never gone to San Francisco or to New York City. There are as many pagan places in this country as there are in other parts of the world. We must plant churches that are committed to winning the lost. We must use this “space of grace” to promote biblical values. In a day when many of the emerging church IVL KPIZQ[UI\QK TMILMZ[ IZM XZMIKPQVO M`\ZI ZM^MTI\QWV we must go back to the truth of God’s Word and expose WTL NI[PQWVML \Z]\P \W W]Z XMWXTM *QJTQKIT ^IT]M[ LW not need to be tweaked, repackaged, apologized for, or have the rough edges SVWKSML W? ٺM do not need new revelation. We need a revival of what has already been revealed in God’s perfect King James Bible. We need to promote Bible values in our homes. Dads must be the spiritual leaders and must lead their families with those values.
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We must use this “space of grace” to pray fervently. James 5:16 tells us, °<PM M ٺMK\]IT NMZ^MV\ XZIaMZ WN a righteous man availeth much. Oh that God would give us a fervency in our prayers! God’s people must become more fervent about prayer than this world is about sports. We must fervently pray for revival. I am not talking about some type of manufactured revival. I am speaking of revival that leads to all of the things I have mentioned already, including holiness. We do not have revival when sin is not addressed and confessed. Churches will plant other churches and soulwinners will win souls again. When we experience revival, it will be more about God than it is about us. Revival comes when we are more broken about our sin than we are excited about a Gospel quartet or church fellowship. We must fervently pray for our leaders. In this “space of grace,” may each of us be committed to prayer for those who lead us. This is not talk radio, my friends, where we call out our leaders on the air. This is Christianity where we are to call out our leaders in our prayers. We have no right to complain about the actions of our leaders when we do not pray for our leaders. God help us to pray for the XMWXTM _PW IZM QV Wٻ KM There have been many times God has stayed His hand of judgment for a time. We saw what God did for the children of Israel in Ezra and we can see it in the story of Noah. At an extremely evil time in this world when sin ran rampant and God’s wrath was great, the Bible says that a man named Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. God gave him grace for a period of time as he built the ark, yet the judgment of God was inevitable upon the world. Likewise the judgment of God is most likely inevitable upon our nation; but could it be that God has spared His judgment for this moment, to give us a “space of grace”? The question is, what will we do with that grace? God help us to take advantage of this “little space of grace.”