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Except for one thing, the state of our land could be very discouraging.  If we look only at the Moslem threat, the homosexual agenda, or the work of socialists inside our governments, we could well be in despair.  However, if any person or people set their will to walk in the order of God, they have proven to be invincible under any circumstances.  It is my hope, that if we can experience revival, we would need not fear any enemy, internal or external.

The Bible teaches that one with God is always a majority.  Moses stood at the Red Sea without a single earthly hope of being delivered from Pharaoh’s fast approaching army.  But because he was obeying God in bringing out His people from bondage, God said through Moses, 

“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD…”

(Exodus 14:13)

Moses obeyed, and, to his amazement, he watched God’s people get delivered from the greatest army on earth.  God still does this today.

Patrick Henry encouraged our Founding Fathers to not be afraid to stand in God’s order against the world’s greatest army of their day in his “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech.  He finished it by saying,

“Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battle alone.  There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battle for us…”

(Henry, Patrick. March 23, 1775, in The Second Virginia Convention given at St. John’s Church in Richmond Virginia. The Annals of America, 20 vols. (Chicago, IL: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968), Vol. 2, pp. 322-333. George Bancroft, History of the United States of America, 6 vols. (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, Third Edition, 1838), p. 29. Peter Marshall and David Manual, The Light and the Glory (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming Revell Co., 1977), p. 269. )

Later, our Founders would decide to take that step of faith and trust a just God, instead of their own weapons and warriors, and declare their independence from the strongest nation on earth.  And because they were working with God to create a nation who’s purpose would be to take the Gospel to the next generation, He did show up on their behalf.  This was remarkably demonstrated in August of 1776.  America’s Commander-in-Chief, George Washington would find himself surrounded on Long Island by the British army and closed in behind with the mile-wide East river.  His situation looked hopeless.  But because of our infant nation being basically in the order of God, God Himself showed up on our behalf.  Many would call it a series of miracles.  You decide:

First, when the British had Washington hopelessly trapped British General Howe stopped his advance— for no apparent reason.  The next day Washington sent newly arrived sailors from Salem, Massachusetts (known to be some of the best on earth!) to New York to find boats, with which Washington hoped against hope to give a retreat to his surrounded army.  The arriving of these expert sailors just in time for this effort could not be considered “coincidence”.  The third miracle came in the form a cold, windy rain blowing in from the northeast which kept the British fleet from sailing up the river and destroying them from the rear.  The fourth was the fact the British army, in plain view of the retreat, never saw or heard the whole operation, though it went on all night long.  But the fifth was the greatest of all!  The next day’s dawn was clear with still many Americans in their camp.  Surely now the British would see them.  But then a thick fog arose (testified to by many soldiers that day) which covered both encampments.  This hid their escape until the last man, Washington himself, got into the last boat.  It then immediately lifted and revealed the retreat to the British—but it was too late to stop it.

Let us decide to move ourselves, our families, and our churches into full surrender to Jesus Christ.  In that order of God there is no fear, for:

“The Lord is my light and my salvation (deliverance); whom shall I fear?”

(Psalm 27:1)

Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.  I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.