America has become the land of sudden death.
The latest mass murder in Dayton, Ohio, tragically
marks the 250th mass shooting in this country.
In 2018, America had six mass shootings resulting
in 59 deaths, and in just the last
few days we've had four mass shootings in
four different states.
America has become one big killing field, and
it's not safe to even go outside without
the fear of being gunned down by a
madman.
America used to be known for its great
spiritual awakenings and revival.
Now she is known for being a nation
of murderers who senselessly kill one another at
random.
It's too late in the game to continue
to diagnose America's spiritual condition and search for
answers to why a nation that has forsaken
God has been forsaken of God.
The Bible is replete with the attributes of
a holy God and the plague of man's
sinful heart.
It's too late in the game to point
fingers at a government that has legislated God
out of the country and has legalized sin
and promoted evil.
It's too late in the game to point
fingers at a sleeping church that slumbers in
a sad spiritual declension on pillows of conformity
and compromise.
It's too late for all these things, as
the nation is too far gone.
But it's not too late to pray, to
repent, to turn back to the living God
of the Bible.
In 1 Kings, in chapter 8, we see
the heartfelt prayer of King Solomon as he
beseeches God to forgive the sins of Israel,
seen in the beginning in verse 34.
Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the
sin of thy people Israel, and bring them
again unto the land which thou gavest unto
their fathers.
When heaven is shut up, and there is
no rain, because they have sinned against thee,
if they pray toward this place, and confess
thy name, and turn from their sin, when
thou afflictest them, then hear thou in heaven,
and forgive the sin of thy servants, and
of thy people Israel, that thou teach them
the good way, wherein they should walk, and
give rain upon the land.
America's ills are not related to gun control,
or domestic violence, or psychological environmental issues, but
rather America's ills are due solely to the
reality that America herself is ill, for she
is sick with sin, sick with unrepented sin,
sick from provoking a holy God by flagrant
perversion and sin.
America's social problems cannot be solved by man's
solutions, but only by a heartfelt repentance and
a return to the living God of the
Bible.
The only thing that will keep this once
great nation from total ruin is a heaven
-sent revival to a broken-hearted people who
have confessed and forsaken their grievous sins.
If the spiritual leaders in the churches are
too fast asleep to lead the way in
repentance and a turning back to God, then
it must come from Christian individuals who are
sick of the senseless murders and tired of
the moral drift of the country as these
individuals call out to God in prayer themselves
and stand in the gap for a nation
so it won't be destroyed by an offended
God.
It's up to the Christian believer who is
desperate enough to see revival and who is
broken-hearted over his own sins and the
sins of the land.
It's up to the Christian to bend the
knee and cry out to God in intercessory
prayer, crying, Oh Lord, heal our land.
Like I said earlier, it's too late to
look for reasons why we are in the
sad shape we are in as a nation,
but now it is the time to seek
God in prayer and call upon him and
believe he will hear from heaven.
God himself declares in 2 Chronicles chapter 7
and in verses 13 through 14, If I
shut up heaven, that there be no rain,
or if I command the locusts to devour
the land, or if I send pestilence among
my people, if my people, which are called
by my name, shall humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their
wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin and will heal
their land.
America, revival aroon!