I've been so worried about the elections coming up. I just really have no one I want to vote for. It can be overwhelming or even discouraging to think what could happen if "the right" leader isn't voted in.
YES...we need to pray.
YES...we need to vote.
YES...we need the Spirit's leading.
But more imortantly, I feel we need to focus COMPLETELY on Jesus. We need to be active, but not obsessive, about the coming elections. Trust in the Lord, No plan of God's can be thwarted (Job 42:2). We must seek Him and His kingdom first.
I am encouraged that by these words the Lord spoke to me....
Psalm 146
"Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD, O my soul.
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in [presidents], in mortal men, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— the LORD, who remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free, the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD."
YES...we need to pray.
YES...we need to vote.
YES...we need the Spirit's leading.
But more imortantly, I feel we need to focus COMPLETELY on Jesus. We need to be active, but not obsessive, about the coming elections. Trust in the Lord, No plan of God's can be thwarted (Job 42:2). We must seek Him and His kingdom first.
I am encouraged that by these words the Lord spoke to me....
Psalm 146
"Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD, O my soul.
I will praise the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.
Do not put your trust in [presidents], in mortal men, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.
Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,
the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them— the LORD, who remains faithful forever.
He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets prisoners free, the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
The LORD watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow, but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.
The LORD reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.
Praise the LORD."
