Uzziah Must Die!

Isaiah 6:1 

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

Uzziah’s successes and power made him prideful and he forgot the source of his help.  He became full of himself.  He felt he could do anything he wanted to, including the things God’s law specifically said he shouldn’t. When he was reprimanded for doing wrong, he got angry instead repenting. 

Eventually, Uzziah lost the position and authority he reveled in as king.

No matter how good it looks or sounds, if the Lord isn’t at the foundation, it will fail.

Uzziah is anything/person influencing our lives more than God.  This results in our eyes not being focused on God (the source of help and success) but on the thing/person.  When this happens, the thing/person becomes our priority and the controller of our heart.

A living and thriving Uzziah results in obstructed vision that has us seeing good as evil and evil as good.  Right as wrong and wrong as right.  Hate as love and love as unimportant.  We think our vision is clear, but we can’t see truth and what’s important.

When Uzziah dies, our vision becomes clear and we refocus on and seek the source: God and everything He is.

Uzziah must die!

 

Shake Us!

 

If you’re sensitive to what’s happening in the atmosphere, you are probably feeling an urgency right now. The prayer, “Oh, God help us!” has been ringing and rising from deep within.

This morning when my feet hit the floor, I heard the cry, “Lord, send revival!”

Lord, shake us with a revival on the level of the one that flamed on Azusa Street.

Shake us until everything that has been exalted above You is cast down.

Shake us until our thoughts become captive and washed by Your Word.

Lord, send revival!

Shake us until crooked thoughts become straight.

Shake us until we hunger and thirst for our first love for You.

Shake us until scales fall from eyes and right sight is restored.

Lord, send revival!

Shake us until cracks of division become unity.

Shake us until hate is consumed by fire.

Shake us until Your love reignites in us.

Lord, send revival!

Shake us until we see through the camouflage of the enemy.

Shake us until the sentinels retake their posts.

Shake us until the frontline warriors re-form with impenetrable strength.

Lord, send revival!

Shake us until Your standard waves high.

Shake us until spiritual barricades are re-erected.

Shake us until isms and schisms are abandoned for Your way.

Lord, send revival!

Shake us until Your desires become ours.

Shake us until gifts are stirred up, sharpened, and used as intended.

Shake us…

Oh, God help us and send revival!

The Swap

“How can a black person be a Democrat when the Democratic party wanted to keep them in slavery?”

Sounds like a profound question, right?  It’s not.  The answer is simple when you look at the evolution of the Democratic and Republican parties.

The Republican party was founded to fight white supremacy. The party stood for virtue and independent liberty.  It crusaded to abolish corruption.  Sounds good, right?  I can get with that—Abraham Lincoln’s party.  Black America identified with that party.

But then. Over time, the party began to morph into today’s Republican party.  In the late 1920s, Black America realized their political party no longer prioritized their interests and looked for an answer.  At the same time, the Democratic party started to slowly change and address the plight of Black America.  This initiated a party realignment.  From the perspective of most of Black America, the root cause of the exodus hasn’t changed since the shift began.

Today’s Republican party is NOT President Lincoln’s party.  Not by a long shot. 

The party founded to fight white supremacy is now the identifying party of white supremacists.  Self-proclaimed neo-Nazis and white nationalists have run for public office on the Republican ticket.  Don’t take my word for it.  Research it.  Sorry, but that’s not something Black America takes lightly…at all.  I am aware that some Republicans also find the swap in ideologies troubling.   

To be honest, I don’t care about your party affiliation.  Vote for and align yourself with whomever you want to, but don’t judge my relationship with Christ by YOUR religion—system of beliefs—for there is a difference between having a religion and having a relationship with Christ.  That's a juicy subject all by itself.  Now, if you want to talk Word…

This is not an accusation or persuasion, but an attempted explanation.  In the words of the current President, “It is, what it is...”