Write His Answer

Guest Blog from
GPCWC Faculty Member
Becky Spencer

How my heart grieves for our nation! I read in Ezekiel this morning where God said He looked for someone to build a wall, for a man to stand in the gap–but He couldn’t find anyone.

I asked Him what He meant; Ezekiel wrote this during the 70 year captivity, but it referred to when Israel was being warned. Jeremiah was a man weeping and praying and warning over Israel, yet that one man wasn’t enough.

When a nation/culture has been infiltrated with great waves of evil, one man can’t stand against it enough to change the direction they’re heading. Not when the prophets are prophesying lies, the priests are fleecing the people, the princes are also taking advantage of everyone for gain, and the papas have neglected their duty to teach their children God’s holy ways.

We can still build a wall, but it will be more for our own families, churches, and communities while there is still a little crack of daylight seeping through. We can still stand in the gap through intercession.

Building the wall–edifying ourselves in our most holy faith and taking care how we build on the foundation laid, which is Jesus Christ. Teaching line upon line, precept upon precept.

When it has been neglected and twisted for so long, what will it take to sway a culture? They don’t believe the Bible is God’s Word, so it holds no significance to them–certainly not enough to change.

It still has to happen one person at a time as we love them in Jesus’ Name and teach those who have ears to hear. Not everyone trapped in this junk is hateful to the Name. Some are simply ignorant, but hungry.

Too many have become angry and militant, even those who once claimed to love Him.

Hope and Rick [see below], both of your sessions will be well worth attending. Hope, you are SO right on that we must prepare; persecution isn’t coming–it’s already here and heating up.

Marlene, thank you for making this kind of teaching available at the conferences. It’s so relevant, and we need many to pick up their pens as ready swords.
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Becky Spencer is ministering in Swaziland July 8-23. A kingdom of a million people with the highest incidence of AIDS in the world. Experts estimate that almost half of the population is stricken with the disease. About 200,000 children have been stripped of their parents. And 20% of the children in this kingdom have to fend for themselves with no adult present to feed them or send them to school. To learn more about Becky and Grand Staff Ministries click here.

Because we’re living in critical days, the July 31 – August 3 Greater Philly Christian Writers Conference is offering these special two-hour sessions on Thursday, August 1. Concerned Christians from the community (not just those who consider themselves to be writers) are encouraged to come to one or more. For more info and to register click here.

Prepare for Persecution – C. Hope Flinchbaugh (10:00 am – noon)
More Christians have died for their faith in the last century than in the previous 19 centuries combined. The Christian church in America has not walked this way before, but Jesus has promised that we will overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Is God calling you to “write His answer” for Christians in the last days? Bring your pen!

A Culture in Peril – Rick Marschall (1:00 – 3:00 pm)
What can one Christian do in the face of our nation’s spiritual crisis? Rather than a traditional lecture, this is a forum where we will grieve for our nation’s ills and encourage each other as God’s warriors to defend biblical principles. You’ll come away with a clearer idea of what you can do, where you are, with what you have!

Compassion, Justice, Advocacy – Steven Lawson (3:30 – 5:30)
Are you concerned about human trafficking, orphans, abortion, the poor, racism, the handicapped, the hungry, the oppressed, and so much more than is close to the heart and call of Jesus? If God has given you a burden to be an advocate, to tell a story, or make a cause or issue known, let’s discover how we can be most effective.