God Wants You to Help Save America

God Wants You to Help Save America

A question people often ask is, “Why would a loving God allow so many evil things to happen in the world?” The presupposition is that an all-powerful, all-knowing God is also all-controlling. In other words, nothing happens in this world except what He allows. The religious term used for this belief is the “sovereignty of God.”

Now, there are multiple meanings behind the word “sovereign.” If you believe that God has “supreme rank or power,” I’ll agree with that. But to say that God just controls everything that happens is a gross misunderstanding of who He really is. And I would argue that this teaching is the worst doctrine in the church today.

The belief that God controls everything that happens to us is actually one of the devil’s biggest inroads into our lives. If this belief were true, then our actions would be irrelevant, and our efforts would be meaningless. “Que sera, sera. Whatever will be, will be,” as the song says. But that kind of thinking slanders God, hinders our trust in Him, and leads to passivity.

God Doesn’t Choose Your Rulers

After the 2020 elections, when Joe Biden was placed in the White House, some people in the church believed the results were ordained by God. But in Hosea 8:4, God says, “They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not.” That means we are the ones who allow ungodly people to take power.

God gave control over this earth to mankind (Gen. 1:26–28), and Adam and Eve turned it over to the devil (Gen. 3:1–7). It’s not God who’s causing all the mayhem we see in the news. God’s not the one who controls fighting and strife (James 3:16). God is not the one who causes sex trafficking, rape, and murder. It’s not God who causes all the wars in the world. James 4:1 says,

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

It’s the devil who goes about as a roaring lion, trying to devour people (1 Pet. 5:8). And it’s people who yield to him and commit evil acts. Therefore, Satan is the source of all those things—not God!

People are the ones who allow Satan to wreak havoc in this world. They yield to the devil and to his temptations. They are the ones turning him loose and committing evil acts on his behalf. They are the ones instituting ungodly policies that allow maiming children, killing the unborn, and other wicked things.

Christians Are Making a Difference

In 2024, Donald Trump won the election for a second term as president, and Republicans took majority control over the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. This nation started turning around, and godly policies were put back in place. In addition to that, we learned about rampant corruption and wasteful spending in our federal government, and the ungodliness facilitated by organizations funded by our tax dollars.

God didn’t just make those changes happen sovereignly. And it didn’t happen because people bombarded the gates of heaven with intercessory prayer, trying to get God to respond. Now, I’m not condemning anyone. But all the positive things we’ve seen in the last year happened because God worked through people who prayed about how they could get involved and really make a difference!

It took churches registering voters and getting Christians to the ballot box in huge numbers. It took parents going to school boards and standing up for the right to protect their children from pornographic books and grooming in the classroom. It took pastors and their congregations to help county clerks by cleaning up voter rolls. It took Christian patriots volunteering as poll watchers to ensure every legal vote was counted.

One time, I heard a pastor ask Oral Roberts, “How do we change a nation?” And when he responded, I thought he shared some great wisdom. Oral said, “You can’t change a nation, because nobody can change a nation. All we can do is what God tells each of us to do. And if each person does what God tells them to do, He can knit those things together. Because God is the only One who can change a nation.”

In other words, for God to get this country to turn around and move in the right direction, He has to work through people who are willing to listen to His voice and then act on what He directs them to do. If we submit to God and resist the devil, then he will flee from us (James 4:7). I believe we are in the middle of a Third Great Awakening in America, and as people respond to the Lord, we will see things continue to change for the better.

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