2/18/2026
"Thy words were found, and I did eat them,
and Thy word unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart,
for I am called by Thy name, O LORD God of hosts."
Jeremiah 15:16
Today is Ash Wednesday which marks the countdown to Easter. It is also day one of the thirty days of Ramadan for the Muslim people. This day began with a 5.5 magnitude earthquake in the ancient Persian city of Shushan in Iran. This is the city where Queen Esther lived and where the enemy of Israel, Haman, was hung on his own gallows meant for Mordecai, Esther's cousin, who raised her and was living in Persia with those exiled from Israel. Haman hated Mordecai, because he was a despised Jew who would not bow to him as he passed by. At that time Haman was the high ranking prime minister to the King of Persia King Ahasuerus, his trusted assistant. The Feast of Purim, celebrated in the month of Adar, which began yesterday, will be be observed March 2-4 with fasting and prayer. The month of Adar is a month of celebration and happiness, in spite of what is happening in Israel and in Iran today.
This is also a time when the young people and certain groups within Israel are fasting and prayer up to Passover for revival in the land. Many are seeking the face of Messiah Christ Jesus in repentance and for salvation for the people who do not yet know Him as Savior and Lord. This is also the American season of Lent leading up to Easter, as I briefly mentioned previously. It is a time when many consecrate a fast, but many give up something, withhold a pleasure or make some offer, in respect and observance of this holy time of the year.
Much is happening in this world that is not consecrated unto a holy God, nor is it a time of seeking peace and revival. It is a time of uproar, chaos, and much confusion. While I stand in the gap for my nation, Israel and the Iranian/Persian people, I stand in the gap representing the persecuted nations of this world. It saddens me, as I know that it saddens God, to see all that is happening, and to receive daily news of devastating events or political decisions or mandates that are contrary to His laws. Watching our government here in the United States of America slowly fall, while our present administration is trying with all its heart to see America return to One Nation Under God, as our forefathers established in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence, I feel the urgency to provide encouragement. I must say sadly again, there are so many educated people who do not know what is written on the pages of these documents, nor do they take the time to look before they cast their votes against a good work, falling much deeper into darkness for the unwillingness to know the foundational beliefs of our country that made it a great nation and a free one. The news that is being broadcast, opening the eyes of those who desire truth, is deplorable, unconscionable, and unholy to the extreme, as are many decisions being made by our government today. Why is it that man prefers to listen to man, and he does not take the time to ask our Sovereign God, or even to take the time to read the documents for which they support. Our enemy is a deceiver, and he parades as an angel of light, deceiving many, even the church leaders who spread the deception ignorantly on to their flock. It is a sorrowful thing to see.
I want to encourage those who are standing with our God and Savior, those who truly want to walk in holiness and righteousness towards God and man, by enclosing the following words from teachers and pastors I have grown to trust and God's Holy Scriptures:
"If we wish to pray with confidence and gladness, then the words of Holy Scripture will have to be the solid basis of our prayer. For here we know that Jesus Christ, the Word of God, teaches us to pray. The words which come from God become, then, the steps on which we find our way to God." Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Would that we might learn from our Lord Jesus how impossible it is to walk with God, to obtain God's blessing or leading, or to do His work joyously and fruitfully, apart from close unbroken fellowship with Him who is ever a living fountain of spiritual life and power!" Andrew Murray
"In the beginning was the Word, and The Word was with God, and the Word was God." John 1:1
"Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.'" John 14:6
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.'" John 13:34-35
"He that abides in Me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit." John 15:9
"All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. God therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Matthew 28:18-20
"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 3:16-17
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9
"This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all." 1 John 1:5
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