"... the Lord has rejected your trusted allies, and you will not prosper by them." Jeremiah 2:37

Author Charles Stanley, in his new book Turning the Tide, says that real hope and true change for the United States will come only come when we get on our knees in prayer.

America is facing a tsunami. “It’s coming,” he says.

In his book, Dr. Stanley lists 20 problems affecting the country's legacy of prosperity. The list includes high unemployment, war, natural disasters, corrupt leaders, terrorism, divorce, redefining of marriage, abortion, and single-parent families. Spiritual problems include such challenges to America's Judeo-Christian values as false prophets and toleration of immorality.

America  needs Christians to "speak up, stand up and pray as never before" if we expect serious change.

Christians, should not cast their hope and confidence in a presidential candidate, either Republican or Democratic or on a deal raising the debt ceiling and cutting spending. "Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced ..."

If you desire the ungodly trends in our nation to be reversed, then you must understand it will happen only if you and I and all those who strive to conform to His image, fight this battle on our knees before the Father, walking in obedience to His Word.

"The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever,  The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord...." Psalm 33:10-12