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“Why Does America Not Prosper?”

May 21, 2009 on 3:41 pm | In Prophetic Word | No Comments

2 Chronicles 24:20

“ … Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD and do not prosper? …”

Prosperity comes through God’s favor and blessing.

God’s favor and blessing, which bring prosperity to a nation, comes only through serving God and walking according to His word.

2 Chronicles 26:5

“…as long as he sought the LORD, God prospered him.”

- America’s prosperity is shaken because we’ve transgressed God’s commandments and not kept His ways.

- America’s prosperity has not totally plummeted because of the fruit America has produced through outreach and aid given to the needy is still producing its harvest. The fruit of America’s good works are still producing their harvest.

2 Chronicles 25:6-9

“He hired also 100,000 valiant warriors out of Israel for one hundred talents of silver. 7 But a man of God came to him saying, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the LORD is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim. 8 “But if you do go, do it, be strong for the battle; yet God will bring you down before the enemy, for God has power to help and to bring down.” 9 Amaziah said to the man of God, “But what shall we do for the hundred talents which I have given to the troops of Israel?” And the man of God answered, “The LORD has much more to give you than this.”

Israel sought to lean on the power of man to be their help. A man of God spoke out in that hour – God ALONE has the power to help and to bring down.

- America has begun to seek man and not God to be her help

- America has begun to not rely on or depend on the help and aid of God.

- It is time for the church – the man of God – to speak out in this hour, “God ALONE has the power to help and to bring down.”

The king asked the man of God, “What about the money I’ve spent to hire these troops.” The man of God answered, “God has much more to give you than this.”

- Much money has been spent by the American government in hopes of bringing prosperity again to our nation. This money will not and can not bring back the favor and blessing of God – and thus can not bring back true prosperity.

- It is time for the church – the man of God – to rise up and answer the predicament of our nation with these words, “If America will turn her trust again to God, seek His ways, and obey His word God has MUCH MORE favor, blessings and true prosperity to give to her.”

2 Chronicles 25:16-17

“As he was talking with him, the king said to him, “Have we appointed you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped and said, “I know that God has planned to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.” 17 Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other.”

The king told the godly counselors to stop – to cease speaking. He refused to listen and heed godly counsel. He instead listened to, heeded, and took the counsel of the ungodly.

- America has a choice in this hour – who will she listen to and heed – whose counsel will she take?

Our prayers must cry out for America to listen to and heed the voice of God through His prophets.

We still have a season to cry out for the repentance of our nation. We still have a season to cry out for our nation to heed God’s voice and turn.

2 Chronicles 25:19-20

“You said, ‘Behold, you have defeated Edom.’ And your heart has become proud in boasting. Now stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall and Judah with you?” 20 But Amaziah would not listen, for it was from God, that He might deliver them into the hand of Joash because they had sought the gods of Edom.”

The king’s heart had become proud. In his pride he refused to listen.

- America’s heart has become proud in her boasting. Pride has blinded her eyes from seeing her true condition. She sees herself still as the world power and world protector she once was – she is blind to the collapse of her foundation due to moral failure and her failure to keep and obey God’s word.

We still have a season to cry out for America to humble herself before God. We still have a season to cry out for America’s pride to be removed and she listen to and heed God’s voice.

2 Chronicles 25:27

“From the time that Amaziah turned away from following the LORD they conspired against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish and killed him there. “

- From the time of America’s turning from following the Lord the enemy has conspired against her to kill her.

- The enemy hates America because of her good works – the aid she has given to those the enemy has sought to destroy through his acts of destruction.

- The enemy hates America because of the church and the church’s redemptive work which exists in her.

- The enemy seeks for an opportunity – opening – to bring His forces of destruction to America in order to kill her.

- America’s turning from following the ways of the Lord gives the enemy opportunity – makes an opening for him to bring against America what he has conspired to do in order to kill her.

Proverbs 25:28

“a city that is broken into and without walls …”

- America is in danger of being a city without the walls of God’s favor and blessing which are our covering of protection.

- Without God’s covering of protection America will easily be broken into and plundered by the conspiracy of the enemy.

We are indeed in a season that yet remains for America to repent and turn again to God’s ways BEFORE the covering of God’s protective walls are completely removed from her.

We are indeed in a season that yet remains for the prayers of the church to prevail BEFORE the covering of God’s protective walls are completely removed from our nation.

This is a call to prayers of intercession which cry out for America’s repentance.

This is a call to intercessory prayer which cries out for America to listen to and heed God’s prophetic voice in the earth.

Acts 3:19

“Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

If America will repent times of refreshing will indeed come upon her from the presence of the Lord.

If America will repent God’s “much more” favor, blessings, and prosperity will be poured out upon her.

God’s word to the church in this hour

2 Chronicles 7:14

“and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

This is a call for the church to repent and turn from our wicked ways.

This scripture clearly states that FIRST the church must repent and turn from her evil ways THEN God will hear, forgive our sin, and heal our land.

This is a call for the church to repent and turn from our wicked ways so that God will hear our prayers of intercession made on America’s behalf and heal our land.

Let us – the church – repent from our evil ways and turn again to God. After we repent and turn again to God then let us cry out for America to follow suit.

1 Peter 4:17

“For it is time for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?”

The Greek word translated as “judgment” means “a decision for or against.”

The decision for or against repentance begins with us – the household of God. The decision to repent or not repent first lies with us – the church.

If we would see America repent and be healed, we the church must first decide for repentance and repent of our evil ways. The decision for repentance begins – is first – with us – God’s household.

Will we, the church, decide for our own repentance and turning from our evil and wicked ways?

Matthew 11:20

“Then He began to denounce the cities in which most of His miracles were done, because they did not repent.”

We, the church, are the city of our God. We, the Body of Christ, are where the miracles of God are taking place.

Will Jesus denounce us because we refuse to repent of our evil and wicked ways in this hour?

This is a call for the church to repent and turn from our wicked ways.