When things are going well, Christians tend to fall asleep and stop being watchmen on the wall.
O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the LORD. Give the LORD no rest until he completes his work…. (Isaiah 62:6 NLT)
It happened when King George tried to milk the colonies of all their wealth. When the colonies declared their independence, they couldn’t win a war. They lacked the manpower, training, and weapons.
Only by turning to God in prayer and worship and beseeching His intervention did they succeed.
A Repeated Pattern Today
This is the pattern of our history: a great crisis followed by a great awakening unto God, followed by a lethargy and turning away from God. Today, we are again in a desperate crisis needing God’s intervention.
The rights and voice of Christians are being systematically silenced.
Worldwide, Christians are persecuted, and hundreds are slaughtered each day. In America, Churches are bombed. Christians are murdered. Babies are being sacrificed on the altars of Moloch and Baal. God’s rainbow, the mark of His covenant, has been stolen by groups advocating sexual deviancy.
The good news is that America is not doomed. Her greatest days are just ahead. God has said so. America was born with a divine destiny, appointed to be a city on a hill, shining the light of Christ upon all nations of the world, proclaiming salvation.
That destiny is still ahead of her. God is speaking that message today. His prophets are proclaiming it. He has called many to become watchmen on the walls, interceding through prayer and fasting. God is mightily at work.
The Example of George Washington Carver
Glenn Clark records a conversation he had with Dr. George Washington Carver. This conversation is recorded in Glenn Clark’s book, The Man Who Talks with Flowers.
The following is an excerpt by Glenn Clark, founder of The Camps Farthest Out, telling of this amazing conversation he had with Dr. George Washington Carver.
Dr. Carver had just given a talk at Macalester College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Clark was taking him to the station for his return to Tuskegee. As they rode, Dr. Carver said, “Last night as I rode to the auditorium, I was holding a little white flower in my hand all the way, and in the silence while we rode, I was talking to it, and it was talking to me.
“It told me some wonderful things. And the flowers have never failed to tell me the truth. It told me that there is going to be a great spiritual awakening in the world, and it is going to come from people up here, from people connected with you and me, from plain, simple people who know – not merely believe – but actually know that God answers prayer.
“It is going to be a great revival of Christianity, not a revival of religion. We can have religion and still have wars. But this is to be a of true Christianity. It is going to rise from the laymen, from men who are going about their work and putting God into what they do, from men who believe in prayer, and who want to make God real to mankind.”
Dr. Clark added, “And because I know that George Washington Carver knows how to talk with the flowers, and, because I know that flowers know how to talk with him, I know that this prophecy is going to come true.”
The ball is in the court of Christians Today. We must pray harder than we have ever prayed before. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism in the 1750s, is credited with saying that “It seems God cannot act until a man asks Him.” God needs us and our prayers to bring in an Awakening unto God.
Rise up, oh you people of God!
(Reference: Clark, G. (2013). The Man Who Talks with the Flowers – the intimate life story of Dr. George Washington Carver. Read Books Ltd.)
