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Tea Parties Great Idea But Our Problem Is Spiritual
Liveprayer.com ^ | 4-15-09 | Bill Keller

Posted on 04/15/2009 6:54:02 PM PDT by truthandlife

The tea parties are a great idea but are simply political protests when the problem is SPIRITUAL! I applaud the efforts of so many citizens who are rising up to protest the out of control spending by our government, the increase in taxes which will stifle corporate and personal financial growth, and the growing concern over the socialist direction our nation is heading. I pray that these efforts will impact those men and women we have elected to office and they will take notice of the concern so many have over the fiscal and political directions of our nation.

However, let me be blunt. What we are dealing with in this nation are not political problems or economic problems, nor are there any political or economic solutions. Our problems are SPIRITUAL and turning back to God and to His Truth is our hope and answer. Tens of thousands, maybe even hundredsof thousands will take part in tea parties across our land in these coming months. But let me make this very clear. Unless this nation repents, turns from its sins and back to God and to His Truth, NOTHING will change and it will continue to get worse!

Trust me, I am not minimizing the efforts of so many involved in these events nor am I trying to discourage anyone today. I am simply pointing out that unless we turn back to God as a nation, NOTHING we do politically will matter! Turning back to God and to His Truth must be the first thing that happens. At that point, we can start to look for political and economicsolutions to the problems we are facing. However, without turning back to God and Biblical Truth, none of these efforts will matter or have any success.

I have been asked to speak at a Tea Party being organized in Clearwater, Florida. I told those in charge I would love to, however, my message will not be about politics, but encouraging people that we must turn back to God and to His Truth before anything else we do will be successful. I have sent an email to literally hundreds of organizers of tea parties around the nation, encouraging them in their efforts, but reminding them that this is first of all a spiritual crisis, and unless we turn back to God and to Biblical Truth, nothing will change and all of their good intentions will be for naught.

Please do me a favor. Email me the contact info on anyone you know who is organizing one of these tea parties. God showed me that by working through these existing grass roots efforts of regular people, we can get the message of the Jonah Project to hundreds of thousands. many true followers of Christ, who have never heard of Liveprayer and can be part of this great last days move of God to bring our nation back to Him and His Truth. Also, forward this Devotional today to everyone that you know who is part of one of these tea parties, as a reminder that turning back to God and Biblical Truth MUST be the first order of business.

My friend, I can't even begin to tell you how heavy my heart has been about this nation, the world we live in, and so many people dying every day and spending eternity in hell. The fact is, this nation and world could be looking forward each day to God's blessings, instead of awaiting His soon coming wrath and judgment. So many people die each day and end up in hell, when many of them would have accepted Jesus as their Savior and been spending eternity in Heaven if someone had only told them how to be saved.

Last July the Lord led me to start the Jonah Project. After nearly 20 years of ministry, 10 years of Liveprayer at the end of August, I have to take personal responsibility for the spiritual state of our nation, our world, and so many souls who needlessly ended up in hell. In spite of all that Liveprayer accomplishes each day for the Kingdom, the impact we have in so many lives, the fact is I have failed God because I should have been doing more, could have been doing more. I've recommitted my heart and life to the Lord and vowed I will not rest until my work is finished. I will not be satisfied until every effort has been exhausted to turn this nation back to God and His Truth, to bring that message to all the other nations around the world, and insure every breathing soul has had the chance to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior!

2,900 years ago, God called a man named Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh and warn the people of that great city of God's coming judgment if they didn't repent, turn from their sin and back to God. We know that Jonah ran from that call and God had to get his attention by sending a great fish after him. After that experience, Jonah decided it was better to obey God and went to Nineveh, delivered the message God called him to deliver to the people, and Nineveh repented, turned back to God, and was spared His judgment. 120,000 souls were saved in one day! As wicked as this nation is, I have hope that we can repent and turn back to God just like the people of Nineveh did!!!

Let me be blunt with you. There is NO EXCUSE we still slaughter 4,000 babies in this nation every day. There is NO EXCUSE we have men marrying men and women marrying women in this nation. The is NO EXCUSE for the proliferation of porn and gambling. There is NO EXCUSE that the media puts out the unfiltered garbage it does 24/7. THERE IS NO EXCUSE THAT SATAN IS ABLE TO INFLUENCE THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE MASSES 24/7 WITHOUT ANY OPPOSITION! I echo the challenge Elijah issued to the people of his day on Mt. Carmel, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him."

Here is the reality of where we are at today. We have forsaken God for the false gods and idols of the world. Our President is no friend of God. The economy is not going to get better anytime soon, it is going to get worse. The heart of our society, marriage and the family, has been decimated. We are in all out rebellion to God and evil operates virtually unopposed throughout this nation and world. Our nation and this world is overdue the wrath and judgment of God for our gross wickedness. Now is the hour for the message of Jonah to be delivered to this nation before it is too late. Our time is up and we are currently operating on God's grace and mercy at this point.

I'VE SINNED AGAINST GOD FOR EXPECTING OTHERS TO DO WHAT GOD HAS BEEN CALLING ME TO DO AND I HAVE ASKED HIM TO FORGIVE ME. NO MORE! THE JONAH PROJECT WILL ESTABLISH THIS POWERFUL VOICE FOR GOD'S TRUTH IN THE MARKETPLACE TO CALL OUR NATION AND THE WORLD TO REPENTANCE AND THE LOST TO FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. IT WILL BECOME A VOICE FOR THE TRUE REMNANT AND MOBILIZE THE FAITHFUL TO WIN VICTORIES OVER THE SOCIAL ISSUES OF OUR DAY. TIME IS RUNNING OUT, THE HOUR IS UPON US, IT IS TIME TO ACT AND ACT DECISIVELY!!!

I love you and care about you so much. It is clear that over the past 6 years of ministering on secular television/radio 5 nights a week, my numerous appearances on FOX, CNN, with Howard Stern, Bubba, and many other programs I have appeared on, the Lord has raised me up and prepared me for this hour. I fully understand why Jonah ran from God's calling. Despite being faithful and bold, I too have been running from what I know God has been calling me to do. At some point you have to decide how committed you really are to serving the Lord. At some point there is no turning back.

Over these past 10 years there has been many times when I wanted out. I was tired. I wanted my life back. I just wanted God to leave me alone so I could do what I wanted for the few years I have left. But the Lord reminded me over and over during this struggle that it was no longer my life, it was His. I was his servant. Now it is time for this servant to step up to the plate and fulfill his calling. I have totally let go of this world and only seek to serve the Lord with whatever breath remains. It is time to go to this modern day Nineveh and deliver the word of the Lord!!!

Please go to the Jonah Project website and watch the vision video, get signed up, and be part of this last days move of God's people to lead our nation back to God and to Biblical Truth!!! www.liveprayer.com/jonah


TOPICS: Current Events
KEYWORDS: parties; revival; spiritual; tea; teaparty

1 posted on 04/15/2009 6:54:02 PM PDT by truthandlife
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To: truthandlife

II 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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.


2 posted on 04/15/2009 7:19:32 PM PDT by Live Free NH
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To: truthandlife

Amen!


3 posted on 04/15/2009 7:20:54 PM PDT by Sister_T (The Obama Administration = EPIC FAIL!)
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To: truthandlife

We are in the tribulation and things will not get better as our country and the world’s people are living as if in pre Noah’s day.

These “Tea” days are really all about secular materialism and money...which is nice.

I wonder how effective calling “days” for pro life would be and how many people would show up? No money involved but souls.

I don’t think so!


4 posted on 04/15/2009 7:21:53 PM PDT by francky (Pro Life!)
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To: francky

Amen!


5 posted on 04/15/2009 7:34:39 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman (The TRUTH will set you Free..... Republic)
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To: Live Free NH

Perfect fit for our situation.


6 posted on 04/15/2009 7:47:27 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: francky
Very true. Which is why I don't put much stock in the Tea party movement.

We have sacrificed millions of infants to the god of convenience, but few really care any more.

7 posted on 04/15/2009 7:49:10 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Live Free NH
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 will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

That (covenantal people of God in the Mosaic typological theocratic kingdom) isn't the United States.

8 posted on 04/15/2009 7:54:16 PM PDT by Lee N. Field (Come, behold the works of the LORD, how he has brought desolations on the earth.)
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To: truthandlife

What did we see out of a result of 1,000,000 men coming to DC back in 1997 strictly to worship God and stand in the gap for this nation? I am not sure. Did we see our nation change? I don't really think so spiritually. We did see the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal break out right after that but I don't think that is what we were truly praying for.

9 posted on 04/15/2009 8:02:17 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: truthandlife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1byTDgu7iA

Same video w/ words http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2H8xH... Download for your Tea Party, it’s too late to mail a hard cd for your City’s Tea Party, go here to download: http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditune...
Get song for your Tea Party http://www.LloydMarcus.net
This song is the National Rallying Cry of the movement against president Obama’s outrageous government over reaching stimulus package. Written & performed by Lloyd Marcus. http://www.LloydMarcus.net
To obtain a cd copy of the anthem (song) mail $5 to: Lloyd Marcus, PO Box 6472, Deltona FL 32728

Or, you can go to http://www.LloydMarcus.net and order via the PayPal button.

American Tea Party by Lloyd Marcus
© 2009 ZEPHYRUS MUSIC, BMI

LYRICS:
Mr President!
Your stimulus is sure to bust
Its just a socialistic scheme
The only thing it will do
Is kill the American Dream

You wanna take from achievers
Somehow you think that’s fair.
And redistribute to those folks
Who won’t get out of their easy chair.

We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free

So when they call you a racist cause you disagree
It just another of their dirty tricks to silence you and me.
I believe in the Constitution and all it stands for.
Anyone who tramples it should be booted out the door.

We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free

Now we’re not advocating violence
That’s what the so-called peace crowd do
We’re talkin’ peaceful protest to defend the red, white and blue

We gotta vote out these clowns who don’t love the USA
Who stay up late loosing sleep fearing what the French might say

We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free

We’re havin’ a tea party across this land
If you love this country
Come on and join our band
We’re standin’ up for freedom and liberty
Cause patriots have shown us freedom ain’t free

Freedom ain’t free
(Stand up for America)
Freedom ain’t free
(Gotta take a stand)
Freedom ain’t free
(Mr Obama)
Freedom ain’t free
(we work hard for our money)
Freedom ain’t free
(Don’t give it away)
Freedom ain’t free
(Save the day)
Freedom ain’t free
(Don’t go givin’ it away)
Freedom ain’t free
(It ain’t gonna work)
Freedom ain’t free
(Give back our freedom)
Freedom ain’t free
(Give back our liberty)
Freedom ain’t free
(I love my country)
(fade out)


10 posted on 04/16/2009 2:12:43 AM PDT by restornu
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To: redgolum

There is nothing the government can or should do about this. We need a national metanoia. The people of this country need to return to The Church and The Faith and govern their lives accordingly. In the meantime, none of this materialistic nonsense like pitiful “Tea Parties” will make a tinker’s dam worth of difference because in the end its not about taxes or money or “stuff”.


11 posted on 04/16/2009 4:14:29 AM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: truthandlife

The Tea Parties are a good start. The next round SHOULD talk about what Big Government has done to the Moraility of our Country in the last 70 years, save the Reagan years, we need the 3 leged stool, and tie them all together. The country that the Founders created bassed on God and not Government.


12 posted on 04/16/2009 11:19:42 AM PDT by cowboyusa
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To: cowboyusa

I believe that Christians should start being more vocal. When Obama can be invited to a what is suppose to be a Christian school to receive an honorary degree with his promotion of abortion and infanticide,people don’t believe Christians are for real. All faiths should be blasting Notre Dame. Let us send crosses to Father Jenkins to remind him of the great sacrifice of our Lord. Prayer &fasting. But I believe those involved in the tea parties were very much about God and country!


13 posted on 04/16/2009 1:49:16 PM PDT by red irish (Gods Children in the womb are to be loved too!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Correct.
My parents and sister stopped by today, and I was reminded just how much we are blessed to have them, and how much we missed them.

I like my house and “stuff”, but my family will be what follows me (God willing) to Heaven. Not my truck.


14 posted on 04/16/2009 7:46:40 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Live Free NH

Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house,
They labor in vain who build it;
Unless the LORD guards the city,
The watchman keeps awake in vain.


15 posted on 04/16/2009 7:50:48 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: truthandlife

Your article reminds me of this one I just read:

ABOUT HOW INDIVIDUAL FAITH IN GOD MAKES AN OBVIOUS SET OF DIFFERENCES IN THE LIVES OF AFRICANS.

EXCERPT (CONTINUED AT ABOVE LINK)

December 27, 2008
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God
Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem - the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset
Matthew Parris

Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as Nyasaland. Today it’s Malawi, and The Times Christmas Appeal includes a small British charity working there. Pump Aid helps rural communities to install a simple pump, letting people keep their village wells sealed and clean. I went to see this work.
It inspired me, renewing my flagging faith in development charities. But travelling in Malawi refreshed another belief, too: one I’ve been trying to banish all my life, but an observation I’ve been unable to avoid since my African childhood. It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my world view, and has embarrassed my growing belief that there is no God.
Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.
I used to avoid this truth by applauding - as you can - the practical work of mission churches in Africa. It’s a pity, I would say, that salvation is part of the package, but Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world would be better without it. I would allow that if faith was needed to motivate missionaries to help, then, fine: but what counted was the help, not the faith.

CONTINUED AT ABOVE LINK


16 posted on 04/17/2009 5:50:41 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

Amen!!!


17 posted on 04/18/2009 6:11:33 AM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: truthandlife

THANKS FOR YOUR KIND REPLY.


18 posted on 04/18/2009 7:19:57 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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