As America approaches its 250th anniversary, we’re entering into greater than a historic milestone — we’re stepping right into a defining second.
Two very totally different visions for our nation are rising, they usually couldn’t be extra opposed.
On one hand, there’s a rising motion of recounting, reclaiming, and rededication. Throughout the nation, believers are gathering to recount God’s faithfulness, reclaim the religious foundations of this nation, and rededicate America to the Lord. This imaginative and prescient acknowledges a easy however profound fact: our freedoms didn’t emerge in a vacuum. They have been cast in a worldview formed by Scripture — one which acknowledged that rights come not from authorities, however from God.
From the earliest days of the Republic, prayer, dependence on divine windfall, and biblical conviction formed the course of historical past. As we strategy 250 years, many sense that this isn’t only a time to have fun — however to return.
Intercessors for America members throughout the nation have been partnering with elected officers at each stage throughout the nation to create proclamations of rededication of cities, counties, state supreme courts and legislative our bodies. These grassroots efforts are leading to a whole lot of gatherings to publicly recount, reclaim, and rededicate these areas of our nation to God.
On the President’s path, the White Home is organizing a nationwide rededication day on Could seventeenth, held on our Nationwide Mall, known as Rededicate 250.
However at the exact same time, a starkly totally different motion is rising.
In cities throughout America, we’re seeing the normalization of what earlier generations would have instantly acknowledged as religious darkness. Public occasions overtly celebrating Satanism are not fringe — they’re organized, promoted, and in some instances even defended underneath the banner of “freedom.” What was as soon as hidden is now being paraded.
On Could 1-2, Baltimore will host the Satanic Temple’s Satanic Revival. These phrases have been chosen fastidiously by organizers. Not simply their yearly assembly, however a “revival” to counter the strikes of God which are taking place throughout the nation. An effort to infuse religious darkness into our nation. Counterfeiting and twisting what the Holy Spirit is doing in America and what our Rededicate 250 occasion is designed to usher in.
Alongside this, there’s an growing push for ideologies basically incompatible with the Structure. Efforts to normalize and implement features of Sharia legislation in American communities symbolize not simply cultural variations, however a direct contradiction to the freedoms enshrined in our founding paperwork — significantly freedom of speech, freedom of faith, and equal safety underneath the legislation. Sharia is a political system that masquerades as a faith. We’re seeing explosive development in Islam all throughout the nation — Bible belt included — in our 250th 12 months.
On the similar time, radical protest actions proceed to realize momentum — many fueled by anger, division, and a need to not reform America, however to dismantle it completely. These actions usually reject the nation’s founding rules outright, viewing them not as one thing to be improved upon, however one thing to be erased.
As is customary, communists shall be holding Could Day protests across the nation. This 12 months, the No Kings protestors shall be becoming a member of in these rallies. It’s not a stretch; many socialist and communist teams are a part of the No Kings collective.
So right here we stand — at 250 years — with a selection.
Will we be a nation that remembers who we’re and whose we’re? Or will we proceed down a path of cultural and religious fragmentation?
This isn’t merely a political divide. It’s a religious one.
Scripture reminds us in Deuteronomy 30:19: “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.”
That selection is earlier than us once more.
The celebration of America’s 250th anniversary is not going to simply be about fireworks and ceremonies. It’ll reveal the path of our nationwide coronary heart. Will or not it’s marked by humility, repentance, and rededication to God? Or will or not it’s overshadowed by rebel, confusion, and competing ideologies that pull us farther from fact?
The reply is not going to be determined solely in Washington, D.C.
Will probably be determined in church buildings, in properties, in communities — and within the hearts of people who select whether or not to face, pray, and act.
I encourage you to actively take part in spiritually preventing for our nation. On this monumental 12 months, the forces of darkness are doing all they’ll to steer America off our Judeo-Christian path. It’s as much as us as believers in Christ to struggle that religious battle.
And maybe, at 250 years, that’s the true invitation earlier than us — not simply to have fun America’s previous, however to contend for its future.
Kris Kubal is the Chief Program Officer at Intercessors for America.
“Well bless their hearts.”
