Our Country tis of thee; sweet land where is thee?

I just wanted to share this email I received from a friend. It really grieved my heart to know where our great land of the free has turn away from our
God. It is really sad. But this email hits it right in the heart and we knew that one day this would happen. In all the scriptures I've been studying I knew it would be soon and "end of days" will be here sooner than we all think. It is our purpose to now to win others to Gods glory!

"From the Desk of Jay Zinn . . . A Word of Encouragement
Jay is Pastor of River's Edge Church in North Carolina

There is no way to put a good spin on the outcome of the election. America has decided and now we must go on with our lives. It doesn’t mean we stop fighting, stop praying, or stop being engaged in our country as salt and light. But it does mean we are nearer to the return of Christ. This re-election of the president has sealed the fate of America ever having any role in the last days as a superpower. Socialism−the political ideology of the last days−will now wield the leverage in this nation (the world’s last bastion of religious and economic freedom). Not only are we on a fast track toward Europe’s economy, the “global” generation of this hour will witness a rapid progression toward a one-world government, one-world economy, one-world religion and a ten-kingdom empire, supporting a beloved, one-world dictator.

This hope of this election was to prolong the inevitable for the next eight years, to slow it down. This election held the key to avoiding the fiscal cliff, just a little longer. That window is gone. We’ve waited with bated breath to see if the Lord would grant mercy and allow our nation one more chance to turn back to Him, but now we know. The water is under the bridge and we must deal with the consequences. America’s “founding” covenant with God as King has been broken.

The apostle Paul predicted this when he said, “In the last days many will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. …There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God − having a form of godliness but denying its power.”

Paul describes, with these words, why the majority of American’s are fully embracing socialism. His words describe the characteristics of a socialistic people, both secular and religious. This wasn’t an election so much about a candidate as it was about two ideologies, and if America would continue to be that shining city on a hill. The majority has spoken and voted in the party that took God out of its platform. They have rejected God as king, and replaced Him with “big government” to be their savior and sole provider.

There is no getting around the prophecies of scripture which predicted this day would come. It’s just hard to accept that it arrived so quickly, and we now mourn the death of a nation that once stood as a beacon of hope for a free society. The god of this world has blinded the minds of men and women in America. Those who celebrate today will soon turn their shouts and tears of joy into the similar cries of those who will lament the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18 (read it). Today’s winners will see, that yesterday’s victory for socialism became the first day, of the first year, of what will annually be known as “America’s Memorial Day.” But when their joy turns into sorrow, our sorrow will be turned into joy for the harvest of souls, awakened to the deception, and brought into the glorious light of God’s kingdom. That’s the bright side to all of this.

There’s always a bright side for Christians. We are not of this world, only in this world. Temporarily. America’s lifestyle will be lost, yes − but God’s love, hope, and comfort will not. The kingdom of God is alive and well, and it will prevail. The poorest of the poor saints, in other parts of the world, don’t know what it’s like to experience what we have. Yet, they live content in their state because their joy is not found in things or circumstances, but in God. America will lose her riches, but she will not lose the remnant of God’s people who will turn this political travesty for a nation, into victory for Christ’s kingdom.

The kingdom of God always flourishes in poverty and weakness. It will accelerate our hearts toward embracing him. It will teach us to find our joy in God. He is our exceedingly rich and great reward. America’s plight will accelerate God’s light. America’s woes will defeat God’s foes, because trouble, hardship, and difficulty will electrify the complacent church. It will awaken a sleeping giant. And though liberalism and socialism will now prevail politically, God’s kingdom light will expose its darkness and eventually call sinner and saint alike toward his glorious light.

So what can we do now? We pray and run into the arms of God, to know him better. We find our strength in Him and prepare for a revival in the church. A great awakening will come by the end of Obama’s next term, when the fruit of his ideology is on full display. These next four years will force Christians to put off the things that have so easily distracted them from running the race they were meant to run.

The campaigning is done (Hallelujah) and now we know how it was to turn out. God knew. We did our part and voted, but God knew the outcome. He knew what was in men’s hearts. But for us who are finite, there are no more questions, no more doubts now about where America is heading. It’s settled. We now need to get on with doing what citizens from “another world” should do.

1) Get stronger in our intimacy with God.
2) Get stronger in community with the saints.
3) Get ourselves healed and healthy for battle.
4) Get rid of the excess baggage we’ve been carrying.
5) Get back to the basics, and exercise our atrophied, spiritual muscles.
6) Be content with the things we have and make them last longer and go further.
7) Get out of debt and down-size our appetite for things, get lean.
8) Put our faith solely in God, not in the arm of flesh.
And . . .
9) Rejoice in the Lord always − again and again and again.

Today we mourn. Today we grieve. Today we put on sackcloth and ashes. Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens, our home to foreigners, and there is none to free us from their hands. But though sorrow may last through the night, joy comes in the morning.

America’s beacon may be going out, but not God’s kingdom. Not God’s people. America has now been permanently hijacked, but God’s kingdom is not. We are still free, and no political ideology can take our joy and spiritual freedom. They may take our money, our IRA’s, our homes, our church buildings, our religious liberties, our possessions, or kill our bodies, but they will never take away our freedom and joy in Christ.

The kingdom of heaven is not meat or drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. America, in these last days, is temporal. But God’s righteousness, peace, and joy is eternal. Nothing can take this from those whose God is not “government,” but Jesus Christ, the Son of God and light of the world."6