When the Lord Jesus Christ put on our heart for a nationwide movement to restore Christian Biblical values and principles within the hearts and minds of the American people, we did not know exactly what that looked like.  But as we continued in prayer and petition the Lord Jesus Christ continued to reveal His will for us and for America.  He put on our heart a great need to ensure that the next leader of our nation is a true Christian Conservative.  Granted, my brother and I had just recently become new believers and new conservatives, but we were willing to submit our entire lives to the obedience and calling of the Lord.  So as the Lord put on our heart to build a national movement to lift up our nation’s next leader, the Lord put on our heart the name of that leader: Indiana Congressman Mike Pence.

Immediately we said to ourselves there is no way that this third term congressman who has no national following and zero name identification outside of the state of Indiana can be elected to our nation’s highest office.  But then we suddenly remembered a sermon we had just recently heard.  Our dear friend Wes Neal spoke eloquently about how committed Christians need to find a battle worth fighting.  He told us that we need to find a battle, a cause, so great and so impossible, that there is no way for it to succeed unless the Lord Jesus Christ is at the center of it.  So we had found that great and noble cause.  And the Lord had called us to put total faith and trust in Him in order to show us that He is Lord of all things, both on Heaven and on earth.  So we prayed and told God that if you want Mike Pence to be President you have to put it all together, we will be your instruments, but ultimately you will be the Captain.

So the next day, lo and behold, Mike Pence was on the front page of the USA Today.  There was an article about conservatives in D.C. and it highlighted specifically Mike Pence.  It showed a picture of him and his wife on the campaign trail, and spoke about how he is a man of God and family.  It also told of how he is fighting for our conservative principles in Washington, D.C.  So it was a strong reaffirmation that the Lord Jesus Christ was going to lift up Mike Pence as the leader of the conservative movement and the leader for our great nation.  

Since then there has been many things that the Lord Jesus Christ has put together to continue to lift up Mike Pence, but the most striking has been all the media attention that this Indiana Congressman has received. 

Don Devine of the American Conservative Union wrote an article titled “Conservative Revival?” http://acuf.org/issues/issue21/040928 news.asp" title="http://acuf.org/issues/issue21/040928 news.asp" target="_blank"http://acuf.org/issues/issue2... where he specifically highlights Mike Pence’s bold stand to lead the revolt against the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefits bill.   

Christopher Lee of the Washington Post wrote an article titled “Putting a New Face on Conservatism: Indiana Lawmaker Favors Polite Debate.” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5494 0-2005Mar21.html" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5494 0-2005Mar21.html" target="_blank"http://www.washingtonpost.com...  This article was one of the first articles to come out to do a profile on Mike Pence.  In the article Lee wrote, "I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different," Pence said in an interview at his Capitol Hill office.  "I'd tell people, 'I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.' And my Christianity, first and foremost, governed the way that I tried to deal with people."  This was also a huge article because Stephen Moore, who many deem as the leader of the fiscal conservatives, clearly implied that Pence was the rightful heir to the Reagan legacy.

Stephan Dinan then wrote an article in The Washington Times titled “Medicare Bill Incites House Conservatives”

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highlighting Mike Pence’s effective and decisive leadership in the revolt against the 2003 Medicare bill.  In the article Dinan writes, "I'm like a minuteman who shows up 10 years late," Pence said. "I first ran for Congress before the revolution, and I arrived in Congress after it was over. But in that period of time, I never lost my belief in the principles — the Reagan principles — of limited government and traditional moral values that I ran on in the first place."  This article was also huge for Pence’s base as he boldly proclaims, "To me, I look at it and I say, 'I'm out, I'm all the way — I'm pro-life, I don't apologize for it.' My district knows what I stand for, and God bless them, and I give God the glory, 67 percent of my district said 'Keep doing it.' So look out."

These articles all came out right when the Lord put on our hearts to lift up this Godly man for principled leadership in our nation.  It clearly shows that Pence is a man who is after God’s heart and leads according to His personal faith in and relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.  He stands on principle alone and does not do what is politically expedient for his career.  Because of his righteous stances on our conservative issues, Pence has steadily become the national figure for conservatism that the Lord has prepared him to be.  Now it is up to us to become the committed Christians and servants that God has called and prepared us to be.  Our nation is the one last hope of mankind for a free society where Christianity is able to flourish both at home and abroad.  Will we make the righteous stand to right our ship back to the American principles of limited government and traditional moral values or will we succumb to the apathy that has allowed our American system to veer off course to the unfriendly waters of Big Government Republicanism? 

My fellow Americans, we have come to another time for choosing.  And this decision will not only determine the direction and future of our nation, but also for the future of our children and our grandchildren.  Freedom must prevail, Christ must be glorified, and America must return to the principles that Ronald Reagan brought to Washington, D.C. and that our Founding Fathers brought to our shores.