Washington DC is ablaze with activity. We have a new President getting ready to assume power. We have the Big Three auto executives begging for money, we have Bernanke and Paulson trying to stem the financial crisis that has settled over America like the Black Plague. The Mudpreacher is not normally pessimistic. People would say he is an optimist. But God keeps telling me that HE IS TRYING TO GET OUR ATTENTION! What is happening today is merely the tip of the iceberg. By spring time it will be very clear that our Nation is in dire trouble. Unless Repentance and Revival comes to America the emotional and economic pain and suffering will surpass anything this generation has experienced. God is serious about us heeding the message of Jeremiah. The headlines are growing more ominous:
Economy rescue: Adding up the Dollars: The government is engaged in an unprecedented – and expensive – effort to rescue the economy. CNN details the 7.2 TRILLION Dollars the Government has ALREADY committed since December 2007.
Bernanke: ‘Work It Out. Now.‘ 
“Federal Reserve chairman wants to see distressed mortgages modified quickly, and in large numbers.”Bernanke’s support for debt relief is a departure from February, when he told a U.S. Senate Banking Committee meeting that a bill allowing bankrupcty judges to modify mortgages to save people’s homes would be more of a cost to the US economy than a benefit.”
Pent up Anger Greets Return of Auto Chiefs to Capitol Hill 
“Confirming the fears that taxpayers could lose out, the economist Mark Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com said automakers probably needed much more than their requested $34 billion and perhaps as much as $125 billion. He predicted that the automakers would ask for more money by next fall.”
Dour Reports Show Cracks in ETFs, Economy: “Through the turmoil of the economic downturn, factory orders are getting buried, leaving an underlying weakness on Wall Street and exchange traded funds (ETFs). The deepening recession has left factory orders at their lowest point in eight years, with demand in steel, cars, computers and heavy machinery sinking.”
God wants our Nation to pay attention to the Message of Jeremiah. Jeremiah was dealing with leaders who were conspiring against God. They refused to hear God’s Words. They were going after other gods. Gods of money, greed, self-confidence. Listen to Jeremiah 11:9-12:
Again the LORD said to me, “A conspiracy exists among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers. Therefore, thus says the LORD, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to them. Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they make offerings, but they cannot save them in the time of their trouble. (Jer 11:9-12 ESV)
God deliberately brought disaster upon Judah and its inhabitants. The warning from God was that “though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.” Then the leaders and people of Judah went and cried to their gods, but they would not save them in their time of trouble.
If our leaders and if we as God-fearing Americans do not acknowledge God and plead with Him for mercy, wisdom and guidance, God will close His ears to our cries. We will be left to cry out to our gods of money and weapons, but sadly, they will not save us this time! America is bankrupt spiritually, and we will soon be bankrupt financially.
As God said in Jeremiah 11:7-8 “For I solemnly warned your fathers when I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, warning them persistently, even to this day, saying, Obey my voice. Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but everyone walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart.”
The time has come to humble ourselves before El Gibbor, our Mighty God. He is the Mighty Warrior, the Mighty Hero that we need. Only He has an inexhaustable supply of mercy and grace and wisdom for the weary and lost, the broken and bankrupt. Only God is Jehovah Jireh, the God who supplies all our needs. Turn and be reconciled, for His mercy endures forever!
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