“For the Joy of the Lord is your Strength”

1. “For the Joy of the Lord is your Strength” Nehemiah 8:10

2. America Has Defiled The Land by Pastor Fee Soliven Proverbs 14:31-35 Sunday Morning July 13, 2014

3. Proverbs 14:31-35 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, But he who honors Him has mercy on the needy. 32 The wicked is banished in his wickedness, But the righteous has a refuge in his death.

4. 33 Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, But what is in the heart of fools is made known. 34 Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people. 35 The king's favor is toward a wise servant, But his wrath is against him who causes shame.

5. The First President of the United States of America

7. “We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained”

8. Titus 1:7 "For a bishop must be blameless, as a steward of God, not self-willed..."

9. On April 30, 1789, George Washington speech at St. Paul’s Cathedral “An oath is an appeal to God, the Searcher of Hearts, for the truth of what we say and always expresses or supposes an imprecation a calling down of His judgment upon us if we lie. An oath, therefore, implies a belief in God and His Providence and indeed is an act of worship”

10. 1 Samuel 15:23 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He also has rejected you from being king."

11. 1. The Supreme court is currently in the process to remove the 10 commandments from all courts in our country.

12. 2. The Supreme Court inevitably sided with Engel and the decision was issued on June 25, 1962 — a day that lives in infamy in the minds of many religious individuals and free-speech advocates that abolished prayer and Bible reading in the public schools.

13. 3. 19 States have legalized same sex marriages and counting

14.  4. All Armed Forces of the US has now allowed Homosexuals to be part of the Unites States military.

15. 5. Every State has on its agenda to teach Public Elementary Schools that homosexual behavior is normal and ok

16. 6. Since Roe v. Wade in 1973 there is now over 60 million babies aborted in America

17. 7. Pornography is a 60 billion a year industry and its capital is in Simi Valley, California

18. 8. Every State has on its agenda to remove symbols of the cross

19.  9. Our prisons are overloaded with men & women who have committed heinous crimes

20. 10. 2 States have now legalized Marijuana (Washington State and Colorado) California is soon to follow!

21. 11. Diseases, plagues, incurable sicknesses, unknown viruses

22. 11. Diseases, plagues, incurable sicknesses, unknown viruses

23. 12. Addictions to Drugs, Alcohol, smoking, pornography, and gambling. Ungodly music, gambling, divorce, theft, murder, sex slavery, kidnapping, home invasions, rape, infiltration of foreign gods, militant homosexuals, terrorists just to name a few have captivated our nation and held in bondage! It's now an epidemic!

24. Leviticus 18:24-30 24'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations are defiled, which I am casting out before you. 25 For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.

25. 26 You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations, either any of your own nation or any stranger who dwells among you 27(for all these abominations the men of the land have done, who were before you, and thus the land is defiled),

26. 28 lest the land vomit you out also when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you. 29 For whoever commits any of these abominations, the persons who commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

27. 30 Therefore you shall keep My ordinance, so that you do not commit any of these abominable customs which were committed before you, and that you do not defile yourselves by them: I am the LORD your God.' "

28.  1. The Murder Rate & Violence is up 110% since 1962 2. Whole cities are being decimated by Tornados and Hurricanes 3. Wildfires are destroying cities and wildlife

29. 4. The underground volcano in Yellowstone Park is ready to erupt 5. Earthquakes are increasing throughout our land 6. Abnormal winter freezes destroying our agriculture 7. Scorching Heat in many States causing drought & Famine

30. Joel 2:1-19 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand: 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness,

31. Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations. 3 A fire devours before them, And behind them a flame burns; The land is like the Garden of Eden before them,

32. And behind them a desolate wilderness; Surely nothing shall escape them. 4 Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; And like swift steeds, so they run. 5 With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, Like a strong people set in battle array.

33. 6 Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.  7 They run like mighty men, They climb the wall like men of war; Every one marches in formation, And they do not break ranks. 8 They do not push one another; Every one marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, They are not cut down.

34. 9 They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief. 10 The earth quakes before them, The heavens tremble; The sun and moon grow dark, And the stars diminish their brightness. 11 The LORD gives voice before His army, For His camp is very great;

35. For strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the LORD is great and very terrible; Who can endure it?   12 "Now, therefore," says the LORD, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." 13 So rend your heart, and not your garments;

36. Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. 14 Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him-A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God? 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast,

37. Call a sacred assembly; 16 Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. 17 Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar;

38.  Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?' " 18 Then the LORD will be zealous for His land, And pity His people. 19 The LORD will answer and say to His people,

39. "Behold, I will send you grain and new wine and oil, And you will be satisfied by them; I will no longer make you a reproach among the nations.

40. 2 Chronicles 20:1-4 1 It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat. 2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea,

41. from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar" (which is En Gedi). 3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. 4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.

42. Ezekiel 3:16-21 16 Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 17 "Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me:

43. 18 When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness,

44. nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul. 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he

45. has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul."

46. Revelation 3:12 "He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he shall go out no more. And I will write on him the name of My God and the name of the city of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God. And I will write on him My new name."

47. “For the Joy of the Lord is your Strength” Nehemiah 8:10