'Boots On The Ground' Praying

               Roughly three million Americans served in uniform in Vietnam....with over fifty-eight thousand who died....and there are enormous numbers who were seriously wounded....or 100% disabled. Over seventeen thousand of those who gave their lives for our country were married. All the statistics together point to tens of millions of wives and children and parents....who were praying.....boots on the ground praying....as opposed to rally around the flag praying. Consequently....it was in the middle of that war that stirrings of the gospel began among young people....and it was around the end of that war that the gospel movement in America literally took off....lasting at least a decade....and possibly two decades before it had almost totally waned. All of that was surely part of that....boots on the ground praying.....and that is what we need today....and that most likely is what is ahead of us!
               If you by chance had read some of my recent posts....on the Super Bowl and idols of all kinds....you would have read some very bold statements. We evangelicals do not like these kinds of statements. We want no more than what we get in our churches....which consists of encouragements....with no real warnings of any kind.....nothing to bring us down before we leave church....mild Bible studies to assuage our conscience....and various ministries to partake in to mask the cost of discipleship that always brings rejection and ridicule and even persecution.
               Well it matters not what the prophets of today say....that great things are ahead of us....for even though we walk around today as if with blinders on....the collapse....or the landslide....or the avalanche or the tsunami....however it might be described....is already in full swing....and boots on the ground praying....will be beginning according to God's timetable and perfect will.