{"id":294,"date":"2012-04-29T07:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2012-04-29T07:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T13:51:21","slug":"changing-america-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;CHANGING  AMERICA,  BACK . . . &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is clear.\u00a0 This must be the year for &#8220;Changing America, Back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What is not so clear to most Americans&#8212;two questions&#8212;easy to answer, hard to do:<\/p>\n<p>01)\u00a0 Changing America, Back&#8212;to what?<\/p>\n<p>02)\u00a0 Changing America, Back&#8212;how?<\/p>\n<p>There is one small group of people who understand the answers , and who can initiate the change.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s people, who are called by the name of Jesus, have the answers for America.<\/p>\n<p>National change begins when God&#8217;s people willingly get on our knees long enough to let God examine our own lives first, and see our personal need to change.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this so hard is that Christians in America have become so enmeshed with the culture, that we don&#8217;t see clearly the contrast between the American way and God&#8217;s way.\u00a0 Too many Christians cannot walk away from Sodom without looking back.<\/p>\n<p>That is why there are so few who qualify for God&#8217;s prerequisites to personal forgiveness and national healing and national blessing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for Americans to claim the name of Jesus today, at all cost.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for Americans to humble ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for Americans to pray until we get really close to God.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for Americans to pray until we see our sins.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for Americans to see the wickedness around us that we have become part of, and turn from it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for American Christians to understand that it is up to us, to change America back.<\/p>\n<p>After God&#8217;s requirements, above, are met, He will clearly show us action to take in the fight to save America.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t rule anything out when He shines the spotlight on our lives, and when He calls us to do something we&#8217;ve never done before.<\/p>\n<p>America will be saved when Americans are ready to do what we&#8217;ve never done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is clear.\u00a0 This must be the year for &#8220;Changing America, Back.&#8221; What is not so clear to most Americans&#8212;two questions&#8212;easy to answer, hard to do: 01)\u00a0 Changing America, Back&#8212;to what? 02)\u00a0 Changing America, Back&#8212;how? There is one small group of people who understand the answers , and who can initiate the change. God&#8217;s people, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}