By James Wilson
The Lord gave me a word for the nation on a 2009 visit to the Alamo. He resurrected this word on my recent visit to the capitols of seven Midwestern states when leaders asked if I had a prophetic word for them. The Alamo word came at once to mind.
It was my only day off and I asked to visit the Alamo. When we arrived the Lord spoke clearly – He does that – saying I was here to pray fulfillment of His original purposes in this fortress that fought off a Mexican army more than twenty times the size of its garrison for thirteen days before inspiring the Texas Revolution to victory weeks later. He said I could pray without knowing purposes He would reveal when He was ready.
This is an important reality to embrace – as Christians and as Americans. It is not all about what we know and what we know how to do. We can place our faith in the ability of God to speak rather than in our ability to hear and interpret and so forth. If He has something we need to know He is quite capable of communicating it. But we can also trust Him and pray His will be done before outside knowing. If we choose to obey Him instead of insisting He adjust to our thinking.
He did reveal His purposes – all three – after I prayed their fulfillment in the Alamo courtyard that day. On the flight home He pointed out the Alamo garrison was a dramatic expression of ethnic diversity in a time of much more serious racial tension. Yet in the crucible of thirteen days of bombardment, assault, and eventual massacre the men (and women) of the Alamo became one people.
He revealed His second purpose some days later. The garrison is shown by letters home to have been virtually all people of Christian faith – remember this occurs in the middle of the Second Great Awakening – but of every known denomination. (The co-commanders were a Baptist and a Catholic.) Again recall if we have sectarian suspicions today the hostility was much greater in 1836. Yet in that thirteen-day crucible the garrison became of one faith in Christ.
His third purpose – revealed in my third week back – is perhaps the most important, for it requires willing human participation to start the ball rolling. On the ninth day of the siege a group of thirty-two men rode in from the town of Gonzales. By this time the overwhelming number of Mexican troops spoke for itself; yet this cavalry troop rode toward the danger – to support and defend their neighbors at all costs – and this is His third purpose. It is not for the Alamo alone, but for this nation founded on His Word, that we must learn to ride toward danger and not away from it. That is where we will find our Lord and our God waiting for us.
The Lord summed up His own prophetic message by saying He has dropped America into our present crucible for these very purposes of His. He is determined we will at last become one people under God. He is committed our finding ourselves to be on faith in Christ – not in the details of style and distinctive – but in our loyalty to one another as fellow believers of one Messiah. And He is determined to demonstrate to us that – when we are with Him – the closer we are to danger the further we are from harm.
This last cannot be demonstrated until and unless we ride toward the danger instead of away from it. That means no more reliance on the fatuous protection of a politically correct/corrupt judiciary. No more hiding behind either constitutional rights that can be trampled or a phony spirituality that does not sully its hands with real people and a real world. No more being “above all that,” and – just as much – no more contenting ourselves with a “Hell no we won’t go,” attitude either. Moses accepted the vision God gave Him and led his people through the Red Sea to freedom – never knowing if the waters would part until they did – and Jesus led His disciples to the Cross and beyond.
What we need in California and the United States are people committed to old fashioned repentance – re-focus on God in Christ – and concerted action based on what we see when we take that look. Only Christians are commanded, although everyone is welcome to come along, and the blessing of abundant life is guaranteed for all who do.
Go to www.dayofrepentance1.org for information on the Trifecta of Repentance.
James A. Wilson is the author of Living As Ambassadors of Relationships and The Holy Spirit and the End Times – available at local bookstores or by e-mailing him at
praynorthstate@charter.net
