As I awoke this morning, God brought a verse to my mind. I'm watching nearly everyone losing hope and losing their minds. As a Christian nation, as those of us who profess to be Christians we have put aside the Word of God. We have put our trust in mere men. We have become angry, desperate, we have turned on one another and have zero understandingand tolerance. We all sit around waiting to see what our politicians are going to do next, how will they fail us again. We are NOT praying in faith, we are NOT believing in the God of our fathers.

My sister in law prays every single morning that God will reveal the evil that has overtaken our nation. That He will expose the evil and destroy it and those involved in it. ALL of us pretend WE know whats best for our country, we know who our leaders should be and we know how things are to be fixed. We are ALL panicking because we see impending doom. But what of God? Has He not a plan so vast, so big, so much more above and beyond what we could ask or think? All my life I have tried to figure out what God is doing, what His plan is. But I always think as woman, NOT as a Christian who has a God so powerful He could blink us out of existence. We have stopped looking at things from God's perspective.

Let's try that for a moment. Our nation is clearly broken. NOT because of our leaders. Our nation is broken because we are rife with the worst of sin, that which God HATES. We ask for His forgiveness yet we do NOTHING to turn from it. Forget the leaders, I'm speaking of the sin in our own lives. Our nation is dying because we have turned our back on God, we kill our babies and we have turned into a nation of lust and sexual devients. We need to stop looking at others. We can start with our own anger, our vitriol, our disdain. It doesn't matter what others are doing. God's interested in what's going on within our own souls.

We need to throw ourselves on the mercy of God for ourselves, our leaders and our nation. History reveals we didn't start a Revolution, GOD DID. God won that for His purposes, religious freedom. We didn't start a Civil War, GOD DID. God won that to free us from slavery and the evils it harbored. We didn't get involved in WWII for the many reasons we all believe, GOD DID. Mad men were collecting and killing millions of innocent human beings. They were tortured and killed in the most horrific manner. We didn't win that war, GOD DID. He stopped world leaders intent on the destruction of humanity. It's Hubris for us to think it was mere MEN who got gave us thise victories. Now, we find ourselves here again. Maybe, just maybe, GOD wants to destroy the evil that has overtaken us once again. The worst kind of evil. Who has exposed that evil? GOD DID. He uses the people HE has placed or allowed to be in the positions they hold. One thing I know for a certainty. God has heard the cry of the children. "Vengence is mine, I WILL repay."

Let's remember this verse. That our hope isn't in our leaders but it must be in God, and God alone. We are COMMANDED to pray for them, not just that they make decisions that make us feel better, but that HIS WILL is done. Taking down evil from across the planet is one thing I truly believe is in God's interest.

The Psalmist, David, a man after God's own heart, a man who even had a man killed after he slept with his wife, penned this verse. He repented from his multiple sins. Even though God took his son from him, he fell on his face before a Holy God. But MOST importantly God forgave him, healed him and healed his country.

Psalm 42:5
"Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
HOPE IN GOD, for I shall yet praise Him
For the help of His countenance."

We don't know how God can restore our nation, but HE CAN. Can we ask for God's mercy after all we've done? Can we trust God that HE has a plan and its higher and bolder than we could possibly imagine?