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The Sleeping Giant
By LuAnne Anderson
There is a sleeping Giant of Great destruction, a killer disease covering our nation.
It takes your memory and steals your dreams, it can devour your finances, and it blinds you from seeing those in need around you. The first sign of infection is it takes your purpose in life, by blurring your God given vision with circumstances and obstacles and makes you lust for what you don't have. Like most diseases it spreads, but this one with increasing power has moved across our land.
Its name, Complacency.
Remember, it's the disease that infected our country and disabled us to fight when a law was passed to remove prayer from our children's schools. We kept quiet when a president was being made a hero for sexual immorality and now we have a President who is being disgraced in the media for protecting our country and stating with pride, that in God we must trust.
Are you able to be that courageous?
Now there is hope!
I have overcome tremendous obstacles this past year. I feel compelled to bring you this urgent message, to bring light where darkness desires to tread. Experiencing the disease first hand, my first mission was to defeat it myself. It can be very cunning. You may think you have conquered it one-way, and then it reveals itself in another.
The Lord continued to burden me with this vital message.
We need to stop being the Victim, and know that we are Victorious through Christ.
We need to start embracing the promises of God, and know we can do all things through Him (Phil. 4:13). When the lust for more comes in, set your mind on the things above, and not on earthly things (Col.1: 2). Through God we will do valiantly, for it is He who will tread down our enemies (Psm.108:13). We need to activate our faith, and expect the impossible to see the purpose God has for our life. For He is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above, and beyond whatever we ask or think (Eph3: 20).
The key is more passion for God and desire for His word. If we seek Him first, He will supply all our needs, for those who are called according to His purpose (Matt.6: 33).
We are to get on our knees in prayer, fully convinced that what He has promised, He is able to perform (Rom.4: 21).
I am reminded of a time when my brother Cliff and his wife Char, were trying to adopt a child (Chelsea). For almost a year they struggled with one obstacle after another. My brother is in the Navy, and well respected in his community. There was no apparent reason for them to go through so much difficulty in taking custody of this child. Yet, at this point, it looked as though it would be several months at minimum before they would be able to adopt. I remember vividly as they came to my mind, I felt led to stop and pray for them. I had lifted their situation in prayer before, but this time was different. I believe the Lord directed me like a puppet on a string. For if I had contemplated any of my prayer, and what I had requested, I would have kept quiet. You see, Clif and Char lived in Norfolk, Va., and Chelsea lived in Washington State. As I began to pray I said, "Lord, if it be your will, please remove every obstacle that is keeping Cliff and Char from gaining custody of Chelsea, and I pray they will get her this week." As soon as I said this I heard a voice say, "It is done." With much enthusiasm I picked up the phone and called my mother. I told her, "If you talk to Clif, tell him I was praying for he and Char to get Chelsea this week, and that the Lord said, 'It is done.'" I remember her being distracted as I repeated, "Mom, this is real important, Clif and Char are going to get Chelsea this week!" Now, you can imagine, at this point, my Mother was probably thinking I had totally lost my mind. Being the supportive Mother that she is, she just said, "That's nice honey. Ok, I will tell them."
If you know anything about gaining custody of a child, you know there is a process one would expect to go through. You would have to go to court before a judge, and of course this is scheduled in advance. Not to mention they live across the country from one another, so you would have to plan ahead for such an endeavor.
The very next day my mother called and said she had just received a call from Clif and Char. A caseworker had called them just hours after I had called my mother with my revelation from God. She stated they needed to fly out to get Chelsea and they would be flying out tomorrow to pick her up.
The following day, during my daily devotion I heard the Lord again. He said, "Knowledge is power. Remember three days ago when you prayed for your brother and you saw the miracle? Because you prayed and believed, you confessed, you received."
He said, "My children perish for lack of knowledge. The most powerful thing I have given you on your being is your tongue, and it can speak life and death. You can curse yourself and others or you can speak blessings."
He reminded me of different people saying things like, "New levels, new devils." and, "The devil came after us last year and he is going to come after us this year."
He said, "What are you saying?"
The enemy wants our mouth, and God wants our mouth. Who will you obey?
You choose, as Paul said, in (Rom. 6:16) "Do you not know that to whom you present yourself slaves to obey, you are that ones slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?"
If we don't contemplate, we compromise, opening the door to complacency.
Even a cell phone has to be charged daily imagine our mind. The brain is not deformed. It naturally doesn't think right if it is not being fueled. Let the Holy Spirit renew your mind, thoughts and attitude. Lets step out of complacency and into the light. It is time to walk in truth, not in lies. To walk by faith, not by sight. To walk in light, not in darkness. Jesus said, "It is better to be hot or cold than lukewarm, for God will spew you out."
It is time to stand for our beliefs, and make a mark on this world, to bring Hope to the hopeless! I believe we have a big God. Why dream small?
When you get a God-thought, meditate on it. Be pregnant with your dream, expectant for it to come into fruition. Our future is great, as our thoughts are on God.
In closing, I am reminded of the words of a song called "God Is Love" sung by Jonathan Helser. He sings " I can scale the walls, I can move the mountains, I can slay the giant when you're on my side. I can raise the dead, I can free the nations, and I can fly!"
Remember, nothing is impossible when God is on our side!
Prov. 1:32-33: For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; but whoever listens to me will dwell safely, and "will be secure, without fear of evil." |
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