Tag: prayer

Do you remember the word ‘W.R.A.P.’ from the previous posts?

Jesus had emphasized four significant words to us from Matthew 24,25.

Those four words were be watchful, be ready, be alert, and be prayful.

Each of these four words are imperative for us as we move forward with the Lord in the midst of the turmoil in our nation.

However, one word, PRAYER, is the foundation of everything as we seek to abide in the Lord.

Therefore, in the midst of God’s Seismic Spiritual Shaking, what is the posture of the Church?

PRAYER!

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’, and ‘virulent rhetoric’ come to mind to characterize our nation’s atmosphere.

On February 28,2026, the nation of Israel, with the backing of the United States launched an attack on Iran.

What took place during the night, as we slept, has changed the atmosphere of the world.

When we awoke, things were not the same.

Now what?

In previous posts (The Battle of Authority-The Conflict in the Heavenly, Part 1,2) the Church was reminded of its position before the Lord functioning in the world.

The Church must understand and remember that God is Sovereign.

This understanding is a TRUTH upon which we stand.

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 within the guidelines of the Word of God.

Please read 1 Timothy 2:1-7.

Why are we to pray? 1.”that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence”; 2. “This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior”; 3. God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth”.

In the midst of the turmoil, God is at work in the lives of mankind seeking them to turn to Him and be saved.

The members of the Church are first citizens of the Kingdom of God, then citizens of the nation in which they live.

Each individual member of the Church lives his/her life in the world but not a part of the world. (John 17:14-16; John 15:9)

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. (Romans 8:28-30)

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)

Q: Do you remember Jesus’ anger in the Temple overthrowing the money changers and the merchandise stands of those selling in the courtyard?

He did it twice. Read John 2:13-17 (the first Passover of His ministry); and Luke 19:45-46 (the third Passover of His ministry, during the week prior to His arrest and crucifixion)

Q: What did Jesus exclaim during His final week? “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it a ‘den of thieves‘?

Consider this, I Corinthians 6:19-20 says, “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God’s.” (See I Corinthians 6:12-20 for context.)

Q: If the Church is being called to prayer, what might need to be ‘cleansed’ from me in order for my body, “the temple of the Holy Spirit” to be a ‘house of prayer’?

Q: What ‘dens of thieves’ need to be removed from me?

I know that question can be hard to process; but is it a question that each of us must ask the Lord in order for us to ‘stand’ with Him, and move forward in faith, separated from the world, in the hour in which we live?

I encourage you to stop, reflect, and ask the Lord to show you what needs to be removed.

Moving forward requires repentance of what is wrong in order to be set free from darkness and walk in light with the Lord. (1 John 1:5-10)

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 are ‘bound’ spiritually.

We will find ourselves coming into alignment with the ‘spirit of the world’ and not in alignment with the Spirit of God.

Q: Will that affect our prayer life?

Absolutely.

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’; and that I can criticize those in authority over me; and it is not affecting my personal attitude.

Fact: I am not strong enough.

Why? I am human just like you.

I am a sinner, saved by grace; and it is God’s grace that enables me to overcome ‘in Christ’.

The Lord has graciously 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 supported the re-election of President Trump.

I am aware there are many people in this nation, and 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 the administration of this nation.

In previous posts, I have explained my personal struggle and my conclusion as to why I chose to vote for the Republican party platform.

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. Their words 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 prior 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 enter into the promised 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 a repeat of what happened just 3 days after God had brought His people out of Egypt; through the Red Sea; and had drowned Pharaoh and his army in that same Red Sea. (Exodus 15:22-26)

At that time God told Moses to 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’. He had gone before the Lord, sought His wisdom, and followed His directions.

However,

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, did 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, influencing them to disobey 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 according 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.

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 am not insinuating that President Trump has gone beyond the Presidential ‘guidelines’ of the Executive Office.

That evaluation is for God alone to judge.

I am concerned that President Trump will stay within his Presidential guidelines.

Therefore:

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’s wisdom will not influence the minds and hearts of those in authority over us, so that they are negatively influenced in their decision making.

We must not be ‘governed’ by individuals who ‘govern’ out of their own ‘self-government’ and not the government of God, i.e.’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)

In March 2025, Pastor Kent Dresdow, Senior Pastor at North Creek Church, made it very clear what happens to individuals, whom God has sovereignly chosen to use for His purposes, taking matters into their own hands, and going 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 had 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 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)

The enemy, the devil, seeks to influence negatively those in authority that seek to do the will of God.

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, and in His TRUTH we stand.

(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.

I encourage you to seek out that personal passage of scripture that is yours when you seek refuge in the Lord, and rest in its TRUTH.

In our refuge, we are to be watchful, be ready, be alert, and to pray.

blessings, a brother in Christ, who takes refuge in our Lord, deo

(Psalms 62, Psalm 46, Psalm 37)