HOWEVER, a while ago, I posted a question to you all. This is the expanded version: "If Trump begins deporting musilums (BANS, deports, makes restrictions on...whatever his name of the day is to make it sound less horrible...), or those from other countries, or any other group of peoples, is there any reason that he cannot or will not persecute Christians in some way (which Jesus SAID WOULD HAPPEN in Matthew 24 & Mark 13...)?
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE, I ran across TODAY, depicts just that, that CAN and WILL happen... Not that WE have control over ANY of it...?!
Just as in Matthew, the Lord spoke of His death and what would happen to him and to his disciples. Of course, the only thing that was on their mind was preventing it even though Jesus said that is was Gods will. HOWEVER, Jesus prayed for His disciples and He asked his disciples to pray as well in Gethsemane before His death, Matthew 26:36-46.
God knew by His PROVIDENCE what the American people would do in electing the x,@<÷^/... and NOW is just a part of the process of events which God predestined for our Country, for Christians, and our world! He had COMMANDED us to PRAY HOWEVER! NOTE: I DO NOT use the verse we have ALL been taught to pray for our country? Why???
The verse is written: "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray.......2. WILL heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:18). Most do not pay any attention to what's actually going on in the WHOLE story (context) and why God said it? So, raise your hand (only you and God will see), if you ever cared or read the verses afterwards (vs 19 and 20) which speak of what happens next...and tell what God's intentions, or thoughts might've been in those verses?
Matthew Henry notes this in his commentary on the proceeding verses: "But he set before him death as well as life, the curse as well as the blessing. He (God) supposed it possible that though they had this temple built to the honour of God, yet they might be drawn aside to worship other gods, 2 Chronicles 7:19. He knew their proneness to backslide into that sin. He threatened it as certain that, if they did so, it would certainly be the ruin of both church and state.
2 Chronicles 7:20.
So, by all means PRAY for our country, our land, the world, our churches!!! Pray as The Lord asks His disciples to "keep watch" and pray. Remember too that, almost immediatly prior to asking them to pray, He told them all of what was going to happen DISPITE ANYTHING THEY DID, "because God said so"! SO: what did they do? THEY DISOBEYED and FELL ASLEEP!!!
So..."heal our land"? Idk? If it's all going to happen regardless, then what do we PRAY? WHY pray at all...think I'll just take a nap while I WAIT for what's to come????
The Lord says that we pray for ourselves to JOIN Him in his work, to protect those who truly follow Him, to prepare out hearts and minds, to PREVENT getting caught up in sin, to KNOW His voice clearly when other voices bombard our brains (desernment), and for ALL POSSIBLE TO TRUST IS HIM SO THEY CAN JOIN HIM IN HEAVEN!!! But that's ANOTHER post...

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