The Prayer Room: Praying for America, FR, and all who need it

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>

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

Your Posts of Love and Praise to our King are a Special Blessing to me, and I Love this Peaceful Place of Prayer.

Thank You, our Savior and God, for this Place of Worship and Praise. Your Blessings are Manifold and Great, and we Love to Lift High Thy Name. We Adore our Glorious Lord of lords, our Savior, our Master, our Mighty King of kings. Cover my Brothers and Sisters with Blessing, and Answer All their Prayers, our Lord of Love.

Revive our America, our Gracious God, and Turn us from our Wickedness and Sin. Strengthen and Protect our Military, O Powerful God. Thank You for Caring for us; Thank You for Your Precious, Gracious Love.

Jehovah is my Rock,
My Fortress and my Savior.
I will Hide in God,
Who is my Rock and my Refuge.
He is my Shield
And my Salvation,
My Refuge and High Tower.
Thank You, O my Savior,
For Rescuing, for Delivering me. (2Sam.22:2,3)

Be Praised and Glorified Forever, Your Highness our Great and Loving King. In Jesus' Name we Pray All Things, amen.

Psa 84:5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you, in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
Psa 84:6 As they go through the Valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; the early rain also covers it with pools.
Psa 84:7 They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.
Psa 84:8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah.
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Job 17:9 Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.
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Pro 4:18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
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2Co 3:18 We all, with unveiled faces, are reflecting the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.
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2Pe 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

They go from strength to strength ... The Septuagint and Vulgate,;They go from strength to strength; the God of gods is seen in Zion; Luther, They obtain one victory after another, that one must see that there is a righteous God in Zion.& DeWette, Going they increase in strength, until they appear before God in Zion. This last is doubtless the true idea. As they pass along, as they come nearer and nearer to the end of their journey, their strength, their ardor, their firmness of purpose increases. By their conversation; by their songs; by encouraging one another; by seeing one difficulty overcome after another; by the fact kept before their minds, and increasingly apparent, that they are constantly approaching the end of their journey - that the distance to be traveled is constantly diminishing - that the difficulties become less and less, and that they will soon see the towers and walls of the desired city - they are invigorated, cheered, comforted. What a beautiful illustration of the life of Christian pilgrims - of the bands of the redeemed - as they journey on toward the end of their course - the Mount Zion above! By prayer and praise and mutual counsel, by their songs, by the fact that difficulties are surmounted, leaving fewer to be overcome, and that the journey to be traveled is diminishing constantly - by the feeling that they are ever drawing nearer to the Zion of their home, until the light is seen to glitter and play on its towers and walls - they increase in strength, they become more confirmed in their purposes, they bear trials better, they overcome difficulties more easily, they walk more firmly, they tread their way more cheerfully and triumphantly.
--Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes, 1798-1870

Father in Heaven, Glorious Sovereign, Only Wise God,
I pray that you will bring us from strength to strength, from glory to glory, until we are home with you.
Your Word has declared it.
I thank you for my brothers and sisters in Christ who encourage one another while it is still today, that we might walk worthy of this calling in Christ Jesus.
Bless us with sleep and rest and "joy unspeakable" in your Presence as we retire tonight.
Let the heavens be glad, and the earth sing praise.
Let them say among the nations, THE LORD REIGNS.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/f/r/fromglor.htm

“From Glory unto Glory!” Be this our joyous song,
As on the King’s own highway we bravely march along!
“From Glory unto Glory!” O word of stirring cheer,
As dawns the solemn brightness of one more glad new year.
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From Glory unto Glory!” What mighty blessings crown
The lives for which our Lord hath laid His own so freely down!
Omnipotence to keep us, omniscience, too, to guide,
Jehovah’s blessèd presence within us to abide!
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The fullness of His blessing encompasseth our way;
The fullness of His promise crowns every brightening day;
The fullness of His glory is beaming from above,
While more and more we realize the fullness of His love.
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“From Glory unto Glory!” O marvels of the Word!
“With open face beholding the glory of the Lord,”
We, even we (O wonder!) “are changed into the same,”
The image of our Savior, to glorify His Name.
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“From Glory unto Glory!” Our fellow travelers still
Are gathering on the journey! The bright electric thrill
Of quick, instinctive union, more frequent and more sweet,
Shall swiftly pass from heart to heart in true and tender beat.
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Now onward, ever onward, “from strength to strength” we go,
While “grace for grace” abundant shall from His fullness flow,
To glory’s full fruition, from glory’s foretaste here,
Until His very presence crown happiest new year.

For those in Battle, a hymn in the night:

http://www.truthinhistory.org/vision.htm

Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best Thought, by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle Shield, Sword for the fight;
Be Thou my Dignity, Thou my Delight;
Thou my soul’s Shelter, Thou my high Tower:
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine Inheritance, now and always:
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my Treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all.

Prayer request bump

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1750782/posts

Posted on 12/08/2006 7:06:36 PM PST by The Drowning Witch

I just got off the phone with my sister. She called me in tears, to tell me about a dear friend of hers, a husband and a father of 2, that had had a massive heart attack at the age of 43. He was clinically dead for 30 minutes until they got him to the hospital, where he was revived 5 times, and is now in a coma. His doctors have a grim diagnosis for his recovery.

His name is Dave Jones.
His wife is Denise.
Dave is one of the good ones. Dave NEEDS to be in this world because his place in Heaven is already assured.

My wife has put in a prayer request at the largest Lutheran church in Atlanta, where she is the facilities manager.

I told my sister that between the wife and myself, the church, and the FReepers, that at least 50,000 people would be praying for Dave.

My sister is not prone to call me on a Friday night to ask for ANYTHING. Please, say a little something tonight for this guy.

Thank you in advance, Merry Christmas and God Bless.

Witch

O Lord,
Teach us how to walk
in a world that shows so clearly
the heart of darkness that beats
without your light to shatter the midnight,
without your touch to soften the anger,
without your voice to soothe the hatred,
without your love to heal the hurts.

Each day we can look around us
and hear the growing cacophony,
the anger of Cain slaying his brother,
the selfish determination of Eve to have her own way,
Lust that trips even good men like David,
Weeping and wailing that pierces the night,
Despair and grief piling high upon anger.

In this hard world
that seems to be growing harder,
Help us realize how important it is
to be the salt that preserves
by the spreading of your truth with our lives,
to be the light that shows
how God is love,
and not the tool for our hate,
how to be the leaven
that lets heaven's light and air
permeate through the hardness of a sin-sick world,
and let us touch those you bring our way
with the hope that can only come from you
through our actions,
our choices,
our words,
this day and always,
amen.

PRAYERS FOR DAVE AND FAMILY!

"My people shall dwell in quiet resting places."
- Isaiah 32:18

Peace and rest belong not to the unregenerate, they are the peculiar
possession of the Lord's people, and of them only. The God of Peace gives
perfect peace to those whose hearts are stayed upon him. When man was
unfallen, his God gave him the flowery bowers of Eden as his quiet resting
places; alas! how soon sin blighted the fair abode of innocence. In the
day of universal wrath when the flood swept away a guilty race, the chosen
family were quietly secured in the resting-place of the ark, which floated
them from the old condemned world into the new earth of the rainbow and
the covenant, herein typifying Jesus, the ark of our salvation. Israel
rested safely beneath the blood-besprinkled habitations of Egypt when the
destroying angel smote the first-born; and in the wilderness the shadow of
the pillar of cloud, and the flowing rock, gave the weary pilgrims sweet
repose. At this hour we rest in the promises of our faithful God, knowing
that his words are full of truth and power; we rest in the doctrines of
his word, which are consolation itself; we rest in the covenant of his
grace, which is a haven of delight.
More highly favoured are we than David in Adullam, or Jonah beneath his
gourd, for none can invade or destroy our shelter.
The person of Jesus is the quiet resting-place of his people, and when we
draw near to him in the breaking of the bread, in the hearing of the word,
the searching of the Scriptures, prayer, or praise, we find any form of
approach to him to be the return of peace to our spirits.

"I hear the words of love, I gaze upon the blood,
I see the mighty sacrifice, and I have peace with God.
'Tis everlasting peace, sure as Jehovah's name,
'Tis stable as his steadfast throne, for evermore the same:
The clouds may go and come, and storms may sweep my sky,
This blood-sealed friendship changes not, the cross is ever nigh."

C.H.SPURGEON!

Psa 57:7 My heart is confident, God, my heart is confident. I will sing; I will sing praises.
Psa 57:8 Wake up, my soul! Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
Psa 57:9 I will praise You, Lord, among the peoples; I will sing praises to You among the nations.
Psa 57:10 For Your faithful love is as high as the heavens; Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
Psa 57:11 God, be exalted above the heavens; let Your glory be over the whole earth.

Isa 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, that pierced the dragon?

Isa 52:1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city:

Rom 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

1Co 15:34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not;

Eph 5:14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Rev 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Rev 3:4 Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.
Rev 3:5 The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.
Rev 3:6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'

Oh Lord of all, King of the Universe, give us an awakening.
We ask you for it, so that you might be Glorified in these last days, and that we should no longer drowse and sleep.
I thank you for the praise and glory that your persecuted Church brings you.
I thank you that you will be ever with us today as we go.
We ask you urgently for help for those who are in difficulty. Wake Dave out of his sleep. Help the orphans and widows in their trouble.
I ask for our Daily bread today.
You are Good and your Mercy endures forever.
Let me not be like the man who, beholding himself in a mirror, turns and forgets what he sees, by forgetting your Word as I turn to my day's work.
I ask for a new infilling of your Holy Spirit for all in this prayer fellowship and for every church where we attend and for all our families, and for your entire Precious Body.
Help us be fully awake.
I ask this according to your will in Jesus' Name.

I Read this Paraphrase Today, and it is Wonderful!

"Your love, God, is my song, and I'll sing it! I'm forever telling everyone how faithful you are. I'll never quit telling the story of your love— how you built the cosmos and guaranteed everything in it. Your love has always been our lives' foundation, your fidelity has been the roof over our world. You once said, "I joined forces with my chosen leader, I pledged my word to my servant, David, saying, 'Everyone descending from you is guaranteed life; I'll make your rule as solid and lasting as rock.'"

God! Let the cosmos praise your wonderful ways, the choir of holy angels sing anthems to your faithful ways! Search high and low, scan skies and land, you'll find nothing and no one quite like God. The holy angels are in awe before him; he looms immense and august over everyone around him. God-of-the-Angel-Armies, who is like you, powerful and faithful from every angle? You put the arrogant ocean in its place and calm its waves when they turn unruly. You gave that old hag Egypt the back of your hand, you brushed off your enemies with a flick of your wrist. You own the cosmos—you made everything in it, everything from atom to archangel. You positioned the North and South Poles; the mountains Tabor and Hermon sing duets to you. With your well-muscled arm and your grip of steel— nobody trifles with you! The Right and Justice are the roots of your rule; Love and Truth are its fruits. Blessed are the people who know the passwords of praise, who shout on parade in the bright presence of God. Delighted, they dance all day long; they know who you are, what you do—they can't keep it quiet! Your vibrant beauty has gotten inside us— you've been so good to us! We're walking on air! All we are and have we owe to God, Holy God of Israel, our King!" (Ps.89:1-18)

For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, Forever, amen. (Matt.6:13)

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