Living
in America can mean a lot of things; freedom, protection, security,
abundance… I guess to many that live in the inner-city's, lost their
jobs, or that live in white-suburbia that have over extended
themselves, maybe they don't feel this way about America…

I
know for me coming back in from Africa after 14 months, there is a fog.
It is a like a false reality about life - how we do Church, how we
raise our kids, how we run around looking for something that just isn't
there.

I can't tell you how many people I know or have talked to that
go to church every Sunday, but feel something huge is missing… they
just aren't getting fulfilled.

Last
week I sat with an American pastor that has lived in Africa for the
past 30 years. He told me he was shocked by the American business man
and American Church.

They just planted a Church in Dallas and, because
some of the members prayed in tongues, (Their spiritual language), they
were almost run out of town!

He
said, "Gary, you know this, but in Africa everybody prays in tongues,
if you don't, you can't make it, especially if you're building a
kingdom business or a ministry, I can't believe the Church of America
is still fighting over the gifts of the spirit. It's like they believe
in some, but not all that God has to give, what is wrong?!

It's
kind of like the "Prosperity" Message we have bought in to here… We
have polished it, shined it up, made is sound so good that we have
believed it. In Africa, if you preach about prosperity, they just look
at you with confusion and grief. They are worshiping the Lord for what
He provided today; food, a miracle, life.

Please
hear my heart; I love my country and I am in love with the bride of
Christ, the Church. I just have seen and experienced something that I
am sure most of you have felt. How do we rise above the clouds and
touch the garment of the creator, here, in America?

I have found myself falling back into a fog - looking for something that just isn't there, or maybe something I just can't see…