Wed.’s Devo - Our Mandate

Read: Ezekiel 37:1-38:23; James 1:19-2:17; Psalm 117:1-2; Proverbs 28:1 I blog two weeks in advance so today is actually the day after the election and we don’t have a definitive declaration yet of who is the president. I know what God says so this scripture reading today is super prophetic to where we are. God is not a God that he would lie and he has said that Trump would have four more years and continue his mandate to drain the swamp and bring prosperity and justice to our nation. God sent Ezekiel in the spirit to a valley where all he could see was dry bones on the valley floor. These bones were completely dried out. God asked him, “Can these bones become living people again?” (Can the deceived left-winged Socialists of our nation have any of God’s spirit in them? Can America become a God-fearing, Jesus-loving nation again?) Ezekiel’s reply was, “You alone know the answer to that.” Then, God told Ezekiel to prophesy over the bones and tell them that He was going to put breath into them and make them live again. Ezekiel did prophesy over them and the bones come to life and muscles appeared and flesh covered them, yet they had no breath in their lungs. So God told him to prophesy breath into them and breath came into their bodies so that they lived. They stood up as a great army. God told him that this army represented the nation of Israel. They were saying that there was no hope for this nation. But, God was saying that he could call them back from their hopeless, dead state and put his Spirit in them and they would come home to their inheritance. (God wants us to prophesy the same thing to America.) Next, God told him to take two pieces of wood and carve Judah on one and Ephraim on the other. He was to hold them together and they would become one piece of wood in his hand. (This is like carving Republican on one stick and Democrat on the other.) God promised to bring them together as one and unify them into one nation. One king, one president would rule over them and they would never pollute themselves with their idols and vile images and rebellion. God would save them and they would become his people. Generation after generation would live there. God would make a covenant of peace with them and God would put his temple inside them and make them holy. (Amen! So be it for America!) Chapter 38 is the picture of the battle of Armageddon. After Israel is living in peace and prosperity, then the nations of Gog, Magog, Meshech and Tubal will come against Israel and God will fight them with rain, hailstones, fire and burning sulfur. It will be the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah all over again. James tells us how to keep our soul clean. God has planted the Word of God in our souls and when we rid our souls of anger, filth and evil then it can grow. If we keep bringing ourselves to accountability to what the Word says and control what we say and see others as God sees them then we will have his mercy and do his works on the earth. Lord, help us to do just that. Help us to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with You. We prophesy to our nation that she would once again have the Spirit of God in her and rise to walk in the mandate that God has put upon her to be a blessing to Israel and the rest of the world.