Praying Patriots: How God’s Remnant Can Save America From Evil Agendas

Is there hope for America? Yes, there is.

First, the reality of the situation at the root of our problem is deeply spiritual. There is simply no avoiding it, and it impacts all of us, believers in God or not. As you will see later, even unbelievers benefit with more freedom when there is spiritual freedom.

Of course, our adversaries bark the opposite, but they are missing the mark. Proverbs couldn’t be any clearer: “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn” (Proverbs 29:2 KJV). The word “righteous” here in the Hebrew is tsadeq, which means “to be just or righteous,” including the government. There is a just and godly way to exercise government, and there is a wicked way.

When the righteous are in leadership, there is liberty. When the wicked rule, instead of freedom there is tyranny and the labeling of good as evil and evil as good. We seem to be witnessing the latter. It appears the evil-desired endgame is total control and manipulation. Matthew Henry wrote in his commentary about this Scripture in Proverbs 29:2, “The people have cause to rejoice or mourn, as their rulers are righteous or wicked. Righteous men walk in liberty, and walk in safety. The scornful mock at things sacred and serious. Men who promote religion, which is true wisdom, turn away the wrath of God.”

We think it’s safe to say that the entities trying to kill America scornfully mock things sacred and serious, while pushing for legislation that celebrates overt wickedness. One example is the Drag Queen Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who mock holiness, while doing vile acts dressed in drag as nuns.

This doesn’t mean a righteous leader has to be particularly religious, but that he or she is governing by godly principles. Some leaders, for example, may or may not be spiritual people, but might be pro-freedom of religion, speech, the Second Amendment, and other freedoms we hold dear as Americans. Policies that are supported more often than not lined up with the Judeo-Christian worldview on which this nation was founded. Some even supported Israel.

Throughout the Bible, God used secular leaders to protect and promote His people. Think of Nehemiah. A trusted cupbearer to the king, he heard his hometown of Jerusalem was in trouble because of broken-down walls. He cried out to God, and instead of saying, “I’m just a cupbearer,” he said, “Lord, send me.” This ordinary man stepped up to lead the rebuilding of the Jerusalem wall and accomplished in 52 days what others couldn’t do in years.

America is desperate for Nehemiahs. What is not talked about much, however, is that Nehemiah’s funding, backing, and military protection came from a secular leader, King Artaxerxes I. As those like Nehemiah begin to step up, the wrath of God can be turned away from America and freedom will reign. Yes, this is a spiritual problem requiring spiritual warfare that manifests in practical actions and solutions.

The apostle Paul wrote, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places” (Ephesians 6:12 NKJV). There are principalities and hordes of demonic spirits that are attempting to dismantle America’s righteous foundation and destroy her God-given identity. Our battle, first and foremost, is not against people; but as the Bible says, is against evil principalities and powers.

Another Scripture says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 NKJV).

In the Old Testament, Daniel, like Nehemiah, was in deep mourning about the state and future of his nation. He had fasted and prayed for three weeks when an angel appeared to him in a vision and said, “Since the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them. But the prince of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with the king of Persia” (Daniel 10:12-13 NIV).

What’s amazing about this passage is it gives a peek into the activity of principalities and powers. Ellicott’s Bible Commentary on Daniel 10:13 says, “Perhaps no single verse in the whole of the Scriptures speaks more clearly than this upon the invisible powers which rule and influence nations.”3 The spiritual realities have not changed. There is an evil entity behind the evil that is set on killing America. How else can you explain the overt depravity in the face of God? But God’s hand was on our establishment of our covenant, nation and America is part of God’s divine plan. This is why the warfare has been so intense. Why do we believe that? There are many reasons written in our history and founding documents.

To start with, on April 29, 1607, Robert Hunt landed on a beach in Virginia that we now call Cape Henry. He instructed the landing party to cut out a portion of the ship’s beams from the hull. Notice the commitment level here. Cutting pieces out of the hull of your ship is not exactly a good thing to do, yet they did it. The landing party then took those timbers, erected a cross, and drove it into the beachhead proclaiming this land for Christ, king and country.

Those in positions of greatest power today are using language that is diametrically opposed to our nation’s foundational intentions to promote a socialist, anti-God worldview. Our cries for revival may seem to be drowned out by the loud evil agendas of hatred and control, but we know that God heard Robert Hunt and his men on that day, as they declared this nation belonged to the Lord. God took them seriously and hasn’t forgotten.

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 and The Declaration of Independence in 1776 further reiterate that we are a people who have sought to follow God. Following are some direct quotes from these founding documents.

The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World on the Mayflower. Throughout the short document, it’s obvious that the intention was to establish a nation based on Christian values. The document opens with, “In the name of God, Amen.” It continues with, “…by the Grace of God…Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith…in the Presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid….”

A later journal, with several authors, is a report of the voyage and first year of the settlement at Plymouth, called Mourt’s Relation. John Robinson, pastor to the Pilgrims while they were still in Holland before their journey, provided the model for the Mayflower Compact and was one of the leaders in planning for the journey. He was also a religious contributor and legal justifier of the colony described in Mourt’s Relation. He counseled the Pilgrims to choose as leaders those who, “diligently promote the common good,” and not to “begrudge in them the ordinariness of their persons, but God’s ordinance for your good.”

When the 13 states of America finally decided to break away from Great Britain, The Declaration of Independence was written. The Revolutionary War helped complete the final break from Britain and birth of the new, independent nation. It was to be established on the founder’s core beliefs: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness all come from the Creator.

Throughout history, everywhere that “no God” was promoted, tyranny and oppression followed. Why is it that throughout modern history, whenever totalitarian governments invaded a nation, almost always the first thing they did was confiscate Bibles and imprison or kill Christians and Jews? It’s because God’s enemy knows that true freedom and liberty come from God. You can’t control people who know they are “endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights.”

In the opening paragraph of The Declaration of Independence, we find the words, “the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” This is important because the Bible tells us in Romans 2:14-15 that the Gentiles, who did not have God’s written law, by nature did the things prescribed by the law of God. And it shows the law of God is written on the human heart.

Part of the genius in the founding of America was it was based on natural law. The Declaration of Independence declared “these truths to be self-evident” because all of us are made in the image of God and we have the law of God written on our hearts. For instance, everybody knows internally that men and women are different, that it’s wrong to lie, to cheat, and to slander. It’s wrong to commit murder, and so on. That’s natural law.

So it’s quite clear what our founding fathers had in mind as they established our beloved nation. This is why those who are out to kill America want to rewrite our founding documents. China is currently rewriting the Bible and teaching it in their schools. As we pen this blog, there is a massive effort by the progressives to change the Constitution, and it is gaining support.

This brings to mind former California Governor Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address January 5, 1967. He spoke of our foundation of freedom: “Perhaps you and I have lived too long with this miracle to properly be appreciative,” Reagan cautioned. “Freedom,” he continued, “is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”8 Let those last few words sink in: “those in world history who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.”

Despite this sobering fact, many Americans today, including countless elected officials, have lost the gravity of the founding documents and the godly principles that our nation was established upon. This is critical because the core principle of every one of those documents is freedom.

But know this. God is not in a panic. He’s very much at work. He is for America and is not trying to come up with a response to the evil that has been unleashed in her. He’s cleansing the mold. Long before this chaos began, God was already positioning His Nehemiahs and Davids and Mordecais and Esthers for such a time as this. God has always had a remnant of praying people whose hearts He has gripped, who’ve taken their place working with Holy Spirit to see that America stayed in alignment with His purposes.

God’s redemptive plan for America is already set in motion; and as we respond to opportunities to step up and take our places, we will see His plan get the best of the enemy’s schemes. The enemy of our souls has schemes, but we are not unaware, “in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes” (2 Corinthians 2:11 NIV).

Though it sometimes seems like evil is winning, it’s not too late. For sure, it will take standing in faith, trusting God, and a lot of wrestling in spiritual warfare, but we can wrestle control in prayer back from the administrators of darkness. Understand, however, spiritual warfare is more than being locked in our prayer closets. That’s important, but engaging in spiritual warfare more often than not results in practical physical actions, steps, and assignments. What happens in the spiritual realm establishes itself in the natural world (see James 2:20).