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Lord God, we pray for revival in California and in America. We pray for a turnaround in policies and a return to common sense.
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. . . By many criteria, 21st-century California is both the poorest and the richest state in the union. Almost a quarter of the population lives below the poverty line. Another fifth is categorized as near the poverty level — facts not true during the latter 20th century. A third of the nation’s welfare recipients now live in California. The state has the highest homeless population in the nation (135,000). About 22 percent of the nation’s total homeless population reside in the state — whose economy is the largest in the U.S., fueling the greatest numbers of American billionaires and high-income zip codes.

“As California goes, so goes the nation.” Pray with us today at 1215 ET about the assault on freedoms in California and America with Dr. Bill Wells, Mayor of El Cajon, California, a city just east of San Diego in California. He is has a doctorate in psychology and owns a behavioral health company. He has been a guest on shows like Tucker Carlson, Fox and Friends and Fox Business talking about homelessness, sanctuary state issues, and faith. He has written for many publications such as Charisma Magazine. Currently he is running for the U.S. Congress in California’s 50th District. Call (712)775-7430 (no code needed), or join us on Facebook LIVE or Zoom.

But by some indicators, the California middle class is shrinking — because of massive regulation, high taxation, green zoning, and accompanying high housing prices. Out-migration from the state remains largely a phenomenon of the middle and upper-middle classes. Millions have left California in the past 30 years, replaced by indigent and often illegal immigrants, often along with the young, affluent, and single.

If someone predicted half a century ago that a Los Angeles police station or indeed L.A. City Hall would be in danger of periodic, flea-borne infectious typhus outbreaks, he would have been considered unhinged. After all, the city that gave us the modern freeway system is not supposed to resemble Justinian’s sixth-century Constantinople. Yet typhus, along with outbreaks of infectious hepatitis A, are in the news on California streets. The sidewalks of the state’s major cities are homes to piles of used needles, feces, and refuse. Hygienists warn that permissive municipal governments are setting the stage — through spiking populations of history’s banes of fleas, lice, and rats — for possible dark-age outbreaks of plague or worse.

High tech does its part not to clean the streets but to create defecation apps that electronically warn tourists and hoi polloi how to avoid walking blindly into piles of sidewalk excrement. In Californian logic, public defecation butts up against progressive tolerance, so it is exempt from the law. Yet for a suburbanite to build a patio without a permit, for example, costs one dearly in fines. Indeed, a new patio without a permit can be deemed more dangerous to the public health than piles of excrement in the public workplace.

One out of three Californians who enters a hospital for any cause is now found to be suffering from either diabetes or pre-diabetes, an epidemic that hits the Hispanic community especially hard but for a variety of reasons has not led to effective public-health efforts and sufficient publicity. State-run dialysis clinics now dot the towns and communities of the Central Valley — a tragic symptom of dietary culture, massive illegal immigration, and poor public-health education.

California’s transportation system, to be honest, remains in near ruins. Despite the highest gas taxes in the nation, none of its major trans-state freeways — not the 99, not I-5, not the 101 — after 70 years off use, are yet completed with six lanes, resulting in dangerous bottlenecks and wrecks. . . .

Crime the last three years has increased. It is epidemic in local jails. San Francisco has the highest property-crime rate per capita of any major city. The California prison system is a mess, and sanctuary cities ensure that illegal aliens charged with crimes will not be deported. . . .

Twenty-seven percent of Californians were not born in the United States, a large minority of them residing in the United States illegally. Yet California’s universities and popular culture are at the forefront of salad-bowl and identity-politics policies that obstruct assimilation, integration, and intermarriage — the historical remedies for the natural tensions that arise within multiracial and multiethnic societies. In this perfect storm, at the very moment the world’s poorest citizens from Oaxaca and Central America flooded into America, de facto rejecting the protocols of their home, their hosts’ messaging to them was that they should lodge complaints about the social injustice of their new home and romanticize the culture that they had just forsaken for good cause. . . .

California schools are usually in the bottom decile of national rankings. . . .

What caused this lunacy?

A polarity of importing massive poverty from south of the border while pandering to those who control unprecedented wealth in Silicon Valley, Hollywood, the tourism industry, and the marquee universities. Massive green regulations and boutique zoning, soaring taxes, increasing crime, identity politics and tribalism, and radical one-party progressive government were force multipliers. It is common to blame California Republicans for their own demise. They have much to account for, but in some sense, the state simply deported conservative voters and imported their left-wing replacements.

In a reductionist sense, perhaps if former governor Jerry Brown knew that he would one day retire to Delano and drive the 99 daily, rather than to Grass Valley, with several state pensions in his bank account, or if Dianne Feinstein dwelled in an East Palo Alto or Redwood City residence rather than in Pacific Heights, or if all the Pelosi grandchildren had to attend state public schools, then the architects of 21st-century California might have had to live with the consequences of their own dreams and been less eager to inflict their nightmares on the other 40 million Californians.

But then again, such a radical divergence between a few insider elites and a massive underclass, with little in between, is perhaps what best defines “Third World.” (Excerpt from National Review, commentary by Victor Davis Hanson.)

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Sharon Smith
July 9, 2019

Philippians 4:6
6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

Let us, God’s people fall on our faces with humble hearts and pray, pray fervently like never before! We need to pray for the return of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit to be returned to our land, homes, schools, and government before God requires of us what He required of the Israelite nation when they became bored and would not follow His ways.

This is in the Bible, Jesus’s Living Word, read it for your self and while you do that, ask God to take you deeper into the root of His word. Then you will be strong in God’s strength and not be as the seed that grew on the rock and was destroyed because there was no root to hold them.

Matthew 13:18-21
“Hear then the parable of the sower. “When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is the one on whom seed was sown beside the road. “The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy yet he has no firm root in himself but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

Matthew 13:3-6
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. “Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.”But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

Matthew 13:3-6
And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow; and as he sowed, some seeds fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate them up. “Others fell on the rocky places, where they did not have much soil; and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of soil.
“But when the sun had risen, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.

Kathryn
July 7, 2019

Heavenly Father,
How grievous is the situation in California.How the mighty have fallen. How representative of what happens when we leave Truth and righteousness behind. When we walk away from you, we walk away from the Source of goodness, Truth and light. I lift up this once
beautiful state to you. May those who are working for righteousness and justice be strengthened in their faith, courage and fortitude. Help the pastors to be faithful in prayer, speaking the truth in love and leading their people through these trying times.
We seek your mercy and grace. Please help us to stop the cancer of this situation so it doesn’t grow beyond it to other states. Let their situation be a visual lesson to other states.Please grant a spirit of repentance.

Marie Zakaluk
July 6, 2019

It is hard to fathom beautiful CA as so vulgar; however, over 30 years ago, we quickly left a LosAngeles public park rest room because my husband smelled the drugs and insisted that our children use our private porta-potty.
We stayed in Hollywood long enough to see the massive mountain sign, and left. The then Crystal Cathedral grounds became our “home” for several nights. That was peaceful, serene, beautiful and immaculately clean. I wonder how it is today!

Janis Hackman
July 6, 2019

May this parent’s group be like the tribe of Issachar (men who were informed of the times) and have the anointing of Joshua–Have I not commanded you? Be strong , vigorous, and very courageous Be not afraid,neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9

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