Saturday: June 14, 2014, "Wake Up America"

Dear Father in Heaven:  Please forgive me of my sins, and please help me with this special that I believe You want me to write.  Then, Lord, please help me to dispatch it.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

Brothers and sisters, it is rare that I write six times in one week, but our Lord woke me today with a subject on my mind and I was not sure that I was to write it.  All day as I worked around the inside of the house and then as we served family after family who came for food today, it was on my mind.  After serving the families with Dolores, of course, I stayed outside working in my slow pace until about 5:45 PM.  Came in, laid across the bed, and I just could not rest.  God reminded me that I did not write this as of now.  So let me get started.

Saturday, June 14, 2014, "Wake Up America"

Ephesians 5:14B - "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."  (NIV)

2 Chronicles 7:14 - If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will their land.  (NIV)

Today is June 14, 2014, and it is FLAG DAY here in America.  It is also the 239th Birthday of the United States Army.  And while all this is going on, what are some of the things I am hearing?  Put it in their backyard, not mine.  What am I talking about?  Do you see the fighting down in Lancaster County because no one wants a pipeline through their land?  But it would be okay if it were in my backyard.  The pipeline will carry gas that would  help everyone in America.  I say my backyard as an example.  Some time ago Wal-Mart wanted to build in Lower Paxton Township.  They would have purchased Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church and their many buildings that make up their school.  The price was Wal-Mart was going to build them a new Church and school on land they owned in West Hanover Township.  A few people fought it until Wal-Mart pulled out.  No new Church and no new school.  Maybe later??

You can build that Wal-Mart in some other person's backyard, but for gosh sake don't put it in mine.  Jobs are needed all over the place, and in our area also.  A big warehouse was to be built along Route 81. It would bring needed jobs to the area.  Oh, no, don't build that place here, do not build it here, put it in some other person's backyard.  In the meantime, our president will not sign for a pipeline that has been cleared to run from our north border to the south to carry oil to be refined.  In the meantime, war has started up again in Iraq, and Iran is to go in and help, that for sure will cause the cost of oil to go up, but that is okay, I guess, but on that day, the big jet is in the air from Washington, DC, to California so that our president can play golf and attend a fund-raising event.  Now I know he has controls and phones, etc., in the plane, but can we not take care of business?  Please pray for him as he leads the country.  Pray hard.

When the pipeline gets shut down in Iraq, Iran, etc., when we cannot get a drop of oil out of those countries and we cannot put our own fighter jets in the air, maybe then people will say, wow, we should have built these things before.  Then after they get all things ready with the people the Townships, Counties, Cities, States, and even the Federal Governments line up with regulations that would have caused Noah enough problems that he might be still working on the Ark today.

Don't build it here, there is one speckled frog that lives here.  Don't put a big dam across the river to produce electric for it will flood out an island 20 miles up the river and a duck will lose his home.  They forget ducks fly and will find another place or live on the water, even in the winter.

Don't cut down those trees to make paper, even though they must replant the trees to stay in business.  Don't read the Bible in school, don't pledge the American Flag, it has UNDER GOD in it.  Don't do this, don't do that.

"WAKE UP AMERICA."  I said, "WAKE UP AMERICA."  Yes, brothers and sisters, it is time we wake up and we TURN BACK TO GOD and humble ourselves as the Bible tells us to do, as the inspired word of God tells us to do and then and only then will GOD HEAL OUR LAND.

We have people aborting children, yes, they are children, they are not a nothing in the womb, they are children, children of God.  We have men getting married to men, women getting married to women, we have people  having their parts removed or added to, and you know what I mean on that.  "WAKE UP AMERICA."  Each day we see groups of people who say they have no money riding buses to the Capitol steps to ask for more handouts.  "WAKE UP AMERICA."  You able-bodied people, get a job, and let the able-bodied take care of those who CANNOT work, and let those who just refuse to go to work, not eat as the Bible tells us.

I was contacted just two days ago by a grandparent of a 15-year old asking me where he might find a job.  I said McDonald's might hire him for the summer, and his grandmother said he does not want to work at one of those places.  People want what they want.  People, before you go for a job interview, stand in front of a mirror, take a good look, maybe someone will hire you if you look good.

"Wake Up America."  It is time for people to get out of the wagon and help pull and push.  There are more people going along for the ride than there are pulling and pushing that wagon.  If the pipeline is going to go behind your home, don't fight it, make some food and feed those workers.

If people years ago were to have fought things as today, we would still be like they were in Green Acres.  We would still be digging a hold in the yard and building a building on top of it.  Hey, that is called an outhouse, and if people would have fought it all, we would not have electric, or a phone, or TV, or if you had them yo would not have power to run them and you would have to fill a tub to take a bath, and yes, you would pump the water by hand and heat the water on a wood stove.  Oh, you cannot cut down the tree, I forgot.

America is a country made up of people of all colors, races, and yes, even religions, and while I want everyone to love Jesus, and I will work the rest of my life telling people that I love Jesus, I am still going to love and respect all people because that is what GOD WANTS US TO DO:  Love each person, but not their sins.

Tomorrow is Fathers' Day.  If you wake up and you can still see out your window, go out and thank God for a great day and a great country.  Maybe you should get on your knees and thank God and give the green grass a kiss for you are still on top of it.

While I am writing this, an aircraft carrier with some escorts are heading to the area near Iraq.  Next time you see a man or woman in a uniform of our country, tell them thanks, maybe buy them lunch, shake their hand, GIVE THEM A HUG.

"Wake Up America."  Our flag is still waving, but for how long?  In the near future we will have a holiday, people will call it the 4th of July.  Please call it what it is, "Independence Day."  It is the birthday of our Nation.  When our flag passes by, unless you cannot stand, stand up and put your hand over your heart.

"WAKE UP AMERICA."  LOVE OUR COUNTRY OR GET THE HELL OUT.  Yes, I said that, and I will say it again.  Love our country or get the hell out.  However, I would prefer you love  it so that I can someday see you and give you a hug.  And if I don't see you here and you are a believer in Jesus, I will see you at His feet.

"WAKE UP AMERICA."

Pastor Dan Lehman
June 14, 2014