Prayer for Termination: bin Laden & Zarqawi

29Dec04 | xzins

[xzins]

Termination of bL&Z, 29Dec04

Almighty God, we approach your throne in humbleness of heart because we see these days how quickly lives can be lost in natural disaster. Our lives are brief, and we are unwise not to admit that fact. Nonetheless, our lives are assigned by Your Almighty Hand, and, therefore, they are not unjustly to be despised, debased, or destroyed by the hand of man. Your command to us is this: "Thou shalt not murder."

That is why we lift our voices imploring for the soon termination of binLaden and alZarqawi. These have unjustly taken into their own hands the power of life and death -- a power reserved only for You, the only Infinitely Wise and Just One. The injustice of their actions is proven in that they have with intent violently murdered innocents. They have not with integrity behaved even as would the least of soldiers. They have secretly plotted the murder of bystanders, children, mothers, and other innocents. The lives of these deliberately murdered cry to you from the ground.

We pray for the soon and successful termination of the search for them or for the termination of their own lives.

We pray this in the name of Jesus; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

[xzins]

Anyone is encourage to add his/her own prayer for the capture and/or killing of binLaden and alZarqawi.

[redgolum]

I pray for them to become Christian.

The bible tells us to pray for our enemies.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Uh... Yeah. Ok. I'll come up with a nice beautiful uplifting prayer, calling for someone's death... I'll get right on it.

Not.

[stuartcr]

Nothing like praying for someones death to start off a happy new year.....

[MP5SD]

This is wrong as two boys kissing.

[OpusatFR]

I pray that God deals with them. I pray for their conversion and the conversion of all Islam to the light of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

I really do believe in praying for enemies. I've seen some wonderous things happen to people who would harm others.

[telder1]

The prayer is incomplete. You are required to pray for their souls because no matter what they have done, they are in the end but deceived. Absolutely--yes, pray for the evil sin does through them to cease immediately howsoever God may do that to include killing them through the military, etc..--but do not hate them. Hate the sin. Satan and Sin is the only true enemy of God--not just us. The prayer God speaks through you for them comes back to you in your own deceptions. Pray for mercy on both you and them. As being real, literal new creation in Jesus Christ you are indeed morally superior to those who are as yet still fallen and deceived in sin. But one of the things God does through you as new creation in Jesus Christ is pray for those not-yet born again and who as such, are absolute pagans.

Matthew 5:43-48 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen

[Salvation]

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

One of the last words of Christ on the Cross!

[Salvation]

Wednesday in the Octave of Christmas

I am baptizing you with water, for repentance, but the one who is coming after me is mightier than I. I am not worthy to carry his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing fan is in his hand. He will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 3:3-11)

John is famous, attracting great crowds, Jesus is unknown. Yet John makes it clear that Jesus ranks above him. John is a fiery preacher, but a humble man.

John’s expectations of Jesus – that he too would be a “fire-and-brimstone” preacher – were not entirely accurate. Later, when John was in prison, he sent some of his own disciples to ask Jesus, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” The merciful, healing Jesus who ate and drank with sinners did not match John’s expectation of a fiery preacher.

There are times when we feel as John did. How can God continue to let evil people do what they do? What’s taking so long? Step in and crush them.

In Jesus we learn that God is patient with sinners. Which is a break for us – for you and for me – since we are all sinners.

Spend some quiet time with the Lord.

(from another thread)

[St. Johann Tetzel]

In the month of December alone, the USA "legally" murdered 120,000 innocents.

Shall we now pray God to terminate every SCOTUS justice and politician who supports legal abortion?

The USA's war on the population of Third World countries, to protect our strategic interests in the strategic reserves there, has murdered by abortion untold millions of minorities world wide.

Shall we pray God bring destruction upon all taxpayers who funded this demographic warfare on third world innocents?

[Salvation]

Excellent questions.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

People see the good we do corporately as Americans, but many refuse to see the evil we do.

The USA has murdered, by distribution and exportation of abortifacient birth control and legalized abortion, far more innocents than OBL, Zarqawi, and Saddam combined.

I just think we Americans better be damn careful calling on God to terminate "evil men."

He might just take us at our word, and we will find ourselves the victims of disasters far worse than that we are seeing after the tsunamis.

[ArrogantBustard]

Amen ... Let us pray for the repentacnce and conversion of the mohammedans ... and the terrorists ... and the abortionists

And let us pray that we, ourselves, do not succumb to Pride, or Presumption, or Sloth.

[Salvation]

Couldn't agree more.

[St. Johann Tetzel]

Luke 18:9-14 (New International Version)

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: 10“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.

11The Pharisee stood up and prayed about[a] himself: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men–robbers, evildoers, adulterers–or even like this tax collector. 12I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’

13“But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’

14“I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

[Askel5]

No doubt about it ... folks should be careful what they wish for.

Regards, St. Johann.

Pray for them ... they know not what they do.

[OpusatFR]

Well, I don't convert anyone. I don't preach. I don't confront.

If I pray, it is out of conviction. It isn't up to me whether Christ converts them. I can only ask. He can only listen and decide what he already has decided.

[bornacatholic]

Ecclesiasticus

Chapter 36

1 Have mercy upon us, O God of all, and behold us, and shew us the light of thy mercies:

2 And send thy fear upon the nations, that have not sought after thee: that they may know that there is no God beside thee, and that they may shew forth thy wonders.

3 Lift up thy hand over the strange nations, that they may see thy power.

4 For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence,

5 That they may know thee, as we also have known thee, that there is no God beside thee, O Lord.

6 Renew thy signs, and work new miracles.

7 Glorify thy hand, and thy right arm.

8 Raise up indignation, and pour out wrath.

9 Take away the adversary, and crush the enemy.

10 Hasten the time, and remember the end, that they may declare thy wonderful works.

11 Let him that escapeth be consumed by the rage of the fire: and let them perish that oppress thy people.

12 Crush the head of the princes of the enemies that say: There is no other beside us.