MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

   One December night in the year 2013, while at the dinner table, I felt led to get my Bible.  I felt prompted to read the Bible to my whole family together before heading to bed instead of separately at each child's bedside.  Without much thought,  I sat back down at the table with my Bible in hand and opened it.  Looking down, I noted the passage Jeremiah 18 opened before me, but I sensed the Holy Spirit direct me to not proceed with it.  So, without much thought, I began to do it this way...

     Holding the place in my Bible, I told my kids to say a book of the Bible, and told them we would read the 3rd book past it.  My oldest daughter said, "Ecclesiastes!"  Thus, we all figured together that the third book after was Jeremiah.  This caught me by surprise, but I stayed quiet. That is when my third born daughter piped up and said, "We've never read that one before!  Let's do it!" 
    Then I said, "Someone mention a chapter, and we will read the 6th chapter after it.  My son called out 12.  So we all came to the conclusion that it was Chapter 18!   My oldest daughter was getting into it, so before I could mention what verse, she called out, "Read verse 5!"  That is where I started, and we read through most of the chapter.

  Jeremiah 18:5-11  
⁵ Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, ⁶ “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel. ⁷ At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it; ⁸ if that nation against which I have spoken turns from its evil, I will ^[a]relent concerning the calamity I planned to bring on it. ⁹ Or at another moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to build up or to plant it; ¹⁰ if it does evil in My sight by not obeying My voice, then I will ^[b]think better of the good with which I had promised to ^[c]bless it. ¹¹ So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you. Oh turn back, each of you from his evil way, and ^[d]reform your ways and your deeds.”’


                                                    May God Bless America!

     I believe God is calling us to pray for our Nation!   I am praying that He will withhold judgement to America because of His people who are praying and repenting.   I am asking that He withhold calamity until His return to take His children home.

FYI,  after this happened, I checked out what Bob Jones said.  God burdened his heart in the same way in the same month!