CHURCH - ITS TIME TO ACT
NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE SYMPATHETIC TO. WE NEED TO PRAY FOR THEM - USING THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF THE RISEN CHRIST.
I can’t eat my meals without thinking of Palestinians starving; Syrians; Yemenis… The world on my watch is going to hell in a handbasket. I have no peace in my soul.
In 1980, I had been living in Syracuse, NY, for 5 years - enjoying life. I had no intentions of ever returning to Long Island where I grew up in an abusive (to say the least) home. Then one of my sisters called me. She said ‘Dad is losing the house’. (That was our 3rd home where we’d all finally gone to high school - 3183 Wells avenue, Wantagh NY, 11793.)
Veronica was living in the house with our dad, my younger brother and one other sister. (My mom had passed away tragically in 1977). At that time, all of us were in our early 20s. I was - in the middle of 6 - 23 years old at the time.
I asked her - “Why isn’t anybody doing anything?” (Like helping him pay the mortgage!). Her reply rings in my ears to this day: “What can WE do?”
Sound familiar? It is the voice of unbelief.
I had become a Christian in 1976. If I knew then what I know now, I could have saved my mom’s life. That’s a digression for another time. But I knew how to walk in Power. The Lord God had led me to a GREAT ministry! I knew how to pray and make things happen. To this day, I use that POWER of prayer every single day.
It was God also, who, in 1975, had removed me from the hornet’s nest that was our ‘home’ on Long Island, FIVE hours away to Syracuse University.
I went to college - not thanks to my parents who never donated a dime, never visited me, never called me,.. but thanks to a high school professor and mentor - Mr. Morton Cooper, that God had put in my life. Because of Mr. Cooper, I attended SU on FULL scholarship.
In 1976, God changed my life even further, when I met Christians in a Bible Research ministry. I took their long Bible class, met JESUS (the man who spoke to me in the garden 15 years earlier) on the pages of the Book, and never looked back. I never went ‘home’.
But now, my sister said our house was going into foreclosure.
My father was an alcoholic. After 25 years with his company, they sacked him for his drinking, and now, 8 months into the trouble, the house was just about to be foreclosed on. (Veronica had called me at the 11th hour)
Knowing God, I knew He’d do something to help me help my father, so I went home - putting my worldly belongings into storage in Syracuse (later losing them - a story that has repeated itself in my life a few times) and drove south to Wantagh to save my dad and his house.
By God’s grace and leading, within a few weeks:
I found buyers for our house - and saved my dad’s investment.
I found him a job
I found him a place to live
When he was supposed to have moved out of our house, and still hadn’t - I called the new rental place owners. They sent their 2 sons over with their 2 vans (They were Christians!) They moved my dad the same day.
That day he sat down in his new apartment, with money in the bank, and a job - and said to me ‘Vicky, you were the light at the end of my tunnel’.
That was the last I heard from him for 14 years. (He called me the first (and last) time in my whole life in 1994, when I was at my desk in the Pentagon. A former Navy pilot, my dad was briefly impressed by my military service. I saw him one more time at my younger brother’s1 house - before he passed away in 2000).
The point is - My siblings did not believe God (they still don’t) and were consequently unable to help our dad.
Their answer - ‘What can we do?’ is the answer of unbelief - then and now. It immobilizes men who could otherwise make a difference.
Personally, even I had NO IDEA what God was going to do, but I knew He would do SOMETHING if I prayed- and acted.
Church - the world is burning, it shows no signs of slowing down, yet I got my UMPTEENTH Ministry letter today in the mail, calling for ‘end of the year donations, spouting about the JOY of the Season’… but deathly silent on the crisis’s ongoing overseas. Not a word.
(Today’s letter was from the Rick Renner ministry.. though they are not the only silent church by far. 2 nights ago, I looked at the web sites of the 3 largest churches in the USA, having a combined total of 190,000 members… not ONE WORD was to be found about the crises in Israel and Ukraine; Not ONE Petition calling for prayer was to be found. With ALL of the thousands of saints on their mailing lists - can you imagine the POWER they could muster up, calling everyone to pray for a CEASEFIRE!?
Look; if the Churches won’t step up the plate, WE MUST.
It’s time for us to act.
We don‘t need to agree about Palestine, about Israel, about Ukraine, about Russia,.. Though we CAN agree that the world needs a permanent CEASEFIRE. NOW.
I’m going to get a conference call phone number, and organize a ZOOM or PHONE call this Sunday at 2pm.
We are going to resurrect Acts 4:31 - shake the powers that be, and shake the nations - and shake our houses2 - and get a CEASEFIRE.
The alternative is a fast track to WWIII. With it, make no mistake - the concept of bombing non combatant civilians is very much in vogue. If you pray to help the Israeli’s.. if you pray to help the Palestinians, if you pray to help the Slavs to the North - or if you only pray to keep the bombs away from your town - please come on board; and use the power vested in you by Jesus Christ - the Prince of Peace.
Friend, the TIME is SHORT.
We are in the countdown to the Midnight Hour when no man can work.
The END of the Age is near.
We do NOT want to stand before the Lord in that day, and say:
‘But what could I DO?’
Watch this Stack for the call in information - or email me for it at: thetyrannyofmasks@proton.me
Victoria
Neither did I see my dad at my brother’s wedding. I was not invited. My dad and all of my siblings attended. None of them are Christians and I was unwelcome in their circles.
‘And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.’ Acts 4:31