Activist

Greetings friends and neighbors! It certainly has been a while. It normally is. When you live in Hamilton connected to an ever growing movement, the phrase, “So much is happening!” really becomes normal. Nevertheless, so much is happening! We are nearing the finishing season. The finish line is just over the horizon!!!! I am seriously dumbfounded at out fast this whole time has passed. For those not familiar with what I am talking about, it’s honestly a WHOLE series of messages based around a word Damon heard back in May. I encourage you to head over to www.theramp.org (after you read the blog!!!) and check ‘em all out. I’m serious. It’s MULTIPLE sermons.

Things truly have changed for me though. I feel like my thought process is that of a different purpose. And that was the purpose the whole time, I believe….maybe just for me. But at the beginning of this month I sort of has a freak out day, because I knew EVERYTHING I wanted to get done probably wasn’t going to happen. However, after conversing with Jesus about it, I realized that, even I had gotten those natural things done, it would have been irrelevant had I not dealt with the wrong mindsets that led me there. I hope I wrote that out correctly and understandably. For example, it seems pointless for me to get my finances in line if I can’t also deal with the way I lived that led me to that need. It’s true repentance. It’s truly changing the way that I think. And it leads to this communion with Him that is incommunicable. I am hearing Him like never before…and it’s so fun! So, with only a few days left until this thing is over, I encourage everyone to press into Him, and from there let Him…there’s an unusual grace for it.

However, all this talk, as awesome as it is (and will probably be elaborated more in the future) is the purpose of this blog. Actually, unlike most, if not all, of my blogs in the past, this one isn’t really about spiritual things.  I entitled it ”Activist” for a purpose. So let us proceed.

Now, so you understand my purpose in this blog, I am not here to debate various political topics that are prevalent for the 2012 elections. I’m not here to debate to talk about the current president or the many men and women vying for the Republican candidacy. I’m simply writing this blog to spur an interest in you, the reader, to actually be heavily involved in this election to come. It’s been my assumption that most of my readers are professed Christians, those who want to see a true awakening come to this land. I’m honored you would take time to read all of this. Truly, I am.  Believer, I want to speak to you.

I’ve noticed, especially in the 2008 elections and on this road leading to 2012, that a lot of people really don’t research on the candidates they are voting for. I saw this predominately last Monday. I, like millions around the nation, watched the Republican Tea Party debates, and was a little astonished by the comments I heard coming from the people watching it along side me. Simply put, a lot of phrases I heard weren’t from an intellectual place of study or knowledge about issues or candidates, but simply word vomit that someone else had said, either from a religious platform, a news program, or radio station.

Again, I realize that many reading this blog are most likely believers. I also recognize that many of you are probably young people, since your knowledge  of me is likely through The Ramp. I want to encourage you to GET INVOLVED in this election. Go study up on issues that truly are going to affect us in the long run. See what Social Security really is. Find out why there are so many issues with Medicare. Learn why or why not Obamacare is necessary for this nation. Obviously, I am remaining on neutral ground. I have my personal views on certain things, and people, that I don’t want to sway people. Again, as I stated earlier, that isn’t the purpose of this blog. I simply want to stir you to do some research. Get involved. Jesus created you for this time, for this place, and you have a chance to change this nation, not only in the heavens, but also in the natural.

The bottom line is, awakening isn’t going to destroy politics. We’re not going to do away with democracy and all live hand in hand like The Waltons. Good fairy tale, but not happening. However, when awakened people get a revelation of what God wants, they can in turn vote for the people who can implement that. That same awakening can even, and I believe it will, hit the candidates themselves.

I just want YOU to be involved. Don’t rely on someone else to tell you how to vote. I’m not saying that it’s wrong to hear what you’re pastor, or youth pastor, or favorite singer has to say, but go do some research for YOU. From there, pray. Pray for the leading of the Holy Spirit. Pray for this incoming president, trust me, they need it. Farther than that, pray for our current president. He needs it. Believe it or not, Jesus wants him to be burning too.

Let’s just be proactive. Proactive in prayer. Proactive in the word. Also proactive in natural things that affect the country. We have a voice. Let’s use it.

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