Posted on 05/05/2016 5:04:42 AM PDT by huldah1776
Thursday May 5 marks the 65th annual National Day of Prayer and organizers are calling upon Americans across the country to humbly come before God's throne.
The theme for 2016 is Wake Up America, which highlights the need for people, as a group and individually, to turn back to the God of our Fathers and revere His Holy Name.
This year's National Day of Prayer Scripture is Isaiah 58:1a: "Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet."
The co-chairmen of the Congressional Prayer Caucus released a video to recognize Thursday's observance and the importance of prayer.
"Prayer reminds you again that there is someone much bigger than yourself," co-chairman Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) said on the video. "When you serve in the Senate or in the House, you see the complexities of the problems that we face in the nation in a whole different way. The nation as a whole turns their attention to you and says, 'These things need to be fixed.' It pushes all of us that know God to also turn to God and say, 'God, there's a nation...looking to us to help. We need Your help. We need Your guidance.'"
The Congressional Prayer Caucus has increased from one member, Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA), to 100 members.
"Today, on some nights when you go into Room 219 at the beginning of each week, it'll be standing room only of Republicans, Democrats and Independents all going in there, literally getting down on their knees and praying that God would heal our land and praying for people across this country, but also praying that God would give us wisdom as to how to govern this nation," Forbes said.
The National Day of Prayer is held on the first Thursday in May. A joint resolution in Congress created the prayer initiative in 1952. President Harry S. Truman signed it into law.
The American Humanist Association is against the event and wants Congress to recognize the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Reason, according to Religion News Service (RNS).
"This is government recognition of prayer and that is wrong, no matter how you look at it," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. "Having a National Day of Reason on the same day says this is an example of a day the government can endorse that doesn't exclude people based on their answers to a religious question."
A proposal to create a National Day of Reason did not succeed in Congress last year, and a proposal this year is stalled in committee, according to RNS.
Three current U.S. representatives -- Mike Honda, D-Calif., Judy Chu D-Calif., and Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia -- sponsored this year's resolution, according to RNS, which adds that is more than in any other year.
RNS also reports that last year, governors in the states of Iowa, Nebraska and Delaware issued proclamations that established a Day of Reason alongside the National Day of Prayer. Iowa will hold the Day of Reason again this year.
Praying with you for our beloved USA, today, and always, in Jesus name, Amen.
I'm here only because of a FB reminder ... then a FR search, and yours is the only post
Father, forgive us for being so busy or stupid or distracted that we don't use the freest and most powerful tool given to us to build ANYthing ... prayer
Help us, O God, that we, in this election cycle, appreciate the leader You've deemed what we need and please Father ... Bless America Again
In Jesus' name, Amen
Lord we praise you. You the one true living almighty God. Have mercy on us.
Father, we come together and humbly ask that you continue to bless and protect this beloved nation of ours. We give thanks for all you have given us and blessed us with. We also ask that you continue to place your protection around Mr. Trump in his time of peril and let no evil come against him.
we ask, if it be Thy will, in your Son Yahshua’s precious name, amen.
I think the deep, wide and rushing river of prayers reaching up to Heaven from and for the US is the only reason that there isn’t a smoking hole in the ground where America used to be.
Pray more, longer and harder America. Call on all of the Saints and Angels to come to our aid. Pray because our eternal lives depend on it. It’s an EMERGENCY.
Praise God Almighty for His Infinite Mercy.
Saint Michael the Archangel
Defend us in battle,
Be our protection against,
The wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him,
We humbly pray
and do thow,
O prince of the heavenly host,
Thrust into Hell,
Satan and all of the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world,
seeking the ruin of souls.
Maybe most of us thought it was from Glenn Beck.
Amen!
This Catholic joins in your prayer.
If you do not pray any certain prayers, say “Help me or (help the USA) God!” or say at least “Thank-you God” .
Another way is through the Bible:
Psalm 91New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
Psalm 91
Assurance of God’s Protection
1 You who live in the shelter of the Most High,
who abide in the shadow of the Almighty,[a]
2 will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress;
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler
and from the deadly pestilence;
4 he will cover you with his pinions,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.
5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
or the arrow that flies by day,
6 or the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
or the destruction that wastes at noonday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only look with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 Because you have made the Lord your refuge,[b]
the Most High your dwelling place,
10 no evil shall befall you,
no scourge come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways.
12 On their hands they will bear you up,
so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the adder,
the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.
14 Those who love me, I will deliver;
I will protect those who know my name.
15 When they call to me, I will answer them;
I will be with them in trouble,
I will rescue them and honor them.
16 With long life I will satisfy them,
and show them my salvation.
I also offer this Psalm prayer not just for GOP frontrunner Donald J. Trump, but also for the USA during these very difficult times.
Have mercy on me, a sinner
pingaroo
Thank-you for your sharing and God Bless.
Will do today and everyday.
Reagan authorized the National Day Of Prayer ... and today's post indicates no one remembers
:) 18 replies. Very apropos for the state of the union.
Dear Very Sad American,
Rejoice in the LORD!
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