CN Morning Rundown: Many Americans Anticipate ‘Survival Mode’ for 2021

Here’s a quick summary of the top stories on cn.mycharisma.com:

2021: 38% of Americans Say They Will Spend the Year in ‘Survival Mode’

If nearly 40% of the nation anticipates spending the next 12 months in “survival mode,” it’s not a good sign for the coming year.

Traditionally, Americans look forward to the turn of the year with optimism, but this time around, things are different. 2020 brought the COVID pandemic, tremendous violence and civil unrest in major cities and the greatest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Sadly, a large chunk of the country is anticipating more difficulties in the coming months.

Thirty-eight percent of the 3,011 adults who participated in the Fidelity survey said they will spend the year in “survival mode,” meaning they’ll focus on one day at a time rather than long-term goals to try to get themselves and their families through 2021.

Although some respondents maintained their usual income over the past year, 68% had setbacks. Of those, 23% lost a job or household income; 20% had an unexpected non-health emergency; 18% had to provide unexpected financial aid to family or friends; and 16% had a health emergency in their family.

Spirit-Filled Intercessor: Why God Will Deliver Us From This ‘Coup’ Attempt

I received a letter from a ministry partner last week who felt it was important that I accept the election as finished and Joe Biden as the next president.

“My husband and I have prayed and feel at peace with the result. I believe it is proof of God’s judgment over Donald Trump,” she explained.

My concern is that her comment is grounded in what is seen with the natural eye, not taking into account who God is, what He requires and what He has done in the past.

Proverbs 25:26 (ESV) says, “Like a muddied spring or a polluted fountain is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.”

Am I calling Biden wicked? To be clear, I am calling what the Democrat platform and what Joe Biden says he supports as wicked. (If you disagree with that statement, that’s an entirely different conversation.)

Like many, I have continued to pray for a word and insight into what we see happening. There is no doubt that tension and division are mounting. But this isn’t just about what we see; it’s also about what we don’t see.

Michael Brown: Why This Pro-Choice Pastor’s Theology Is Compromising and Confusing

It is one thing to be a radical, feminist atheist marching down the streets of D.C. and proclaiming your “right” to abortion. It is another thing to be a “pro-choice pastor,” as Senate-candidate Raphael Warnock claims to be, using the Bible to justify abortion. This is as morally compromised as it is theologically confused.

Yet Warnock is unashamed of his position, tweeting on Dec. 8, “I am a pro-choice pastor.” Worse still, as of this writing, his tweet has more than 215,000 likes, representing almost half of the 500,000 followers of the Reverend Raphael Warnock Twitter account.

How can a reverend support abortion? How can a preacher of the gospel, whose sacred text is the Bible, support the killing of the unborn in the womb? And how can he do it without qualification, thereby including the right to kill the baby through the ninth month of pregnancy? What an absolute travesty.

But Warnock is not alone in his misguided zeal.

A pro-life colleague told me about an abortionist in our home city who tithed on her earnings (meaning, donated 10% of her abortion profits to her church). She believed she was doing God’s work. {eoa}