BBD 09.13.21 Symbol of America (Classic)

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Classic from 2001

The Burning Bush Devotional

13 September 2021

I wrote
this two days after 9/11 – 09.13.01. America is being tested again with the
pandemic the past year and a half which continues. We are being tested with the
Afghanistan disaster and the leaving of Americans behind, Afgans who helped our
troops left behind, our allies left behind, leaving women and children to the mercy of
savages, and the arming of a terrorist regime with $85 billion dollars worth of
the latest weaponry.

The
morality of the country has continued to decline. Two of the most recent things
that come to mind are with the Evangelical Lutheran Church installing a transgender
bishop and Harvard University having a chaplain that is an atheist. Just the
latest of a very long list of the downward spiral of morality in the United
States.

Symbol of America

If My people
who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin and heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14.

The
World Trade Center Towers were in many ways a symbol of the United States of
America. The Towers represented the strength and financial power of the USA.
They were very visible symbols towering above the skyline of the New York City
metropolis. How could those powerful towers ever fall? The United States was
invincible. Nothing could shake the foundations of those towers or of this
country. Sadly, we know the towers have fallen and those who make up the USA
are being tested once again.

As a
symbol of America what has happened to those towers is a symbol of what has
happened to this country. God has removed his protection and blessing from us
as a country. Why? Because the majority of the people in
America no longer have a fear of God. The majority of the people in America no
longer want God’s blessings. The majority of the people in this country have
been growing further and further away from God. There are more people in
America living lives of degeneracy and immorality than there were in Sodom and
Gomorrah. It is not really a surprise that God has removed His blessing and
protection from us.

Let us
turn again to our God. Let us awake from how complacency. We must not deceive
ourselves into thinking that we are invincible. Only through the power of God
has this country been blessed and protected. If this country is to turn again
to God, this is the time. Tomorrow may be too late. The attacks upon this
country are like the preaching of Jonah to Nineveh. God told Nineveh through
Jonah, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown!” It may not be forty days but America
will be overthrown if we do not turn to God in repentance. Even the
wicked Ninevites turned to God, and they were spared from the destruction.

We have
seen reports of prayer vigils across this country since the attack occurred.
Last night was a time when a large number of churches have regularly scheduled
prayer meetings. I was disappointed to see a handful of people come to our
prayer meeting. We have scheduled prayer meetings and held prayer meetings all
across this country. But how many people have actually attended those meetings?
We must turn to God before it is too late. Will you humble yourself,
pray, seek the face of God and turn from your wicked ways? If you
will, God promises to hear, forgive and to heal our land.

Please
pray for those who are still trapped but alive in the rubble of the World Trade
Center Buildings and the Pentagon. Please pray for the strength and safety of
the rescue workers.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan. May
they all look to the Lord for help….

Please pray for the people
of Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to
God. Please pray for protection of our troops especially in Afghanistan and
help for Americans and those who are fearing for their lives there in that
place. May God help them all!!

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who
has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; and Shonda
Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the virus
to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be healed and
for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through this
pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2001

The Burning Bush Devotional

13 September 2021

I wrote
this two days after 9/11 – 09.13.01. America is being tested again with the
pandemic the past year and a half which continues. We are being tested with the
Afghanistan disaster and the leaving of Americans behind, Afgans who helped our
troops left behind, our allies left behind, leaving women and children to the mercy of
savages, and the arming of a terrorist regime with $85 billion dollars worth of
the latest weaponry.

The
morality of the country has continued to decline. Two of the most recent things
that come to mind are with the Evangelical Lutheran Church installing a transgender
bishop and Harvard University having a chaplain that is an atheist. Just the
latest of a very long list of the downward spiral of morality in the United
States.

Symbol of America

If My people
who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin and heal their land. - 2 Chronicles 7:14.

The
World Trade Center Towers were in many ways a symbol of the United States of
America. The Towers represented the strength and financial power of the USA.
They were very visible symbols towering above the skyline of the New York City
metropolis. How could those powerful towers ever fall? The United States was
invincible. Nothing could shake the foundations of those towers or of this
country. Sadly, we know the towers have fallen and those who make up the USA
are being tested once again.

As a
symbol of America what has happened to those towers is a symbol of what has
happened to this country. God has removed his protection and blessing from us
as a country. Why? Because the majority of the people in
America no longer have a fear of God. The majority of the people in America no
longer want God’s blessings. The majority of the people in this country have
been growing further and further away from God. There are more people in
America living lives of degeneracy and immorality than there were in Sodom and
Gomorrah. It is not really a surprise that God has removed His blessing and
protection from us.

Let us
turn again to our God. Let us awake from how complacency. We must not deceive
ourselves into thinking that we are invincible. Only through the power of God
has this country been blessed and protected. If this country is to turn again
to God, this is the time. Tomorrow may be too late. The attacks upon this
country are like the preaching of Jonah to Nineveh. God told Nineveh through
Jonah, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be
overthrown!” It may not be forty days but America
will be overthrown if we do not turn to God in repentance. Even the
wicked Ninevites turned to God, and they were spared from the destruction.

We have
seen reports of prayer vigils across this country since the attack occurred.
Last night was a time when a large number of churches have regularly scheduled
prayer meetings. I was disappointed to see a handful of people come to our
prayer meeting. We have scheduled prayer meetings and held prayer meetings all
across this country. But how many people have actually attended those meetings?
We must turn to God before it is too late. Will you humble yourself,
pray, seek the face of God and turn from your wicked ways? If you
will, God promises to hear, forgive and to heal our land.

Please
pray for those who are still trapped but alive in the rubble of the World Trade
Center Buildings and the Pentagon. Please pray for the strength and safety of
the rescue workers.

Copyright © 1998 - 2021. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998, the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
those first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush website:

http://www.theburningbush.net

The Burning Bush websites are
celebrating 23 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the
Burning Bush Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to subscribers
across the world. At one time there were 18,000 subscribers in more than 70
countries to the devotional but that has now shrunk to around 9,000.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right-hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the Devotionals at
the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of the home page.
Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please pray for comfort and
peace for those who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan and healing for the
wounded. Please pray for the Americans and others left behind in Afghanistan. May
they all look to the Lord for help….

Please pray for the people
of Afghanistan and the people of Haiti. Pray that America would turn back to
God. Please pray for protection of our troops especially in Afghanistan and
help for Americans and those who are fearing for their lives there in that
place. May God help them all!!

Please pray for God to touch and
bring about His will in these lives: Caleb Freeman; Pat S.; Buck & Barbara
Wright; GWEN PRUET; James Perkins and his wife; Vonnie; Evi Porter; Kinsey W; Addison;
JoJo, Bailey and Nicky; Ralph and De Chapman; Hilary; Cody Stahlman; Patsy M.; Todd
Higgins; Brandy and Jadyn’s Dad; John W.; Patricia Rohman and Lisa Butler who
has had a stroke; Scott J.; Karla W.; Clayton T. and Sarah; Clark S.; Lana
Bass; Matthew Collins; Marjean C.; Bradley E.; Fern McVey; Nannie R.; and Shonda
Hutson.

Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the virus
to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be healed and
for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us through this
pandemic.

Please pray for an end to the
rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You
can also post your prayer requests there (Of
course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. 03.18.18 I accepted the call to be the pastor of Fairview
Baptist Church in Elk City, Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com

If you enjoy the devotional please
recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a blank email
to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by sending a
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