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Welcome once again to ComfortForToday.com, a broadcast named after the website of the same name, ComfortForToday.com.

Today's message is about your country--about my country. It is about what we must do if we want the nation we call home to be a godly nation. The Lord God of Israel spoke the following words to King Solomon long ago:

"IF MY PEOPLE WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY, AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND." (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Not long ago, a prophetic message was sent to me which reiterates this message. It is called:

CRYING OUT FOR THE NATIONS!

I am crying out for the NATIONS... My voice is sounding throughout the earth through My prophets, calling the NATIONS to repentance and restoration. The NATIONS are MINE, and I am calling forth for that which is Mine to return to Me. For the consummation of the ages, the fullness of times is at hand wherein I shall bring righteous judgment, that for which the blood of martyrdom and prayers of the righteous cry out. I shall and I AM consummating all things in Christ, for the knowledge of My glory is filling the whole earth.

For the NATION that has rejected Me, loving darkness rather than Light, I shall recompense with certain destruction according to My righteous decree. For the NATION that has turned to Me and sought righteousness, I shall recompense with favor and undeserved blessing according to My righteous decree. I indeed have a remnant in every NATION, and for those who are called by My Name in the NATION that chooses darkness, though the NATION be judged, Mine shall be recompensed in mercy and grace.

Cry out for the NATIONS, speak My prophetic proclamation of destiny over them! Enforce with authority My decree against powers of darkness, that the illumination of the glory of Christ fill the whole earth. Yes, I am sovereign and yes, it is My doing according to My zeal, but I am accomplishing it through My Body - a many membered Man coming into the fullness of Christ. For this has been My purpose and plan from the beginning; to have a many membered Man in My image and likeness to rule over My creation, that I may manifest the essence of Who I AM in the earth... for in Christ, all things were created and in Christ all things are consummated... Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. Have I not decreed that ALL people, NATIONS and languages should serve Me?... then cry out in prophetic proclamation that each NATION fulfill their destiny in ME.

Look to the NATIONS, O Sons, cry out for the NATIONS that My purpose be fulfilled in the earth as it is in the heavens.

(http://www.DougFortune.org)

The following is from #30 of the short articles on the website which tells the story of how one nation, Ireland, became Christian.

I was confused. I was trying to make a decision on the appropriate course of action I should follow, but was getting nowhere.

A friend suggested I try prayer and fasting as she had often found this the solution to such a dilemma. Prayer and fasting was often used throughout the Bible, even by Jesus.

Well, I tried it. Before many hours the answer came. The solution now looked so simple!

It is reported that many years ago in Ireland, St. Patrick went to a mountain at Clew Bay to fast and pray for his country. After a cold and treacherous journey up the mountain, he went without food, prayed and fasted for 40 days, thereby driving all the snakes out of Ireland.

Historically, there was a reason there are no snakes there because of the ice age. But the snakes St. Patrick eliminated represent something else.

St. Patrick established Christianity in Ireland and, in so doing, drove out all demonic activity. In the Bible, Satan, the devil, is often spoken of as a snake or a serpent. St. Patrick, by bringing God's power into the land, eradicated Satan's power, allowing Christianity to flourish.

Before St. Patrick fasted and prayed for Ireland, the culture was pagan. After he prayed, using the name of Jesus and the power of His shed blood, those involved in witchcraft and sorcery became powerless. They gradually realized what had happened, and saw there was ANOTHER POWER greater than the one they had been using to perform their supernatural acts.

The church of Jesus Christ must learn of its own power, greater than that of the dark world, to dispel the darkness. Darkness soon disappears when a light is turned on, and Jesus is called "the Light of the world" (John 8:12). He is also called "living Water" (John 4:10). Water, with enough force behind it, can sweep away everything in its path, and this is what the powerful force of Jesus can do to the snakes of our day.

Jesus won the battle against satanic forces almost 2,000 years ago. Christians have been given every protection against this evil power - if they know how to use it.

They need the spiritual armour spoken of in Ephesians 6 - the first item being a "helmet of salvation", a born- again experience. They need faith, they must become a holy people and must read and use the "sword of the Spirit", God's written and spoken words. Since Christians are "adopted" into Christ's family (Rom.8:15), they are eligible to use His Name and all the power inherent in it. By the mere use of His name by a born-again child of God (not by an unbeliever),snakes have to go!

To do God's work, we need to FAST and pray. "After they fasted and prayed" the disciples sent Saul and Barnabus to tell the Good News about Jesus to the Gentile world (Acts 13:13).

The Christian church had begun its mission in prayer and fasting. Centuries later St. Patrick established Christianity in Ireland by prayer and fasting.

Even though many of the new versions of the Bible have omitted the word "fasting" in many important places, or relegated it to a small footnote, the Christian church is once again discovering the authority she has in the name of Jesus when she fasts and prays. Jesus said the very gates of hell were powerless before such a church (Matt.16:18)!

"LORD WE TURN" from CD 'Live Worship 2000 from the Heart of Ireland' led by David Ruis and Eoghan Heaslip (CLOSING)