You Shall Receive Power

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There is no question but that America is on a moral slide down into a cesspool of sin and filth. The prevailing practice of ready abortion, and the homosexual behaviour that is widespread, alone are sufficient to bring down on us the wrath of a God whose loving gifts are being warped by demons.

And there are many other abominations, such as the molesting of children. It is God’s time now for national repentance. We know this. But how is such repentance to come about?

(1/9/2005) We need power. We need enough spiritual power to bring the Christian people in America to repentance. We need the power of the Spirit of God. We need another Pentecoast

America ought to be a witness to the world of the Person of Jesus Christ. It is not. With its lust, perversions, fraudulent business practices, self-seeking, arrogance, it is more of a witness of Satan than it is of Jesus Christ.

And I think the nations of the world, and other religions, recognize this and are repulsed.

But what are we to do? The media are no help. They are preaching the wrong message. The entertainment productions, moving pictures, television programs, are pushing us down into the gutter. The electronic games we give to children are an absolute abomination of violence. The large corporations that should be pillars of integrity are rotten at the core. The government wrings its hands over the vulgarity of the pornographic material available to children and young people but can do nothing about it because of our worship of the "rights of people" and the "freedom of the press."

Because of the bloating of the concept of the separation of church and state, the Bible is being removed as a moral standard, leaving us with no moral standard. Everyone does what is right is his own eyes, to use a Bible expression.

The God-fearing people of America see this, and protest as much as they dare. But the ungodly are in the saddle.

The feeble effort to teach "intelligent design" as an alternative to the foolish hypothesis of random grouping of atoms and molecules into such incredibly complex organizations as the male and female reproductive systems, is discredited as not being scientific. This is nonsense. What is science if it not logical conclusions drawn from observable phenomena. We look at the various aspects of human beings and their environment and conclude that these are not the product of intelligent design?

We have become fools, while strutting about as though we understood what we are claiming. The truth is, the native in the bush understands in a minute more about life and the forces that govern us than the most accomplished of our puffed up academicians.

There is no answer for the mess we are in except the power of the Spirit of God. We must have an unprecedented outpouring of Pentecostal power. Righteousness always is a question of power. No array of education, philosophy, money, or political activism will deter the fallen cherub from his efforts to debase the image of God in mankind.

Will you, dear reader, join with us as we of Mount Zion Fellowship in Poway, California, pray ceaselessly for God to pour out His Spirit on us until we have a revival of repentance in our blessed nation?