 Welcome to all my God ministries. I am your host Reverend Anita Morris. I'm coming before you. It's a time of morning in some instances regarding our nation and we have a sect group Jewish Jewish descents and People group who were aimed at such Act of force and also a massacre and Prayers go out to those of the synagogue of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh And so hearts are heavy my heart's heavy and I prayed to the Lord and he answered and In chronicles it says if my people who are called by my name Will humble themselves seek my face Turn from the wicked way Then will I heal and restore their land and that's what we need in our nation a healing restoration reconciliation to us From us to God Away from wickedness in the evils against humankind No matter what extremist group racial group supremacist group Where there's wickedness You know that the enemy is in the camp because the enemy come not but the steel keel and destroy But God is giving life and life more abundantly and then also Since I am also I'm a minister of the gospel and also a scholar The Logen who gone to school Who has my master's in divinity? So it's important that I look at the times that we live in and To be appropriated with the scriptures And I thank God for the spirit of of Christ the spirit of God's Holy Spirit and within every believer and within the cosmos Because it says it's not by human might nor by human power, but by God's spirit So it doesn't mean how much accolades how much academics you have or how much human power you have God's spirit goes to and from the earth to see who those who fear him and he's bringing restoration He's bringing help to you, and I just want you to be encouraged there's nothing as the ecclesiastics the King Solomon of the Old Testament had mentioned there's nothing new under the Sun history has a way of repeating some dangerous moments and Pivotals that we see now and at this moment we have an opportunity to make right decisions and to make good judgments regarding our nation and regard people of character and not just because of their Political race, but look at the character of who's being in place and so as often how the anointing as some people who are versed in church models how leadership How it trinkles down from the head to to those of their conquests Also, sometimes whether you're in a military leadership Sometimes that same leadership if it's not dealt with it trinkles down And it becomes a toxic environment and some things that I see and I read on Air Force times, and I see some toxic leaderships are being removed from different various Commands and that means that Human beings are not exempt no matter what status they are But oftentimes in this generation we look at different people groups again I share a mixed heritage of African-American and Native American history, so I am What do you call it? Compassionate not just by my own experience, but also got his place that within me not just experiential but biblical faith and to know when whenever I come in contact with other humankind and my fellow sisters and brothers to know where I come from and where God has Has called me into to know that he has no respect of persons, and I thank God that His grace is sufficient that in weakness his strength is made perfect So I'm just going to give you a little synopsis of a little bit about our American history Also about my native American history and some pictures, and I just want you to enjoy and to know your roots some people are What do you call it? Making advancements to go ahead and order that birth certificates their Family's birth certificates their mother's birth certificates to know where they come from and it's not just to have a head knowledge a heart knowledge or experiential knowledge and sometimes people say if it it didn't happen if you don't have evidence and so Hey in the world we live in show that you have evidence know that you know you are a citizen I urge you to do all that documentation that you need not because you fear men but whatever is in your Stewardship to know that you have all those things for your at your disposal, and you're being resourceful What God has given you ingenuity and intelligence to take care of your vital records? in a history of our nation and Sometimes it's titled repeating crazy dangerous history. I prayed on the 30th of October And I said dear Lord before even a word of supplication. I had prayed a prayer for our nation But God has already answered. He said in second rock chronicles 7 13 and 15 At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls a command grasshoppers devour your crops or send plagues among you Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and Restore the land My eyes will be open my ears attended to every prayer made in this place And when we're praying on behalf of our nation, and I think it's behooves us that It's not just Exclusivity of person. It's a nation on our nation. So sometimes we are not all clean We need to continue to wreck us out with humankind with each other and to find Peaceful ways to live at peace with one another and regard each other's Differences and to find a way to live peaceable in unity and in harmony And not through wickedness. Okay a reading of Psalm 137 Also will be helpful oftentimes when people are facing in captivity or Or in refugees camps We're gonna even visit some of the atrocities on the native Americans We're gonna visit the atrocities of Japanese Americans in 1942 and That some things that continues that you think has gone away has a way of repeating itself So I'm 137 hold one second Oh testament of the writings of Psalm 137 of golden gay Baker commentary Old Testament wisdom in the Psalms Very awesome Okay, I'm Psalm 137 being mindful and Reads by the rivers of Babylon there we sat. Yes, we wept We cried When we were mindful of Zion On the poplars and its myths we hung our layers our instruments because there are captors Asked for the words of a song to entertain them Our markers for joyfulness sang us one of the Zion songs and Then we reflect how are we to sing Yahweh song God song on foreign soil? If I put out my mind Jerusalem city of peace or the city or our native land which you come from but Whether whether your descendants come in from a different area or whether you're Native American or whether or not that you're Of course from and live and reside in the United States of America born and raised and your parents are from here And you just know that because you are a distinct People group that some people say you don't belong here. You belong God and Christ Names you he come the very hears of your hair on your head. He knew you before you were in your mother's womb He called you by name and you belong not only in the family of God, but you belong To wherever God has called you and you were born into Okay, and you are love beloved it reads May my tongue stick to my palate if I am not mindful of you if I do not lift up the city of peace above a Pinnacle of my joyfulness. So whether you're lifting up your countrymen whether you're lifting up Those that have passed away at the Tree of Life Center God Let let God comfort those who mourn bear each other's burdens and and be ever lifted up Let God Show in minister mercy It says Yahweh be mindful of the Eden mites Eden mites represents treachery atrocity giving to us Concerning where we are it says the people who were saying expose it expose it to their foundations of it Okay It says And then it continues to Try to ask for vindication, but we don't know and we don't need to recall vindication because vindication belongs to God Who has mercy and shows mercy and it's also good timing When God shall stop all the wickedness and violence as we had mentioned about the reaping and is sowing, okay? so And it reads in this passage One of the commentators of the Mexico border it says even keen who said his supporters The president's move predicted the troops will be eager to remain in their background and avoid any Confrontation with unarmed refugees and some think has mentioned keen mentioned I don't think they are looking forward to what it this visual will be He said trying to provide some kind of human barrier to stop people from coming into the United States I'm grateful that We serve an awesome God that we do not have to have Weapons of our warfare are not conno. They're not with human beings, but they are mighty through God Through the pulling down of strongholds every vice every spiritual wickedness But oftentimes when we put it into human hands to Protect and to defend Some of those measures may not equal up it could be excessive of force But we pray and keep our nation in prayer that it will not be excessive of force But that God will do a new thing and that he's creating Something better, but the enemy intended for harm. God can turn it around for our good The foreigners made prisoners then relocated captives to become forced laborers into camps of japanese americans in 1942 After world war two in pearl harbor Ronald Reagan gave an award of $20,000 to surviving persons of that era And here's the clip Many suspected their japanese american neighbors might be spies or saboteurs The military pressured president roosevelt to take action On february 19 1942 fdr issued executive order 9066 which made it legal to relocate japanese americans from the west coast Over 120,000 japanese americans were taken from their homes some of which were seized by white americans They could only bring with them what they could carry and were shipped to remote relocation centers Ones at the camps. They essentially became prisoners Nearly two-thirds of people interned were native-born american citizens Over a thousand young people from the camps volunteered for military service Eleanor roosevelt strongly opposed the internment She visited one of the camps and urged fdr to lift the order We must not forget this We must realize that one cannot tell the difference between a citizen and a non citizen by just looking at By seeing the color of his skin or by hearing you talk In 1944 the supreme court ruled that the government's actions were constitutional In january 1945 the executive order was rescinded the internees were released In 1948 Eleanor roosevelt helped draft the united nation's universal declaration of human rights Which prohibits the incarceration of innocent civilians We must work our fellow human beings To have rights and freedoms which give them dignity And which will give them a sense that they are Human beings that can walk the earth with their heads high and look all men in the face If we observe these rights For ourselves and for others I think we would find that it is easier to live To build peace We raised august 1988 president ronald wagan signed the civil liberties Commended 20,000 cash reward to survive in persons of incarcerated Okay So that's the discovery of our history of the order of executive order 9066 Okay, the other one is called the um trail of tears Okay Trail of tears is one of from one of my ancestors and group native americans Here is my aunt silvia soogs her family Who lived in 1912 1914 in ockensaw? They lived out there um in ockensaw And they were Forced to move to migrate To oklahoma someone forced to migrate To the north And she ended up passing away at a wonderful age at 104 years old From 1912 to 2016 she lived 104 years and lived to see the depression wars Um this nation how it has evolved the millennials and She had a lot of laughter to give to us and get to my my family and my parents So god be the glory for her life and for her siblings and here's a picture of her siblings and my mom And they all are This is first second and third generation of native americans And I am in that part of people group to god be the glory And also african-american to god be the glory so rich very rich rich history And i'll give you a clip of the trail of tears So here these mountains were home to the cherokee But they were just a small piece of their vast nation which covered 40 Miles here are the appalachian mountains In 2019 as more and more americans started encroaching on indian land The u.s. Government signed a treaty that guaranteed that cherokee land would be off limits to white centers forever It clearly stated All white people who have intruded or may hear after intrude in the lands reserved for the cherokees shall be moved by the united states Confident that the u.s. Government now recognized its sovereignty over its own lands The cherokee nation proceeded to build itself a new capital in 1825 Here in what's known as newly chosen georgia It had its own courthouse Council house and post office An evil space for the first indian language newspaper office in the nation In 1829 Andrew Jackson was elected u.s president He believed that native americans were savages and had no rights to their land And began proceedings to remove the Cherokee from the southern states to clear the way for white settlement The next year he signed the 1830 indian removal act which said in motion One of the most brutal actions ever taken by the u.s. Government 1830 removal act thousands of native americans Were pulled from their homes in georgia and other states across the south Many were shackled in chains and forced to walk at gunpoint more than a thousand miles west On a series of routes that all led to a course to leave to The 15,000 areas who were forced to make the journey to hide on the way Which is one reason that journey came to be known as the trail of tears the trail of tears Their descendants are known today as the eastern band of cherokee indias and live here on sovereign indian land In cherokee, north carolina young cherokee here in the local high school learn the language of their forbearers Stretch of their tribe's former land right next to town Is now the great smoky mountains national park the most visited national park in the nation And that's right near ashfield north carolina so No, beloved that you are not alone in the atrocities of Nations against nations and I believe that's also in the biblical texts So just stay encouraged stay informed. Um, stay prayed up Stay in love and godliness stay in peace So, um, get the help that you need if you have What do you call it explosions of your own heart that you feel that you cannot bear it yourself Go get the help that you need get counsel Seek a chaplain myself seek also those who are in medical field Psychiatrists psychologists or To discuss any of your issues. Um, also Keep in touch with each other. Um, have a network and continue to grow together. Um, Have what do you call it? your own Informative groups and just continue to get involved stay involved. Um, stay informed and um And this is a time of growth a time of reconciliation a time to love and a time to see Exactly to make good choices in life. Um And I thank god that he's given a stewardship He's not allowing himself to force his way into our hearts But he's allowing humankind to make the right choices And again, like it said, it's not by human might it's not by human power But it's by god's spirit Some things that we say this person is doing this But also you have to see the cosmos and see what's happening behind that And if you are discerning and if you have the discerning spirit god will see best Of how you should pray and how you should go into your prayer closet to pray on behalf of such people So let's pray heavenly father. We thank you lord god for this nation. We thank you father for the world We thank you lord god that you have not Abandoned us. You have not forsaken us And lord god, we thank you lord god for strengthening us We thank you lord god for hovering your holy spirit Not just around about united states about about throughout the world And the name of jesus that you breathe your roja your breath your wind your spirit And lord god, you say from the uttermost to the guttermost Those who are without Food shelter those who are experience Floods and all different Catastrophic events lord god. We thank you for comforting those those who lost their loved ones In recent days through deaths through illnesses through terrorist attacks Through hatred through crimes through racial disparities lord god help us lord god Help us to be a better people of better human kinds to each other In the mighty name of jesus lord god We just thank you lord god that is it it doesn't cost us anything to be kind lord god You said but to humble ourselves to seek your face to turn from our wicked ways and to turn from you That you might heal our land And thank you lord god. We can count it all done and jesus mighty name. Thank god amen and amen