{"id":6817,"date":"2017-11-20T23:12:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T07:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:13:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:13:36","slug":"opinion-christians-can-intercede-for-better-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2017\/11\/20\/opinion-christians-can-intercede-for-better-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion &#8211; Christians can Intercede for Better Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cecil Ringgenberg]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So often we Christians enter the voting booth with this little prayer: \u201cLord, help me choose the less evil of these candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But a Biblical scripture accuses us of waiting too long before we pray. Hosea 8:4 says, \u201cThey set up kings without My consent; they choose princes without My approval.\u201d We should seek God\u2019s approval not when we vote but when we nominate.<\/p>\n<p>The current political process rewards corruption. Candidates tend to win who spend the most money on their campaigns. And after winning they sponsor legislation that favors their largest contributors.<\/p>\n<p>These big contributors \u201ckick back\u201d even larger contributions to favored candidates who they sponsor for even higher political positions. This process explains how a once Christian nation is currently ruled by corrupt politicians.<\/p>\n<p>To turn this situation around Christians need to obey the whole Bible. \u00a0Philippians 2:4 states, \u201cEach of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.\u201d Furthermore, James 2:9 says, \u201cIf you show favoritism you sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My weakness as a Christian has been an unwillingness to leave my comfort zone. Unlike our Founding Fathers who concluded that resistance to tyranny was obedience to God, I have enabled the current evil political situation by my silence.<\/p>\n<p>II Chronicles 7:14 says, \u201cIf My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then will I hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our nation needs healing and only obedient Christians can intercede. Shall we unite in intercessory prayer?<\/p>\n<p><em>Cecil Ringgenberg.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecil Ringgenberg] So often we Christians enter the voting booth with this little prayer: \u201cLord, help me choose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","darknews-slider-full":"","darknews-featured":"","darknews-medium":"","darknews-medium-square":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6818,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}