I Thessalonians 5:16
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
I am old enough to remember praying every morning with my elementary school teacher, right after we said the ‘Pledge of Allegiance’ to our flag. It was a different time, but what changed? One atheist activist! Madalyn Murray O’Hair!
How did she have such influence? Well, it is important for us to take note how she did it. She claimed that her young son (he is now a believer and is ashamed of his mother’s work) was distraught over the fact that he had to listen to a 22 word very generic prayer, over his class each day. It was a prayer that believers in Christ, Jews and even Muslim’s agreed on. She did not! She made such a fuss about it to everyone that the case finally went to the Supreme Court where the vote went in her favor. Prayer was removed in 1962. I will add that it was an effort to remove prayer that began in 1947! It was just festering until the right person the enemy could use, carried it the rest of the way. Just a side note-this woman tried to become a citizen of Russia several times. They rejected her!
We never had a school shooting while prayer was in school. After the simple one-minute of attention was given to God, asking for His protection over the children, their teachers, their parents and their government was removed, I believe God removed His hand and left the school unprotected from the enemy and his minions!
President Kennedy was not happy with the Supreme Court decision, but he was complicit in allowing it to stand. He was murdered the next year.
There are records showing that there was a dramatic rise in teen pregnancies and a dramatic drop in test scores, following this life changing decision. Once the door was opened to the enemy, our children became targets for every ungodly thing the forever looser could muster. We were defenseless without calling on God’s presence and protection every day! Oh, President Kennedy did call on us as a nation to pray at home, but the effect was not the same as asking for God to come to the school and be the children’s shepherd.
You can think about this yourself. Before 1972 most children were safe in their mom’s womb. After 1973, no child was safe if their mom decided to kill them. More recently we are having drag queens go into schools to expose children to alternate behaviors. We allow boys into girl’s bathrooms opening another opportunity for deviate behavior. We seem to have much more emphasis on what pronoun to call a child rather than American history. On a street survey recently a 20 something could not tell the interviewer who George Washington was! Even worse, a Biden candidate to the Supreme Court, highest law in the land, could not define a woman…AND SHE WAS APPOINTED!!
We now have more teens committing suicide. They feel they have no purpose without the God that created them giving them His purpose. They turn to drug use, then cannot hold a job, cannot have a stable relationship, they become a drain on our society rather than a contributor to it.
I am appalled by these behaviors in MY America! We are not only the land of the free and home of the brave, but we are THE only other nation beside Israel that was founded with the express purpose of keeping our religious freedom!
I don’t believe we will lose it. I do believe that just like Israel strayed, but returned to God many times, we will see the error of our ways and begin the hard road back. The first successful return was the Roe vs Wade overturn in the Supreme Court after 50 years and over 7 MILLION people were murdered…just in the USA! The rate of abortions has increased to 1 million every year-until Roe was overturned. The new stats are not available yet and may be convoluted as many women are now taking a pill to terminate their pregnancy and that goes unreported.
What can we do? Pray, of course. But you can also begin making that fuss-just like Madalyn Murray O’Hair! We are quick to squawk to our family, friends and neighbors about potholes and trash pick-ups, make some noise to your elected officials about something that has the potential to stop school shootings, increase test scores, and help our children become mentally stable boys and girls again.
Get involved and know who the people are that are running for office, then go vote your Biblical values!
I heard it said, ‘the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing’.
I believe we are good…let’s DO something!
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