What a tumultuous political year this has been! I have been in much prayer and fasting for our nation over the past year. I have read and watched several reliable, proven prophets of God all say that God has raised up a Cyrus to save America from destruction. I have watched these words come to pass as one outsider candidate, Donald J. Trump, stunned the political operatives and pundits with unexpected victory after victory. While certainly far from perfect, (and not my choice from the primaries), he nevertheless fits with startling accuracy the Scripture from Isaiah 45. He would be our 45th president, and on his first full day in the Oval Office, he will be 70 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. (I also find it interesting that the Israeli calendar year is 5777.) I have watched him make mistakes in word and deed that would normally bring down any candidate. Yet, miraculously, he has survived. I see it as none other than the hand of God.
Evangelicals turned against him because he wasn't "holy." Pundits ridiculed him. The media marginalized him. But God sustained him. And God is changing hearts and minds to now support him.
I was greatly blessed by our pastor's (Gavin Lubbe of Living Faith Church) sermon Sunday morning. Here are some of my notes and thoughts:
- Forget opinion! As a Christian, you are to be defined as an ambassador of the Kingdom of God. An ambassador of a country is to speak on behalf of his ruler--not spout his own opinion.
- As a Christian, you are a person of influence for God in the earth. You are to speak for the King, our Creator.
- How can you be a person of influence if you don't vote in Tuesdays' presidential election? Or how can you be a person of influence if you vote for a peripheral "candidate" who's barely even in the running, and has no chance on earth of being elected? You waste your influence, and it's bad stewardship. And how can you be an influence for God's Kingdom if you cast your vote for a platform of beliefs that are anti-God? You can't.
- Voting is serious business, and a Christian's vote needs to be informed by Kingdom principles. We must know God's Word, and know that He wants righteousness to exalt a nation!
- If you ask the wrong question, you end up with the wrong answer. The question should not be, "Who should I vote for?" The question must be, "What should I vote for?" We are not to vote personalities. We are to vote the party platform that the candidates represent, for they are representatives of that ideology.
- The Democrat party fought to take any reference to God out of their platform. That same party says it's just fine to kill a helpless, innocent baby in the womb up to the very moment of birth.
- They also fight to change God's definition of marriage, from between one man and one woman to a definition that sanctions same sex people as legitimate "marriage" couples.
- God creates and values life. (Proverbs 24:11-12; Proverbs 6:16-19. God hates hands that shed innocent blood. In Matthew18:1-2, Jesus called forward a little child. "See that you do not despise one of these little ones." A child is helpless and innocent.
- God defines marriage as between one man and one woman. "A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh." (Matthew 19:5; Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31; Mark 10:7)
- God warns against rejecting Him. Romans 1:28 says, "And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting."
You may say, "Well, I don't agree with the Democrat platform, but I'll just vote for their candidate. No. Your vote follows you -- it represents who you are. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Note: Pastor Gavin mentioned no names or parties. Those are mine.
Copyright © 2016 Elaine Beachy
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