Howdy! How are you doing this absolutely spectacular day? We're continuing in somewhat the same prophetic vein of the previous two Coffee Breaks, and I want to take up a theme of prayer and fasting within the realm of intercession as it relates to government and our responsibility as believers in Jesus Christ.
Good Morning! Today's Coffee Break is somewhat of a follow-up to our last post titled: 2012. Some clarifications are in order, and I'd like to encourage all those of you who believed or hoped (as I must confess I did) that John McCain would be elected.
Greetings and Salutations! Most folks who've known me over a period of many years know that my primary ministry tends to be prophetic in nature with a strong emphasis on teaching. Many of the Coffee Breaks have a prophetic element in them, but I can't recall ever actually sending out one of these posts as a Word of Prophecy. This Coffee Break, therefore, will be quite different from any you may have read.
Some folks have taken offense to my discussions concerning this (and past) elections, and one reader even suggested that I was "politicizing the Lord" with my commentary. It's a shame when folks only see the commentary from a "conservative" or "liberal" point of view instead of recognizing the spiritual consequences of our choices.
Dutch Sheets is a brother in the Lord whom I first met some 26 or 27 years ago. He was already a man of great wisdom and integrity in God when I first met him, and in the years that have passed, he has grown into a prophet, pastor and teacher of some considerable renown.
No topic has more galvanized the conservative right nor angered the liberal left than the subject of abortion rights. When I ran for Congress, my Republican primary opponent was pro-abortion, and yet a professing born-again, committed Christian. Because the two positions -- pro-abortion and pro-life -- are at such diametric odds with each other, I came to the conclusion that either my opponent was ignorant of the Word of God on the subject of abortion, or her "professed Christianity" was nothing more than a political ploy to gain the support of conservative Christians in our congressional district.
"As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the causeless curse shall not alight." (Proverbs 26:2, Amplified Version)
Sound like a funny title? I'm not trying to be facetious, but it is important to consider something in this election -- and virtually every national presidential race since 1976.