If you want God to hear your prayers, then remember that there is nothing God hears more than the blood that cries to Him from the ground. The cry from the spilled blood of those who gave their lives for God is still rising up to Him from the earth. We join with their cry to see the full redemption by the blood of Christ that removes the pollution and futility that was imposed on the earth by man’s shedding of innocent blood.

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Show Notes:

Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives in service to our country. But we should have a daily gratitude in our hearts for the ones who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we enjoy. Those freedoms were secured by the blood of men and women who fought and died to preserve this country that was dedicated in its foundations to God. And the tragedy today is that the love for this country is being eroded away. It is appalling to see so many who are tearing down our nation and tearing down what it stands for. They are literally spitting on the blood of those who died for this nation to exist.

God said to Cain, who had murdered his brother Abel, “Your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.” And there is a cry going up from those whose blood was spilled fighting for this country. They may be dead, but they are still praying. Their blood is crying out to God from the ground. It is crying out to see the purpose for which they gave their lives fulfilled. They gave their lives for a vision. And that vision is that the United States of America would be a righteous nation that does the will of God in the earth.

We know that our personal salvation comes from the shedding of Christ’s blood. But we also know the ground was cursed when it received Abel’s blood at Cain’s hand. And the Scriptures tell us that the land is polluted by bloodshed. So the blood of Christ was also spilled on this earth to cleanse it of the pollution and the curse that began with the blood shed by Cain. Even in His agony before the cross, His sweat fell as drops of blood on the ground. The greatest way we can pray for our country today is to join our hearts with this cry of the blood that is going up to God. God hears that cry, and He will bring justice because of it.

Key Verses:

• Romans 5:6–8. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
• John 15:12–14. “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.”
• John 10:11–15. “The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”
• Genesis 4:8–12. “The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground.”
• Luke 22:39–44. “His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.”
• Genesis 9:3–6. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed.”
• Numbers 35:33–34. “You shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land.”
• Deuteronomy 21:6–9. “You shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst.”
• Revelation 6:9–11. “How long, O Lord, holy and true, will You refrain from judging and avenging our blood?”

Quotes:

• “If you’re going to criticize this country, if you’re going to tear down the symbols and statues of heroes who have given their life and stood to create this country, the first question before you start speaking under these liberties should be, ‘Are you willing to spill your blood for it to survive or are you just tearing it down?’”
• “You can look for weather patterns and this and that and explain the change in the earth and all that’s going on. But if you really want to see where it comes from, it’s the cry of the blood. It’s the earth refusing to be a partner with that which is spilling the blood on the earth.”
• “We need to pray for the land. We need to pray for this nation as the ground that God has given us that is bound by futility because it has received the pollution that comes from the blood being spilled upon it.”

Takeaways:

1. When we talk about Memorial Day, we are talking about those who have given their lives for this country. There must be a daily remembering of those who paid the ultimate price of death for the principles of freedom, of faith, and of knowing that this country was dedicated to God.
2. God never forgets the spilled blood of Abel that is crying out to Him. If we believe God hears our prayers for this country, how much more is God hearing the cry of the blood of our brothers and sisters that was spilled for the vision of this country?
3. The land is polluted, and the nations are oppressed under the futility of the earth caused by the spilling of blood. Our redemption by the blood of Christ must result in the release of the earth from the futility and pollution that man’s bloodshed has brought to God’s creation.

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