KINGS AND GOVERNMENTS
Ivan Pattison,
1 Samuel 8:6 But the
thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel
prayed unto the LORD.
1 Samuel
Read between 1 Samuel 8:6, and
In the Old Testament, where the Kings were
un-Godly, the nation fell into the hands of other nations, but when the King
was Righteous then God blessed the nation.
It is the same today; we need Righteous men and
women in Leadership. It does not matter whether we like them or not, or whether they are agreeing with what we like, and it
is up to each one of us to be praying for them, for them to make right
decisions.
It is God who is the one who blesses us, and it
is God that blesses a nation, not governments. I would like to see many
Righteous men and women in Government as possible.
If we do a selfish vote, then there is a good
chance the wrong leader will be voted into Government.
Each one of us, will
need to ask ourselves, do we want a nation led by a man who is Godly, and one
who asks
God for guidance or do we want a nation that is
led by an un-Godly man, only you and I as individuals can answer this.
Do you and I talk to God the Father through Jesus
Christ, and do we, that is you and I, stop and listen
to God the Father, and what He has to say to us. Let us take time to listen to
what God has to say to us. There are many who pray but do not listen to God and
what He has to say to us.
Quite often we have our mind made up in who we
are going to VOTE for so we do not ask God what He wants!!! And
who He wants in leadership of our individual country.
I am not a political party follower, but I vote
for the one who is a Christian, and if there is no Christian leader then I look
for the party that has the most Christians, or the one who has Christian
principals.
If you feel like you're under pressure these
days, you're not alone. Satan is putting more pressure on more people right now
than ever before. He is pressuring us mentally, financially, emotionally and
every other way he can. The pressure has become so great,
everywhere governments don't know what to do, and how to manage their finances
properly. Many businesses don't know what to do, many families don't know, and
many Churches don't know.
But, praise God, Jesus
does! This makes it so important for us to pray, and stay close to God, and
seek Him for all things in our life.
This comes down not only to who we vote for, but
our individual walk with God, and how close, do we, each one, walk with God,
that we also hear from Him!!!
The closer we are to God, the better we hear Him,
the more distance we are from Him, it is the harder we
are able to hear His voice.
The closer we are to God, the better we hear Him,
the more distance we are from Him, it is the harder we
are able to hear His voice.
To say the church should not be involved in
Politics is hogwash, and a lie out of the pit of hell!! Satan has put this lie
around so he can have influence in Governments. If anyone has the right to
be a leader of a nation it should be men of God, who talk and listen to God and
hear what He wants, and not what man wants.
So many in the church today do not know and hear
the voice of God and yet God says;
John
John 18:37b Every one
that is of the truth heareth my voice.
If any one of us are not
hearing the voice of God, then we should get closer to God so we can hear Him
when He speaks.
I first heard the voice of God when I was 15
years of age.
The second verse of the Lord’s Prayer is;
Matthew
If the will of God is to be done on earth then,
we have to have His people in leadership of our individual countries. If sinful
men are in power then there is not much hope of God’s will be done on this
earth.
Our prosperous way of life comes down to us as
individuals, and us understanding what the Word of God says, and then how we
pray the Word of God. We as Christians lose too much to satan, by not knowing our rights as a Christian.
John 10:10 The thief
cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they
might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Jeremiah 1:12 Then said the LORD unto me, Thou
hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.
When we pray the Word of God then He will hasten
to perform it
It is not up to a Government to make us
prosperous, but it is God Who makes a nation prosperous, and it is God Who
makes us as individuals prosperous.
God says in His Word; what we sow is what we
receive from that sowing, and how true this is. If we vote wrongly or don’t
vote at all then the wrong leader might get into Government, and if this
happens, it won’t do us much good going to God and expecting Him to put things
right. Though we might be repentant as a nation He can turn things around, but
that usually takes time.
If we, that is you and me, sow tares and weeds let us not to expect
corn or maise to grow.
(Galatians 6:7) "Be not deceived; God is not
mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap."
We can go to God if we put the wrong Government
in office to pray for that Government, in fact we each one should be praying
for our Government to make the right decisions, and that is important. This
should happen whether we like the Government in Office or whether we like the
one in power.
2 Corinthians 9:6 But
this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also
sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap
also bountifully.
Ephesians 3:20 Now unto him that is able to do
exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power
that worketh in us,
We all have the power to vote and put the right
man in Office. Let us not be sparingly with our voting, but generous, and vote
for the one God has, to go into Office.
With the voting coming up, we who are Christians,
each one of us will need to prayerfully and carefully consider who we vote for
and not waste our vote.
Here in
There are a lot of things we do have to consider,
and consider carefully in whom we are about to vote for both in
We are taught to sow seeds, such as to sow into
the
We must sow our vote carefully so we will see our
vote bringing forth good fruit!!!
In Mark 4, Jesus compares the entire
Shalom and Love --from Ivan
