My family lives in the United States of America. The land of the free and the home of the brave. It is not a perfect country, for it is made up of imperfect men and women. But it is a free country. One where we continue to try, and improve, and form ‘a more perfect union.’

America was a great experiment! The first of its kind! It is unlike any other land. Other countries were ruled by Kings or Tyrants or Dictators. The men and women who came to this country did not want to be ruled any longer. They already had a King, and they felt Him lead them to form a Government that was BY the people and FOR the people, where officials were elected to protect the rights of those people to be free. The purpose of Government, they believed, was to protect and defend the people from enemies foreign and domestic.

It was a system of checks and balances so that no man or political party would RULE of their own will, but would always govern according to the will of the people who elected them. It was truly a brand new way to ‘govern’, a government set up by the people and for the people.

Where did they get this wisdom? This model of Governing? From the King of all Kings, Himself, and HIS way of governing. Jesus introduced it as The Kingdom of God. “The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent and believe the Good News.” (Mark 1:15) THIS new Kingdom was definitely a SPIRITUAL Kingdom, and all who would ‘turn from’ all other gods, or kings, and declare that JESUS Christ is Lord, were invited to live in this new Kingdom. All who acknowledged and believed that God had raised THIS King from death, this King who had lived a perfect life of truth and justice and mercy and love, paid the price for all of us who could not, and defeated the evil and death that had ‘ruled’ us and caused us to hate and control and manipulate one another. In this new Kingdom, we surrender all to the perfect King of grace and truth, and He comes to live inside of us, make us new, restored to His likeness in which we were created, now ENABLED by His Spirit to love and treat one another as He has loved and treated us. Only THEN can you even HAVE a Kingdom of Heaven, of justice and righteousness. This is the Kingdom we are invited into now, and it mirrors the Kingdom of Heaven that we will one day live in forever, in perfect love and justice and freedom.

The natural result of men and women of this New Kingdom of God would be that they would begin to ‘infiltrate’ this world with the ways of this Kingdom. Jesus did not come to ‘overthrow’ governments, but to overthrow evil in the hearts of men so that they would become the righteous and just governing people that entered into all of society: government, education, religion, entertainment, business, etc. like leaven in dough: slowly but surely causing each of these areas to “rise’ to the goodness and righteousness that God had designed.

The majority of America’s ‘founding fathers’ were followers of this King Jesus. And ALL of them agreed to base their new way of Government upon the Ways of the perfect Government of God. They asked for God’s help. The One truly righteous Leader answered their prayers, led them by His Spirit, and gave them wisdom and understanding to establish this ‘more perfect union.’ The Declaration of Independence and our great Constitution are two examples of this divine wisdom written and decreed for the establishing of a new government in this new land. I believe with all my heart, that in the same way God had chosen Israel to ‘be His people’ in the Old Testament, so he called and chose certain men and women to establish this new country where all people could worship freely, hear the Good news, and choose for themselves who would be ‘king’ of their hearts and their families.

So what are these Ways of the Kingdom that our country was founded upon? Why did they choose and declare to be one nation UNDER GOD, and not under any other King?

Freedom. The Kingdom of God is based on Freedom. King Jesus declared that He came to set all of us FREE. Spiritually free people, no longer ruled by sin or the devil, naturally form a government where people are free. Free to worship whomever and however they want. Free to speak what they believe. Free to pursue whatever career they choose, to buy and sell, to own their own homes and raise their own families.

God does not control people. He gives people FREE will. The freedom to choose. He does not force anyone to follow Him or make Him their King. He wants people who CHOOSE Him, in love. Who make their own decision to follow Jesus as their Lord and Savior and King.

Righteousness. God is a righteous King and Judge. He rules in honesty and faithfulness and integrity. He is LIGHT, AND in Him there is no darkness at all, meaning there is only good! No evil, no lying, no hidden sin. He never changes. His Kingdom is actually called the Kingdom of Light!! God rules by these good ways. He calls us to do the same!

Justice. God is the God of Justice. Justice and righteousness are the pillars of His throne. Therefore, God does rule in FREEDOM, and in His Kingdom you are free- UNTIL your freedom infringes on another’s. You and I are free in the Kingdom of God, but if we choose to disobey and not live His ways, there are natural consequences. Eventually there is eternal judgement. In this land of America, there is also justice – there is judgement and punishment for anyone who uses their ‘freedom’ to hurt another person. Romans 13 specifically states that Government is to punish all wrong-doers so that others are protected from them, and so that wrong-doers would know that there will be consequences, judgement, punishment for breaking laws meant to protect the people and their families and possessions.

These basics things seem so obvious, but they are all three in danger. I long for the America I grew up in to be protected from those who would want to tear it down, RESET it, come up with a different way of Governing. As a mom and now a Grandmother, I long for my children’s children to live in the land of the FREE.

I have felt Holy Spirit calling me to PRAY. Pray that these freedoms and principles would be maintained and not torn down. Pray that the original intentions our founding fathers had for this country would be upheld.

There are those who do not want our nation to be One nation under God. There are those who are Anti-God and His ways. The Bible calls this the spirit of Anti-Christ. They are anti-Jesus. Anti anything having to do with Jesus the King. They have been methodically and strategically seeking to remove Him from all realms of our society. And unfortunately, we the church, have been asleep. We have not stood up for our Christ, and therefore the spirit of Anti-christ has made great strides in our country.

It is time for a Great Awakening. We need the Spirit of God to reveal the greateness of King Jesus. But we also need the church to awaken to the times and seasons in which we live, to get on our knees and pray. Then to stand to our feet and say, “No more, Satan. This is one nation, under God. We are Indivisible. We want liberty. and Justice. For all.’ We need to AWAKEN to his schemes (Ephesians 6). This is spiritual Warfare. There is an Enemy -foreign and domestic – trying to take over our country, remove our God, and remove any ways of God that he can.

This spirit has taken many men and women captive to do his bidding (Eph.2). We do not fight against flesh and bloood, but we had better awaken to the fact that we DO battle against prinicipalities and demonic forces in the spiritual realm who do not want the United States of America to be one nation under God. Satan wants it to be one nation under him, and his kingdom, the kingdom of darkness.

You can clearly see the fruit of these two kingdoms today. There is a great battle going on.

I want to be the kind of wife who loves my Jesus, my husband, my family and my country enough to awaken to the battle, to our calling to fight in the spirit, …. to pray.

Would you join me?