What happens after November 5?



A national election is upon us. Friends, family, and neighbors are at odds. Results may be challenged. What a time we are in! Between the bombast and the ballots, it’s hard to see our way through to a time of hope and peace.

Wonder what happens after November 5? For the person of faith, it looks a lot like November 4. Pray. Love. Trust.

We can pray, we can love, and we can trust, my friend. What God says will happen will happen.

Pray. Perhaps you find yourself unsure of how to pray. Everything seems so confusing, so angry, so exhausting. Here are two topics you might consider for your conversations with God.

Let’s lift up our nation. We are a family with so much shared history and an important future. Ask God to humble us, hear us, and heal us. It may seem futile, but remember — the power is not in the one who prays; it’s in the God who hears.

And let’s ask God to help our neighbors, and let that help start with us. Pray for the compassion to reach out to the single mom across the hall at work and the shut-in at the nursing home. Pray for hope for those still recovering from storms — whether those tempests go by the name of Helene or Milton or divorce or chronic illness. May God bring his healing balm of hope.

And pray for those neighbors with whom you disagree. Yes, even those who make you mad. The quickest way to douse the fire of anger is with a bucket of prayers. Rather than blame, pray. Jesus did this. While hanging on the cross, he interceded for his enemies: “Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they’re doing.”

We are never more like Jesus than when we pray for others — those with whom you agree and those you don’t. Pray for this hurting world. God cares about it all.

Love. Now, love is not exactly the byword of the day. Contentiousness, yes. Anxiety, for sure. Fear, our constant companion. But love seems to be in short supply.

Let’s check our source. This worried world is not the place to look to for steadfast love. Let’s instead turn our gaze to a gracious God whose love will never fail. Governments will fail, but God’s love will last. Crowns are temporary, but love is eternal. Your money will run out, but his love never will.

Let God love you. And let him help you share that love with others. Pause for a moment, right now, and make a list of three people you can show love to today — quietly, simply, and unconditionally. I promise you, that offering of love will return to you in unexpected ways, and the hope-o-meter of your heart will rise like the morning sun.

Trust. It’s hard, I know. So many unknowns, and the things we do know are worrisome. These are troubling times with challenges both at home and abroad. Leadership matters. But whether your preferred candidate occupies the White House or not, we can know that God’s in charge of who’s in charge. Proverbs states that a king’s heart is like a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he directs it wherever he pleases.

Might I suggest we lift our eyes and shift our thoughts? We can face the problems of this world by focusing on the promises of the next. The future is not as frightening if you know the future. And you can know the future when you know who controls it.

One of my favorite sermon illustration books contains a story of a missionary and his son. They moved from England to Central Africa in the company of four other adults. Three of them died. The health of the father began to fail, so he resolved to return to England. He and his boy bounced for days across Africa in an old, broken-down wagon. Upon reaching the coast, they embarked for England by sea. Within a few hours, they encountered a brutal storm. The waves and wind combined to make the sound of cannon blasts and shake the ship from stem to stern. During a lull in the tempest, the father held and warmed his son.

The boy asked, “Father, when shall we have a home that will not shake?”

I can’t vouch for the story. The book provides no source. But I can most certainly vouch for the question. I’ve asked it. You’ve asked it. Each and every person has felt this world with its troubles and tremors and asked, “God, when shall we have a home that will not shake?”

His answer? “Soon, dear child. Very soon.”

This world, so upside down, will be right side up. People who were rejected in this life will be respected in the next. In this age, they were enslaved and sold; in the next, they will rule and reign. In this age, they were handicapped and sick; in the next, they will serve with perfected, glorified bodies.

This sounds like heaven. This sounds like the perfect ending. This sounds like the grand conclusion to the story of God.

We can pray, we can love, and we can trust, my friend. What God says will happen will happen.

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Hollywood had to learn that faith comes first in ‘Duck Dynasty’



“Duck Dynasty” star Willie Robertson had humble beginnings, but the wild success of his family’s reality show would have any spectator guessing otherwise.

“A lot of Christians told us like ‘Oh you can’t do this, you’re going to destroy your family.’ But I was like ‘if not us, then who?’” Robertson tells Glenn Beck, recalling the beginning of his family’s rise to fame.

“I felt firm in our faith and who we were,” he continues, adding, “You get a chance, and I felt like maybe God led us to this and said, ‘Hey, here’s your opportunity.’”

When Willie pitched the idea to his father, Phil Robertson, about starting a reality TV show, he wasn’t interested until Willie told him it could help get the gospel to more people.

“That was what attracted me,” Glenn says. “I heard people talk about you guys. They said, ‘There's this show, and they pray at the end.’”

While prayer and faith were a large part of their show, the Hollywood producers that worked on it at first weren’t pleased.

Willie concedes that the production company used to edit out “in Jesus’ name,” which they have since stopped doing. “I think they always struggled with what made it work,” he continues. “They would put shows behind it that were, you know, I wouldn’t say anti-faith but definitely you know, super worldly.”

When the viewers would be confronted with the show that followed, they’d switch the channel.

“They struggle with knowing, I think, especially, I think the faith part and the prayer part, how much that played into it,” Willie says.

“If you could boil it down in one sentence, what was the secret of the show? Why did it work?” Glenn asks.

“I think it was a combination of authenticity, faith, and funny,” Willie says.


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Kentucky woman who lost all four limbs after kidney stone surgery refuses to despair, shares inspiring message



A Kentucky mother of two went to the hospital last month to receive what she figured would be a routine treatment for a kidney stone. Lucinda Mullins, 41, ultimately ended up losing both legs and both arms from the elbows down.

Despite the great misfortune that has befallen her, Mullins has not succumbed to despair. Rather, she has exhibited great perseverance and optimism, focusing on the blessings in her life.

Mullins, who has served her community as a nurse for nearly two decades, told WLEX-TV that after getting treatment for her kidney stone last month, the mineral deposit got infected, resulting in her, in turn, becoming septic — what she referred to as a "perfect storm." She was first rushed to Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, Kentucky, then taken by ambulance to UK Hospital in Lexington.

Mullins spent days sedated in the hospital until being awoken to learn that she had to have all of her limbs amputated. The alternative was likely death.

"I've lost my legs from the knees down bilaterally, and I'm going to lose my arms probably below the elbow bilaterally," Mullins said. "The doctor I used to work with, he kind of was like, 'this is what they had to do to save your life[;] this is what's happened."

Mullins apparently took the bad news in stride, leaning into her faith and family.

"I just said these are the cards I've been dealt, and these are the hands I'm going to play," Mullins told WLEX. "I'm just so happy to be alive. I get to see my kids. I get to see my family. I get to have my time with my husband."

Mullins noted that if "one person from this can see God from all this, that made it all worth it."

On New Year's Day, Mullins was transferred to Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington to begin her rehabilitation.

At the hospital, her youngest son helped feed her.

At the time of publication, the GoFundMe campaign created for Mullins' medical needs, prosthetics, and adaptive equipment had raised over $183,300 towards its goal of $250,000.

Extra to financial support from friends and strangers alike, Mullins told WLEX she has been overwhelmed by in-person visits and support.

"At one time, I think they told [me] 40 people were in the waiting room here. The calls and the texts, the prayers, and the things people have sent. The little words of encouragement," said Mullins. "I just can't fathom that people are doing things like that for me."

While the nurse from Kentucky has a marathon ahead of her in terms of rehab and therapy, she shared counsel for others sprinting through life: "Slow down. Appreciate the things around you, especially your family. It's OK to let people take care of you."

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Glenn’s most powerful speech yet: 'I’m DONE warning people'



Back in April of this year, Glenn was asked to attend the First Landing 1607 Project in Virginia.

The event aimed at getting back to the roots of the United States by rededicating America to God, as it originally was back in 1607 when colonists landed at Cape Henry, erected a cross, took communion, and consecrated the new world.

Glenn delivered a dynamic speech at this event, but the footage has just now been released.

And it’s extraordinarily powerful – the kind of powerful that will leave you wide-eyed and covered in chills.

For years Glenn’s calling has been to warn the people of the United States – to tell them what’s on the horizon regarding the jeopardization of freedoms, shifts in the economy, and the rise of malevolent global elites masking as humanitarians.

But now, he has a new calling: Hope.

“We are not fighting Republicans or Democrats … we are not fighting our friends and our neighbors, [or] even the people who are trying to destroy us,” Glenn says.

“We are fighting evil.”

But we can have hope because “[God] wins,” he continues.

Glenn goes on to share his insight about what the American people worship today, who the next Billy Graham will be, and what we all must do if we are to survive the days ahead.

It’s a speech you simply cannot miss.

Watch it here.


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