Charlie Kirk said, “My Call is to fight Evil and Proclaim Truth” I feel the same way and created a website in 2020 for that reason.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Eric Metaxas says in the “Letter to the American Church” that the American church has been complicit in the rise of harmful ideologies like Marxist atheism, abortion, and transgenderism by remaining silent, much like the German church was silent during the rise of Nazism. Many in church leadership insist on silence so as to not offend many ignorant people sitting in the pews who adhere to ungodly principles such as supporting candidates who adhere to the Democratic platform which has become so evil that you could say it was directly influenced by the devil. The first thing Jesus said was repent, so such church leaderships should repent of their silence. Many in church leadership seem more concerned about the comfort of those sitting in the pews than they are about confronting evil and sharing truth. Heb 13:7 says, “Remember your leaders, who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.” Why should we want to imitate cowards? 2Ti 4:3 – For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
If or when God answers any of our prayers we should be eternally grateful because the truth is that none of us qualify to ever deserve any answers.
Who of us could pompously claim that when we pray we know God’s will, and our motives are pure, and we aren’t holding on to any bad/sinful habits and we have no unconfessed sin. All of those just mentioned are Biblical conditions for answered prayer.
If God doesn’t hear the prayer, how can He answer?
1 John 5:14 – This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.
Psalm 66:18 – If I had cherished sin in my heart the Lord would not have listened.
Isaiah 59:2 – But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
If we have wrong motives God won’t answer.
James 4:3 – When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
If our prayer is detestable to God I don’t think He would answer that either.
Proverbs 28:9 – If anyone turns a deaf ear to the law even his prayers are detestable.
I’m not saying don’t pray, I’m just saying we need to understand the reality of how God really operates not how we wish He operates.
Our country would be so much better off if we did not spend billions of dollars on buildings and staff that produced very little spiritual formation. We need connected communities of people who have real conversations about real life which might happen mostly in homes and coffee shops.
My proposal would be that we get rid of most of the entire college system. There are very few jobs that require a college degree. EXPERIENCE, and not college degrees, thus APPRENTICESHIPS would be the most efficient way to train people for their jobs.
Some questions that might help people think about what is their true identity or might even touch the soul, could be as follows:
What are you passionate about or what drives you?
Did that passion or drive come from your creator (assuming you believe there is a creator)?
Or did that passion or drive come from being influenced by your own self interest that may have been influenced by what all your peers think is important?
A while back my wife and I were encouraged to watch a video on YouTube entitled “Monkeys in the City”
It was very thought-provoking and definitely worth watching. A related follow on video or two started me to think about the core of who I am or who we are.
When we are talking to people (could be friends or new acquaintances) we typically might ask about their family, what do they do for their job, or how we like the weather.
But shouldn’t we be striving to go beyond these surface things that tell us little about who that person really is, at the core?
Shouldn’t we want to go deeper in conversation with those who are willing to have real worthwhile conversation?
I think it’s important that we all do something like that and do more than just talk about the weather, your job and family.
What do you think you were created to be? Not what do you think you were created to do or what vocation you are supposed to be in. But who are you really, what is your true identity?
I have a friend who has struggled for months or even years to slowly walk from his kitchen back to his bedroom with a walker, maybe 40 feet, which may take him 20 to 30 minutes to make the journey. Currently he can no longer make that entire journey. There are millions of people in the Word of Faith and/or Prosperity movements (for example Kenneth Copeland or Joyce Meyers) who would probably say, “If he and/or his friends had enough faith he would be healed”. But the truth is, all we need to do is look around the world at the millions of people in similar or worse situations who also are not healed. God can heal people but He does not do so many times or most of the time. So the truth is that it is a total mystery as to who or when people are healed.
I have another friend who nearly died not long ago and he still struggles to maintain a certain level of activity do to heart conditions. He struggles with not being able to go back to his normal abilities but he also has said that his relationship with God has increased and therefore he probably would not change things as a result. But still, that’s his situation and that doesn’t necessarily make other people in similar situations feel any better.
So what do we do or say?
I think that anyone who claims to know what God is doing or will do in these situations is pompously incorrect! Yes, we can ask God to do anything we want but we must realize that God is not obligated to do what we want; if He does then we can be thankful, if He doesn’t we can proceed on. The Faith/Prosperity people’s tendency is to pompously claim that God is obligated to come through with fulfilling their requests as though He promised them all of these things.
Instead, I would say that we need to humbly request and hope that God will do what we request, realizing that he owes us nothing and that we owe him more than we could ever hope to repay!
