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Swank has BA and MDiv degrees with graduate work at Harvard Divinity School. Married for 49 years with 3 adult children. Author of several books and thousands of articles in various Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals, web sites, and newspapers. Writer of weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME. |
Wed Jan 20, 2010
CHRISTIAN: KEEP PRAYING FOR AMERICA
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version): “If my people, who are called by my name, will 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.”
Considering the anxiety that the Barack Hussein Obama dictatorship has brought to our Republic, countless Christians have prayed earnestly for God’s intervention.
Will we lose our nation to secularism, Islam or the spirit of antiChrist?
Will the Christian heritage of America be trounced upon until future generations will have no biblical teaching honored?
Will apostate prophets of heresy overcome the nation’s churches?
This anxiety has been well founded; however, the righteous remnant does not give up. These Christians hold that God has smiled upon our nation in previous stressful times. They have faith enough to believe that God continues to work on their behalf.
The Tuesday Massachusetts turn-about has boosted that hope. Democrat Massachusetts chose Republican Scott Brown against all odds.
Brown states what many conservatives consider their baseline for allegiance to America. Therefore, they are exhilarated by his win, the latter a huge loss for the anti-God Democrat status quo in Massachusetts.
Obama is shaking. Dem control in Congress likewise. So many of these power hungry politicians do not care at all regarding biblical morality. They defend that which flies in the face of God’s call to holiness.
However, there now is hope and change for biblical ethics in believers’ hearts because of this Tuesday victory. That does not mean that Scott Brown is a born again Christian. He may be; I don’t know. But the force impregnated in his win is what counts.
It is hoped that Brown will serve the Lord by abiding by the biblical call. However, if he does not, God has used at times those not biblical disciples to see through His divine plan for a righteous remnant.
Consequently, Christians: keep praying, holding to a strong faith that America will be rescued by the divine hand.
OBAMA PRESSED AGAINST A ‘DEMOCRACY’
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Barack Hussein Obama promised America transparency, no secrecy, open government and more. He has reneged on his promises so America is wising up to a liar.
In his modus operandi, Obama is best in overseeing a dictatorship. His shadow government enforces it. His czars see to it that it stands fast.
However, with dictator Obama in charge—remember that he exclaimed after the election: “I won”—he has finally been forced into admitting that the Republic does not work on a dictatorship. We are a democracy.
When Scott Brown won in Massachusetts, the people did it. The voters in booths brought about the miracle from a Democrat control to a Republican win.
Brown proclaimed that it was the People’s Seat and not Kennedy’s Seat. The people proved Brown correct. The democracy worked quite well for the miracle turn-about in that state.
Dictators Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid likewise blend in quite comfortably to a dictatorial regime with their behind-the-doors shenanigans.
Their hubris drives their ambitions, the latter often against the hopes of the grassroots.
However, in any dictatorship, grassroots does not count.
Nevertheless, with democracy holding sway in the Brown victory, the three stooges are plastered against the democracy wall. Henceforth, it will be difficult for them to continue beheading America as our bodies were to be strewn about carelessly.
The Brown win is a grand slam win for the democracy that this country was built upon. Therefore, in the Brown Seat there is much more than that splendid fellow going to DC. It is a U-turn from despotism to democracy all around.
Read PEOPLE VS. POWER SNOBS at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3420
Read OBAMA’S TOWER OF BABEL at http://truthinconviction.us/weblog.php?id=P3419
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