Somehow the savagery of the distress that is occurring in America as the duly elected government seeks to return this nation to the rule of law, reminds me of a huge animal that has been wounded and is screaming and thrashing violently. It shows how “out of whack” we have been. Also, it makes you wonder what it will be like when – as foretold in the book of Revelation – Satan is thrown down to earth: (Rev 12:12b) “…woe to the earth and sea because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath. Knowing that he has only a short time,” (NAS).
Those who are mature in the Lord know they must stand – even as the fury swirls around them, for if the enemy can move the children of God from fervor in prayer to bitterness in heart, he is still winning insidiously.
Even knowing this, I could feel myself slipping from passion in prayer into a borderline tortured distress. I knew this was not the Lord. Inside of myself, I was becoming sour and rattled. I needed the Lord’s help. I, myself, went up on Prayer Mountain and cried out to the Lord for help. Graciously He answered me.
I am sharing with you His answer to me in case anyone else needs help. (This may not help everyone, but if it helps even one person that has been rattled and distressed in the extreme by all that is happening, then sharing this will have been worth it.)
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
PRAYER MOUNTAIN
The Lord spoke:
“From here you are able to see the circle of the world.” (In the winter months on this mountain’s ridge, you can see in all directions because the trees are bare.)
“What does it take to separate you from this world? There is nothing eternal in the government of this world. Even if it supplanted evil today, tomorrow it would be supplanted by it. That is the warp and woof – the fabric of this (present) life. Why be tortured by it? Why submit yourself to the enemy’s instruments of torture.” (Those that goad us through the means of the media, etc.)
The Lord continued: “Did I seek to reform the religious structure (of His day, i.e., did He seek to remove worship in the temple or the priesthood?) Did I seek to overthrow the political regime? (Did He lead armed rebellion against the occupying Roman rule?) No, I called out to those called to the Kingdom.”
“Pray for and assist those in the world, but do not be tortured by the March of Time or the Pageant of the Hours. Set your heart and your sights on eternity – your true home and your true family.”
I pray constantly throughout the day and into the evening for the governmental leaders of this nation – and the nation itself… but no longer do I feel a bitter root growing within me. It has been extracted… and, with the Lord’s help, it will remain so.
It is the enemy’s plan to either lead a frontal attack against God’s children – wounding and scattering us, or to get us “so torn up” that we sabotage our own communion with God. Either way, if he succeeds, he has removed us from the field of battle. He has “sidelined” us until – with the Lord’s help – we can center ourselves in our Lord again, throw off the distractions that are gathering darkness to us like a magnet and begin to focus like a laser on hearing Him and following His strategic commands.
We are, after all – here on this earth for Him. We need to deflect the machinations of the enemy and – at last – stand to our feet a very great army.
