'We forgot that freedom isn’t free' by Gigi

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I sat up until 1 am on the morning of November 5th, waiting on pins and needles, more nervous than I think I have ever been. I was praying harder than I had done in a long time.

After I finally drifted off to sleep awhile, at 4am it was like a clock went off inside of me and I jumped out of bed and turned on the TV. An overwhelming win for Trump!

I honestly haven’t felt this joyous since 2016. It even had a deeper meaning and more desperation this time around and much more at stake. It’s like millions of people had finally woke up and realized this country we had grown up in is almost unrecognizable.

Covid had been our smelling salts or a splash of cold water to the face that jolted us lazy Christians out of a stupor. We thought “wait a minute!” What is happening to our freedoms we once had and have been taking for granted. Or how about our safety or the ability to pay our bills? What the Heck Happened?

We got lazy and complacent. We forgot that freedom isn’t free and we have to fight for it and stand strong

Thank goodness some preachers like Dutch Sheets, Tim Sheets, Kent Christmas, Allen Jackson or Kenneth Copeland to name a few. They woke up and started guiding their flocks.

Us lazy middle of the road so called Christians had to start praying, take a stand and risk some blowback. There is a powerful remnant that is leading the charge. 

I am so grateful to be alive in this time. I have an overwhelming sense of pride and gratefulness.

Americans stood up to the establishment and spoke.

I bleed red white and blue.

I took the time to reflect on Psalms 40 tonight. I waited patiently on the Lord and he heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit…

If you get a chance read it. It is so timely for right now.

Blessings!
 

40 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.

He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.

Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

10 I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.

12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me.

14 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me evil.

15 Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame that say unto me, Aha, aha.

16 Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified.

17 But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God.

Editorial comments expressed in this column are the sole opinion of the writer.

 

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