I’M SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT THE MIDTERMS AND BEYOND The church cannot be asleep right now. I have a deep concern for the state of our nation right now. Yes, we’ve been in difficult places before, but something about this moment feels different. I believe God gave us a reprieve. He answered our prayers in many ways. There were people fasting, praying, crying out to God, repenting, interceding, and asking Him to have mercy on this nation. But now I’m concerned that too many people have gone back to sleep. It feels like we’ve forgotten how serious things became and how quickly a nation can change. People are talking about the economy, gas prices, the cost of living, interest rates, housing, and all the things affecting our everyday lives. Those things matter. But I’m looking beyond the immediate issues and asking a much bigger question: What is at stake over the next few years? What happens if we sleepwalk into a political and cultural situation where people committed to radically different ideas about government, freedom, faith, and the Constitution gain enough power to fundamentally reshape this country? What happens to religious liberty? What happens to freedom of speech? What happens to parental rights? What happens to the courts and the institutions that were designed to provide checks and balances? There have been political proposals and debates over the years involving changes to the Supreme Court, the status of U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico, and other structural changes to our government. Whatever your political affiliation, Christians should understand that governmental structures and laws can have consequences that last far beyond a single election cycle. My concern is that too many people seem to be sleepwalking through this moment. It feels like business as usual. The same distractions. The same arguments. The same church politics. The same obsession with platforms, personalities, money, recognition, and things that will not matter when eternity is staring us in the face. Sometimes I wonder if we have become more concerned about the tables Jesus overturned than the reason He overturned them. I could say much more about that. But today I simply felt led in my spirit to sound the alarm. This isn’t about panic. This isn’t about putting our trust in politicians. Our hope has never been Washington, D.C. Our hope is Jesus Christ. But throughout Scripture, when God’s people recognized that their nation was in a dangerous place, they didn’t shrug their shoulders and go back to business as usual. They prayed. They fasted. They repented. They humbled themselves. They sought the face of God. “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 will forgive their sin and heal their land.” — 2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV We need to pray like we prayed before, and I believe we need to pray even more. We need to fast. We need to call upon the name of the Lord. We need discernment. We need pastors who are willing to speak truth. We need churches that understand the hour. We need Christians who aren’t asleep at the wheel. Because my concern is that if we don’t wake up spiritually, we could find ourselves facing circumstances we never imagined could happen in America. I’m sounding the alarm. Not because I’m afraid. Because I’m awake. And I’m asking a simple question: Does anybody else feel this urgency? Let’s pray for this nation!