Palestinian Ibrahim Abu Jayab, 24, is seen next to his computer, in his family house in Nusayrat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. A young Palestinian in a Gaza refugee camp is doing his part to get out the vote for Barack Obama. With a little help from the Internet, 24-year-old Ibrahim Abu Jayab is cold calling random American families from his parent’s home imploring them to vote Obama. See Yahoo News

A Response to the Critics

By Kimberly Daniels

Many people have blasted Charisma for asking questions about Barack Obama. It is time to stop arguing and get on God’s side.

God often wakes me up at 5 a.m. This morning He woke me up, but something was different. I felt like wailing in the spirit. A radical feeling I’ve never had before rose up inside me.

God was dealing with me about the upcoming election. My spirit was grieved because people were calling the editor of Charisma, Lee Grady, a racist. I wrote a column in Charisma’s November 2008 issue in which I criticized Barack Obama. Am I a racist? If you know anything about me I am black to the bone and cannot rightfully be called an Uncle Tom. Lee and I stand for what we believe is righteous. Do we have that right?

“If all the aborted babies killed in the United States could come back to life, who would they vote for in this upcoming election?”

I read all the responses on the Charisma forum (fireinmybones.com) and I have a response to those who want to attack Lee Grady. He and I are on the same side! Many do not see it, but lines have already been drawn, and we have to look around and see who is standing with us.

Are we standing with Hollywood? The homosexual activists? The Democrats? The Republicans? The world? Personally, I renounce all of them because I know that they are a part of the broad and the wide that God speaks of. I stand for what is right! What is right can be rooted only in what is righteous!

I think we need to get some things straight. I am not standing with white people or Charisma. I am standing for what I have been standing for every since God delivered me from the whorehouse. I have been preaching the same message since the devils were cast out of me.

The problem is that a lot of preachers have changed their messages for one reason only: They have switched sides! You did not just change your mind; you switched sides!

Let’s not argue about whose side is right. We can agree that a line has already been drawn in the spirit. We can go further to say that somebody is wrong and somebody is right.

I have no choice but to address issues from the position of a believer. That is who I am, and its dictates how I stand and who I stand with. This is not based on friendship, family or even preference. I simply do not have a choice. You never pick sides on issues like this. Just stick to God’s Word and you will end up where you are supposed to be. Remember, God does not take sides; He takes over!

Consider the following:

1. Either it is OK for Barack Obama to blaspheme Romans 1 and call it “insignificant,” or I am on the right side.
2. Either Obama’s voting against Amendment 2 (which states only that marriage is between one woman and one man, and does not stop gay couples from getting insurance rights or visiting each other in hospitals) is OK, or I am on the right side.
3. Either delivering babies up to nine months in a breach position up to where only the head is left in the womb, stabbing them in the back of the neck and sucking their brains out should be legal, or I am on the right side.
4. Either laws that prevent me from preaching the truth about homosexuality, require that I hire one gay person for every so many employees, or force me as a minister to marry same-sex couples or be sued should be passed, or I am on the right side.
5. Either secular humanism (which focuses on the rights of men) should be a priority in America and put before the laws of God, or I am on the right side.
6. Either practicing homosexuals are going to heaven, and there is no devil or hell, and Obama is a born-again believer, or I am on the right side.

You may argue that we cannot say who is a Christian and who is not, and you are right. But the Word of God says we can judge the tree by the fruit that it bears, and we have to know those who labor among us. I am not comparing Sen. Obama to Sen. McCain; I am comparing him to the Word of God. Everything I stand for as a believer, Obama is against!

If you disagree, keep on trucking. This is America, and I have a right to share my view. There are too many people who are confused or afraid to say how they feel, and I need to let them know that they are not alone. All blacks are not blinded by Obama.

Ease up on Lee Grady! Is he a racist because he is saying what he believes? I encourage my other white brothers and sisters to speak up and stand for what they believe. Do not be intimidated by blacks who will accuse you of being a racist because you have godly values!

Even if someone gave me a billion dollars, I could not vote for Obama. (For the right price, would your vote swing either way?) But if he wins, I will pray for him as the Bible teaches me to do.

I am sick of hearing Christians crying about the economy. Matthews 6 says this is what the heathens do. God says we should not worry about what we will eat, drink or wear. It is unscriptural for church folk to depend on any man (or the economy) to meet their needs.

No one wants to admit that the Democrats have been in office a few years, and I haven’t seen them change anything but their minds. I do not have a Democratic or Republican mind-set! I am a born-again believer, and I have the mind of Christ.

God also said that we should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. It goes on to say that all we need will be added to us. This word “added” means a “cycle of blessings.” If you maintain the right mind-set during this current financial crunch, you will experience the cycle of blessing that is reserved for the saints. The “cain’ts” and the “ain’ts” will not eat of it!

Today we are standing on Mount Carmel. King Omri sold out when he allowed his son Ahab to marry the witch, Jezebel. The marriage sealed a deal he made with the pagans of that day for economic prosperity. Great trade opened up in the land. Everybody was happy except God!

The Baal worshipers set up their temples next to the God of Israel. They did not want just a right to worship; they wanted equal rights! I believe in equality for all men, but men cross the line when they attempt to be equal to God.

It started in heaven, came through the garden and is resting on America day. Men want to be “like God”! This is what secular humanism is all about, putting the rights of man over the Word of God. They did it at the tower of Babel. Nimrod taught the people that they did not have to fear God after the flood.

People have attempted to build a modern-day tower to heaven in America, but just as it happened in the book of Genesis, the Holy Trinity came down to earth to stop it. It is not just because of the Bush administration that the economy is where it is. God has come down to America, and folks are too busy crying to even notice it.

There is no candidate that can get us out of this mess. We may as well repent and vote morally right. If we do this we can pray to the Lord of the Harvest and He will send His abundance.

Let’s stop killing innocent babies in America, and the land will begin to yield her increase again. You may say, what about the deaths in Iraq? There were deaths in the wars God ordained in the Bible. I never read a Scripture that God had a problem with them.

He did have a problem with people sacrificing their babies to Chemosh and Molech. Innocent bloodshed is major on God’s agenda! And by the way, every soldier that went to Iraq signed up. Nobody was drafted.

The babies that have been slaughtered never signed up to be killed. They were drafted by laws that never considered their rights. And most importantly, they never got a chance to vote! If all the aborted babies killed in the United States could come back to life, who would they vote for?

When Elijah commanded the sky to dry up he was not putting on a show. He was coming up against an economic system that was rooted in idol worship.

The people were praying to Baal to provide rain for their crops. This is why the widow woman was about to eat her last meal and die. She was a Baal worshiper! The idolaters were crying out to their god, and the second heaven was shut to them.

America has been known to be one of the most moral countries in the world. If we (both black people and white people) do not turn from our wicked ways and repent, our country will be just as perverted as some of the countries overseas. America has never been perfect, but she has previously been known to have values.

But we have allowed Hollywood, CNN, Fox, the NAACP and other popular people, places and organizations to be our prophets for many years. Now the voices of the real prophets are mocked, just as in the time of Noah. The people mocked Noah until he entered the ark.

Noah is about to enter the ark in the Spirit! God will shut the mouths of the logicians, statisticians, demonic gatekeepers and prognosticators. The liberal gurus of the media are about to eat their words. God will have the last say!

Many say that the issue in this election is not race. I beg to differ. I have talked to many blacks who disagree with Obama on many things. They still look me in the eye and say, “I am voting for him because I want to see a black man as the president of the United States in my lifetime.”

Many had a shift in their mind-set when Colin Powell endorsed Obama. I respect Colin Powell, but if he is on Obama’s side, he is not the one, either!

It may be true that you are voting for Obama for other reasons, but the fact remains that many people support him for one reason only—because he is black. I live where the rubber meets the road. I do not have a megachurch, and I am not promoting an agenda for you to send money to my ministry or buy my books.

For those of you who think that all preachers have a price, please do not send one dime or buy one book from my ministry. Do not even log onto my Web site if what I am saying offends you. This message is for those who have ears to hear what I am saying and want to know the truth. I am calling all of you who know you have committed spiritual mutiny to get back on the wall!

Come and join me for a cause that’s greater than your individual calling! Let the world, heaven and hell know that we are not moving from the foundation of our salvation.

We must be politically and morally correct as Psalms 11 requires believers to be. If this foundation is destroyed, what can we, as the church, do? Justice has been falling in the streets of America while we have been playing church.

We have gotten into such a backslidden state in America that we need a law to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Laws have already been passed in some states that make it illegal for anyone to refer to a couple as “husband” and “wife.” They must be referred to as “partners.”

The devil is a liar, and this will not happen in Florida on my watch! I pray that you will be a gatekeeper where you live, too.

Speaking of gatekeepers, for you preachers who are submitting your anointing to denominations that want to debate the issue of homosexuality, you will be judged first. This matter cannot even have a hearing in the third heaven. To debate this issue, you must hang out in second-heaven activity. It is totally demonic.

I also suggest that you down-low brothers in the pulpits and congregations back up and be quiet. You do not qualify to speak. I love you, but do not call me or write a letter unless you want the devil cast out of you! You stay on your side and I will stay on mine.

Keep posting your comments on blogs behind the scenes as you have been doing. The Lord has showed me who many of you are. Be delivered or be busted out!

I have the privilege of praying for the young boys in the church whom you seduce, and my heart is broken over the matter. There are certain things that are sins, and we all have sinned in some way. But what you do is an abomination.

As a prophet of God I prophesy that five of you have six months to repent and wholeheartedly turn the other way, or God is coming to visit you. This thing must be because judgment must start in His house!

You have helped the homosexual agenda against the church with your secret lifestyle. You have turned the offerings of God into filthy lucre, and the stench is strong in the nostrils of God.

No longer shall you be a breeder in the temple. Your demonic reproduction is about to be cut off. Many of you judge Carlton Pearson, but your penalty shall be greater. For you have remained in the house and have been a spiritual reproach.

It is not too late; your tormentors can be released from you, and your sleep can come back to you. But you must move in season or you will never get another chance. The spirit of reprobation is knocking at your door.

God is especially dealing with the foul spirit in the black church and the gospel music industry. There is safety, especially for you now. For the spirits that have hidden you and concealed your filth are about to turn on you and uncover the mud. I speak this to you by the Spirit of the Most High God, and not one word of what I have spoken will fall to the ground.

In closing, let me say that I am not trying to be political. This is a spiritual battle. I am not running for office, and I receive no fringe benefits from anyone who is. I simply stand firm for the Word of God.

As a result, I am required to be against some things. I am not against homosexuals. I am against the homosexual agenda and any person who attempts to stop me from getting my gay brothers and sisters free.

I have employees who have come out of the lifestyle, and gay people attend my church–but they are trying to get delivered. We treat them with love but do not provide a place for them to flaunt their lifestyle.

I also believe that there are instances in which an abortion may be necessary. My fight is against abortion as birth control. Used in this way, it is a human sacrifice.

I am guilty of abortion and have repented. A prophet told me recently that he dreamed he was in heaven. He said he saw two baby boys waiting to meet me in heaven. His words had to be from God because no one knew.

I had an abortion when I was 15, but the procedure was incomplete. I remember being in the bathroom stall at my school with baby parts coming out of me. I am not on a guilt trip, but I have a healthy compassion to save the innocent lives of the unborn. I VOTE FOR THEM!

Obama said that it is above his pay grade to determine when a person receives human rights. I would be afraid to have a leader over so many lives in this country who does not understand life from beginning to end. You cannot help me to get where I am going if you do not know the essence of where I came from.

Let everything that has breath (and babies have breath at conception) praise the Lord! We really cannot stop these babies from praising the Lord. They will do it either here or in heaven. The only difference is that if they do it here, there will be no blood on our hands!

Kimberly Daniels is founder of Spoken Word Ministries and Rhema Way City Church in Jacksonville, FL.

Years ago the Lord spoke to my dear friend, Frances, “Pray for the Black Man”.  I am thinking this word came right before the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King.  Dr King was used by God to bring the black people of America out of bondage and now I feel the enemy is using another black man to lead them back into bondage. Today approximately 1,876  black babies died at the hands of an abortionist. Since 1973 thirteen million black babies were aborted. As it turns out this is a result of a plan developed by Planned Parenthood in 1939 and Obama is now their golden child.  Rev. Childress is a voice speaking out against this ungodly movement.

By Rev. Clenard H. Childress Jr.,
March 5, 2008

Revelations of eugenic ideology and the racist practices of Planned Parenthood are unfolding more and more. The public is just beginning to believe what people of conscience have known long ago: Planned Parenthood has diabolically perpetrated their murderous plot to surgically eliminate those they deem undesirable.  In other words: kill the babies of unsuspecting minority women by aborting their children.  Then, tell them this is a “good thing” for you and your people.  No other ethnic group in the United States has been decimated more by abortion than the Afro-American community.  The war being waged upon innocent captives in the womb is led by Planned Parenthood.

The strategy: Convince the targeted community to accept their eugenic racist plan by selecting one from their ethnicity to promote it.  One of Planned Parenthood’s earliest known projects was in 1939.  It was called the “Negro Project” — a project designed to control the birth of “human weeds” which was how Margaret Sanger referred to colored people; a project designed to introduce abortion, sterilization and different forms of birth control.  This is what a co-eugenic wrote to Margaret Sanger to make sure the “Negro Project” was a success:

Clarence Gamble, heir of Proctor and Gamble, wrote a memorandum in November, 1939 entitled: “Suggestions for the Negro Project.”  In the letter he suggested black leaders “be placed in positions where it would appear they were in charge.”

This is a letter to Clarence Gamble, from Margaret Sanger, in which she wrote,

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities.  The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal.  We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

For those of you that don’t know, Barack Obama became a “minister” of Planned Parenthood a long time ago.  He’s so good at carrying out their racist, murderous, agenda against Afro-Americans and society at large, they gave him a 100% score on his voting record.  Planned Parenthood is following the strategy of their racist founder, Margaret Sanger, to the letter.  Planed Parenthood is saying, “We have our poster boy!  Get him out in front as a lure for their women and men.  Get them into our abortion clinics and dismember their children by the millions!”  You say absurd?  No Way!  Planned Parenthood’s Valentine cards were sent out to hundreds of thousands of young people in the nation.  Whose face is plainly seen waving to them with a big smile?  Whose endorsement is given to this racist and calloused organization?  Who is used to lure children to give credibility to its hideous plot?  Barack Obama, that’s who!

On July 17, 2007, Barack Obama said the following before the Planned Parenthood Action Fund:

“Thank You, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!  ($) Thanks to all of you at Planned Parenthood for all the work that you are doing for women all across the country and for families all across the country-and for men who have enough sense to realize you are helping them, all across the country. I want to thank Cecile Richards (national president of Planned Parenthood) for her extraordinary leadership. I am happy to see so many good friends here today, including Steve Trombley and Pam Sutherland from my home state of Illinois. We had a number of battles down in Springfield from many years and it’s wonderful to see that they are here today”

The first friend mentioned is, Cecile Richards, who he commends for extraordinary leadership in killing babies who are disproportionately black.

The second is, Steve Trombley, who is the president of Planned Parenthood Chicago. You can imagine how many of our young women have been victimized and whose pre-born children were killed under his supervision.  His third friend he mentions is, Pam Sutherland. She is the State CEO of Planned Parenthood for Illinois.  America needs to know how much these folks were, and continue today, to be in the head and actions of Senator Barack Obama.  How much did he compromise his own values?

I choose here to quote Dr. Martin Luther King from his last Sunday sermon before his death:

“There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.  I believe today that there is a need for all people of goodwill to come with a massive act of conscience and say in the words of the old Negro Spiritual, ‘We ain’t goin’ study war no more.’”

This is the challenge facing modern man.

When the challenge came to Barack Obama to call on conscience, he refused.  What most Americans would say no to, he chooses to say, yes to!  He refused to do what The Dream called for: to allow your conscience to tell you what is right and what would be wrong. You may ask, why, but always remember this observation: Abortion is a lot like slavery; if it was not lucrative, it would not have been legal!

Pam Sutherland … of … Illinois Planned Parenthood … told ABC News, “We worked with him specifically on his strategy.  The Republicans were in control of the Illinois Senate at the time.  They loved to hold votes on ‘partial birth’ and ‘born alive.’ They put these bills out all the time because they wanted to pigeonhole Democrats. …”

Let me interpret.  We, Planned Parenthood, told him what to say, and how to say it, so we could continue to kill infants; babies, just a few inches from birth, and those completely out of the womb that we missed!  Our “colored minister” was well prepared by Planned Parenthood.  Partial Birth abortion — which I will not describe here — but know that 80% of Americans don’t want this barbaric act practiced in this country – Barack Obama voted to keep legal!  The Born Alive Victims Act is a law to protect a child that was born alive after a botched abortion; a law that would require that the child would receive medical assistance.  Barack Obama voted against it! Yes.  Barack Obama, with an “engaging personality” is being used by the leading abortion provider in the United States to promote and execute infanticide of predominately minority babies!

And what are most Afro-Americans saying?  “Yes We Can!  Yes We Can!  Yes We Can!”  They are ignoring conscience.  They are ignoring The Dream!

“I have a Dream, that one day, my four little children, will live in a world where that they won’t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character ….”

Yes, I believe it would be wonderful to have a Black man as president, but it’s more important for there to be, God’s man as president, and that his character would reflect my values; values reflected in the 10 Commandments and our Declaration of Independence.  While most African-Americans are applauding him for the color of his skin, they have failed to look at closely the content of his character.

Martin Luther King, while sitting in a Birmingham jail, without the internet, cell phone, library resources, or communication from the outside, penned that famous prophetic letter to answer some local Pastors who questioned his use of public demonstrations.  Martin, in a portion of his letter, discussed the responsibility of the church to address social issues.  He said, “… the early church put an end to such evils as infanticide.”  Martin Luther King wrote from the passion of his spirit — the spirit that was fighting for justice and equality.  Martin called infant killing evil.  Barack Obama calls it “a women’s right.”  Martin Luther King made his observation from a jail cell, having been put there for defending the civil rights of those whom had been denied theirs.  Barack Obama has made his from caucusing with those who profit from the destruction of babies in the womb.  These are men and women who ignore the silent screams of a lost generation.

Another quote from Dr. Martin Luther King that would be so appropriate here is, “The Negro cannot win if he chooses to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate comfort and safety.”  It is now imperative we all hear the words of this great Prophet of God.  It is obvious we must reject the “Barack Obamas” who have placed us in great danger by their ideologies, a position Martin Luther King warned us we cannot expect to win!  Can we trust Barack Obama’s judgment?  I think not.

Yes, Margaret Sanger would love Barack Obama ….  Her protégés certainly do.

A friend sent me this and I checked out a lot of the facts where she says she got her information and it was accurate.  There are just too many secrets about this man that are being kept from the voters. Please, Please pray for God’s man to get into the presidential office.

To All My Friends, this is very important, please take the time to read it.
This election has me very worried. So many things to consider. About a year ago I would have voted for Obama. I have changed my mind three times since then. I watch all the news channels, jumping from one to another. I must say this drives my husband crazy. But, I feel if you view MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News, you might get some middle ground to work with. About six months ago, I started thinking “where did the money come from for Obama”. I have four daughters  who went to College, and we were middle class, and money was tight. We (including my girls) worked hard and there were lots of student loans.

I started looking into Obama’s life. Around 1979 Obama started college at Occidental in California .He is very open about his two years at Occidental, he tried all kinds of drugs and was wasting his time but, even though he had a brilliant mind, did not apply himself to his studies. “Barry” (that was the name he used all his life) during this time had  two roommates, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid, both from Pakistan .

During the summer of 1981, after his second year in college, he made a “round the world” trip. Stopping to see his mother in Indonesia , next Hyderabad in India , three weeks in Karachi , Pakistan where he stayed with his roommate’s family, then off to Africa to visit his father’s family. My question - Where did he get the money for this trip? Nether I, nor any one of my children would have had money for a trip like this when they where in college.

When he came back he started school at Columbia University in New York . It is at this time he wants everyone to call him Barack - not Barry. Do you know what the tuition is at Columbia ? It’s not cheap to say the least. Where did he get money for tuition? Student Loans? Maybe. After Columbia , he went to Chicago to work as a Community Organizer for $12,000. a year. Why Chicago ? Why not New York ?  He was already living in New York .

By “chance” he met Antoin “Tony” Rezko, born in Aleppo Syria , and a real estate developer in Chicago . Rezko has been convicted of fraud and bribery this year. Rezko, was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association”. About two years later, Obama entered Harvard Law School . Do you have any idea what tuition is for Harvard Law School ? Where did he get the money for Law School ? More student loans?

After Law school, he went back to Chicago . Rezko offered him a job, which he turned down. But, he did take a job with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Guess what? They represented “Rezar” which is Rezko’s firm. Rezko was one of Obama’s first major financial contributors when he ran for office in Chicago . In 2003, Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama which Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendelland claims was instrumental in providing Obama with “seed money” for his U.S. Senate race.

In 2005, Obama purchased a new home in Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million. With ALL those Student Loans - Where did he get the money for the property? On the same day Rezko’s wife, Rita, purchased the adjoining empty lot for full price. The London Times reported that Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born Billionaire loaned Rezko $3.5 million three weeks before Obama’s new home was purchased. Obama met Nadhmi Auchi many times with Rezko.

Now, we have Obama running for President. Valerie Jarrett was Michele Obama’s boss. She is now Obama’s chief advisor and he does not make any major decisions without talking to her first. Where was Jarrett born? Ready for this? Shiraz, Iran! Do we see a pattern here? Or am I going crazy?

On May 10, 2008 The Times reported that Robert Malley, advisor to Obama, was “sacked” after the press found out he was having regular contacts with “Hamas”, which controls Gaza and is connected with Iran . This past week, buried in the back part of the papers, Iraqi newspapers reported that during Obama’s visit to Iraq, he asked their leaders to do nothing about the war until after he is elected, and he will “Take care of things”.

Oh, and by the way, remember the college roommates that where born in Pakistan?They are in charge of all those “small” Internet campaign contributions for Obama. Where is that money coming from? The poor and middle class in this country? Or could it be from the Middle East ?

And the final bit of news. On September 7, 2008, The Washington Times posted a verbal slip that was made on “This Week” with George Stephanapoulos. Obama, on talking about his religion said, “My Muslim faith”. When questioned, he said “he made a mistake”. Some mistake!

All of the above information I got online. If you would like to check it Wikipedia, encyclopedia, Barack Obama; Tony Rezko; Valerie Jarrett: Daily Times - Obama visited Pakistan in 1981;
The Washington Times - September 7, 2008; TheTimes May 10, 2008.

Now the BIG question - If I found out all this information on my own, Why haven’t all of our “intelligent” members of the press been reporting this?

A phrase that keeps ringing in my ear - “Beware of the enemy from within”!!!

This morning I am starting again to read a book by our pastor Peter Wyns called Unexpected Fire (I started reading his book once and got turned in another direction for a season).  This book is on the book of Revelation.  As I read the suggested scriptures about the churches I unfortunately saw a comparison of the church of Laodicea and America.

Rev 3:15-19 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot, I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.  Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’ -and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked-  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see.  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent.”

Laodicea was noted for being a banking center, for the production of glossy black wool used in clothing and carpets, and for producing salve for the curing of eye disorders.  It had the wealth of this world but was non the less in desperate need for the grace that regenerates, the garments of Christ’s righteousness, and Holy Spirit illumined eyes of the heart.

America who was started with the poor seeking a place where they could worship their Lord freely has now put her confidence in the blessings that have come from that same Lord and have come to believe that those blessings come from their own hand.  We have come to worship at the feet of the Bull that stands by Wall Street.  We as a nation have become puffed up with pride and believe we are in need of nothing.  In God’s eyes we are miserable, poor, blind and naked.

Holy Spirit blow across this nation and blow off the scales on our eyes that we may see as you see. Anoint our eyes that we may see you in the fullness of who you are and worship at your feet.  Forgive us for our pride and putting our trust in our wealth when it truly has no lasting value.  Lord wash away our filth and cloth us once again in your righteousness.

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

Chuck and I have been registered for a conference in Wilkesboro, NC held this weekend since May 08.  We scheduled our vacation so that the conference was after our visit to our Indiana and St Louis friends.  That turned out to be a good decision because this was the most sobering conference I have ever attended.  A real sign of the times.

The very first night Neville Johnson started out telling us that America was on a knife edge and could go either way.  He said if it goes the wrong way it will not stop the ultimate purposes of God for this nation, however,  there will be some great catastrophic judgments on this nation. America is in a critical time.  The Church is to be the salt of the earth and the Bible tells us if it looses it’s savor it will be cast aside and trodden under the foot of ungodly men(Matthew 5:13). God loves this nation and the purposes of God will be eventually fulfilled. But whether it is by the hard route or the easy route is determined by the church. And again he said we are right on the knife edge as to which way this thing is going to go in our nation. Two sides of the coin, behold the goodness and the severity of the Lord. This election is not about black and white or Democrat and Republican.  It’s about God’s choice for this nation, who God wants in office.

Neville, who is very prophetic, said he did not know how it was going to go. Things were hanging in the balance and God had not told him how it was going to go.  However, he said if it did go the wrong way there would still be a remnant in the Church.  The Church itself will be divided, but there will still be a people who will rise up and in the midst of darkness they will be a light. That is the goodness of the Lord.  But that is not really the route you want to go.  He said it is serious and he said he was not sure there was enough salt left to save this nation, but he was hopeful.  It is up to the remnant to lay hold of the horns of the altar and intercede for this nation in these last days before the election.

Because of a dream I had in February of this year I have felt strongly to pray that the Lord would expose all hidden darkness.  Neville confirmed that this was truly the way to pray saying we needed to pray that the hidden thing would come to light and there would be exposure. “I mean real down to earth, black and white exposure. It isn’t too late for that”.(by black & white he did not mean race he was referring to darkness and light,a clear distinction between a lie and truth)

How you vote can affect your destiny, not just the destiny of America.  It is the best of times and the worst of times. The decision you make will determine the next 7 years of your lives.  If Americans make the right choice then we will be given 7 years to get our house in order spiritually and financially in an easier way.  I have heard from many different sources that the financial crisis we have found ourselves facing now is only a tremor of what is coming in the future.

Our play time is over and I am speaking to me.  The shaking has begun and all our idols will bow down to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.  While I was in St Louis suddenly a song started going through my head and eventually I started singing it as I was getting dressed.  I had it on my itunes so I went down to listen to all the words.  As I listened tears welled up in my eyes as I grieved for a specific couple.  However, for a week it continued going on inside me.  Then I realized that also the Lord was trying to get my attention about our love for him as his bride.  The song….When somebody loves you, it’s no good unless she loves you, all the way. Happy to be near you when you need someone to cheer you, all the way. Taller than the tallest tree is, that’s how it’s got to feel. Deeper than the deep blue sea is, that’s how deep it goes if it’s real. When somebody needs you, it’s no good unless she needs you all the way. Through the good or lean years and for all those in between years, come what may. Who knows where the road will lead us, only a fool would say. But if you let me love you it’s for sure I’m going to love you all the way. All the way.

The depth of our Love for the Lord is about to be revealed. Nov 4th, 2008 is a very critical day in our nations history.  As the Lord says in His word, “I set before you life and death, choose life.”

Chuck and I are in Wilkesboro, NC attending a conference sponsored by Steven Brooks International Ministries.  Last night and for the second morning session today Neville Johnson of Australia preached.  Neville has a strong prophetic gift and he has had a strong burden for the US for 5 years.

Today he said something that really was pertinent.  He said “What we condone, we come under the power of.”  That especially goes for those in authority.  If you are under a President, Pastor, CEO, or a ministry that condones abortion, homosexuality, greed, etc then they give free range for those spirits to operate. (I personally think if that authority has knowledge of these things operating among them and do not deal with those sins and ignore their existence, it is the same as condoning them)  So if our president condones abortion then you can expect that the spirit of murder and violence will have free range in our country.  If the president or your pastor condones same sex marriages or homosexuality then he/she gives free range for those spirits to operated among you and even in your home while you are under their authority.

Now I do believe that the mercy and grace of God protects us many times in our ignorance, but that just really brings home that you best be careful who you come under as an authority.  It also makes it crucial that we know what our candidates believe and cast our vote for righteousness and not what we think he can do for us. I for one want to be under the authority of the Holy Spirit. That is the only spirit I want to have power over my home, my family and my country.