Make America Great Again But We Won’t Go Back….
3 November 2024
Every four years, we are invited to the same cultural insanity. For every Presidential election, we are presented with a new slogans from candidates who will bring us the "Change We Can Believe In," who will "Make America Great Again," and who will help us all "Build Back Better and We Won’t Go Back" Yet the change, American needs, cultural and racial improvement ain’t here yet.
America is called the land of the free and we are supposed to have enumerable rights. Minorities in this country have to endure many hardships and only when everyone can come together as equals will America be a great country
Make America Great Again…. Starts with God
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NCV) Then if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, if they will pray and seek me and stop their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven. I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.
America is a nation made of families. The God ordained institution of the family and that is what holds America together.
There is a lot being said today about making America great again. For many years, our nation has been the victim of vicious Satanic attacks. The moral fiber of our nation has declined. We allowed the Bible and prayer to be taken out of schools, we have allowed the lie of evolution to infiltrate the minds of our young people, and we sat back and watched racist attacks and mass school shootings.
It is time for us to make America great again. It is time for us to take back what Satan has stolen. Making America great again is certainly possible when we elect the right people to lead our nation who will work to uphold the Biblical principles upon which this nation was founded. However, no politician will ever make America great again. The greatness of America is dependent upon the family. Without strong families, America will fall.
Men need to stand up and be men and fulfill their God-given role as the spiritual leaders of their home. Women need to be women and provide love and care for their children and support their husbands. We need traditional families made up of one man and one woman with their children, committed to one another for life. If we want to make America great again, we need to get back to the dinner table.
This election Day, I encourage you to go vote and then spend time with your family.
Get back to the old-fashioned dinner table and come together as a family that honors God and lives life together without giving up on each other when times get tough.
To make America Great Again, It begins with you and God. It begins with putting away the cell phones and turning off the televisions and focusing on those we say we love. We need to get back to a simple way of life. Fearing God, hard work, lending a helping hand, spending time with family, going to church, laughing, crying, living, being a family; this is what will make America great again!
My question today is this. What will “Make America Great Again? I believe there are 3 things we must do.
1. America must return to God,The founding fathers of America recognized the need of faith in God to help them
withstand the pressure from within and without. They knew that if their dream of an independent and democratic nation were to survive, they must invoke the help of God.
But America in recent decades has been steadily drifting away from God. She has become not only non-Christian but also anti-Christian in many areas. God is being driven out of her government, society, classrooms and public lives! The hour is late, But if all God’s people would stand up and speak up, the decline of America can still be turned. America’s spiritual suicide can still be averted.
2. Bring prayer back into our public schools. When I was in grade school every day we started the day with two things (1) The pledge of allegiance and (2) The Lord’s Prayer. In 1963 the United States Supreme Court ruled that officially sanctioned mandatory Bible-reading and prayer in American public schools was unconstitutional.
That was a sad day in the public school system. So what can students do? Well first of all you can pray before class and you can pray in class everyday ... silently. No one can stop you from doing that. And as adults we must pray for our students. In case you don’t know it, schools have changed.
If we expect our nation to change we must return to what the Bible says in 2 Chronicles 7:14 -Then if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, if they will pray and seek me and stop their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven. I will forgive their sin, and I will heal their land.
3. It Starts With God’s People
We want God to heal our land, and we want our nation to change. But as we look at the problems in our country, we want to point at someone else a lot of times. We say the problems are due to Washington, DC, or Hollywood or the White House. But God says the source of the problems is His house, the church.
God is instructing us what to do in 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
God said, “If My people who are called by My name . . .” He doesn’t say a thing about secular culture. He talks to His own people. That is you. That is me. “If My people . . .”
I think one of the problems in our nation today is there are a lot of people running around who think they are Christians, but they really are not. In fact, the Bible says, “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified” (2 Corinthians 13:5 NKJV). Or, “You should be looking at yourselves to make sure that you are really Christ’s.”
Then there are those who are living a double life. They put on a good performance at church. They say all the right things. But they are living a life that is completely opposite to what the Bible says how a Christian ought to live.
Making America Great Starts with God’s people. It starts with you and me.
The solution to our problems today will not be found in the White House, the State House or the Court House. It will be found right here in God’s House and Jesus said my house shall be a house of prayer.
“Yes, We must make America Great Again but We Won’t Go Back”
We Won’t Go Back…….
Philippians 3:13-14 (NIV) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
In this passage, Paul encourages Christians to focus on the present and future, and to not be bound by their past mistakes. He explains that Christians can learn from the past, but they should move forward with the forgiveness of Christ. Paul's goal was to improve each step in his spiritual race until he reached the goal of being with Christ.
Let the past go. Get rid of that baggage. Leave yesterday behind. Focus on the present.
Those are all good intentions, aren’t they? Scripture has a lot to say about leaving the past in the past. From Paul’s reminder in 2 Corinthians 5:17 that we are all “new creations in Christ” to his urging in Philippians 3:13-14 to forget what lies behind and “press on toward the goal” of heaven, it’s an important theme. Lot’s wife turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of her city, and Jesus Himself, when a potential disciple agreed to follow Him after he said goodbye to his family, said, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62 NIV).
And most of us would love to live that way, wouldn’t we? Do you ever have times where you know you’ve done wrong things and know you’re forgiven, yet you continue to beat yourself up over the years even though you’ve long since repented, as though forgiveness isn’t enough?
You’ve got to go that extra step by berating yourself to truly be “punished enough”?
Or maybe something horrible happened to you many years ago, and while you know you’re safe now, you still find yourself triggered by trauma?
I’ve had some rough times in my life, and sometimes memories still come back in my dreams. I like to say I’ve let go of my “baggage of the past,” but it’s not always that easy.
“That’s exactly what the enemy is going to use to try to get you to go back. Do not go back.”
As soon as I heard the words WE WON’T GO BACK, I knew there was a message in this. Why did the Israelites want to go back to Egypt? Because it was perfect? It couldn’t have been farther from perfect. But it’s what they knew. And they weren’t so happy, to say the least, about what they were finding, and with the challenges they faced, as they journeyed from bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land. God had brought them out of one place to bring them into another, but they didn’t like the in-between. It was new, and scary, and hard, and uncomfortable, and oh so unfamiliar.
But this message isn’t about the Israelites; it’s about us. And it’s about our “in-between places.” It’s about the parts and seasons of our life’s journey in which we have come out of one place, whether good or bad,
God has a purpose for us even in our in-between places, and this can be anything from growing us up to blessing us to testing us to using us to help and bless others to anything else God desires, and our in-between places can be traumatic,trying, beautiful, wonderful, or anything else for that matter.
Regardless of the nature of our in-between places, we as humans sometimes have a tendency to want to go back, to go backwards, to what is most familiar, no matter how horrible, or wonderful, simply because it seems it would be easier, more comfortable.
Sometimes the Lord does in fact want to take us back to somewhere we have been or to something we have done or to someone we have known, but there are other times He clearly wants to lead us forward to where He wants us to be next.
In Closing:
If God has you in an in-between place, and is clearly leading you forward, and clearly doesn’t want you to go back, and you want to go back, maybe just a little, please don’t go back. Please keep following the Lord. Let Him lead the way. He knows what He’s doing. He always knows what’s best. Trust Him. No matter what it looks like. Or feels like. Or seems like. No matter how powerful the temptation to go back. Please don’t go back. Jesus Christ is Lord. Surrender yourself to Him. Yield yourself to Him. Submit yourself to Him. Go with Him. Be with Him. Obey Him. Don’t go back. Go with Jesus. In His name. In His strength. In His love. For His glory.
There are no spiritual growth lessons to be learned from the past, there's no sense in going back to them over and over. Move forward only. Be present in the moment and the many precious moments ahead. Seek to attain wisdom to become a better person spiritually, to live the best way you can on Earth and to be the change in a positive way, in someone else's life.
