“It is not for your
sake, O house of Israel, (America), that I am about to act, but for My holy
name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went” (Ezek.
36:22).
Hey Gang: The media
outlets of the world are not going to bring you up to speed on the positive and victories that are
occurring each and every day. I believe
Habakkuk felt much like most Christians today when he cried out, “How long., O Lord, will I call for help and
You will not hear?” God’s response, “Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your
days you would not believe if you were told” (Hab. 1:2 & 5).
The victories are there and increasing in number daily, but
the social media does not have a clue -for they have no comprehension of who
God is and what He is doing. When the
gay-rights folks and liberal left joined forced to lobby the Supreme Court to
make gay marriage legal in all fifty states, they believed it was but the
beginning of an all out assault on the Christian foundation of this nation. We
see ever growing attacks on God’s children and many would say we are losing the
war. If there was ever a time when the
good news that “Greater is He who is in
you than he who is in the world” (1 John 4:4) must be shouted from every
pulpit in the land, it is now!
The message of “Hope” was the theme of the Sunday
message. If there is anything the true and
pure church of Yeshua must proclaim, it is “Yes,
things are tough and getting tougher”;
but read Paul’s words, “Christ in
you, the hope of glory”. We, as children of God, need by word and deed -“to proclaim Him, admonishing every man and
teach every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in
Christ” (Col. 1:27c-28).
In my weekly Koenig report the following headline was in
very bold print - Pastors celebrate win in gender-bender fight. I pray you will read this account very
carefully and even cut it out and pin it on your bulletin board.
Voters in the nation’s fourth largest city overwhelmingly rejected
a pro-LGBT rights ordinance Nov. 3, putting the skids on a well-funded campaign
that drew support from the White House and Hollywood. But the momentum driving Proposition 1
met an immovable force in a group of local pastors standing on their
convictions, while representing Houston’s racial and cultural diversity.
*****“I think we can thank the Lord for what
appears to be a victory not just for Houston—this is a victory-setting precedence
in our nation for the next time they try this” Dave Welch, executive
director of the Houston Area Pastors Council (HAPC), told a crowd of supporters
gathered to watch election returns. Once
county officials released the early voting totals, the count varied only by 1
percentage point after all votes were tallied. Prop 1 went down decisively, 61
percent to 39 percent!
The victory was no small feat for the coalition of evangelical
pastors and conservative business leaders and elected officials who—outspent 10
to 1—faced a national campaign to advance LGBT rights in Houston.
But not even $3.4 million in contributions and logistical support
from the Human Rights Campaign could save, what critics called a fatally flawed
ordinance that gave special rights to a select few while criminalizing those
who would refuse to abide by it under certain circumstances. The Council was very grateful for
the overwhelming voter response, Prop 1
“It’s indescribable to see the hand of God work and to see His
grace fall on a city because His people rose up and showed the love of God by
standing for His truth and His righteousness for His sake,” Welch said.
“And that’s what this was all about.”
“I will vindicate the
holiness of my great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you
have profaned in their midst. The
nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Lord, when I[prove Myself
holy among you in their sight” (Ezek. 36:23).
I recently wrote a blog entitled “Can it Happen Here”. What
say you folks from Michigan? If such a proposition were to appear on the ballot
of our state would you join a coalition of pastors and give sacrificially of
all of your talents and means to make sure it ended in the same trash heap at the
Houston Proposition 1? I pray it would
be so.
Blessings,
Gramps
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