This election could be the most important, crucial, life changing event of this nation. We are going to decide if we want a socialist/communist government or a democratic free nation. We are going to vote as to whether or not we have the freedom to worship as we have. We are going to vote for our children's future.

But more important is that there is a spiritual battle for the very soul of America.

Are we Christians like the people of Israel who were looking for a messiah to deliver them from Roman rule? Are we looking for a messiah who will make everything right that has been taken away? No one person, group of people, no one political party, is going to be able to right what is wrong with our nation. It is a spiritual problem, a sin problem, a problem of the heart. Men's hearts need to be changed. Only God can change hearts. Only a nation wide turning back to God will deliver us. Even with such a revival, we Christians could still be under persecution. The Kingdom will increase even, or because of persecution.

We are first and foremost citizens of the Kingdom of God. When we pray like Jesus taught we pray for His Kingdom to come and for God's will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven. God's Kingdom is not a Democratic government nor is it a Republican government. Are we praying for His will to be done in our hearts, in our nation?

I know many are going to pout and say that because I don't like either choice I'm just not going to vote. Kind of childish, don't you think? Not voting is voting and you may not like who you put in office. Like you, I am an American who God chose to live in this free country and I will exercise my right, duty, privilege and vote.

As the saying goes, Freedom isn't free, every generation has to pay the price.  I, like many of you, have had family members who have served in the military, and some have given their lives for freedom. Are you going to make their sacrifice of no value by not exercising your right and privilege by pouting and not vote? SHAME ON YOU. Read the platform of each candidate and see if there are some stands that flat out go against what you believe. This may surprise you. Just  know that no person is perfect. We, they, have and do make mistakes.

Pray for this our country, its leaders (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Pray against the tidal wave of evil filth that is overcoming this nation. Pray that people will do what is right. Pray for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that will turn men's and women's hearts to Jesus.

Remember this ... JESUS IS RETURNING SOON. ARE YOU READY FOR HIS APPEARING?

WELL, DUH, TROY...

Have you ever done something that seemed so right and yet you wondered why you never did it before? Or, how could I forget that?

A few weeks back I posted on Facebook about some struggles I was going thru, to me they were
spiritual attacks and I was frustrated... now that is an understatement.

When I finished my rant, I said that we have victory in Jesus. And that is so true, but I didn't come back and tell you of the victory I had in Jesus and how it came about.

When I posted on FB my rant about being tired of giving into sin, of feeding my flesh, etc., many, many of you posted words of encouragement, help, prayers, One of the notes told of how she would walk around repeating "No temptation has seized you except what common to man...etc".
1 Corinthians 10:13

At first I passed on over that but during my afternoon driving job I started doing that. I was quoting verses that I only remembered part of them, some only a single word. "He has given me a sound mind"2 Timothy 1:7; Peace of God transcend all"Philippians 4:7; "I have the mind of Christ"1Corinthians 2:16. I had more the next day. It was the Word. It hit me after an hour or so, I was feeling peace and no turmoil. WOW! I kept at it. That evening I started writing down verses on small pieces of paper and carried them with me in the car.   It was working, praise God.

Now it's ok to say Well, Duh, Troy...didn't you know  that? Yes, but like so many of us I did not use the Sword of the Spirit, the Word. I was doing battle with my fleshly, carnal weapons, but when I
started doing battle in the heavenlies with the Sword of the Spirit everything changed.

Where does sin start?  In the mind James 1:14,15. Joyce Meyer has a teaching series called WHERE THE MIND GOES THE MAN FOLLOWS. At first I disagreed with that, then it hit me,
Proverbs 23:7 (KJV) "For as he (man) thinketh in his heart (mind), so is he..."

The battleground for satan is our mind. Sin is first conceived in the mind. Nobody just suddenly sins. That is why our weapons cannot be carnal instead they must be spiritual.

Use the Sword of the Spirit against satan and his lies. Take that Sword out of the scabbard and do battle against our enemy by using the Word. The Word is "sharper than any two edged sword..."
Hebrew 4:12

VICTORY IS IN JESUS !!!!