Salt Changing the Earth (Part Two)

If one studies the efficiency of Christianity in the past twenty centuries, she sees the discrepancies between Jesus’ intentions for us and the reality of the world. Christians seem to have been losing all the way. Countries that Paul evangelized are now largely heathen, everywhere the earth is in chaos, and a very small part of it is truly evangelized. Even in Christian countries, a vast majority of the nation has little or no knowledge of Christ and the Bible. Secularism and other religions have overtaken Christianity in popularity. Christians rely on doctors rather than on Jesus' power for healing, let alone driving out demons and raising the dead. There are many other things Jesus did that we do not touch. Why? It is because today's disciples don't have faith in Jesus.

            “‘I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, “Move from here to there” and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you’” (Matthew 17:20). And in Luke 17:6: “‘If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it will obey you.’”

I have heard many spiritual explanations of this passage, but I think Jesus meant it literally. It fits the effect we should have on the earth. But many of us don’t even have faith as small as a mustard seed. We often pray with a “what if” in the backs of our minds. We are afraid of making fools of ourselves. We simply don’t trust God. If we did, we would see a much different earth. We rely on our own resources, so occupied with ourselves that we simply don’t bother. The condition of the world doesn’t affect us in our comfortable, materialistic cocoon, so why would we worry about being salt? In many ways, the church has become a social club, a controlling power to manipulate people, a moneymaking business or emotional showbiz.

Jesus said in the John 14:13 that anything we ask of Him, He will do. What is this “anything?” Is it our personal wants and needs? I don’t think so. These will be cared for automatically if we get busy with His Kingdom issues (Matthew 6:25-34). If we, however, identify a situation in the earth that needs changing, we need to go before Jesus in prayer and fasting and ask Him what we should command. Once we hear from Him how to go about it, we need to take authority over the spirit behind the situation and then command that which we have heard from God. He will then solve the situation. Obviously, this would demand from us dedicated prayer and separation for God. Believe me, I have seen many issues resolved as a result of taking authority and have also heard testimonies to that effect.

Some years ago my wife, Julia, and I became aware of a number of airplane crashes, one after the other, within a few weeks. I asked, “Why this trend, Lord?” I then saw a vision of a cloud of demons forcing an airplane down as if playing games. The devil’s purpose is to kill, steal, and destroy (John 10:10). We decided to take authority in the spiritual realm against these activities, and the accidents stopped. Then we started to look for other trends to pray against. There are many such issues that God can deal with in the natural, political, and social realms. What about the political situations in countries like Zimbabwe, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the health situation in Zimbabwe, or poverty in many countries? When we pray for them, how do we pray?  (To be continued)

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