Jesus, the mighty Lion of Judah, is roaring with absolute authority and power today. A lion roars for three reasons: His roar is to gather His pride. He roars to answer the challenge of an intruder. A lion roars to declare ownership of a territory. Jesus, God's lion, is roaring over America and declaring this is "My covenant land."
The people on the
Mayflower declared their faith toward Almighty God as they placed a cross on
the shoreline and released this prayer and prophetic declaration: “We do hereby
dedicate this land and ourselves to reach the people within these shores with
the gospel of Jesus Christ and to raise up godly generations after us, and with
these generations take the kingdom of God to all the earth…from these very
shores, the gospel shall go forth, not only to this New World, but the entire
world.” From its beginning, America was established as God's covenanted land for His purpose.
People in the jungles know that the roar of a lion can be heard five miles away. It follows that the roar of the Lion of Judah is far reaching, to unite all those who belong to His pride. This coming together will only be produced as a fruit of God's kind of love, loving one another as the Father loved Jesus. Jesus stated this need to love one another in John 13 as He continued to love Judas who had already agreed to betray Him! Only through an infusion of the supernatural love of God will all believers demonstrate what Jesus purposed, that we would be one as He and the Father are one. Even though the world exudes the darkness of division, strife, and hatred, God promises that the light of His love will overcome and be most visible in the midst of the darkness.
God gives grace to the humble. When we acknowledge our narrow, selfish motives of only loving those who agree with us and humbly ask for His love toward all believers. we can then receive a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit who plants "the love of God in our hearts" (Romans 5:5). Jesus came to the world because God loved the world and desired all men to be set free from sin and the consequences of sin, yet we know the world and even His own did not receive Him. However, the promise remains, as well as the joy that is set before us, that according to John 13:35, when we love each other God's way, the world will know we are His disciples. He who calls us is faithful and He will do it.
Secondly, the Lion of Judah is roaring against the intruders. Sin and rebellion has entered the heart of man. God, in His gooness and love, created man in His image and likeness and allowed us to enjoy His fullness, His abundant life. Yet man in his pride has rebelled. In Jeremiah 2, God asks what injustice has He done that would cause men to turn from Him. Man has defiled the land by choosing to fall for the temptation to "be like God" and live according to the flesh doing things his own way. Jesus came to rescue man from the bondage of sin by nailing the consequences on the cross. He became the Way for all men to repent and be restored to right standing with God forever.
Jesus defeated the devil who encouraged this rebellion by dying on the cross and then made a public show of him (Colossians 2:15). Jesus came to destroy the work of the evil one and He did. In union with His victory, we His saints will likewise overcome "by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives even to the death." (Revelation 12:11) He is training our hands for war and anointing His church to fight the good fight of faith, by standing in the armor and using the supernatural weapons provided. The final battle will clearly show that Jesus is Lord of all and no weapon formed against His people shall prosper.
Thirdly, the earth is the Lords's and the fullness thereof. Jesus, the Lion of Judah, has marked His territory, and even though there is a challenge in the battle ahead, there is none like Him. Revelation declares "The kingdoms of the earth have become the kingdoms of the Lord." The book of Revelation is "the revelation of Jesus Christ," who manifests all God is and does. He confirms His Word with signs and wonders, to keep His covenant forever.
Therefore, His roar is releasing new victories, new positions of authority, sounds of bones rattling as they come to life to reign on the earth, and the very breath of God in His people. Jesus exhorts man to "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." This roar is also establishing the purpose and destiny of America as His covenant land. God is not mocked, America will accomplish the design and eternal plan for which He founded it.
The Lion is also the Lamb who is worthy of it all. Let us rejoice and be glad as we respond wholeheartedly to the roar of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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