BETWEEN THE CORONAVIRUS, THE POLITICAL DIVISION, SOCIAL UNREST AND THE ECONOMICAL SITUATION, EMOTIONS ARE RUNNING HIGH, PEOPLE ARE IN FEAR, MANY ARE ANGRY AND MOST FEEL THREATENED, INSECURE AND WITHOUT HOPE…
AMERICA IS A NATION IN DISTRESS!
Close to 1 million unborn babies are murdered each year in America... more than one per minute.
Around 3 million deaths per year in America with potentially millions going to a lost eternity without Jesus every year!
There are at least 50 thousand suicides (verified as such) a year in America…. This is a very low number… the actual number is much higher! 40 million suffer from anxiety disorders in America and 30 million suffer from depression. A very small percentage of Americans are born again believers that are actively serving the Lord.
Regardless of who becomes president, the presidency alone is very unlikely to change these statistics!
GOD’S ANSWER…
Proverbs 29:2O says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.”
Notice, scripture does not say, “when righteous politicians are in authority, the people rejoice”, it says, “when ‘the righteous’ are in authority, the people rejoice! As born-again believers, we are the righteousness of God in Christ, and Jesus has placed us in authority over the work of His hands!
2 Corinthians 5:20-21 says, “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
The Passion Translation says, “We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So, we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to Him.” For God made the only One Who did not know sin to become sin for us, so that we who did not know righteousness might become the righteousness of God through our union with Him.”
We as believers have been made the righteousness of God in Jesus and He has given us all authority in His Name! We the church, as ‘the righteous’ have been given authority over the work of His hands as well as over every work of the evil one. Every born-again believer has that authority, but not every born-again believer uses it… because of this, ‘the people are groaning’.
WE THE CHURCH HAVE TO RISE UP!
Romans 5:17 - For if by the one man’s sin death reigned through the one, much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Jesus has ‘made us’ kings and priests (Revelation 1:5-6) through an abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. We as believers are the only ones that are fully equipped to address the real issues that society faces. Our authority to reign is as servants of the most-High to serve people and to set them free from their pain, in Jesus Name!
WE HAVE TO TAKE OUR PLACE…
1. IN PRAYER
- Praying for laborers…
In Matthew 9:36-38, when Jesus saw the multitudes, He was moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore, PRAY to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.”
- Praying ‘reigning’ prayers from Heaven to earth…
We are seated in heavenly places in Christ, so when we pray, we speak declarations and decrees as kings and priests in Christ from Heaven to earth! Our prayers are powerful and our prayers make a HUGE difference regarding all challenges that humanity faces!
- Praying for people…
Speak peace over people, bind the enemy from operating in their lives, speak and release wisdom to leaders and pray for blindness and deception to be broken over their lives. Pray for people to get saved and pray that they find their true purpose in life.
2. IN MINISTRY
We reign through ministry… ministering miracles, ministering healing and wholeness, ministering deliverance, preaching good news and continuing the work of Jesus. As we bless people by ministering to them through the power of the Holy Spirit we will win them to the Lord and cause them to walk in blessing, freedom, joy and abundance in life!
3. IN OUR WITNESS
We are to reign in life through our witness… demonstrating how we live as overcomers, being salt and light and walking in the fruit of the Spirit in times of pressure. By the power of the Holy Spirit, by GRACE, through faith, walking in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. (Galatians 5:22-23) Not shaken or troubled but stable at all times.
Our witness changes the atmosphere around us… from fear to faith, from negative to positive, from anxious to peaceful and from contentious, to living in harmony with our fellow man.
Rise up, take your place… the people are groaning! We are the only ones that can make the needed difference! Get involved in politics as the Spirit leads, pray for political justice, pray as the Spirit leads to expose political corruption… do all of this as the Spirit leads, but understand that true freedom will not come from a president or from political leaders… true freedom comes through Jesus, when the ones that He made righteous and placed in authority take their place as kings and priests in Him, and use their authority to reign in life…
PRAYER
“Father, Your Word says that when the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice!
I am righteous in Christ and have been placed in authority to reign in this life through Him.
We now take our place as the body of Christ!
We will reign through prayer, through ministry and through our witness.
We will minister healing, wholeness, peace, joy and blessing as ambassadors for Jesus.
We go forth from this place as salt and light to a lost and dying world, in Jesus Name!”
Blessings on you, Nick
