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The Prayer Room: Praying for America, FR, and all who need it
Various | 11/8/06 | Knitting a Conundrum

Posted on 11/09/2006 6:49:58 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.

Psalm 127:1
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At this time, when feelings run high, the world seems crazy, and anger seems to be the one thing the peoples of the world have in common, I invite you, my fellow FReepers, to join me in prayers and meditation for guidance, God's help and for our fellow man, for America, our troops,  and all our own needs.


Sweet hour of prayer! sweet hour of prayer!
That calls me from a world of care,
And bids me at my Father’s throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.
In seasons of distress and grief,
My soul has often found relief
And oft escaped the tempter’s snare
By thy return, sweet hour of prayer!

William Bradbury

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult.

Psalm 46: 1-3


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To: Twinkie
Praying for Lesa, Dear Twinkie, in our Savior's Holy Name.

Our Loving Lord of Grace,
We Lift Lesa Before Thee,
Asking for Thy Renewing Peace.
May the Touch of Heaven be Upon her,
Our Gracious Lord.
Be Pleased, Your Majesty,
To Grant her Thy Spirit of Grace.
May she Go Forth Mantled
In the Son's Healing Rays.
Bring Comfort to the Entire Family,
O King of Saints.

Surround Lesa with Thy Presence,
Merciful Lord.
Grant her Thy Spirit of Peace,
Our Caring God.

We Commit her to Thy Word,
And Thy Spirit,
As we Pray in Jesus' Name, amen.

1,941 posted on 03/01/2007 6:47:09 AM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: Twinkie
Sorry I am just now reading this. Still way behind on all my Prayer Room meditations and prayers, sadly. Just running to catch up.

{{Huggss to All}}}

Lighting a Candle for Lesa

Light A 48-hr FR Prayer Room Candle

FR Prayer Candles

1,942 posted on 03/01/2007 9:48:15 AM PST by Rte66
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; Hydroshock; pollywog; Pegita; Tribune7; Cedar; syriacus; trussell; ...

Psa 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
............
Psa 83:3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psa 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psa 83:5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
...........
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psa 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Psa 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Psa 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Psa 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Psa 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Psa 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Psa 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Psa 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
........
Psa 115:2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God?
Psa 115:3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/g/ognlongr.htm

O God, no longer hold Thy peace,
No longer silent be;
Thine enemies lift up their head
To fight Thy saints and Thee.
Against Thine own, whom Thou dost love,
Their craft Thy foes employ;
They think to cut Thy people off,
Thy church they would destroy.

Thine ancient foes, conspiring still,
With one consent agree,
And they who with Thy people strive
Make war, O God, on Thee.
O God, Who in our fathers’ time
Didst smite our foes and Thine,
So smite Thine enemies today
Who in their pride combine.

Make them like dust and stubble blown
Before the whirlwind dire,
In terror driv’n before the storm
Of Thy consuming fire.
Confound them in their sin till they
To Thee for pardon fly,
Till in dismay they, trembling, own
That Thou art God Most High.

Oh Lord, Redeemer King,
As those who hate you rail, try to discredit your Word and your Work, despise your Salvation and Son, have Mercy.
Draw sinners to your Son that they might be saved.
Comfort your people with Truth.
Let not the wicked be encouraged by our silence, but rather,
open the lips of those who are willing to be a witness of your Grace and Glory.
Let the Church testify and may you be Glorified in the Church.
In the Name above all names, JESUS.





1,943 posted on 03/01/2007 6:13:37 PM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: proud American in Canada; Jim Robinson
I'll say a prayer... b/c I just had a chance to check in here, and noticed that Freepers were (again) fighting against each other.
And now I see that Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe)is going nude.
Okay, I'm officially depressed. :)
But I have faith in the Freeper community, It may take time. but I have faith.

LOL How many places could you make those statements in a row and not be carted off by men in white coats?

AND have those within ear shot nodding their heads in agreement???

I love Free Republic.

Prayers of peace, strength and love for all of our Frreper friends and family in need and in pain.

1,944 posted on 03/01/2007 6:27:37 PM PST by pinz-n-needlez (Jack Bauer wears Tony Snow pajamas)
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To: bperiwinkle7

BTTT


1,945 posted on 03/02/2007 3:04:59 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: bperiwinkle7

Isa 35:1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Isa 35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
Isa 35:3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Isa 35:4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

The Excellency of Carmel is Fruitfulness.
Carmel is in a mountain range in Israel, known for the fruit orchards and vineyards. During blossom time, the warm breezes make the entire area a vast perfumed land. It is beautiful and useful.

Joh 15:8 Here in is my father glorified,(praised) that ye bear much fruit, and be made my disciples.

LORD, help us to bear fruit and Glorify you today.

Php 3:11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
Php 3:12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because
Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Php 3:13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
Php 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Php 3:15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you.
Php 3:16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.





1,946 posted on 03/02/2007 9:01:40 AM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; bperiwinkle7; .30Carbine; Rte66; All
I was just Blessed in the Reading of these Scriptures, and Give Glory to Him Who Loves us with Forever-Love.

"All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus!
Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel!
He comes alongside us when we go through hard times,
And before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else
Who is going through hard times so that we can be there
For that person just as God was there for us.
We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah,
But no more so than the good times of his healing comfort—
We get a full measure of that, too." (2Cor.1:3-5)

"O My Afflicted People, Tempest-Tossed and Troubled,
I will Rebuild you on a Foundation of Sapphires
And Make the Walls of your Houses from Precious Jewels." (Is.54:11)

We Praise You, our Shepherd of Grace;
Your Wonders have Captured our Hearts.
There is No One Like Unto Thee,
Our Majestic God!
We Love You,
And Long for the Dawning of Eternity's Day.
O Lord, Grant Showers of Blessings
To the Children of Your Love.
Bring us All Together in Thy Kingdom,
In our Savior's Name, amen.

1,947 posted on 03/02/2007 12:41:10 PM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; Hydroshock; pollywog; Pegita; Tribune7; Cedar; syriacus; trussell; ...

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/l/allprais.htm

All praise to Thee, my God, this night,
For all the blessings of the light!
Keep me, O keep me, King of kings,
Beneath Thine own almighty wings.

Forgive me, Lord, for Thy dear Son,
The ill that I this day have done,
That with the world, myself, and Thee,
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be.

Teach me to live, that I may dread
The grave as little as my bed.
Teach me to die, that so I may
Rise glorious at the judgment day.

O may my soul on Thee repose,
And with sweet sleep mine eyelids close,
Sleep that may me more vigorous make
To serve my God when I awake.

When in the night I sleepless lie,
My soul with heavenly thoughts supply;
Let no ill dreams disturb my rest,
No powers of darkness me molest.

O when shall I, in endless day,
For ever chase dark sleep away,
And hymns divine with angels sing,
All praise to thee, eternal King?

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.


1,948 posted on 03/02/2007 8:30:34 PM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: Hydroshock; pollywog; Pegita; Tribune7; Cedar; syriacus; trussell; dandelion; alnick; ...

Meditation on the Death of Christ

I know not why you chose
this way
to show us your love,
to embrace a slave's death,
a death of public humilation,
torture and pain.
I know not why you chose
to carry the rough wood
that your hands knew so well
how to shape and form
into so many better things
than a tool of torture,
or why you let them
pierce you,
but this was your choice.

O Lord,
let me never forget
that you really walked those steps,
felt the blows,
the roughness of the wood,
the pain,
tasted the blood.
You were there,
and you did it for love,
abandoning all,
until you felt even abandoned by the Father,
nothing left
but our sins,
the pain,
and the darkness of death.

What greater love story ever
was composed upon this sad earth?


1,949 posted on 03/02/2007 8:46:28 PM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

BTTT


1,950 posted on 03/03/2007 3:02:57 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: bperiwinkle7

BTTT


1,951 posted on 03/03/2007 3:03:34 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Hydroshock; pollywog; Pegita; Tribune7; Cedar; syriacus; trussell; dandelion; alnick; ...



I

When all the darkness of a world gone mad with "me" and "mine"
presses against your heart with its dark futility,
watch the world and see what happens
when self becomes the measure of the truth,
no one way better or worse than another,
with no standard to give it value.
Relativism – a place with no verities.
What type of world is it
when millions of selves become the arbiters of what is right,
of what is holy,
what is worth believing,
each competing,
the child molester no less worthy of admiration
than the hero who rescues the dying,
where killing the sick and old seeming as good a deed as healing,
and children seem a futility of expense.

Listen to that cacophony of competing voices
drowning out a truth they do not want to face,
the fact that without family,
there is an empty hole in life,
where self-loathing shadows over the death of hope,
the fact that chasing sex and intoxication
will never sustain,
that things break,
heros fail,
that isms are imperfect answers for that hole in their lives,
and that no matter how they veil the reality,
their choices are leading them to a nightmare world,
where they try to make shifting desires the center of all,
turning the old granite of truth into quicksand,
unable to sustain a purposeless life.

Listen, and ask yourself,
have we not created the tower of Babel anew,
confusing our hearts, our spirits, our future
in our hubris to say Man, and not God is the center?

Where then, is the firm land
that will let you stand while the chaos grows,
as the center cannot hold,
and things fall apart?

The answer was given to you in the life of a single person
sent here with one purpose,
to bring you home.
Even now, he calls through the bitter waters of modern life,
and offers that transformation
that creates a sanctuary against the storm.
Look upon his cross,
his tomb,
his resurrection and know
one greater than any man
has touched the world,
leaving a cross-shaped beacon pointing the way
to the place where heaven and earth come crashing together,
an island of meaning against the midnight,
bought with blood,
sustained by love.

Laugh at him as old fashioned as you cry against the dark,
or listen to what he has to say,
and find the purpose you were missing.


II

Lord,
You offer so many graces to us,
your poor benighted children here on Earth,
graces that fall to the ground too often unwanted, ignored, unseen.

How often we turn to run to the dark when you offer us
that purifying light that will heal the aching in our hearts
as if it were some bitter tonic
instead of the Living Water,
perfect tonic for all that ails us.

Forgive us, Lord,
for the ingratitude of our wayward hearts,
for the cold determination to do what we want,
no matter what the cost.

Soften our hearts, O Lord, and open our eyes,
scaled over by sin and and willfullness and lack of trust,
until we see you standing there,
waiting patiently with outstretched hands,
ready to transform us step by step,
grace by grace
until you have made us into the child of light
you would have us be.

III

You gave me a dream one day, O Lord,
of midnight on a storming sea,
Hurricane winds blowing free,
washing up on an unprepared shore.

I watched as the waters swirled and rose,
huge swells washing all away
there in the darkness far from day,
The works of hands shattered in the water flows.

I watched how puny are the works we prize
The works of hands and sweat and dreams
Falling there beneath the streams
Nothing of man stopped the water's rise.

And yet, there on the water's face
Bobbing lightly as the waves moved on,
Survivors surfacing towards the dawn
Rafts and boats and planks and boards in place.

Even though wind tossed, and frightened there
even though battered in the night
they escaped into the light,
By the hand of loving care.

"My mercy," said the Lord to me
"I gave them refuge in my heart,
As the darkness took their world apart
Because they put their trust in me.
.
"Take care to understand and know
When darkness seems too dark to see
That I will hold you close to me
In darkest night, when storm winds blow

"If you will give your heart to me
To keep within my heart of love
You will always float above
The darkness of that midnight sea.

"Cling to my mercy now, this day,
The storm clouds gather, the darkness grows,
The seas are rising, the dark wind blows,
Come into my heart or wash away."


1,952 posted on 03/03/2007 6:58:30 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

BTTT


1,953 posted on 03/03/2007 7:20:17 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

"leaving a cross-shaped beacon pointing the way "

Come to the Cross.

Amen.

Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For sinners such as I?
[originally, For such a worm as I?]

Refrain

At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

Thy body slain, sweet Jesus, Thine—
And bathed in its own blood—
While the firm mark of wrath divine,
His Soul in anguish stood.

Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!

Well might the sun in darkness hide
And shut his glories in,
When Christ, the mighty Maker died,
For man the creature’s sin.

Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears.

But drops of grief can ne’er repay
The debt of love I owe:
Here, Lord, I give my self away
’Tis all that I can do.
--Isaac Watts 1707


1,954 posted on 03/03/2007 9:33:36 AM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum; trussell; GretchenM; Pegita; Kitty Mittens; bperiwinkle7

Good morning. What a wonderful place to find refuge in the times of storm. KAC, thank you and others here, for so faithfully sharing the Word Of God , Poems and Prayers.
I have both a Praise and a Prayer request.......
First a PRAISE...
For the past 2 years, our daughter has been estranged from us. Her son, our grandson was removed from her. We have been caring for him. We have been dilengently bringing her before the Lord in Prayer. She had another baby in January. Yesterday I answered our door to find her on our doorstep with our newest granddaughter. The tears would not stop flowing as I held our sweet bundle for the first time. I was able to tell dd that we love her, pray for her, and want healing in our relationship. The Courts are about to remove permanent custody of the grandson that we are raising, from her. We are praying only for the perfect WILL of GOD...I can tell you that I don't know what that is to be in this case, but only that I see the work of God's Hand in bringing her home for a visit after a year of not coming home.

Two prayer requests now. The court is in two weeks. Please pray that God's PERFECT WILL be done in our grandsons' case. We ask for wisdom in what we say and do.

Second, my nieces' daughter and hubby are expecting a baby. She has not been able to carry a baby to term. She has miscarried twice. She is 27 weeks and just found out that her baby has no kidneys and a enlarged heart. The doctor says the baby will die as soon as it is born. I have been compelled to pray for what would humanly seem impossible. The creation of two perfect kidneys.God can breathe and create.......He is the same God now as He was when the foundations of the earth were formed. If it is in HIS PERFECT WILL, I am asking for two nice kidneys for baby Jaydon. What a witness to the power of God that would be to doctors', friends that need Jesus in their lives, and the family. Even so Lord Jesus, not our will but THINE be DONE.

Under His Wings,
Polly


1,955 posted on 03/03/2007 10:21:35 AM PST by pollywog (Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,)
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To: pollywog

Prayers, Polly, that the Lord's will be done. And that he hold all of you in his loving, healing hands.


1,956 posted on 03/03/2007 10:31:03 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: pollywog

Oh Polly,
I rejoice with you and I will pray in agreement with you.
Love,
bp


1,957 posted on 03/03/2007 11:30:23 AM PST by bperiwinkle7 ( In the beginning was the WORD,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: bperiwinkle7

Thank you bp! Your prayers mean much to me! Our God is indeed a " awesome God".
today I am very weary. the experience tended to drain me, even though good.
Polly


1,958 posted on 03/03/2007 1:32:10 PM PST by pollywog (Joshua 1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid,)
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To: pollywog
Dear Polly, you have your cart full! And to know you've been over on Carrie's thread, praying diligently through all of this -- it's humbling. I will pray as you request.

God can do ANYTHING.

1,959 posted on 03/03/2007 3:14:14 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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To: pollywog
Praying that our Lord will Do a Miracle for Jaydon,
That He Might Receive Glory and Highest Praise.
I Wrote your Prayer Requests Down,
And will Take them to our Father in Prayer.
Please Hear us, Your Excellency,
In Thy Wonderful and Glorious Name!


1,960 posted on 03/03/2007 4:21:51 PM PST by Kitty Mittens (To God Be All Excellent Praise!)
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