Dear children of God,
We in this country have just lived through a historic election. Even the historians tell us this is true. The Christians, however, knew that it was a historic spiritual battle. Most Christians were praying day and night – many fasting.
The battles were not only intense, but seemingly, hand to hand combat in the trenches. All of us were weary. Many did not know if they and we could “hold out” – fighting with such intensity for such a long period of time.
Many had felt an ominous dread and oppression before the attacks of 9/11 on the twin towers in New York. But that “stonewalling” in the spirit and sense that something dreadful was about to happen was only a few days before the towers fell. Also, we did not know why we were spiritually blocked. “What was the matter?” we asked ourselves. But this we knew and it was month after month – each more dreadful than the last.
However, the Lord brought us through – many limping across the finish line, many bruised and bloodied. But the Lord prevailed and He fulfilled His words through the mouth of many prophets.
For myself, it was a wiser servant of the Lord that emerged from those battles. I felt older – perhaps like the solders that returned from World War I or II. In this “hard knocks” school, I did learn a few things:
1. Indeed, the whole world does lie in the clutches of the evil one: satan.
Those of us in prayer (here) had asked the Lord to reveal the corruption in our government, media and in those running for office. When He began to answer those prayers, we were horrified. The America we thought we knew, seemed, in actuality, to be a facade. Corruption was systemic. Almost everything and everybody: political parties, institutions, the media, etc. seemed to be marinated in corruption. The closer we came to the election, it was as though a putrification set in – the stench of which made people ill. I heard person after person say: “I just can’t watch the news. It makes me sick.”
We began to see our world very much like the hero in The Matrix (movie) who was shown what the world had become: how the people were asleep and used like milk cows to extract from them a liquid that sustained that artificial life.
But for us – the real human beings on earth today, we were being fed lies in order to milk from us the funds that would keep a select group living the lifestyle they had chosen for themselves – while many of us were working two and three jobs that kept us tired and tethered but productive. Satan’s world was weighted against us…but for God.
2. I also, realized that the prayer battle that we had just (by the grace of God) “made it through”, was not the end – but the beginning. What I thought was a prayer ceiling was actually a prayer floor. We who are privileged to be alive in these times have just begun to fight.
We have been in training for many years but it is time for us to set our hearts, minds and spirits to accept the reality of prolonged, focused battle; that is, the passionate prayers of warriors.
The “perfume” about which the Lord spoke six years ago (spoken of in this month’s angel section) is already in the land again. The lifted curtain exposing the pervasive corruption is once again closed and we are becoming hypnotized by the dazzle of “the matrix”. We will need to remember what we have seen and heard because it is no longer readily before our eyes and we may not have the opportunity to see it that clearly again.
Humans are not genetically predisposed to prolonged “fight and flight”. That is the reason there is an indictment of the enemy in Daniel 7:25 – “He will speak against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One…”
However, the word also says those who endure to the end… Therefore, enduring this tiring warfare and even prevailing is possible. We need to set ourselves to be among those who “make it through”.
The Lord needs our prayers, dear children of God, in order that His righteousness might prevail. We always knew this day would come, we just did not know it was here.
