I’m not sure where the term “double down” comes from. In the back of my mind there is this thought that it is a gambling term which somehow means that you multiply your bets. My creative imagination tells me that there’s a situation in playing blackjack where you can divide your cards into two piles. Is it imagination or memory? That part is not important.
What is important is that people who have been praying for the revival of our country and a change of direction need to not get complacent. We are now at the point where we need to pray even more. This morning on the day after the inauguration I realized that we need to double down in our prayers. What brought this home to me? What’s the way in which God scheduled me to be reading Proverbs 21 and found this as the first verse,
Proverbs 21:1 (KJV) The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.I noticed that Donald Trump made several mentions of how God was important to our progress as a nation, and how God is going to use him. All that was good. I believe he meant it. I believe he feels the hand of God upon him. I don’t know that he has become what we might call a “true believer.” If not, I hope that day comes, but until it does, or if it has, we need to double down in our prayers for him.
We feel we took a step forward by winning the election. We’re hearing the kind of things that we need to hear or want to hear. We need to make sure we don’t submit to hubris and start thinking we have arrived, and that we are specially blessed by God at the expense of other people. We need to pray that God‘s will would be done.
As we pray for the president, we need to pray for ourselves and for the church. We need to double down in all areas. America is not the chosen nation in the sense that Israel was chosen by God and received a special mandate directly. In spite of that we can be used of God, and we want to keep this nation as close to the center of his will as possible. It makes me wonder how the world might be different, if righteousness has taken hold of Sodom or of Egypt or of any other political power in history. Where would the world be today if Israel had been faithful?
God bless America. Pray that we would be a part of that blessing.
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