Jim and Anna – Vaya Ministries
Here are seven topics that are of paramount interest to us as Christians living in the United States of America. Topics that we are compelled to present to you for consideration as you make and change the laws of our proud land.
We are compelled by God, not man, to take a stand and make our voices be heard. We can no longer hide with our heads in the sand as evil overtakes what we hold dear.
These are not trivial items, but ones of world shaking, eternity making consequence. Americas continued existence as “The Land of the Free” is at stake.
1.ISRAEL:
We are in Washington this week attending the Fourth Annual Christians United for Israel conference? We are here to take a stand for Israel and to impress you, our congress, to also take a positive stand for Israel.
We firmly believe in the Word of God as written in the Bible. The Jewish nation of Israel was founded by God himself when He called Abraham out of Haran (also known as Carrhae, is a district of ?anl?urfa Providencein the southeast of Turkey)
Gen 12:1-5 And Jehovah said to Abram, Go out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father’s house into a land that I will show you. And I will make you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing. And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed. And Abram departed, even as Jehovah had spoken to him. And Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gained in Haran. And they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. And they came into the land of Canaan.
In this passage God gives the rest of us a warning that we are to bless (stand up and support) Israel of God will curse us (the United States). Our strength as a nation is at risk if we do not follow God’s commands to us.
It is imperative that America continue to be in support of the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. Their struggle is not one of human making but one set in motion by God Himself. To take a stand against the nation of Israel would be a stand against the very precepts of God’s will for the World and for man.
This support from the Creator of the known Universe is the very reason that Israel stood firm and conquered against insurmountable odds in the Six Day War. It was a fight with God on their side and not a human effort. The same outcome will take place should an outbreak take place over Iran’s nuclear threat to Israel.
American can not be caught on the wrong side in such a conflict. Our sovereignty as a God fearing nation would be at stake. Our reign as a powerful nation would be at risk. We would cease to be America and taken to the ranks as minor player in World Politics.
2.RADICAL MUSLIMS:
From Mike Evans founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
While in Jerusalem, God gave me a vision concerning America and a major terrorist attack.
Thursday, I received a call from a top government intelligence expert. He told me that Hezbollah cells are in the U.S. and are planning major terrorist attacks if Israel destroys Iran’s nuclear reactors. He said Iran wants to kill millions of Jews with the bomb thinking it will usher in Mahdi (the Muslim Messiah). He said President Obama knows about it and is pressuring Israel NOT to attack. Iran will have the bomb in 12 to 18 months if they are not stopped.
This is the reason for this urgent email. God has shown me the answer that will stop this attack and save tens of thousands of innocent lives. You have a divine assignment from heaven as did Esther and Daniel in the Bible.
God has told me in prayer that a Hezbollah plan to attack America can be stopped with 10,000 intercessors. The Bible says, “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints.” (Jude 1:14)
When Abraham saw judgment coming on Sodom and his family, he cried out and said, “Will you spare Sodom for the sake of ten?” God said, “Yes.” God has told me that if 1000 of my inner circle partners (that’s you) will enlist ten Christians to commit to pray and bind these demonic Hezbollah terrorists, angels on assignment will be united and defeat these powers. The terror attacks WILL NOT happen.
Description of Hezbollah from “A Guide to the Political Left”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256
Hezbollah, whose name means “Party of God,” is a Lebanese organization of several thousand Shiite militants that opposes the West and Israel, and seeks to create in Lebanon a Muslim fundamentalist state modeled on Iran. Its primary mission is to destroy the state of Israel and, in the process, to murder as many Jews as possible. Describing itself as “an Islamic struggle movement,” Hezbollah condemns “the Zionist occupation of Palestine” and candidly states that it “sees no legitimacy for the existence of ‘Israel.'”
The Hezbollah Founding Statement contains a section titled “The Necessity for the Destruction of Israel, which reads: “We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve. …
Description of Radical Islam from “A Guide to the Political Left”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=107&type=issue
While professing unwavering faith in a transcendent deity, radical Islam also presents itself as a militant, politically activist ideology whose ultimate goal is to create a worldwide community, or caliphate, of Muslim believers. Determined to achieve this new world order by any means necessary, including violence and mass murder, radical Islam is characterized by its contempt for the beliefs, practices, and symbols of other religious traditions. This intolerant, condemning creed serves as the ideological justification that contemporary Islamic terrorists cite for their actions.
Radical Islam’s kinship with terrorism, and its willingness to use violence as a means to its ultimate ends, is clearly spelled out in a training manual produced by the radical Islamist terror group al Qaeda, whose operatives carried out the 9/11 attacks. Noting that among al Qaeda’s “long-term goals” is “the establishment of an Islamic state,” this publication candidly says that an “Islamic government would never be established except by the bomb and rifle. Islam does not coincide or make a truce with unbelief, but rather confronts it. The confrontation that Islam calls for with these godless and apostate regimes, does not know Socratic debates, Platonic ideals nor Aristotelian diplomacy. But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing, and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine-gun. The young came to prepare themselves for Jihad [holy war], commanded by the majestic Allah’s order in the holy Koran.”
In spite of this our President intends to sit down with the radicals and have peaceful negotiations. We Americans need to take heed and be forewarned. It is not the radical’s intent to ever have peace with us or Israel; we are infidels worthy of inhalation only, not peace or co-existence.
‘Obama peace plan: Muslim world must recognize Israel‘
By Reuters
The United States is promoting a peace plan for the Middle East involving a “57-state solution” in which the entire Muslim world would recognize Israel; Monday’s Times of London quoted Jordan‘s King Abdullah as saying.
“We are offering a third of the world to meet them with open arms,” the king said. “The future is not the Jordan River or the Golan Heights or the Sinai, the future is Morocco in the Atlantic and Indonesia in the Pacific. That is the prize.”
But he warned: “If we delay our peace negotiations, then there is going to be another conflict between Arabs or Muslims and Israel in the next 12-18 months.”
The radical Islam’s have already proven their ability and willingness to strap a bomb or a jet airplane to their bodies and explode it to kill thousands of innocent people (whom they call infidels). How much more so would they be willing to attach an atomic weapon to their body and explode it ushering their soul into the arms of 72 virgins; while ending life for millions of your constituents.
Please unite with us in fervent intercessory prayer that God will hear our plea and stay the destruction of people of all religions, colors, nationalities and races.
America has a rich history of religious freedom and co-existence with peoples from all walks of life. Not so with the Muslim world who will kill anyone worshiping God (not Allah) while within their lands.
3.FREEDOM FROM OIL:
From “Trading Freedom for Oil”
http://marychristinalove.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/trading-freedom-for-oil/
America is in a highly compromising position of servitude after decades of concessions with the Saudis to obtain oil and preserve invested business interests. Submissiveness to Saudi/Islamic rules has placed America in a state of dhimmitude, which is essentially enforced compliance of Islamic Law on non-Muslims. It extends into the arenas of energy, security, policy, education, finance, and religion.
Saudi-Islamic interests became synonymous with “American national interest.” when Saudi King Faisel warned the president of ARAMCO in the 1970s that American oil companies must prove their loyalty to his Islamic kingdom or suffer higher oil prices, and perhaps lose all their investments in the region. With bribery an incentive and extortion a consequence of non-compliance, officials engaged in public relations efforts to improve the Arab image in America. The effort involved intense lobbying, public relations events, and massive media propaganda to influence Congress and to change America’s opinion regarding Israeli concerns, and Israel’s right to exist
We have become addicted to Arab oil. Millions of dollars daily continue to poor into their hands because of this need to fuel our way of life. This way of life is about to be turned against us to bring us to a terrible end.
The Arab nations do not have to be creative or productive to exist. America’s constant dumping of bundles of money into their laps sponsors their lives of luxury; freeing them to pursue acts of Jihad on the infidels of the world (specifically the US and Israel).
America’s addiction to oil must be brought under control, essentially causing a boycott of the Arab nations. Without an abundance of free money pouring into their coffers the Arab people would not be able to freely gather weapons of mass destruction.
4.CHRISTIAN BELIEFS:
Our founding fathers believed in the Bible and forged our independence and constitution the beliefs written by God. Following are quotes from some of them:
Samuel Adams
Father of the American Revolution, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
I . . . recommend my Soul to that Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
Will of Samuel Adams
Charles Carroll
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
On the mercy of my Redeemer I rely for salvation and on His merits; not on the works I have done in obedience to His precepts.
From an autographed letter in our possession written by Charles Carroll to Charles W. Wharton, Esq., on September 27, 1825, from Doughoragen, Maryland.
John Hancock
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
I John Hancock, . . . being advanced in years and being of perfect mind and memory-thanks be given to God-therefore calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die [Hebrews 9:27], do make and ordain this my last will and testament…Principally and first of all, I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it: and my body I recommend to the earth . . . nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mercy and power of God. . .
Will of John Hancock
John Witherspoon
Signer of the Declaration of Independence
I entreat you in the most earnest manner to believe in Jesus Christ, for there is no salvation in any other [Acts 4:12]. . . . [I]f you are not reconciled to God through Jesus Christ, if you are not clothed with the spotless robe of His righteousness, you must forever perish.
John Witherspoon, The Works of John Witherspoon (Edinburgh: J. Ogle, 1815), Vol. V, pp. 276, 278, The Absolute Necessity of Salvation Through Christ, January 2, 1758
Since America’s inception we, as a people, have been God fearing and missionary in concept. Throughout our 200 year history Americans have been missionaries to all of the nations of the world. Proclaiming the Word of God and the Salvation available through the Blood of Jesus Christ shed for their sins.
Mat 26:27-28 And He took the cup and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink all of it. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Eph 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
God has poured out His blessings on America because of our involvement in missionary work. We are a blessed beyond any other country or nation on planet earth. We are a resourceful people and are looked up to by most of the World.
Because of our founding belief in God we have been a beacon and light to the rest of the World. In these end days this light still shimmers but dimly. If we falter and let God’s blessings fall from us we will receive His curse. Should we allow this to happen the rest of the struggling nations will sub come to the pending evil posed to overthrow mankind?
We believe that America has been seduced by the great harlot (Satan) and has fallen into a time of apathy. Years ago we threw prayer out of our schools and introduced condoms and sex education in its place. We remove references to God from buildings and monuments then state that America is no longer a Christian nation. Our President quotes from the Qur’an more than from the Bible.
We can not stand with President Obama when he says that we are no longer a Christian nation. This is just not true. The majority of Americans hold the Bible as the cornerstone of their beliefs. Just because a new man takes office and holds tightly to his Muslim beliefs in the Qur’an his beliefs can not change our rich heritage.
5.HOMOSEXUALITY:
Our President now wants us to openly address homosexuals as normal in spite of God calling it an abomination.
Gen 18:20 And Jehovah said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which has come to Me.
See Gen 19 for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah
Lev 18:22 You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God.
Lev 20:13 If a man also lies with mankind, as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them.
1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit thekingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,
1Ti 1:8-11But we know that the law is good if a man uses it lawfully, knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous one, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and anything else that is contrary to sound doctrine,according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
Sin is still sin and passing laws to allow it or to openly accept continues to be an abomination to God. We can not accept the sin of homosexuality ever. We love the people who commit such atrocities but we can not condone their open flaunting of such sin in the face of man or of God their Creator.
6.HATE CRIMES BILL:
We stand in opposition to Senate Bill 909 the Hates Crime Bill. We can not accept what this bill is trying to do. We object to the fundamentals of the bill. It is our command to stand with God and not with the government of the United States.
Such a law can have a chilling effect on free speech. Especially for those who would simply share from the Bible God’s views on issues such as homosexuality.
All crimes are ones of Hate. Why single out a certain group and allow the courts to punish them for what they are thinking or what they have strong beliefs in. In a Christian/Judean society (we are irregardless of what president Obama thinks) Hate-crimes laws are unnecessary based on the rule of law.
I am a strong Christian and believe that such a bill will lead to unnecessary harassment and legal problems for God fearing Christians. All in favor of catering to the wishes of a few who choose to disobey God’s commandments.
Rom 1:26-27 For this reason, God gave them over to degrading passions. Even their females exchanged their natural sexual function for one that is unnatural.In the same way, their males also abandoned the natural sexual function of females and burned with lust for one another. Males committed indecent acts with males, and received in themselves the appropriate penalty for their perversion
7.ABORTION:
For several decades America has mercifully been killing millions of unborn children to give women rights over their body functions. Murder is still murder.
Exo 20:13 You shall not kill.
We were made secretly in our mother’s womb from an embryo, not a glob of stuff. We are wonderfully made by God for His purpose; know from the beginning of time.
Psa 139:13-16 For You have possessed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise You; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well. My bones were not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully formed in the lowest parts of the earth.Your eyes saw my embryo; and in Your book all my members were written, the days they were formed, and not one was among them.
Eph 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
People amass campaigns to save the whales, stickleback fish, and spotted owls; even rescue orphaned sparrows. Yet we do not blink an eye at killing the offspring of a child of God formed in His own Image.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
Will we continue until we hear God utter this again, only to America and not the Jewish Nation?
Num 14:11-12 And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people provoke Me? And how long will it be before they believe Me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?I will strike them with the pestilence and will disinherit them, and will make of you a greater nation and mightier than they.
As you can see our trip to WashingtonDC is one that covers a variety of topics, each one of them very dear to our Christian beliefs and heritage. Issues so strong that they demand our attention, they demand our standing up firmly in support. We can not afford to let evil reign uncontrolled any longer.
We consider ourselves to be a remnant of God’s church in America; such a strong remnant that we must stand up and be heard as we cry out to our Government and to our God to heal our land.
2Ch 7:14 if My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
These things which plague our land today have Eternal Consequences. These are not mere flighty situations needing only a brush over by our courts. These are basic beliefs that are at the core of our beliefs.When the end of life comes, and it will come to every one of us, we will stand before God and have to plea our case before Him a jealous God.
Exo 20:5 You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them. For I Jehovah your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation of those that hate me,
CONCLUSION:
It is by the Grace of God that we stand before you today in reverence of your position as a governing entity for the United States of America. With reverence of your position we plea to your heritage as a child of God to take action to stand firmly with the Word of God.
If you do not have assurance of your position with God, if you can not say with absolute confidence that you know that you will spend eternity with God; we ask that you get that issue settled once and for all. Pray with us this simple prayer:
“Lord Jesus, I believe you are the Son of God. Thank you for dying on the cross for my sins.Please forgive my sins and give me the gift of eternal life. I ask you in to my life and heart to be my Lord and Savior. I want to serve you always.”
Rom 5:8 But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Eph 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Joh 1:12 But as many as received Him, He gave to them authority to become the children of God, to those who believe on His name,
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him and he with Me.
Jim – July 16, 2009