Vice President Mike Pence

    On the fifth of July before church I was watching Robert Jeffress on TV at his church in Dallas TX. He had Vice President Mike Pence as a guess speaker. After his opening words to the congregation, he said that president Trump said to him the other day that he will never stop  fighting for the values that bind us together as Americans, that he believes that Faith and Family , not government bureaucracy, is the true way of life. He concluded that we live by the words of our national motto “In God We Trust”.  He went on to talk about freedom and the fourth of July, and how our first vice president said that he felt that  the fourth of July would be celebrated by parades, family, games, bound fires, guns, and illuminations of all kinds from one end of the continent to the other. He went on a little more about freedom in the United States and  then he spoke about another freedom. The freedom we get from faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.  Also how God works in ways we sometime you don't understand.                                       He said he was reminded about that a few weeks ago  when he got a letter from a pastor that leads a church not far from Jacksonville Fl.  The Pastor told him about a time when he and his new bride were attending Asbury Seminary in Wilmore KY. in 1977, where they held a yearly Christian Music Festival. That year they decided not to have it, but he and his new bride felt a call to do the work. He said his friends and family tried to talk them out of it, they said it would put a strain on there new marriage but they got some other seminarians to help them and they worked the whole year to arrange the event for 1978. On the night of the event he and his bride where walking thru the camp. It was raining, and they where thinking all this work was for naught, but that was because they didn't know that a future Vice President of the United States of America would be giving his life to Christ. He said he could not write this letter without tears and the Vice President said he could not read it without tears.                He said he remembers that night sitting on a hillside in the rain and it was like hearing those words for the first time “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have ever lasting life”. I stood up that night, my heart was broken with gratitude for what was done for me on that cross. He said he hasn't answered that letter yet but he said he is going to simply say “Now I know who else I can thank that night so many years ago.”                                   He said “The lesson of that letter is, even tho you don't think things are going the way you expected, they are going the way He expected...... I believe that if we hold fast to Him we will see our way thru these challenging times, we will restore our nations health, we will renew our freedom, and we will inspire people across this land with our witness and  love and compassion and strength that comes in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.”         Bob W   "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 I will  forgive their sin and will heal their land."                                                                                                            Chronicles 7:14