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While the world watches a grown man leave his wife and children and transform himself to look and live like a woman, what should be the response of the church? While drag queens are allowed to promote their identity confusion right in the midst of the public library to our 4 and 5-year-old children, where is the biblical representation to stand against this atrocity? Does the church even have a voice as the world applauds a preteen boy headlining gay bars as a drag queen? What about the parents who have made a conscious choice to go against God’s biological DNA for the baby and will allow the child to choose their gender regardless of the gender they were born with? While all of this happens right before us, where are the fire-baptized preachers who mount our pulpits weekly and proclaim the great power of God to heal, deliver and set free? Why is the church so silent?

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Isaiah 58:1 is a call for us to cry aloud and not hold back. God wants the church to open their mouths and show people their transgressions. Jesus was not ashamed to speak truth. He went into the synagogue without hesitation and flipped over the money changers’ tables when they were in error (Mark 11:15). John the Baptist spoke up against the adultery of Herodias (Matt. 14:3-4). Yet, while this gender identity crisis soars and becomes an epidemic, the church almost seems to go on as usual unmoved by the demonic vices that are impacting our society. The biblical example set by John and Jesus himself almost seems irrelevant.

Can our lack of speaking out against these sins actually be a message within itself? Absolutely. Our silence either shows our lack of concern or our willingness to compromise and accept the influence of their lifestyle. When we say nothing, we actually are saying a whole lot. Churches are going on conferences, having great programs and worship services without any representation in our government or school systems. Church members remain uninformed or apathetic about the current trends happening around them. We seem comfortable that states are adding “X” to legal documents like birth certificates so people can alter their God- given biological gender.

What would Jesus do? Could our Lord and Savior sit and agree with a man or woman who tells him to His face that He made a mistake in the gender He chose for them? Would He agree with the lawmakers who say the church cannot offer any gay man or woman hope through therapy or counseling? Would Jesus continue His life as if none of this was happening? Would that be the same Jesus who flipped the money changers’ tables over because they defiled His Father’s house?

Do you believe the gospel you say you live every day? Do you believe in God’s ability to change lives and the hope that Jesus offers? He surely is an awesome God, but do you believe He can do the impossible? Then speak up and say something. Get involved. Go to the lawmakers and demand that your voice count just as much as anyone else’s.

Protect the innocence of your children by taking part in those entities that make the decisions for the curriculum and the educational system. Our voice must be heard. The truth of God’s Word is powerful enough to stand on. We must get out of our comfort zone and speak up for righteousness. The standard is still holiness and we should never fail to express it. If we don’t say something against this evil, then who will?

(Excerpted from Charisma, article by Janet Boynes.)

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Yvonne M. Fields
May 24, 2019

If the LORD has placed this call on you please ask HOLY SPIRIT to hive you your answer and courage to go forth and have No FEAR…stand up for The Word and speak the TRUTH before men. Some folk will discourage you but when it’s meant for you the Lord will take you through your purpose and place your warring angels around you. YOU HAVE TO ASK HIM WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO.
PRAYING WITH YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE AND FOR GOD’S PURPOSES ON YOUR LIFE TO BE EXPOSED TO YOU. AMEN IN JESUS HOLY NAME. AMEN

Patricia Asmussen
May 23, 2019

Father in Heaven, I lift up this mess to your throne. Let’s stop pointing fingers and everyone get a grip. Parents are to raise up a child in the way that he should go so when he is old he will not depart from it. Father I lift up all government officials. Place sound wisdom in their heads or get them out of office. The battle belongs to you, O God Almighty, the great and dreadful God. Stand along my granddaughter as she has to navigate this terrain in life. Help my son to teach her from your word the truths that are spoken. This is an abomination to you. Father there are people that we all know that have fallen into this trap, the deception that it is okay, acceptable. Since high school I have written letters to them. Today, Dad, I write to you. Going with the flow has created a huge mess, standing up and saying what is right changes things. No holds barred teach our children and convict them that you have a more excellent way. In Jesus’ name I pray Amen

Maria Verde
May 23, 2019

Trump got rid of the Johnson Amendment.
So–Speak out Preachers, Priests, and ministers!

Phillippia Faust
May 23, 2019

Oh LORD, we the church (your people), repent. We have not sought you as we should have; we have been silent in the midst of all of the chaos and confusion; we have not proclaimed your holy standards enough or loud enough which allows perversion to run rampant throughout our land; we have not sought your face as much as we need to nor reverenced you as a Holy God. LORD, we repent. Please forgive us, help us, deliver us. May we not shrink back from declaring your truth at every opportunity that you provide.
May we learn to stand fast and unmovable; may we not look at their faces or be concerned about their responses to your truths, which are absolutes; may we show forth your love which has been shed abroad in our hearts by your Holy Spirit in spite of whatever maybe said or done to us, for we know that you alone are the only answer for our lives and for our nation.
Lord, have mercy on us. We are desperate for you. We lift up people who don’t know you and because of that they are confused about who they are. We have all been there in one aspect of life or another. Soften their hearts, give them the capacity to want truth. May the eyes of their understanding be opened. We plea the blood of Jesus on them and on ourselves. Lord, today, we simply cry out ‘HELP’. We need you. Lord, thank you that you hear us and love us always and that you have come to seek and save the lost. In Jesus name we pray. AMEN

Christine Furman
May 23, 2019

I am sick of Christians saying “I don’t get involved in politics” They are involved and don’t know it. Like you said they are condoning sin by not speaking out against. I pray people will wake up. Maybe this is the very elect being deceived and falling away. Christine

Ed
May 23, 2019

The Church to say something? It is the church, which is the moral compass of the word, that is homo and promoting homosexuality when it becomes when it becomes separated from the body of Christ and becomes self denominational and turns into its own kind or homochurch/homodenomination. It is the division in the body of Christ that is causing the homosexuaI outbreak.

Sarah Daggett
May 23, 2019

Yes. I was just going to make this exact point! By becoming a “non-profit”, 501c3, churches become, I believe, spiritually bound to the government/state and there is all sorts of blindness and deafness that comes with that. For the sake of money, churches are rendering themselves ineffectual on the very topics of righteous and moral living that they should absolutely be speaking out and setting standards about. It’s the work of the Enemy. I hope that churches start abandoning their non-profit status so that this turns around.

    Maria Franjul Ruff
    May 23, 2019

    AMEN! I hope so.

    Mary Bradley
    May 23, 2019

    President Trump got rid of the gagging “Johnson Amendment.’
    So, speak up all you ministers, priests, and doctors of the Church.

Ken Budz
May 23, 2019

Dear Lord God Almighty thank You for everything. Thank You for Your word and prayer. Lord I see from Your word that You are upset when there is injustice. You Jesus flipped the tables of the money changers when You saw Your Father’s house. Now we all see that the bodies we have been given by God and are created in the image of God are being violated by people in so many ways. God hates sin but not sinners. God please allow people to see the sin they bring into their lives. May the church be accepting of people but not of sin. Lord please purify Your church. Help us to help others. Help us to be respectful to You Lord and others but not to respect certain choices made by certain people. I pray that we be a loving church but loving enough to be kind and stick to Your word God. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Marcia
May 23, 2019

The church must stand up to the LGBTQ agenda, we have to tell the world and the people involved in this lifestyle the truth. We need to show love but not condone the behavior. Keeping Quiet is not helping those people trapped in this lifestyle. If they do not turn and repent, they will go to hell. Also, our elected officials need to stand for the rights in the Constitution, Freedom of Religion, which does not include this evil lifestyle. Sexual immorality and idolatry is what caused Israel to go into captivity and Ancient Rome to fall. If things do not change in America, we are headed down the same path.

deb
May 23, 2019

how do we get involved in the school’s curriculum decisions??? I thought about running for school board and was talked out of it by a friend, Christian, who said how vicious those elections are! If he couldn’t deal with it I don’t know if I could. But I’d want to!

    Tara Worthington Kieschnick
    May 23, 2019

    If God is leading you to run, do it!

    Yvonne M. Fields
    May 24, 2019

    If the LORD has placed this call on you please ask HOLY SPIRIT to hive you your answer and courage to go forth and have No FEAR…stand up for The Word and speak the TRUTH before men. Some folk will discourage you but when it’s meant for you the Lord will take you through your purpose and place your warring angels around you. YOU HAVE TO ASK HIM WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO.
    PRAYING WITH YOU FOR YOUR COURAGE AND FOR GOD’S PURPOSES ON YOUR LIFE TO BE EXPOSED TO YOU. AMEN IN JESUS HOLY NAME. AMEN

Martha Robinson
May 23, 2019

Heavenly Father,
I also repent of the passiveness that we as a church are guilty of. May we be drawn closer to You through the power of Your holy spirit so that we may stand with courage and boldness against the abominations that have invaded our world. Fill us with Your love and compassion so that we love the individuals but not the sin. Lord I believe You are doing great and mighty things to purge Your people and bring revival to our land. I praise the name of Jesus who is the victor over sin.
AMEN

Charlene Case
May 23, 2019

Heavenly Father. I repent on behalf of the Church,
government leaders, school system and parents who are so deceived and believe the lie that you didn’t know what you where doing when the Mighty Creator created us in your IMAGE. Forgive us for going the way of Baalm and not the way of God. Lord, I ask you shake this nation and us to our senses. I bind the fear of man and loose Holy fear of God in this nation and our leaders. I command AWAKEN SOUL SLEEP AWAKEN YOUR SPIRITS in this nation and the church. I GIVE YOU ALL GLORY for making us
Fearfully and wonderfully
In our mother’s womb. I bind the lying and
deceiving spirits of strong
illusion on government,
parents , children walking in such perverted thinking be CRUSHED with Truth. I call forth our government ,Church, And Nation, AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN OH YOUR SOUL SLEEP. Protect these precious children who’s parent let then change their God given identities that those doors are shut with the blood of Jesus. I repent on behalf of the Church for our
failures of fear or losing money, position that we don’t speak out. I declare the Lord’s roar of Judah over this nation over God created idenitities to be protect. I make a Clarion call AWAKEN Church AWAKEN government AWAKEN America from their sleep. May conviction of God and the fear of the Lord and the Agape love of a heavenly Father baptize every heart and mind in truth. Have mercy on this nation in Jesus Name

    Joan K
    May 23, 2019

    Yes and amen!

      Jan Buuck
      May 23, 2019

      Yes and amen! God have mercy and yet drive us to repent for the sins of this nation. We cannot hide from the truth of God’s Word. To be silent is a decision to deny God’s truth. It’s not politics, but God’s principals that are being mocked. You cannot vote apart from the conviction of what God has revealed as truth in His written word. Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky… rule 7, Religion: remove God from schools and government. How close are we getting?? If we remain silent and the churches remain indifferent and silent, where does it go from here? The truth is being twisted and deception is taking over the minds of the people. Time to AWAKEN and Hear the Word of the Lord. Pray for God’s awakening to fall on America!

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