The Eye of the Storm

"We pray a lot. We talk much of the problems in our nation, and even in our churches. We blame everyone from the president to the preacher...but what are WE doing to affect the change?"      ~Pastor Alvin Radford~ (My Dad) As Daddy points out in this message, (link posted below) it seems that everyone everywhere is posting, saying, and claiming 2Chronicles 7:14. " 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." We claim this verse as a victory shout, boasting with pride that God is going to save this country because we are HIS people. But we have been through years of chaos, and the land isn't healing. In fact, it is getting worse every day. Why hasn't God healed our nation? What's holding America hostage? We are quick to blame the sinful ones. We point fingers and say that it is everyone el...

  I've mentioned before that I've been reading Jeremiah. Have you ever really dug into it? Something has really jumped out at me this morning. All of the prophets who were claiming that God would not punish or destroy the nation were reprimanded, punished, or even killed by God. He rebuked them because their message of "peace" was false. Jeremiah was trying to warn the people that the nation WOULD BE ruled by dictators. They would be scattered. Punishment WAS coming. It was inevitable. Some didn't want to scare the people, so they spoke in God's name falsely, and assured them that their nation would be saved. They were wrong, and their false message was causing people not to repent because they believed that God would never really punish their whole nation. The nation that turns against God, worships idols, committed all sorts of sexual sins, murdered babies, was not going to be rescued from the evil dictators who ruled over them. They would see their nation ...