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A Message for the Nation
There is a video below that Highlights most of the naysayers of the candidacy of Donald Trump with His determination to be the President of the United States of America. The high lights show that everyone who said that Donald Trump would never be President is still saying negative things even after He won, and even after the Nation has turned around those who are wearing egg on their face. Would it be just possible that these people give our President some positive reflection that once again America could come out of such negative effect on such a positive impact for good worldwide? This 10 minutes 26-second video has all the high lights that David must have had when he killed the giant.
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The story of Gideon in the Bible Judges Chapter 6 is called upon to save the people of Israel by leading them against the Midianites. Israel had sinned "what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian." The Midianites would take any crops produced by the Israelites, like locust upon the land. When the people of Israel realized the error of their ways and cried out for help to the Lord, a prophet was sent to deliver them as they had been rescued from Egypt. While harvesting wheat and hiding from the Midianites an angel spoke to Gideon and addressed him as a mighty man of valor. The angel told Gideon that God is sending him to "save Israel from the hand of Midian."
The 3 Hebrew Children went into the fiery furnace because they would not bow down to Nebuchadnezzar Image. You see the three were very high and important people and appointed in Nebuchadnezzar inner circle. The non-Jewish inner circle influence wanted themselves to be great in the Kings Court. This was a plan drawn out of the devil's chamber t get them to stop praying. Does that have a similar ring to what happening today?
All of these great faith leaders dealt with what we see in today's world. Attacks on anyone who is of faith that God is using, or who are doing good works that the opposing side is against. I see a lot of similar attacks then and now.
One of my favorite stories is about King Jehoshaphat. Let me share the scripture of this awesome thing God did when He shows up and shows out. I see a lot of this happening in America.
2nd Chronicles 20 Jehoshaphat gets a report that the enemies are coming against Israel and in verse 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. He says this 222-word prayer:
O LORD God of our fathers, art not thou God in heaven? And rulest not thou over all the kingdoms of the heathen? And in thine hand is there not power and might, so that none is able to withstand thee?
7. Art not thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend forever?
8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
9. If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
10. And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and destroyed them not;
11. Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
12. O our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
Everyone waited for the Lord to do something, somehow to answer the prayer of the King.
14. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
The instruction that was given:
16. Tomorrow go down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
17. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
Then they gave thanks.
18. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.
19. And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
I like to say as Paul Harvey would say Page 2, or the ending of the story. The next day we pick up the event that Jehoshaphat gave them some encouraging words and consulting and appointed singers to give Praise offering or shouts of praise unto the Lord
21. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth forever.
22. And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.
Now, this ambushed was set to where the best acoustics were. Jehoshaphat got everyone placed and then they began to worship. With the best acoustics, the sound coming from every direction, they were beside themselves in a state of undeniable ultra shock. In today's term of sound, it was so jacked up. So high that they were all in a confused panic
23. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, every one helped to destroy another.
The power of God caring for the Praise on the wind it so confused the enemy they killed each other. I would not be surprised that Angels had a part of this slaughter.
24. And when Judah came toward the watch tower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and, behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped.
25. And when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves, more than they could carry away: and they were three days in gathering of the spoil.
Believers in the power of prayer and what I call the 2nd Chronicles 7:14 effect we are seeing the effects. We cannot stop now nor ever. Let us learn our lesson on just setting back and not being involved,