One of the most significant architecture of our modern world is the American Statue of Liberty located at Liberty Island in New York City.
To visitors and passersby, it may mean just a neoclassic architectural piece of world class standard. But, to Native Americans and today's Americans it represents freedom from slavery of hundreds of years.
History has it that the first batch of freed slaves on it's route to the new world, which is today America, landed on the New York harbor. In commemoration of this very important event in history, the American Statue of Liberty was erected to become the symbol of hope for a people that have been under slavery for hundreds of years.
Just like the children of Israel with a mighty hand, God gathered the slaves from all over the western world out of the hands of their task masters with one declaration and brought them home to the new world, a place which they will later call home land.
Though free, America has sold their freedom to strange gods such as gods of sex, lust, drugs, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, to mention a few. The high life is the culture, a life in the fast lane -- exotic cars, credit cards all fueled by their passion for the good life. They have become rebels and haters of God, and to this end they have been permitted to take on a reprobate mind, in that, everything good and normal has become abnormal. Homosexuality and single parenthood have taken the place of family and marriage for those who care.
Marriage has become a contract arrangement where one can marry and divorce at the snap of the finger. These strange gods, headed by Satan himself, have turned a once free people into deeper slavery and captivity.
America, the beauty of the world, the land of the free whose founding fathers built on the slogan, "in God we trust," has today become a by-word like the Israel of yesterday -- a desolate waste, removing Christ from the core values of her national life. Same has sank deeper and deeper into sin to include tax payers' money, funds abortion mills, and teenage pregnancy. All of which have become normal while promiscuity and drugs characterizes the night life. Revival and tent crusades have become forgotten.
But, I see a light rising showing that all hope is not lost. I see the vision of the prophet Isiah in the Book of Isaiah in chapter 60 coming to fruition with regards to America. All hope is not lost as a people. As one nation under God, we can retrace our steps, we can rend our hearts and cry out to God. The bible says, "if My people that are called by My name will humble themselves and pray, I will hear from heaven and I will heal their land.
Dearly beloved, we can get it right. All we need to do is repent and believe the gospel by simply cleaning up our lives and make a conscious decision to live for Christ.
Listen, my beloved Americans, Nineveh in the bible, was doomed for destruction just like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. But, when the prophet Jonah called them to repentance, they did it whole heartedly and their souls and their nation were saved.
Dearly beloved, the Statue of Liberty is only a historic monument. Actual freedom is a choice. Let us make that choice today and leave every bondage and captivity behind. I tell you my brothers and sisters, it doesn't matter how far deep you have gone, it doesn't matter how messed up your life has become, you can make it right. If I make it right and you make it right, then we will be reborn to be truly a free America.
America cannot change until you and I make that conscious decision to live right for Christ, and I tell you only real men and women can make America truly free. A real man or woman is that man or woman living for Christ.
Dearly beloved, if you are not living for Christ, then I plead with you to go down on your knees right now and say the sinner's prayer below and I assure you we can see the America of our dreams again. Amen.
VOZI Ministries invites you and anyone you know to contact us with questions, comments, anything that's on your heart. God bless you.
Shalom,
Bro. John Ifeanyichukwu
Servant of God
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