Join Barbara Carmack as she discusses the importance of prayer in addressing chaotic times and the need for spiritual alignment. She reflects on President Trump’s initiatives to tackle government inefficiencies and fraud, and how faith can guide us through such societal challenges. Let’s explore the path to an abundant life, learn to embrace God’s mercy, and discover how morning devotions can set the tone for a peaceful day.
Welcome to Call to Freedom with Barbara Carmack. This is Jimmy Lakey, and I’m delighted that you are joining us for this half hour. You can reach Call to Freedom at Box 370367, Denver, Colorado, 80237, or by going to the website at www.freedomstreet.org. If you want to leave a message or order a Word Power Daily Reading Bible Guide or a Freedom Street Express newsletter, you can call us toll free at 1-877-917-7256 and leave your name and address, including your zip code. If you want to talk to Barbara right now, she is expecting your call. You may call that same toll-free number, 1-877-917-7256 to speak to her. And now, let’s join Barbara in the studio.
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Welcome to Call to Freedom. Thank you for joining me today. God has prepared the day for you and put his blessing upon it. He stamped his blessing upon it just for you. You know why? Because he loves you. He loves you. I want to tell that to you almost every day that he loves you. God really, truly does love you. I am enjoying these warm days in March. I know March is the snowiest month in the year, but I am enjoying these nice, warm, sunny days. Oh, you are blessed to dispense for in him you live and move and have your being. I am also enjoying just being able to be live Monday through Thursday and be able to talk to you about things that are pertinent to us and get us into a prayer mode of praying for like I’m going to read more about the president’s speech about praying for President Trump, praying for Elon Musk, because we have dealerships, even in Colorado, that are destroying the electric car. Now, yesterday when I said curse those charging stations, I didn’t mean to go and destroy. No. And I didn’t mean that, really. I was being very sarcastic. So I want you to know that we need to really respect the office’s And the appointments that President Trump has given to people. I know in Loveland, they had burned several Teslas in the parking lot of the Tesla car dealership. And it’s just really sad. It’s sad that people think that they… They can just destroy. And I hope that you are the kind of person that says, oh, I want to pray for them. I really do want to pray for them. On the way here to the station, a guy was just in the middle of the street, just darting back and forth, causing cars to stop or to go over into the other lane. We’re going to see more of that chaotic, nonsensical mental issue in this day and age because it’s going to be really a change in the last days that we have never seen before. So get into that prayer mode, my friend. Get into that prayer mode. I was saying yesterday that we’re going to be focusing on Isaiah 55, verse 9. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways. And this is the Lord speaking. So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. And I want to read from the Passion, Isaiah 55, 1 through 11, an invitation to an abundant life. You want an abundant life? Well, let’s read this. from the Passion Translation. Verse one, listen, are you thirsty for more? Oh, we always are. We’re always thirsty for more. On my way, sometimes I get a iced latte coming to the studio so I can have a drink and refresh my throat. Come to the refreshing waters and drink. And we know that Jesus is talking about the living water, that is Holy Spirit who is living inside of us, my friend. Oh, It’s wonderful. Come to the refreshing waters and drink. Even if you have no money, come buy and eat. Yes, come and buy all the wine and milk you desire. It won’t cost a thing. And this is the best of the best. I’ll tell you, I love Royal Crest. I’ve been ordering it on a weekly basis for over 20 years. And I love their milk. It’s really the best. But the milk from God, the wine from God, the word from God that is milk and honey and wine to your soul, it won’t cost a thing, and it’s the most precious. Verse 2 of Isaiah 55, why spend your hard-earned money on something that can’t nourish you or work so hard for something that can’t satisfy? Listen carefully to me and you’ll enjoy a sumptuous feast, delighting in the finest of food. Pay attention and come closer to me and hear that your total being may flourish in that spirit, soul, and body, my friend. I will enter into an everlasting covenant with you, and I will show you the same faithful love that I showed David. Remember, Jerusalem is called the city of David. God just has a special place for King David, and he puts you in that same wonderful position with King David. I mean, he delights in you. See, I made him a witness to the nations, an example of leadership as prince and commander of the peoples. And yesterday I brought out the fact that he has raised up a man for this time, for such a time as this in America. And that man, I believe, is President Trump. Verse 5 of Isaiah 55 says, Look, you will summon nations you’ve never heard of. Nations who have never heard of you will come running to follow you because Yahweh, your God, the Holy One of Israel, has glorified you. And God’s mercy is so great. Every day when I realize, Ah! That pride and all that selfishness and everything, it just comes boiling up and over. And I’m going, oh, Father, forgive me. Forgive me. He says, oh, my mercy covers that. My mercy covers everything that you do. Because, friend, he does that for you. We are his children. And he’s covering us with his mercy. Verse six of Isaiah 55 says, seek the Lord Yahweh when he makes himself approachable. And he’s living in us. So I think that’s pretty approachable. Call upon him when you sense he is near. The wicked need to abandon their ways. The sinful ones need to banish every evil thought, casting it down. Hallelujah. Let them return to Yahweh and they will experience his passion, compassionate mercy. Yes, let them return to God, for he will lavish forgiveness upon them. Verse 8 of Isaiah 55, For my thoughts about mercy are not like your thoughts, and my ways are different from yours. As high as the heavens are above the earth, so my ways and my thoughts are higher than yours. As the snow and the rain that fall from heaven do not return until they have accomplished their purpose and their purpose is soaking the earth and causing it to sprout new life, providing seed to sow and bread to eat. Here’s God. Oh, God, here’s the clincher. So also will be the word that I speak. And the word that God speaks to you through his word is the word that you now begin to speak through your mouth. Yes, take his word and speak it through your mouth. Here it is. Verse 11 of Isaiah 55. So also will be the word that I speak. It does not return to me unfulfilled or empty or void. My word performs my purpose and fulfills the mission. I sent it out to accomplish. I hope that as you have an issue or a need or something in your life that comes up, you will speak the word to that specific need in your life. If you need healing, oh, he sent his word and healed them and delivered them out of their destruction. And that’s Psalm 107 verse 20 or Romans 8 verse 11. Oh, that same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you and he will quicken and make alive your mortal body. Oh, these are such great scriptures, my friends. You need to just really get those scriptures down deep inside of you. Oh, peace and joy be yours as you submit to God’s mercy, love and instructions. Yesterday, I had such a great time reading from President Trump’s speech from the joint session of Congress on March the 4th. I want to continue it today. I find it’s fun every once in a while just to depart and talk about the things that are happening in the country. Yes, we’re going to go through some discomfort today. I mean, we’ve all gone through discomfort to get what we want, haven’t we? Oh, we have. I remember when Darren and I were homeless. We had to stay with a dear friend for six months in her bedroom. And it was not fun. But now God has given me a home that I can enjoy. So discomfort for a moment is going to bring great results and rewards. I’m going to continue. I’m going to repeat what I was talking about yesterday because I was kind of hurried at the end of the program, talking about some of the projects that have billions of dollars have been given to. And with the help of many qualified people, Donald Trump has created a brand new Department of Government Efficiency, and that’s DOGE. And the following are some of the demeaning and fraudulent projects that he mentioned yesterday. $22 billion to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens. I mean, see if you get a free house and free car. All we get are bills. Hallelujah. Oh, praise God. He supplies all our needs, friends. $45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion scholarships in Burma. In Burma. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. What does sedentary migrants mean? Those are standing still. Nobody knows what that is, he mentioned. $8 million to promote LGBTQ plus in the African nation of Lesotho. which nobody has ever heard of. $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America. $60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender. This is real. He commented on that. This is real stuff. $32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova. $10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique. $32 $20 million for the Sesame Street in the Middle East. It’s a program. It’s a television program that your children used to watch. And they’re spending $20 million on it. And I don’t think it’s going there. $20 million for that program. And $1.9 billion to recently create a decarbonization of homes committee. Do you know who heads up that committee for $1.9 billion? It’s Stacey Abrams. You’ve heard of her. She’s tried to get President Trump in jail many times, and she asked for $1.9 billion for decarbonization of homes committees. I can’t even believe some of this stuff. $47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia. Asia is doing very well with learning, he mentioned. And what are we doing? We should use it ourselves. And $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education. He’s going to get rid of it. and the most ever paid, nothing even like it. We found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud, and we’ve taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things. Taking back a lot of that money, we got it just in time. Really, if it wouldn’t have been done in these four years, friends, I don’t think we would have an America left. And taking back a lot of that money, we got it just in time. This is just the beginning. The Government Accountability Office, Federal Government Office has estimated an annual, every year, friend, an annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation happening every year. That’s half a trillion dollars every year. You know why our deficit has skyrocketed? Because that’s what happened. And we are working very hard to stop it. We’re going to stop it. We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors and that our seniors and their people we love and rely on. Then President Trump went into the fraudulent use of money for recipients of Social Security. A lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid. They don’t ask questions anymore, and nobody ever does anything about it, and it really hurts Social Security and hurts our country. This is waste and fraud at the highest level. 1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159. They’re getting Social Security checks. I don’t know anybody that’s 150 years old and 159 years old. And over 130,000 people, according to Social Security databases, are age over 160 years. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby, and he was remarking to Robert Kennedy that night. Including, to finish, 1,039 people behind the ages of 220 and 229 are receiving Social Security, one person between the age of 240 and 249, and one person is listed at 360 years of age. more than 100 years older than our country. Checks are going out to these non-people every month of every year, going to people who don’t exist. So where is the money going? We’re going to find out where that money is going, and it’s not going to be pretty by slashing all the fraud, waste, and theft. And the theft we can find, we’re going to put the money back in the pockets of the American families. You know, the Americans are such giving people, such generous people. And we just seem to be giving and giving and giving out of our ignorance. And I understand when you get bills and you try to call in and say, why is my bill so high? And they just give you all kinds of excuses. And it’s just unseemly. And he goes on in his speech, Americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change. For nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back America’s potential in every possible way. The nation founded by pioneers and risk-takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulation and debt. Approvals that should take 10 days to get instead take 10 years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you reject it. And it’s really interesting that farmers and small businesses, they go in to get some kind of help or donation. to label themselves maybe as a 501c3 or whatever, and it takes them years to get back approvals. And like I said before, that should take 10 days take 10 years. Meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work. My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again. Any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately because we’re draining the swamp and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over. And I believe President Trump was really working behind the scenes, even during the Biden administration, working behind the scenes to get things ready, to set things straight. And he says, the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this Congress to pass tax cuts for everybody. They’re in there. They’re waiting for you to vote. We’re seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board. Boy, that sounds great. And to get urgently needed relief to Americans hit especially hard by inflation. Yeah, I thought, you know, since I’m as old as I am, I shouldn’t have to pay tax anymore. Right. Yeah, go tell somebody that. I’m calling for no tax on tips, no tax overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our senior citizens. The Democrats are protesting that President Trump is taking away Social Security. No, he’s doing the opposite. He’s helping the senior citizens because he is one. Remember, President Trump is not taking a salary, and he’s wanting the best for the older population of our country. And he goes on to say, and I also want to make interest payments on car loans tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America. Oh, by the way, we’re going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody’s ever seen. Plants are opening up all over the place. Deals are being made like never seen. There’s a combination of the election win and tariffs. It’s crazy. And he says tariffs is a beautiful word. Well, right now we’re kind of questioning tariffs. But do you know what? There are countries that have charged us 100% tariffs. India, for example. India has charged us auto tariffs higher than 100%. China’s average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them. And South Korea’s average tariff is four times higher. Think of that. Four times higher. And we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea. And I’m so grateful. And, yes, like I said before in the program, this may be a little discomfort for a while. But, friend, it’s going to be so worth it. You know, it’s like having a baby, ladies. Yes. It’s very uncomfortable. It’s painful. And you’re screaming at the very last point where the baby comes out and you see that precious little baby. So we know that it may be discomfort. But, friend, it is going to be so worthwhile. And, for instance, Mexico and Canada have charged huge tariffs. We just want to get like tariffs, you know, same dollar for dollar to be balanced. And your loyalty to this great endeavor is needed more than ever before to pray for your president. Oh, and I have a song by Terry Blackwood, and it’s a mandate of spiritual proportions. Don’t start your day without spending some time with our Lord Jesus. I want to read some words from what they’re singing. I met God in the morning when the day was at its best, and his presence came like sunrise, like a glory within my breast. All day long his presence lingered. All day long he stayed with me. And we sailed in perfect calmness over a very troubled sea. Other ships were blown and battered. Other ships were so distressed. But the wind that seemed to drive them brought us to a peaceful rest. Peace and rest. So I think I know the secret. Learn from many troubled ways. You must seek God in the morning if you want him through the day. He may not take you out of the storm, my friend, but he’ll keep his hands on you and you will be safe in his arms. Here’s Terry Blackwood and the Imperials.
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I met God in the morning When the day was at its best And His presence came like sunrise Like a glory within my breast All along His presence lay Long he stayed with me And we saved in perfect calmness Over a very troubled sea Other ships were blown and battered Other ships were so distraught But the wind that seemed to drive them Brought to us a peace and rest A peace and rest Then I thought of other mornings With a keen remorse of mine When I too might lose a voice With this presence left behind Oh, I think I know the secret. Learned from many a troubled way. You must seek God in the morning. Take you on in through the day. See God in the morning
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Amen. Oh, I love the message of that song. I know Rachel was even saying right before the program, I love what they’re talking about. Thank you, Lord, that you must seek God in the morning if you want him through the day. And so many of us, about 5 o’clock in the afternoon, you know, if we are tired, oh, God, give me some peace and give me strength today. Well, if you start in the morning, I love what my husband John said. When we were starting to read the Word in the 70s, he said, no Bible, no breakfast. If I don’t get into my Bible first, I’m not going to have breakfast. Oh, he loved breakfast. He loved breakfast. And so it’s important that you get a little something going in your spirit. Well, if I don’t get into the Bible today, I’m not going to eat breakfast. Or if I don’t get into the Bible today, I’m going to fast all day. It’ll come. The Bible reading will come because we can’t take it without too much food for too long. Seek the Lord while you can find him. Call on him while he is near. That’s Isaiah 55, 6 and 7. I love the chapter, the 55th chapter of Isaiah. Let the wicked change their ways and banish the very thought of doing wrong, of doing wrong. Let them turn to the Lord that he may have mercy on them. Yes, turn to our God, for he will forgive generously. And God was saying to King Solomon, and this is 2 Chronicles 7, we sometimes forget the story around 2 Chronicles 7, 14. He finished the house of God and the king’s palace, and everybody was rejoicing and asking God to bless what they had done. And the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, boy, he appears to me at night quite a bit of time later. See, if he sends those kinds of things, if my people who are called by my name, Humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. Then I will hear from heaven. I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land. Oh, and my eyes shall be open and my ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. Well, we’ve offered that prayer. Friends, we’ve offered that prayer for years and God is coming. Oh, it’s coming to fruition because God has answered our prayers and he is answering our prayers. So keep up the praying. Remember, you must seek God in the morning if you want him through the day. Thank you so much, Terry Blackwood and Imperials. We appreciate that song. It’s called The Secret, if you want to Google. God bless you and keep you. Kimberly will be with me, the Lord willing, tomorrow. I love you guys. I really do. Take joy.
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Join Barbara Carmack as she discusses the importance of prayer in addressing chaotic times and the need for spiritual alignment. She reflects on President Trump’s initiatives to tackle government inefficiencies and fraud, and how faith can guide us through such societal challenges. Let’s explore the path to an abundant life, learn to embrace God’s mercy, and discover how morning devotions can set the tone for a peaceful day.
