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WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON?
If God’s people had not cried out to God for Donald Trump to win this last election, America would have without doubt sunk into the mire of communism. Those who did not cry out in desperation may take the victory for granted because it did not cost them anything. We do not value what costs us nothing.God has given President Trump great zeal which we so desperately need at this time in our history. However, because of this great need, I believe God also wants to pour out His zeal upon as many as are willing to receive it. I believe this needs to happen quickly rather than gradually. I believe that if God can give it to one, He can give it to many!
This window of the next four years is small in comparison to the vastness of the evil into which this country has declined. Like surfers who wait for the next great wave to ride all the way into the shore, we must also take this amazing opportunity to ride this great wave of the zeal of the Lord and chase these enemies of evil until they are obliterated.
Isaiah 9:7 says: “The zeal of the LORD will perform this.”
The trumpet of the Lord has sounded. The enemy is freaking out. We must shake the dust off our running shoes and chase after our enemies. We must stop whispering the name of Jesus and begin shouting the name of Jesus as we man the battle stations in our prayer meetings. If we zealously blow the trumpet in our prayer meetings, we will stand a far better chance of shaking the gates of hell after our prayer meetings!
When King Saul and the Israelites were in great distress, the Philistines came against Israel to fight “with 30,000 chariots, and 6,000 horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude” (1 Samuel 13:5). Apart from Saul and Jonathan, the Israelites owned no weapons because the Philistines would now allow them to have any blacksmiths.
Saul could only put together an army of 3,000—2,000 with him and 1,000 with his son, Jonathan. When this small army saw the huge army of the Philistines, they “hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits” and Saul was left with a “trembling” army of only 600! (1 Samuel 13:6, 15).
Jonathan, full of zeal and faith, and his armor bearer separated themselves from Saul’s trembling soldiers. The Bible doesn’t use the word “zeal” to describe Jonathan, but his actions certainly show it. These two men alone took on this massive army that could not be numbered for multitude.
What was Jonathan’s confession: “For there is no restraint to the LORD to save by may or by few.” The point is that God who can cause just one man to start the ball of victory rolling can also marshal many more to join in the victory battle, including the heavenly host..
As soon as Jonathan and his armor bearer revealed themselves to the Philistines, they knocked off 20 men for a start and then God sent a massive trembling into the camp, so much so that even the ground trembled. An earthquake! The Philistines began to panic.
When Saul saw what was happening, he gathered all those who were with him and joined in the battle to chase and kill the Philistines and win a mighty victory for Israel. Read the whole story in 1 Samuel 13 and 14.
How does this relate to us? Like Jonathan, President Trump, clothed with the zeal of God, is turning American’s enemies around. And they are trembling. God has called him to begin the scattering of the vast enemies of righteousness. But the Lord is also calling us to come out of our spiritual hiding places our “caves, thickets, rocks, holes and cisterns,” and get clothed with the zeal of faith and chase our enemies until they are consumed.
It is not good enough for us to say that our president is doing a great job and leave it that. No way! We must take courage with the speed and zeal that he is showing and start chasing God’s enemies. We do this primarily with our prayers. But we must also act with our voices, our pens, the Internet etc. We must speak up wherever we are and do whatever we can. We must be in this fight together with our president.
If we love this country, we will fight it out with the demonic spiritual forces that have been making this country one of the largest child trafficking countries in the world.
We must not side with the media when they criticize him for being too tough on all these criminals and gang members who have come over our borders and caused so much trouble, taken over whole buildings and hotels etc., and murdered and raped so many. They have been given privileges and rights beyond the average American citizen.
We cannot give these hedonistic mockers of Trump the time of day— main stream media, who cunningly and craftily try to convince us, “the lovers of righteousness,” that our president is far too tough in his zeal to fire them from their jobs of shutting off water supplies, stopping crops, legalizing against our own energy supplies.
The previous administrations were corrupt to the core and deserved to be thrown out. Without a doubt they cunningly stole the last election.
However, the battle to rebuild our nation has only just begun. We must never ever take this victory for granted. We must not become blaze. We must pray earnestly to our only true God that He will fill us all with His holy zeal for the task of building again the godly foundations of this nation that we have, through our spiritual lukewarmness, allowed to be eroded and destroyed.
I do not think I would be wrong to say that if you took a poll of this nation’s knowledge of our foundations and its Constitution that there would only be a few who truly know it. The question is: how can we replace and build what we do not know we have lost? Every school, college, and university should have classes on the Constitution of this nation. This should not be negotiable. It is an absolute necessity.
Let’s seek to be clothed with the zeal of the Lord,
COLIN CAMPBELL
