By Jack Heckathorne
America, since it inception, has been different than any other country in history. We are a nation, barely two hundred and thirty years old, and yet in our first century became the richest, most powerful and influential nation the world has ever known.
Our land has produced many natural resources such as iron ore, oil and gas, and timber which were seemingly vital to our success in becoming a world power. However, in later years it has been discovered that many other countries have as much, or more, natural resources as America has ever had. So, the obvious question is, why did they not become world powers considering the fact that they are much older than America?
America did not become the world power because of its natural resources. America became a world power because of its faith in, and reverence toward God. Its people were mainly Christians who desired to not only live in freedom, but to have religious liberty for everyone, free from the religious bigotry of Europe.
God has given every person alive a free will, to choose for or against Jesus Christ. With religious liberty built into their constitution, Americans chose Christianity as it main faith. However, others were welcome with no persecution allowed from the government. Congress was prohibited from even passing a law to establish a religion, and it was also prohibited from telling any American that he could not freely exercise his religious faith in whatever way he wanted to.
This arrangement should make everyone happy because everyone has the right to believe and worship anyway he wants to, or to not believe and not worship. This is free will. Everyone has a free will and our government was designed to allow that free will to be expressed.
But what do we see happening in our country now? We see the Supreme Court telling Christian people that they are not allowed to express their religious faith through prayer, public speaking, displaying the Ten Commandments, or in other ways. The constitution does not only tell the government to be neutral regarding religious matters, it tells them to stay out of it. But why is this happening? We often forget that Satan-the most powerful creature in existence next to God-wants to be a god himself.
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Satan’s Five “I wills”
“But you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars (angels) of God, and I will sit on the mount of the assembly in the recesses of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the most high.” (Isaiah. 14:13-14)
In order to become his own god, Satan must destroy knowledge of the true God and exalt himself before men. To this end he has infiltrated our government, our churches, our institutions of learning, our press, and every other place where we might learn truth. He has replaced truth with his own doctrines of lies. Over time, people who have little or no true knowledge of God’s word, have bought into these lies, and therefore, they have turned away from God, and toward Satan.
Naturally, such people would want to keep others from knowing the truth in order to serve their master. Many people are serving Satan, and don’t even know it. They make a great effort to blind the eyes of people to truth in an effort to prevent people from becoming followers of Christ.
The greatest infiltration of Satan and the place where you would least expect to find deceit is in Churches. Not all of them, but many have allowed Satan to do his work through their teachings or their lack of teaching. There are many false things taught in churches today when compared to the Bible.
As a nation, I feel that America is swiftly approaching the rank and file of those mentioned in the Bible that Apostle Paul ministered to on Mars Hill. (Book of Acts, Chapter 17) The entire lot of them were totally consumed by idolatry. Thank God we are not there yet! I believe that God has spared this nation for His name sake. There is yet a remnant that exists in America that loves the Lord and will obey Him. If the prophet, Elijah, were here today, I am certain that he would tell you the same thing.
Those of us that know that we have been called ‘for such a time as this’stand ready to encourage Jack Heckathorne and to answer his question with confidence. The remnant will never forget God. If we could step out of time and into eternity for just a moment, we would see the hand of God that brought deliverances in times past and also the power that is available today to level the odds of the evil that is pitted against the righteous.
Let’s not be like those who can’t see the forest for the trees. I heard
someone say recently, “Don’t tell God how big the problem is…tell the
problem how big God is.” I’m not trying to paint a rosy picture, speak
presumptuously or deny the decadence in America, but God has taught me
through life’s circumstances to see ‘the cup’ half full…not half empty.
Hear the voice of the Lord. God has an answer to combat these subversive tactics that are running rampant in America. No, the answer is not religion…it’s righteous leadership. Today the apostles and prophets are releasing a strong word through God’s governmental churches. It’s time to ‘put on’ leadership like a garment. In every band of life the purposes of God must be fulfilled. “How will we do it?” you ask. The answer is to seek the wisdom of God and begin to lead where you are. God needs leaders.
Perhaps He’s speaking to you right now. Believe the voice God. Open your understanding to see that God wants to restructure the things we’ve built that bring no honor to Him. His Spirit is hovering over recesses, voids and niches beckoning us positions of leadership in households, churches, schools, communities, governments, businesses and more. That which we have desired for someone to do for us, we will now be called upon to do for another generation. If you see yourself as part of God’s remnant, I am sure that you will choose to step into righteous leadership or support those that do. There is no one else that will do it for us.
God Bless America.
Home of the Free and the Brave.
This statement has been attacked as never before. As a Christian woman living in the United States I recognize that we must demonstrate the same character traits as Jesus. Traits such as passion,committment, integrity, zeal, and a desire for God’s wisdom. If we demonstrate these traits, then we will see the Church of Jesus Christ rise and be the true governmental authority in the earth today. It is for this reason that we have been called to show forth His glory, manifested in and through us to a lost and dying world.
These are the traits that our founding fathers displayed and if we are to continue to become a great nation, this must become true.
America needs her Apostolic sons and daughters to decree and declare
that we are STILL one Nation under God indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all.
Saints we must FIGHT for this to remain true. This is our season!