If My People…

Solomon knew that the houses could be built and the people could inhabit them but he also knew that without God it would all be a waste. Christians can do the work but without God, we can do nothing but waste time.  Look around at the situation of the world. Evil is all around and it’s right in everyone’s faces. It’s getting worse and worse with each passing day. This doesn’t mean that we as Christians should just lay down and give up. We should get on our knees and faces and plea to God for His help.   James 4:6-10 If you humble yourself then there will be grace for you. He’ll give you a heart to cleanse your hands and heart if you seek Him.   2 Timothy 2:25-26 The humility will bring meekness. It’s God that brings a person to repentance. God still wants to give repentance to our people.   Lamentations 3:22-23 Strictly by the mercy of God are we still here today. God had every right to allow the evil to overtake us all. If God wasn’t willing to help us then He wouldn’t have put up with the ungodly actions of the Christian. The lost person has no blame, but the Christian is to be blamed. When was the last time you stayed in your prayer closet until you received an answer?   Romans 13:11-12; 14 It’s time, it’s time. It’s past time. We have very little time left.   1 John 1:9 Some of the Christians are not going deep enough to get it dealt with. Our problem is not the world but ourselves. Until we get ourselves out of the way then when something happens it’s all about what we did.    Fasting & Prayer Nehemiah 1:4 Does it bother you to tears of the condition of our country? Family, neighbor, church, country, etc. If you can’t weep over the lost condition of their souls, you should deal with the condition of your hardened soul. Without a vision, the people will perish.    Daniel 9:2-5 Matthew 6:16 Esther 4:14-16 Stand and take it for Christ.   pray4tn.us Speaker of the House Congressman Mike Johnson and six other Congressmen praying on the floor of the US House Chamber. https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HJR0803.pdf (see notes above) HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 803 By Fritts A RESOLUTION to seek God’s hand of mercy healing on Tennessee. WHEREAS, our State and Nation suffer from violence committed upon our citizens by our citizens; and WHEREAS, our State and Nation suffer from violence committed upon our citizens by non-citizens; and WHEREAS, acts of violent crime in our schools are unacceptable; and WHEREAS, human trafficking is an unacceptable and violent evil in our State, enslaving lives and violating the core values of our Creator-endowed rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and WHEREAS, drug addiction overwhelms our families, our government finances, our workforce productivity, as well as our healthcare and our law enforcement resources; and WHEREAS, deadly fentanyl flows uncontrollably across our southern U.S. border resulting in the deaths of Tennesseans; and WHEREAS, Driving Under the Influence, drunk driving, results in great pain and injury for Tennessee families; and WHEREAS, we have approximately 9,000 children in need of foster care, indicating a brokenness in many Tennessee homes; and WHEREAS, evidence of corruption in our federal government stands to impact every Tennessean; and WHEREAS, our National and State Founders trusted in the omnipotent hand of Providence to guide and bless our land; and WHEREAS, over decades, these leaders called our people to seek out the Creator’s favor by issuing proclamations like the one from John Adams on April 15, 1799: [This day] be observed throughout the United States of America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and prayer; that the citizens on that day abstain, as far as may be, from their secular occupation, and devote the time to the sacred duties of religion, in public and in private; that they call to mind our numerous offenses against the most high God, confess them before Him with the sincerest penitence, implore his pardoning mercy, through the Great Mediator and Redeemer, for our past transgressions, and that through the grace of His Holy Spirit, we may be disposed and enabled to yield a more suitable obedience to his righteous requisitions in time to come; that He would interpose to arrest the progress of that impiety and licentiousness in principle and practice so offensive to Himself and so ruinous to mankind; that He would make us deeply sensible that “righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” [Proverbs 14:34]; and WHEREAS, we hold that our Founders correctly acknowledged Truth in their words; and WHEREAS, we hold that “Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” (Psalm 127:1); now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRTEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, THE SENATE CONCURRING, that the period of July 1, 2024, through July 31, 2024, be recognized as a time of prayer and fasting in Tennessee. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we recognize that God, as Creator and King of all Glory, has both the authority to judge and to bless nations or states. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we, as public servants in the Tennessee General Assembly, seek God’s Mercy upon our land and beseech Him to not withdraw His Hand of blessing from us. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we recognize our sins and shortcomings before Him and humbly ask His Forgiveness. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we ask the Lord Jesus to heal our land and remove the violence, human-trafficking, addiction, and corruption. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we ask that the Holy Spirit fill our halls of government, our classrooms, our places of business, our churches, and our homes with peace, love, and joy. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that we call upon all those who are physically able and spiritually inclined to do so to join in a thirty-day season of prayer and intermittent fasting as we begin a new fiscal year as a means of seeking God’s blessing and humbling ourselves to receive His Grace and Mercy, transforming ourselves, our communities, our State, and our Nation.