you to read this re-post.
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Words of Caution to the Church, An Immediate Prayer Request
In the previous post (Another Heavenly Coming , 3/4/25), the Church was reminded of its position before the Lord functioning in the world. The Church must remember that God is Sovereign.
All the leaders of the nations are in their places of leadership because of God’s will and purpose.
Each leader is individually responsible to God .
God will judge and reward each national leader’s performance carrying out their duty.
The Church is responsible to pray for the administrative leadership of their nation and submit ‘orderly’ and ‘obediently ‘to their authority.
The members of the Church are first citizens of the Kingdom of God.
Each individual member of the Church lives his/her life in the world but not a part of the world.
In Christ, we are separated from the world, the flesh, and the devil. (I John 2:15-17)
We are being conformed to the image of Christ.
We are functioning as members of the Body of Christ, fulfilling our assigned spiritual vocation, using the spiritual gifts given to us to build up the Body in love; and fulfilling the work that God Himself has designated for every believer before the foundation for the world. (Ephesians 2:8-10)
Why?
If we focus on the venom of the verbal rhetoric that is being spewed forth daily in our nation that rhetoric can infiltrate into our heart and mind, and darken our soul.
What happens within us if we focus on such negative rhetoric?
We will find ourselves coming into alignment with the ‘spirit of the world’ and not in alignment with the Spirit of God.
How do I know this?
I have been there; and I must constantly guard myself against listening to the offensive political rhetoric and subtly embracing the mindset of the world.
I confess to you that is very easy to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; believing that you are strong enough to listen to the world’s rantings and assume that it will not affect you.
Wrong!
I have been there believing that I can handle this; that I can criticize those in authority over me; and not become affected in my personal attitude.
I am not strong enough.
The Lord showed me my fallacy; and He helped me to overcome my weakness.
In the midst of the administrative upheaval since the re-election of President Trump, our nation has been experiencing a political earthquake that has resulted in a daily shaking of the political landscape that has unsettled many people.
I support the re-election of President Trump.
I am aware there are many people in this nation, and probably around the world that do not support his re-election.
Many despise and hate him; yet, there are many who support the changes he is bringing to our nation.
Many citizens of this nation voted for him because of what he promised he would change.
Others supported him, because they did not support the Democratic platform and their agenda to govern their administration of this nation.
In my previous posts, I have explained my personal struggle and my conclusion as to why I chose to vote for the Republican party platform.
I have been confronted by members of my own family that do not agree with me.
That is ok.
The bottom line for me was a matter of personal conscience before the Lord.
Each individual believer will one day stand alone before the Lord to give an account of their life as a follower of Jesus Christ.
My eternal salvation is not dependent upon who I voted for in each election during my lifetime.
My desire is to please my heavenly Father.
The choices that I make, the words that I speak, the works that I do, either glorify the Lord or they do not bear witness to His life in me.
We are told to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling. (Philippians 2:12)
If the Church is going to live up to its calling and walk as children of light in this world of darkness, then it must learn and practice the teaching of Ephesians 4-6. (especially Ephesians 5:20-26.)
Please read these verses in the context of what I have been sharing.
As previous posts have explained, I believe Psalm 64 will be fulfilled.
( I recommend that you read the post: A Time To Read it Again)
God has shot His A.R.R.O.W.
Adonai’s Righteous Revelation Of Wrongdoing is being exposed.
There are many who are being wounded, and will be wounded by the revelation of their own malicious words that they have spewed out upon others that will ‘boomerang’ and come back and wound them. (Psalm 64:7-10)
What will be revealed will not be pleasant.
God doesn’t take sides politically.
He is no ‘respecter of persons’. (Romans 2:11-16)
God will judge righteously.
God is not mocked; individuals will reap what they have sown.
(Galatians 6:7-8)
I offer the following as a word of caution.
The Church must pray for President Trump and his administrative team as they implement changes in this nation.
Why?
If you recall my previous posts about the nation of Israel, and God’s intended purpose to bring them out of the bondage of Egypt and into the Promised Land, then you will recall that the original leadership of Moses and Aaron were not allowed to go into the land.
Why?
Because they disobeyed what God had told them to do.
God had told Moses to speak to the rock.
God said that He would bring out water from the rock to provide ‘drink’ for His people that were ‘grumbling and complaining’ about the lack of water.
Ironically, this is what happened 3 days after God had brought His people through the Red Sea and drowned Pharaoh and his army in that same Red Sea. (Exodus 15:22-26) At this time God had Moses strike the rock. Moses struck the rock and the water came forth.
In Numbers 20, Moses did not speak to the rock as God had instructed him; he struck the rock twice out of frustration and anger.
Moses, throughout his entire lifetime of leadership had listened to the people he was leading ‘grumble and complain’.
After 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, at the very precipice of entering the land of promise, when he was confronted once more with the people’s ‘grumbling and complaining’, Moses seeks God about how to handle the situation.
God tells him what to do; and He tells him what He will do.
Moses and Aaron, carrying out their administrative appointment, as the governmental leaders of the nation of Israel, do not follow God’s directive.
I, submit, that Moses and Aaron, listened to the ‘grumbling and complaining’ of the people, allowing the spirit of the people, entrance into their own spirit disobeying God’s word to them.
The consequences was that Moses did not execute his office of leadership according to the Spirit of God through obedience to God’s directive; but he exercised his leadership, influenced by the lawless spirit of the people of Israel that ‘grumbled and complained’ and he struck the rock twice (Numbers 20).
Moses struck the rock out of anger (his personal rebellion and lawlessness) ‘governed’ by his own spirit.
God graciously met the need of His people.
The water came out of the rock.
The people received what they had ‘grumbled and complained’ about.
In Exodus 15:25, God made the bitter waters sweet; and then directed them to Elim where there were 12 wells of water and 70 palm trees.
[Many believe the 12 wells represent the 12 tribes of Israel, and the 70 palm trees represent the original 70 descendants of the nation of Israel that entered Egypt in the time of famine.]
Moses and Aaron’s disobedience misrepresented the character of God.
God’s Spirit is gracious and merciful, because He loves His people.
That does not mean He approves of their sinfulness.
God judges His people for their sinfulness.
Moses and Aaron’s disobedience went beyond what God had told them to do.
This is my concern for President Trump and his administrative team and all whom God is using at this time to bring about change in our nation.
I pray, and ‘beseech’ the Church to pray that those in the places of authority, raised up by the sovereignty of God, will stay within their appointed leadership boundaries, asking and doing what God directs them to do; and not allow themselves to be influenced by the opposing rhetoric that is shouting, grumbling, complaining, and hurling venomous rhetoric at them.
I pray that the ‘words’ of the world wisdom will not influence the minds and hearts of those in authority over us, so that they are negatively influenced in their souls.
We must not be ‘governed’ by individuals who ‘govern’ out of their own ‘self-government’ and not the government of God, ‘governed’ by the Spirit of God.
Remember, the Church is called to stand against the principalities, power, and evil rulers that seek to influence our lives. (Ephesians 6: 10-18)
These past two weeks (March 2025), Pastor Kent Dresdow, Senior Pastor at North Creek Church, has made it very clear what happens to individuals, who God has sovereignly chosen to use for His purposes, take matters into their own hands, and go beyond the boundaries that God had originally planned for them to accomplish.
I recommend that you read Isaiah 10.
To summarize Pastor Kent’s teaching, when a person goes beyond what God intends, that person becomes arrogant and boastful.
God hates arrogance and boasting.
As mentioned before, God will judge such individuals with righteous justice
Why?
The source of pride and arrogance is Satan, himself, who said that he will be like God. (Isaiah 14:12-17)
Our task as the Church, is to pray that President Trump and his administrative team will not become arrogant and prideful; that President Trump and his administrative team will stay within the sovereign purposes of God that He has ordained for this nation and the nations of the world, as he exercises his office as the President of the United States of America.
As the Lord taught us to pray, our prayer is that the Lord will not lead them (President Trump and his team ) into temptation, but to deliver them from the evil (evil one[Satan]), because the kingdom is God’s “and the power and the glory forever. Amen” (Matthew 6:9-13, as paraphrased by myself)
Thank you for praying for our leadership as I Timothy 2:1-7 directs us to do it daily.
Remember, that the enemy, Satan himself, is relentless, constantly fighting against the work of God.
Therefore, the Church must pray. (Ephesians 6:10-18)
The Church must humble itself before the Lord, resist the devil, and he will flee. (James 4:7-10) [Read the context in James 4:1-17]
Our battle is daily, until ‘that Day’ when God ‘ends’ it; however, until ‘that Day’, our refuge is in Christ.
(See rpmministries.org, 36 Scripture Passages on Safety and Refuge in God: Home, Safe, and Sound)
I am sure that you have your own personal scriptures that you seek out for refuge.
What is your personal favorite?
I encourage you to seek out your personal passage of scripture that is yours when you seek refuge in the Lord.
blessings, your brother in Christ, who, too, takes refuge in our Lord, Deo
(Psalms 62, Psalm 46, Psalm 37)
Living Words of Encouragement 