It is amazing how the United States has been transformed from the darkness of evil since the presidential election in November. From court decisions to government reports, areas of injustice that were condoned and forced upon Americans are being exposed for the evil they are. This growing phenomenon is reflective of when the righteous stand in the gap on behalf of what is right and good, the LORD’s hand is mighty.

There has been a shift that took place the day that Donald Trump was saved from an assassin’s bullet. Truly a “hand of God” moment recognized by many. Trump’s iconic response of standing tall and shaking his fist in the air, shouting “Fight, Fight, Fight,” fractured a principality.

It’s not only the newfound energy of hope that is being experienced by those of us who felt the oppression of the rulers of darkness over us; there’s something much deeper that is shaking the timbers of tyranny at its foundation. Court decisions have exonerated those who were targeted with false election interference charges; restored the rights of some who were discriminated against during COVID; overturned lawfare against Trump and others; halted government overreach efforts; and exposed politically-motivated judges and prosecutors.

The US justice system is slow, but eventually, it serves the people. The timing is interesting that these decisions are now culminating years after they occurred.

Reports are also exposing the darkness. Those of us who were marginalized by reporting the truth about COVID are now vindicated by the House Select Committee on COVID. That committee report dispelled nearly every claim that the government and the news media made about the COVID vaccine, COVID origins, government lockdowns, mandates, and efforts to silence the truth. It exposed those who perpetrated a massive and horrendous human experiment upon the public that resulted in the deaths of over a million Americans and millions more around the world.

The recent report on FBI involvement on January 6 added another piece of the “administrative state” puzzle in frustrating the will and freedom of the people. We have yet to see the accountability of those responsible, but it should be foremost in our prayers for this nation.

The LORD also has exposed government financial support of terrorists bent on the genocide of the Jewish people. Payments in the millions to terrorists in Gaza, Yemen, and Iran are now very public, begging for accountability.

The majority of the American people were fed up with living in the darkness of the deep state and the Democratic Party radicals. We became an Ezekiel 22:30 people where the LORD was seeking someone to stand, “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.” This time, however, he found 74 million who stood in the gap for America.

There is still much injustice that needs correcting, and the path forward will not be easy, but be exhorted to keep praying and exposing the darkness.

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We have all experienced times when our situation seemed impossible. The lesson I have learned through many such trials is to press into the Lord and never let go.

This lesson is informed by the story of Jacob in Genesis 32–36. We pick it up where Jacob spent the night alone in an unspecified place, fearing an attack by his brother Esau. The text tells us that a “man” wrestled with Jacob until daybreak. Jacob called the place Peni’el (face of God), “Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life was spared” (32:30).  His adversary says as much. The man said, “From now on, you will no longer be called Ya’akov, but Isra’el because you have shown your strength to both God and men, and have prevailed” (32:28).

The interpretation of these verses is key to understanding the Jewish people. Jacob was given the name that his descendants would carry throughout eternity. The people of the covenant are called “the children of Israel,” it was only after the Assyrian defeat of the Northern Kingdom that those that remained were called Judah (the Southern Kingdom) and Yehudim, or Jews, in English. Names in the Torah, or those given by God, are meant to convey a person’s character or calling. Jacob’s new name also contains the clue to who his descendants would be—the people who struggled with God and with men yet prevailed.

And so it is today still! Jacob’s breakthrough occurred after the struggle when the Angel touched his hip and dislocated it, then Jacob refused to let go until the “man” blessed him.

It was as if the man was saying that Jacob had struggled to take the place of Esau. He held onto Esau’s heel. In the future, Jacob will let go of Esau and hold onto God— he will hold onto God, and God will never let go of Jacob.

The next day, a whole new Jacob emerges. Jacob returned the blessing he took from Esau by giving Esau the wealth of his flocks, and also the power by bowing seven times and repeatedly calling Esau “my lord” (Genesis 27:29). This was the blessing Isaac had originally meant for Esau when he was blind and couldn’t see Jacob’s face. Jacob’s true blessing that Isaac gave him before he left to go to Mesopotamia, however, had nothing to do with wealth or power. It was about land and descendants of the covenant (Genesis 28:3-4). Jacob did not have to become Esau to receive that blessing. Jacob just had to be himself.

Though Jacob limped from his encounter with God, he learned that his was an alternate and more glorious destiny, another face, so to speak—the face he saw reflected in the Face of God when he wrestled with Him and refused to let go.

And so it is with us as followers of Messiah, as stated in 2 Corinthians 3:18, “So all of us, with faces unveiled, see as in a mirror the glory of the Lord; and we are being changed into his very image, from one degree of glory to the next, by ADONAI the Spirit.”

Whenever you face difficulty or need wisdom or clarity, call on the name of the LORD. And keep calling until you have your answer. Know who you are and whose you are. Never doubt God’s love and blessings for you. Hold fast, and never let go!

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