BVOV Magazine 2013 - present

Believers to the Ballot Box! There is much that “good men” can do to stop the triumph of evil. And one of the most important is to vote, and to vote biblically. Founding Father Noah Webster delivered this admonition: “Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21].... If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted.... If government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.” And Charles Finney, a prominent minister in the early 1800s, succinctly declared: “The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics or the Lord will curse them.... God cannot sustain this free and blessed country which we love and pray for unless the Church will take right ground.” It is time to believe and to behave differently. We are not a minority—we are the majority! It is time to declare at the ballot box that we will no longer allow officials who embrace the values of the 6% who do not believe in God to repeal the rights of the 94% who do. We must remove officials who do not comply with traditional, historical and biblical principles and replace them with those who do. Our vote does count! We must regain the conviction that biblical principles are vital to national success, and be willing to pursue their reinstatement. In recent decades, we have wrongly allowed the very principles which produced morality and virtue, and thus national stability, to be restricted in public life. We need once again to recognize the truth so well understood by George Washington that: “The propitious [favorable] smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” We must become convinced of the principle expressed by Abraham Lincoln and then accept the civic responsibilities implied by his statement: “The truth announced in the Holy Scripture, and proven by all history [is] that, ‘Those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.’” V David Barton is the founder and president of WallBuilders, a pro-family organization which seeks to educate grassroots society to rebuild America’s constitutional, moral and religious foundations. For more information go to wallbuilders.com. ********************************************* ********************************************* ********************************************* Prayers With Punch Start With Position by Terri Copeland Pearsons Imagine getting up early one morning to get away to your prayer closet. You slip out of bed, feel your way through the dark and somewhat sluggishly settle in to that familiar place where you “meet with God” for a few quiet moments before the sun comes up. This morning, however, is not the same. You gently turn the knob, as you’ve done so many times before, and open the door for a time of intimacy with Him. But this time you’re met with a blasting voice that knocks you to your face. When you finally come to your senses, that same voice—which sounds like the waters of a rushing, mighty river—beckons you, “Come up!” Come up...to where? your mind asks. Suddenly, you’re jolted again. Intense, blazing torches and flashes of lightning fill the air, followed by peals of thunder and lingering rumblings. Visions of kingly men in golden crowns and science-fiction-like creatures cause you to blink your eyes to see if this is all real. But you know it’s real the moment your eyes settle on the one central figure, as described by the Apostle John: BVOV : 23

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