Are your ears filled, packed, and stuffed with the sound of God’s promises for you, your family, and for us as a nation?  If your ears are not packed or jammed with the sound of God’s promises for you, then my strong recommendation is to begin filling up your ears with His sound of promise(s).  There are so many promises God has given to us BECAUSE His very nature and character is a Promise Giver and a Promise Keeper. God’s promises are always absolute, reliable, enduring, everlasting and without end, my friend.

Know that YOUR only hope rests upon His promises – not the government’s promises, not any political party’s promises, and not any race, color or creed’s promises.  All of God’s promises were fulfilled in Christ, our Lord and Savior—in Him alone!   Remember, God’s promises are a “sure-thing,” the “only sure thing,” and the “everlasting sure thing.”  So again, my friend, fill and pack your ears with God’s sound of promises in this strategic time in our nation, in our church, in our family, and in our culture.

Life as we know it right now in America, seems chockfull with a great many setbacks, with lack of jobs, finances, families split, and our culture divided and burning.  There are a great many disappointments and a great amount of upheaval in so many circumstances and situations.

This finds us depleted and scrambling for answers, for true truth and for assurances.  Our world today, as we hear and see, is filled all around with a lot of “Words, Promises and Rhetoric” from politicians and theologians stating their guarantees and their slogans of their truth fulfilling narratives.

Thank God, for our God, who keeps His Word always, constantly, and continually because He never changes – Hebrews 10:23 tells us, “God who promised is faithful.” His promises keep us going, encourage our hope, feed our disappointments, and water our commitment to keep moving forward with great expectations and optimistic outlooks.  The setbacks, the hindrances and the difficulties are giving ALL of us opportunities and openings to move into fervent prayer, into true repentance, and into true soul-searching of God’s narrative and of God’s promises.  Our ears need to be filled with the sound of His promises ONLY!

He is calling YOU and ME to go deeper into His Presence, into His Power, and into His Peace. He is calling YOU and ME to receive His revelation of His Holy Presence, to recognize His promises, and to rely upon Him alone because He cannot lie, and He is a promise-keeping God.

These disturbing times and seasons we are in are not taking God unawares nor by surprise. He is very aware and very conscious of our nation and culture being in crises. He is looking to me and you to step into our place and station to intercede, to intervene, and to repent on behalf of all the injustices, sins, and crimes that have flooded our world at this time.

We all need to be promoted to the rank of warrior and soldier, as part of the Christian armed forces moving in the heavenly realms and below in this earthly realm. Join the battle for our nation, this generation and for this culture as it was founded under God, the only True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  Without doubt, our nation was founded on the Declaration of Independence, the Paris Peace Treaty, and the Constitution. Henceforth, my friends, these documents are conclusive and full of proof that America was initiated, founded, and established as a Christian nation.  We need to get back to our roots as Christian believers who hold these certain unalienable rights endowed by our Creator.

Our Declaration has many references to God throughout the document and here are some:

  • Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God
  • Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World
  • With a firm Reliance on the Protection of Divine Providence

Did you know that from 1775 to 1784 the Congresses of the United States issued sixteen separate spiritual proclamations, calling Americans to humble themselves, fast, pray and give thanks to God?  Congress issued spiritual proclamations in which they asked citizens to seek the Lord in one of the darkest moments of the nation’s history.

Imagine this if President Trump, Mitch McConnel, Mark Meadows, Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer to name a few would come on national TV on all stations of the local news and issue all Americans to pray, to humble themselves, fast, and seek the Lord for His enlightenment and truth for our nation and to use the Bible as our sure foundation once again!

He is looking to YOU and ME to enter His Holy of Holies with a passionate and ardent heart of prayer.  How much are you seeking Him, how much prayer-time are you praying for our times in our nation and culture?  How much “knee-time” have you been giving to Him?  How much are you staying in His presence to hear and receive His truth of promises?  Are your ears filled with the sound of God’s promises for our nation?

We are in the middle of a war on almost every front, whether it is with the high-pitched fever in the different political arenas, our war on black lives matter and a war on blue lives matter.  The war on our spiritual heritage, on our constitutional heritage, and the war of our media (or lack thereof), the war on Academia and the war in the Body of Christ.  I think we have hit every mountain that is at war and is being jeopardized with civil and spiritual unrest.

For many of us believers, we could be in danger by looking back, by standing still, by giving up, by falling short, and by listening to our own narrative and not God’s.  That is why it is imperative to fill YOUR ears with the sounds of God’s promise(s), to know what we are called to do at this time as sons and daughters of the Most High God and to know what His high commands and demands are for us in this season.  To know God’s promises and to meditate upon those promises, so we can have hope, comfort, and assurance in order for our spirits to be revived, restored, and replenished in these perilous times is our utmost spiritual and civic task.

May your ears be filled with just some of God’s Promises as I just quote a few for you here:

  • Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life.  Psalm 23:6
  • He guides the humble in what is right and teaches his way.  Psalm 25:9
  • In the day of trouble, he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high on a rock.  Psalm 27:5
  • The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him. Psalm 28:7
  • How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.  Psalm 31:19
  • I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.  Psalm. 32:8
  • The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them.  Psalm 34:19
  • For the Lord loves the just and will not forsake his faithful one.  They will be protected forever.  Psalm 37:28
  • Wait for the Lord and keep His way.  He will exalt you to possess the land. Psalm 37:34
  • I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand.  Psalm 73:23
  • For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies to give you victory.  Deuteronomy 20:4
  • The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave nor forsake you.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Deuteronomy 31:8
  • He Himself is our peace.  Ephesians 2:14
  • Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.  Hebrews 13:5
  • The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.  What can man do to me?  Hebrews 13:6
  • He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.  Hebrews 7:25
  • You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.  1 Peter 2:9
  • The Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 1 Thessalonians 3:3
  • I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters. 2 Corinthians 6:18
  • He will deliver us.  2 Corinthians 1:10
  • Praise be to God. . . of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
  • You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3

My Prayer for America:
Thank you, Lord, that You love America, and we will bring forth precious fruit before You our Maker and Creator.  America is filled with an abundance of wonderful potential and promise because we are a nation under You, our endowed Creator.

I decree and declare that my nation is turning back to You, our Savior and Risen Lord.  All the branches of government and all the political parties shall embrace and hold fast to Your truths in Your Holy Word.  I decree that all who serve You in government will call upon Your name, they will humble themselves and pray and seek Your face as they will turn from their wicked ways. 

Each law maker, each representative, and each delegate will have an encounter with You the true Redeemer, the Great I AM, and the Holy One of Israel.  Righteousness, truth, and justice will be activated and motivated to the fullness of Your wisdom in all that they will do and say.  I also declare and decree that the Body of Christ is actively walking and serving the Lord being strong in His mighty power. 

Each church, church leader, and member will put on the full armor of God so that they can stand against any of the schemes of the evil one.  The full armor of God is clothed upon each son and daughter with the belt of truth buckled around the waist, putting on the breastplate of righteousness, and the feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  In addition to all this, they will take up the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation, along with the sword of the Spirt which is the Word of God.  (Ephesians 6)

Righteousness will thrive, prosper, and flourish in every home, every church, and in every family in Jesus’ Name because He is the exalted Lord over this nation!

In Jesus’ Name, Amen and Amen.

 

Thank you, dear partners, for filling your ears with God’s promises as this is what Freedom House is all about as we proclaim His promises of hope to the wounded, the lonely, the fearful, the perplexed. Along with the Holy Spirit, we walk with them during these especially confusing, desperate, and uncertain times, pointing them to Jesus. Your prayerful and generous donation of any amount during this difficult season means so much to us. We do not take it for granted given all the pressures that we all are under.

With My Heart of Love & Thanksgiving,

Mari Anne Andersen
Director, Freedom House Ministry